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Papers by Fernando Leiva
Latin American Perspectives
Latin America faces a twin crisis. The spread of COVID-19 has become a health catastrophe and sen... more Latin America faces a twin crisis. The spread of COVID-19 has become a health catastrophe and sent regional economies into recession, while governments’ increasing reliance on extractive development as a health and economic “cure” has compounded existing socio-environmental conflicts across the continent. An emergent “extractive savior” discourse aligns with political economic interests that have instrumentalized the pandemic to propel a new strain of disaster capitalism—disaster extractivism. Any socio-environmentally just response to COVID-19 must eschew the extractivist logic that underlies the pandemic and mainstream responses to it. América Latina enfrenta una doble crisis. La propagación de COVID-19 se ha convertido en una catástrofe sanitaria y ha llevado a las economías regionales a la recesión, mientras que la creciente dependencia de los gobiernos del desarrollo extractivo como una "cura" sanitaria y económica ha agravado los conflictos socioambientales existente...
Liverpool University Press eBooks, Mar 1, 2013
Routledge eBooks, Mar 7, 2019
Critical Studies of 21st Century Social Transformation, 2009
This chapter argues that a particularly important component of Latin America's current radica... more This chapter argues that a particularly important component of Latin America's current radical resurgence is what we call the tthird leftt. It examines the strengths and limitations of our definition of a third left. The chapter elaborates how the four defining elementsautonomy, territorial control, horizontalidad or bottom-up participation, new social identitiesplay out in the actual movements in question. It examines the three main political directions adopted by adherents to the third left. The chapter also summarizes the key achievements of Latin Americas third left, and then considers at greater length some of the challenges facing this new brand of politics. Keywords: autonomy; horizontalidad; Latin Americas third left; political representation; social movements; territorial control
Democracy and Poverty in Chile, 2019
Latin American Perspectives, 1986
... financial services, grew at rates higher than the evolution of the economy as a whole. Indust... more ... financial services, grew at rates higher than the evolution of the economy as a whole. Industry and mining as a percentage of GDP shrank from 42.6% in 1970 to only 28.8% in 1983. ... TABLE 1 Share of GDP at Market Prices, 1970-1983 (in percentages) Indicator 1970 1975 1983 ...
Routledge eBooks, Jan 10, 2023
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2019
Within the country's strategic copper mining sector, economic elites are begetting new political ... more Within the country's strategic copper mining sector, economic elites are begetting new political technologies that reshape state, economy, and society relations, to better anchor capitalist domination at the local level. Two post-2012 initiatives, explicitly designed to overcome community-based resistances to mega-extractivist projects, are examined. Promoting "territorial dialogues," they set private-public-social development corporations which take on the production of public goods, legitimacy, and social cohesion for entire provinces and regions, tasks previously performed by the state. Co-created by transnational capital and centre-left epistemic communities, these novel forms of political domination illustrate a broad variety in the types of state-capital-Left relationships emerging in Latin America during the so called Pink Tide and its aftermath.
Latin American Perspectives, 1988
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... 13563460600840175 Fernando Ignacio Leiva a pages 337-359. ... 16. For an analysis of the pass... more ... 13563460600840175 Fernando Ignacio Leiva a pages 337-359. ... 16. For an analysis of the passage from structuralism to neostructuralism see James Petras & Fernando Ignacio Leiva, Democracy and Poverty in Chile: The Limits to Electoral Politics (Westview Press, 1994), ch. ...
Latin American Perspectives
Latin America faces a twin crisis. The spread of COVID-19 has become a health catastrophe and sen... more Latin America faces a twin crisis. The spread of COVID-19 has become a health catastrophe and sent regional economies into recession, while governments’ increasing reliance on extractive development as a health and economic “cure” has compounded existing socio-environmental conflicts across the continent. An emergent “extractive savior” discourse aligns with political economic interests that have instrumentalized the pandemic to propel a new strain of disaster capitalism—disaster extractivism. Any socio-environmentally just response to COVID-19 must eschew the extractivist logic that underlies the pandemic and mainstream responses to it. América Latina enfrenta una doble crisis. La propagación de COVID-19 se ha convertido en una catástrofe sanitaria y ha llevado a las economías regionales a la recesión, mientras que la creciente dependencia de los gobiernos del desarrollo extractivo como una "cura" sanitaria y económica ha agravado los conflictos socioambientales existente...
Liverpool University Press eBooks, Mar 1, 2013
Routledge eBooks, Mar 7, 2019
Critical Studies of 21st Century Social Transformation, 2009
This chapter argues that a particularly important component of Latin America's current radica... more This chapter argues that a particularly important component of Latin America's current radical resurgence is what we call the tthird leftt. It examines the strengths and limitations of our definition of a third left. The chapter elaborates how the four defining elementsautonomy, territorial control, horizontalidad or bottom-up participation, new social identitiesplay out in the actual movements in question. It examines the three main political directions adopted by adherents to the third left. The chapter also summarizes the key achievements of Latin Americas third left, and then considers at greater length some of the challenges facing this new brand of politics. Keywords: autonomy; horizontalidad; Latin Americas third left; political representation; social movements; territorial control
Democracy and Poverty in Chile, 2019
Latin American Perspectives, 1986
... financial services, grew at rates higher than the evolution of the economy as a whole. Indust... more ... financial services, grew at rates higher than the evolution of the economy as a whole. Industry and mining as a percentage of GDP shrank from 42.6% in 1970 to only 28.8% in 1983. ... TABLE 1 Share of GDP at Market Prices, 1970-1983 (in percentages) Indicator 1970 1975 1983 ...
Routledge eBooks, Jan 10, 2023
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2019
Within the country's strategic copper mining sector, economic elites are begetting new political ... more Within the country's strategic copper mining sector, economic elites are begetting new political technologies that reshape state, economy, and society relations, to better anchor capitalist domination at the local level. Two post-2012 initiatives, explicitly designed to overcome community-based resistances to mega-extractivist projects, are examined. Promoting "territorial dialogues," they set private-public-social development corporations which take on the production of public goods, legitimacy, and social cohesion for entire provinces and regions, tasks previously performed by the state. Co-created by transnational capital and centre-left epistemic communities, these novel forms of political domination illustrate a broad variety in the types of state-capital-Left relationships emerging in Latin America during the so called Pink Tide and its aftermath.
Latin American Perspectives, 1988
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 13563460600840175, Jan 23, 2007
... 13563460600840175 Fernando Ignacio Leiva a pages 337-359. ... 16. For an analysis of the pass... more ... 13563460600840175 Fernando Ignacio Leiva a pages 337-359. ... 16. For an analysis of the passage from structuralism to neostructuralism see James Petras & Fernando Ignacio Leiva, Democracy and Poverty in Chile: The Limits to Electoral Politics (Westview Press, 1994), ch. ...
The Left Hand of Capital: Neoliberalism and the Left in Chile, 2021
Original and comprehensive examination of Chilean political and economic development since the en... more Original and comprehensive examination of Chilean political and economic development since the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990.
In The Left Hand of Capital, Fernando Ignacio Leiva provides a theoretically grounded analysis of the last thirty years of socioeconomic policies in Chile, beginning at the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990. He skillfully probes how innovative center-left politico-economic initiatives transformed the state’s relationships with the country’s urban poor, indigenous peoples, workers, students, and business elites, thereby contributing to institutionalize, legitimize, and renew Chile’s neoliberal system of domination. Leiva documents how such politics, progressive in appearance, were pivotal in forging new arts of domestication, “participatory” social control mechanisms, and commodified subjectivities. This landmark book guides us into a deeper awareness about the limitations of center-left politics, not only in Chile, but elsewhere in the Americas and Western Europe as well. At a time when far-right movements seem to be growing in the Global South, Europe, and the United States, this book offers valuable insights into the predicament of social democracy and how, as in Chile and in the context of global neoliberalism, it can become the “left hand of capital.”
The Left Hand of Capital: Neoliberalism and the Left in Chile, 2021
Original and comprehensive examination of Chilean political and economic development since the en... more Original and comprehensive examination of Chilean political and economic development since the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990.
In The Left Hand of Capital, Fernando Ignacio Leiva provides a theoretically grounded analysis of the last thirty years of socioeconomic policies in Chile, beginning at the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990. He skillfully probes how innovative center-left politico-economic initiatives transformed the state’s relationships with the country’s urban poor, indigenous peoples, workers, students, and business elites, thereby contributing to institutionalize, legitimize, and renew Chile’s neoliberal system of domination. Leiva documents how such politics, progressive in appearance, were pivotal in forging new arts of domestication, “participatory” social control mechanisms, and commodified subjectivities. This landmark book guides us into a deeper awareness about the limitations of center-left politics, not only in Chile, but elsewhere in the Americas and Western Europe as well. At a time when far-right movements seem to be growing in the Global South, Europe, and the United States, this book offers valuable insights into the predicament of social democracy and how, as in Chile and in the context of global neoliberalism, it can become the “left hand of capital.”
The Left Hand of Capital. Neoliberalism and the Left in Chile, 2021
Original and comprehensive examination of Chilean political and economic development since the en... more Original and comprehensive examination of Chilean political and economic development since the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990.
In The Left Hand of Capital, Fernando Ignacio Leiva provides a theoretically grounded analysis of the last thirty years of socioeconomic policies in Chile, beginning at the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990. He skillfully probes how innovative center-left politico-economic initiatives transformed the state’s relationships with the country’s urban poor, indigenous peoples, workers, students, and business elites, thereby contributing to institutionalize, legitimize, and renew Chile’s neoliberal system of domination. Leiva documents how such politics, progressive in appearance, were pivotal in forging new arts of domestication, “participatory” social control mechanisms, and commodified subjectivities. This landmark book guides us into a deeper awareness about the limitations of center-left politics, not only in Chile, but elsewhere in the Americas and Western Europe as well. At a time when far-right movements seem to be growing in the Global South, Europe, and the United States, this book offers valuable insights into the predicament of social democracy and how, as in Chile and in the context of global neoliberalism, it can become the “left hand of capital.”