This issue sheds light on positive and negatives sides of progressive or “Pink Tide” governments which it places in political and economic contexts, specifically destabilizing efforts by a “disloyal opposition” and disinvestment by the private sector. TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE
This issue covers a number of topics that are very much in the forefront of political discussion, among them immigration, indigenous rights, workers’ struggles, and governance. TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE
Ever since the elusive search for El Dorado began in the 16th century, the history of Latin America has been a tale of resource extraction. This issue focuses on the interconnections and impacts of global resource-based economies on topics as wide-ranging as local people and their environments, national policies and international financial capital. Rather than finding neat and tidy conclusions, it suggests that nuanced social, political economic analyses better enable us to understand and analyze how contemporary extractivism is reshaping Latin America. TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE
More than a half century after the publication of Rodolfo Stavenhagen’s landmark essay “7 Erroneous Thesis about Latin America”, its critique of dominant development thinking remains sharp, as was shown at a colloquium hosted by El Colegio de México 50 years to the day after the publication of the original text. TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE
More than a half century after the publication of Rodolfo Stavenhagen’s landmark essay “7 Erroneous Thesis about Latin America”, its critique of dominant development thinking remains sharp, as was shown at a colloquium hosted by El Colegio de México 50 years to the day after the publication of the original text. TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE
The distinction between “formal” and “informal” jobs and enterprises was first introduced in the 1970s and has been very widely used ever since. TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE
In the 1990s Barry Gills, Joel Rocamora, and Richard Wilson directly challenged the democratic-transitions literature by introducing the model of “low-intensity democracy” a largely procedural democracy that allows political opposition, greater individual freedoms, a reduced institutional role for the armed forces, and a more permeable environment for the investments of transnational capital. TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE
On February 27th 2010, southern Chile was hit by an 8.8 magnitude earthquake followed by several devastating tsunamis. The disaster cost 575 lives and economic losses equivalent to 18% of Chile’s GDP. TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE
Urban social movements have contested the conditions under which people live and work in Latin America’s cities. The movements arose in response to the urban and housing policies of the neoliberal state, reflect deep contradictions of class, gender, poverty and informality, and signal the emergence of new forms of citizenship. TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE
Urban Latin America: Part 2: Planning Latin American Cities: Dependencies and “Best Practices” TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE
