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This landmark work is the first sustained critique of Latin American neostructuralism, the prevailing narrative that has sought to replace "market fundamentalism" and humanize the "savage capitalism" imposed by neoliberal dogmatism. Fernando Leiva analyzes neostructuralism and questions its credibility as the answer to the region's economic, political, and social woes. Recent electoral victories by progressive governments in Latin America promising economic growth, social equity, and political democracy raise a number of urgent questions, including: What are the key strengths and weaknesses of

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Latin American Economic Development and the International Environment -- 2 From Structuralism to Neostructuralism: The Search for a Heterodox Paradigm -- 3 Monetarism and Structuralism: Some Macroeconomic Lessons -- 4 Review of the Debate over the Origins of Latin American Industrialization and Its Ideological Context -- 5 Deindustrialization and Industrial Restructuring in Latin America: The Examples of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile -- 6 Financial Strategies in Latin America: The Southern Cone Experience -- 7 Structural Adjustment Reforms and the External Debt Crisis in Latin America -- 8 IMF and World Bank Roles in the Latin American Foreign Debt Problem -- List of Acronyms -- About the Book and Editor -- About the Series -- Index.

1. Introduction: toward semiotic sociology and social theory -- 2. A synthesis of semiology, semiotics and phenomenological sociology -- 3. Economy and society in semiotic institutionalism -- 4. Power and signification in neostructuralism -- 5. Modernity and the intersemiotic condition -- 6. Modernity, postmodernity and reflexive modernization -- 7. Modernity and the articulation of the gender system -- 8. Gender as an institution -- 9. From Goffman to semiotic sociology -- 10. Conclusion and the next steps.

Cover -- HANDBOOK OF SEMIOTICS -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- I. History and Classics of Modern Semiotics -- History of Semiotics -- Peirce -- Morris -- Saussure -- Hjelmslev -- Jakobson -- II. Sign and Meaning -- Sign -- Meaning, Sense, and Reference -- Semantics and Semiotics -- Typology of Signs: Sign, Signal, Index -- Symbol -- Icon and Iconicity -- Metaphor -- Information -- III. Semiosis, Code, and the Semiotic Field -- Zoosemiotics, Ethology, and Semiogenesis -- Communication and Semiosis -- Function -- Magic -- Structure -- System -- Code -- Teaching -- IV. Language and Language-Based Codes -- Verbal Communication: Introduction -- Language in a Semiotic Frame -- Arbitrariness and Motivation: The Language Sign -- Paralanguage -- Writing -- Universal Language -- Sign Language -- Language Substitutes -- V. From Structuralism to Text Semiotics: Schools and Major Figures -- Introduction -- Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Neostructuralism -- Russian Formalism, Prague School, Soviet Semiotics -- Barthes's Text Semiotics -- Greimas's Structural Semantics and Text Semiotic Project -- Kristeva's Semanalysis -- Eco -- VI. Text Semiotics: The Field -- Text Semiotics: Introduction -- Hermeneutics and Exegesis -- Rhetoric and Stylistics -- Literature -- Poetry and Poeticalness -- Theater and Drama -- Narrative -- Myth -- Ideology -- Theology -- VII. Nonverbal Communication -- Nonverbal Communication: Introduction -- Gesture, "Body Language," and Kinesics -- Facial Signals -- Gaze -- Tactile Communication -- Proxemics: The Semiotics of Space -- Chronemics: The Semiotics of Time -- VIII. Aesthetics and Visual Communication -- Aesthetics -- Music -- Architecture -- Objects -- Image -- Painting -- Photography -- Film -- Comics -- Advertising -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND TERMS -- INDEX OF NAMES.

Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Figures and tables -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Critical Development Studies: An Introduction -- 1 Introduction to Critical Development Studies: Four Characteristics With Illustrations From Seven Decades -- Notes -- References -- Part I History as Development -- 2 Unravelling the Canvas of History -- Origins of the Development Agenda -- The Development Project Takes Shape -- The Right to Development -- The Nation-State, Capitalism, and Development -- The Financialisation of Development and the Global Financial Crisis -- From Global Crisis to a Reconfiguration of International Power Relations -- Note -- References -- Part II Thinking Critically About Development -- Questions for Discussion -- 3 Critical Development Theory: Results and Prospects -- Marx and Development -- Leninism and Development -- Socialism and Underdevelopment -- Postdevelopment -- References -- 4 Race In/and Development -- Race: What's Development Got to do with it? -- Development: What's Race Got to do with it? -- The 'White Gaze of Development' -- Excavating Robinson's 'Racial Capitalism' -- Haiti as a Prototypical Case Study of Racial Capitalism -- Mainstreaming Race as an Anti-Racist Agenda for Development -- References -- 5 Development Theory: The Latin American Pivot -- Structuralist Theory of Development -- Dependency Theory -- Neostructuralism and Alternative Development -- Conclusions -- References -- 6 Postdevelopment and Other Critiques of Development -- Postdevelopment as Critique -- Postdevelopment as a Space for Alternatives -- Reactions and Constancy in Relation to Postdevelopment -- Rethinking Critical Development Studies -- Levels of Critical Development Studies.