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

Informationen zum Autor Richard L. Harris holds a joint appointment as professor of global studies and of world languages and cultures at California State University, Monterey Bay. Jorge Nef is professor and director of the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean (ISLAC) at the University of South Florida. Klappentext Comprehensive and interdisciplinary, the thoroughly updated and revised second edition of Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America is an engaging critical analysis of the major political, economic, social, and ecological conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Expert chapter authors 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. Zusammenfassung Provides a critical analysis of the major political! economic! social! and ecological conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean. This work describes and analyzes their economies and trading relations! politics and state policies! social inequalities and social injustices! indigenous communities! gender relations! and influence of religion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the CaribbeanChapter 2: Rural Transformation: Unequal Development and Persistent PovertyChapter 3: Dependency, Underdevelopment, and NeoliberalismChapter 4: Economic Restructuring, Neoliberalism, and the Working ClassChapter 5: Insecurity, Development, and Democracy: A Pan-American PerspectiveChapter 6: The New Social Movements in Latin America and the CaribbeanChapter 7: Women in the Social, Political, and Economic Transformation of Latin America and the CaribbeanChapter 8: Indigenous Peoples: Changing Identities and Forms of ResistanceChapter 9: Liberation Theology, Christian Base Communities, and Solidarity Movements: A Historical ReflectionChapter 10: Ecological Crisis, Sustainable Development, and CapitalismChapter 11: Globalization and Regionalization in the Americas...

Product details

• Authors: Richard L. Harris, Richard L. (EDT) Harris, Richard L. Nef Harris
• Assisted by: Richard L. Harris (Editor), Harris Richard L. (Editor), Jorge Nef (Editor), Nef Jorge (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.01.2008
• EAN: 9780742555242
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-5524-2
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective Series; Critical Currents in Latin Ame; Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Latin America, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Caribbean islands, Politics & government, Politics and government, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Latin American studies