Overview
- Fills the need for grounded ethnographic studies of the social life of economic inequality in present-day Latin America
- Includes anthropological, sociological, and philosophical perspectives
- Tackles issues of racism, segregation, and policing
Part of the book series: Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference (ATSIAD)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Social Lives, Economic Ideas
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The Case of Brazil
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Subjectivities and Structures
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Land, the Eternal Legacy of Inequality
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Postscript
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About this book
This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the book seeks to understand to what extent the turn to the left at the start of the millennium managed to challenge historically constituted configurations of inequality. A central argument in the book is that in spite of economic reforms and social advances on a range of arenas, the fundamental tenants of socio-economic inequalities have not been challenged substantially. As several countries are now experiencing a return to right-wing politics, this collection helps us better understand why inequalities are so entrenched in the Latin American continent, but also the complex and creative ways that it is continuously contested. The book directs itself to students, scholars and anyone interested in Latin America, economic anthropology, political anthropology, left-wing politics, poverty and socio-economic inequalities.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Iselin Ã…sedotter Strønen is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway, and an affiliated researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CM), Norway. She has conducted ethnographic research in Venezuela since 2005, and more recently, in Brazil and Angola. Â
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America
Book Subtitle: Decades of Change
Editors: Margit Ystanes, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen
Series Title: Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61536-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61535-6Published: 08 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87105-9Published: 24 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61536-3Published: 25 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-305X
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3068
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 289
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ethnography, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Latin American and Caribbean Economics, Social Structure, Social Inequality