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The far right in Latin America / edited by Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Carlos Meléndez, Talita Tanscheit, Lisa Zanotti.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Right-wing extremists--Latin America.
- Right-wing extremists.
- Radicalism--Latin America.
- Radicalism.
- Latin America--Politics and government.
- Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 279 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- This volume argues that the rise of the far right in Latin America represents a reactionary response to the partial success of democratic regimes in incorporating historically marginalized groups. Despite persistent inequalities, Latin American democracies have gradually weakened the dominance of traditional elites over majority-minority relations, creating fertile ground for a backlash against political, social and cultural change. Like their counterparts in Europe and the United States, far-right actors in the region resist adapting to ongoing transformations, instead invoking an idealized national past and mobilizing exclusionary ethnic, cultural, and political appeals to construct a radically homogeneous community. This volume employs a theoretical framework informed by contemporary debates on the far right in Europe and the United States and brings together leading scholars to examine key country cases across Latin America. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
- Contents:
- The far right in Latin America : A framework for analysis / Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser
- Argentina : Milei's farright project-between opportunism and innovation / Gabriel Vommaro
- Brazil : The far right and Bolsonarismo / Lucio Rennó
- El Salvador : Nayib Bukele's turn to the far right / Manuel Meléndez Sánchez
- Chile : The far right and its strategies of otherization / Lisa Zanotti
- Peru : The far right as an expected output of a polarized pluralism / Carlos Meléndez
- Uruguay : The far right as an attempt to restore order and recover the past / Talita Tanscheit
- Colombia : Seeds of the far right / Sandra Botero, José Miguel Jaimes Prada
- Mexico : The absence of the far right and AMLO's leftism without progressivism / Rodrigo Castro Cornejo
- The far right in Latin America : Comparative findings / Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Carlos Meléndez, Talita Tanscheit, Lisa Zanotti.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jun 2026).
- ISBN:
- 1-009-78691-1
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access. Unrestricted online access
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