Beyond Neoliberalism or Capitalism? The Latin American Experience | SOAS University of London
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 12/12/2018

Beyond Neoliberalism or Capitalism? The Latin American Experience was given by Professor Henry Veltmeyer (Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, México) as part of the Development Studies Seminar Series at SOAS University of London on 23 October 2018.
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Latin America is currently caught up in a vortex of forces of social change generated in the process of capitalist development. This seminar will explore the diverse forms taken by the resistance to the advance of capital in the region over the course of the neoliberal era. It is argued that Latin America is a virtual laboratory of diverse experiments in the search for an alternative pathway and different models of post-development. A review of these experiments can provide useful lessons for how to move beyond capitalism as well as neoliberalism.

Henry Veltmeyer is Research Professor in Development Studies (Doctorado en Estudios del Desarrollo) at Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (México) and Professor Emeritus of International Development Studies at St. Mary’s University (Canada). He is author, co-author and editor of over 40 books on issues of Latin American and world development, including Critical Development Studies: An Introduction (Practical Action, 2018); The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies (Routledge, 2018); Cooperativism and Local Development in Cuba: An Agenda for Democratic Social Change (Brill, 2018); Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today (Routledge 2017); Development in an Era of Neoliberal Globalization (Routledge, 2016); and The New Extractivism: A Model for Latin America? (Zed Books, 2014).