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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “christopher chambers ju”
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  • Mobilizing Teachers

    Education Politics and the New Labor Movement in Latin America

    by Christopher Chambers-Ju ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in the Comparative Politics of Education
    The political participation of public school teachers in new democracies has generated heated debates. In some countries, teacher strikes shutter schools for months each year; in others, teachers' unions have become powerful political machines and have even formed new political parties. To explain these contrasts, Mobilizing Teachers delves into changes in education politics and the labor movement ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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  • Dancing with Dynamite

    Social Movements and States in Latin America

    by Benjamin Dangl ...
    Grassroots social movements played a major role electing left-leaning governments throughout Latin America. Subsequent relations between these states and "the streets" remain troubled. Contextualizing recent developments historically, Dangl untangles the contradictions of state-focused social change, providing lessons for activists everywhere. ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood of Extraction

    Canadian Imperialism in Latin America

    by 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 ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Latin American Politics and Society

    by Gerardo L. Munck, Juan Pablo Luna ...
    Taking a fresh thematic approach to politics and society in Latin America, this introductory textbook analyzes the region's past and present in an accessible and engaging style well-suited to undergraduate students. The book provides historical insights into modern states and critical issues they are facing, with insightful analyses that are supported by empirical data, maps and timelines. Drawing ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Dragon in the Tropics

    Venezuela and the Legacy of Hugo Chavez

    by Javier Corrales, Michael Penfold ...
    This new and expanded edition of Dragon in the Tropics-the widely acclaimed account of how president Hugo Chávez (19992013) revamped Venezuela’s political economy-examines the electoral decline of Chavismo after Chavez’s death and the policies adopted by his successor, Nicolás Maduro, to cope with the economic chaos inherited from previous radical populist policies. Corrales and Penfold argue that ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Venezuela in Crisis

    Socialist Perspectives

    Edited by Anderson M. Bean ...
    In this essential intervention, Venezuelan socialists provide an invaluable analysis of the origins and causes of their country’s crisis, and offer a critique of the Maduro regime.Venezuela in Crisis brings together a diverse array of Venezuelan thinkers and activists to grapple with the question of how and why the aspirations for what Hugo Chavez deemed “socialism in the twenty-first century” ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Venezuela

    Hugo Chavez and the Decline of an "Exceptional Democracy"

    Edited by Miguel Tinker Salas, Steve Ellner ...
    Series series Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom
    This authoritative book offers a comprehensive assessment of contemporary Venezuela. Analyzing the multifaceted phenomenon of Hugo Chávez, leading scholars move beyond his flamboyant style to focus on the concerns of popular social and political movements. The book challenges the misleading notions that for several decades glorified Venezuelan "exceptionalism" and minimized the role of important ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Brazil

    Reversal of Fortune

    by Alfred P. Montero ...
    Once deemed a “dysfunctional” democracy with a “feckless” set of political institutions and a “drunk” economy, today’s Brazil has undergone a complete reversal of fortune. Now in its third decade of democracy, the economy is blossoming and large-scale development projects are underway, including the exploitation of massive, off-shore oil reserves, a nationwide effort to modernize infrastructure, ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • The Border Crossed Us

    The Case for Opening the US-Mexico Border

    by Justin Akers Chacón ...
    The aggressive exploitation of labor on both sides of the US-Mexico border has become a prominent feature of capitalism in North America. Kids in cages, violent ICE raids, and anti-immigrant racist rhetoric characterize our political reality and are everyday shaping how people intersect at the US-Mexico border. As activist-scholar Justin Akers Chacón carefully demonstrates, however, this vicious ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Democratization and Authoritarian Party Survival

    Mexico's PRI

    by Joy K. Langston ...
    When Mexico's authoritarian Party of the Institutional Revolution (PRI) was defeated in the 2000 presidential election after seventy-one years of uninterrupted rule, many analysts believed the party would inevitably splinter and collapse. An authoritarian party without control over government resources and without a strong national executive creates both opportunity and incentive for ambitious ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Research and International Trade Policy Negotiations

    Knowledge and Power in Latin America

    Edited by Mercedes Botto ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics
    The international trade negotiations that were launched throughout Latin America in the 1990s created significant challenges for developing countries because of their complexity. In order to make informed decisions and successfully legitimize negotiating positions, governments and stakeholders required research, evidence and data from knowledgeable sources such as local technicians and academics ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Contesting Trade in Central America

    Market Reform and Resistance

    by Rose J. Spalding ...
    In 2004, the United States, five Central American countries, and the Dominican Republic signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), signaling the region’s commitment to a neoliberal economic model. For many, however, neoliberalism had lost its luster as the new century dawned, and resistance movements began to gather force. Contesting Trade in Central America is the first book-length ... Read more

    $31.49 USD