Latin America transformed: Globalization and neoliberalism

Latin America Transformed: Globalization and Modernity: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3-21

  Gwynne, Robert N ^a   Kay, Cristóbal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

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2. Chase, J. (ed.) 2002 The spaces of neoliberalism: land, place and family in Latin America. Kumarian Press, Bloomfield, CT Explores the various ways that households, communities, women and ethnic groups deal with market relations and state policies in everyday life.
3. Green, D. 2003 Silent revolution: the rise of market economics in Latin America. Second edn., Latin America Bureau, London, and Monthly Review Press, New York. A popular and well-written critical analysis of Latin America's neoliberal economic reforms.
4. Gwynne, R. N., Klak, T. and Shaw, D. J. B. 2003 Alternative capitalisms: geographies of emerging regions. Arnold, London. Examines the effects of globalization and economic and political transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean, and compares them with those occurring in East Central Europe, the former Soviet Union and East Asia. In this sense, it provides a unique approach in terms of books published in both geography and the social sciences.
5. Kay, C. 1 989 Latin American theories of development and underdevelopment. Routledge, London. This still provides the most comprehensive and systematic introduction to Latin American theories of development. The origins of structuralist and dependency theories are scrutinized alongside those of marginality and internal colonialism.
6. Kirby, P. 2003 Introduction to Latin America: twenty-first century challenges. London and Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. A comprehensive, accessible and engaging overview of the economic, social and political forces shaping contemporary Latin America.
7. Munck, R. 2003 Contemporary Latin America. Houndmills, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. A lively, concise and readable text that provides a general introduction to the region.
8. Swanson, P. (ed.) 2003 The companion to Latin American studies. Arnold, London, and Oxford University Press, New York. An original companion to literary and cultural studies that situates the region in its historical, social, political, literary and cultural context.