Mercedes Biocca’s The Silences of Dispossession: Agrarian Change and Indigenous Politics in Argentina provides excellent accounts of Indigenous participation in and resistance to the dispossession by the capitalist and neoliberal apparatuses of accumulation and elimination.
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En una nueva temporada del blog “Progress in Political Economy (PPE)” tendremos, ocasionalmente, contribuciones originales en y traducidas al español en algunos de los temas más relevantes, en un esfuerzo por ampliar el alcance y contribución al progreso de la economía política. ¡Esperamos que disfruten la lectura!
Han pasado cerca de nueve años desde que el Grupo de Lectura ‘Past & Present’ se embarcó en la lectura de el ya clásico libro Dependencia y Desarrollo en América Latina, escrito por Fernando Henrique Cardoso y Enzo Faletto. Este año, el grupo de lectura ‘Past & Present decidió volver a visitar la historia de la economía política latinoamericana, y yo tengo el placer de ser el economista político espacial en residencia que escribe este comentario sobre el libro de Amy C. Offner Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas.
In my latest article (open access) for Environment and Planning F I explore Latin American contributions to the debates surrounding the concept ‘mode of production’ (MOP). I specifically explore the contributions of José Carlos Mariátegui and René Zavaleta as two of the continent’s most original Marxist thinkers.
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‘EU and Mercosur leaders ignore the voice of the people to push forward with toxic deal’ declared the Stop EU – Mercosur campaign alliance, a coalition of more than 450 organisations from Latin America and Europe, including trade unions, farmers organisations, social movements, animal activists and environmentalists. The alliance held a two-day meeting in Brussels on 17 and 18 July in parallel to the summit of EU leaders and leaders from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), at which a conclusion of the highly controversial EU – Mercosur ‘free’ trade agreement was also discussed. Around 80 representatives of Stop EU – Mercosur members from Latin America and Europe gathered in Brussels to discuss the problems with the proposed treaty, explore alternatives as well as co-ordinate their strategies to stop that treaty to be concluded, ratified and implemented. In this blog post, I will report on several key conclusions by the Stop EU – Mercosur alliance.
Almost nine years after reading Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto's Dependencia y Desarrollo en America Latina, the Past & Present Reading Group has come back to visit the history of Latin American political economy. In this journey, I have the pleasure of being the Latin American spatial political economist in residence, writing up a review of Amy C. Offner's Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas.
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