Counter-Globalization and Socialism in the 21st Century - 9781138909434

Taylor & Francis

Counter-Globalization and Socialism in the 21st CenturyThe Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America\nAuthor(s): Thomas Muhr\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138909434, 978-1138909434\nSynopsis\nFramed by critical globalisation theory and David Harveys co-revolutionary moments as a theory of social change, this book brings together a multi-disciplinary team of researchers to empirically analyse how socialism is being constructed in contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean, and beyond.\n\nThis book uses the case of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) to invite to a re-thinking of resistance to global capitalism and the construction of socialism in the 21st century. Including detailed theory-based ethnographic case studies from Bolivia, Cuba, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Venezuela and the USA, the contributors identify social and structural forces at .