Latin America Transformed: Globalization and Modernity / Edition 2

by Robert N Gwynne, Kay Cristobal

Overview

Now in a second edition, this book explains Latin America's economic, political, social and cultural transformations, its association with globalization and search for modernity, and how these transformations are affecting the people of the region. Using a political economy approach to unravel these concepts, the emphasis is placed on interpreting the macro-level structures that frame the transformations taking place. Updated and revised to include more student friendly features, the authors have substantially rewritten the material, including three new chapters, to examine the challenges facing Latin American in the twenty-first century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780340809303
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/26/2004
Series:	A Hodder Arnold Publication Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1480L (what's this?)

About the Author

Robert N. Gwynne is Reader in Latin American Development at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Cristóbal Kay is Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Studies at The Hague, The Netherlands.

Table of Contents

Latin America transformed: globalization and neoliberalism
Modernity and identity: cultural change in Latin America
Structural reform in South America and Mexico: Economic and Regional Perspectives
Globalization, neoliberalism and economic change in Central America and the Caribbean
The urban revolution
The political economy of sustainable development in Latin America
Authoritarianism, democracy and development
The new political order: towards technocratic democracies?
Livelihood transitions, place transformations: grounding globalization and modernity
Civil society, grassroots politics and livelihoods
Urban livelihoods, employment and gender
Rural livelihoods and peasant futures
The alternatives to neoliberalism

Editorial Reviews

This book asks some very good questions on the future of Latin America and offers excellent reflections on many problems, such as land reform, neoliberal policies, rural and urban poverty, the need for a sustainable development ... it contains a lot of pedagogic documents as well as a remarkable analysis of the Chilean development model.

Belgium Journal of Geography

The book asks some very good questions on the future of Latin America and offers excellent reflections on many problems, such as land reform, neoliberal policies, rural and urban poverty, the need for a sustainable development.

Revue Belge de Geographie 2005 - 3

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