Latin American Perspectives

Deconstructing the Post-Neoliberal State: Intimate Perspectives on Contemporary Brazil Issue #: 207 | Volume #: 43 | Number #: 2 Date: March 2016 Interviewer: Tomas Ocampo Interviewees: Wendy Wolford and John French 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