Policy & Politics vol 31 no 4 521 © The Policy Press, 2004 • ISSN 0305 5736 Key words: globalisation • Latin America • pension reform Final submission 29 March 2004 • Acceptance 16 April 2004 Policy & Politics v 32 n 4 521–3 The Latin American pension reform experience: evidence that contradicts discourse Steven D’Haeseleer and Jos Berghman English This article examines the structural pension reforms that have been implemented recently in several Latin American countries. The defining feature of these reforms is the adoption of a privately managed, fully
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Ongoing conflicts between neoliberal and post-neoliberal politics have resulted in growing social instability in Latin America. This book explores the cultural dynamics of neoliberalism and anti-neoliberal resistance in Latin America as a complex set of interrelated cultural forms, examining the ways in which neoliberalism has transformed public discourses of self and social relationships, popular cultures and modes of everyday experience.
Contributors from an international range of different disciplinary perspectives look at how Latin Americans construct subjectivities, build communities and make meaning in their everyday lives in order to analyse the discourses and cultural practices through which a societal consensus for the pursuit of neoliberal politics may be established, defended and contested.
ARTICLE Rethinking the left: a view from Latin America Ronaldo Munck Civic Engagement, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland ABSTRACT The images of revolution in Latin America have long been part of the metropolitan left imagination. Yet there is not much input from the complex and grounded Latin American debates rethink- ing the left into the global discourse. I will develop an argument/ analysis addressing that gap in three phases. First in Theory I will seek to place the Latin American debates from a postcolonial perspective focusing on the reception of key
The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signaled the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. (Karl Marx, Das Kapital , Vol. I, Chapter 24, p 790) Introduction The colonization of the subcontinent that is now called Latin America first took the form of exploitation colonies. It was aimed at the exploitation of natural
; another was shot by assassins in Puerto Rico; yet another one died in Colombia, surrounded by soldiers ( Carrington et al, 2019a ). Yet the intellectual seeds that the liberation movement sowed in the 1970s continue to grow, and to this day, Latin American criminologists are harvesting the fruits of their labour, including analysis of environmental conflicts ( Goyes, 2019 ). This article tells the story of how criminological environmental thinking in Latin America came to be. Through an archaeological exploration of the engagement of Latin American intellectuals with
Introduction There are a number of publications that systematise the situation of the sociology of emotions 1 in Latin America: in general ( Sabido, 2011 ; Scribano, 2014a: 2016b , 2017 ), by particular countries ( Koury, 2014 ; Scribano, 2014a ), or by partially reconstructing it in the fields of literature ( Prieto, 2018 ) or education ( Streck, 2015 ). One way to systematise the multiplicity of works encompassing emotions in Latin America is as expressed by Cedillo Hernández and colleagues (2016: 30) who maintain: In 2007 there was initiated for
1 1 Introduction: Everyday Life in (Post-)Neoliberal Latin America Daniel Nehring, Gerardo Gómez Michel and Magdalena López This book explores the cultural dynamics of neoliberalism and anti-neoliberal resistance in Latin America. While Latin American neoliberalisms and the region’s transition—perhaps temporary—to post-neoliberalism have been extensively debated (Dávila, 2012; Flores- Macias, 2012; Goodale and Postero, 2013), extant research has largely focused on relevant political and socioeconomic processes. The cultural dynamics of neoliberalism, anti
The aim of this chapter is to outline the response of institutions and social and political actors of the countries of Latin America to the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact of the pandemic on democracy is also analysed in the knowledge that decisions taken during the pandemic may have been similar to those that triggered the stock market crash of 1929, the 1973 oil crisis and the 1982 debt crisis. We have based this research on the assumption that the health crisis has represented a crucial turning point insofar as it has generated a situation of uncertainty in
Introduction: the dialectics of populism and authoritarianism and the challenge of environmental justice With his book Populism in Brazilian Politics , published in 1978, Brazilian sociologist Francisco Weffort offered Latin American scholars a seminal – and today an already classical – contribution to the analysis of populism (Weffort, 1978 ). In fact, it is a fundamental work for all those who intend to reflect on this recurring phenomenon of Latin American politics. ‘Populism’, however, is a controversial concept, and its content has been appropriated in
brutal police responses, a growing number of deaths, reports of injuries, rape, torture and disappearances. Political rhetoric used to denigrate opponents, insurgents and activists is not a new phenomenon, nor is it unique to Latin American countries. It is part and parcel of a wider contested version of politics in which activists and social movements have been systematically persecuted through diverse state and corporate mechanisms. A growing body of research emerging in Latin America focuses on understanding this phenomenon as it is experienced through the
