Author : John Gunther
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Latin America
ISBN : LCCN:nun00210918
Inside Latin America
John Gunther
Inside Latin America
Inside Latin America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Inside Latin America book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Relocating Identities in Latin American Cultures
Elizabeth Montes Garcés
Author : Elizabeth Montes Garcés
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552382097
Relocating Identities in Latin American Cultures by Elizabeth Montes Garcés Pdf
This collection explores the perpetually changing notion of Latin American identity, particularly as illustrated in literature and other forms of cultural expression. Editor Elizabeth Montes Garcés has gathered contributions from specialists who examine the effects of such major phenomena as migration, globalization, and gender on the construct of Latin American identities, and, as such, are reshaping the traditional understanding of Latin America's cultural history. The contributors to this volume are experts in Latin American literature and culture. Covering a diverse range of genres from poetry to film, their essays explore themes such as feminism, deconstruction, and postcolonial theory as they are reflected in the Latin American cultural milieu.
The Politics of Violence in Latin America
Pablo Policzer
Author : Pablo Policzer
Publisher : Latin American and Caribbean S
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1552389065
The Politics of Violence in Latin America by Pablo Policzer Pdf
Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world. It has suffered waves of repressive authoritarian rule, organized armed insurgency and civil war, violent protest, and ballooning rates of criminal violence. But is violence hard wired into Latin America? This is a critical reassessment of the ways in which violence in Latin America is addressed and understood. Previous approaches have relied on structural perspectives, attributing the problem of violence to Latin America's colonial past or its conflictual contemporary politics. Bringing together scholars and practitioners, this volume argues that violence is often rooted more in contingent outcomes than in deeply embedded structures. Addressing topics ranging from the root sources of violence in Haiti to kidnapping in Colombia, from the role of property rights in patterns of violence to the challenges of peacebuilding, The Politics of Violence in Latin America is an essential step towards understanding the causes and contexts of violence-and changing the mechanisms that produce it.
Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America
Edward King,Joanna Page
Author : Edward King,Joanna Page
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781911576457
Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America by Edward King,Joanna Page Pdf
Latin America is experiencing a boom in graphic novels that are highly innovative in their conceptual play and their reworking of the medium. Inventive artwork and sophisticated scripts have combined to satisfy the demand of a growing readership, both at home and abroad. Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America, which is the first book-length study of the topic, argues that the graphic novel is emerging in Latin America as a uniquely powerful force to explore the nature of twenty-first century subjectivity. The authors place particular emphasis on the ways in which humans are bound to their non-human environment, and these ideas are productively drawn out in relation to posthuman thought and experience. The book draws together a range of recent graphic novels from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay, many of which experiment with questions of transmediality, the representation of urban space, modes of perception and cognition, and a new form of ethics for a posthuman world. Praise for Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America '...well-referenced and… well considered - the analyses it brings are overall well-executed and insightful...' Image and Narrative, Jan 2018, vol 18, no 4
Blood of Extraction
Todd Gordon,Jeffery R. Webber
Author : Todd Gordon,Jeffery R. Webber
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781552668450
Blood of Extraction by Todd Gordon,Jeffery R. Webber Pdf
Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the environmental and human rights abuses that have occurred as a result. By following the money, Gordon and Webber illustrate the myriad ways Canadian-based multinational corporations, backed by the Canadian state, have developed extensive economic interests in Latin America over the last two decades at the expense of Latin American people and the environment. Latin American communities affected by Canadian resource extraction are now organized into hundreds of opposition movements, from Mexico to Argentina, and the authors illustrate the strategies used by the Canadian state to silence this resistance and advance corporate interests.
Inside Latin America
John Gunther
Author : John Gunther
Publisher : Greenwood-Heinemann Publishing
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:49015000095167
Inside Latin America by John Gunther Pdf
Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America
James Scorer
Author : James Scorer
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787357549
Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America by James Scorer Pdf
Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America is a cutting-edge study of the expanding worlds of Latin American comics. Despite lack of funding and institutional support, not since the mid-twentieth century have comics in the region been so dynamic, so diverse and so engaged with pressing social and cultural issues. Comics are being used as essential tools in debates about, for example, digital cultures, gender identities and political disenfranchisement.
Housing and Belonging in Latin America
Christien Klaufus,Arij Ouweneel
Author : Christien Klaufus,Arij Ouweneel
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782387411
Housing and Belonging in Latin America by Christien Klaufus,Arij Ouweneel Pdf
The intricacies of living in contemporary Latin American cities include cases of both empowerment and restriction. In Lima, residents built their own homes and formed community organizations, while in Rio de Janeiro inhabitants of the favelas needed to be “pacified” in anticipation of international sporting events. Aspirations to “get ahead in life” abound in the region, but so do multiple limitations to realizing the dream of upward mobility. This volume captures the paradoxical histories and experiences of urban life in Latin America, offering new empirical and theoretical insights to scholars.
Alcohol in Latin America
Gretchen Pierce,Maria Áurea Toxqui
Author : Gretchen Pierce,Maria Áurea Toxqui
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816599004
Alcohol in Latin America by Gretchen Pierce,Maria Áurea Toxqui Pdf
Aguardente, chicha, pulque, vino—no matter whether it’s distilled or fermented, alcohol either brings people together or pulls them apart. Alcohol in Latin America is a sweeping examination of the deep reasons why. This book takes an in-depth look at the social and cultural history of alcohol and its connection to larger processes in Latin America. Using a painting depicting a tavern as a metaphor, the authors explore the disparate groups and individuals imbibing as an introduction to their study. In so doing, they reveal how alcohol production, consumption, and regulation have been intertwined with the history of Latin America since the pre-Columbian era. Alcohol in Latin America is the first interdisciplinary study to examine the historic role of alcohol across Latin America and over a broad time span. Six locations—the Andean region, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, and Mexico—are seen through the disciplines of anthropology, archaeology, art history, ethnohistory, history, and literature. Organized chronologically beginning with the pre-colonial era, it features five chapters on Mesoamerica and five on South America, each focusing on various aspects of a dozen different kinds of beverages. An in-depth look at how alcohol use in Latin America can serve as a lens through which race, class, gender, and state-building, among other topics, can be better understood, Alcohol in Latin America shows the historic influence of alcohol production and consumption in the region and how it is intimately connected to the larger forces of history.
Development in Latin America
Maristella Svampa
Author : Maristella Svampa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 1788530926
Development in Latin America by Maristella Svampa Pdf
In Development in Latin America, Maristella Svampa explores the contemporary development and resistance dynamics of capitalist development -- the workings (on people and societies) of the world capitalist system -- in the context of Latin America, where these dynamics have had their most notable outcomes. She focuses on the phenomenon of "neoextractivism," the combination of the global advance of resource-seeking extractive capital (foreign investments in the extraction of natural resources) and the commodities consensus (export of raw materials), among both neoliberal and progressive governments -- analyzing their common elements as well as their differences. Svampa explores the complex dynamics of socio-environmental conflict associated with neoextractivism, as well as what she refers to as the "eco-territorial turn." Svampa's analysis includes both the ecological and gender dimensions of the global and regional capitalist development process. Maristella Svampa is an Argentine sociologist, writer and activist. She is a researcher at Conicet (Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council) and a professor at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata (Buenos Aires Province). She participates in the Permanent Alternative to Development Group in Latin America and coordinates several groups concerned with ecological themes in Argentina. Maristella Svampa has written several books about political and social problems in Latin America.
The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America
Katherine Isbester
Author : Katherine Isbester
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442601963
The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America by Katherine Isbester Pdf
What becomes clear throughout is that there is a paradox at the heart of Latin America's democracies. Despite decades of struggle to replace authoritarian dictatorships with electoral democracies, solid economic growth (leading up to the global credit crisis), and increased efforts by the state to extend the benefits of peace and prosperity to the poor, democracy - as a political system - is experiencing declining support, and support for authoritarianism is on the rise.
Black in Latin America
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814738184
Black in Latin America by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Pdf
12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous journey, only about 450,000 of them arrived in the United States. The rest-over ten and a half million-were taken to the Caribbean and Latin America. This astonishing fact changes our entire picture of the history of slavery in the Western hemisphere, and of its lasting cultural impact. These millions of Africans created new and vibrant cultures, magnificently compelling syntheses of various African, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish influences. Despite their great numbers, the cultural and social worlds that they created remain largely unknown to most Americans, except for certain popular, cross-over musical forms. So Henry Louis Gates, Jr. set out on a quest to discover how Latin Americans of African descent live now, and how the countries of their acknowledge-or deny-their African past; how the fact of race and African ancestry play themselves out in the multicultural worlds of the Caribbean and Latin America. Starting with the slave experience and extending to the present, Gates unveils the history of the African presence in six Latin American countries-Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, and Peru-through art, music, cuisine, dance, politics, and religion, but also the very palpable presence of anti-black racism that has sometimes sought to keep the black cultural presence from view.
Comics and Memory in Latin America
Jorge Catala Carrasco,Paulo Drinot,James Scorer
Author : Jorge Catala Carrasco,Paulo Drinot,James Scorer
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822981589
Comics and Memory in Latin America by Jorge Catala Carrasco,Paulo Drinot,James Scorer Pdf
Latin American comics and graphic novels have a unique history of addressing controversial political, cultural, and social issues. This volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes. The contributors, from a variety of disciplines including literary theory, cultural studies, and history, explore topics including national identity construction, narratives of resistance to colonialism and imperialism, the construction of revolutionary traditions, and the legacies of authoritarianism and political violence. The chapters offer a background history of comics and graphic novels in the region, and survey a range of countries and artists such as Joaquín Salvador Lavado (a.k.a Quino), Héctor G. Oesterheld, and Juan Acevedo. They also highlight the unique ability of this art and literary form to succinctly render memory. In sum, this volume offers in-depth analysis of an understudied, yet key literary genre in Latin American memory studies and documents the essential role of comics during the transition from dictatorship to democracy.
Images of Power
Jens Andermann,William Rowe
Author : Jens Andermann,William Rowe
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 1845452127
Images of Power by Jens Andermann,William Rowe Pdf
In Latin America, where even today writing has remained a restricted form of expression, the task of generating consent and imposing the emergent nation-state as the exclusive form of the political, was largely conferred to the image. Furthermore, at the moment of its historical demise, the new, 'postmodern' forms of sovereignty appear to rely even more heavily on visual discourses of power. However, a critique of the iconography of the modern state-form has been missing. This volume is the first concerted attempt by cultural, historical and visual scholars to address the political dimension of visual culture in Latin America, in a comparative perspective spanning various regions and historical stages. The case studies are divided into four sections, analysing the formation of a public sphere, the visual politics of avant-garde art, the impact of mass society on political iconography, and the consolidation and crisis of territory as a key icon of the state. Jens Andermann is a Lecturer in Latin American Studies at Birkbeck College, London, and co-editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. Among his publications are Mapas de poder: una arqueología literaria del espacio argentino (Rosario, 2000) and articles for major journals in Argentina, Brazil, Europe and the US. William Rowe is Anniversary Professor of Poetics at Birkbeck College, London. His book Memory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin America (London, 1991) has been translated into several languages. His most recent works, apart from translations of a wide range of Latin American poetry, are Poets of Contemporary Latin America: History and the Inner Life (Oxford, 2000) and Ensayos vallejianos (Berkeley and Lima, 2006).
Environment and Citizenship in Latin America
Alex Latta,Hannah Wittman
Author : Alex Latta,Hannah Wittman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780857457486
Environment and Citizenship in Latin America by Alex Latta,Hannah Wittman Pdf
Scholarship related to environmental questions in Latin America has only recently begun to coalesce around citizenship as both an empirical site of inquiry and an analytical frame of reference. This has led to a series of new insights and perspectives, but few efforts have been made to bring these various approaches into a sustained conversation across different social, temporal and geographic contexts. This volume is the result of a collaborative endeavour to advance debates on environmental citizenship, while simultaneously and systematically addressing broader theoretical and methodological questions related to the particularities of studying environment and citizenship in Latin America. Providing a window onto leading scholarship in the field, the book also sets an ambitious agenda to spark further research.
