Latin America in Debate by Maristella Svampa, Alejandro Reyes - 9781478031949

Latin America in DebateIndigeneity, Development, Dependency, Populism\nAuthor(s): Maristella Svampa, Alejandro Reyes\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9781478031949, 978-1478031949\nSynopsis\nIn Latin America in Debate, eminent Argentine social theorist, novelist, and activist Maristella Svampa provides a broad and accessible overview of the key political and intellectual debates in Latin America from the early twentieth century to the present. She examines four main topics: the place of Indigenous peoples in postcolonial nation-states; the impact of development on the Latin American political imagination; the impact of being economically dependent within a global capitalist order; and the turn to populism as a particular political response to these various challenges. Svampa traces each debates genealogy and contextualizes them over the course of the twentieth century and demonstrates how intellectual and so.