Overview
- Situates Latin America within the critical globalization frame of analysis
- Covers all major events in Latin America since 2000 in an accessible manner
- Boldly sets out a new civilizational perspective, namely the Andean Buen Vivir
Part of the book series: Emerging Globalities and Civilizational Perspectives (EGCP)
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This book makes the powerful argument that Latin America needs to be a more central part of the discourse on emerging globalities and in the pursuit of an inter-civilizational focus to avoid West-centric perspectives. It deploys a cultural political economy approach that sees the global political economy as inescapably cultural and allows us to avoid the hyper-rational analysis of economics. It explores various aspects of contemporary Latin America from the revival of dependency theory, the ‘pink tide’ governments since 2000 and, in particular, the potential of the Andean Buen Vivir political philosophy, to offer a distinctive paradigm for sustainable global development.
The book provides a de-colonial frame and shows how many recent and new social science perspectives emerging globally are connected with Latin American scholars and Latin American social experiments: namely, dependency, decolonial and post-colonial epistemologies, post-neoliberalism, and the notion ofPluriverse. The book focuses on the cultural, the ethical, the economic and the political, and environmental dimensions of this transformation, which represents a reaction and alternative to the Western cultural, including ethical, economic, political, environmental crises.The readership for this book includes all who are fascinated by the globalization lens on the one hand, and the experience and lessons of Latin America on the other hand.
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Book Title: Coloniality of Power and Progressive Politics in Latin America
Book Subtitle: Development, Indigenous Politics and Buen Vivir
Authors: Ronaldo Munck
Series Title: Emerging Globalities and Civilizational Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54334-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54333-3Published: 02 May 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54336-4Due: 06 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-54334-0Published: 01 May 2024
Series ISSN: 2731-0620
Series E-ISSN: 2731-0639
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 148
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Globalization, Sociological Theory, Postcolonial Philosophy, International Relations