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Télécharger le livre :  Socio-political Histories of Latin American Statistics
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Socio-political Histories of Latin American Statistics


Claudia Jorgelina Daniel , Andrés Estefane , Cecilia T. Lanata-Briones


This book brings together recent research on the sociopolitical history of Latin American statistics from the nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth century. Reflecting the influence of social constructivism in the social sciences, it sheds new light on the...

Parution : 2022-04-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Chineseness in Chile
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Chineseness in Chile


Carol Chan , Maria Montt Strabucchi , María Elvira Ríos


This book explores the role of Chineseness or lo chino in the production of Chilean national identity. It does so by discussing the many voices, images, and intentions of diverse actors who contribute to stereotyping or problematizing Chineseness in Chile. The authors...

Parution : 2021-12-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Narratives of Migration, Relocation and Belonging
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Narratives of Migration, Relocation and Belonging


Jessica Retis , Patria Román-Velázquez


This book gives voice to the diverse diasporic Latin American communities living in the UK by exploring first and onward migration of Latin Americans to Europe, with a specific reference to London. The authors discuss how networks of solidarity and local struggles are...

Parution : 2020-08-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Assessing the Left Turn in Ecuador
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Assessing the Left Turn in Ecuador


Simón Pachano , Francisco Sánchez


This book examines the “left turn” in Latin American politics, specifically through the lens of Ecuador and the effects of the Citizens’ Revolution’s actions and public policies on relevant actors and institutions. Through a comprehensive analysis of one country’s turn...

Parution : 2019-12-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Citizenship on the Margins
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Citizenship on the Margins


Yonique Campbell


This book critically explores the impact of national security, violence and state power on citizenship rights and experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean. Drawing on cross-country analyses and fieldwork conducted in two “garrisons,” a middle-class community and...

Parution : 2019-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Street Art and Democracy in Latin America
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Street Art and Democracy in Latin America


Olivier Dabène


This book explores street art’s contributions to democracy in Latin America through a comparative study of five cities: Bogota (Colombia), São Paulo (Brazil), Valparaiso (Chile), Oaxaca (Mexico) and Havana (Cuba). The author argues that when artists invade public space...

Parution : 2019-09-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Cuba, From Fidel to Raúl and Beyond
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Cuba, From Fidel to Raúl and Beyond


Vegard Bye


This book analyzes the economic reforms and political adjustments that took place in Cuba during the era of Raúl Castro’s leadership and its immediate aftermath, the first year of his successor, Miguel Díaz-Canel. Faced with economic challenges and a political crisis of...

Parution : 2019-07-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Motherhood, Social Policies and Women's Activism in Latin America
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Motherhood, Social Policies and Women's Activism in Latin America


Jasmine Gideon , Alejandra Ramm


This book is a critical resource for understanding the relationship between gender, social policy and women’s activism in Latin America, with specific reference to Chile. Latin America’s mother-centered kinship system makes it an ideal field in which to study motherhood...

Parution : 2019-07-10
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Télécharger le livre :  The Argentinian Dictatorship and its Legacy
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The Argentinian Dictatorship and its Legacy


Juan Grigera , Luciana Zorzoli


This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of the renewal of academic engagement in the Argentinian dictatorship in the context of the post-2001 crisis. Significant social and judicial changes and the opening of archives have led to major revisions of the...

Parution : 2019-06-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Capitalists, Business and State-Building in Chile
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Capitalists, Business and State-Building in Chile


Diego Barría , Manuel Llorca-Jaña , Rory M. Miller


Throughout the twentieth century, the Chilean business elite has played a central role in the country, not just as entrepreneurs but also as political and social actors. The chapters in this book, the first in English on the history of Chilean business, focus on the...

Parution : 2019-03-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Mapping South-South Connections
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Mapping South-South Connections


Fernanda Peñaloza , Sarah Walsh


This book explores contemporary cultural, historical and geopolitical connections between Latin America and Australia from an interdisciplinary perspective. It seeks to capitalise on scholarly developments and further unsettle the multiple divides created by the...

Parution : 2019-03-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Necropolitics
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Necropolitics


R. Guy Emerson


This book offers a contemporary look at violence in Mexico and argues for a recalibration in how necropolitics, as the administration of life and death, is understood. The author locates the forces of mortality directly on the body, rather than as an object of...

Parution : 2019-02-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Civil Resistance and Violent Conflict in Latin America
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Civil Resistance and Violent Conflict in Latin America


Esperanza Hernández Delgado , Cécile Mouly


This book explores distinct forms of civil resistance in situations of violent conflict in cases across Latin America, drawing important lessons learned for nonviolent struggles in the region and beyond. The authors analyse campaigns against armed actors in situations...

Parution : 2019-01-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City
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Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City


James Clifford Kent


Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City engages in alternative ways of reading foreign visual representations of Havana through analysis of advertising images, documentary films, and photographic texts. It explores key narratives relating to the projection of...

Parution : 2018-09-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Mexico and the Caribbean Under Castro's Eyes
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Mexico and the Caribbean Under Castro's Eyes


Colin Clarke


This book provides a first-hand account of the author’s encounters as a social geographer, based on his field research and travels in Mexico and the Caribbean. The interlocutors of different classes and races introduce the reader to a variety of urban and rural...

Parution : 2018-07-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Venezuela, ALBA, and the Limits of Postneoliberal Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Venezuela, ALBA, and the Limits of Postneoliberal Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean


Asa K. Cusack


This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the implementation, functioning, and impact of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), cornerstone of Venezuelan foreign policy and standard-bearer of “postneoliberal” regionalism during the “Left...

Parution : 2018-07-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Labour Mobilization, Politics and Globalization in Brazil
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Labour Mobilization, Politics and Globalization in Brazil


Marieke Riethof


This book analyses the conflicts that emerged from the Brazilian labour movement’s active participation in a rapidly changing political environment, particularly in the context of the coming to power of a party with strong roots in the labour movement. While the close...

Parution : 2018-05-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building
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Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building


Gwen Burnyeat


This book tells the story of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, an emblematic grassroots social movement of peasant farmers, who unusually declared themselves ‘neutral’ to Colombia’s internal armed conflict, in the north-west region of Urabá. It reveals two...

Parution : 2018-01-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Human Rights Policies in Chile
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Human Rights Policies in Chile


Silvia Borzutzky


This book analyses Chile’s “truth and justice” policies implemented between 1990 and 2013. The book’s central assumption is that human rights policies are a form of public policy and consequently they are the product of compromises among different political actors....

Parution : 2017-06-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Transgressive Citizenship and the Struggle for Social Justice
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Transgressive Citizenship and the Struggle for Social Justice


Lucy Earle


This book analyses the struggle for social justice in São Paulo, Brazil. It takes the wave of protests that began in the city in 2013 as a starting point, and grounds them in the history of social movement mobilisation in urban Brazil. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork...

Parution : 2017-03-29
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