Latin America Faces the Twenty-First Century: Reconstructing a Social Justice Agenda

by Susanne Jonas (Editor)

Overview

What are Latin America’s prospects for the twenty-first century, in the face of rapidly changing international conditions and increasing internal social pressures? In this volume eminent Latin American scholars and activists explore their collective future. They analyze a wide range of issues, including economic alternatives to neoliberal policies,

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429723155
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/11/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jonas, Susanne

Table of Contents

Dedication and Tribute -- Introduction: The Quest for Social Transformation in Latin America -- Our Project for the New Society in Latin America: The Regulating Role of the State and Problems of Self-Regulation in the Market -- Liberalism, Democracy, and Socialism -- The Paths of Latin American Integration -- Adjustment and Democracy in Latin America -- Democracy and Revolutionary Movement -- Ethnic Politics and the Popular Movement -- Why Political Feminism? -- Latin America: Socialist Perspectives in Times of Cholera (Preliminary Notes for a Necessary Debate) -- Brazil: “Against the Winds of History” -- The Continental Development and Trade Initiative -- For an Alternative Social Policy: The Production of Public Services in Mexico -- Redefining Democracy in El Salvador: New Spaces and New Practices for the 1990s -- Democracy and Society in Haiti: Structures of Domination and Resistance to Change -- Uruguay: The Paradoxes and Perplexities of an Uncommon Left -- Cuba: Crisis, Ethics, and Viability -- Thinking About Cuba