Beyond Neoliberalism in Latin America? Societies and Politics at the Crossroads

by Burdick, John; Oxhorn, Philip; Roberts, Kenneth M.

• ISBN13: 9780230611795
• ISBN10: 0230611796
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

While the neoliberal model continues to dominate economic and political life in Latin America, people throughout the region have begun to strategize about how to move beyond this model. What are the alternatives they imagine? Do these alternatives represent a genuine break? Twelve cutting-edge papers investigate how Latin Americans are struggling to articulate a future in which neoliberalism is reconfigured.

Author Biography

John Burdick is Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University. He is author of Legacies of Liberation: The Progressive Catholic Church in Brazil at the Start of a New Millennium (2004), Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil (1998), and Looking for God in Brazil (1993). He is co-editor, with Ted Hewitt, of The Church at the Grassroots: Perspectives on Thirty Years of Activism (2000). Philip Oxhorn is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Developing Area Studies at McGill University. He is author of Organizing Civil Society: The Popular Sectors and the Struggle for Democracy in Chile (1995), and co-editor of What Kind of Democracy? What Kind of Market? Latin America in the Age of Neoliberlism (with Graciela Ducatenzeiler,1998), The Market and Democracy In Latin America: Convergence or Divergence? (with Pamela Starr and Lynne Rienner, 1999) and Decentralization, Civil Society, and Democratic Governance: Comparative Perspectives from Latin America, Africa, and Asia (with Joseph Tulchin and Andrew Selee (2004), and Sustaining Civil Society: Economic Change, Democracy and the Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America (forthcoming). Kenneth M. Roberts is Professor of Government at Cornell University.  He is the author of Deepening Democracy?  The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru (1998) along with a forthcoming book on party system change in Latin America's neoliberal era. His research is focused on social inequalities and political representation in contemporary Latin America.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Beyond Neoliberalism: Popular Responses to Social Change in Latin America	p. 1
Electoral Politics
The Chilean Left: Socialist and Neoliberal	p. 17
Neoliberalism and the Left: National Challenges, Local Responses, and Global Alternatives	p. 43
Identity Politics
Decades Lost and Won: Indigenous Movements and Multicultural Neoliberalism in the Andes	p. 63
The Cristo del Gran Poder and the T"inku: Neoliberalism and the Roots of Indigenous Movements in Bolivia	p. 83
Ethnoracial Identity, Multiculturalism, and Neoliberalism in the Brazilian Northeast	p. 101
Environmental Governance
Digging Out from Neoliberalism: Responses to Environmental (Mis)governance of the Mining Sector in Latin America	p. 117
Assessing the Limits of Neoliberal Environmental Governance in Bolivia	p. 135
Nature under Neoliberalism and Beyond: Community-Based Resource Management, Environmental Conservation, and Farmer-and-Food Movements in Bolivia, 1985-Present	p. 157
Transnational Migration
Neoliberal Reform and Migrant Remittances: Symptom or Solution?	p. 177
Nothing (Entirely) New under the Sun: Developmentalism and Neoliberalism in Nicaragua	p. 197
Conclusion
Beyond Neoliberalism? Latin America's New Crossroads	p. 217
References	p. 235
List of Contributors	p. 259
Index	p. 261
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