Crisis and contradiction : : Marxist perspectives on Latin America in the global political economy / / edited by Susan J. Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume 79
• TeilnehmendeR: Spronk, Susan,; Webber, Jeffery R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 79.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (399 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Since the late-1990's much of Latin America has experienced an uneven and contradictory turn to the Left in the electoral arena. At the same time, there has been a rejuvenation of Marxist critiques of political economy. Drawing on the expertise of Latin American, North American, and European scholars, this volume offers cutting-edge theoretical explorations of trends in the region, as well as in-depth case studies of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Venezuela. Essays in the volume focus on changes to class formation in Latin America and offer new insights into the state-form, exploring the complex relationship between state and market in contexts of late capitalist development, particularly in countries endowed with incredible natural resource wealth. Contributors are: Dario Azzellini, Emilia Castorina, Mariano Féliz, Juan Grigera, Nicolas Grinberg, Gabriel Hetland, Claudio Katz, Thomas Purcell, Ben Selwyn, Susan J. Spronk, Guido Starosta, Leandro Vergara-Camus, and Jeffery R. Webber.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction – Systemic Logics and Historical Specificity: Renewing Historical Materialism in Latin American Political Economy / Susan J. Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber -- 2 Roots of Resistance to Urban Water Privatisation in Bolivia: The ‘New Working Class’, the Crisis of Neoliberalism, and Public Services / Susan Spronk -- 3 The Neo-Developmentalist Alternative: Capitalist Crisis, Popular Movements, and Economic Development in Argentina since the 1990's / Mariano Féliz -- 4 The Reproduction of Democratic Neoliberalism in Argentina: Kirchner’s ‘Solution’ to the Crisis of 2001 / Emilia Castorina -- 5 Doubly Marginalised? Women Workers in Northeast Brazilian Export Horticulture / Ben Selwyn -- 6 Emergent Socialist Hegemony in Bolivarian Venezuela: The Rôle of the Party / Gabriel Hetland -- 7 Venezuela’s Social Transformation and Growing Class Struggle / Dario Azzellini -- 8 Socialist Management and Natural Resource Based Industrial Production: A Critique of Cogestión in Venezuela / Thomas F. Purcell -- 9 Conspicuous Silences: State and Class in Structuralist and Neostructuralist Thought / Juan Grigera -- 10 Sugarcane Ethanol: The Hen of the Golden Eggs? Agribusiness and the State in Lula’s Brazil / Leandro Vergara-Camus -- 11 From Global Capital Accumulation to Varieties of Centre-Leftism in South America: The Cases of Brazil and Argentina / Nicolas Grinberg and Guido Starosta -- 12 The Three Dimensions of the Crisis / Claudio Katz -- 13 Revolution against ‘Progress’: Neo-Extractivism, the Compensatory State, and the tipnis Conflict in Bolivia / Jeffery R. Webber -- References -- Index.