After the Pink Tide: Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America

The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems now to be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent trying to break open the constraints of the state. Through an ethnographically grounded and localized anthropological perspective, this book argues that at a time when the regular structures of political participation have been ruptured, the Latin American context reveals multiple expressions of egalitarian movements that strive (and sometimes momentarily manage) to break through the state’s apparatus.

Marina Gold is an Associated Researcher at the University of Zurich. Her research topics and recent publications include People and State in Socialist Cuba: Ideas and Practices of Revolution (2015, Palgrave) and a critical review of the moral turn in anthropology, Moral Anthropology. A Critique, co-ed. Bruce Kapferer (2018, Berghahn Books).

Alessandro Zagato is the founder of the Research Group in Art and Politics (GIAP) and of the centre of residences for artists and researchers, CASA GIAP, and Latin America’s regional representative for the Artists at Risk Connection program of PEN America. His publications include The Event of Charlie Hebdo: Imaginaries of Freedom and Control (2015, Berghahn Books).