“Latin America in the modern world-system: World revolutions and the evolution of global governance”

This is about sociocultural evolution of world-systems in Latin America, Latin America's changing role in the modern world-system and the contributions that Latin America has made and may yet make to the contemporary world revolution and the evolution of global governance. We present an overview of the development of human societies since the arrival of humans in the Americas and the roles of indigeneity in the historical development of Latin American societies. We also review the ways in which earlier world revolutions have played out in Latin America contributions that Latin American populist and indigenous politics are making in the global justice movement.