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The Politics of Patronage Appointments in Latin American Central Administrations

The Politics of Patronage Appointments in Latin American Central Administrations

A Systematic Analysis of Patronage Appointments in Public Bureaucracies of Seven Latin American Countries

Cuban Studies 51

Cuban Studies 51

Cuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in English and Spanish and a large book review section. In publication since 1970, and under Alejandro de la Fuente’s editorial leadership since 2013, this interdisciplinary journal covers all aspects of Cuban history, politics, culture, diaspora, ...
Race and Transnationalism in the Americas

Race and Transnationalism in the Americas

A Wide-Ranging Volume on the Intertwined History of Race Across the Americas

Tough on Crime

Tough on Crime

The Rise of Punitive Populism in Latin America

Examines Tough on Crime Rhetoric and Policies in Latin America

Unwanted Witnesses

Unwanted Witnesses

Journalists and Conflict in Contemporary Latin America

Latin American Journalists Who Endure Grave Danger to Witness and Report Their Truth

Crisis Cultures

Crisis Cultures

The Rise of Finance in Mexico and Brazil

Challenges to the Current Cultural Histories of the Neoliberal Period in Mexico and Brazil

Comics and Memory in Latin America

Comics and Memory in Latin America

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.

Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained

Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained

Rethinking City-River Relations

Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained discusses how cities have gained control and exerted power over rivers and waterways far upstream and downstream; how rivers and floodplains in cityscapes have been transformed by urbanization and industrialization; how urban rivers have been represented in cultural manifestations, such as novels and songs; and discusses more recent strategies to redefine and recreate the place of the river within the urban setting.

Sports Culture in Latin American History

Sports Culture in Latin American History

This edited volume shows how the function of sport as a historical and cultural marker is particularly relevant in Latin America. From the late nineteenth century to the present, the contributors reveal how sport opens a wide window into local, regional, and national histories. The essays examine the role of sport as a political vehicle, in claims to citizenship, as a source of community and ethnic pride, as a symbol of masculinity or feminism, as allegorical performance, and in many other purposes.

Enduring Reform

Enduring Reform

Progressive Activism and Private Sector Responses in Latin America's Democracies

This edited collection examines the connections between the new face of progressive, civil reform in Latin America and new kinds of openness to reform on the part of the private sector. It is the first to focus on the response of business to reform efforts arising from civil society.

Media, Sound, and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean

Media, Sound, and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean

This volume presents an original analysis of the role of sound in Latin American and Caribbean societies, from the late nineteenth century to the present. The contributors examine the importance of sound in the purveyance of power, gender roles, race, community, religion, and populism. They also demonstrate how sound is essential to the formation of citizenship and nationalism.

Cultures of the City

Cultures of the City

These multidisciplinary essays explore the cultural mediation of relationships between people and urban spaces in Latin/o America, and how these mediations shape the identities of cities and their residents.

Without History

Without History

Subaltern Studies, the Zapatista Insurgency, and the Specter of History

Rabasa offers new interpretations of the meaning of history from indigenous perspectives and develops the concept of a communal temporality that is not limited by time, but rather exists within the individual, community, and culture as a living knowledge that links both past and present. Rabasa recalls the works of Marx, Lenin, and Gramsci, and contemporary south Asian subalternists Ranajit Guha and Dipesh Chakrabarty, among others. He incorporates their conceptions of communality, insurgency, resistance to hegemonic governments, and the creation of autonomous spaces as strategies employed by indigenous groups around the globe, but goes further in defining these strategies as millennial and deeply rooted in Mesoamerican antiquity.

The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America

The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America

A Reader on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights

The first English-language reader on LGBT politics in Latin America. Representing a range of contemporary works by scholars, activists, analysts, and politicians, the chapters address LGBT issues in nations from Cuba to Argentina.

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