Latin America in Debate

Maristella Svampa is Senior Researcher at Centro de Investigaciones CientIficas y TEcnicas de Argentina and the author of Neo-Extractivism in Latin America and numerous other books. Alejandro Reyes is a freelance writer, translator, editor, and the author of several books in Spanish.

Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I. Latin American Debates and History 1. The Debate on the Indigenous and Indianidad 15 2. Between the Obsession with Development and Its Critique 87 3. Dependency as an Organizing Axis 125 4. Populisms, Politics, and Democracy 177 Part II. Scenarios, Contemporary Debates, and Disputed Categories Part II. Introduction 217 5. The Way of Indianismo: The Debate on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 221 6. Debates on Development 247 7. Dependency as a "Compass" 273 8. Twenty-First-Century Populisms 301 Final Reflections 329 Notes 343 References 353 Index

"Latin America in Debate is a work of unparalleled erudition and scope. Its careful tracing of the most structuring threads in the continent's social, political, and intellectual history demonstrates why Maristella Svampa is the most accomplished scholar in the rich tradition of Latin American critical thought at present. This book is essential reading for those wishing to engage with the urgent task of reimagining the place of world regions in the globalized world." - Arturo Escobar, author of Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible "Charting the evolving debates among Latin American intellectuals and scholars regarding Indigenous peoples, dependency, development, and populism, Maristella Svampa offers a critical survey of Latin American social and political theorizing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Svampa has put a lifetime of reading and thinking into this book in a remarkably fruitful way. Latin America in Debate is a tour de force that will be the basis of many important and valuable conversations." - Mary Louise Pratt, author of Planetary Longings