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The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same: The Politics and Economics of the New...
08 March 2017, 5:30 pm–7:00 pm
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UCL Institute of the Americas
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UCL Institute of the Americas, 51 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PN
This talk will explain the political dynamics and conflicts underpinning the contradictory evolution of left-wing governments and social movements in Latin America in the last two decades. Throughout the 2000s, Latin America transformed itself into the leading edge of anti-neoliberal resistance in the world. What is left of the Pink Tide today? What are the governments’ relationships to the explosive social movements that propelled them to power?
Jeffery R. Webber is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London.
He is the author of The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same, Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia, and From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia: Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation, and the Politics of Evo Morales