The social life of economic inequalities in contemporary Latin America : decades of change

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Label

The social life of economic inequalities in contemporary Latin America : decades of change

Title remainder

decades of change

Statement of responsibility

Margit Ystanes, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen, editors

Contributor

• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter, 1980-
• Ystanes, Margit

Editor

• Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter, 1980-
• Ystanes, Margit

Subject

• Economics -- Sociological aspects
• Equality
• Equality -- Latin America -- History -- 21st century
• Ethnology
• Income distribution -- Latin America -- History -- 21st century
• Latin America -- Economic conditions -- 1982-
• Latin America -- Social conditions -- 1982-
• Latin America -- Social policy
• Social sciences
• Social structure

Language

eng

Summary

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the book seeks to understand to what extent the turn to the left at the start of the millennium managed to challenge historically constituted configurations of inequality. A central argument in the book is that in spite of economic reforms and social advances on a range of arenas, the fundamental tenants of socio-economic inequalities have not been challenged substantially. As several countries are now experiencing a return to right-wing politics, this collection helps us better understand why inequalities are so entrenched in the Latin American continent, but also the complex and creative ways that it is continuously contested. The book directs itself to students, scholars and anyone interested in Latin America, economic anthropology, political anthropology, left-wing politics, poverty and socio-economic inequalities

Member of

• Approaches to social inequality and difference

Cataloging source

AZU

Dewey number

305.8

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

• HN110.5.Z9
• GN301-GN674

LC item number

.S664 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference