Counter-globalization and socialism in the 21st century [[electronic resource]] : the Bolivarian alliance for the peoples of our America / / edited by Thomas Muhr

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452271903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, c2013
• ISBN: 1-138-90943-2; 0-203-50387-2; 1-135-05246-8
• Edizione: [1st edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Collana: Rethinking globalizations ; ; 45
• Altri autori (Persone): MuhrThomas
• Disciplina: 335.098
• Soggetti: Electronic books.; South America Economic policy 21st century; South America Politics and government 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover ; Counter-Globalization and Socialism in the 21st Century; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgments; Acronyms and abbreviations; 1 Introduction: the enigma of socialism; Part I Politics, principles, processes; 2 Twenty-first century socialism: a political and pedagogical act. Some keys to understanding; 3 Counter-globalization and a revolutionary politics of place, space and scale: the transnational construction of the ALBA-TCP in Nicaragua, El Salvador and the USA; 4 The ALBA-TCP Council of Social Movements: a double-turn in counter-hegemony5 Rethinking legitimacy in international law: the ALBA-TCP's place for justice; Part II Political economy; 6 Cuban socialism: inspiration to the ALBA-TCP; 7 The new strategic regionalism in the ALBA-TCP: alternatives to the food and energy crises; 8 The SUCRE and the ALBA-TCP monetary union: responses from the South to the global crisis; Part III Culture, education, the environment; 9 Cultural policy and 21st century socialism; 10 Post-secularity and political hope in 21st century socialism; 11 The politics of the audiovisual cultural revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean12 From the local to the regional and back: Bolivia's politics of decolonizing education in the context of the ALBA-TCP; 13 Global struggles for climate justice and the ALBA-TCP Council of Social Movements: an activist perspective; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: <P>Framed by critical globalisation theory and David Harvey's 'co-revolutionary moments' as a theory of social change, this book brings together a multi-disciplinary team of researchers to empirically analyse how socialism is being constructed in contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean, and beyond.</P><P></P><P>This book uses the case of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) to invite to a re-thinking of resistance to global capitalism and the construction of socialism in the 21st century. Including detailed theory-based ethnographic