The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America

Part I. Social Lives, Economic Ideas

1. Introduction
Iselin Åsedotter Strønen, Margit Ystanes

2. Reformism, Class Conciliation and the Pink Tide: Material Gains and Their Limits
Pedro Mendes Loureiro

Part II. The Case of Brazil

3. Entangled Inequalities, State, and Social Policies in Contemporary Brazil
Sérgio Costa

4. #sosfavelas: Digital Representations of Violence and Inequality in Rio de Janeiro
Margit Ystanes

5. Urban Development in Rio de Janeiro During the ‘Pink Tide’: Bridging Socio-Spatial Divides Between the Formal and Informal City?
Celina Myrann Sørbøe

6. Meanings of Poverty: An Ethnography of Bolsa Familia Beneficiaries in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil
Michele Lavra Pinto

Part III. Subjectivities and Structures

7. Political Polarisation, Colonial Inequalities and the Crisis of Modernity in Venezuela
Iselin Åsedotter Strønen

8. Market Liberalisation and the (Un-)making of the ‘Perfect Neoliberal Citizen’: Enactments of Gendered and Racialised Inequalities Among Peruvian Vendors
Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard

9. Coming of Age in the Penal System: Neoliberalism, ‘Mano Dura’ and the Reproduction of ‘Racialised’ Inequality in Honduras
Lirio Gutiérrez Rivera, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen, Margit Ystanes

Part IV. Land, the Eternal Legacy of Inequality

10. Settlers and Squatters: The Production of Social Inequalities in the Peruvian Desert
Astrid B. Stensrud

11. Latin American Inequalities and Reparations
Marvin T. Brown

Part V. Postscript

12. Postscript
Sian Lazar

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Ethnography, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Latin American and Caribbean Economics, Social Structure, Social Inequality