Counter-globalization and socialism in the 21st century : the Bolivarian alliance for the peoples of our America / edited by Thomas Muhr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Muhr, Thomas.

Series:

Rethinking Globalizations

Rethinking globalizations ; 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bolívar, Simón, 1783-1830.

Bolívar, Simón.

South America--Economic policy--21st century.

South America.

South America--Politics and government--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Bolivarian alliance for the peoples of our America

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

<P>Framed by critical globalisation theory and David Harvey's 'co-revolutionary moments' as a theory of social change, this book brings together a multi-disciplinary team of researchers to empirically analyse how socialism is being constructed in contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean, and beyond.</P><P></P><P>This book uses the case of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) to invite to a re-thinking of resistance to global capitalism and the construction of socialism in the 21st century. Including detailed theory-based ethnographic

Contents:

Cover ; Counter-Globalization and Socialism in the 21st Century; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgments; Acronyms and abbreviations; 1 Introduction: the enigma of socialism; Part I Politics, principles, processes; 2 Twenty-first century socialism: a political and pedagogical act. Some keys to understanding; 3 Counter-globalization and a revolutionary politics of place, space and scale: the transnational construction of the ALBA-TCP in Nicaragua, El Salvador and the USA

4 The ALBA-TCP Council of Social Movements: a double-turn in counter-hegemony5 Rethinking legitimacy in international law: the ALBA-TCP's place for justice; Part II Political economy; 6 Cuban socialism: inspiration to the ALBA-TCP; 7 The new strategic regionalism in the ALBA-TCP: alternatives to the food and energy crises; 8 The SUCRE and the ALBA-TCP monetary union: responses from the South to the global crisis; Part III Culture, education, the environment; 9 Cultural policy and 21st century socialism; 10 Post-secularity and political hope in 21st century socialism

11 The politics of the audiovisual cultural revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean12 From the local to the regional and back: Bolivia's politics of decolonizing education in the context of the ALBA-TCP; 13 Global struggles for climate justice and the ALBA-TCP Council of Social Movements: an activist perspective; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed July 13, 2013).

ISBN:

9781138909434

1138909432

9780203503874

0203503872

9781135052461

1135052468

OCLC:

852758170