Perspectives On Latin America

Author : Luis Roniger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197605318

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Transnational Perspectives on Latin America by Luis Roniger Pdf

Latin America is a region made up of multiple states with a diversity of races, ethnicities, and cultures. In 'Transnational Perspectives on Latin America', Luis Roniger argues that a regional perspective is significant for understanding this part of the Western hemisphere. He claims that geopolitical, sociological, and cultural trends molded a contiguity of influences, shaping a transnational arena of connected histories, cross-border interactions, and shared visions, complementing the process of separate nation-state formation.--

Author : Mahmoud Masaeli,Rico Sneller
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527526563

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African Perspectives on Global Development by Mahmoud Masaeli,Rico Sneller Pdf

Africa is not merely an invention with a modern, imperial or colonial background. Nor is it simply a continent in need of foreign aid from the richer, more affluent societies. Africa might be economically needy, politically unstable, and, in part, socially chaotic and suffering from civil wars and social unrest. However, the continent and its peoples are certainly different from the negative image portrayed in the mass media. Africa had been the cradle of civilization in the pre-colonial era, and is today undergoing a diverse cultural, philosophical, and spiritual development with great potential, contributing to contemporary debates around the ethics of globality. The novelty of this book derives from its multidisciplinary approach. Although the authors generally come from the fields of development and economics, global studies, political science, philosophy and ethics, and sociology, they present Africa’s alternative view of human wellbeing in order to provide theories and policy recommendations which inspire the specific developmental patterns for the growth of the continent. The volume discusses the meaning of development for the continent by drawing on culture, identity, ethnicity, and philosophy of nature. The contributors examine a variety of issues and themes directly related to the opportunities provided by globality to promote the development of the continent. They also discuss solutions for underdevelopment and poverty, and how those perspectives might be effectively integrated into the global agenda for the development of Africa.

Author : Kwame Dixon,John Burdick
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813042695

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Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America by Kwame Dixon,John Burdick Pdf

Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America offers a new, dynamic discussion of the experience of blackness and cultural difference, black political mobilization, and state responses to Afro-Latin activism throughout Latin America. Its thematic organization and holistic approach set it apart as the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of these populations and the issues they face currently available.

Author : Samuel L. Baily,Ronald T. Hyman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Latin America
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018360634

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Perspectives on Latin America by Samuel L. Baily,Ronald T. Hyman Pdf

Author : Hernan Galperin,Judith Mariscal
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781552503423

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Digital Poverty by Hernan Galperin,Judith Mariscal Pdf

Examines the problem of inedequate access to information and communication technology (ICT) and the need to develop appropriate pro-poor ICT policies. Shows how market reforms have failed to ensure that the benefits of the Information Society have spread across the region.

Author : Felipe Hernández,Peter William Kellett,Lea K. Allen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780857456076

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Rethinking the Informal City by Felipe Hernández,Peter William Kellett,Lea K. Allen Pdf

Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, the terms formal and informal refer not only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their entire socio-political fabric. Informal cities and settlements exceed the structures of order, control and homogeneity that one expects to find in a formal city; therefore the contributors to this volume - from such disciplines as architecture, urban planning, anthropology, urban design, cultural and urban studies and sociology - focus on alternative methods of analysis in order to study the phenomenon of urban informality. This book provides a thorough review of the work that is currently being carried out by scholars, practitioners and governmental institutions, in and outside Latin America, on the question of informal cities.

Author : Jennie Gamlin,Sahra Gibbon,Paola M. Sesia,Lina Berrio
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787355828

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Critical Medical Anthropology by Jennie Gamlin,Sahra Gibbon,Paola M. Sesia,Lina Berrio Pdf

Critical Medical Anthropology presents inspiring work from scholars doing and engaging with ethnographic research in or from Latin America, addressing themes that are central to contemporary Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA). This includes issues of inequality, embodiment of history, indigeneity, non-communicable diseases, gendered violence, migration, substance abuse, reproductive politics and judicialisation, as these relate to health. The collection of ethnographically informed research, including original theoretical contributions, reconsiders the broader relevance of CMA perspectives for addressing current global healthcare challenges from and of Latin America. It includes work spanning four countries in Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala and Peru) as well as the trans-migratory contexts they connect and are defined by. By drawing on diverse social practices, it addresses challenges of central relevance to medical anthropology and global health, including reproduction and maternal health, sex work, rare and chronic diseases, the pharmaceutical industry and questions of agency, political economy, identity, ethnicity, and human rights.

Author : Julie Cupples
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136775437

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Latin American Development by Julie Cupples Pdf

Latin America’s diverse political and economic struggles and triumphs have captured the global imagination. The region has been a site of brutal dictators, revolutionary heroes, the Cold War struggle and as a place in which the global debt crisis has had some of its most lasting and devastating impacts. Latin America continues to undergo rapid transformation, demonstrating both inspirational change and frustrating continuities. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to Latin American development in the twenty-first century, emphasizing political, economic, social, cultural and environmental dimensions of development. It considers key challenges facing the region and the diverse ways in which its people are responding, as well as providing analysis of the ways in which such challenges and responses can be theorized. This book also explores the region’s historical trajectory, the implementation and rejection of the neoliberal model and the role played by diverse social movements. Relations of gender, class and race are considered, as well as the ways in which media and popular culture are forging new global imaginaries of the continent. The text also considers the increasing difficulties that Latin America faces in confronting climate change and environmental degradation. This accessible text gives an overarching historical and geographical analysis of the region and critical analysis of recent developments. It is accompanied by a diverse range of critical historical and contemporary case studies from all parts of the continent, providing readers with the conceptual tools required to analyse theories on Latin American development. Each chapter ends with a summary section, discussion topics, suggestions for further reading, websites and media resources. This is an indispensable resource for scholars, students and practitioners.

Author : Jenny Mander,David Midgley,Christine Beaule
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000649956

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Transnational Perspectives on the Conquest and Colonization of Latin America by Jenny Mander,David Midgley,Christine Beaule Pdf

Ranging geographically from Tierra del Fuego to California and the Caribbean, and historically from early European sightings and the utopian projects of would-be colonizers to the present-day cultural politics of migrant communities and international relations, this volume presents a rich variety of case studies and scholarly perspectives on the interplay of diverse cultures in the Americas since the European conquest. Subjects covered include documentary and archaeological evidence of cultural interaction, the collection of native artifacts and the role of museums in the interpretation of indigenous traditions, the cultural impact of Christian missions and the representation of indigenous cultures in writings addressed to European readers, the development of Latin American artistic traditions and the incorporation of motifs from European classical antiquity into modern popular culture, the contribution of Afro-descendants to the cultural mix of Latin America and the erasure of the Hispanic heritage from cultural perceptions of California since the nineteenth century. By offering accessible and well-illustrated accounts of a wide range of particular cases, the volume aims to stimulate thinking about historical and methodological issues, which can be exploited in a teaching context as well as in the furtherance of research projects in a comparative and transnational framework.

Author : M. Molyneux
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230286382

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Women’s Movements in International Perspective by M. Molyneux Pdf

The analysis of gender and political inequality, and the women's movements that have contested it, has concentrated on the West. In this wide-ranging reevaluation, incorporating development studies and political sociology, Maxine Molyneux redresses this balance by analysing Latin American women's movements within liberal, authoritarian and revolutionary states. These studies of Argentina, Nicaragua and Cuba, alongside comparative discussions of socialism, women's movements and citizenship, examine the complex, and persistent, interaction of states and women's movements, and the diversity of responses engendered.

Author : Peter H Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429979002

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Latin America In Comparative Perspective by Peter H Smith Pdf

This book highlights the necessity of analyzing Latin American society and politics within broad comparative frameworks. It explores methodological strategies for regional comparison and offers new approaches to the study of women, state power, corporatism, and political culture.

Author : Rubén Ardila
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319935690

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Psychology in Latin America by Rubén Ardila Pdf

This contributed volume is a real “who is who” in Latin American psychology. Edited by the most prominent psychology researcher alive in the region, the book presents a comprehensive panorama of psychology in Latin America as a science, as a profession and as a way of improving the quality of life of individuals and communities. Despite its achievements, Latin American psychology is little known by the international psychological community. In order to fill this gap, Dr. Rubén Ardila has invited the most important researchers and practitioners in the region to present an overview of psychology as both a profession and a research field in Latin America in the following areas: · Scientific research · Professional issues · Clinical and health psychology · Developmental psychology · Educational and school psychology · Organizational and work psychology · Social psychology · Community psychology · Legal and forensic psychology Psychology in Latin America – Current Status, Challenges and Perspectives seeks to place Latin American psychology on the map of international psychology, and by doing so it aims to foster cooperation between researchers, practitioners and students from the region with its peers from all over the world.

Author : Jennifer Abbassi,Sheryl Lutjens
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742510751

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Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Abbassi,Sheryl Lutjens Pdf

This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Designed for use in a variety of college courses, the volume collects an influential group of essays first published in Latin American Perspectives--a theoretical and scholarly journal focused on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. The reader is organized into thematic sections that focus on work, politics, and culture, and each section includes substantive introductions that identify key issues, trends, and debates in the scholarly literature on women and gender in the region. Demonstrating the rich and multidisciplinary nature of Latin American studies, this collection of timely, empirical studies promotes critical thinking about women's place and power; about theory and research strategies; and about contemporary economic, political, and social conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Valuable as both a supplementary or primary text, Rereading Women makes a convincing claim for a materialist feminist analysis. It convincingly shows why women have become an increasingly important subject of research, acknowledges their gains and struggles over time, and explores the contributions that feminist theory has made toward the recognition of gender as a relevant--indeed essential--category for analyzing the political economy of development.

Author : Emelio Betances
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0742555054

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The Catholic Church and Power Politics in Latin America by Emelio Betances Pdf

Click here to see a video interview with Emelio Betances. Click here to access the tables referenced in the book. Since the 1960s, the Catholic Church has acted as a mediator during social and political change in many Latin American countries, especially the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Although the Catholic clergy was called in during political crises in all five countries, the situation in the Dominican Republic was especially notable because the Church's role as mediator was eventually institutionalized. Because the Dominican state was persistently weak, the Church was able to secure the support of the Balaguer regime (1966-1978) and ensure social and political cohesion and stability. Emelio Betances analyzes the particular circumstances that allowed the Church in the Dominican Republic to accommodate the political and social establishment; the Church offered non-partisan political mediation, rebuilt its ties with the lower echelons of society, and responded to the challenges of the evangelical movement. The author's historical examination of church-state relations in the Dominican Republic leads to important regional comparisons that broaden our understanding of the Catholic Church in the whole of Latin America.

Author : Sebastián Plá,E. Wayne Ross
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000615234

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Social Studies Education in Latin America by Sebastián Plá,E. Wayne Ross Pdf

This book offers a path forward, for the growing collaboration in social studies education between Global North and South educators, practitioners, and researchers. In this volume, leading critical social studies education researchers from Latin America explore the constant presence of colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy, and state violence. Chapter contributors represent a large part of the continent and offer perspectives on a wide range of topics, including recent history and memory, cultural dimensions of social studies education, and comparative studies among Latin American countries. By bringing together this critical work in one volume, the book fosters conversation across geographic regions to transcend the national contexts for which these analyses are generally produced. This collection provides insights into issues of curriculum, teaching, teacher education, and research in the region and will be of interest to readers both familiar with and new to research on social studies, history, citizenship, and geography education in Latin America.