The Latin American political landscape has already changed substantially in the 21st century. This book offers an approach to the Latin American political panorama that makes room for a post-ideological perspective - exploring its dimensions, main underpinnings, and possibilities - while also subjecting it to criticism and exposing its shortcomings and blind spots.
In doing so, it presents a pluralistic view of social and political processes currently taking place in Latin America. Each chapter casts light on the subcontinent's transition from the 20th to the 21st century from different vantage points, countries or regions, and advances comparative lines that enrich our picture of the region as whole. Case studies include Paraguay, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela and Colombia.
Volume editor:
Pablo Baisotti,
Felipe Lagos Rojas
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350300880
ISBN 10: 1350300888
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 26 December 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Pablo Baisotti and Felipe Lagos-Rojas 1. One, two, many Latin American lefts?: Ideology and scepticism in the 21st century Pablo Baisotti 2. In the Wake of the 2008 Crisis: New Latin American Lefts and the Legacy of the Previous Commodity Boom Angus Mcnelly 3. Right-wing, populism and foreign policy in Macri’s Argentina (2015–2019) and Bolsonaro’s Brazil (2018–2022) Esteban Iglesias, Gastón Souroujon, Gisela Pereyra Doval, and Juan Bautista Lucca 4. Trajectories of ruling ideologies in post-authoritarian Chile: The consolidation of neoliberalism Rommy Morales-Olivares 5. Memory and populist articulation in 2019 Chile’s October Revolt Nicolás Ortiz-Ruiz 6. Anti-ideology in El Salvador? Continuities and discontinuities in a radicalised and environmentally fragile country Vladimir Pacheco Cueva 7. Back to the future: elections and middle classes in Mexico in 2024 Adrián Moreno Mata and Ma. Teresa Cruz Patiño 8. Power, The State, and Narcocultura John P. Sullivan 9. Republicanism in Contemporary Latin America: The Making of a Concept Carlos F. Domínguez Avila and Henry Ani Kifordu
Pablo Baisotti holds a Ph.D. and an M.Phil. He is currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex and was previously Fellow Researcher at the University Sun Yat-sen, China, as well as Full-time Research Fellow at the Maria Sibylla Merian Center, University of Costa Rica. Felipe Lagos Rojas is a Marxist researcher based in Santiago, Chile. He is coordinator of the Program on Latin American Critiques of the International Institute for Philosophy and Social Studies IIPSS. He is also general editor of Pléyade.
