Carlos M Vilas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 273579 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Carlos M Vilas |
| NOMBRES | Carlos M |
| APELLIDO | Vilas |
| FIRMA | VILAS C M |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 88 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
A Commentary on Robinson
Pobreza, desigualdad y su sustentabilidad democrática
Producto de una variedad de causas referibles en último análisis al diseño macraeconomico que aplicó durante más de una década, pobreza y desigualdad aceleraron en años recientes su crecimiento de largo plazo, contribuyendo al desencadenamiento de una crisis política que ya estaba en gestación desde tiempo antes. Este documento presenta un primer tratamiento de esa crisis y del modo en que ésta fue procesada. Se afirma que, en el marco de un dete…
Testimonials
Lynchings and Political Conflict in the Andes
In 2004 the mayors of two municipalities in the Aymará region of the Andes were lynched-the apparent culmination of bitter conflicts within their communities and between those communities and the central government. These two cases illustrate the recent transformation of the organization and internal dynamics of Andean communities and the conflictive articulation of local politics with wider processes and institutions. They point to the importanc…
Neoliberal Meltdown and Social Protest
As a result of a variety of factors that in the final analysis point to the macro-economic design implemented for over a decade, poverty and social inequality accelerated throughout the 1990s in Argentina and contributed to the unfolding of a political crisis already in gestation for some time. It culminated in 2001-2002 with an extraordinary political mobilisation that brought down the government. However, the lack of political articulation of t…
Is There Any Room for Latin America in US Foreign Policy
All through the Cold War US foreign policy approached Latin America and the Caribbean through the lens of the East–West confrontation. With the implosion of the Soviet bloc – and the Soviet Union – this approach became outdated. Since then, US foreign policy towards the region has moved through several regional goals, from promoting economic hemispheric integration under the aegis of neoliberal economic policies to fostering so-called market demo…
Populismos reciclados o neoliberalismo a secas? El mito del "neopopulismo" latinoamericano
Between market democracies and capitalist globalization
Globalization as Imperialism
Globalization... is not a serious idea. We, the Americans, invented it as a means for concealing our policy of economic penetration into other nations (J. K. Galbraith, interview, Folha de Sdo Paulo, October 2, 1997). Proclaiming that globalization implies an epochal transformation or that it is a break with the previous two centuries of the imperialist expansion of capitalism is at best a naive foolishness produced by a lack of historical inform…
(In)justicia por mano propia
Carlos M. Vilas, (In)justicia por mano propia: linchamientos en el México contemporáneo (Taking the Law into One's Hands: Lynchings in Mexico), Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 2001), pp. 131-160
Estado y mercado en la globalización
Este artigo discute alguns dos principais aspectos das relações entre Estado e mercado no contexto da globalização econômica. Após uma apresentação sumária das modalidades de articulação entre Estado-nação e capitalismo no passado, ressaltamos o impacto dos processos de globalização sobre a organização e as funções do Estado sob uma perspectiva dupla: a transformação das capacidades estatais como efeito das crescentes interconexões e interdependê…
Globalización o imperialismo
Varios factores han contribuido a la aceleración de la expansión global del capitalismo en años recientes: 1) acelerado crecimiento de la liquidez internacional, favorecido por 2) la aplicación de nuevas tecnologías informáticas a las transacciones financieras y comerciales, así como por 3) la decidida intervención estatal en la configuración de las condiciones institucionales para dicha expansión (desregulaciones, privatizaciones, presiones polí…
Keeping Abreast of Latin America's Dynamics
De ambulancias, bomberos y policías
The Struggle for Peace in Central America
Poniéndole (y quitándole) género a la democracia
The New Politics of Survival
Un balance de la ejecución de los acuerdos de paz en El Salvador
L’article avalua el procés d’implementació dels acords de pau d’El Salvador. En la primera part, s’analitza l’estat actual i execució de cadascun dels aspectes fonamentals dels acords: desmilitarització, drets humans, democratització i transferència de terres. Posteriorment, l’autor examina els trets bàsics del context socioeconòmic i els impactes del procés de pau sobre els actors polítics. L’article acaba oferint algunes reflexions de futur sob…
Hogares, mujeres y sobrevivencia
Prospects for Democratisation in a Post-Revolutionary Setting
Prospects for democratisation in those Central American countries that experienced revolutionary processes are discussed in the light of recurrent structural constraints - such as incipient structural differentiation, overwhelming poverty, dependence on foreign financial subsidies - and specific sociopolitical variations, i.e. uneven modernisation of traditional rule; tensions between the recent mobilisation of both 'old' and 'new' social actors,…
Una democracia radical de baja intensidad
Globalización, Integración Cultural, Marginación Social
SIN RESUMEN
Latin America in the “new world order”
Democracia política y democracia social en América Latina
Repaso sobre el proceso democratizador en América Latina. Se enfatiza la vinculación del ámbito político con las dimensiones socioeconómicas, las relaciones entre grupos étnicos, y generacionales de la democracia para responder a Ios problemas fundamentales de la sociedad. Señala la importancia de una estrategia popular de lucha institucional y por las instituciones. Ponencia al Coloquio Democracia Política, Democracia Social en América Latina
Between Skepticism and Protocol
In a recent essay, James Petras (1988) explores the increasing move to the right of Latin American intellectuals, especially those affiliated with research centers financed by extraregional organizations. He contrasts the organic intellectuals of the 1960s, linked to social and political and supporters of revolutionary proposals or profound transformations, with the institutionalized intellectuals of the 1980s, whose theoretical and empirical stu…
Family Affairs
As I get older I give more importance to continuities, and try to discover them under the appearances of change and mutation. And I have reached the conclusion that there is only one great continuity: that of blood.Class structure never entirely displaces other criteria and forms of differentiation and hierarchy (e.g. ethnicity, gender, lineage) in the constitution of social identities and in prompting collective action. Class as a concept and as…
(In)justicia por mano propia
Carlos M. Vilas, (In)justicia por mano propia: linchamientos en el México contemporáneo (Taking the Law into One's Hands: Lynchings in Mexico), Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 2001), pp. 131-160
Prospects for Democratisation in a Post-Revolutionary Setting
Prospects for democratisation in those Central American countries that experienced revolutionary processes are discussed in the light of recurrent structural constraints - such as incipient structural differentiation, overwhelming poverty, dependence on foreign financial subsidies - and specific sociopolitical variations, i.e. uneven modernisation of traditional rule; tensions between the recent mobilisation of both 'old' and 'new' social actors,…
Neoliberal Meltdown and Social Protest
As a result of a variety of factors that in the final analysis point to the macro-economic design implemented for over a decade, poverty and social inequality accelerated throughout the 1990s in Argentina and contributed to the unfolding of a political crisis already in gestation for some time. It culminated in 2001-2002 with an extraordinary political mobilisation that brought down the government. However, the lack of political articulation of t…
El populismo latinoamericano
The Mass Organizations in Nicaragua
The U.S. war of aggression, the priority placed on national defense, the deepening of the economic crisis, and the impact of this on people's everyday lives have all greatly influenced the mass organizations in Nicaragua and the extent, achievements, and nature of popular participation. The growing need to centralize decision-making and the drive for greater efficiency in the allocation of scarce resources have led the revolutionary government to…
Populismos reciclados o neoliberalismo a secas? El mito del "neopopulismo" latinoamericano
Lynchings and Political Conflict in the Andes
In 2004 the mayors of two municipalities in the Aymará region of the Andes were lynched-the apparent culmination of bitter conflicts within their communities and between those communities and the central government. These two cases illustrate the recent transformation of the organization and internal dynamics of Andean communities and the conflictive articulation of local politics with wider processes and institutions. They point to the importanc…
Latin American Populism
Latin American populism is a strategy for capital accumulation oriented through specific state policies; these may include import substitution and income distribution, and rely on the promotion of small and middle-size manufacturing firms producing for the domestic market. It looks for full employment, expansion of middle and working class consumption, agrarian modernization and broad intervention of government agencies in economic and social aff…
El sujeto social de la insurreccion popular
Una de las cuestiones interesantes de las guerras de liberación y las revoluciones sociales del Tercer Mundo es que las luchas por profundas transformaciones sociales e, incluso, por un horizonte socialista, no tienen como fuerza principal a un partido proletario ni a organizaciones donde la clase obrera constituye el componente principal. El protagonista fundamental de estos movimientos es, antes bien, un complejo conjunto de clases y grupos pop…
De ambulancias, bomberos y policías
The New Politics of Survival
Between Skepticism and Protocol
In a recent essay, James Petras (1988) explores the increasing move to the right of Latin American intellectuals, especially those affiliated with research centers financed by extraregional organizations. He contrasts the organic intellectuals of the 1960s, linked to social and political and supporters of revolutionary proposals or profound transformations, with the institutionalized intellectuals of the 1980s, whose theoretical and empirical stu…
Four Comments on Kerala
For many years now, people in the third world have been rejecting the modernizing theory of development. From the perspective of the third world, one must first ask: development from what, for what, and for whom? The answers to these questions determine whether or not "development" can be translated into improvements in the general living conditions of the people. The model described in Kerala clearly indicates an early choice: rather than provid…
Research Guide to Central America and the Caribbean
Central American Impasse
Reforma agraria, agroexportación y empleo rural en Nicaragua
L'emploi rural s'est transformé depuis 1979. Une pénurie de main-d'oeuvre est apparue dans l'agriculture d'exportation, mettant en danger la stragégie de développement qui dépend beaucoup de ce secteur. On ne peut y remédier sans en reconnaître d'abord les causes, lesquelles diffèrent selon qu'on adopte l'hypothèse «paysanne» ou l'hypothèse «prolétarienne». Des enquêtes révèlent un degré élevé de prolétarisation, avec salariat permanent quoique i…
Between market democracies and capitalist globalization
Is Socialism Still An Alternative for the Third World
To ask at the present moment whether socialism is a real prospect for Third World countries may seem an extravagant question, an outlandish question, even an anachronistic question. For more than a year what was once known as the "socialist bloc" has hardly existed, and many of the countries that belonged to it now seem hell-bent on integrating themselves into the capitalist world. Of course, it may be argued that they were not truly socialist. B…
Especulaciones sobre una sorpresa
Se presentan aspectos centrales del proceso electoral, ubicandolos en el marco de democratizacion de Nicaragua y de pacificacion regional, en un contexto de aguda crisis economica. Se postulan hipotesis para explicar el resultado de los comicios de 1990 y la orientacion mayoritaria del voto. Finalmente, se plantean algunos desarrollos probables dentro del pais y en la region a raiz de la derrota del FSLN. Ponencia al Ciclo America Latina a la Hor…
Popular Insurgency and Social Revolution in Central America
This essay discusses certain aspects of the revolutionary process in Central America-the social transformation in Nicaragua and the struggle for the conquest of political power in Guatemala and El Salvador. It focuses on the problematic of the actual protagonists. The first section affirms the multiclass nature of these processes, in their insurrectional stage as well as in the initial stages of revolutionary transformation. In the second section…
Sobre la estrategia económica de la Revolución Sandinista
Nicaragua
An up-to-date and detailed analysis of the changes which have taken place in the Nicaraguan economy since the revolution. The article discusses the main tensions and contradictions that have marked the Sandinista strategy of national unity and a mixed economy in the context of the build-up of counter-revolutionary attacks and increasing economic difficulties
On the Crisis of Bourgeois Democracy in Argentina
crisis of all types of democracy but of its liberal-bourgeois version. More precisely, it is the crisis of the reformist fractions of the bourgeoisie which have sought to promote a stable process of democratization in the face of the opposition of the capitalist oligarchs and the historical advance of the popular classes. It is useful to recall that democracy does not exist in general or in the
Nicaragua
Reforma agraria, agroexportación y empleo rural en Nicaragua
L'emploi rural s'est transformé depuis 1979. Une pénurie de main-d'oeuvre est apparue dans l'agriculture d'exportation, mettant en danger la stragégie de développement qui dépend beaucoup de ce secteur. On ne peut y remédier sans en reconnaître d'abord les causes, lesquelles diffèrent selon qu'on adopte l'hypothèse «paysanne» ou l'hypothèse «prolétarienne». Des enquêtes révèlent un degré élevé de prolétarisation, avec salariat permanent quoique i…
Insurgencia popular y revoluciones sociales (En torno a la Revolución sandinista)
Carlos M. Vilas, Insurgencia popular y revoluciones sociales (En torno a la Revolución sandinista), Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 46, No. 3, Centroamérica y el nuevo imperialismo (Jul. - Sep., 1984), pp. 185-209
El sujeto social de la insurreccion popular
Una de las cuestiones interesantes de las guerras de liberación y las revoluciones sociales del Tercer Mundo es que las luchas por profundas transformaciones sociales e, incluso, por un horizonte socialista, no tienen como fuerza principal a un partido proletario ni a organizaciones donde la clase obrera constituye el componente principal. El protagonista fundamental de estos movimientos es, antes bien, un complejo conjunto de clases y grupos pop…
The Mass Organizations in Nicaragua
The U.S. war of aggression, the priority placed on national defense, the deepening of the economic crisis, and the impact of this on people's everyday lives have all greatly influenced the mass organizations in Nicaragua and the extent, achievements, and nature of popular participation. The growing need to centralize decision-making and the drive for greater efficiency in the allocation of scarce resources have led the revolutionary government to…
Central American Impasse
Sobre la estrategia económica de la Revolución Sandinista
Nicaragua
An up-to-date and detailed analysis of the changes which have taken place in the Nicaraguan economy since the revolution. The article discusses the main tensions and contradictions that have marked the Sandinista strategy of national unity and a mixed economy in the context of the build-up of counter-revolutionary attacks and increasing economic difficulties
Mass Organizations in Nicaragua
In its December 1986 issue MR published a comment by William I. Robinson and Kent Norsworthy (R&N) on my article in the preceding (November) issue entitled "The Mass Organizations in Nicaragua: the Current Problematic and Perspectives for the Future." My impression is that R&N's comment is related more to their own suspicions than to my opinions; but since my name is part of the comment's title, I cannot help feeling involved.This article can als…
Research Guide to Central America and the Caribbean
Perfiles de la revolucion sandinista
The Political Economy of Central America since 1920
Popular Insurgency and Social Revolution in Central America
This essay discusses certain aspects of the revolutionary process in Central America-the social transformation in Nicaragua and the struggle for the conquest of political power in Guatemala and El Salvador. It focuses on the problematic of the actual protagonists. The first section affirms the multiclass nature of these processes, in their insurrectional stage as well as in the initial stages of revolutionary transformation. In the second section…
El desarrollo desigual de las condiciones revolucionarias en Centroamérica (1950-1980)
Las preocupaciones de la sociología política y de los estudios sobre las revoluciones se han centrado más en la identificación de los factores que posibilitan el desarrollo de procesos revolucionarios que en la consideración de los que inhiben dicho de sarrollo
El populismo latinoamericano
The Contribution of Economic Policy and International Negotiation to the Fall of the Sandinista Government
Is Socialism Still An Alternative for the Third World
To ask at the present moment whether socialism is a real prospect for Third World countries may seem an extravagant question, an outlandish question, even an anachronistic question. For more than a year what was once known as the "socialist bloc" has hardly existed, and many of the countries that belonged to it now seem hell-bent on integrating themselves into the capitalist world. Of course, it may be argued that they were not truly socialist. B…
Especulaciones sobre una sorpresa
Se presentan aspectos centrales del proceso electoral, ubicandolos en el marco de democratizacion de Nicaragua y de pacificacion regional, en un contexto de aguda crisis economica. Se postulan hipotesis para explicar el resultado de los comicios de 1990 y la orientacion mayoritaria del voto. Finalmente, se plantean algunos desarrollos probables dentro del pais y en la region a raiz de la derrota del FSLN. Ponencia al Ciclo America Latina a la Hor…
La contribución de la política económica y la negociación internacional a la caída del gobierno sandinista
Carlos M. Vilas, La contribución de la política económica y la negociación internacional a la caída del gobierno sandinista, Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 52, No. 4, Procesos Electorales en América Latina (Oct. - Dec., 1990), pp. 329-351
Coffee & Democracy in Modern Costa Rica
Recent Writing on Nicaragua
Four Comments on Kerala
For many years now, people in the third world have been rejecting the modernizing theory of development. From the perspective of the third world, one must first ask: development from what, for what, and for whom? The answers to these questions determine whether or not "development" can be translated into improvements in the general living conditions of the people. The model described in Kerala clearly indicates an early choice: rather than provid…
Vericuetos del sector informal. Informalidad urbana en Centroamérica
Latin American Populism
Latin American populism is a strategy for capital accumulation oriented through specific state policies; these may include import substitution and income distribution, and rely on the promotion of small and middle-size manufacturing firms producing for the domestic market. It looks for full employment, expansion of middle and working class consumption, agrarian modernization and broad intervention of government agencies in economic and social aff…
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