Latin America and Global Capitalism A Critical Globalization Perspective

This ambitious volume chronicles and analyzes from a critical globalization perspective the social, economic, and political changes sweeping across Latin America from the 1970s through the present day. Sociologist William I. Robinson summarizes his theory of globalization and discusses how Latin Ame...

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Main Author Robinson, William I
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2008
Edition1
SeriesJohns Hopkins Studies in Globalization
Subjects
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Capitalism
Development
Economic change
Economic Development
Economic integration
Globalization
Immigrants
Indigenous populations
Labour migration
Latin America
Political economy
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Remittances
Revolution
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sociology
World economy
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Summary:This ambitious volume chronicles and analyzes from a critical globalization perspective the social, economic, and political changes sweeping across Latin America from the 1970s through the present day. Sociologist William I. Robinson summarizes his theory of globalization and discusses how Latin America’s political economy has changed as the states integrate into the new global production and financial system, focusing specifically on the rise of nontraditional agricultural exports, the explosion of maquiladoras, transnational tourism, and the export of labor and the import of remittances. He follows with an overview of the clash among global capitalist forces, neoliberalism, and the new left in Latin America, looking closely at the challenges and dilemmas resistance movements face and their prospects for success. Through three case studies—the struggles of the region's indigenous peoples, the immigrants rights movement in the United States, and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela—Robinson documents and explains the causes of regional socio-political tensions, provides a theoretical framework for understanding the present turbulence, and suggests possible outcomes to the conflicts. Based on years of fieldwork and empirical research, this study elucidates the tensions that globalization has created and shows why Latin America is a battleground for those seeking to shape the twenty-first century’s world order.
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