Populista
Autor Will Granten Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 sep 2021
Găsim în Populista o analiză profundă care depășește granițele științelor politice, abordând interdisciplinar sociologia maselor, istoria recentă și psihologia liderului carismatic. Autorul, Will Grant, își folosește experiența de peste 15 ani ca jurnalist BBC în regiune pentru a diseca fenomenul „Pink Tide” — valul de guverne de stânga care a redefinit America Latină la începutul secolului XXI. Credem că forța acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea de a transforma datele politice aride în portrete vii, aproape shakespeariene, ale unor figuri precum Fidel Castro sau Hugo Chávez.
Putem afirma că lucrarea reprezintă o evoluție majoră față de scrierile sale anterioare; dacă în The Last Ride of the Pony Express autorul explora vestul american prin prisma aventurii jurnalistice, aici Will Grant adoptă o perspectivă analitică riguroasă asupra structurilor de putere. Cartea explică modul în care prețurile materiilor prime și carisma individuală au eclipsat partidele politice tradiționale, ducând la un populism care a lăsat în urmă lideri autoritari.
Această ediție în limba engleză publicată de Bloomsbury Publishing servește ca o alternativă necesară la Populism in Latin America de Michael L. Conniff pentru cursurile de politică internațională, cu avantajul unei perspective jurnalistice de pe teren care oferă detalii umane și istorice recente pe care studiile pur academice le omit adesea. Spre deosebire de Gender and Populism in Latin America, care se concentrează pe o nișă sociologică, volumul de față oferă o panoramă vastă a întregului continent, de la Patagonia până la Rio Grande.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1789543975
Pagini: 512
Ilustrații: 1 x 8pp col
Dimensiuni: 130 x 196 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Head of Zeus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm Populista oricărui cititor pasionat de geopolitică și mecanismele puterii. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege cum populismul poate transforma democrațiile în regimuri autoritare. Câștigați o perspectivă avizată, bazată pe experiența de teren a lui Will Grant, asupra uneia dintre cele mai turbulente regiuni ale lumii, înțelegând legătura directă dintre moștenirea lui Castro și realitățile politice actuale.
Descriere
'A REVOLUTION IS A STRUGGLE TO THE DEATH BETWEEN THE FUTURE AND THE PAST.' FIDEL CASTRO
For more than six decades, Fidel Castro's words have echoed through the politics of Latin America. His towering political influence still looms over the region today.
The swing to the Left in Latin America, known as the 'Pink Tide', was the most important political movement in the Western Hemisphere in the 21st century. It involved some of the biggest, most colourful and most controversial characters in Latin America for decades, leaders who would leave an indelible mark on their nations and who were adored and reviled in equal measure.
Parties became secondary to individual leaders and populism reigned from Venezuela to Brazil, from Central America to the Caribbean, financed by a spike in commodity prices and the oil-backed largesse of Venezuela's charismatic socialist president, Hugo Chávez.
Yet within a decade and a half, it was all over. Today, this wave of populism has left the Americas in the hands of some of the most authoritarian and dangerous leaders since the military dictatorships of the 1970s.
Recenzii
This is an astute account of how the left in Latin America gained and then lost power
Grant's reporting is detailed and enlightening. He puts the leaders and their reigns in their historical context while asking the movements they fronted worked
A tour-de-force of reportage and analysis that makes sense of historic, complex forces that shook Latin America... A lucid, important book'
An ambitious, riveting and essential book that has much to teach us about the recent history of this region, and about the human impulse towards populism that continues to shape the world
A valuable and timely guide... Grant's ¡Populista! describes how the playbook of charismatic autocrats and chronic cronyism can unfold anywhere'
Will Grant moves deftly from palaces where he heard presidents claiming they embodied the will of the people to the barrios where their policies had most impact
Will Grant writes with close knowledge, admirable balance, and the verve of a natural storyteller. A must-read for today's volatile world
Will Grant is one of the BBC's great scholar-correspondents, and without peer when it comes to explaining Latin America. In Populista, he marries the depth of knowledge of a fine historian, with the elegant storytelling of a gifted journalist
The best piece of non-fiction writing on Latin America that I have read in a long time. Will Grant meets everyone from presidents to the impoverished, and explains it all beautifully
Will Grant has written an elegant and vivid account of Latin America's strongmen that radiates from the pages like bursts of Cuban sunshine. He skilfully weaves together reportage, startling modern history, and his own personal testimony, to chart the rise to power of some of the most brutal, but fascinating, authoritarian leaders of modern times. He invites us into a world of dripping jungle hideouts, dusty urban warfare. At times, it is as if the reader has slipped into the pages of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Grant expertly traces how the actions and views of his subjects played out on ordinary lives, for better or worse, from women like Cristina Chuquijanca de Soria, 'Maduro diet' of inflation and food shortages under the country's current president
The portraits of each character (which Grant calls 'Shakespearean' and 'colorful') are very interesting, with a lot of historical and personal information... It provides tools which allow the reader to accept or refute the author's positions in the preface and in the epilogue with numerous arguments and good information... An enjoyable read and highly recommended for those who wish to understand Latin America'