Social Movements in Latin America: Neoliberalism and Popular Resistance

by James F. Petras

Book Overview

Recent decades have witnessed a worldwide change in social and economic relations, accompanied by a multi-dimensional global crisis and major popular uprisings led by sociopolitical movements. While many critics see in these developments the agency of imperialist exploitation, mainstream development thinking and practice attribute them to the irresistible forces of progressive free market policies. They are content to believe that the pain and misery...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230104118
• ISBN13: 9780230104112
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"