Books

Captures the Complexity of Foucault’s Political Engagements and Breaks with the Orthodox View That He Was Anti-Marxist

The First English-Language Book on the History of Public Health in Ecuador during the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century

A History of the Women’s Antifascism Movement in Argentina That Contains Lessons for Opposing Fascism Today

How Indigenous People Used Feathers as a Significant Way of Symbolic Communication in the Andes

Highlights the Intersections between Media, Whiteness, and Middle-Class Identity That Feed Brazil’s Ultraconservative Movement

How Capitalist Outsiders Willing to Accommodate the Dominant Economic Elite Often Defeat Anticapitalist Outsiders

How Competing Interests Mobilize and Shape Labor Laws and Reform

Follows the Rise and Fall of Evo Morales and the Political and Economic Transformations of Bolivia

A Methodological Study of Going to the Movies as Cultural and Societal Practice

An Innovative Approach to Studying the Relationship between Politics, Crime, and Violence

A Timely Study of Brazil’s First Centenary of Independence and Exploration of Brazilian Nationhood and Citizenship

Looking back through the prism of the severe economic crisis for filmmaking in the 1980s, this book trace the development of this industry in Brazil, focusing specifically on its relationship to the state.

Using Ecuador as her case study, she shows how industrial growth has given birth to an exclusive, ingrown bourgeoisie that is highly dependent on the state and foreign capital and is increasingly alienated from the peasants and urban poor.

During much of the military regime in Brazil (1964-1985), an elaborate but illegal system of restrictions prevented the press from covering important news or criticizing the government. In this intriguing new book, Anne-Marie Smith investigates why the press acquiesced to this system, and why this state-administered system of restrictions was known as “self-censorship.”

Based on interviews with more than 100 participants, Van Cott demonstrates how social issues were placed on the constitutional reform agenda and transformed into the nation’s highest law. She follows each reform for five years to assess early results of what she calls an emerging model of multicultural constitutionalism.