ABSTRACT
Framed by critical globalisation theory and David Harvey’s ‘co-revolutionary moments’ as a theory of social change, this book brings together a multi-disciplinary team of researchers to empirically analyse how socialism is being constructed in contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean, and beyond.
This book uses the case of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples’ Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) to invite to a re-thinking of resistance to global capitalism and the construction of socialism in the 21st century. Including detailed theory-based ethnographic case studies from Bolivia, Cuba, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Venezuela and the USA, the contributors identify social and structural forces at different levels and scales to illuminate politics and practices at work. Centred around the themes of democracy and justice, and the more general reconfiguration of the state-society relations and power geometries at the local, national, regional and global scales, ALBA and Counter-Globalization is at the forefront in the trend of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of social phenomena of global relevance.
Counter-Globalization and Socialism in the 21st Century will be of interest to students and scholars of Latin American politics, global governance, global regionalisms and rising powers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |67 pages
Politics, principles, processes
chapter |13 pages
Twenty-first century socialism: a political and pedagogical act
chapter |17 pages
Counter-globalization and a revolutionary politics of place, space and scale
part |56 pages
Political economy
chapter |19 pages
The new strategic regionalism in the ALBA-TCP
chapter |17 pages
The SUCRE and the ALBA-TCP Monetary Union
part |81 pages
Culture, education, the environment