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  • Enforcing Order on the Border

    Race, Policing, and Immigration Enforcement in South Texas

    by Eric Gamino ...
    Series series Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
    As a lifelong resident of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Eric Gamino has always been curious why some U.S.-born Latinos were indifferent toward Latino immigrants, especially since both groups lived within the same majority Latino-origin community—the Rio Grande Valley of Texas (RGV). Enforcing Order on the Border offers a personal, ethnographic examination of Gamino’s life as a resident of the RGV ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Imagined Borders/Lived Ambiguity

    Intersections of Repression and Resistance

    by B. Garrick Harden, Robert F. Carley, G. Dillon Nicholson, Ryan Ashley Caldwell, Eric Gamino, Juan José Bustamante, Jesús A. Garcia, Chad Richardson, Rogelio Saenz, Dejun Su0, Hilario Molina II1, Ian Barnard2 ...
    Imagined Borders/Lived Ambiguity: Intersections of Repression and Resistance examines the theoretical versatility of the concept of “borders.” The impulse to categorize, while present from antiquity in Western culture, has increased in intensity since the advent of the modern age with its corresponding political rise in the ideology of the sovereign nation-state. While immigration is the common ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

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  • The Justice Cascade

    How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics

    by Kathryn Sikkink ...
    Series series The Norton Series in World Politics
    Acclaimed scholar Kathryn Sikkink examines the important and controversial new trend of holding political leaders criminally accountable for human rights violations.Grawemeyer Award winner Kathryn Sikkink offers a landmark argument for human rights prosecutions as a powerful political tool. She shows how, in just three decades, state leaders in Latin America, Europe, and Africa have lost their ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

  • Drug War Capitalism

    by Dawn Paley ...
    Though pillage, profit, and plunder have been a mainstay of war since pre-colonial times, there is little contemporary focus on the role of finance and economics in today's "Drug Wars"—despite the fact that they boost US banks and fill our prisons with poor people. They feed political campaigns, increase the arms trade, and function as long-term fixes to capitalism's woes, cracking open new ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unspeakable Truths

    Transitional Justice and the Challenge of Truth Commissions

    by Priscilla B. Hayner ...
    In a sweeping review of forty truth commissions, Priscilla Hayner delivers a definitive exploration of the global experience in official truth-seeking after widespread atrocities. When Unspeakable Truths was first published in 2001, it quickly became a classic, helping to define the field of truth commissions and the broader arena of transitional justice. This second edition is fully updated and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Policing the Planet

    Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter

    Edited by Jordan T. Camp, Christina Heatherton ...
    How policing became the major political issue of our timeCombining firsthand accounts from activists with the research of scholars and reflections from artists, Policing the Planet traces the global spread of the broken-windows policing strategy, first established in New York City under Police Commissioner William Bratton. It’s a doctrine that has vastly broadened police power the world over—to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dependent America?

    How Canada and Mexico Construct US Power

    by Stephen Clarkson, Matto Mildenberger ...
    Following the acclaimed Uncle Sam and Us and the influential Does North America Exist? Stephen Clarkson — the preeminent analyst of North America's political economy — and Matto Mildenberger turn continental scholarship on its head by showing how Canada and Mexico contribute to the United States' wealth, security, and global power.This provocative work documents how Canada and Mexico offer the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Two Nations Indivisible

    Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead

    by Shannon K. O'Neil ...
    Five freshly decapitated human heads are thrown onto a crowded dance floor in western Mexico. A Mexican drug cartel dismembers the body of a rival and then stitches his face onto a soccer ball. These are the sorts of grisly tales that dominate the media, infiltrate movies and TV shows, and ultimately shape Americans' perception of Mexico as a dangerous and scary place, overrun by brutal drug lords ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • 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

    $25.19 USD

  • Cartels at War: Mexico's Drug-Fueled Violence and the Threat to U. S. National Security

    by Paul Rexton Kan ...
    Now in its sixth year, the conflict in Mexico is a mosaic of several wars occurring at once: cartels battle one another, cartels suffer violence within their own organizations, cartels fight against the Mexican state, cartels and gangs wage war against the Mexican people, and gangs combat gangs. The war has killed more than 60,000 people since President Felipe Calder?n began cracking down on the ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

  • Wounded City

    Violent Turf Wars in a Chicago Barrio

    by Robert Vargas ...
    In 2009, Chicago spent millions of dollars to create programs to prevent gang violence in some of its most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Yet in spite of the programs, violence has grown worse in some of the very neighborhoods that the violence prevention programs were intented to help. While public officials and social scientists often attribute the violence - and the failure of the programs - to a ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Perceptions of Cuba

    Canadian and American Policies in Comparative Perspective

    by Lana Wylie ...
    In 1976, with the US trade embargo against Cuba underway, Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau visited the island nation, befriended his counterpart, and exclaimed publicly "Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!" During the past half-century of communist rule in Cuba, Canada's policy of engagement with the country has contrasted sharply with the United States' policy of isolation. Based ... Read more

    $28.99 USD