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BOOK REVIEW ESSAY, KUECKER 242 and conclusions flawed in the face of the new Dark Age. Yet, it would be a mistake to not recognize the importance of Robinson’s work. These are challenging theoretical questions, and they are ones that scholars now must contend with, especially the readers of this journal. Latin America and Global Capitalism does provide valuable insights for thinking about social science analysis of the new Dark Ages. Robinson clearly shows the profound consequences that neoliberal globalization has had on Latin American society, politics, and economics. With its social fabric ripped to shreds, public sector debilitated, social sectors disarticulated from the state, and polyarchy entrenched, Latin America’s ability to respond to the large-scale, multiple, and interconnected crises has been crippled right at the critical moment when a robust state, public sector, civil society, and citizenry is needed. Robinson’s work is critical, then, for understanding this context, because he so clearly shows where we came from as we enter the new epoch. The catastrophic consequences of policies created by Adam Smith’s invisible hand are now painfully obvious in the examples of Katrina and British Petroleum’s deep sea drilling calamity. As we move deeper into the new Dark Age, such consequences will increase in frequency and severity. Neoliberal globalization’s destruction of the Latin American commons means the region is less resilient in the face of the shocks of catastrophic collapse. These scenarios raise significant questions about Robinson’s embrace of the Bolivarian revolution and rejection of the autonomous movements like the Zapatistas. Given Chavez’s petroleum drenched clutch on the destructive forces of modernity, we might wonder if the Zapatista path of changing the world without taking power is the path of greater resilience in a global system catastrophically collapsing. References Alvarez, Sonia, E. Dagnino, and Arturo Escobar. Editors. 1998. Cultures of Politics Politics of Cultures: Re-Visioning Latin American Social Movements. Boulder, Co: Westview Press. Chew, Sing. 2008. Ecological Futures: What History Can Teach Us. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. Friedman, Thomas L. 2000. Lexus and the Olive Tree. New York: Anchor Books. _____ . 2006. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. _____ . 2008. The World is Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Green, Duncan. 2003. The Silent Revolution: The Rise and Crisis of Market Economics in Latin America. Second edition. New York: Monthly Review Press. Grubacic, Andrej and Staughton Lynd. 2008. Wobblies & Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History. Oakland, CA: PM Press. Hale, Charlie. 2008. Editor. Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship. Berkeley: University of California Press. Harvey, David. 1989. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. London: Blackwell. Hellman, Judith A. 2008. The World of Mexican Migrants: The Rock and the Hard Place. New York: The New Press. Korten, David. 2001. Second Edition. When Corporations Rule the World. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press.
243 JOURNAL OF WORLD-SYSTEMS RESEARCH Robinson, William J. 1996. Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, U.S. Intervention, and Hegemony. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. _____ . 2003. Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change, and Globalization. London: Verso. _____ . 2004. A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and State in a Transnational World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Stephen, Lynn. 2007. Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
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