Latin America in the new millennium: social panorama and dynamics of political processes

2019 ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Zbignev Ivanovskiy
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
New Millennium

Towards a new economics: concepts and experiences from Latin America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Coraggio
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Alternative Theory ◽  
Solidarity Economy ◽  
Especial Reference ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Social

In this chapter the Social and Solidarity Economy is presented both as an alternative theory and a counterhegemonic program of political action that challenges the tenets of the market economy of neoliberal doctrine. The proposal is framed within a substantive economy approach based on the works of Marx and Polanyi. The categories of a substantive economic analysis regarding ethical and specifically economic principles and institutions are outlined. Recent advances in the line of a Social and Solidarity Economy are sketched for some of the Latin American national-popular political processes (Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, with some references to Brazil), including an especial reference to the new constitutions and public policies and the tensions between different objectives revealed within them.

scholarly journals Latin America through the vision of environmental geopolitics. A little about the history of the issue

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-236
Author(s):  
Shinkarenko Alexander ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Current State ◽  
Environmental Discourses ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

In this article, the author touches upon the formation of ecological geopolitics and the role of Latin America in it. The socio-political processes that are currently taking place in the region focus on environmental problems, as well as the possibility of reducing the intensity of extractivistic initiatives. The relevance of the environmental discourses and the costs generated with the rental model of the economy, is characteristic not only of Latin America, but also other regions of the world. Nevertheless, it is here we can observe the active work of antiextractive movements to form a contemporary environmental agenda and search for models that are alternative to the current state of the world.

Walter Benjamin in Venezuela

2017 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Chris Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
Political Processes

Benjamin's philosophy presents problems best addressed not academically, but in dialogue with living political processes. And it is in Latin America, particularly Venezuela, that Benjamin's ideas have been most vividly illustrated and interrogated.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

The Formation of Capitalist Agriculture in Latin America and Its Relationship to Political Power and the State

1983 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Winson
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Social Structural

Among the various weaknesses that characterize much of the literature concerning political phenomena in Latin America, there are a few that appear to be fundamental. One serious criticism that could be made concerns the marked ahistoricity of many studies, exemplified by the tendency to take certain social structural features as given in this context, such as the existence of an oligarchy, a more or less undifferentiated impoverished mass, and a weak and politically insignificant middle class. This static and ahistorical consideration of structural phenomenon is directly related to a further weakness of such literature, this being the tendency to isolate political processes from what is in fact a dynamic socioeconomic reality, and thereby reduce the former to the interplay of more or less circumstantial factors.

scholarly journals Latin America: development tendencies

2015 ◽  
pp. 25-29
Author(s):  
A. A. Orlov
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Processes

The article analyzes the political processes taking place in Latin America. The author pays special attention to the increase of tension in some countries on the continent, especially in Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil. He comes to the conclusion that the United States, who have distanced themselves from Latin America’s affairs in recent years, head for «reformatting» of the continent under its own interest, that can have a serious destabilizing effect.

scholarly journals To the question of the newest trends in political processes in Latin America: prospects and challenges

2018 ◽  
pp. 11-13
Author(s):  
Liudmila Okuneva
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Judicial Power ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Divided Power ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Right

The article deals with the major political problems of Latin America recently: the right drift, the conflict potential of political systems leading to the so called “divided power” (conflict between the Executive and Legislative branches of government), the function of the judicial power etc.

scholarly journals Instituciones, coaliciones callejeras e inestabilidad política: perspectivas teóricas sobre las crisis presidenciales

2008 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Emerging Pattern

RESUMEN: En las últimas dos décadas, trece presidentes electos han sido removidos del cargo en América Latina. ¿Cómo debemos conceptualizar este nuevo patrón de inestabilidad política y cómo explicarlo? En la primera sección de este artículo se identifican una serie de categorías (renuncia anticipada, juicio político y golpe legislativo) que permiten delimitar con mayor claridad al fenómeno de interés. En la segunda sección se presentan dos perspectivas analíticas para entender el origen de estas crisis (una institucional y otra basada en los movimientos sociales) y se explora el papel de otras causas remotas, como los factores económicos. La sección tercera presenta varios problemas en la identificación de las causas de las crisis y presenta un modelo empírico que sugiere que la protesta popular y las condiciones institucionales interactúan para definir el resultado del proceso político. En las conclusiones se exploran las consecuencias de estas crisis para la democracia y el presidencialismo.ABSTRACT: In the past two decades, thirteen elected presidents have been ousted in Latin America. How should we conceptualize this emerging pattern of political instability and how can we explain it? The first section of the paper identifies some categories (early resignation, impeachment, and legislative coup) that help us delimit the phenomenon of interest. The second section reviews two analytical perspectives that seek to explain the origins of recent crises (one emphasizing institutions and the other one based on social movements) and discusses the relevance  of more remote explanations such as economic conditions. The third section introduces some of the problems confronted by those trying to identify causes of political crises and presents an empirical model suggesting that popular protest and institutional conditions interact to determine the outcome of political processes. The conclusions explore the consequences of recent crises for democracy and presidentialism in the region.

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