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Buen Vivir and the Challenges to Capitalism in Latin America book cover

1st Edition

Buen Vivir and the Challenges to Capitalism in Latin America

Edited By Henry Veltmeyer, Edgar Lau Copyright 2021
232 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book explores the battleground between neoliberal capitalist development processes in Latin America and the challenges to these systems that can be found through innovative community-driven buen vivir/vivir bien initiatives. In the current climate of worldwide capitalist development, Latin America is caught between left-leaning proposals for progressive policies towards a more... Read more

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List of contributors

Introduction

  1. In the vortex of social change

    2. Henry Veltmeyer

    Part 1: Development in the neoliberal era

  2. Extractive capitalism: development and resistance dynamics

    3. James Petras

  3. Capitalism on the Frontier of agroextractivism

    4. Raúl Delgado Wise

  4. Social movements and the state in the post-neoliberal era

    5. Gerardo Otero, Efe Can Gürcan, Horacio Mackinlay

  5. The syncopated dance of Mexico’s industrial policy

    6. Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, Joaquín Sánchez Gómez, Stefanie Garry

  6. Communes in Venezuela in Times of Crisis

    7. Dario Azzellini

    Part 2: Antinomies of development: constructing an alternative reality

  7. Neoextractivism and development

    8. Maristella Svampa

  8. Paradoxes of development in the Andes and Amazonia

    9. Fernanda Wanderley, Horacio Vera Cossio, Jean Paul Benavides

  9. Ucronia for Living Well

    10. René Ramírez Gallegos

  10. Disputes over capitalism and varieties of development

         Eduardo Gudynas

Biography

Henry Veltmeyer is senior research professor in development studies at Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, and senior research fellow in the centre of Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) at the Universidad de Guadalajara. He has authored and edited over 60 books in the area of Latin American studies, the political economy of development and globalisation, and social movements in the Latin American context.

Edgar Zayago Lau is professor and researcher of the Academic Unit in Development Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (UAZ), Mexico, and Co-coordinator of the Latin American Network of Nanotechnology and Society (ReLANS). His research areas include the political economy of science, technology and development; development theory and public policy. He is also the author and co-author of more than 60 articles in mainstream academic journals and has co-edited nine books.

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