Rethinking Development in Latin America

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Understanding development in Latin The usa these days requires both an awareness of the major political and economic changes that have produced a new agenda for social policy within the region and an appreciation of the want to devise better conceptual and methodological tools for analyzing the social impacts of these changes. The use of as a reference point the issues and theories that dominated social science research on Latin The usa within the period 1960–80, this volume contributes to “rethinking development” by examining the historical events that accounted for the erosion or demise of once-dominant paradigms and by assessing the brand new directions of research that have emerged of their place.

Following the editors’ overview of the brand new conceptual and social agendas of their Introduction, the book proceeds with a review of previous broad conceptual approaches by Alejandro Portes, who emphasizes by contrast the benefits of newer “middle-range” theories. Subsequent chapters center of attention on changes in different arenas and the concepts and methods used to interpret them: “Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Social Policy”; “Citizenship, Politics, and the State”; “Work, Families, and Reproduction”; and “Urban Settlements, Marginality, and Social Exclusion.”

Contributors, but even so the editors, are Marina Ariza and Orlandina de Oliveira, Diane Davis, Vilmar Faria, Joe Foweraker, Elizabeth Jelin, Alejandro Portes, Joe Potter and Rudolfo Tuirán, Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz, Osvaldo Sunkel, and Peter Ward.

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