Neoliberalism, Interrupted: Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America

edited by Mark Goodale and Nancy Postero

ISBN 10: 0804784531 / ISBN 13: 9780804784535

Published by Stanford University Press, 2013

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xvi, 317 pages : 23 cm. Contents: Revolution and retrenchment : illuminating the present in Latin America / Mark Goodale and Nancy Postero -- Bolivia's challenge to "colonial neoliberalism" / Nancy Postero -- Culture and neoliberal rationalities in post-neoliberal Venezuela / Sujatha Fernandes -- "En minga por el Cauca" : alternative government in Colombia, 2001-2003 / David Gow -- Neoliberal reforms and protest in Buenos Aires / Marcela Cerrutti and Alejandro Grimson -- "Taken into account" : democratic change and contradiction in Mexico's third sector / Analiese Richard -- Neoliberal reckoning : Ecuador's Truth Commission and the mythopoetics of political violence / Christopher Krupa -- Care and punishment in Latin America : the gendered neoliberalization of the Chilean state / Veronica Schild -- "Yes we did!" "ˇSí se pudo!" : regime change and the transnational politics of hope between El Salvador and the United States / Elana Zilberg -- Postscript : insurgent imaginaries and postneoliberalism inLatin America / Miguel Ángel Contreras Natera.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Neoliberalism, Interrupted: Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804784531
• ISBN 13: 9780804784535
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • International Relations
  • Anthropology
  • Latin America

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Synopsis

In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life. Neoliberalism, Interrupted examines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses to neoliberalism's hegemony. In so doing, this vanguard collection of case studies undermines the conventional dichotomies used to understand transformation in this region, such as neoliberalism vs. socialism, right vs. left, indigenous vs. mestizo, and national vs. transnational.

Deploying both ethnographic research and more synthetic reflections on meaning, consequence, and possibility, the essays focus on the ways in which a range of unresolved contradictions interconnect various projects for change and resistance to change in Latin America. Useful to students and scholars across disciplines, this groundbreaking volume reorients how sociopolitical change has been understood and practiced in Latin America. It also carries important lessons for other parts of the world with similar histories and structural conditions.

About the Author

Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Lausanne and Series Editor of Stanford Studies in Human Rights. He is the author or editor of twelve books, including The Bolivia Reader: History, Culture, Politics (coedited with Sinclair Thomson, Rosanna Barragán, Xavier Albó, and Seemin Qayum) (Duke, 2018), Anthropology and Law: A Critical Introduction (NYU Press, 2017), and Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism (Stanford, 2008). 

 

Nancy Postero is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, and author of The Indigenous State: Race, Politics, and Performance in Plurinational Bolivia (California, 2017), Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Post-Multicultural Bolivia (Stanford, 2006), and co-author, with Leon Zamosc, of The Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Latin America (2003).