Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America

Margit Ystanes is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway. She has conducted research in Guatemala since 2000, and in Brazil since 2013. Her current work investigates the use of sporting mega-events as a tool for urban and economic development in Rio de Janeiro. Iselin Åsedotter Strønen is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway, and an affiliated researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CM), Norway. She has conducted ethnographic research in Venezuela since 2005, and more recently, in Brazil and Angola.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Reformism, Class Conciliation, and the Pink Tide: Material Gains and their Limits.- 3. Entangled Inequalities, State, and Social Policies in Contemporary Brazil.- 4. #sosfavelas: Digital Representations of Violence and Inequality in Rio de Janeiro.- 5. Urban Development in Rio de Janeiro During the 'Pink Tide': from politics of citizenship to politics of privilege.- 6. Meanings of Poverty: an Ethnography of Bolsa Familia Beneficiaries in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil.- 7. Political Polarization, Colonial Inequalities, and the Crisis of Modernity in Venezuela.- 8. Market Liberalization and the (Un-) Making of the 'Perfect Neoliberal Citizen': Enactments of Gendered and Racialized Inequalities among Peruvian Vendors.- 9. Coming of Age in the Penal System: Neoliberalism, 'Mano Dura', and the Reproduction of 'Racialised' Inequality in Honduras.- 10. Settlers and Squatters: The Production of Social Inequalities in the Peruvian Desert.- 11. Latin American Inequality and Reparation.- 12. Postscript.