Latin American Development

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Latin American development in the twenty-first century. It provides detailed and accessible information and analysis of the key development challenges facing the region, the diverse ways in which its peoples are responding to such challenges and ways in which such challenges and responses can be theorized. It covers key areas of Latin American development, emphasizing political, economic, social, cultural and environmental dimensions of development. It explores the region’s historical trajectory, the implementation and rejection of the neoliberal model, the role played by diverse social movements, the ways in which Latin American development is shaped by relations of gender, class and race, the struggle underway to confront climate change and environmental degradation and the ways in which media and popular culture are forging new global imaginaries of the continent and new ways of doing development.  The text contains critical historical and contemporary case studies from all parts of the continent and provides readers with the conceptual tools required to analyse such material.