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" Latin America Transformed : "
Robert N Gwynne
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BL
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729062
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b548816
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Robert N Gwynne
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Latin America Transformed : : Globalization and Modernity.\ Robert N Gwynne
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2nd ed
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Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2014
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(337 pages)
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1444119044
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: 9781444119046
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of tables; List of figures; About the authors; Preface; PART 1: GLOBALIZATION AND MODERNITY; 1 Latin America transformed: globalization and neoliberalism; Unravelling the concept of globalization in Latin America; Globalization and the contemporary relevance of structuralism and dependency theories; Globalization in the neoliberal era; Social bases of neoliberalism; Conclusion: a paradigm shift in theory and policy; 2 Modernity and identity: cultural change in Latin America; Introduction. The Latin American trajectory to modernitySome specific elements of Latin American modernity and culture; Conclusion; 3 Structural reform in South America and Mexico: Economic and Regional Perspectives; Historical context; Economic policy change; Impacts and problems of neoliberal reform; Neoliberalism and economic spaces; Conclusion; 4 Globalization, neoliberalism and economic change in Central America and the Caribbean; A region of small and dependent states; Development policies prior to neoliberalism; The debt crisis and the neoliberal remedy; The meaning and impacts of globalization. The neoliberal development modelCuba: island socialism amid global capitalism; Migration and transnationalism; Regional trading blocs; The growing drug economy; Conclusion; 5 The urban revolution; Urban growth during the twentieth century; Explanations for urban growth; Rural-urban migration; The geography of urban growth under the new economic model; The urbanization of poverty; Differential patterns of urban change; An unpredictable future; 6 The political economy of sustainable development; Natural resource use --;economy or environment?; Political-economic issues and implications. Whose sustainability? The Chilean fruit export boomEnvironmental issues and implications; The politics of natural resource extraction; Conclusion; PART 2: POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; 7 Authoritarianism, democracy and development; Political economy and the state; Democracy, authoritarianism and development; Conclusion; 8 The new political order: towards technocratic democracies?; Neoliberalism, modernization and democracy; The depoliticization of society; Political legitimation and consumerism; The technocratization of policy-making; Disenchantment; The future of democracy in Latin America. PART 3: SPACE, SOCIETY AND LIVELIHOODS9 Livelihood transitions, place transformations: grounding globalization and modernity; Conceptualizing livelihoods in Latin America; Livelihoods since neoliberalism; Livelihood politics; Livelihoods, NGOs and development; Globalization and livelihoods in Latin America; Conclusion; 10 Civil society, grassroots politics and livelihoods; Civil society in Latin America: social difference, rights and the state; Civil society mobilization in the 1970s and 1980s; Civil society and the transition to democracy; Civil society and social difference; Conclusion. 11 Urban livelihoods, employment and gender.
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Explains Latin America's economic, political, social and cultural transformations, its association with globalization and the search for modernity, and contributes to an understanding of how these transformations are affecting the people of Latin America.
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Latin America -- Social conditions.
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Latin America.
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Social conditions.
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HC125.R634 2014
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Kay Cristobal
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Robert N Gwynne
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