Finance, extraction and logistics as axes of the third neoliberal moment in Latin America

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Finance, extraction and logistics as axes of the third neoliberal moment in Latin America

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Author(s): Alessandro Peregalli

Publication date (Print): 1 April 2019

Journal: Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

Keywords: finance, extraction, logistics, infrastructure, corridors, neoliberalism, Latin America

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With the notion of ‘operations of capital', focused on the interaction between the dimensions of finance, extraction and logistics, authors such as Mezzadra and Neilson have highlighted some ‘underlying transformations of capitalism’ that go well beyond a generic idea of neoliberalism as ‘the hegemonic circulation of economic doctrines or processes of deregulation and governance'. The aim of this article is to investigate the strong articulation of finance, extraction and logistics in Latin America by focusing on the creation of new infrastructural corridors in the continent during the ‘third phase’ of neoliberal hegemony in the region. This article brings together elements from the so-called ‘critical logistics studies’ literature with a range of other theoretical perspectives, including insights from the work of David Harvey, Giovanni Arrighi, Michel Foucault and Saskia Sassen. It applies this theoretical background to the Latin American reality, drawing on regional-specific literature and general data using a trans-disciplinary perspective.

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Title: Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation

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Publication date (Print): 1 April 2019

Volume: 13

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Pages: 47-78

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Keywords: neoliberalism,Latin America,infrastructure,logistics,corridors,finance,extraction

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[1] Acosta, A. (2009) La maldición de la abundancia [The curse of abundance], Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala.

[2] Arrighi, G. (1999) El largo siglo XX [The long twentieth century], Madrid: Akal Ediciones.

[3] Asociación de Zonas Francas de las Américas (2018) Accessed January 4, 2019 from www.asociacionzonasfrancas.org.

[4] Barreda Marín, A. (2002) ‘El Plan Puebla Panamá’ [The Puebla panama plan], Biodiversidad, 33. Accessed April 4, 2019 from https://www.grain.org/es/article/entries/938-el-plan-puebla-panama.

[5] Bologna, S. (2013) Banche e crisi. Dal petrolio al container [Banks and crisis. From oil to container], Roma: DeriveApprodi.

[6] Cowen, D. (2014) The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in the Global Trade, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

[7] Cowen, D. & N. Smith (2009). ‘After geopolitics? From the geopolitical social to geoeconomics', Antipode, 41:22-48.

[8] de Castro, S. (coordinador) (1992) 'El Ladrillo'. Bases de la política económica del gobierno militar chileno ['The brick'. Basis of the economic politics of Chilean military government], Santiago de Chile: Centro de Estudios Públicos.

[9] The Economist (2017) ‘Honduras experiments with charter cities', August 12. Accessed January 4, 2019 from https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2017/08/12/honduras-experiments-with-charter-cities.

[10] Falero, A. (2015) ‘La expansión de la economía de enclaves en América Latina y la ficción del desarrollo: siguiendo una vieja discusión en nuevos moldes’ [The expansion of enclaves economy in Latin America and the fiction of development: Following an old debate in new shapes], Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Agrícolas, 1:145-57.

[11] Foucault, M. (2005) Nascita della biopolitica. Corso al Collége de France (1978-1979) [The birth of biopolitics: Lectures at the collège de France, 1978-1979], Milano: Feltrinelli.

[12] Gago, V. (2014) La razón neoliberal. Economías barrocas y pragmática popular [Neoliberalism from below. Popular pragmatics and baroque economies], Buenos Aires: Tinta Limón.

[13] Gago, V. & S. Mezzadra (2015) ‘Para una crítica de las operaciones extractivas del capital. Patrón de acumulación y luchas sociales en el tiempo de la financiarización’ [A critique of the extractive operations of capital: Toward an expanded concept of extractivism], Nueva Sociedad, 255:38-52.

[14] Galeano, E. (2004) Las venas abiertas de América Latina [Open veins of Latin America], Ciudad de México: Siglo XXI editores.

[15] Gudynas, E. (2009) ‘Diez tesis urgentes sobre el nuevo extractivismo. Contextos y demandas bajo el progresismo sudamericano actual', AAVV, Extractivismo, política y sociedad [Ten urgent thesis on the new extractivism. Situations and demands under the current South American progressivism], Quito: Centro Andino de Acción Popular y Centro Latino Americano de Ecología Social.

[16] Harvey, D. (2013) Città ribelli. I movimenti urbani dalla Comune di Parigi a Occupy Wall Street [Rebel cities: From the right to the city to the urban revolution], Milano: Il Saggiatore.

[17] Harvey, D. (2014) Diciassette contraddizioni e la fine del capitalism [Seventeen contradictions and the end of capitalism], Milano: Feltrinelli.

[18] Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America (2018). Accessed January 4, 2019 from www.iirsa.org.

[19] Lefebvre, H. (2013) La producción del espacio [The production of space], Barcelona-Madrid: Capitan Swing.

[20] Lynch, C. (2018) ‘The techno-politics of re-territorialization: Emerging forms of governance, privatization, and resistance in the digital age', Latin American Studies Association, Barcelona, May, 23-26.

[21] Macrotrends (2018). Accessed on January 4, 2019 from www.macrotrends.net.

[22] Marx, K. (1978) Líneas fundamentales de la crítica de la economía política ‘Grundrisse' [Grundrisse. Foundations of the critique of political economy], Barcelona: Crítica.

[23] Mezzadra, S. & B. Neilson (2015) ‘Operations of capital', The South Atlantic Quarterly, 114:1-9.

[24] Neilson, B. (2012) ‘Five theses on understanding logistics as power', Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory, 13 (3):322-39.

[25] Porto-Gonçalves, C.W. (2017) ‘Dimensión geopolítica de la crisis brasileña: una perspectiva desde los grupos sociales en condición de subalternidad’ [Geopolitical dimension of Brazilian crisis: A perspective from the social groups in condition of subalternity], in Efraín León Hernández (coordinador), Praxis espacial en América Latina. Lo geopolítico puesto en cuestión, Ciudad de México: Editorial Itaca:61-67.

[26] Sassen, S. (2010) Territorio, autoridad y derechos: De los ensamblajes medievales a los ensamblajes globales [Territory, authority, rights: From medieval to global assemblages], Buenos Aires: Katz Editores.

[27] Singer, P. (1998). ‘De dependěncia em dependěncia: consentida, tolerada e desejada’ [From dependency to dependency: Consented, allowed, desired], Estudos Avançados, 12, Sño Paulo. Accessed January 4, 2019 from http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-40141998000200008.

[28] Stolowicz, B. (2016) El misterio del posneoliberalismo. La estrategia para América Latina [The mystery of postneoliberalism. The strategy toward Latin America], vol. 2, Bogotá: ILSA.

[29] Svampa, M. (2013) ‘El “Consenso de los Commodities” y lenguajes de valoración en America Latina’ [The ‘commodities consensus’ and valuation languages in Latin America], Nueva Sociedad, 244, Buenos Aires. Accessed April 4, 2019 from http://nuso.org/articulo/consenso-de-los-commodities-y-lenguajes-de-valoracion-en-america-latina/.

[30] Zibechi, R. (2013) Brasil potencia. Entre la integración regional y un nuevo imperialism [Brazil potencia: Between the regional integration and the new imperialism], Ciudad de México: Bajo Tierra Ediciones.