Buen Vivir and the Challenges to Capitalism in Latin America

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Introduction
A chapter-by-chapter synopsis
Reference
Chapter 1: In the vortex of social change
The new geoeconomics and geopolitics of capital
The political economy of extractive capitalism
The contradictions of capitalism
Resource nationalism, left-wing populism and poverty reduction
The end of the progressive cycle? The swing to the right of the pendulum of electoral politics
Conclusion
Notes
References
Part I: Development in the neoliberal era
Chapter 2: Extractive capitalism: development and resistance dynamics
Agrarian change as a lever of capital accumulation
From the Washington Consensus to neodevelopmentalism
The new geoeconomics of capital: the dynamics of foreign direct investment inflows
A new economic model: new developmentalism and extractivism
A new enclosure of the commons?
Resistance on the extractive frontier
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 3: Capitalism on the frontier of agroextractivism
The emergence of Silicon Valley’s imperial innovation system3
Agribusiness in the imperialist innovation agenda
The new political economy of agriculture: extractive capital and agroextraction
The dynamics of the resistance: the Zapatista initiative
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 4: Social movements and the state in the post-neoliberal era
Latin America’s ‘left turn’
Anti-statist autonomism
Postneoliberalism and the symbiotic approach
Toward a popular-democratic synthesis
MORENA’s historical victory
The peasantry and political-cultural class formation
Food sovereignty: a major challenge to MORENA, 2018–2024
The Agrarian Law
Rural development planning
Farmworkers
Mining, Aeolic, geothermic and other megaprojects
Conclusions
References
Chapter 5: The syncopated dance of Mexico’s industrial policy
Introduction
Mexico’s industrial policy: from import substitution industrialisation (ISI) to market fundamentalism
Querétaro: a local industrial policy to link Mexico into the global aerospace value chain
Jalisco: concerted policies to shape the software and computing industry
Conclusions
Note
Bibliography
Chapter 6: Communes in Venezuela in times of crisis
The council system
Community as class: the shared experience of marginalisation and struggle
Historical and theoretical roots of the local self-government structures
The communal state
Conflicts and contradictions
The example of the El Maizal Commune
Conclusions
Notes
References
Part II: Antinomies of development: constructing analternative reality
Chapter 7: Neoextractivism and development
Interviews by the author
Extractivism and neoextractivism
Neoextractivism as a ‘privileged window’ on capitalist development in the region
Neoextractivism as a socioterritorial development model
The commodities consensus and the developmentist illusion
Notes
References
Chapter 8: Paradoxes of development in the Andes and Amazonia
Extractivist economic growth and social achievements
The loss of environmental wealth in the period of the economic boom
Exporting primary economies and degrees of diversification
Conclusions
Notes
References
Chapter 9: Uchronia for living well
Towards a political socioecology of time for living well
Good life expectancy (GLE)
From the excluded and exploited of history: Living well as an uchronia
Epilogue: uchronias and chronopolitics
Notes
References
Chapter 10: Disputes over capitalism and varieties of development
Between acceptance and criticism
Rhetoric and practice: politics, economics and justice
Varieties of capitalism
Varieties of development
Disputes about varieties of development
Alternatives to development and
Exhaustions and alternatives
Notes
References
Index