ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the contours of post-neoliberal analysis, whilst simultaneously mapping the terrain of contemporary governance to identify research trends and trajectories. It provides an evolution of the term post-neoliberalism in the empirical context of pink tide South America. The chapter explores the contribution of post-neoliberalism to the broader debates on governance. It shows that whilst post-neoliberalism captures the broad thrust of change in the South American states, the specific ways in which it manifested were predicated upon the historical and institutional legacies present within each state. The rise of left and left of centre regimes across South America generated several attempts to characterize and understand the form and nature of the attendant modes of capital accumulation. Political-economic processes are operative at distinct spatial levels within each of which actors orient themselves strategically to the context in which they perceive themselves to be located and seek to realize specific goals and intentions.
