Cooney Paths of Development in the Southern Cone

Deindustrialization and Reprimarization and their Social and Environmental Consequences
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-67673-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 324 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book analyzes the recent development paths pursued by progressivegovernments in Argentina and Brazil, namely deindustrialization andreprimarization, and the social and environmental consequences thereof. A keypart of understanding the trajectories in both Argentina and Brazil has been therole played by international institutions, especially the IMF and WTO, and also,the ever-growing hegemony of transnational corporations in the global economyand as a result, significantly limiting the possibilities of genuine development forlocal populations. 

Two major issues which extend beyond Latin America are: the expansion of

genetically modified crops and agrotoxics and the concern for global food securityand sovereignty; second, how reprimarization, associated with mining, cattle, soyand petroleum, has been key in leading to the risk of desertification in theArgentine pampas and also causing deforestation in the Amazon Rain forest,described as the lungs of the planet, and thus has major implications for climatechange for the planet as a whole. In addition, this book engages with a number of theoretical issues: developmentand dependency in the periphery: neoliberal globalization, accumulation by

dispossession, ecological and environmental debates and the role of extractivism

and rent. This book is aimed for both academics, activists and those politicallymotivated to analyze, understand and push for social change from a criticalperspective, and also, those interested in a radical analysis of paths ofdevelopment, dependency and socioenvironmental issues in Latin Americatoday.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooney, Paul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Theoretical Issues.- 2.  Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI) in Argentina and Brazil.-  3: Transition from ISI to Neoliberalism.- 4. Argentina- from Dictatorship to Depression.- 5. Brazil- Late Neoliberalism.- 6.  Deindustrialization and Reprimarization.- 7. Social and Environmental Impacts of “New Development Paths.- 8. Chapter 8. Future Paths, Development and Dependency.- 9. Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Cooney is a political economist, who received his Ph.D. from the New Schoolfor Social Research in 1990. He has recently taught at the UFPA in the BrazilianAmazon, at the UNGS in Argentina, and is currently a professor at the CatholicUniversity of Quito, Ecuador. In addition to this book, his current research topicsare neoliberal globalization in Latin America, and their socio-environmentalimpacts, and ecological economics. He is currently a member of the URPE SteeringCommittee and serves on the editorial boards of the following journals: Researchin Political Economy, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, and Revista Ensayos de Economía.