Capitalist geopolitics and Latin America's long road to regionalism. Issue 4 (19th May 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lubbock, Rowan
• Is Part Of: Globalizations. Volume 19:Issue 4(2022)
• Page Start: 536
• Page End: 554
• Publication Date: 2022-05-19
• Subjects: Geopolitics -- capitalism -- regionalism -- Latin America; Globalization -- Periodicals; 327.17
• DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2021.1984733
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1474-7731

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article situates the current (re)configuration of Latin American regionalism within the broader history of capitalist geopolitics. I argue that modern regionalism, in the post-war period and beyond, is better understood through a deeper historicization of geopolitical dynamics that shaped, and were shaped by, global capital accumulation. From the early regional imaginaries of post-independence Latin American leaders, to the emergence of 'continental history' marked by the rise of the continent-sized island in the United States, the origins of regional institutions forms a more longer lineage than is often thought. The article provides a class-relational analysis of the ISI period, the rise (and fall) of neoliberal discipline, and the resurgence of a new Latin American left in the early twenty-first century. Through the lens of capitalist geopolitics, I offer a potential critical-theory route towards understanding the current conjuncture, and what the future portents for Latin American regionalism.