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What If Latin America Ruled the World?: How the South Will Take the North into the 22nd Century - Hardcover

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9781408805992: What If Latin America Ruled the World?: How the South Will Take the North into the 22nd Century
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ISBN 10: 1408805995 ISBN 13: 9781408805992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2010

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Oscar Guardiola-Rivera teaches International Law and International Affairs at Birkbeck College, University of London. He also served as an aid to the Colombian Congress, as a consultant for a unit of the United Nations in the region, taught and lectured in law, philosophy, and politics in three continents. He helped to found a think-tank still active in Colombia, dealing with Human Rights, policy, culture, and conflict resolution, and is recognised as one of the foremost younger voices in Latin American philosophy.

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Starred Review. As the Great Recession rolled across the globe in 2008, the economies of Latin America proved unexpectedly resilient--a happy occurrence that legal scholar Guardiola-Rivera credits to the majority of Latin American societies veering away from the neoliberal paradigm and the shadow of the empire to the north. Guardiola-Rivera puts this remarkable trend among Latin American countries--a category into which the U.S. is destined for inclusion, with its projected Latino majority by 2040--into the historical context of enduring pre-Columbian values and popular resistance to imperialism among the dispossessed of North and South America (indigenous peoples and African slaves disproportionately among them).The nuanced narrative, while sometimes too theoretically subtle, links broad and localized struggles to current issues of global justice. Such key episodes as the Spanish conquest of Incan society, the multiethnic alliances of slave revolts in England's North American colonies, and the worker-farmer alliances in Bolivia's recent water wars highlight the ongoing clash of human and social values that attend globalization in the Americas.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1408805995
ISBN 13 
9781408805992
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
472
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  • 3.32 out of 5 stars
    121 ratings by Goodreads