Latin America Transformed: Globalization and Modernity (Arnold Publication)

by RobertNGwynne (Author), KayCristobal (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $63.31

  Praise for the first edition:
  
  'Accomplishes its task to provide readers with a broad multi-disciplinary view on globalization's many impacts on Latin America ... the organization of the collection is logical and thoughtful, and the structural perspectives offered are convincing and powerful. I recommend it to other Latin American social scientists.' Growth and Change
  
  
  
  'An impressive, timely and lively volume, which is especially valuable for teaching purposes.' Journal of Latin American Studies
  
  
  
  'Authoritatively written by leading scholars in their respective fields.' Area
  
  
  
  Latin America Transformed, 2nd Edition explains the region's economic, political, social and cultural transformations, its association with globalization and the search for modernity, and contributes to a greater understanding of how these transformations are affecting the people of Latin America.
  
  
  
  Using a political economy approach to unravel the concepts of globalization and modernity within Latin America, emphasis is placed on interpreting the macro-level structures that frame the transformations taking place. The book also investigates the dynamics of people's livelihoods as they make sense of, rework and live out these structural transformations.
  
  
  
  The international team of authors involved with the successful first edition have updated their focus and substantially rewritten their material to examine the challenges facing Latin America in the twenty-first century. Three completely new chapters have also been added. Latin America Transformed, 2nd Edition is now even more useful for undergraduate and postgraduate courses that examine economic, political, social and cultural change in Latin America.

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $4.33

  There has been a radical series of transformations in the economic, political, social and cultural life of Latin America. This text offers an holistic approach to understanding these changes, relating them to the wider processes of modernization and globalization.
  
  
  
  An international team of authors from a range of disciplines - cultural studies, economic geography, political science, sociology and social geography - contextualize their different disciplinary foci within a broad political economy approach which provides a critical yet balanced analysis of the neoliberal politics pursued by almost all countries in the region over the last two decades. A new political economy is being constructed in Latin America, as national economies become radically restructured and transformed, democracy becomes the institutional norm, and new social arrangements are being created. The contestation and alternatives to this new global modernity are also explored.