Bulletin of Latin American Research Book Series – serie
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Murder and Violence in Modern Latin America
Av Eric A. Johnson, Ricardo Salvatore m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
292 kr
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Written by leading scholars from the Americas and Europe, this is a thorough assessment of state-supported murder and violence in Latin America. Examines the trajectory of murder and violence in the region over the past two centuries and elucidates theories and trends regarding violence since the …
Informality Revisited
Latin American Perspectives on Housing, the State and the Market
Häftad, 2020
287 kr
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Informality Revisited offers an overview of recent debates about Latin American government programmes for the formalisation of informal settlements and housing provision in a neo-liberal context. Contributions from Latin American researchers analyse the contradictions in government actions and …
Politics of Culture in the Chávez Era
Av Lisa Blackmore, Rebecca Jarman m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
286 kr
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This volume maps the trends in cultural policies and political cultures that accompanied Chávez’s four presidential terms (1999-2013) in twenty-first century Venezuela. Assesses the manifold impacts that the politics of chavismo had on the cultural sphereMaps key shifts and trends in cultural …
Antiquities and Classical Traditions in Latin America
Av Andrew Laird, Nicola Miller
Häftad, 2018
301 kr
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This collection is the first concerted attempt to explore the significance of classical legacies for Latin American history – from the uses of antiquarian learning in colonial institutions to the currents of Romantic Hellenism which inspired liberators and nation-builders in the nineteenth and …
Informal Empire in Latin America
Culture, Commerce and Capital
Av Brown, Matthew Brown
Häftad, 2008
286 kr
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An interdisciplinary interrogation of the concept of British ‘informal empire’ in Latin America. Builds upon recent advances in the historiography of imperialism and studies of the nineteenth-century modern world, most obviously the work of Ann Stoler, Catherine Hall and C.A. BaylyCombines a …
Negotiating Difference in the Hispanic World
From Conquest to Globalisation
Av Eleni Kefala
Häftad, 2011
286 kr
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Negotiating Difference in the Hispanic World invites us to rethink the complex dialogical process of identity formation and self-definition in Latin America from the Conquest to the present day. Essays from an international scholarship provide an important theoretical contribution to debates on …
Rethinking the Cuban Revolution Nationally and Regionally
Politics, Culture and Identity
Häftad, 2012
301 kr
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Rethinking the Cuban Revolution offers new perspectives on the political and cultural life of the Cuban Revolution based on inter-disciplinary methods. Contributions reassess the national survival of the Revolution, and propose new approaches to cultural and political identity in Cuba. Presents …
Shifting Horizons
Urban Space and Social Difference in Contemporary Brazilian Documentary and Photography
Häftad, 2017
247 kr
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Drawing on the challenges of urban expansion and increasing population density facing contemporary Brazil, Shifting Horizons is an interdisciplinary investigation of the treatment of social difference in documentary film and photography and its potential to effect social and political change. …
Politics of Violence
Gender, Conflict and Community in El Salvador
Av Mo Hume
Häftad, 2009
247 kr
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The Politics of Violence develops an interdisciplinary feminist perspective grounded in original ethnographic research on everyday forms of violence in El Salvador. Hume challenges dominant theories of violence through foregrounding subaltern vocabularies that have been historically ignored in …
Reflections on Mexico '68
Häftad, 2010
247 kr
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Presenting a multi-disciplinary approach to Mexico City’s staging of the Olympic Games in 1968, this book combines analyses of literary works and protest music with comparative history to offer a fresh appreciation of the significance of the event. Explores the first Olympic Games to be hosted by a …
