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  • A Family, Its Vision and Legacy in the History of Mexico

    by Hermilo Fernando Mena ...
    Translated by Diego Mena ...
    This book traces the legacy of the Mena family across generations, rooted in the Hacienda San José in Tlalnepantla, Estado de México. Blending historical events with deeply personal stories, it reveals how one family's values, sacrifices, and determination shaped a region. From the Mexican Revolution to urban development, from land struggles to moments of triumph, it’s a tribute to honor, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • From the City as a Project to the City Project

    Volume I: History

    Edited by Fernando Carrión Mena, Sebastián Rodríguez Alvarez ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The city has historically been conceived as a project, with a sense of duty to be: it is the prefiguration of a reality that emerges from the negation of the pre-existing city. The city anticipates a desired future from an ideal perspective that tends to overcome the existing structural or particular challenges of the present. It can be argued that this proposition represents the historical ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • From the City as a Project to the City Project

    Volume II: The 21st Century

    Edited by Fernando Carrión Mena, Emilia Silva Arias ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The city is a forward-looking project rooted in existing challenges and dynamics. This tension has been especially apparent in the 21st century, when city projects have been contending with great changes in different areas of society: globalization, technology (third and fourth industrial revolutions), economy (neoliberalism), state reform, among others. For this reason, city projects must ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Urbicide

    The Death of the City

    Edited by Fernando Carrión Mena, Paulina Cepeda Pico ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book uses the reflection of academics specialized in the urban area of Latin America, Europe and the United States, to initiate a comparative debate of the different dynamics in which Urbicidio expresses itself. The field or focal point of analysis that this publication approaches is the city, but under a new critical perspective of inverse methodology to that has been traditional used. It is ... Read more

    $197.99 USD

  • Latin America's Global Border System

    An Introduction

    Edited by Beatriz Zepeda, Fernando Carrión Mena, Francisco Enríquez Bermeo ...
    Series series Borders and Illegal Markets in Latin America
    Latin America’s Global Border System is the opening volume in the first collection of academic works devoted exclusively to borders and illegal markets in Latin America.This volume features expert discussions on border issues of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico and Peru, as well as studies on illegal markets, cities, and gender as a first step to understanding the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Neoliberalism, Interrupted

    Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America

    by Mark Goodale, Nancy Postero ...
    In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life. Neoliberalism, Interrupted examines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses to neoliberalism's hegemony. In so doing, this vanguard collection of case studies undermines the conventional dichotomies used to understand transformation in this region, such as neoliberalism vs. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Migration in South America

    IMISCOE Regional Reader

    Edited by Gioconda Herrera, Carmen Gómez ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access regional reader examines emerging issues around new migration patterns in South America and their relationship with changing migration policies over the last twenty years. The first part of the book looks at conceptual discussions on mixed and survival migration, the link between migration and extractivism, and the specific character of transit migration. A second part examines ... Read more

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  • Neo-extractivism in Latin America

    Socio-environmental Conflicts, the Territorial Turn, and New Political Narratives

    by Maristella Svampa ...
    Series series Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America
    This Element analyses the political dynamics of neo-extractivism in Latin America. It discusses the critical concepts of neo-extractivism and the commodity consensus and the various phases of socio-environmental conflict, proposing an eco-territorial approach that uncovers the escalation of extractive violence. It also presents horizontal concepts and debates theories that explore the language of ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Claiming the City and Contesting the State

    Squatting, Community Formation and Democratization in Spain (1955–1986)

    by Inbal Ofer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on Contemporary Spain
    The present book analyzes the relationship between internal migration, urbanization and democratization in Spain during the period of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship (1939-1975) and Spain's transition to democracy (1975-1982). Specifically, the book explores the production and management of urban space as one form of political and social repression under the dictatorship, and the threat ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America

    Decades of Change

    Edited by Margit Ystanes, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the book seeks to understand to what extent the turn to the left at the start of the millennium managed to ... Read more

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  • The Legacy of Mega Events

    Urban Transformations and Citizenship in Rio de Janeiro

    by Ana Paula Soares Carvalho, Humberto Meza, Niccoló Cuppini, Orlando Alves dos Santos Junior ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This edited volume offers a critical reflection on the failed experiment to redevelop the city of Rio de Janeiro according to the neoliberal strategy of entrepreneurial urban governance and mercantile regulatory transformations, which were leveraged by mega-sporting events.The case of Rio de Janeiro is presented as an example of a failing global strategy for urban redevelopment, entrepreneurial ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • After the Pink Tide

    Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America

    Edited by Alessandro Zagato, Marina Gold ...
    Series Book 1 - Egalitarianism
    The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems now to be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent trying to break open the constraints of the state. Through an ethnographically grounded and localized ... Read more

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