Crisis and Contradiction

Marxist Perspectives on Latin America in the Global Political Economy
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-22617-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 79, 386 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 739 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

Since the late-1990s much of Latin America has experienced an uneven and contradictory turn to the Left in the electoral arena. At the same time, there has been a rejuvenation of Marxist critiques of political economy. Drawing on the expertise of Latin American, North American, and European scholars, this volume offers cutting-edge theoretical explorations of trends in the region, as well as in-depth case studies of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Venezuela. Essays in the volume focus on changes to class formation in Latin America and offer new insights into the state-form, exploring the complex relationship between state and market in contexts of late capitalist development, particularly in countries endowed with incredible natural resource wealth.

Contributors are: Dario Azzellini, Emilia Castorina, Mariano Féliz, Juan Grigera, Nicolas Grinberg, Gabriel Hetland, Claudio Katz, Thomas Purcell, Ben Selwyn, Susan J. Spronk, Guido Starosta, Leandro Vergara-Camus, and Jeffery R. Webber.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Spronk, Susan

Webber, Jeffery R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaften einzelner Länder und Regionen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Note on Contributors

1. Introduction – Systemic Logics and Historical Specificity: Renewing Historical Materialism in Latin American Political Economy
Susan Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber

PART I: THE ‘NEW’ WORKING CLASS: DECOMPOSITION AND RE-COMPOSITION UNDER NEOLIBERALISM
2. Roots of Resistance to Urban Water Privatisation in Bolivia: The ‘New Working Class’, the Crisis of Neoliberalism, and Public Services, Susan Spronk
3. The Neo-Developmentalist Alternative: Capitalist Crisis, Popular Movements, and Economic Development in Argentina since the 1990s, Mariano Féliz
4. The Reproduction of Democratic Neoliberalism in Argentina: Kirchner’s ‘Solution’ to the Crisis of 2001, Emilia Castorina
5. Doubly Marginalised? Women Workers in Northeast Brazilian Export Horticulture, Ben Selwyn
6. Emergent Socialist Hegemony in Bolivarian Venezuela: The Role of the Party, Gabriel Hetland
7. Venezuela’s Social Transformation and Growing Class Struggle, Dario Azzellini
8. Socialist Management and Natural Resource Based Industrial Production: A Critique of Cogestión in Venezuela, Thomas F. Purcell

PART II: STATE AND MARKET IN LATE CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT
9. Conspicuous silences: State and Class in Structuralist and Neo-structuralist Thought, Juan Grigera
10. Sugarcane Ethanol: the Hen of the Golden Eggs? Agribusiness and the State in Lula’s Brazil, Leandro Vergara-Camus
11. From Global Capital Accumulation to Varieties of Centre-Leftism in South America: The Cases of Brazil and Argentina, Nicolas Grinberg and Guido Starosta
12. The Three Dimensions of the Crisis, Claudio Katz
13. Revolution against ‘Progress’: Neo-Extractivism, the Compensatory State, and the TIPNIS Conflict in Bolivia, Jeffery R. Webber

References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Susan J. Spronk, Ph.D. (2007), York University, is Associate Professor in the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is a researcher with the Municipal Services Project, a project that focuses on alternatives to privatization.

Jeffery R. Webber, Ph.D. (2009), University of Toronto, is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. He is author of Red October (Brill, 2011) and From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia (Haymarket, 2011).