Book description
Framed by critical globalisation theory and David Harvey’s ‘co-revolutionary moments’ as a theory of social change, this book brings together a multi-disciplinary team of researchers to empirically analyse how socialism is being constructed in contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean, and beyond.
This book uses the case of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples’ Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) to invite to a re-thinking of resistance to global capitalism and the construction of socialism in the 21st century. Including detailed theory-based ethnographic case studies from Bolivia, Cuba, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Venezuela and the USA, the contributors identify social and structural forces at different levels and scales to illuminate politics and practices at work. Centred around the themes of democracy and justice, and the more general reconfiguration of the state-society relations and power geometries at the local, national, regional and global scales, ALBA and Counter-Globalization is at the forefront in the trend of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of social phenomena of global relevance.
Counter-Globalization and Socialism in the 21st Century will be of interest to students and scholars of Latin American politics, global governance, global regionalisms and rising powers.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Rethinking Globalizations
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: the enigma of socialism
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Part I Politics, principles, processes
- 2 Twenty-first century socialism: a political and pedagogical act. Some keys to understanding
- 3 Counter-globalization and a revolutionary politics of place, space and scale: the transnational construction of the ALBA-TCP in Nicaragua, El Salvador and the USA
- 4 The ALBA-TCP Council of Social Movements: a double-turn in counter-hegemony
- 5 Rethinking legitimacy in international law: the ALBA-TCP's place for justice
- Part II Political economy
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Part III Culture, education, the environment
- 9 Cultural policy and 21st century socialism
- 10 Post-secularity and political hope in 21st century socialism
- 11 The politics of the audiovisual cultural revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean
- 12 From the local to the regional and back: Bolivia's politics of decolonizing education in the context of the ALBA-TCP
- 13 Global struggles for climate justice and the ALBA-TCP Council of Social Movements: an activist perspective
- Index
Product information
- Title: Counter-Globalization and Socialism in the 21st Century
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2013
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781135052454
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