Post-Neoliberalism in the Americas

ULRICH BRAND is Professor of International Politics at the Institute of Political Science at Vienna University, Austria ADAM DAVIDSON-HARDEN is Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Education, Queen's University, Canada ELIZABETH FRIESEN is a doctoral candidate at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada LOIS HARDER is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta, Canada MARY HAWKESWORTH is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and a member of the Graduate Faculty in Political Science at Rutgers University, USA PAUL ALEXANDER HASLAM is Assistant Professor in the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada PABLO HEIDRICH is Senior Researcher on Trade and Development at the North-South Institute, in Ottawa, Canada LUCY LUCCISANO is Associate Professor of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada LAURA MACDONALD is Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University, Canada RHIAN MAHON is Director of the Institute of Political Economy and a member of the School of Public Policy and Administration and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada JUDITH MELTZER is a doctoral candidate and Instructor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University, Canada CRISTINA ROJAS is Professor in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, Canada ARNE RUCKERT is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada NICOLA SEKLER is researching her PhD on post-neoliberal concepts and strategies of social movements in Argentina and is an academic staff member in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria MARCUS TAYLOR is Assistant Professor in the department of Global Development Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada DIANA TUSSIE heads the Department of International Relations at FLACSO/Argentina and directs the Latin American Trade Network (LATN) GLENDA WALL is Associate Professor of sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada JEFFREY R. WEBBER is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Toronto, Canada

'[A] provocative edited volume, which will appeal to academic audiences but also to the informed reader...Perhaps the most innovative feature of the collection is its geographic reach, encompassing Canada and the US as well as Latin America, and combining comparative thematic chapters with country case studies.' - Times Higher Education

• 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 andPathways;  L.Macdonald & A.Ruckert Bibliography