Buen Vivir and the Challenges to Capitalism in Latin America

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Introduction
	A chapter-by-chapter synopsis
	Reference
Chapter 1: In the vortex of social change
	The new geoeconomics and geopolitics of capital
	The political economy of extractive capitalism
	The contradictions of capitalism
	Resource nationalism, left-wing populism and poverty reduction
	The end of the progressive cycle? The swing to the right of the pendulum of electoral politics
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Part I: Development in the neoliberal era
	Chapter 2: Extractive capitalism: development and resistance dynamics
		Agrarian change as a lever of capital accumulation
		From the Washington Consensus to neodevelopmentalism
		The new geoeconomics of capital: the dynamics of foreign direct investment inflows
		A new economic model: new developmentalism and extractivism
		A new enclosure of the commons?
		Resistance on the extractive frontier
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 3: Capitalism on the frontier of agroextractivism
		The emergence of Silicon Valley’s imperial innovation system3
		Agribusiness in the imperialist innovation agenda
		The new political economy of agriculture: extractive capital and agroextraction
		The dynamics of the resistance: the Zapatista initiative
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 4: Social movements and the state in the post-neoliberal era
		Latin America’s ‘left turn’
		Anti-statist autonomism
		Postneoliberalism and the symbiotic approach
		Toward a popular-democratic synthesis
		MORENA’s historical victory
		The peasantry and political-cultural class formation
		Food sovereignty: a major challenge to MORENA, 2018–2024
		The Agrarian Law
		Rural development planning
		Farmworkers
		Mining, Aeolic, geothermic and other megaprojects
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 5: The syncopated dance of Mexico’s industrial policy
		Introduction
		Mexico’s industrial policy: from import substitution industrialisation (ISI) to market fundamentalism
		Querétaro: a local industrial policy to link Mexico into the global aerospace value chain
		Jalisco: concerted policies to shape the software and computing industry
		Conclusions
		Note
		Bibliography
	Chapter 6: Communes in Venezuela in times of crisis
		The council system
		Community as class: the shared experience of marginalisation and struggle
		Historical and theoretical roots of the local self-government structures
		The communal state
		Conflicts and contradictions
		The example of the El Maizal Commune
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
Part II: Antinomies of development: constructing analternative reality
	Chapter 7: Neoextractivism and development
		Interviews by the author
		Extractivism and neoextractivism
		Neoextractivism as a ‘privileged window’ on capitalist development in the region
		Neoextractivism as a socioterritorial development model
		The commodities consensus and the developmentist illusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 8: Paradoxes of development in the Andes and Amazonia
		Extractivist economic growth and social achievements
		The loss of environmental wealth in the period of the economic boom
		Exporting primary economies and degrees of diversification
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 9: Uchronia for living well
		Towards a political socioecology of time for living well
		Good life expectancy (GLE)
		From the excluded and exploited of history: Living well as an uchronia
		Epilogue: uchronias and chronopolitics
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 10: Disputes over capitalism and varieties of development
		Between acceptance and criticism
		Rhetoric and practice: politics, economics and justice
		Varieties of capitalism
		Varieties of development
		Disputes about varieties of development
		Alternatives to development and
		Exhaustions and alternatives
		Notes
		References
Index