New Latin American Left

Jeffery R. Webber is lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London. Barry Carr is professor, Institute of Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, and visiting professor of Latin American history, University of California, Berkeley.l

This volume provides a valuable focus on intraleft dynamics—the ever-shifting relations between party leaders and their allies in civil society. As a whole, the essays provide informed and in-depth analysis of such dynamics. . . .Overall, the book’s focus, critical stance, and extensive coverage make it a good candidate for classroom adoption. For instructors seeking to make contemporary Latin American politics come to life, the ground-level perspective of these essays provides a good start.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: The Latin American Left in Theory and PracticeJeffery R. Webber and Barry CarrPart I: Theoretical IssuesChapter 2: Socialist Strategies in Latin AmericaClaudio KatzChapter 3: The Latin American Left in the Face of the New ImperialismHenry VeltmeyerChapter 4: Neoliberal Class Formation(s): The Informal Proletariat and “New” Workers’ Organizations in Latin AmericaSusan SpronkChapter 5: Revolution in Times of Neoliberal Hegemony: The Political Strategy of the MST in Brazil and the EZLN in MexicoLeandro Vergara-CamusChapter 6:Barrio Women and Popular Politics in Chávez’s VenezuelaSujatha FernandesPart II: Case Studies of the New Latin American LeftChapter 7: From Left-Indigenous Insurrection to Reconstituted Neoliberalism in Bolivia: Political Economy, Indigenous Liberation, and Class Struggle, 2000–2011Jeffery R. WebberChapter 8:Venezuela: An Electoral Road to Twenty-First-Century Socialism?Gregory WilpertChapter 9:Ecuador: Indigenous Struggles and the Ambiguities of Electoral PowerMarc BeckerChapter 10:Crisis and Recomposition in ArgentinaEmilia CastorinaChapter 11: Trade Unions, Social Conflict, and the Political Left in Present-Day Brazil: Between Breach and CompromiseRicardo AntunesChapter 12: Neoliberal Authoritarianism, the “Democratic Transition,” and the Mexican LeftRichard Roman and Edur Velasco ArreguiChapter 13:The Chilean Left after 1990: An Izquierda Permitida Championing Transnational Capital, A Historical Left Ensnared in the Past, and a New Radical Left in GestationFernando LeivaChapter 14:From Guerrillas to Government: The Continued Relevance of the Central American LeftHéctor Perla Jr., Marco Mojica, and Jared BiblerChapter 15: The Overthrow of a Moderate and the Birth of a Radicalizing Resistance: The Coup against Manuel Zelaya and the History of Imperialism and Popular Struggle in HondurasTodd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber