Alessandro Zagato is the founder of the Research Group in Art and Politics (GIAP) and of the centre of residences for artists and researchers, CASA GIAP, and Latin America's regional representative for the Artists at Risk Connection program of PEN America. His publications include The Event of Charlie Hebdo: Imaginaries of Freedom and Control (2015, Berghahn Books).

Introduction: The Pink Tide, Egalitarianism and the Corporate State in Latin America
Marina Gold and Alessandro Zagato

Chapter 1. State Corporatization and Warfare in Mexico
Alessandro Zagato

Chapter 2. Political Parties, Big Business, Social Movements and the 'Voice of the People': Views from Above and Below on the Crisis Created by the 2016 Coup in Brazil
John Gledhill and Maria Gabriela Hita

Chapter 3. The election of MAS, iIs Egalitarian Potential, and Its Contradictions: Lessons from Bolivia
Leonidas Oikonomakis

Chapter 4. What is in the 'People's Interest'? Discourses of Egalitarianism and 'Development as Compensation' in Contemporary Ecuador
Erin Fitz-Henry and Denisse Rodriquez

Chapter 5. The Neoliberal State and Post-Transition Democracy in Chile. Local Public Action and Indigenous Political Demands
Francisca de la Maza Cabrera

Chapter 6. More State? On Authority and the Conditions for Egalitarianism in Venezuela
Luis Angosto-Ferrández

Chapter 7. Egalitarian and Hierarchical Tensions in Cuban Self-Employed Ventures
Marina Gold

Chapter 8. Social Banditry and the Legal in the Corporate State of Peru
Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard

Conclusion: Egalitarianism and Dynamics of Oppression: Constitutive Processes
Alessandro Zagato and Marina Gold

Afterword: Towards the Era of the Post-Human
Bruce Kapferer

Index

The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems now to be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent trying to break open the constraints of the state. Through an ethnographically grounded and localized anthropological perspective, this book argues that at a time when the regular structures of political participation have been ruptured, the Latin American context reveals multiple expressions of egalitarian movements that strive (and sometimes momentarily manage) to break through the state's apparatus.