Latin America's Turbulent Transitions The Future of Twenty-First Century Socialism

Name: Latin America's Turbulent Transitions The Future of Twenty-First Century Socialism
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ISBN: 9781848135673

ISBN-10: 184813567X

ISBN-13: 9781848135673

Edition: 2013

Authors: Roger Burbach, Michael Fox, Federico Fuentes

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Over the past few years, something remarkable has occurred in Latin America. For the first time since the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua in the 1980s, people within the region have turned toward radical left governments - specifically in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador. Why has this profound shift taken place and how does this new, so-called 'Twenty-First Century Socialism' actually manifest itself? What are we to make of the often fraught relationship between the social movements and governments in these countries and do, in fact, the latter even qualify as 'socialist' in reality?These are the bold and critical questions that 'Latin America's Turbulent Transition' explores, as the…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 2/14/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.63" wide x 8.48" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Michael Fox is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Alberta.



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Map


Introduction: turbulent transitions and the specter of socialism



Globalization, neoliberalism, and the rise of the social movements



The pink tide and the challenge to US hegemony



Between neo-extractivism and twenty-first-century socialism



Venezuela's twenty-first-century socialism



Bolivia's communitarian socialism



Ecuador's buen vivir socialism (by Marc Becker)



Brazil: between challenging hegemony and embracing it



Cuba: 'updating' twentieth-century socialism?


Conclusion: socialism and the long Latin American spring


Appendix: nationwide elections in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador


Notes


Bibliography


Index