Latin America Faces The Twenty-first Century
Author: Susanne Jonas
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1994-07-17
Total Pages: 240
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Global Latin America
Author: Matthew C. Gutmann
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2016-09-20
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 0520965949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLatin America is home to emerging global powers such as Brazil and Mexico and has important links to other titans including China, India, and Africa. Global Latin America examines a range of historical events and cultural forms in Latin America that continue to influence peoples’ lives far outside the region. Its innovative essays, interviews, and stories focus on insights from public intellectuals, political leaders, artists, academics, and activists from the region, allowing students to gain an appreciation of the global relevance of Latin America in the twenty-first century.
Introduction to Latin America
Author: Peadar Kirby
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2003-06-04
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780761973737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK`This excellent textbook provides students of Latin America with a rich and deep analysis of the processes and outcomes of globalization, past and present. Diversity and difference are explored using vivid and detailed country profiles. A strength of this textbook is its ability to explain complex issues in a way that is engaging and informative. It provides conceptual frameworks for students to engage in independent analysis of the complexities of global forces as they impact on, and interact with, the "local" in different contexts. It also, however, engages with the issues of crucial importance for the lived realities of Latin American people- poverty, development, the state and resistance under changing political, economic and ideological conditions. An essential buy for serious students of Latin America' - Anne Boran, Chester College, University of Liverpool `This is an outstanding textbook which will appeal to a wide audience but especially those wishing to understand contemporary Latin America.... I have been studying Latin America for over 40 years and wish I could have written such a lucid and engaging book' - Dr Crist[ac]obal Kay, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague Introduction to Latin America provides a completely new introduction to the political, social and economic forces shaping this essential region of undergraduate study today. It is the first textbook to place Latin America within a genuinely global context and introduce the debates and impact of globalization, neoliberalism, democratization, and the environment. It fully reviews the traditional literature in the postwar period (such as modernization or dependency theory) to demonstrate the way in which Latin America has often been misunderstood and introduces more recent theorizing to consider the longer-term prospects for equitable and sustainable development. Encorporating maps, case study boxes, summary exhibits, and guides to further reading, Introduction to Latin America will be an essential text for all students of Latin America across politics, international studies, geography, sociology and development studies.
Latin America Faces The Twenty-first Century
Author: Susanne Jonas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-04-11
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0429723156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat are Latin America’s prospects for the twenty-first century, in the face of rapidly changing international conditions and increasing internal social pressures? In this volume eminent Latin American scholars and activists explore their collective future. They analyze a wide range of issues, including economic alternatives to neoliberal policies,
Latin American Social Movements in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Richard Stahler-Sholk
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780742556478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis clearly written and comprehensive text examines the uprising of politically and economically marginalized groups in Latin American societies. Specialists in a broad range of disciplines present original research from a variety of case studies in a student-friendly format. Part introductions help students contextualize the essays, highlighting social movement origins, strategies, and outcomes. Thematic sections address historical context, political economy, community-building and consciousness, ethnicity and race, gender, movement strategies, and transnational organizing, making this book useful to anyone studying the wide range of social movements in Latin America.
Latin America in the 21st Century
Author: Gian Luca Gardini
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2012-04-12
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 1780322569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwenty-first century Latin America is rich in history, culture, and political and social experimentation. In this fascinating and insightful analysis, Gardini looks at contemporary developments at three interconnected levels: state, region and globe. At the state level, leaders such as Evo Morales of Bolivia and Chavez of Venezuela embody a renewed intellectual autonomy in the continent, while revealing significant discrepancies between their rhetoric and their actions. At the regional level, while a consensus has emerged over Latin American unity as the only way towards development, the existence of several competing schemes of regional economic and political integration more accurately reflect the diversity of the area. At the global level, elements of change, such as the rise of Brazil and the involvement of China as a new trade partner, sit alongside traits of continuity, such as the crucial political, economic and ideational role played by Washington. Overall, Gardini argues that despite the numerous challenges to be faced, Latin America is now more wealthy, autonomous and better-placed in global geopolitics than at any time in its recent history.
Latin America Faces the 21st Century
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 160
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Author: Manuel Antonio Garretón Merino
Publisher: University of Miami, North/South Center Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the myriad changes affecting Latin America in the context of a globalizing world. The authors construct a sociopolitical matrix to help explain Latin America's political, economic, social and cultural changes.
Latin American Populism in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Carlos de la Torre
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2013-08-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781421410098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributors to this volume take the long view of populism in Latin America—placing current movements into the context of the past. Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, Bolivia’s Evo Morales, and Ecuador’s Rafael Correa have brought the subject of Latin American populism once again to the fore of scholarly and policy debate in the region. Latin American Populism in the Twenty-first Century explains the emergence of today’s radical populism and places it in historical context, identifying continuities as well as differences from both the classical populism of the 1930s and 1940s and the neo-populism of the 1990s. Leading Latin American, U.S., and European authors explore the institutional and socioeconomic contexts that give rise to populism and show how disputes over its meaning are closely intertwined with debates over the meaning of democracy. By analyzing the discourse and policies of populist leaders and reviewing their impact in particular countries, these contributors provide a deeper understanding of populism’s democratizing promise as well as the authoritarian tendencies that threaten the foundation of liberal democracy.
Latin America's Radical Left
Author: Steve Ellner
Publisher: Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781442229488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis timely book explores the unique challenges facing the left in Latin America today. The contributors offer clear and comprehensive assessments of the difficult conditions and conflicting forces that have brought to power the current leftist regimes in Latin American and the Caribbean and are shaping their development. With its balanced and thorough assessment, this study will provide readers with a deep and nuanced understanding of the complexity of the political, economic, and sociocultural reality of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean.
