The Spaces of Neoliberalism: Land, Place, and Family in Latin America
Jacquelyn Chase, editor | | ISBN: 978-1-56549-145-8 $30.00 |
| 2002/210 pages/LC: 2001050824 A Kumarian Press Book |
DESCRIPTION
In this exploration of people's responses to neoliberal market reforms in Latin America, the authors reveal the ways that local communities negotiate with market power and state policy in their daily lives. The focus of the book is threefold: the politics of land and land reform, the family as a space of negotiation between men and women in their new roles in labor market participation, and people living on the margins of the neoliberal project.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jacquelyn Chase is professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at California State University, Chico.
CONTENTS
- Foreword—Arturo Escobar.
- AGRARIAN AND TERRITORIAL RIGHTS.
- Agrarian Reform and the Neoliberal Counter-Reform in Latin America—C. Kay.
- Individual Versus Collective Land Rights: Tensions Between Women’s and Indigenous Rights Under Neoliberalism—C.D. Deere and M. León.
- Beyond Indigenous Land Titling: Democratizing Civil Society in the Peruvian Amazon—S. Hvalkof.
- PRIVATE LIVES AND NEOLIBERALISM.
- Privatization and Private Lives: Gender, Reproduction, and Neoliberal Reforms in a Brazilian Company Town—J. Chase.
- Women and Globalization: Lessons from the Dominican Republic—H.I. Safa.
- ON THE EDGE OF NEOLIBERALISM.
- Neither Duck Nor Rabbit: Sustainability, Political Economy, and the Dialectics of Economy—S. Gudeman and A. Rivera-Guitiérrez.
- The Restructuring of Labor Markets, International Migration, and Household Economies in Urban Mexico—A. Escobar Latapí and M. González de la Rocha.
- Space, Power, and Representation in Yucatán—O. Pi-Sunyer.
"Unsettling, inspiring, informative—essential reading for anyone interested in the uneven fortunes and uncertain future of neoliberal globalization.”—Julie Graham, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Rather than being filled with the currently popular rhetoric condemning global markets, this volume examines what actually happens in the life-world of local communities when families are forced to reconfigure their strategies for survival. The stories range from the sphere of greatest intimacy to those of globalized movements of indigenous peoples. This is a work of outstanding scholarship."—John Friedmann, University of California, Los Angeles