This provocative multidisciplinary work explores the dramatic resurgence of the Left in Latin America since the late 1990s. Offering a comprehensive account of the complexities and nuances of the shifting political tides in the region the book provides both a theoretical framework for assessing the state of the Left and a set of country case studies highlighting key movements successes and failures. Working from a range of critical perspectives the contributors consider the Leftamprsquos hopes aims and prospects as well as its contradictions and fissures. As the first book to systematically consider the contemporary relevance of the Left it will be central to any understanding of Latin American politics and society today.