After the Pink Tide: Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America(1 Egalitarianism)

The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems now to be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent trying to break open the constraints of the state. Through an ethnographically grounded and localized anthropological perspective, this book argues that at a time when the regular structures of political participation have been ruptured, the Latin American context reveals multiple expressions of egalitarian movements that strive (and sometimes momentarily manage) to break through the state’s apparatus.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Pink Tide, Egalitarianism and the Corporate State in Latin America Marina Gold and Alessandro Zagato Chapter 1. State Corporatization and Warfare in Mexico Alessandro Zagato Chapter 2. Political Parties, Big Business, Social Movements and the ‘Voice of the People’: Views from Above and Below on the Crisis Created by the 2016 Coup in Brazil John Gledhill and Maria Gabriela Hita Chapter 3. The election of MAS, iIs Egalitarian Potential, and Its Contradictions: Lessons from Bolivia Leonidas Oikonomakis Chapter 4. What is in the ‘People’s Interest’? Discourses of Egalitarianism and ‘Development as Compensation’ in Contemporary Ecuador Erin Fitz-Henry and Denisse Rodriquez Chapter 5. The Neoliberal State and Post-Transition Democracy in Chile. Local Public Action and Indigenous Political Demands Francisca de la Maza Cabrera Chapter 6. More State? On Authority and the Conditions for Egalitarianism in Venezuela Luis Angosto-Ferrández Chapter 7. Egalitarian and Hierarchical Tensions in Cuban Self-Employed Ventures Marina Gold Chapter 8. Social Banditry and the Legal in the Corporate State of Peru Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard Conclusion: Egalitarianism and Dynamics of Oppression: Constitutive Processes Alessandro Zagato and Marina Gold Afterword: Towards the Era of the Post-Human Bruce Kapferer Index

About the Author :
Marina Gold is an Associated Researcher at the University of Zurich. Her research topics and recent publications include People and State in Socialist Cuba: Ideas and Practices of Revolution (2015, Palgrave) and a critical review of the moral turn in anthropology, Moral Anthropology. A Critique, co-ed. Bruce Kapferer (2018, Berghahn Books).

Review :
“The editors' introductory and concluding essays summarize the fruitful theoretical basis of the case studies, citing especially Kapferer’s work on the emergence and dominance of the ‘corporate state.’ Highly Recommended." • Choice “This is a superb and timely set of studies that assess the lasting effects of a recent trend, now subsided, of left and left-leaning governments on politics and daily life for common people in a range of Latin American societies.” • George E. Marcus, University of California “To my mind, there are no other books or works on Latin America that have this double focus on the corporate state and egalitarianism. In sum, the book provides a wealth of novel arguments to understand the rise, maturation and afterlife of one of the most important and complex political turns to the left after the year 2000” • Bjorn Enge Bertelsen, University of Bergen