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  • Feminist Urban Policies and Grassroots Initiatives in Latin America

    How Women are Shaping the Cities of Tomorrow

    by Karol Yanez, Lorena Zarate, Jill Wigle, Isabel Duque Franco, Lena Fontela Kops, Natalia Guidobono Genisans, Mariana Barbosa de Souza, Nora Nagels, Françoise Montambeault, Nilza Rogéria de Andrade Nunes, Anne-Marie Veillette, Abril García Mur, Clara Elena Irazabal Zurita, Mariana Rodríguez Espinosa ...
    This groundbreaking collection examines how feminist urbanism is transforming Latin American cities through innovative care policies and grassroots organizing. Drawing on cases from Mexico City, Bogotá, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro and beyond, the book reveals how feminist activists, bureaucrats and community organizations are challenging patriarchal spatial orders by reimagining urban ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Reimagining the Urban Commons in Italy

    Reform, Social Innovation, and Transformation

    Edited by Charmain Levy, Marco Alberio ...
    Series Book 19 - Research in Urban Sociology
    Building and expanding on the literature of case studies of urban commons that have emerged which question the development of urban commons theories and concepts and identify results and contradictions, this edited collection progresses our understanding of the different aspects, characteristics, challenges, contradictions and potential of the urban commons in Italy.Presenting different case ... Read more

    $108.99 USD

  • Pink Tides, Right Turns in Latin America

    Edited by Charmain Levy, Manuel Larrabure ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    This book presents case studies around issues of national development, right wing populism and use of social media, left wing authoritarianism and popular uprisings as well as reflections on short and long term political and economic cycles in Latin America in the past 10 years.Scholars, government and civil society practitioners have long recognized both the democratic and development deficit in ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Social Movements and the Struggles for Rights, Justice and Democracy in Paraguay

    Edited by Charmain Levy, Laureen Elgert, Valérie L'Heureux ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Paraguay is an under-examined, but remarkably fascinating country, where war, dictatorship, and elite capture have produced cycles of popular mobilization and repression. Yet, its social movements are less known to international audiences. This book analyzes Paraguay’s principal social movements since the transition to democracy and examines how, in the context of a weak state, authoritarian ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Twenty-First-Century Feminismos

    Women's Movements in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Edited by Simone Bohn, Charmain Levy ...
    Series Book 4 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Social Justice in the Global South
    The women’s movement is a central, complex, and evolving socio-political actor in any national context. Vital to advancing gender equity and gendered relations in every contemporary society, the organization and mobilization of women into social movements challenges patriarchal values, behaviours, laws, and policies through collective action and contention, radically altering the direction of ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • New Democratic Initiatives in Authoritarian Twenty-First Century Latin America

    by Manuel Larrabure, Ricardo Alves Cavlheiro, Thomas Chiasson-LeBel, Natalia Czytajlo, Marisol Dalmazzo Peillard, Gonzalo Galindo-Delgado, Juan Grandinetti, Jonas Lefebvre, Iblin Edelweiss Murillo Lafuente, Tamara Ortega-Uribe0, Willian Quadros da Silva1, Liliana Rainero2, Ana Laura Rodríguez Gustá3, João Roque da Silva Jr.4, Leonardo Secchi5, Jill Wigle6, Lorena Zárate7, Charmain Levy9, Pablo Ospina Peralta0, Daniel Schugurensky1, Richard Stahler-Sholk2 ...
    New Democratic Initiatives in Authoritarian Twenty-First Century Latin America uses a multidisciplinary approach to understand the coincidence of emerging social movements, seeking more meaningful forms of democratic participation, on the one hand, and the rise of new authoritarian politics that in part rely on chaos and disorder as mechanisms of domination, on the other. This edited collection ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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  • Dilemmas of Difference

    Indigenous Women and the Limits of Postcolonial Development Policy

    by Sarah A. Radcliffe ...
    In Dilemmas of Difference Sarah A. Radcliffe explores the relationship of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to the development policies and actors that are ostensibly there to help ameliorate social and economic inequality. Radcliffe finds that development policies’s inability to recognize and reckon with the legacies of colonialism reinforces long-standing social hierarchies, thereby reproducing ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Beyond Civil Society

    Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America

    Edited by Sonia E. Alvarez, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Millie Thayer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Agustín Laó-Montes ...
    The contributors to Beyond Civil Society argue that the conventional distinction between civic and uncivic protest, and between activism in institutions and in the streets, does not accurately describe the complex interactions of forms and locations of activism characteristic of twenty-first-century Latin America. They show that most contemporary political activism in the region relies upon both ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Indigenous Development in the Andes

    Culture, Power, and Transnationalism

    by Robert Andolina, Nina Laurie, Sarah A. Radcliffe ...
    As indigenous peoples in Latin America have achieved greater prominence and power, international agencies have attempted to incorporate the agendas of indigenous movements into development policymaking and project implementation. Transnational networks and policies centered on ethnically aware development paradigms have emerged with the goal of supporting indigenous cultures while enabling ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Power of Race in Cuba

    Racial Ideology and Black Consciousness During the Revolution

    by Danielle Pilar Clealand ...
    Series series Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities
    In The Power of Race in Cuba, Danielle Pilar Clealand analyzes racial ideologies that negate the existence of racism and their effect on racial progress and activism through the lens of Cuba. Since 1959, Fidel Castro and the Cuban government have married socialism and the ideal of racial harmony to create a formidable ideology that is an integral part of Cubans' sense of identity and their ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Gendered Paradoxes

    Women's Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador

    by Amy Lind ...
    Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its “free market” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country’s poor, including women’s groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses on women’s participation in the political and economic restructuring process of the past twenty-five years, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America

    Decades of Change

    Edited by Margit Ystanes, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the book seeks to understand to what extent the turn to the left at the start of the millennium managed to ... Read more

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