Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development

<p></p><p><i>The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development </i>seeks to engage with comprehensive contemporary and critical theoretical debates on Latin American development. The volume draws on contributions from across the humanities and social sciences and unlike earlier volumes of this kind explicitly highlights the disruptions to the field being brought by a range of anti-capitalist decolonial feminist and ontological intellectual contributions.</p><p></p><p>The chapters consider in depth the harms and suffering caused by various oppressive forces as well as the creative and often revolutionary ways in which ordinary Latin Americans resist fight back and work to construct development defined broadly as the struggle for a better and more dignified life. The book covers many key themes including development policy and practice; neoliberalism and its aftermath; the role played by social movements in cities and rural areas; the politics of water oil and other environmental resources; indigenous and Afro-descendant rights; and the struggles for gender equality.</p><p></p><p>With contributions from authors working in Latin America the US and Canada Europe and New Zealand at a range of universities and other organizations the handbook is an invaluable resource for students and teachers in development studies Latin American studies cultural studies human geography anthropology sociology political science and economics as well as for activists and development practitioners.</p>