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

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. The flow of peoples, goods, resources, knowledge and finances have on the one hand promoted interdependence and integration that cut across borders and link the countries of North and South America (including the Caribbean) together. On the other hand, they have contributed to profound asymmetries between different places. The nature of this transversally related and multiply interconnected hemispheric region can only be captured through a transnational, multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach. This handbook examines the direct and indirect political interventions, geopolitical imaginaries, inequalities, interlinked economic developments and the forms of appropriation of the vast natural resources in the Americas. Expert contributors give a comprehensive overview of the theories, practices and geographies that have shaped the economic dynamics of the region and their impact on both the political and natural landscape. This multidisciplinary approach will be of interest to a broad array of academic scholars and students in history, sociology, geography, economics and political science, as well as cultural, postcolonial, environmental and globalization studies.

General Introduction Part I Political Economy in the Americas Chapter 1 – Introduction: Political Economy in the Americas Anne Tittor and Daniel Hawkins Chapter 2 – Capitalism Juan Grigera Chapter 3 – Class Struggle Ricardo Antunes Chapter 4 – Crisis Aaron Tauss Chapter 5 – Deindustrialization Lachlan MacKinnon and Steven High Chapter 6 – Development Karin Fischer Chapter 7 – Energy Maria Backhouse, Anne Tittor, and Fabricio Rodríguez Chapter 8 – Environmental Justice Lucrecia Wagner Chapter 9 – Extractivism Paul Bowles and Henry Veltmeyer Chapter 10 – Fordism Joachim Becker and Rudy Weissenbacher Chapter 11 – Gender and Work Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama Chapter 12 – Global Commodity Chains Daniel Hawkins and Mark Anner Chapter 13 – Informality Daniel Hawkins Chapter 14 – Labor Representation Kjeld Jakobsen Chapter 15 – Land Anne Tittor Chapter 16 – Neoliberalism Dieter Plehwe Chapter 17 – Privatization Richard Huizar and Fabricio Rodríguez Chapter 18 – Regional Integration Stefan Schmalz Chapter 19 – Remittances Christian Ambrosius, Barbara Fritz, Ursula Stiegler Chapter 20 – Social Inequality Olaf Kaltmeier and Martin Breuer Chapter 21 – State Transformation Tobias Boos and Ulrich Brand Chapter 22 – Taxation María Fernanda Valdés Chapter 23 – Transnational Corporations Katiuscia Galhera, Scott B. Martin, João Paulo Cândia Veiga Part II Geopolitics and Governance in the Americas Chapter 24 – Introduction: Geopolitics and Governance: Inter-American Spaces of Entanglement Olaf Kaltmeier and Eleonora Rohland Chapter 25 – Authoritarianism Alke Jenss Chapter 26 – Borderlands Paul-Matthias Tyrell Chapter 27 – Citizenship Manuela Boatca Chapter 28 – Civil Society Laura Macdonald Chapter 29 – Clientelism Tina Hilgers Chapter 30 – Climate Change Franz Mauelshagen and Andrés López Rivera Chapter 31 – Commons Juan Camilo Cárdenas Chapter 32 – Democracy Jonas Wolff Chapter 33 – Disaster Eleonora Rohland and Virginia García Acosta Chapter 34 – Geopolitics Mirko Petersen and Dorothea Wehrmann Chapter 35 – Human Rights Belen Olmos Giupponi Chapter 36 – Interventionism Thomas Fischer Chapter 37 – Military David Pion-Berlin Chapter 38 – Nation State Olaf Kaltmeier and Mirko Petersen Chapter 39 – Nature Antoine Acker, Anne Tittor and Olaf Kaltmeier Chapter 40 – Pan-Americanism Josef Raab Chapter 41 – Participation Wagner de Melo Romão Chapter 42 – Political Communication Carlos Del Valle Rojas Chapter 43 – Populism Mirko Petersen Chapter 44 – Revolution María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo Chapter 45 – Security Lucía Dammert

Olaf Kaltmeier is Professor for Ibero-American History at Bielefeld University. Anne Tittor holds a PhD and is a research associate at the Department of Sociology at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. Daniel Hawkins is the Director of Research at the National Union School of Colombia (ENS). Eleonora Rohland is Professor for Entangled History in the Americas at Bielefeld University.