Calderon, Fernando, and Manuel Castells. The New Latin America.

• Author: Rausch, Jane M.

Calderon, Fernando, and Manuel Castells. The New Latin America. Translated by Ramsey McGlazer. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2020.

During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Latin America experienced a profound transformation as it was fully incorporated into the global economy, even while other regions and populations devalued by the logic of capitalism had been excluded. Technological modernization has gone hand in hand with the reshaping of old identities and the emergence of new ones. In twelve concise, insightful chapters, two leading scholars of Latin America--Fernando Calderon, director of research at the National University of San Martin, Argentina, and Manuel Castells, professor at the University of Southern California--apply their considerable expertise to explore various aspects of this transformation. Examining the problems created by the replacement of a neoliberal model by one of neo-developmentalism (a phenomenon that has occurred throughout the region), they conclude that although political corruption and the criminal economy have increasingly penetrated state...