Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Richard L. Harris, Jorge Nef

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2008
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780742572508
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Comparative Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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Comprehensive and interdisciplinary, this thoroughly updated and revised second edition is an engaging critical analysis of the major political, economic, social, and ecological conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Genuinely regional in scope, this textbook examines the hemispheric and global context of these conditions as well as the relations among Latin American and Caribbean states and their relations with the United States. Expert contributors describe and analyze the economies and trading relations, politics and state policies, social inequalities and social injustices, indigenous communities, gender relations, influence of religion, wide array of social movements, and social ecology of the societies in this important region of the world. Harris and Nef have assembled a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate courses and all readers concerned with understanding the past, present, and future development of contemporary Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Americas as a whole.

Contributions by: Guido Pascual Galafassi, Richard L. Harris, Judith Adler Hellman, Cristóbal Kay, Michael Kearney, Francesca Miller, Jorge Nef, Viviana Patroni, Wilder Robles, and Stefano Varese.

Table of contents

• Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Acknowledgment of Support
• Preface
• 1 - Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
• 2 - Latin America’s Rural Transformation Unequal Development and Persistent Poverty
• 3 - Dependency, Underdevelopment, and Neoliberalism
• 4 - Economic Restructuring, Neoliberalism, and the Working Class
• 5 - Insecurity, Development, and Democracy A Pan-American Perspective
• 6 - The Riddle of New Social Movements Who They Are and What They Do
• 7 - Women in the Social, Political, and Economic Transformation of Latin America and the Caribbean
• 8 - Indigenous Peoples Changing Identities and Forms of Resistance
• 9 - Liberation Theology, Christian Base Communities, and Solidarity Movements A Historical Reflection
• 10 - Ecological Crisis, Sustainable Development, and Capitalism
• 11 - Globalization and Regionalization in the Americas
• Index
• About the Contributors