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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Jeffery R. Webber and Barry Carr Klappentext This provocative, multidisciplinary work explores the dramatic resurgence of the Left in Latin America since the late 1990s. Offering a comprehensive account of the complexities and nuances of the shifting political tides in the region, the book provides both a theoretical framework for assessing the state of the Left and a set of country case studies highlighting key movements, successes, and failures. Working from a range of critical perspectives, the contributors consider the Left's hopes, aims, and prospects, as well as its contradictions and fissures. As the first book to systematically consider the contemporary relevance of the Left, it will be central to any understanding of Latin American politics and society today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Introduction: The Latin American Left in Theory and PracticeJeffery R. Webber and Barry CarrPart I: Theoretical IssuesChapter 2: Socialist Strategies in Latin AmericaClaudio KatzChapter 3: The Latin American Left in the Face of the New ImperialismHenry VeltmeyerChapter 4: Neoliberal Class Formation(s): The Informal Proletariat and "New" Workers' Organizations in Latin AmericaSusan Spronk Chapter 5: Revolution in Times of Neoliberal Hegemony: The Political Strategy of the MST in Brazil and the EZLN in MexicoLeandro Vergara-CamusChapter 6: Barrio Women and Popular Politics in Chávez's VenezuelaSujatha FernandesPart II: Case Studies of the New Latin American LeftChapter 7: From Left-Indigenous Insurrection to Reconstituted Neoliberalism in Bolivia: Political Economy, Indigenous Liberation, and Class Struggle, 2000-2011Jeffery R. WebberChapter 8: Venezuela: An Electoral Road to Twenty-First-Century Socialism?Gregory WilpertChapter 9: Ecuador: Indigenous Struggles and the Ambiguities of Electoral PowerMarc BeckerChapter 10: Crisis and Recomposition in ArgentinaEmilia CastorinaChapter 11: Trade Unions, Social Conflict, and the Political Left in Present-Day Brazil: Between Breach and CompromiseRicardo AntunesChapter 12: Neoliberal Authoritarianism, the "Democratic Transition," and the Mexican LeftRichard Roman and Edur Velasco ArreguiChapter 13: The Chilean Left after 1990: An Izquierda Permitida Championing Transnational Capital, A Historical Left Ensnared in the Past, and a New Radical Left in GestationFernando LeivaChapter 14: From Guerrillas to Government: The Continued Relevance of the Central American LeftHéctor Perla Jr., Marco Mojica, and Jared BiblerChapter 15: The Overthrow of a Moderate and the Birth of a Radicalizing Resistance: The Coup against Manuel Zelaya and the History of Imperialism and Popular Struggle in HondurasTodd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber...
