Right Turn

Frens-String, Joshua; Velasco, Alejandro

doi:10.1080/10714839.2016.1258269

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“…The practical and ideological differences between these models, the extent to which each diverges from or repackages neoliberal doctrine, and their relevance since the “return of the Right” (Frens-String and Velasco, 2016) provoke contentious debate (Chiasson-LeBel and Larraburre, 2019; Mirowski, Plehwe, and Slobodian, 2020; Pickup, 2019). Rather than address these discussions, we highlight their unifying assertion: amidst Latin America’s political upheaval, extractivism remains hegemonic, cutting across geography, party politics, development ideologies, and private and public sector interests (Artiga-Purcell, 2022b).…”

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Disaster Extractivism: Latin America’s Extractive Shock Therapy in the Age of COVID-19

Artiga-Purcell,

Chiasson-LeBel,

Leiva

et al. 2023

Latin American Perspectives

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Latin America faces a twin crisis. The spread of COVID-19 has become a health catastrophe and sent regional economies into recession, while governments’ increasing reliance on extractive development as a health and economic “cure” has compounded existing socio-environmental conflicts across the continent. An emergent “extractive savior” discourse aligns with political economic interests that have instrumentalized the pandemic to propel a new strain of disaster capitalism—disaster extractivism. Any socio-environmentally just response to COVID-19 must eschew the extractivist logic that underlies the pandemic and mainstream responses to it. América Latina enfrenta una doble crisis. La propagación de COVID-19 se ha convertido en una catástrofe sanitaria y ha llevado a las economías regionales a la recesión, mientras que la creciente dependencia de los gobiernos del desarrollo extractivo como una "cura" sanitaria y económica ha agravado los conflictos socioambientales existentes en todo el continente. Un discurso emergente de "salvación extractiva" se alinea con los intereses económicos políticos que han instrumentalizado la pandemia para impulsar una nueva cepa del capitalismo desastroso: el extractivismo desastroso. Cualquier respuesta socioambientalmente justa al COVID-19 debe evitar la lógica extractivista que subyace a la pandemia y las respuestas generales a esta.

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Disaster Extractivism: Latin America’s Extractive Shock Therapy in the Age of COVID-19

Artiga-Purcell,

Chiasson-LeBel,

Leiva

et al. 2023

Latin American Perspectives

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How Can the Democratic Party Confront Racist Backlash? White Grievance in Hemispheric Perspective

Hooker

2020

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In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, a contentious debate has ensued in the Democratic Party, and in the U.S. left more generally, about whether Trump's victory was the result of racist and white nationalist appeals or was powered by an economically anxious and forgotten white working class left behind by globalization. From a Latin American perspective, this U.S. debate about the relative salience of race and class is strikingly familiar. After decades of denying the existence of racism, Latin America experienced a historic expansion of rights for black and indigenous peoples during a "left turn" that coincided with the expansion of social welfare policies, quickly followed by a "right turn" fueled by racist backlash. Thus, taking a hemispheric vantage point reveals that it would be a mistake to believe that class appeals alone are sufficient to counter the current politics of right-wing racist backlash.

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Emancipatory Rural Politics in Latin America 2010-2020: Alliance-Building, Right-Wing Populisms and Political Transitions

Coronado

2024

Latin American Perspectives

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The 2010s could be defined for Latin America as a period of multiple and interrelated transitions. The decay of the “Pink Tide” and the reemergence of different strands of right-wing, authoritarian, and populist political projects was shaped by the impacts of convergent social and ecological crises in the region, particularly in the disputes over extractivism and environmental affairs. This paper examines such transitions in the Latin American region by considering the emancipatory character of different forms of rural political mobilization that confront not only the rise of contemporary forms of right-wing populism and authoritarianism but also their political source, that is, the social fragmentation produced by decades of enforcement of economic and political neoliberalism.

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Right Turn

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Disaster Extractivism: Latin America’s Extractive Shock Therapy in the Age of COVID-19

Disaster Extractivism: Latin America’s Extractive Shock Therapy in the Age of COVID-19

How Can the Democratic Party Confront Racist Backlash? White Grievance in Hemispheric Perspective

Emancipatory Rural Politics in Latin America 2010-2020: Alliance-Building, Right-Wing Populisms and Political Transitions

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