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Book Synopsis The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems now to be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent trying to break open the constraints of the state. Through an ethnographically grounded and localized anthropological perspective, this book argues that at a time when the regular structures of political participation have been ruptured, the Latin American context reveals multiple expressions of egalitarian movements that strive (and sometimes momentarily manage) to break through the state’s apparatus.
Trade Review “The editors' introductory and concluding essays summarize the fruitful theoretical basis of the case studies, citing especially Kapferer’s work on the emergence and dominance of the ‘corporate state.’ Highly Recommended." • Choice
“This is a superb and timely set of studies that assess the lasting effects of a recent trend, now subsided, of left and left-leaning governments on politics and daily life for common people in a range of Latin American societies.” • George E. Marcus, University of California
“To my mind, there are no other books or works on Latin America that have this double focus on the corporate state and egalitarianism. In sum, the book provides a wealth of novel arguments to understand the rise, maturation and afterlife of one of the most important and complex political turns to the left after the year 2000” • Bjorn Enge Bertelsen, University of Bergen
Table of Contents Introduction: The Pink Tide, Egalitarianism and the Corporate State in Latin America
Marina Gold and Alessandro Zagato
Chapter 1. State Corporatization and Warfare in Mexico
Alessandro Zagato
Chapter 2. Political Parties, Big Business, Social Movements and the ‘Voice of the People’: Views from Above and Below on the Crisis Created by the 2016 Coup in Brazil
John Gledhill and Maria Gabriela Hita
Chapter 3. The election of MAS, iIs Egalitarian Potential, and Its Contradictions: Lessons from Bolivia
Leonidas Oikonomakis
Chapter 4. What is in the ‘People’s Interest’? Discourses of Egalitarianism and ‘Development as Compensation’ in Contemporary Ecuador
Erin Fitz-Henry and Denisse Rodriquez
Chapter 5. The Neoliberal State and Post-Transition Democracy in Chile. Local Public Action and Indigenous Political Demands
Francisca de la Maza Cabrera
Chapter 6. More State? On Authority and the Conditions for Egalitarianism in Venezuela
Luis Angosto-Ferrández
Chapter 7. Egalitarian and Hierarchical Tensions in Cuban Self-Employed Ventures
Marina Gold
Chapter 8. Social Banditry and the Legal in the Corporate State of Peru
Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard
Conclusion: Egalitarianism and Dynamics of Oppression: Constitutive Processes
Alessandro Zagato and Marina Gold
Afterword: Towards the Era of the Post-Human
Bruce Kapferer
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