The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America Decades of Change /

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the book se...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ystanes, Margit (Editor), Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Series:Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61536-3
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Reformism, Class Conciliation, and the Pink Tide: Material Gains and their Limits
  • 3. Entangled Inequalities, State, and Social Policies in Contemporary Brazil
  • 4. #sosfavelas: Digital Representations of Violence and Inequality in Rio de Janeiro
  • 5. Urban Development in Rio de Janeiro During the 'Pink Tide': from politics of citizenship to politics of privilege
  • 6. Meanings of Poverty: an Ethnography of Bolsa Familia Beneficiaries in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil
  • 7. Political Polarization, Colonial Inequalities, and the Crisis of Modernity in Venezuela
  • 8. Market Liberalization and the (Un-) Making of the 'Perfect Neoliberal Citizen': Enactments of Gendered and Racialized Inequalities among Peruvian Vendors
  • 9. Coming of Age in the Penal System: Neoliberalism, 'Mano Dura', and the Reproduction of 'Racialised' Inequality in Honduras
  • 10. Settlers and Squatters: The Production of Social Inequalities in the Peruvian Desert
  • 11. Latin American Inequality and Reparation
  • 12. Postscript.