TY - JOUR
T1 - Not-quite-neoliberal natures in Latin America
T2 - An introduction
AU - de Freitas, Corin
AU - Marston, Andrea J.
AU - Bakker, Karen
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to direct our appreciation towards all the authors in this issue for their creativity and thoughtfulness; to Leila Harris, Jamie Peck, and Julian Yates for assisting in the elaboration of early conceptual questions; and to our editors at Geoforum for helping us bring everything together. We would also like to thank participants and attendees of our panels on ‘Not-Quite-Neoliberal Natures in Latin America,’ which took place at the 2012 Association of American Geographers annual meeting in New York. Our research was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Trudeau Foundation of Canada. Any errors are our own.
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PY - 2015/8/1
Y1 - 2015/8/1
N2 - This paper introduces the concept of 'not-quite-neoliberal natures' in relation to contemporary theoretical debates and Latin American political processes. The phrase is meant to signal both our appreciation of and reservations about theoretical elaborations of neoliberalism, post- neoliberalism, and (post-)neoliberal natures in relation to the wide variety of reforms currently transforming resource governance in Latin America. After reviewing theoretical debates about (post-)neoliberalism and situating them within Latin American history, we present the major themes emerging across the papers in this special issue: (1) the prevalence of concomitant and overlapping political processes, (2) the productivity of tensions and contradictions, particularly with respect to the state-society relationship, and (3) dynamism, or an insistence on the depth and liveliness of 'context' and 'contestation'.
AB - This paper introduces the concept of 'not-quite-neoliberal natures' in relation to contemporary theoretical debates and Latin American political processes. The phrase is meant to signal both our appreciation of and reservations about theoretical elaborations of neoliberalism, post- neoliberalism, and (post-)neoliberal natures in relation to the wide variety of reforms currently transforming resource governance in Latin America. After reviewing theoretical debates about (post-)neoliberalism and situating them within Latin American history, we present the major themes emerging across the papers in this special issue: (1) the prevalence of concomitant and overlapping political processes, (2) the productivity of tensions and contradictions, particularly with respect to the state-society relationship, and (3) dynamism, or an insistence on the depth and liveliness of 'context' and 'contestation'.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.05.021
DO - 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.05.021
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:84938290018
SN - 0016-7185
VL - 64
SP - 239
EP - 245
JO - Geoforum
JF - Geoforum
ER -