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Download this eBook Latin America's Pendular Politics
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Latin America's Pendular Politics


Olivier Dabène


?This book explores pendular politics in Latin America, focusing on electoral cycles with a pattern of similar results. Latin America has been neoliberal in the 1990s, leftist during the 2000s, then conservative in 2016-2018 and progressist again since 2018.The...

Publication date: 2023-03-22
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Download this eBook U.S. Leadership in a World of Uncertainties
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U.S. Leadership in a World of Uncertainties


Michael Stricof , Isabelle Vagnoux


This book analyzes the transformations and consistencies of American leadership during the past few years and situates recent American foreign policy in a longer time frame, following the 2020 presidential election and after a full year of the Biden Administration.This...

Publication date: 2022-09-22
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Download this eBook 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...

Publication date: 2022-04-22
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Download this eBook 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...

Publication date: 2021-12-15
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Download this eBook 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...

Publication date: 2020-08-13
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Download this eBook 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...

Publication date: 2019-12-05
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Download this eBook 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...

Publication date: 2019-09-26
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Download this eBook 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...

Publication date: 2019-09-24
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Download this eBook 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...

Publication date: 2019-07-11
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Download this eBook 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...

Publication date: 2019-07-10
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Download this eBook 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...

Publication date: 2019-06-01
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Download this eBook 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...

Publication date: 2019-03-26
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Download this eBook 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...

Publication date: 2019-03-15
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Download this eBook 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...

Publication date: 2019-02-27
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Download this eBook 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...

Publication date: 2019-01-21
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Download this eBook 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...

Publication date: 2018-09-22
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Download this eBook 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...

Publication date: 2018-07-16
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Download this eBook 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...

Publication date: 2018-07-13
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Download this eBook The Inter-American Human Rights System
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The Inter-American Human Rights System


Par Engstrom


This volume brings together innovative work from emerging and leading scholars in international law and political science to critically examine the impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS). By leveraging a variety of theoretical frameworks and...

Publication date: 2018-06-26
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Download this eBook 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...

Publication date: 2018-05-15
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