Neoliberalism, Interrupted: Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America - Hardcover

Goodale, Mark; Postero, Nancy

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ISBN 10: 0804784523 ISBN 13: 9780804784528

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2013

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In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life. Neoliberalism, Interrupted examines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses to neoliberalism's hegemony. In so doing, this vanguard collection of case studies undermines the conventional dichotomies used to understand transformation in this region, such as neoliberalism vs. socialism, right vs. left, indigenous vs. mestizo, and national vs. transnational.

Deploying both ethnographic research and more synthetic reflections on meaning, consequence, and possibility, the essays focus on the ways in which a range of unresolved contradictions interconnect various projects for change and resistance to change in Latin America. Useful to students and scholars across disciplines, this groundbreaking volume reorients how sociopolitical change has been understood and practiced in Latin America. It also carries important lessons for other parts of the world with similar histories and structural conditions.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Lausanne. He is the author of Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights (Stanford, 2009) and Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism (Stanford, 2008). Nancy Postero is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, and author of Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Post-Multicultural Bolivia (Stanford, 2006), and co-author, with Leon Zamosc, of The Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Latin America (2003).

Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Lausanne. He is the author of Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights (Stanford, 2009) and Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism (Stanford, 2008).Nancy Postero is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, and author of Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Post-Multicultural Bolivia (Stanford, 2006), and co-author, with Leon Zamosc, of The Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Latin America (2003).

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NEOLIBERALISM, INTERRUPTED

Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America

By Mark Goodale, Nancy Postero

Stanford University Press

Copyright © 2013 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
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Contents

Acknowledgments............................................................
vii
Abbreviations..............................................................
ix
Editors and Contributors...................................................
xiii
1 Revolution and Retrenchment: Illuminating the Present in Latin America 
Mark Goodale and Nancy Postero.............................................
1
PART 1 THE POSTNEOLIBERAL CHALLENGE........................................
23
2 Bolivia's Challenge to "Colonial Neoliberalism" Nancy Postero...........
25
3 Culture and Neoliberal Rationalities in Postneoliberal Venezuela 
Sujatha Fernandes..........................................................
53
PART 2 MICROPOLITICS OF HISTORY AND PRACTICE...............................
73
4 "En Minga por el Cauca": Alternative Government in Colombia, 2001–2003 
David Gow..................................................................
75
5 Neoliberal Reforms and Protest in Buenos Aires Marcela Cerrutti and 
Alejandro Grimson..........................................................
109
6 "Taken into Account": Democratic Change and Contradiction in Mexico's 
Third Sector Analiese M. Richard..........................................
137
PART 3 CARE AND PUNISHMENT: BIOPOLITICS AND NEOLIBERAL VIOLENCE............
167
7 Neoliberal Reckoning: Ecuador's Truth Commission and the Mythopoetics of 
Political Violence Christopher Krupa......................................
169
8 Care and Punishment in Latin America: The Gendered Neoliberalization of 
the Chilean State Veronica Schild.........................................
195
9 "Yes, We Did!" "¡Sí Se Pudo!": Regime Change and the Transnational 
Politics of Hope Between the United States and El Salvador Elana Zilberg..
225
Postscript Insurgent Imaginaries and Postneoliberalism in Latin America 
Miguel Ángel Contreras Natera..............................................
249
Notes......................................................................
269
References.................................................................
283
Index......................................................................
309

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CHAPTER 1

REVOLUTION ANDRETRENCHMENTIlluminating the Present in Latin AmericaMark Goodale and Nancy Postero

This volume examines the ways inwhich Latin America, during the last decade, has becomea global laboratory. There, new forms of governance, economic structuring,and social mobilization are responding to and at times challenging thecontinuing hegemony of what the anthropologist James Ferguson (2006)describes as the "neoliberal world order." Yet despite the fact that politicalleaders in countries like Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Venezuela articulatethese responses in the language of revolution, these most radical of regionalexperiments remain outliers, the exceptions that prove the general rulethat the global consolidation of late capitalism through neoliberalism hasbeen merely, if revealingly, interrupted in Latin America. Nevertheless, weargue that these interruptions have important consequences and reveal newhorizons of possibility—social, political, economic, theoretical—within abroader, post–Cold War world in which many of the traditional alternativesto late capitalism and neoliberal forms of governance have lost ideologicallegitimacy and in which even the idea of revolution itself—with its mythologicalinvocations of radical change, righteous violence, and social and moralrenewal—is often seen as an anachronism.

At the same time, we also examine the problem of widespread retrenchmentof neoliberalism in Latin America, a set of pro cesses that both bringsinto starker contrast the significance of the exceptional challenges to neoliberalismand underscores the ways in which neoliberal forms of governance andsocial life have become ideologically detached from their historical contingencies.Without the ever-present specter of the Cold War looming over ongoingstruggles over land, racism, and political marginalization, it has becomemore difficult for social and political radicals in Latin America to bringhome the point that the assumptions and structures that perpetuate differentforms of in equality are not inevitable. Indeed, as we will see, neoliberal governmentalityin Latin America is as naturalizing as elsewhere. Even the mostrobust and earnest provocations of the conditions that produce vulnerabilitycome up against the lingering effects of the Washington Consensus in LatinAmerica, through which regional political economies came into a forced alignmentaround market demo cratization, the withdrawal of the state from ser vicesectors, trade liberalization, and the codification of a high-liberal property-rightsregime that extended legal inequalities into new areas like intellectualproperty and bioge ne tics (see, e.g., Dezalay and Garth 2002; Oxhorn andDucatenzeiler 1998).

If in its broadest reach our volume is a critical study of one slice of thecontemporary life of neoliberalism in Latin America, it is perhaps not surprisingthat we have chosen to bring together a diverse group of scholars andintellectuals, both Latin American and Latin Americanist, who present arange of disciplinary, regional, and theoretical perspectives. Neoliberalism,Interrupted revolves around case studies of the everyday lives of people andtheir institutions, caught up in moments of social change and processes ofcontested governance. The volume's perspectives move between the groundedexperiences of neoliberalism in Latin America and more synthetic reflectionson meaning, consequence, and the possibility of regional responses to neoliberalhegemony and the articulation of formal alternatives to it. These perspectivesare enriched by the critical voices of several prominent Latin Americanresearchers and writers, one of whom (the Venezuelan sociologist MiguelÁngel Contreras Natera), in a provocative postscript to the volume, productivelyobscures the line between politics and scholarship, manifesto and intellectualinspiration, in a full-throated and deeply theorized plea for a newkind of politics in Latin America.

Taken together, the different critical studies in the volume demonstratethe ways in which the history and politics of contemporary Latin Americacarry important lessons for scholars, activists, and political leaders in otherparts of world with similar histories and structural conditions, including legaciesof extractive colonialism and neocolonial ism, the influence of Cold Warproxyism, interethnic conflict, strong regional identity, and traditions of institutionalinstability. In this way, the volume adds its collective voice to agrowing debate on the meaning and significance of responses to neoliberalismin Latin America and beyond (see, e.g.,...

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• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0804784523
• ISBN 13: 9780804784528
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