Latin American Political Thought And Ideology

Pamphlet on attitudes to economic development in Latin America - outlines the historical evolution of political, social and economic thinking and political ideology, and analyses the proposed solutions to problems of underdevelopment, poverty, ignorance, etc. Bibliography pp. 67 to 69 and references.

This book explores the surprising similarities in the political ideas of the American and Latin American independence movements.

The Cambridge History of Latin America is a large scale, collaborative, multi-volume history of Latin America during the five centuries from the first contacts between Europeans and the native peoples of the Americas in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present. Ideas and Ideologies in Twentieth-Century Latin America brings together chapters from Volumes IV, VI, and IX of The Cambridge History to provide in a single volume the economic, social and political ideologies of Latin America since 1870. This, it is hoped, will be useful for both teachers and students of Latin American history and of contemporary Latin America. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliographical essay.

Throughout Latin American history, the most significant kind of Latin American political thought and practice has been one that creates interrelated experiences of awareness, selfhood, identity, and community. These experiences are transformative experiences of individual and collective subjectivity and agency that help create a new world. In this book, Marquez argues that these transformative experiences create a distinctive Latin American approach to political thought that differs from the more abstract and analytical approach generally favored in the West. He competently helps dispel the myth that Latin American politics and political theory are simply underdeveloped derivatives of Western European and North American models. Instead, Latin American politics and political theory enable us to identify and connect seemingly divergent Latin American phenomena as all being part of politics, and to understand how Latin American political ideas and ideals are played out through different but interrelated processes. Marquez begins by using the problematic of liberation in Latin American political life, and then moves on to explore prophetic/strong/performative discourses.These include colonialism and modernity, liberation theology, philosophy, and pedagogy, dependency theory, guerrilla revolution and socialist utopia, Latin American feminist movements, post-Cold War political thought and practice, and indigenism and ethnic-political movements. He concludes by summing up Latin American thought s distinctive features, speculates about its prospects, and suggests its contributions to our understanding of political theory in general. At a time when there are very few books in print in English that tackle this topic, this essential resource raises important and new questions regarding many different facets of political thought and ideology in Latin America, but also points out the commonalities between different elements of Latin American political praxis."

Latin America has produced an impressive body of sociopolitical work, yet these important texts have never been readily available to a wider audience. This anthology offers the first serious, broad-ranging collection of English translations of significant Latin American contributions to social and political thought spanning the last forty years. Iv n M rquez has judiciously selected narratives of resistance and liberation; ground-breaking texts in Latin American fields of inquiry such as liberation theology, philosophy, pedagogy, and dependency theory; and important readings in guerrilla revolution, socialist utopia, and post-Cold War thought, especially in the realms of democracy and civil society, alternatives to neoliberalism, and nationalism in the context of globalization. By drawing from an array of diverse sources, the book demonstrates the linkages among important tendencies in contemporary Latin America, allowing the reader to discover common threads among the selections. Highlighting the vitality, diversity, and originality of Latin American thought, this anthology will be invaluable for students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities. Contributions by: Domitila Barrios de Chungara, Leonardo Boff, Ernesto Cardenal, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Jorge G. Casta eda, Evelina Dagnino, Hernando de Soto, Theotonio Dos Santos, Enrique D. Dussel, Enzo Faletto, Paulo Freire, Eduardo H. Galeano, Ernesto Che Guevara, Gustavo Guti rrez, Jos Ignacio L pez Vigil, Carlos Marighella, Iv n M rquez, Rigoberta Mench , Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Elena Poniatowska, Ra l Prebisch, Carlos Salinas de Gotari, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Alvaro Vargas Llosa, and Zapatista Army of National Liberation.

To understand Latin America's political culture, and to understand why it differs so greatly from that of the United States, one must look beyond the political history of the region, Howard J. Wiarda explains in this comprehensive book. A highly respected expert on Latin American politics, Wiarda explores a sweeping array of Iberian and Latin American social, economic, institutional, cultural, and religious factors from ancient times to the twentieth century. He illuminates the distinctive political attitudes and traditions of Latin America as well as the unique--and not widely understood--features of present-day Latin American models of democracy. While Ibero-American and Western liberal traditions draw from the same classical thinkers, they often emphasize different ideas and reach different conclusions, Wiarda contends. He traces the influences of Rome, Islam, medieval Christianity, the Reconquest, and Iberian feudalism, and the powerful but largely unacknowledged effects of the Counter-Reformation on Iberian and Latin American civilizations. The author concludes with a discussion of recent changes in political culture and an assessment of the strength of democracy's hold in the nations of Latin America.