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9780801890390 Academic Inspection Copy

Latin America and Global Capitalism

A Critical Globalization Perspective
  • ISBN-13: 9780801890390
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By William I. Robinson
  • Price: AUD $135.00
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  • Local release date: 14/01/2009
  • Format: Hardback 444 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Comparative politics [JPB]
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This ambitious volume chronicles and analyzes from a critical globalization perspective the social, economic, and political changes sweeping across Latin America from the 1970s through the present day. Sociologist William I. Robinson summarizes his theory of globalization and discusses how Latin America's political economy has changed as the states integrate into the new global production and financial system, focusing specifically on the rise of nontraditional agricultural exports, the explosion of maquiladoras, transnational tourism, and the export of labor and the import of remittances. He follows with an overview of the clash among global capitalist forces, neoliberalism, and the new left in Latin America, looking closely at the challenges and dilemmas resistance movements face and their prospects for success.Through three case studies -- the struggles of the region's indigenous peoples, the immigrants rights movement in the United States, and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela -- Robinson documents and explains the causes of regional socio-political tensions, provides a theoretical framework for understanding the present turbulence, and suggests possible outcomes to the conflicts.Based on years of fieldwork and empirical research, this study elucidates the tensions that globalization has created and shows why Latin America is a battleground for those seeking to shape the twenty-first century's world order.

List of TablesPrefaceList of Abbreviations and Acronyms1. An Epochal Shift in World Capitalism2. Global Economy and Latin America, I: Nontraditional Agricultural Exports and Agro-Industry3. Global Economy and Latin America, II: Industrial Subcontracting, Transnational Services, Tourism, and the Export of Labor4. Transnational Processes in Latin America: Class, State, and Migration5. The Antinomies of Global Capitalism and the Twilight of Neoliberalism6. A New Cycle of Resistance: The Future of Latin America and Global SocietyReferencesIndex

""A provocative and worthwhile read for those interested in the political economy of Latin America as well as the processes of globalization.""

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