Capital Power and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean or Prairie Town

Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Author: Richard L Harris

Comprehensive and interdisciplinary, this thoroughly updated and revised second edition is an engaging critical analysis of the major political, economic, social, and ecological conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Genuinely regional in scope, this textbook examines the hemispheric and global context of these conditions as well as the relations among Latin American and Caribbean states and their interactions with the United States. Expert contributors describe and analyze the economies and trading relations, politics and state policies, social inequalities and social injustices, indigenous communities, gender relations, influence of religion, wide array of social movements, and social ecology of the societies in this important region of the world. Harris and Nef have assembled a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate courses and all readers concerned with understanding the past, present, and future development of contemporary Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Americas as a whole.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments     vii
Acknowledgment of Support     ix
Maps     x
Preface   Richard L. Harris   Jorge Nef     xiii
Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean   Richard L. Harris   Jorge Nef     1
Latin America's Rural Transformation: Unequal Development and Persistent Poverty   Cristobal Kay     24
Dependency, Underdevelopment, and Neoliberalism   Richard L. Harris     49
Economic Restructuring, Neoliberalism, and the Working Class   Viviana Patroni     96
Insecurity, Development, and Democracy: A Pan-American Perspective   Jorge Nef     118
The Riddle of New Social Movements: Who They Are and What They Do   Judith Adler Hellman     153
Women in the Social, Political, and Economic Transformation of Latin America and the Caribbean   Francesca Miller     174
Indigenous Peoples: Changing Identities and Forms of Resistance   Michael Kearney   Stefano Varese     196
Liberation Theology, Christian Base Communities, and Solidarity Movements: A Historical Reflection   Wilder Robles     225
Ecological Crisis, Sustainable Development, and Capitalism   Guido Pascual Galafassi     251
Globalization and Regionalization in the Americas   Richard L. Harris   Jorge Nef     273
Index     321
About the Contributors     341

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Prairie Town: Redefining Rural Life in the Age of Globalization

Author: Jacqueline Edmondson

Prairie Town describes the contemporary rural condition and efforts to sustain rural life in one small Minnesota community at the turn of the 21st century. The book considers the rural literacies that circulate in this community as residents work to redefine their position within the context of globalization. Prairie Town's story offers us hope as we learn that neoliberalism is not inevitable, nor is the demise of rural America. Instead, we learn that not everything can be bought and sold, and disidentification with dominant societal structures is possible within a participatory democratic society.