Buen Vivir and the Challenges to Capitalism in Latin America

Description

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