The Return of the State, New Social Actors, and Post-Neoliberalism in Ecuador

Title: The Return of the State, New Social Actors, and Post-Neoliberalism in Ecuador Issue #: 206  | Volume #: 43 | Number #: 1 Date: January 2016 Interviewer: Tomas Ocampo Interviewees: Veronica Silva Short Description: This issue brings together critical contributions to help appreciate some dimensions of the profound impact of the deep socio-economic and political transformations that the Citizen Revolution led by Rafael Correa has been pushing for since its inception in 2007. The main purpose of the issue is to arrive at a global picture of the evolution and the vicissitudes of the processes of political change in contemporary Ecuador, assess its limits and contradictions from the standpoint of various analytical approaches. It covers such diverse topics as the struggle for power, the reform of state institutions towards a more centralized model, economic and trade policy, change in Ecuador’s approach to international relations, the question of constitutional change, tensions between the government and social movements, socio-environmental conflicts, the new migration agenda, and the question of the post-neoliberalism. LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES is a theoretical and scholarly journal for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. For more than forty years, it has published timely, progressive analyses of the social forces shaping contemporary Latin America. http://latinamericanperspectives.com