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 IntroductionPart I Political Economy in the Americas Chapter 1 – Introduction: Political Economy in the AmericasAnne Tittor and Daniel HawkinsChapter 2 – CapitalismJuan GrigeraChapter 3 – Class StruggleRicardo AntunesChapter 4 – CrisisAaron TaussChapter 5 – DeindustrializationLachlan MacKinnon and Steven HighChapter 6 – DevelopmentKarin FischerChapter 7 – EnergyMaria Backhouse, Anne Tittor, and Fabricio RodríguezChapter 8 – Environmental JusticeLucrecia WagnerChapter 9 – ExtractivismPaul Bowles and Henry VeltmeyerChapter 10 – FordismJoachim Becker and Rudy WeissenbacherChapter 11 – Gender and WorkOlga Sanmiguel-ValderramaChapter 12 – Global Commodity ChainsDaniel Hawkins and Mark AnnerChapter 13 – InformalityDaniel HawkinsChapter 14 – Labor RepresentationKjeld JakobsenChapter 15 – LandAnne TittorChapter 16 – NeoliberalismDieter PlehweChapter 17 – PrivatizationRichard Huizar and Fabricio RodríguezChapter 18 – Regional IntegrationStefan SchmalzChapter 19 – RemittancesChristian Ambrosius, Barbara Fritz, Ursula StieglerChapter 20 – Social InequalityOlaf Kaltmeier and Martin BreuerChapter 21 – State TransformationTobias Boos and Ulrich BrandChapter 22 – TaxationMaría Fernanda ValdésChapter 23 – Transnational CorporationsKatiuscia Galhera, Scott B. Martin, João Paulo Cândia VeigaPart II Geopolitics and Governance in the AmericasChapter 24 – Introduction: Geopolitics and Governance: Inter-American Spaces of EntanglementOlaf Kaltmeier and Eleonora RohlandChapter 25 – AuthoritarianismAlke JenssChapter 26 – BorderlandsPaul-Matthias TyrellChapter 27 – CitizenshipManuela BoatcaChapter 28 – Civil SocietyLaura MacdonaldChapter 29 – ClientelismTina HilgersChapter 30 – Climate ChangeFranz Mauelshagen and Andrés López RiveraChapter 31 – CommonsJuan Camilo CárdenasChapter 32 – DemocracyJonas WolffChapter 33 – DisasterEleonora Rohland and Virginia García AcostaChapter 34 – GeopoliticsMirko Petersen and Dorothea WehrmannChapter 35 – Human RightsBelen Olmos GiupponiChapter 36 – InterventionismThomas FischerChapter 37 – MilitaryDavid Pion-BerlinChapter 38 – Nation StateOlaf Kaltmeier and Mirko PetersenChapter 39 – NatureAntoine Acker, Anne Tittor and Olaf KaltmeierChapter 40 – Pan-AmericanismJosef RaabChapter 41 – ParticipationWagner de Melo RomãoChapter 42 – Political CommunicationCarlos Del Valle RojasChapter 43 – PopulismMirko PetersenChapter 44 – RevolutionMaría Josefina Saldaña-PortilloChapter 45 – SecurityLucía 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.