Counter-Globalization and Socialism in the 21st Century

 

 

 

Framed by critical globalization theory and David Harvey's ‘co-revolutionary moments’ as a theory of social change, this book brings together a multidisciplinary team of researchers to empirically analyse how socialism is being constructed in contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean, and beyond.

This book uses the case of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples Trade Agreement (Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América – Tratado de Comercio de los Pueblos – ALBA-TCP) to invite a rethinking of resistance to global capitalism and the construction of socialism in the 21st century. Including detailed theory-based ethnographic case studies from ...