Post-Neoliberalism in the Americas

Book Overview

Introduction: Post-Neoliberalism in the Americas, An Introduction; L.Macdonald & A.Ruckert PART I: CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO POST-NEOLIBERALISM The Contradictions of Neoliberalism in Latin America: From Structural Adjustment to 'Empowering the Poor'; M.Taylor Post-Neoliberalism and the New Left in the Americas: The Pathways of Economic and Trade Policies; P.Heidrich & D.Tussie Struggling between Autonomy and Institutional Transformations: Social Movements in Latin America and the Move towards Post-Neoliberalism; U.Brand & N.Sekler Post-Neoliberalism and the Emergence of Human Rights Politics in International Finance; E.Friesen PART II: POST-NEOLIBERALISM IN LATIN AMERICA Hugo Chavez and the Search for Post-Neoliberal Policy Alternatives in Venezuela; J.Meltzer From Naked Barbarism to Barbarism with Benefits: Neoliberal Capitalism, Natural Gas Policy and the Evo Morales Government in Bolivia; J.R.Webber Is There a Post-Neoliberal Policy towards Foreign Direct Investment in Argentina and Chile?; P.Alexander Haslam The World Bank and the Poverty Reduction Strategy of Nicaragua: Towards a Post-Neoliberal World Development Order?; A.Ruckert The 'Re-branding' of Neoliberalism: Competing Hegemonies and Systemic Dilemmas Impacting Educational Development in Heavily-Indebted Latin American States; A.Davidson-Harden PART III: TRANSFORMATIONS OF NEOLIBERALISM IN THE AMERICAS Neoliberalism and the Micropolitics of Domination in the United States; M.Hawkesworth Poverty Policy and Politics in Canada and Mexico: Inclusive' Liberalism?; R.Mahon & L.Macdonald The Shaping of Motherhood through Social Investment in Children: Examples from Canada and Mexico; L.Luccisano & G.Wall Neoliberalism's Agnosticism: Domestic and Immigration Policies and the Model Family in Canada and the United States; L.Harder Colombia's Neoliberal Regime of Governance: Securitization by Dispossession; C.Rojas Afterword: Post-Neoliberal Politics and Pathways; L.Macdonald & A.Ruckert Bibliography

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349300217
• ISBN13: 9781349300211
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"