The breadth of topics in this collection is noteworthy. . .a useful addition to the international development and women's studies literature . . offers the reader a wide-ranging set of examples and geographies. . .appropriate for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course.

--Ethics, Place and Environment, June 2003

Brings together some outstanding contributions. . . most accessible for classroom use in the United States.

--Latin American Research Review, Vol. 39, No. 3

Ambitious. . . provides a number of thoughtful essays around the theme of changing political economy and local spaces.

--Journal of Latin American Studies, No. 36

A highly interesting and complex contribution to the study of neo-liberalism and its effects in Latin America in the past twenty years.

--Iberoamericana, Vol. IV (2004), No. 15

Important in recording the multitude of responses people have to neoliberal market reforms.

--Counterpoise, Vol. 6, No. 4

*For students and researchers in Latin American studies, international development, geography, and anthropology

*A contemporary exploration of people's responses to neoliberal market reforms in everyday life in Latin America

Readers will learn how local communities, ethnic groups, and women react to market power and see how state policy affects people in their daily lives. The Spaces of Neoliberalism looks at several aspects of sociopolitical tensions including the politics of land and land reform, and the family as a place of negotiation between the roles of men and women.

Explores how markets and market ideology affect the lives of Latin American people through their communities, culture, resource base, local labor markets, and households. Among the topics of the eight papers are tensions between women's and indigenous groups over land rights, gender and reproduction in a Brazilian company town, and the restructuring of labor markets and household economies in urban Mexico.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Acontemporary exploration of people's responses to neoliberal market reforms in the various spaces of everyday life in Latin America: on the land, within households, and in communities. Contributors look at three aspects of this tension in particular: the politics of land and land reform; the family as a space of negotiation between men and women in their new roles in survival and labor market participation; and people living on the margins of the neoliberal project.

* For students and researchers in Latin American studies, international development, geography, and anthropology* A contemporary exploration of people's responses to neoliberal market reforms in everyday life in Latin AmericaReaders will learn how local communities, ethnic groups, and women react to market power and see how state policy affects people in their daily lives. The Spaces of Neoliberalism looks at several aspects of sociopolitical tensions including the politics of land and land reform, and the family as a place of negotiation between the roles of men and women.