ISBN:
140397893X
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0230603556
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9781403978936
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 240 p)
,
ill
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Globalization and Uncertainty in Latin America
DDC:
303.48/28
Keywords:
Globalization Political aspects
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Uncertainty Economic aspects
;
Uncertainty Political aspects
;
Globalization Economic aspects
;
Globalization ; Economic aspects ; Latin America
;
Globalization ; Political aspects ; Latin America
;
Uncertainty ; Economic aspects ; Latin America
;
Uncertainty ; Political aspects ; Latin America
;
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Abstract:
"Globalization and Uncertainty in Latin America" gathers new scholarship on globalization and Latin America in an entertaining and well-researched volume. This balanced and innovative collection examines how rising levels of uncertainty affect daily life, as well as society, government, and culture. Well-known authors use different methodologies to approach the common theme of a region transformed in recent years by neoliberalism. Most of the contributors suggest that Latin America is experiencing rapid and unexpected change, and that its future looks much different
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Uncertainty and Globalization; Part 1 The Uncertainties of Liberalism and Neoliberalism, Past and Present; 1 Victorian Globalization in Microcosm: The Rise and Fall of Jabez Spencer Balfour; 2 Uncertainty, the Construction of the Future, and the Divorce Between Citizens and the State in Latin America; 3 Isomorphic Neoliberalism and the Creation of Inevitability; 4 Can the Backlash Against Globalization Be Contained?; Part 2 Uncertain Relations between the State and Civil Society
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Globalization and Public Policy in the Americas: Are We Heading Toward Convergence?6 Development Assistance, the Environment, and Stakeholder Participation: Toward a New Conditionality?; Part 3 Uncertainties about Human Rights and Justice; 7 Globalization and the Modern Conception of Human Rights; 8 Generating Uncertainty: Globalized Punishment and Crime; Conclusion; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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