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Book SynopsisOver a decade ago, Jorge CastaÃeda wrote the classic Utopia Unarmed, which offered a penetrating and comprehensive account of the Latin American leftâs fate at the end of the Cold War. Since then, the left across Latin America has travelled in paths no one could have predicted. Latin American nations from Mexico to Argentina wavered for years between leftism and American-supported neoliberalism, but in recent years the left has experienced a tremendous resurgence throughout the region. However, the left is not unified, and as CastaÃeda, Morales, and their contributors show, it has followed two distinct paths â a more cosmopolitan style leftism, exemplified by Brazil and Chile, and a left fuelled by populist nationalism that has clear debts to PerÃn or CÃrdenas, and is most evident in Venezuela, Mexicoâs PRD, Bolivia, and Argentina. Leftovers comprehensively updates this very important story, with country and area specialists contributing.
Trade Review"Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections." - CHOICE, April 2009 Vol. 46 No. 08
"This book will surely not be the last word written on the new Latin American left. But it offers several important contributions for those who want to understand the most recent set of surprises and puzzles that Latin America has offered the scholarly community." - Matthew R. Cleary, Syracuse University, USA
Table of ContentsPart 1: Revisting the Utopia 1. The Current State of the Utopia Jorge G. Castañeda and Marco A. Morales 2. Have Latin Americans Turned Left? Marco A. Morales Part 2: What Has the Left Done Right (or Wrong)? 3. Ecumenism and Diversity: A Tale of Economic and Trade Policies of the New Left Diana Tussie and Pablo Heidrich 4. Social Policy José Merino 5. Nationalism Jorge G. Castañeda, Marco A. Morales and Patricio Navia Part 3: Case Studies 6. The New and the Old in Brazil’s PT Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Sofia Checa 7. The Successful Chilean Left: Neo-Liberal and Socialist Patricio Navia 8. Uruguay, a Role Model for the Left? David Altman, Juan Pablo Luna and Rosana Castiglioni 9. Venezuela: The Left Turning Further Left? Raul Sánchez-Urribarri 10. The Left in Peru: Wagons that Lack an Engine Martin Tanaka 11. The Evolution of the Mexican Left Kathleen Bruhn Part 4: Prognosis 12. Where Do We Go Now? Jorge G. Castañeda
