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  • Latin American Military and Politics in the Twenty-first Century

    A Cross-National Analysis

    Edición de Dirk Kruijt, Kees Koonings ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics
    This volume offers a comparative analysis of the role of the military in Latin America in domestic politics and governance after 2000.Divided into four parts covering the entirety of Latin America, the book argues that the Latin American military as semi-autonomous political actors have not faded away since 2000 and may even have been making a comeback in various countries. Each part outlines ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Fractured Cities

    Social Exclusion, Urban Violence and Contested Spaces in Latin America

    de Doctor Elisabeth Leeds, Wil Pansters, Ralph Rozema, Doctor Dennis Rodgers, Professor Caroline Moser, Carlos Ivan Degregori, Roberto Briceno-Leon, Cathy McIlwaine ...
    As cities sprawl across Latin America, absorbing more and more of its people, crime and violence have become inescapable.From the paramilitary invasion of Medell¡n in Colombia, the booming wealth of crack dealers in Managua, Nicaragua and police corruption in Mexico City, to the glimmers of hope in Lima, this book provides a dynamic analysis of urban insecurity. Based on new empirical evidence, ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Armed Actors

    Organized Violence and State Failure in Latin America

    Edición de Kees Koonings, Dirk Kruijt ...
    In this volume, Latin Americanist scholars explore the recent evidence relating to the ways in which partial state failure in the continent is interacting with new types of organized violence, thereby undermining the process of democratic consolidation that has characterized Latin America over the past two decades. This 'new violence' stems - as this book's case studies from Colombia, Peru, ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Violence and Resilience in Latin American Cities

    Edición de Kees Koonings, Dirk Kruijt ...
    Why are Latin American cities amongst the most violent in the world? Over the past decades Latin America has not only become the most urbanised of the regions of the so-called global South, it has also been the scene of the urbanisation of poverty and exclusion. Overall regional homicides rates are the highest in the world, a fact closely related to the spread and use of firearms by male youths, ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Ethnography as Risky Business

    Field Research in Violent and Sensitive Contexts

    de Chris van der Borgh, Ingeborg Denissen, Tessa Diphoorn, Marie Louise Glebbeek, Elisabet Dueholm Rasch, Kees Koonings, Dirk Kruijt, Simone Remijnse, Eva van Roekel0, Ariel Sánchez Meertens1, Marc Simon Thomas2, Monique Sonnevelt3, Ralph Sprenkels4, Floortje Toll5, Nikkie Wiegink6, Dennis Rodgers7 ...
    Ethnography as Risky Business: Field Research in Violent and Sensitive Contexts offers a hands-on, critical appraisal of how to approach ethnographic fieldwork on socio-political conflict and collective violence, focusing on the global south. The volume’s contributions are all based on extensive firsthand qualitative social science research conducted in sensitive--and often hazardous--field ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Megacities

    The Politics of Urban Exclusion and Violence in the Global South

    de Robert Gay, Professor Caroline Moser, Janice Perlman, Asef Bayat, Jo Beall, Mariano Aguirre, Owen Crankshaw, Susan Parnell ...
    For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in cities, the result of a rapid process of urbanization that started in the second half of the twentieth century. 'Megacities' around the world are rapidly becoming the scene for deprivation, especially in the global South, and the urban excluded face the brunt of what in many cases seems like low-intensity warfare ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

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  • Understanding Brazil - United States Relations

    de Monica Hirst ...
    Series series Coleção Política Externa Brasileira
    The Brazil-United States relations represent a huge potential, but in recent decades have suffered from lack of communication and understanding between academics and policymakers from both countries. This book goes a long way towards demystifyingthis relationship. Covering from the final decades of the 19th century until the period of the Rousseff and Obama administrations,the work apprehends the ... Leer más

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  • From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia

    Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation, and the Politics of Evo Morales

    de Jeffery R. Webber ...
    Evo Morales rode to power on a wave of popular mobilizations against the neoliberal policies enforced by his predecessors. Yet many of his economic policies bare striking resemblance to the status quo he was meant to displace. Based in part on dozens of interviews with leading Bolivian activists, Jeff Webber examines the contradictions of Morales' first term in office. ... Leer más

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  • Blood of Extraction

    Canadian Imperialism in Latin America

    de Todd Gordon, Jeffery R. Webber ...
    Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the environmental and human rights abuses that have occurred as a result. By following the money, Gordon and Webber illustrate the myriad ways Canadian-based ... Leer más

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  • Ottawa and Empire

    Canada and the Military Coup in Honduras

    de Tyler Shipley ...
    In June 2009, the democratically elected president of Honduras was kidnapped and whisked out of the country while the military and business elite consolidated a coup d’etat. To the surprise of many, Canada implicitly supported the coup and assisted the coup leaders in consolidating their control over the country.Since the coup, Canada has increased its presence in Honduras, even while the country ... Leer más

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  • Revolutionary Social Change in Colombia

    The Origin and Direction of the FARC-EP

    de James J. Brittain ...
    Although they are one of the most powerful military forces in Latin American history, little is known about the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP). This book explains why this political military movement came into existence and assesses whether the methods employed by the insurgency have the potential to free those marginalised in Colombia.By evaluating the FARC-EP's ... Leer más

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