Capital, Power, And Inequality In Latin America

by Halebsky,Sandor

• ISBN13: 9780813321172
• ISBN10: 0813321174
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1995-10-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Over the last two decades, economic, political, and social life in Latin America has been transformed by the region's accelerated integration into the global economy. Although this transformation has tended to exacerbate various inequities, new forms of popular expression and action challenging the contemporary structures of capital and power have also developed.This volume is a comprehensive, genuinely comparative text on contemporary Latin America. In it, an international group of contributors offer multidimensional analyses of the historical context, contemporary character, and future direction of rural transformation, urbanization, economic restructuring, and the transition to political democracy. In addition, individual essays address the changing role of women, the influence of religion, the growth of new social movements, the struggles of indigenous peoples, and ecological issues. Finally, the book examines the influence of U.S. policy and of regionalization and globalization on the Latin American states.

Author Biography

Sandor Halebsky is professor of sociology at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He co-edited Cuba in Transition: Crisis and Transformation (Westview Press 1992). Richard L. Harris is chair of the faculty at Golden Gate University in Monterey, California. He is one of the coordinating editors of the journal Latin American Perspectives and the author of Marxism, Socialism, and Democracy in Latin America (WestviewPress 1992). Michael Kearney is professor of anthropology at the University of California at Riverside.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America	1	(20)
Sandor Halebsky
Richard L. Harris
Rural Latin America: Exclusionary and Uneven Agricultural Development	21	(32)
Cristobal Kay
Urban Transformation and Survival Strategies	53	(28)
Sandor Halebsky
Demilitarization and Democratic Transition in Latin America	81	(28)
Jorge Nef
The Contemporary Latin American Economies: Neoliberal Reconsturctio	109	(28)
John Weeks
Economic Restructuring, Neoliberal Reforms, and the Working Class in Latin America	137	(28)
Carlos M. Vilas
The Riddle of New Social Movements: Who They Are and What They Do	165	(20)
Judith Adler Hellman
Latin American Women and the Search for Social, Political, and Economic Transformation	185	(22)
Francesca Miller
Latin America's Indigenous Peoples: Changing Identities and Forms of Resistance	207	(26)
Michael Kearney
Stefano Varese
Whither the Catholic Church in the 1990s?	233	(20)
John M. Kirk
Latin America and the Social Ecology of Capitalism	253	(26)
Elizabeth W. Dore
The Global Context of Contemporary Latin American Affairs	279	(26)
Richard L. Harris
About the Book and Editors	305	(2)
About the Contributors	307	(2)
Index	309