"This book offers an approach to the Latin American political panorama that makes room for a post-ideological perspective - exploring its dimensions, main underpinnings, and possibilities - while also subjecting it to criticism and exposing its shortcomings and blind spots, offering a pluralistic view of social and political processes currently taking place in Latin America. Case studies include Venezuela, Colombia, Chile and Paraguay"--
The Latin American political landscape has already changed substantially in the 21st century. This book offers an approach to the Latin American political panorama that makes room for a post-ideological perspective - exploring its dimensions, main underpinnings, and possibilities - while also subjecting it to criticism and exposing its shortcomings and blind spots.
In doing so, it presents a pluralistic view of social and political processes currently taking place in Latin America. Each chapter casts light on the subcontinent's transition from the 20th to the 21st century from different vantage points, countries or regions, and advances comparative lines that enrich our picture of the region as whole. Case studies include Paraguay, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela and Colombia.
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An overview of Latin Americas political landscape from a post-ideological vantage point; moving beyond traditional ideological definitions and examining the arrival of 'anti-ideological' movements across the continent.
Introduction
Pablo Baisotti and Felipe Lagos-Rojas
1. One, two, many Latin American lefts?: Ideology and scepticism in the 21st
century
Pablo Baisotti
2. In the Wake of the 2008 Crisis: New Latin American Lefts and the Legacy of
the Previous Commodity Boom
Angus Mcnelly
3. Right-wing, populism and foreign policy in Macris Argentina (20152019)
and Bolsonaros Brazil (20182022)
Esteban Iglesias, Gastón Souroujon, Gisela Pereyra Doval, and Juan Bautista
Lucca
4. Trajectories of ruling ideologies in post-authoritarian Chile: The
consolidation of neoliberalism
Rommy Morales-Olivares
5. Memory and populist articulation in 2019 Chiles October Revolt
Nicolás Ortiz-Ruiz
6. Anti-ideology in El Salvador? Continuities and discontinuities in a
radicalised and environmentally fragile country
Vladimir Pacheco Cueva
7. Back to the future: elections and middle classes in Mexico in 2024
Adrián Moreno Mata and Ma. Teresa Cruz Patiño
8. Power, The State, and Narcocultura
John P. Sullivan
9. Republicanism in Contemporary Latin America: The Making of a Concept
Carlos F. Domínguez Avila and Henry Ani Kifordu
Pablo Baisotti holds a Ph.D. and an M.Phil. He is currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex and was previously Fellow Researcher at the University Sun Yat-sen, China, as well as Full-time Research Fellow at the Maria Sibylla Merian Center, University of Costa Rica.
Felipe Lagos Rojas is a Marxist researcher based in Santiago, Chile. He is coordinator of the Program on Latin American Critiques of the International Institute for Philosophy and Social Studies IIPSS. He is also general editor of Pléyade.
