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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “thiago rodrigues”
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  • Militarized Lives in the Global South, Volume I

    Perspectives from Latin America

    Edited by Monica Herz, Thiago Rodrigues ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In this book we propose to tackle militarization trends in Latin America which include the presence of the military organizations in some vital national economic activities, the ethics and aesthetics of the ‘military’ in popular forms of entertainment, the active engagement of military personnel in criminal activities, the Armed Forces intervention in electoral processes, the Armed Forces ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Drug Policies and the Politics of Drugs in the Americas

    Edited by Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar, Thiago Rodrigues ...
    This book is a collection of studies of drug policies in several Latin American countries. The chapters analyze the specific histories of drug policies in each country, as well as related phenomena and case studies throughout the region. It presents conceptual reflections on the origins of prohibition and the “War on Drugs,” including the topic of human rights and cognitive freedom. Further, the ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Violence in the Americas

    by Sebastián A. Cutrona, Thiago Rodrigues, Mariana Kalil, Acácio Augusto, Marten Brienen, Barnett S. Koven, Victor J. Hinojosa, Bradford R. McGuinn, Adriana Beltrán, Roberto Zepeda, Christa L. Remington, R. Evan Ellis, Eric L. Golnick, Cynthia McClintock ...
    Series series Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century
    Many countries throughout Latin America have experienced high levels of corruption, drug trafficking, and violence, which has created elements of fragility. The book is comprises case studies that explore the nature of violence in countries throughout the region. Moreover, it seeks to address some of the ways in which governments have sought to address violence. The cases examined in this volume ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

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  • Violent Democracies in Latin America

    by Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne ...
    Series series The Cultures and Practice of Violence
    Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned armies, guerillas, gangs, drug traffickers, and local community groups seeking self-protection. The everyday presence of ... Read more

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  • Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy

    Participation, Politics, and Culture under Chávez

    Edited by David Smilde, Daniel Hellinger ...
    Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy brings together a variety of perspectives on participation and democracy in Venezuela. An interdisciplinary group of contributors focuses on the everyday lives of Venezuelans, examining the forms of participation that have emerged in communal councils, cultural activities, blogs, community media, and several other forums. The essays validate many of the critiques ... Read more

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  • Making Peace in Drug Wars

    Crackdowns and Cartels in Latin America

    by Benjamin Lessing ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Over the past thirty years, a new form of conflict has ravaged Latin America's largest countries, with well-armed drug cartels fighting not only one another but the state itself. In Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil, leaders cracked down on cartels in hopes of restoring the rule of law and the state's monopoly on force. Instead, cartels fought back - with bullets and bribes - driving spirals of ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Between the Guerrillas and the State

    The Cocalero Movement, Citizenship, and Identity in the Colombian Amazon

    by María Clemencia Ramírez ...
    Translated by Andy Klatt ...
    Responding to pressure from the United States, the Colombian government in 1996 intensified aerial fumigation of coca plantations in the western Amazon region. This crackdown on illicit drug cultivation sparked an uprising among the region’s cocaleros, small-scale coca producers and harvest workers. More than 200,000 campesinos marched that summer to protest the heightened threat to their ... Read more

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  • Latin American Foreign Policies

    Between Ideology and Pragmatism

    by Peter Lambert ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In recent years several Latin American countries have adopted a more assertive and autonomous stance in their foreign policy. The growing rejection of neo-liberalism as an ideological dogma seems to have given space to more pragmatic stances in favour of national interests. ... Read more

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  • Coup

    A Story of Violence and Resistance in Bolivia

    by Linda Farthing, Thomas Becker ...
    In three dramatic weeks in October and November 2019, the fourteen years of progressive change that Evo Morales’ pink tide government had worked to implement in Bolivia and beyond came to a screeching halt. President Morales was forced to resign after protests against his re-election to a fourth term in allegedly fraudulent elections erupted among the urban middle classes, anti-indigenous racists, ... Read more

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  • The Mayan in the Mall

    Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala

    by J. T. Way ...
    In The Mayan in the Mall, J. T. Way traces the creation of modern Guatemala from the 1920s to the present through a series of national and international development projects. Way shows that, far from being chronically underdeveloped, this nation of stark contrasts—where shopping malls and multinational corporate headquarters coexist with some of the Western Hemisphere's poorest and most violent ... Read more

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  • Uprising

    the October Rebellion in Ecuador

    by Leonidas Iza, Andrés Tapia, Andrés Madrid ...
    UPRISING is a detailed description and analysis of the Indigenous-led uprising of October 2019 in Ecuador, written by three people deeply involved in the revolt. The authors describe the causes and conditions that produced the October explosion, and the development and dynamics of the different social forces and organisations involved, including an acute and self-critical assessment of the ... Read more

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