1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas
This handbook explores the political economy and governance of the Americas, placing particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences. Forty-six chapters cover a range of Inter-American key concepts and dynamics.
The flow of peoples, goods, resources, knowledge and finances have on the one hand promoted interdependence and integration that cut across borders and link the countries of North and South America (including the Caribbean) together. On the other hand, they have contributed to profound asymmetries between different places. The nature of this transversally related and multiply interconnected hemispheric region can only be captured through a transnational, multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach. This handbook examines the direct and indirect political interventions, geopolitical imaginaries, inequalities, interlinked economic developments and the forms of appropriation of the vast natural resources in the Americas. Expert contributors give a comprehensive overview of the theories, practices and geographies that have shaped the economic dynamics of the region and their impact on both the political and natural landscape.
This multidisciplinary approach will be of interest to a broad array of academic scholars and students in history, sociology, geography, economics and political science, as well as cultural, postcolonial, environmental and globalization studies.
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.