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  • Rethinking Social Action through Music

    The Search for Coexistence and Citizenship in Medellín's Music Schools

    by Geoffrey Baker ...
    How can we better understand the past, present and future of Social Action through Music (SATM)?This ground-breaking book examines the development of the Red de Escuelas de Música de Medellín (the Network of Music Schools of Medellín), a network of 27 schools founded in Colombia’s second city in 1996 as a response to its reputation as the most dangerous city on Earth. Inspired by El Sistema, the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imposing Harmony

    Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco

    by Geoffrey Baker ...
    Imposing Harmony is a groundbreaking analysis of the role of music and musicians in the social and political life of colonial Cuzco. Challenging musicology’s cathedral-centered approach to the history of music in colonial Latin America, Geoffrey Baker demonstrates that rather than being dominated by the cathedral, Cuzco’s musical culture was remarkably decentralized. He shows that institutions ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Buena Vista in the Club

    Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana

    by Geoffrey Baker, Ronald Radano, Josh Kun ...
    Series series Refiguring American music
    In Buena Vista in the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaetón. While Cuban officials initially rejected rap as “the music of the enemy,” leading figures in the hip hop scene soon convinced certain cultural institutions to accept and then promote rap as part of Cuba’s national culture. ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Communication and Social Change

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    by Thomas Tufte ...
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    How do the communication practices of governments, NGOs and social movements enhance opportunities for citizen-led change?In this incisive book, Thomas Tufte makes a call for a fundamental rethinking of what it takes to enable citizens’ voices, participation and power in processes of social change. Drawing on examples ranging from the Indignados movement in Spain to media activists in Brazil, from ... Read more

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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

  • Consumers And Citizens

    Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts

    by Nestor Garcia Canclini ...
    Series series Cultural Studies of the Americas
    An essential analysis of the ways consumerism and globalization intersect with political power.In Consumers and Citizens, Néstor García Canclini, the best-known and most innovative cultural studies scholar in Latin America, maps the critical effects of urban sprawl and global media and commodity markets on citizens-and shows at the same time that the complex results mean not only a shrinkage of ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • 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

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  • Indigenous Women and Violence

    Feminist Activist Research in Heightened States of Injustice

    Edited by Lynn Stephen, Shannon Speed ...
    Indigenous Women and Violence offers an intimate view of how settler colonialism and other structural forms of power and inequality created accumulated violences in the lives of Indigenous women. This volume uncovers how these Indigenous women resist violence in Mexico, Central America, and the United States, centering on the topics of femicide, immigration, human rights violations, the criminal ... Read more

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  • Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning

    Edited by Sara de Jong, Rosalba Icaza, Olivia U. Rutazibwa ...
    Series series Teaching with Gender
    Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning is a resource for teachers and learners seeking to participate in the creation of radical and liberating spaces in the academy and beyond. This edited volume is inspired by, and applies, decolonial and feminist thought – two fields with powerful traditions of critical pedagogy, which have shared productive exchange.The structure of this ... Read more

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  • The Kids Are in Charge

    Activism and Power in Peru's Movement of Working Children

    by Jessica K. Taft ...
    Series Book 2 - Critical Perspectives on Youth
    Details the possibilities and challenges of intergenerational activism and social movementsSince 1976, the Peruvian movement of working children has fought to redefine age-based roles in society, including defending children’s right to work. In The Kids Are in Charge, Jessica K. Taft gives us an inside look at this groundbreaking, intergenerational social movement, showing that kids can—and should ... Read more

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    This book is your ultimate Paulo Freire resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Paulo Freire's whole picture right away. Get countless Paulo Freire facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Paulo Freire Handbook is the ... Read more

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