Reclaiming Latin America
Subtitle: experiments in radical social democracy
By: edited by Geraldine Lievesley & Steve Ludlam.
Contributors: Lievesley, Geraldine.; Ludlam, Steve, 1951-
Publisher: Zed Books; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781848131828; 9781848131835; 9781848131842
Subjects: Socialism -- Latin America; Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1980-
Description: Reclaiming Latin America is a one-stop guide to the revival of social democratic and socialist politics across the region. From the anti-imperialism of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas in Venezuela, Bolivia and Cuba, to the more gradualist routes being taken in Chile, Argentina and Brazil, Reclaiming Latin America gives a real sense of the plurality of political responses to popular discontent.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A 'pink tide'? / Geraldine Lievesley and Steve Ludlam; title: Is Latin America moving leftwards? : problems and prospects / Geraldine Lievesley; title: The Latin Americanization of the politics of emancipation / Francisco Dominguez; title: Venezuela : the political evolution of Bolivarianism / Julia Buxton; title: Venezuela : reinventing social democracy from below? / Sara C. Motta; title: Bolivia : playing by new rules / John Crabtree; title: Nicaragua : the return of Daniel Ortega / David Close; title: Cuban socialism : recovery and change / Steve Ludlam; title: Mexico : political parties and local participation / Valeria Guarneros-Meza; title: Brazil : has the dream ended? / Sue Branford; title: Brazil : third ways in the Third World / Guy Burton; title: Chile : swimming against the tide? / Patricio Silva; title: Argentina : reforming neoliberal capitalism / Ernesto Vivares, Leonardo Diaz Echenique, and Javier Ozorio; title: Conclusion: Nuestra America, the spectre haunting Washington / Geraldine Lievesley and Steve Ludlam.