The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Academic Advisory Board -- Acknowledgments -- General Introduction -- Inter-American key topics on political economy, geopolitics, and governance -- Historical thresholds in Inter-American entanglements -- Works Cited -- PART I: Political Economy in the Americas -- 1. Introduction: Political Economy in the Americas -- Inter-American approaches as a new lens within political economy -- Economic structures and capitalist dynamics beyond borders -- Overcoming methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism -- A political economy perspective - from a Marxist approach to a diverse field of study -- Decentering and engendering political economy -- The kind of concepts analyzed -- Works cited -- 2. Capitalism -- The origins of capitalism -- Capitalism and slavery -- Final discussion -- Works cited -- 3. Class Struggle -- The first popular struggles in the Americas -- Class struggle in the era of globalized capital -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- 4. Crisis -- Marx's theory of economic crisis -- Financial crises -- Political crises -- From the Great Depression to the crisis of Fordism -- The rise of neoliberalism as a crisis response -- From the ISI model to neoliberal restructuring in Latin America -- The global financial crisis of 2007-2008 in the Americas -- Works cited -- 5. Deindustrialization -- Deindustrialization and the Global North -- Deindustrialization as global history? -- Works cited -- 6. Development -- Post-war development disputes in Inter-American relations -- Development as modernization -- Development as dependency -- Structural adjustment instead of development: a Washington-based consensus for Latin America -- Contemporary developments in development thinking: innovations from the South -- Works cited -- 7. Energy.

The concept of energy and its origins from the perspective of political ecology -- Energy consumption and energy mix in the Americas -- Entangled unequal histories of energy flows: reconfigurations and struggles -- Transforming the dominant global energy regime? -- Works cited -- 8. Environmental Justice -- The emergence of the environmental justice movement -- Related forms of justice -- Inter-American connections between environmental justice debates and struggles -- Transnational networks of a global environmental justice movement? -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- 9. Extractivism -- The concept of extractivism and the Latin-American debate -- The Inter-American discussion -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- 10. Fordism -- Origins of Fordism -- Fordism and Americanism: the Northern - U.S.-centered perspective -- Peripheral Fordism in the south of the Americas -- Concluding remarks -- Works cited -- 11. Gender and Work -- Conceptual framework -- Labor force participation by gender -- Gender, race, age and nationality wage gaps -- Where do women and men work? Segregation of the labor force by gender and race -- Unemployment -- Sexual harassment -- Migration -- Conclusions -- Works cited -- 12. Global Commodity Chains -- Transforming and debating concepts -- Global value chain analyses in the Americas -- Case studies on GVCs in the Americas -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- 13. Informality -- Uneven capitalist development and urban poverty: the emergence of informality -- From unemployment and underemployment to informality: definitions and policy prescriptions -- From theoretical debate to statistical measurement -- The informal economy in the Americas -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- 14. Labor Representation -- The institutionalization of trade unions and labor rights -- Unionism in the Americas in a global economy -- Works cited -- 15. Land.

Appropriation and access to land as a key dimension in political economy -- Colonial and anticolonial struggles over land: the dispossession of indigenous communities from their land and the long way to establish their land rights -- The struggle for agrarian reforms in the 20th and 21st century and the gender asset land gap -- Land grabbing and current territorial struggles -- Works cited -- 16. Neoliberalism -- History of the concept -- Evolutions of neoliberalism -- Transformations of neoliberalism with an eye to the Americas -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- 17. Privatization -- The rationale of privatization - and its discontents -- Privatization in the Americas -- The oil industry: the last frontier of economic sovereignty? -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- 18. Regional Integration -- Regional integration after World War II -- Neoliberalism and open regionalism -- Divergent approaches after the left turn -- Perspectives -- Works cited -- 19. Remittances -- The "optimists": remittances as a tool of bottom-up development finance -- "Critical" perspectives: do remittances sustain old and create new dependencies? -- Conclusion: conceptual and methodological challenges in research on remittances -- Works cited -- 20. Social Inequality -- Economic development and social inequality: from late 19th century to the Great Depression -- Leveling social inequality? - industrialization processes and new deals -- The neoliberal turn and rising inequalities -- Great recession, pink tide, and social polarization -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- 21. State Transformation -- State transformation in the Americas -- Outlook -- Works cited -- 22. Taxation -- The roles of taxation -- Taxation in the Americas -- Works cited -- 23. Transnational Corporations -- Historical backdrop, evolution of the term and efforts at regulation and control.

Theoretical debates and evolution -- Shifting empirical terrain of TNCs with globalization and neoliberalism/economic opening -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- PART II: Geopolitics and Governance in the Americas -- 24. Introduction: Geopolitics and Governance - Inter-American Spaces of Entanglement -- The global sphere of Inter-American entanglements -- The national sphere of Inter-American entanglements -- The biosphere of Inter-American entanglements -- Works cited -- 25. Authoritarianism -- Authoritarianism: a common historical frame for an Inter-American discussion -- Comparison: analysis of authoritarianism in different, separated contexts -- Traveling concepts and entangled authoritarianisms -- Final discussion -- Works cited -- 26. Borderlands -- The history of borderland research -- Approaches to define borderland(s) -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- 27. Citizenship -- Citizenship: nation-state perspectives -- Citizenship: global perspectives -- Coloniality of citizenship -- Citizenship: from institution to act -- Concluding remarks -- Works cited -- 28. Civil Society -- Intellectual origins of civil society - north and south -- Evolution of civil society in Latin America -- Civil society in the North America -- Conclusions: Civil society dialogues across the Americas -- Works cited -- 29. Clientelism -- Comparisons of clientelism -- Transferring meaning -- Entanglement -- Final discussion -- Works Cited -- 30. Climate Change -- International climate change governance -- Climate change governance and the Americas -- Entangled through climate change -- Works cited -- 31. Commons -- The commons in the western law and economic tradition -- The commons from indigenous and Afro-descendants perspectives in the Americas -- Final discussion: From "shared resources" to "shared territories" -- Works cited -- 32. Democracy -- Democracy in Latin America.

Democracy in Inter-American relations -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- 33. Disaster -- "Disaster" - A brief conceptual history -- Early modern comparison: indigenous "superstition" vs. colonial "science"? -- Modern differences and similarities, transfers, and entanglements -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- 34. Geopolitics -- New approaches: critical and radical geopolitics -- Geopolitics from the colonial conquest to the Cold War -- Contemporary geopolitical developments and debates in the Americas -- The importance of geopolitics as an analytical category -- Works cited -- 35. Human Rights -- Processes and mechanisms of human rights protection -- International law and human rights protection -- Intricacies of transnational human rights protection -- Final discussion: what lies ahead for the protection of human rights in the Americas? -- Works cited -- 36. Interventionism -- Territorial expansion of the U.S. and Canada -- Territorial expansion into South America -- Justification: concepts and doctrines -- Interventionism in the early 20th century -- Justification: concepts and doctrines -- Works cited -- 37. Military -- Is the U.S. an episodic hegemon? -- A declining hegemon? -- Military educational ties: Evidence of U.S. hegemony or decline? -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- 38. Nation State -- Welfare states -- Revolution vs. reform vs. repression: the Cold War era -- The neoliberal nation-state -- From "pink tide" and "change" to the right-wing backlash -- Works cited -- 39. Nature -- Etymological considerations and history of the concept within the geopolitics of knowledge -- Epistemological questions about "nature" and arguments for its domination and protection -- Continued Columbian exchange, coloniality, and pristine myths -- Transnational appropriations of resources -- Transnational dynamics of conservation.

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This handbook explores the political economy and governance of the Americas, placing particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences. Forty-six chapters cover a range of inter-American key concepts and dynamics.

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