1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas
General Introduction
Part I
Political Economy in the Americas
Chapter 1 – Introduction: Political Economy in the Americas
Anne Tittor and Daniel Hawkins
Chapter 2 – Capitalism
Juan Grigera
Chapter 3 – Class Struggle
Ricardo Antunes
Chapter 4 – Crisis
Aaron Tauss
Chapter 5 – Deindustrialization
Lachlan MacKinnon and Steven High
Chapter 6 – Development
Karin Fischer
Chapter 7 – Energy
Maria Backhouse, Anne Tittor, and Fabricio Rodríguez
Chapter 8 – Environmental Justice
Lucrecia Wagner
Chapter 9 – Extractivism
Paul Bowles and Henry Veltmeyer
Chapter 10 – Fordism
Joachim Becker and Rudy Weissenbacher
Chapter 11 – Gender and Work
Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama
Chapter 12 – Global Commodity Chains
Daniel Hawkins and Mark Anner
Chapter 13 – Informality
Daniel Hawkins
Chapter 14 – Labor Representation
Kjeld Jakobsen
Chapter 15 – Land
Anne Tittor
Chapter 16 – Neoliberalism
Dieter Plehwe
Chapter 17 – Privatization
Richard Huizar and Fabricio Rodríguez
Chapter 18 – Regional Integration
Stefan Schmalz
Chapter 19 – Remittances
Christian Ambrosius, Barbara Fritz, Ursula Stiegler
Chapter 20 – Social Inequality
Olaf Kaltmeier and Martin Breuer
Chapter 21 – State Transformation
Tobias Boos and Ulrich Brand
Chapter 22 – Taxation
María Fernanda Valdés
Chapter 23 – Transnational Corporations
Katiuscia Galhera, Scott B. Martin, João Paulo Cândia Veiga
Part II Geopolitics and Governance in the Americas
Chapter 24 – Introduction: Geopolitics and Governance: Inter-American Spaces of Entanglement
Olaf Kaltmeier and Eleonora Rohland
Chapter 25 – Authoritarianism
Alke Jenss
Chapter 26 – Borderlands
Paul-Matthias Tyrell
Chapter 27 – Citizenship
Manuela Boatca
Chapter 28 – Civil Society
Laura Macdonald
Chapter 29 – Clientelism
Tina Hilgers
Chapter 30 – Climate Change
Franz Mauelshagen and Andrés López Rivera
Chapter 31 – Commons
Juan Camilo Cárdenas
Chapter 32 – Democracy
Jonas Wolff
Chapter 33 – Disaster
Eleonora Rohland and Virginia García Acosta
Chapter 34 – Geopolitics
Mirko Petersen and Dorothea Wehrmann
Chapter 35 – Human Rights
Belen Olmos Giupponi
Chapter 36 – Interventionism
Thomas Fischer
Chapter 37 – Military
David Pion-Berlin
Chapter 38 – Nation State
Olaf Kaltmeier and Mirko Petersen
Chapter 39 – Nature
Antoine Acker, Anne Tittor and Olaf Kaltmeier
Chapter 40 – Pan-Americanism
Josef Raab
Chapter 41 – Participation
Wagner de Melo Romão
Chapter 42 – Political Communication
Carlos Del Valle Rojas
Chapter 43 – Populism
Mirko Petersen
Chapter 44 – Revolution
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
Chapter 45 – Security
Lucía Dammert
Biography
Olaf Kaltmeier is Professor for Ibero-American History at Bielefeld University.
Anne Tittor holds a PhD and is a research associate at the Department of Sociology at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
Daniel Hawkins is the Director of Research at the National Union School of Colombia (ENS).
Eleonora Rohland is Professor for Entangled History in the Americas at Bielefeld University.
