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  • Flammable Societies

    Studies on the Socio-economics of Oil and Gas

    Edited by John-Andrew McNeish, Owen Logan ...
    The impact of the oil and gas industry – paradoxically seen both as a blessing and a curse on socio-economic development – is a question at the heart of the comparative studies in this volume stretching from Northern Europe to the Caucasus, the Gulf of Guinea to Latin America.Britain’s transformation under Margaret Thatcher into a supposedly post-industrial society orientated towards consumer ... Read more

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  • Contested Powers

    The Politics of Energy and Development in Latin America

    Edited by John-Andrew McNeish, Axel Borchgrevink, Owen Logan ...
    In the global North the commoditization of creativity and knowledge under the banner of a creative economy is being posed as the post-industrial answer to dependency on labour and natural resources. Not only does it promise a more stable and sustainable future, but an economy focused on intellectual property is more environmentally friendly, so it is suggested.Contested Powers argues that the ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

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  • The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America

    Decades of Change

    Edited by Margit Ystanes, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen ...
    Series series Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the book seeks to understand to what extent the turn to the left at the start of the millennium managed to ... Read more

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  • Greening Brazil

    Environmental Activism in State and Society

    by Kathryn Hochstetler, Margaret E. Keck ...
    Greening Brazil challenges the claim that environmentalism came to Brazil from abroad. Two political scientists, Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck, retell the story of environmentalism in Brazil from the inside out, analyzing the extensive efforts within the country to save its natural environment, and the interplay of those efforts with transnational environmentalism. The authors trace ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Neoliberalism, Interrupted

    Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America

    by Mark Goodale, Nancy Postero ...
    In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life. Neoliberalism, Interrupted examines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses to neoliberalism's hegemony. In so doing, this vanguard collection of case studies undermines the conventional dichotomies used to understand transformation in this region, such as neoliberalism vs. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same

    The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left

    by Jeffery R. Webber ...
    Throughout the 2000s Latin America transformed itself into the leading edge of anti-neoliberal resistance in the world. What is left of the Pink Tide today? What is their relationship to the explosive social movements that propelled them to power? As China's demand slackens for Latin American commodities, will governments continue to rely on natural resource extraction? In an accessible and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Agribusiness and the Neoliberal Food System in Brazil

    Frontiers and Fissures of Agro-neoliberalism

    by Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    Due to new production areas and persistent productivity gains, Brazil has consolidated its position as a global leader and even as a ‘model’ of commercial, integrated crop production. The country is now seen as an agricultural powerhouse that has a lot to offer in terms of reducing the prospect of a looming, increasingly global, food crisis.Agribusiness and the Neoliberal Food System in Brazil ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Counter-Globalization and Socialism in the 21st Century

    The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America

    Edited by Thomas Muhr ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Framed by critical globalisation theory and David Harvey’s ‘co-revolutionary moments’ as a theory of social change, this book brings together a multi-disciplinary team of researchers to empirically analyse how socialism is being constructed in contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean, and beyond.This book uses the case of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples’ Trade ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Environmental Governance in Latin America

    Edited by Fabio De Castro, Barbara Hogenboom, Michiel Baud ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC-BY license.The multiple purposes of nature – livelihood for communities, revenues for states, commodities for companies, and biodiversity for conservationists – have turned environmental governance in Latin America into a highly contested arena. In such a resource-rich region, unequal power relations, conflicting priorities, and trade-offs among multiple goals ... Read more

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  • After the Pink Tide

    Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America

    Edited by Alessandro Zagato, Marina Gold ...
    Series Book 1 - Egalitarianism
    The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems now to be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent trying to break open the constraints of the state. Through an ethnographically grounded and localized ... Read more

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  • Transnational Peasants

    Migrations, Networks, and Ethnicity in Andean Ecuador

    by David Kyle ...
    Why do two groups from the same country pursue radically different economic strategies of transnational mobility? David Kyle examines the lives of people from four rural communities in two regions of the Andean highlands of Ecuador. Migrants from the southern province of Azuay shuttle back and forth to New York City, mostly as undocumented laborers. In contrast, an indigenous group of Quichua ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Beyond Civil Society

    Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America

    Edited by Sonia E. Alvarez, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Millie Thayer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Agustín Laó-Montes ...
    The contributors to Beyond Civil Society argue that the conventional distinction between civic and uncivic protest, and between activism in institutions and in the streets, does not accurately describe the complex interactions of forms and locations of activism characteristic of twenty-first-century Latin America. They show that most contemporary political activism in the region relies upon both ... Read more

    $28.79 USD