 | The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas Subjects: Area Studies; Global Development; Economics Finance Business & Industry; Environment and Sustainability; Geography; Humanities; Politics & International Relations; American Studies; Latin American & Hispanic Studies; Culture & Development; Economics and Development; Environment & the Global South; Politics & Development; Regional Development; Sustainable Development; Economics Finance and Accounting; Environmental Studies; Environmental Politics; Environmental Change & Pollution; Environmental Issues; Human Geography; Environmental Politics; International Political Economy; U.S. Politics; History; American History; Economic History; Latin American History; Globalization; Southern Politics; American Political Development; Latino Politics; This handbook explores the political economy and governance of the Americas, placing particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences. Forty-six chapters cover a range of Inter-American key concepts and dynamics. The flow of peoples, goods, resources, knowledge and finances have on the one hand promoted interdependence and integration that cut across borders and link the countries of North and South America (including the Caribbean) together. On the other hand, they have contributed to profound asymmetries between different places. The nature of this transversally related and multiply interconnected hemispheric region can only be captured through a transnational, multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach. This handbook examines the direct and indirect political interventions, geopolitical imaginaries, inequalities, interlinked economic developments and the forms of appropriation of the vast natural resources in the Americas. Expert contributors give a comprehensive overview of the theories, practices and geographies that have shaped the economic dynamics of the region and their impact on both the political and natural landscape. This multidisciplinary approach will be of interest to a broad array of academic scholars and students in history, sociology, geography, economics and political science, as well as cultural, postcolonial, environmental and globalization studies. Olaf Kaltmeier is Professor for Ibero-American History at Bielefeld University. Anne Tittor holds a PhD and is a research associate at the Department of Sociology at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. Daniel Hawkins is the Director of Research at the National Union School of Colombia (ENS). Eleonora Rohland is Professor for Entangled History in the Americas at Bielefeld University. |
