Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective Series) by Harris, Richard L. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Acknowledgment of Support Preface 1 - Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THE CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAS CONTEMPORARY CONDITIONS IN LATIN AMERICA THE CONTEMPORARY NATURE OF CAPITALISM IN THE AMERICAS THE CONTEMPORARY NATURE OF INEQUALITY IN THE AMERICAS THE CONTEMPORARY NATURE OF POWER IN THE AMERICAS NOTE REFERENCES

2 - Latin America’s Rural Transformation Unequal Development and Persistent Poverty

GLOBALIZATION AND THE UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRARIAN REFORMS: UNFULFILLED EXPECTATIONS, UNFINISHED TASKS NEW RELATIONS OF PRODUCTION RURAL LIVELIHOODS AND PEASANT PROSPECTS PERSISTENT RURAL POVERTY PATHS OF AGRARIAN CAPITALISM CONCLUSION NOTE REFERENCES

3 - Dependency, Underdevelopment, and Neoliberalism

GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIES THE COLONIAL ECONOMIC HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN THE ECONOMIC LEGACY OF IBERIAN COLONIALISM THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN CONFLICTING PERSPECTIVES ON LATIN AMERICA’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THE EXTERNAL SHOCKS OF THE 1970S AND THE “LOST DECADE” OF THE 1980S STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENTS AND NEOLIBERALISM FINAL CONSIDERATIONS NOTES NOTE REFERENCES

4 - Economic Restructuring, Neoliberalism, and the Working Class

LABOR AND POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA: AN OVERVIEW THE END OF AN ERA ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION AND THE NEW REALITIES OF LABOR MARKETS POLITICAL TRANSITIONS AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT CONCLUSION: A NEW CENTURY FOR LABOR? NOTES REFERENCES

5 - Insecurity, Development, and Democracy A Pan-American Perspective

THE PROBLEM OF INSECURITY IN THE AMERICAS THE PATTERNS OF INTER-AMERICAN RELATIONS CRISES WITHOUT REVOLUTIONS MUTUAL VULNERABILITY IN THE AMERICAS DEPENDENT DEVELOPMENT AND INTERVENTION THE NATIONAL SECURITY REGIME AND NEOLIBERALISM DEBT AND REGIME CRISIS THE RECEIVER STATE THE IMPACT OF PUBLIC POLICIES POVERTY AND INEQUALITY CONTINUING MILITARY INFLUENCE LIMITED DEMOCRACY AND ELECTED PLUTOCRACIES FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: ASSESSING REDEMOCRATIZATION AND DEDEMOCRATIZATION NOTES REFERENCES

6 - The Riddle of New Social Movements Who They Are and What They Do

THE LINK TO WORKERS’ AND PARTY STRUGGLES HOW NEW ARE THE NEW MOVEMENTS? WHAT NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS DO THE FUTURE OF NEW MOVEMENTS NOTES REFERENCES

A SENSE OF PLACE WOMEN AND NATIONAL FORMATION THE CONTEMPORARY HISTORICAL CONTEXT THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: EMBODYING THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL NOTE REFERENCES

8 - Indigenous Peoples Changing Identities and Forms of Resistance

FROM PRE-COLUMBIAN TO COLONIAL SOCIETIES FROM “INDEPENDENCE” TO THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY THE PERSISTENCE OF THE INDÍGENAS NEW CONDITIONS AND NEW IDENTITIES TRANSNATIONALIZATION CHANGING FORMS OF POLITICAL AND SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION BUILDING INDIAN SOVEREIGNTY IN THE AMAZON MESOAMERICAN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN THE UNITED STATES LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES NOTE REFERENCES

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD (1492—1809) THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE INDEPENDENCE PERIOD (1810—1825) THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY (1920—1950) THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH (1951—1990) THEORIES OF CHURCH CHANGE THE FUNDAMENTALS OF LIBERATION THEOLOGY PREFERENTIAL OPTION FOR THE POOR CHRISTIAN BASE COMMUNITIES REACTIONS TO LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND CHRISTIAN BASE COMMUNITIES THEOLOGY AS CRITICAL REFLECTION THE CENTRALITY OF THE POOR IN CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND MARXISM THE CHANGING RELIGIOUS FACE OF LATIN AMERICA CHURCH, DEMOCRACY, AND SOLIDARITY MOVEMENTS: THE CASE OF THE MST CONCLUSION NOTE REFERENCES

10 - Ecological Crisis, Sustainable Development, and Capitalism

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF DEVELOPMENT IN LATIN AMERICA INDUSTRIALIZATION, DEINDUSTRIALIZATION, AND ECOLOGICAL CRISIS URBAN AND REGIONAL SOCIOECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS MODERNIZATION AND SOCIOECOLOGICAL MOBILIZATION CONCLUSION NOTES REFERENCES

11 - Globalization and Regionalization in the Americas

THE CURRENT PHASE OF CAPITALIST EXPANSION IN THE AMERICAS U.S. HEGEMONY, THE TRANSNATIONAL ELITES, AND THE IFIS HEMISPHERIC ECONOMIC INTEGRATION VERSUS REGIONAL INTEGRATION RESISTANCE TO GLOBALIZATION AND NEOLIBERALISM TRANSCENDING THE CONTEMPORARY ORDER FINAL CONSIDERATIONS NOTES REFERENCES

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