Latin America Transformed : Globalization and Modernity

An international team of authors from a range of disciplines - cultural studies, economic geography, political science, sociology and social geography - contextualize their different disciplinary foci within a broad political economy approach which provides a critical yet balanced analysis of the neoliberal politics pursued by almost all countries in the region over the last two decades. A new political economy is being constructed in Latin America, as national economies become radically restructured and transformed, democracy becomes the institutional norm, and new social arrangements are being created. The contestation and alternatives to this new global modernity are also explored.

Robert N. Gwynne is Reader in Latin American Development at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Cristóbal Kay is Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Studies at The Hague, The Netherlands.