Papers by Jose Antonio Lucero
Native American and Indigenous Studies, Sep 1, 2020
Bulletin of Latin American Research, Sep 1, 2021
Nacla Report On The Americas, Jan 2, 2020
A Contracorriente: Revista de Historia Social y Literatura en América Latina, 2009
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Aug 17, 2023
University of Pittsburgh Press eBooks, Sep 7, 2017
Latin American Research Review, Sep 28, 2018
Routledge eBooks, Feb 17, 2015
Latin American Politics and Society, 2004
Early on, in this vein, Biglaiser argues that statism was a response to the Great Depression. Wha... more Early on, in this vein, Biglaiser argues that statism was a response to the Great Depression. What, then, of YPF and COSACH, the Argentine and Chilean responses to natural resource exploitation born in the 1920s? Indeed, these protostatist agencies date from the same era as does military involvement in political affairs based on a desire to provide elemental economic and social reform. The assertion (in chapter 3) that except for the years 1927-32, Chile’s military was subservient to civilian authority ignores the military movements of 1924-25 and conflates both the socialist experiments of 1932 and the 1927-31 administration of General Carlos IbPfiez del Campo. In Guardians, involvement sometimes means a revolt as well as an institutional gobe, and they just are not the same. There is a deeper history to military political action and the appeal of statism in southern South America than is reflected in this book; economic woes, political incompetence, and military professionalism are not new, and they still can combine to produce volatility. Too, factionalism may be confused in these pages with the plain old interinstitutional governance that stemmed from the military movements of 1964, 1966, 1968, 1973, and 1976. These concerns aside, this is a remarkable book, one that combines throughout meticulous treatment of case studies with overarching theoretical projections. Chapters 3 and 4, dealing with the interrelationships of military institutions and economists regarding appointments and policy decisions, are impressive. So is chapter 6, in which Biglaiser enters the realm of the post-World War I1 professionalization of economists. We already knew that such processes had gone on in the other social sciences, and that South American intellectuals and fictioneers were concomitantly being taken seriously in Europe and North America, and elsewhere. Biglaiser’s discussion of economists adds to a growing literature on the appearance of Latin American professional-intellectuals on the policymaking stages, and on the role outsiders have played in the professional development of a region where true guardians and philosophers have been few and far between. Frederick M. Nunn University of Arizona
Duke University Press eBooks, Nov 23, 2011
University of Pittsburgh Press eBooks, Sep 7, 2017
Oxford University Press eBooks, Jan 28, 2013
Choice Reviews Online, Jun 1, 2009
Native American and Indigenous Studies
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Papers by Jose Antonio Lucero