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The Multidimensional Impact of Neoliberalism on Mexico

Nov. 2020 Issue Editors: Steve Ellner This issue examines neoliberal policies that clashed with the Mexican revolution’s legacy of state intervention in the economy and set the stage for the presidential triumph of López Obrador in 2018. Articles deal with human rights violation from the 1970s “dirty wars” to Ayotzinapa; legislative formulations that threaten the rights of indigenous people; urban planning promoting social exclusion in Mexico City; the devastating effect of globalized agricultural production on biological diversity and labor exploitation; corporate-based tourism that strengthens gender, class, and ethnic differences; and climate change and neoliberal policies that stimulate urbanization.   TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE [/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

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Social Movements in Latin America: The Progressive Governments and Beyond Part 2

Sept 2020 Issue Editors: Ronaldo Munck and Kyla Sankey This second instalment of a social movements in Latin America dedicated issue develops some of the key themes from Issue 1. The progressive governments have faded and right wing regimes prevail but social movements continue. It takes up the complex interplay between the movements and the changing political domain. It examines the rural movements, the Workers’ Party of Brazil, feminism, the piqueteros of Argentina and the 2019 indigenous revolt in Ecuador.   TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

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Social Movements in Latin America: The Progressive Governments and Beyond Part 1

March 2020 Issue Editors: Alfredo Saad-Filho, Juan Grigera, and Ana Paula Colombi Part II of this issue discusses the nature, strengths, achievements, contradictions, and limitations of the administrations led by the PT in federal government, questioning whether they can be characterized as a variety of neoliberalism. Besides macroeconomic policies and political alliances, this volume directs its attention to specific aspects of the PT policies. This includes foreign policy, Brazil’s external economic constraint, and the government’s regional, distributive, social and labor market policies; this volume also traces the emerging forms of collective action and the new forms of resistance of the working class.   TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

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Politics, Society, and Culture in Postconflict Peru

Sept 2019 Issue editor: Kristi M. Wilson This issue of Latin American Perspectives focuses on the post-conflict period from Alberto Fujimori’s resignation in 2000 to the present, thus, challenging some of the popular notions of Peru as an exemplar of post-conflict reconstruction. The essays herein addresses important contributing factors to the Peruvian post-conflict landscape such as: questions of democracy and authoritarianism; extractivism, neo-extractivism and inequality among Peruvian indigenous communities; post-conflict development programs and initiatives; post-conflict reparations programs, the legacy of family planning programs in Peru; and the relationship between indigenous communities and the Peruvian state.   TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

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Issue #225 Mar 1 2019 Volume 46-2

  This issue continues the examination of the economic, social, and political impacts of expanded extractivism in Latin America and the perpetuation of the region’s role as a raw materials supplier for foreign markets that was started in the September 2018 issue (LAP 45 [5]).  With a broad geographic scope and consideration of a wide range of extractive industries from mining and hydrocarbons to soy, it combines critical theoretical insights with rich empirical research into the changing national and transnational structural relationships among governments, resource extracting and financial corporations, and the affected populations. Several articles critically assess the limitations of the extractivist policies of progressive governments. Others analyze the role of China and the actual experience of South-South cooperation.  Environmental justice issues and grass roots resistance are also considered  with attention to the roles of women, indigenous and Afro-descendent communities.     TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

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Issue #216 Sept. 1 2017 Volume 44-5

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

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Issue #214 May 2017 Volume 44-3

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

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Latin American Perspectives, founded in 1974, is a theoretical and scholarly journal for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. Most issues focus on a single problem, nation, or region, providing an in-depth look from participants and scholars throughout the Americas.

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