Edited Pablo González Casanova

PUBLICATION DATA:

ISBN-10: 92-808-0819-2,
ISBN-13: 978-92-808-0819-3

LANGUAGE:

English

PAGES:

312

PUBLISHER:

United Nations University Press

PUBLISHED:

May 1993

This volume analyses the problems and prospects of contemporary Latin America based on five related themes: (1) the economic crisis; (2) the democratization process and the changing nature of the state; (3)the rise of social movements; (4) the dialectics of culture and power; and (5) the new conflicts and underlying contradictions in Latin America today.