Researching Women In Latin America And The Caribbean

Author : Edna Acosta-belen,Christine E. Bose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000309805

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Researching Women In Latin America And The Caribbean by Edna Acosta-belen,Christine E. Bose Pdf

This volume represents more than just a collection of chapters and bibliographic sources. For us, it provides another example of collective solidarity, hard work, and a relentless commitment to contribute to the process of advancing and transforming knowledge about women's condition. It attempts to update and assess how scholarship on women has impacted different disciplines and fields and examines the multivariate conditions and responses to immediate and long-term realities generated by women from different LatinAmerican and Caribbean countries. The editors hope that this publication, modest as it may be, will be a useful tool to other researchers, educators, and students in their efforts at pursuing and expanding the knowledge and visions that will make our different societies more just and liberating for all their citizens.

Author : Edna Acosta-Belén
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Women
ISBN : UCSC:32106011650501

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Opening New Paths by Edna Acosta-Belén Pdf

Author : Melanie A. Medeiros,Keisha-Khan Y. Perry
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978836327

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Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean by Melanie A. Medeiros,Keisha-Khan Y. Perry Pdf

Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Critical Research and Perspectives employs an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to examine Black cisgender women’s social, cultural, economic, and political experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean. It presents critical empirical research emphasizing Black women’s innovative, theoretical, and methodological approaches to activism and class-based gendered racism and Black politics. While there are a few single-authored books focused on Black women in Latin American and Caribbean, the vast majority of the scholarship on Black women in Latin America and the Caribbean has been published as theses, dissertations, articles, and book chapters. This volume situates these social and political analyses as interrelated and dialogic and contributes a transnational perspective to contemporary conversations surrounding the continued relevance of Black women as a category of social science inquiry. Many of the contributing authors are from Latin American and Caribbean countries, reflecting a commitment to representing the valuable observations and lived experiences of scholars from this region. When read together, the chapters offer a hemispheric framework for understanding the lasting legacies of colonialism, transatlantic slavery, plantation life, and persistent socio-economic and cultural violence.

Author : Jennifer Abbassi,Sheryl L. Lutjens
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461642039

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Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Abbassi,Sheryl L. 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. Each part is organized into thematic sections that focus on work, politics, and culture, and each includes substantive introductions that identify key issues in the scholarly literature on women and gender in the region. Demonstrating the rich, multidisciplinary nature of Latin American studies, these essays promote critical thinking about women's place and power, about theory and research strategies, and about contemporary economic, political, and social conditions. They convincingly show why women have become an increasingly important subject of research, acknowledge their gains and struggles over time, and explore 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 : Elizabeth Maier,Nathalie Lebon
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813547282

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Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean by Elizabeth Maier,Nathalie Lebon Pdf

"This is a very exciting collection that will fill an important gap in what has emerged in comparative studies of women and Latin American democracies. Maier and Lebon provide provocative overview essays, and the chapters trace a range of cases from Argentina and Brazil to Nicaragua and Venezuela, showing how institutions. leaders and culture all shape the opportunities and challenges women face."---Jane Jaquette, editor of Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America --

Author : Elizabeth Maier,Nathalie Lebon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39076002882814

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Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean by Elizabeth Maier,Nathalie Lebon Pdf

"This is a very exciting collection that will fill an important gap in what has emerged in comparative studies of women and Latin American democracies. Maier and Lebon provide provocative overview essays, and the chapters trace a range of cases from Argentina and Brazil to Nicaragua and Venezuela, showing how institutions, leaders, and culture all shape the opportunities and challenges women face."-Jane Jaquette, editor of Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean brings together a group of interdisciplinary scholars who analyze and document the diversity, vibrancy, and effectiveness of women's experiences and organizing in Latin America and the Caribbean during the past four decades. Most of the expressions of collective agency are analyzed in this book within the context of the neoliberal model of globalization that has seriously affected most Latin American and Caribbean women's lives in multiple ways. Contributors explore the emergence of the area's feminist movements, dictatorships of the 1970s, the Central American uprisings, the urban, grassroots organizing for better living conditions, and, finally, the turn toward public policy and formal political involvement and the alternative globalization movement. Geared toward bridging cultural realities, this volume represents women's transformations, challenges, and hopes, while considering the analytical tools needed to dissect the realities, understand the alternatives, and promote gender democracy. ELIZABETH MAIER is a researcher and professor of gender studies at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Colef) in Mexico and former chair of the Gender and Feminist Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association. NATHALIE LEBON is an assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies and affiliated with the Latin American Studies program at Gettysburg College.

Author : Katherine M. Marino
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469649702

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Feminism for the Americas by Katherine M. Marino Pdf

This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this movement were not based primarily in the United States, however, or in Europe. Instead, Katherine M. Marino introduces readers to a cast of remarkable Latin American and Caribbean women whose deep friendships and intense rivalries forged global feminism out of an era of imperialism, racism, and fascism. Six dynamic activists form the heart of this story: from Brazil, Bertha Lutz; from Cuba, Ofelia Domingez Navarro; from Uruguay, Paulina Luisi; from Panama, Clara Gonzalez; from Chile, Marta Vergara; and from the United States, Doris Stevens. This Pan-American network drove a transnational movement that advocated women's suffrage, equal pay for equal work, maternity rights, and broader self-determination. Their painstaking efforts led to the enshrinement of women's rights in the United Nations Charter and the development of a framework for international human rights. But their work also revealed deep divides, with Latin American activists overcoming U.S. presumptions to feminist superiority. As Marino shows, these early fractures continue to influence divisions among today's activists along class, racial, and national lines. Marino's multinational and multilingual research yields a new narrative for the creation of global feminism. The leading women introduced here were forerunners in understanding the power relations at the heart of international affairs. Their drive to enshrine fundamental rights for women, children, and all people of the world stands as a testament to what can be accomplished when global thinking meets local action.

Author : Collectif de femmes d'Amérique latine et de la Caraïbe
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 0862320011

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Latino-américaines. Anglais by Collectif de femmes d'Amérique latine et de la Caraïbe Pdf

Author : M. Bianet Castellanos
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816539987

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Detours by M. Bianet Castellanos Pdf

Touring. Seeing. Knowing. Travel often evokes strong reactions and engagements. But what of the ethics and politics of this experience? Through critical, personal reflections, the essays in Detours grapple with the legacies of cultural imperialism that shape travel, research, and writing. Influenced by the works of anthropologists Ruth Behar and Renato Rosaldo, the scholars and journalists in this volume consider how first encounters—those initial, awkward attempts to learn about a culture and a people—evolved into enduring and critical engagements. Contemplating the ethics and racial politics of traveling and doing research abroad, they call attention to the power and privilege that permit researchers to enter people’s lives, ask intimate questions, and publish those disclosures. Focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean, they ask, Why this place? What keeps us coming back? And what role do we play in producing narratives of inequality, uneven development, and global spectacle? The book examines the “politics of return”—the experiences made possible by revisiting a field site over extended periods of time—of scholars and journalists who have spent decades working in and writing about Latin America and the Caribbean. Contributors aren’t telling a story of enlightenment and goodwill; they focus instead on the slippages and conundrums that marked them and raised questions of their own intentions and intellectual commitments. Speaking from the intersection of race, class, and gender, the contributors explore the hubris and nostalgia that motivate returning again and again to a particular place. Through personal stories, they examine their changing ideas of Latin America and the Caribbean and how those places have shaped the people they’ve become, as writers, as teachers, and as activists.

Author : Negrón, Adriana Peña Pérez,Muñoz, Mirna
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781799875543

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Latin American Women and Research Contributions to the IT Field by Negrón, Adriana Peña Pérez,Muñoz, Mirna Pdf

Although the effort to involve women in engineering has risen in recent years with the creation of new initiatives and the promotion of inclusion in technical disciplines, the active participation of women in engineering professions is continuously lower than expected. While the need for engineers appears to be constantly increasing, women still do not fill most of this role and have a long way to go to even reach an equal split in the field. This gender gap has a significant impact how women in the STEM fields are perceived as well as their experiences in their education and careers. When it comes to Latin American women in IT, their contribution to science can go unnoticed, their participation levels in these fields are very low, and they often occupy lower-level positions than their male counterparts. These issues need to be discussed, and the experiences of women who work in the field must be shared. Latin American Women and Research Contributions to the IT Field highlights the important role of Latin American women in IT by collecting and disseminating their frontier-research contributions in order to provide more visibility and inspire greater participation of Latin American women within the major field of computer science. With chapters contributed by female authors from eight Latin American and Caribbean countries, the book provides a deep analysis of these women’s trajectory paths to high quality theoretical and applied relevant research in computer science and IT. While highlighting areas such as inclusivity and STEM education, along with advancements and achievements in topics that include nonverbal interaction in virtual reality, fuzzy logic applications in education, and ant colony optimization, this book is ideal for professionals, academics, students, and researchers working in the fields of information technologies and computer science as well as those interested in gender and women’s studies.

Author : Jennifer Browdy
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780807088203

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Women Writing Resistance by Jennifer Browdy Pdf

Essays on Latinx and Caribbean identity and on globalization by renowned women writers, including Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, and Jamaica Kincaid Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean gathers the voices of sixteen acclaimed writer-activists for a one-of-a-kind collection. Through poetry and essays, writers from the Anglophone, Hispanic, and Francophone Caribbean, including Puertorriqueñas and Cubanas, grapple with their hybrid American political identities. Gloria Anzaldúa, the founder of Chicana queer theory; Rigoberta Menchú, the first Indigenous person to win a Nobel Peace Prize; and Michelle Cliff, a searing and poignant chronicler of colonialism and racism, among many others, highlight how women can collaborate across class, race, and nationality to lead a new wave of resistance against neoliberalism, patriarchy, state terrorism, and white supremacy.

Author : Jakob Kronik,Dorte Verner
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821383817

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Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean by Jakob Kronik,Dorte Verner Pdf

This book addresses the social implications of climate change and climatic variability on indigenous peoples and communities living in the highlands, lowlands, and coastal areas of Latin America and the Caribbean. Across the region, indigenous people already perceive and experience negative effects of climate change and variability. Many indigenous communities find it difficult to adapt in a culturally sustainable manner. In fact, indigenous peoples often blame themselves for the changes they observe in nature, despite their limited emission of green house gasses. Not only is the viability of their livelihoods threatened, resulting in food insecurity and poor health, but also their cultural integrity is being challenged, eroding the confidence in solutions provided by traditional institutions and authorities. The book is based on field research among indigenous communities in three major eco-geographical regions: the Amazon; the Andes and Sub-Andes; and the Caribbean and Mesoamerica. It finds major inter-regional differences in the impacts observed between areas prone to rapid- and slow-onset natural hazards. In Mesoamerican and the Caribbean, increasingly severe storms and hurricanes damage infrastructure and property, and even cause loss of land, reducing access to livelihood resources. In the Columbian Amazon, changes in precipitation and seasonality have direct immediate effects on livelihoods and health, as crops often fail and the reproduction of fish stock is threatened by changes in the river ebb and flow. In the Andean region, water scarcity for crops and livestock, erosion of ecosystems and changes in biodiversity threatens food security, both within indigenous villages and among populations who depend on indigenous agriculture, causing widespread migration to already crowded urban areas. The study aims to increase understanding on the complexity of how indigenous communities are impacted by climate change and the options for improving their resilience and adaptability to these phenomena. The goal is to improve indigenous peoples rights and opportunities in climate change adaptation, and guide efforts to design effective and sustainable adaptation initiatives.

Author : Eleonora Esposito,Carolina Pérez-Arredondo,José Manuel Ferreiro
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319936239

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Discourses from Latin America and the Caribbean by Eleonora Esposito,Carolina Pérez-Arredondo,José Manuel Ferreiro Pdf

This edited collection brings together the latest research on discourse and society in Latin America and Caribbean in one volume. Employing cross-cutting approaches to current political, institutional and media discourses, it bridges existing theoretical and analytical gaps between the socio-political macro issues and the micro aspects of linguistic analysis to provide fresh insights that deconstruct the complex socio-political power dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean. Across eight chapters this volume explores the regions’ thorny relationship with their complex histories of colonialism and slavery as well as the ongoing, multifaceted constructions of hegemonic and counter-hegemonic identities at the individual, regional and national levels. In doing so, it demonstrates the unique and rich particularities of these regions and why it is that they challenge many conventional dogmas and methods across the Social Sciences. This book will be of particular interest to scholars working in Discourse Studies, Sociology, Politics, Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1134 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173031034919

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Latin American Research Review by Anonim Pdf

An interdisciplinary journal that publishes original research and surveys of current research on Latin America and the Caribbean.

Author : Maristella Svampa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108707121

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Neo-extractivism in Latin America by Maristella Svampa Pdf

This Element analyses the political dynamics of neo-extractivism in Latin America. It discusses the critical concepts of neo-extractivism and the commodity consensus and the various phases of socio-environmental conflict, proposing an eco-territorial approach that uncovers the escalation of extractive violence. It also presents horizontal concepts and debates theories that explore the language of Latin American socio-environmental movements, such as Buen Vivir and Derechos de la Naturaleza. In concluding, it proposes an explanation for the end of the progressive era, analyzing its ambiguities and limitations in the dawn of a new political cycle marked by the strengthening of the political rights.