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Introduction to Latin America

Twenty-First Century Challenges

By: Peadar Kirby

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Introduction to Latin America

Twenty-First Century Challenges

By: Peadar Kirby

`This excellent textbook provides students of Latin America with a rich and deep analysis of the processes and outcomes of globalization, past and present. Diversity and difference are explored using vivid and detailed country profiles. A strength of this textbook is its ability to explain complex issues in a way that is engaging and informative. It provides conceptual frameworks for students to engage in independent analysis of the complexities of global forces as they impact on, and interact with, the "local" in different contexts. It also, however, engages with the issues of crucial importance for the lived realities of Latin American people- poverty, development, the state and resistance under changing political, economic and ideological conditions. An essential buy for serious students of Latin America′ - Anne Boran, Chester College, University of Liverpool `This is an outstanding textbook which will appeal to a wide audience but especially those wishing to understand contemporary Latin America.... I have been studying Latin America for over 40 years and wish I could have written such a lucid and engaging book′ - Dr Crist[ac]obal Kay, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague Introduction to Latin America provides a completely new introduction to the political, social and economic forces shaping this essential region of undergraduate study today. It is the first textbook to place Latin America within a genuinely global context and introduce the debates and impact of globalization, neoliberalism, democratization, and the environment. It fully reviews the traditional literature in the postwar period (such as modernization or dependency theory) to demonstrate the way in which Latin America has often been misunderstood and introduces more recent theorizing to consider the longer-term prospects for equitable and sustainable development. Encorporating maps, case study boxes, summary exhibits, and guides to further reading, Introduction to Latin America will be an essential text for all students of Latin America across politics, international studies, geography, sociology and development studies.

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Celtic Tiger in Collapse

Explaining the Weaknesses of the Irish Model

By: Peadar Kirby

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Celtic Tiger in Collapse

Explaining the Weaknesses of the Irish Model

By: Peadar Kirby

Since the first edition there have been fundamental changes in the Irish growth model. The sudden collapse of the Irish economy in 2008 raises questions such as: why the sudden and deep decline in economic growth? What are the prospects for a return to growth? Answering these questions and more, this book is the definitive work on the Celtic Tiger.

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Celtic Tiger in Collapse

Explaining the Weaknesses of the Irish Model

By: Peadar Kirby

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Explaining the Weaknesses of the Irish Model

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Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis

Transforming Market Society in the Era of Climate Change

By: Peadar Kirby

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Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis

Transforming Market Society in the Era of Climate Change

By: Peadar Kirby

Has politics reached breaking point? Rather than defending liberalism or abandoning it, how can a socially just and ecological alternative be built? Peadar Kirby investigates the causes of our current multifaceted global crisis by drawing on the work of Karl Polanyi. This book explores Polanyi's theory that social disruptions result from the attempt to run society according to the rules of the market. Drawing on these ideas, it outlines pathways towards an alternative future that overcome weaknesses in Marxism. Linking the ecological, political and socio-economic crises, Kirby identifies that an alternative socio-ecological model is emerging, consistent with the insights of Polanyi. Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis is an urgent intervention into key debates on the future of politics, on the low-carbon transition, on automation and on the emerging world order.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis

Transforming Market Society in the Era of Climate Change

By: Peadar Kirby

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Transforming Market Society in the Era of Climate Change

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Civil Society and the State in Left-Led Latin America

Challenges and Limitations to Democratization

By: Barry Cannon,Professor Peadar Kirby

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Civil Society and the State in Left-Led Latin America

Challenges and Limitations to Democratization

By: Barry Cannon,Professor Peadar Kirby

Timely and unique, this innovative volume provides a critical examination of the role of civil society and its relation to the state throughout left-led Latin America. Featuring a broad range of case studies from across the region, from the Bolivian Constitution to participative budgeting in Brazil to the communal councils in Venezuela, the book examines to what extent these new initiatives are redefining state-civil society relations. Does the return of an active state in Latin America imply the incorporation of civil society representatives in decision-making processes? Is the new left delivering on the promise of participatory democracy and a redefinition of citizenship, or are we witnessing a new democratic deficit? A wide-ranging analysis of a vital issue, both for Latin America and beyond.

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Zed Books Ltd.

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1780322070

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Towards a Second Republic

Irish Politics and the Celtic Tiger

By: Peadar Kirby,Mary Murphy

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Towards a Second Republic

Irish Politics and the Celtic Tiger

By: Peadar Kirby,Mary Murphy

During the 1990s and 2000s, the Irish "Celtic Tiger" model of development was hailed as a model for other European countries, but the global economic crisis has completely removed the credibility of Ireland's approach. So where does the country go now? Towards a Second Republic analyzes Ireland's economics, politics, and society, drawing important lessons from its cycles of boom and bust. Peadar Kirby and Mary Murphy expose the winners and losers from the current Irish model of development and relate these distributional outcomes to the use of power by Irish elites. The authors examine the role of the EU and compare Ireland’s crisis and responses to those of other states. More than just an analysis of the economic disaster in Ireland, the book is also a proposal to construct new and more effective institutions for the economy, and society. It is a "must read" for students of Irish politics and political economy.

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Pluto Press

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0745330568

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9780745330563

The Political Economy of the Low-Carbon Transition

Pathways Beyond Techno-Optimism

By: Peadar Kirby,Tadhg O’Mahony

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The Political Economy of the Low-Carbon Transition

Pathways Beyond Techno-Optimism

By: Peadar Kirby,Tadhg O’Mahony

This book addresses the global need to transition to a low-carbon society and economy by 2050. The authors interrogate the dominant frames used for understanding this challenge and the predominant policy approaches for achieving it. Highlighting the techno-optimism that informs our current understanding and policy options, Kirby and O’Mahony draw on the lessons of international development to situate the transition within a political economy framework. Assisted by thinking on future scenarios, they critically examine the range of pathways being implemented by both developed and developing countries, identifying the prevailing forms of climate capitalism led by technology. Based on evidence that this is inadequate to achieve a low-carbon and sustainable society, the authors identify an alternative approach. This advance emerges from community initiatives, discussions on postcapitalism and debates about wellbeing and degrowth. The re-positioning of society and environment at the core of development can be labelled “ecosocialism” – a concept which must be tempered against the conditions created by Trumpism and Brexit.

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Springer

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3319625543

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The Celtic Tiger in Distress

Growth with Inequality in Ireland

By: P. Kirby

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The Celtic Tiger in Distress

Growth with Inequality in Ireland

By: P. Kirby

Ireland's Celtic Tiger economy has been held up as a model of successful development in a globalized world, offering lessons for other late developing countries. It interrogates the principal theoretical approaches which have been used to analyze the Celtic Tiger, particularly neo-classical economics, and finds them inadequate to capture its ambiguities or address its developmental deficit. Elaborating an alternative approach, drawing particularly on the work of Karl Polanyi, the book offers an interpretation which captures more fully the ways in which the Irish State has made itself subservient to market forces. The options now facing Irish society are mapped out through a critical examination of globalization, identifying possibilities for development and social action.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0333964357

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The Political Economy of the Low-Carbon Transition

Pathways Beyond Techno-Optimism

By: Peadar Kirby,Tadhg O’Mahony

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Pathways Beyond Techno-Optimism

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Macroeconomic Success and Social Vulnerability

Lessons for Latin America from the Celtic Tiger

By: Peadar Kirby,United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Special Studies Unit

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Macroeconomic Success and Social Vulnerability

Lessons for Latin America from the Celtic Tiger

By: Peadar Kirby,United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Special Studies Unit

On cover: United Nations Development Account (UNDA) "Enhancing the economic and social development policy capabilities in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean

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Book's by Peadar Kirby

Introduction to Latin America

Introduction to Latin America

Celtic Tiger in Collapse

Celtic Tiger in Collapse

Celtic Tiger in Collapse

Celtic Tiger in Collapse

Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis

Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis

Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis

Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis

Civil Society and the State in Left-Led Latin America

Civil Society and the State in Left-Led Latin America

Towards a Second Republic

Towards a Second Republic

The Political Economy of the Low-Carbon Transition

The Political Economy of the Low-Carbon Transition

The Celtic Tiger in Distress

The Celtic Tiger in Distress

The Political Economy of the Low-Carbon Transition

The Political Economy of the Low-Carbon Transition

Macroeconomic Success and Social Vulnerability

Macroeconomic Success and Social Vulnerability

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