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  • Technology of the Oppressed

    Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil

    by David Nemer ...
    Series series The Information Society Series
    How Brazilian favela residents engage with and appropriate technologies, both to fight the oppression in their lives and to represent themselves in the world.Brazilian favelas are impoverished settlements usually located on hillsides or the outskirts of a city. In Technology of the Oppressed, David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela residents ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • June Days

    Reflections and Essays on a Decade of Change in Brazil

    Edited by David Nemer, Augusto Jobim do Amaral, Pablo Ornelas Rosa, Rodrigo Lopes de Barros ...
    A critical examination of Brazil's June 2013 protests and how they continue to shape the country's democracy, media, and political conflict today.In June 2013, a twenty-cent increase in bus fares ignited the largest wave of protests in Brazil since the end of the military dictatorship. What began as a demand for affordable transportation quickly became a nationwide uprising against inequality, ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • digitalSTS

    A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies

    by Janet Vertesi, Janet Vertesi, David Ribes, David Ribes, Laura Forlano, Alexandre Camus, Dominique Vinck, Nerea Calvillo, Daniela K. Rosner, Christina Dunbar-Hester, Xaroula (Charalampia) Kerasidou0, Luke Stark1, Stéphane Couture2, Steven J. Jackson3, Anita Say Chan4, Camilla A. Hawthorne5, Carla Ilten6, Paul-Brian McInerney7, David Nemer8, Padma Chirumamilla9, Winifred R. Poster0, Steve Sawyer1, Ingrid Erickson2, Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi3, Ranjit Singh4, Chris Hesselbein5, Jessica Price6, Michael Lynch7, Elena Parmiggiani8, Eric Monteiro9, Doris Allhutter0, Brit Ross Winthereik1, James Maguire2, Laura Watts3, Carl DiSalvo4, Guillaume Latzko-Toth5, Johan Söderberg6, Florence Millerand7, Steve Jones8, Nick Seaver9, Marisa Leavitt Cohn0, Yanni Loukissas1, Daniel Cardoso Llach2, Anders Kristian Munk3, Axel Meunier4, Tommaso Venturini5, Juan Salamanca6, Mathieu Jacomy7 ...
    New perspectives on digital scholarship that speak to today's computational realitiesScholars across the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences are grappling with how best to study virtual environments, use computational tools in their research, and engage audiences with their results. Classic work in science and technology studies (STS) has played a central role in how these fields ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

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  • Everyday Revolutions

    Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina

    by Marina A. Sitrin ...
    In the wake of the global financial crisis, new forms of social organization are beginning to take shape. Disparate groups of people are coming together in order to resist corporate globalization and seek a more positive way forward. These movements are not based on hierarchy; rather than looking to those in power to solve their problems, participants are looking to one another. In certain ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Owners of the Sidewalk

    Security and Survival in the Informal City

    by Daniel M. Goldstein ...
    Series series Global Insecurities
    Many of Bolivia's poorest and most vulnerable citizens work as vendors in the Cancha mega-market in the city of Cochabamba, where they must navigate systems of informality and illegality in order to survive. In Owners of the Sidewalk Daniel M. Goldstein examines the ways these systems correlate in the marginal spaces of the Latin American city. Collaborating with the Cancha's legal and permanent ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Twenty-First-Century Feminismos

    Women's Movements in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Edited by Simone Bohn, Charmain Levy ...
    Series Book 4 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Social Justice in the Global South
    The women’s movement is a central, complex, and evolving socio-political actor in any national context. Vital to advancing gender equity and gendered relations in every contemporary society, the organization and mobilization of women into social movements challenges patriarchal values, behaviours, laws, and policies through collective action and contention, radically altering the direction of ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Collective Situations

    Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art, 1995–2010

    Edited by Bill Kelley Jr., Grant H. Kester ...
    In Collective Situations scholars, artists, and art collectives present a range of socially engaged art practices that emerged in Latin America during the Pink Tide period, between 1995 and 2010. This volume's essays, interviews, and artist's statements—many of which are appearing in English for the first time—demonstrate the complex relationship between moments of political transformation and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Mexico's Illicit Drug Networks and the State Reaction

    by Nathan P. Jones ...
    Mexican drug networks are large and violent, engaging in activities like the trafficking of narcotics, money laundering, extortion, kidnapping, and mass murder. Despite the impact of these activities in Mexico and abroad, these illicit networks are remarkably resilient to state intervention.Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with US and Mexican law enforcement, government officials, ... Read more

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  • High-Risk Feminism in Colombia

    Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts

    by Julia Margaret Zulver ...
    High-Risk Fe**minism in Colombia documents the experiences of grassroots women’s organizations that united to demand gender justice during and in the aftermath of Colombia’s armed conflict. In doing so, it illustrates a little-studied phenomenon: women whose experiences with violence catalyze them to mobilize and resist as feminists, even in the face of grave danger. Despite a well-established ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Ecosystem of an Open Democracy

    by Mara Balestrini, Matías Bianchi, Pablo Collada, Sabrina Díaz Rato, Tomas Diez, Ricard Espelt, Mònica Garriga, Bernardo Gutiérrez, Cristian León, Eduard Martín Borregón, Antonella Perini, Thamy Pogrebinschi, Valeria Righi, Edgar Rovira, Francesc Badia Dalmases, Antoni Gutiérez Rubí ...
    Within the framework of “political experimentation”, a perspective from which to observe the vibrant development of political innovation in Latin America – and also in Spain -, we have published the serie of The ecosystem of an open democracy article. This is a Democracia Abierta initiative in collaboration with apps4citizens, a Barcelona-based platform that promotes the development of technology ... Read more

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  • Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on International Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities (CISOC 2022)

    Edited by Daniel Barredo-Ibáñez, Farrah Bérubé, Paulo Carlos López-López, Daniel H. Mutibwa ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This is an open access book. CISOC’2022 – The 2022 International Conference on International Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities, invites the entire scientific, academic and professional community to present their contributions, which can be written in French, English, Spanish or Portuguese. All papers (full articles) will be submitted to a “double-blind review” by at least two members of ... Read more

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  • Mexican Business Culture

    Essays on Tradition, Ethics, Entrepreneurship and Commerce and the State

    Edited by John T. Hyatt, Carlos M. Coria-Sánchez ...
    Western business owners and managers are increasingly interested in doing business in Mexico. Yet few have thoroughly investigated the country's business climate and culture. This collection of new essays by contributors who work in and research the business culture of Mexico takes a combined academic and real-world look at the country's vibrant and dynamic commerce. Topics include business and ... Read more

    $16.39 USD