1st Edition

Pink Tides, Right Turns in Latin America

Edited By Charmain Levy, Manuel Larrabure Copyright 2025
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents case studies around issues of national development, right wing populism and use of social media, left wing authoritarianism and popular uprisings as well as reflections on short and long term political and economic cycles in Latin America in the past 10 years. Scholars, government and civil society practitioners have long recognized both the democratic and development deficit... Read more

Introduction: Pink Tides, Right Turns in Latin America

Charmain Levy and Manuel Larrabure

 

1. Broadened embedded autonomy and Latin America’s Pink Tide: towards the neo-developmental state

Patrick Clark and Antulio Rosales

 

2. What are they doing right? Tweeting right-wing intersectionality in Latin America

Paulo Ravecca, Marcela Schenck, Bruno Fonseca and Diego Forteza

 

3. Is Jair Bolsonaro a classic populist?

João Feres Júnior, Fernanda Cavassana and Juliana Gagliardi

 

 

4. Neo-structuralist bargain and authoritarianism in Nicaragua

Miguel González

 

5. The gendered political economy of Chile’s rebellious discontent: lessons from forty-five years of neoliberal governance

Verónica Schild

 

6. Roundtable: the Latin American state, Pink Tide, and future challenges

Manuel Larrabure, Charmain Levy, Maxwell A. Cameron, Joe Foweraker, Lena Lavinas and Susan Jane Spronk

Biography

Charmain Levy is Full Professor at the Université de Outaouais (UQO) in the Department of Social Sciences. She specialises in Latin America, particularly Brazil; social movements; feminist, urban and development studies. Her current research projects focus on feminist urban commons in Montevideo and urban feminist politics and initiatives in Latin America.

 

Manuel Larrabure is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at Bucknell University. His current research, combining theoretical and methodological insights from political economy, social movement studies and critical pedagogy, focuses on the crisis of the “pink tide”, and the rise of the new right in Latin America.