The social life of economic inequalities in contemporary Latin America : decades of change /: decades of change. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Margit Ystanes, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen, editors.
• Editors: Ystanes, Margit; Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter, 1980-
• Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Reformism, Class Conciliation, and the Pink Tide: Material Gains and their Limits -- 3. Entangled Inequalities, State, and Social Policies in Contemporary Brazil -- 4. #sosfavelas: Digital Representations of Violence and Inequality in Rio de Janeiro -- 5. Urban Development in Rio de Janeiro During the 'Pink Tide': from politics of citizenship to politics of privilege -- 6. Meanings of Poverty: an Ethnography of Bolsa Familia Beneficiaries in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil -- 7. Political Polarization, Colonial Inequalities, and the Crisis of Modernity in Venezuela -- 8. Market Liberalization and the (Un- ) Making of the 'Perfect Neoliberal Citizen': Enactments of Gendered and Racialized Inequalities among Peruvian Vendors -- 9. Coming of Age in the Penal System: Neoliberalism, 'Mano Dura', and the Reproduction of 'Racialised' Inequality in Honduras -- 10. Settlers and Squatters: The Production of Social Inequalities in the Peruvian Desert -- 11. Latin American Inequality and Reparation -- 12. Postscript.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (XIX, 289 pages), 1 illustration in color
• Subjects: 305.8; Equality -- Latin America -- History -- 21st century; Income distribution -- Latin America -- History -- 21st century; Economics -- Sociological aspects; Equality; Ethnology; Social sciences; Social structure; Social Sciences; Ethnography; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology; Latin American and Caribbean Economics; Social Structure, Social Inequality; Latin America -- Social conditions -- 1982-; Latin America -- Economic conditions -- 1982-; Latin America -- Social policy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319615363
• Related ISBNs: 331961536X; 3319615351; 9783319615356
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