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Spectacular Modernity

…landscape in exchange for their democratic freedoms.| Lisa Blackmore| Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas| Architecture / Criticism Art / Criticism & Theory History / Latin America / South America…

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Resource Extraction and Protest in Peru

…a comparative analysis relating natural resource extraction to democratic processes both regionally and internationally. | Moisés Arce| Pitt Latin American Series| History / Latin America / South America Political Science…

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Bread upon the Waters

…city in Europe, with the political benefit that St. Petersburg never suffered the food riots common elsewhere in Europe. Thanks to this well-regulated but distinctly free-market trade arrangement, the grain-fueled…

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A New Capitalist Order

|9780822958550|Privatization And Ideology In Russia And Eastern Europe| After the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, more than a dozen countries undertook aggressive privatization programs. Proponents…

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Rupture Anthem

…girl’s becoming bracketed by the oil boom in the Arabian Gulf, the migrant abuse under the region’s restrictive kafala system that built its shining new cities, and the flowering of…

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