ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter provides an assessment of the alternative proposals for transformative change and post-extractivist transition associated with the ‘progressive cycle’ in Latin American politics—the ‘pink tide’ of post-neoliberal policy regimes that emerged in South America in conditions of a global crisis and disenchantment with and rejection of neoliberalism—as well as the diverse forces of social change and resistance that civil society organisations formed on the extractive frontier. The aim is to draw out the lessons provided by these diverse experiments throughout the region in terms of the possibility and the conditions under which these forces and alternative models can help bring about a process of social transformation in the direction of another world of more inclusive and sustainable post-capitalist development.
