Rural Latin America in Transition

Development and Change in Mexico and Venezuela

AvRay Watters

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Del i serien Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America

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This book provides an in-depth and broad study on rural Latin America over a 60-year period. The material will appeal to researchers, graduate students and policy makers in the fields of rural development, Latin American politics, and international relations.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-01-28
Mått:148 x 210 x 28 mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America
Antal sidor:322
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030650322

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Ray Watters is Emeritus Associate Professor at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. As a geographer/anthropologist he started his career studying shifting agriculture for the Food and Agriculture Organization in Venezuela, Mexico, and Peru. He has led projects for the United Nations and various governments of developing countries. Many of his studies involved geographic, historical, anthropological, and economic analyses, as well as village fieldwork on peasantry. Research projects he led resulted in ten major reports.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Working in Latin America: The Paradoxes of Developmentalism.- Chapter 3. The Agroecological Revolution.- Chapter 4. Southern Mexico: Revolution, Agrarian Reform and Rural Development.- Chapter 5. Mexico in the New Emerging World Order.- Chapter 6. Recent Developments in Mexico Can Mexico Remake itself? - Chapter 7. Economic Backwardness in the Venezuelan Andes.- Chapter 8. The Situation in the Llanos.- Chapter 9. Venezuela Revisited: 1979 and 2010: Betancourt.- Chapter 10. The Economic Crisis and the Chávez Presidency.- Chapter 11. Venezuela 2013–2019: Chaos and decline.- Chapter 12. Maduro Makes a Mockery of Democracy in Venezuela.- Chapter 13. Epilogue.