Télécharger le livre :  Human Rights Policies in Chile
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This book analyses Chile’s “truth and justice” policies implemented between 1990 and 2013. The book’s central assumption is that human rights policies are a form of public policy and consequently they are the product of compromises among different political actors....

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-06-01
Collection : Studies of the Americas
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Télécharger le livre :  Transgressive Citizenship and the Struggle for Social Justice
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This book analyses the struggle for social justice in São Paulo, Brazil. It takes the wave of protests that began in the city in 2013 as a starting point, and grounds them in the history of social movement mobilisation in urban Brazil. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-03-29
Collection : Studies of the Americas
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Télécharger le livre :  Intermediation and Representation in Latin America
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This book shows how the introduction of  intermediation is relevant in studying political and public policy processes, as they are increasingly accompanied by grey spaces in public and non-public arenas that cannot be categorized as purely representative or purely...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-03-06
Collection : Studies of the Americas
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Télécharger le livre :  The Obama Presidency and the Politics of Change
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This edited volume considers the extent to which the Obama presidency matched the promises of hope and change that were held out in the 2008 election. Contributors assess the character of “change” and, within this context, survey the extent to which there was enduring...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-09
Collection : Studies of the Americas
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Télécharger le livre :  The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Latin America
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This book presents a challenging view of the adoption and co-option of multiculturalism in Latin America from six scholars with extensive experience of grassroots movements and intellectual debates. It raises serious questions of theory, method, and interpretation for...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-19
Collection : Studies of the Americas
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Télécharger le livre :  Innovation and Inclusion in Latin America
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This book argues that Latin America must confront two main challenges: greater innovation to increase productivity, and greater inclusion to incorporate more of the population into the benefits of economic growth. These two tasks are interrelated, and both require...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-06-06
Collection : Studies of the Americas
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Télécharger le livre :  Faith and Impiety in Revolutionary Mexico
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While Mexico's spiritual history after the 1910 Revolution is often essentialized as a church-state power struggle, this book reveals the complexity of interactions between revolution and religion. Looking at anticlericalism, indigenous cults and Catholic pilgrimage,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-12-11
Collection : Studies of the Americas
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Télécharger le livre :  Peru in Theory
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Can 'theory' teach us anything about Peru?Can 'Peru' teach us anything about theory? The chapters in this volume explore these questions by establishing a productive dialogue between Peru and theory. Focusing on institutional weakness and economic, social, gendered,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-10-23
Collection : Studies of the Americas
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender, Globalization, and Health in a Latin American Context
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Using a political economy of health, Gender, Globalization, and Health in a Latin American Context demonstrates how the development of health systems in Latin America was closely linked to men's participation in formal labor. This established an inherent male bias that...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-10-15
Collection : Studies of the Americas
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Télécharger le livre :  The Political Empowerment of the Cocaleros of Bolivia and Peru
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This book offers a comparative analysis of the distinct experiences of the Peruvian and Bolivian cocaleros as political actors. In doing so, it illustrates how coca, an internationally criminalzsed good, affected the path and outcome of cocalero political empowerment in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-09-25
Collection : Studies of the Americas
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Télécharger le livre :  The Origins of Bourbon Reform in Spanish South America, 1700-1763
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Integrating the political and governmental histories of Spain and the American colonies, this book focuses on the political and governmental history of the Viceroyalty of Peru during the 'early Bourbon' period and provides a new interpretation of the period's broader...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-08-20
Collection : Studies of the Americas
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Télécharger le livre :  Argentina Since the 2001 Crisis
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This timely and interdisciplinary volume analyzes the many impacts of and contrasting responses to the Argentine political, economic, and social crises of 2001-02. Chapters offer original theoretical models and examine the relationship between political, cultural,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-07-17
Collection : Studies of the Americas
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Télécharger le livre :  Sexual Violence during War and Peace
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Using the Peruvian internal armed conflict as a case study, this book examines wartime rape and how it reproduces and reinforces existing hierarchies. Jelke Boesten argues that effective responses to sexual violence in wartime are conditional upon profound changes in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-04-16
Collection : Studies of the Americas
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Télécharger le livre :  Making Brazil Work
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This book offers the first conceptually rigorous analysis of the political and institutional underpinnings of Brazil's recent rise. Using Brazil as a case study in multiparty presidentialism, the authors argue that Brazil's success stems from the combination of a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-08-20
Collection : Studies of the Americas
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Télécharger le livre :  Reconfiguring the Union
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From the perspective of the North, the Civil War began as a war to restore the Union and ended as a war to make a more perfect Union. The Civil War not only changed the moral meaning of the Union, it changed what the Union stood for in political, economic, and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-08-13
Collection : Studies of the Americas
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Télécharger le livre :  Aesthetics and Politics in the Mexican Film Industry
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Evaluating a broad selection of Mexican films produced from the early 1990s to the present, this study examines how production methods, audience demographics, and aesthetic approaches have changed throughout the past two decades and how these changes relate to the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-06-18
Collection : Studies of the Americas
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Télécharger le livre :  Citizenship and Political Violence in Peru
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Exploring how restrictions on citizenship helped create conditions for political violence in Peru, this book recounts the hidden history of how local processes of citizen formation in an Andean town were persistently overruled, thereby perpetuating antagonism toward the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-05-14
Collection : Studies of the Americas
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Télécharger le livre :  Politics and Power in Haiti
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Examining the political legacies of the Duvalier period and after, and revisiting the work of the late David Nicholls, Politics and Power in Haiti provides some of the keys to understanding the turbulent world of Haitian politics and the persistent challenges at home...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-03-20
Collection : Studies of the Americas
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Télécharger le livre :  New Political Spaces in Latin American Natural Resource Governance
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Case studies written by anthropologists, geographers, political scientists, and sociologists provide empirical detail and analytical insight into states' and communities' relations to natural resource sectors, and show how resource dependencies continue to shape their...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-10-15
Collection : Studies of the Americas
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Télécharger le livre :  Raúl Castro and Cuba
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This book tells the story of the military life of Raúl Castro, an impressive military commander and highly original thinker who is also the longest-serving minister of defense of any country in recent times.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-07-16
Collection : Studies of the Americas
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