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“sonia e alvarez”

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  • Engendering Democracy in Brazil

    Women's Movements in Transition Politics

    by Sonia E. Alvarez ...
    Brazil has the tragic distinction of having endured the longest military-authoritarian regime in South America. Yet the country is distinctive for another reason: in the 1970s and 1980s it witnessed the emergence and development of perhaps the largest, most diverse, most radical, and most successful women's movement in contemporary Latin America. This book tells the compelling story of the rise of ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Making Of Social Movements In Latin America

    Identity, Strategy, And Democracy

    by Arturo Escobar, Sonia E Alvarez ...
    This book, paying attention to the axes of identity, strategy, and democracy, grew out of the authors' shared and growing interest in contemporary social movements and the vast theoretical literature on these movements produced during the 1980s, particularly in Latin America and Western Europe. ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Cultures Of Politics/politics Of Cultures

    Revisioning Latin American Social Movements

    by Sonia E Alvarez ...
    This book argues the relationship between culture and politics can be productively explored by delving into the nature of the cultural politics enacted by Latin American social movements and by examining the potential of this cultural politics for fostering social change. ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Translocalities/Translocalidades

    Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas

    Edited by Sonia E. Alvarez, Claudia de Lima Costa, Rebecca Hester, Norma Klahn, Millie Thayer, Veronica Feliu ...
    Translocalities/Translocalidades is a path-breaking collection of essays on Latin American, Caribbean, and United States–based Latina feminisms and their multiple translations and cross-pollinations. The contributors come from countries throughout the Américas and are based in diverse disciplines, including media studies, literature, Chicana/o studies, and political science. Together, they ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Beyond Civil Society

    Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America

    Edited by Sonia E. Alvarez, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Millie Thayer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Agustín Laó-Montes ...
    The contributors to Beyond Civil Society argue that the conventional distinction between civic and uncivic protest, and between activism in institutions and in the streets, does not accurately describe the complex interactions of forms and locations of activism characteristic of twenty-first-century Latin America. They show that most contemporary political activism in the region relies upon both ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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    Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia

    by Sian Lazar, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
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    Combining anthropological methods and theories with political philosophy, Sian Lazar analyzes everyday practices and experiences of citizenship in a satellite city to the Bolivian capital of La Paz: El Alto, where more than three-quarters of the population identify as indigenous Aymara. For several years, El Alto has been at the heart of resistance to neoliberal market reforms, such as the export ... Read more

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  • Race in Cuba

    Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality

    by Gary Prevost, Esteban Morales Domínguez, August Nimtz ...
    As a young militant in the 26th of July Movement, Esteban Morales Domínguez participated in the overthrow of the Batista regime and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The revolutionaries, he understood, sought to establish a more just and egalitarian society. But Morales Dominguez, an Afro-Cuban, knew that the complicated question of race could not be ignored, or simply willed away in a post ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Kuxlejal Politics

    Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities

    by Mariana Mora ...
    Over the past two decades, Zapatista indigenous community members have asserted their autonomy and self-determination by using everyday practices as part of their struggle for lekil kuxlejal, a dignified collective life connected to a specific territory. This in-depth ethnography summarizes Mariana Mora’s more than ten years of extended research and solidarity work in Chiapas, with Tseltal and ... Read more

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  • Dilemmas of Difference

    Indigenous Women and the Limits of Postcolonial Development Policy

    by Sarah A. Radcliffe ...
    In Dilemmas of Difference Sarah A. Radcliffe explores the relationship of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to the development policies and actors that are ostensibly there to help ameliorate social and economic inequality. Radcliffe finds that development policies’s inability to recognize and reckon with the legacies of colonialism reinforces long-standing social hierarchies, thereby reproducing ... Read more

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  • Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy

    Participation, Politics, and Culture under Chávez

    Edited by David Smilde, Daniel Hellinger ...
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  • Keywords for Latina/o Studies

    Edited by Nancy Raquel Mirabal, Deborah R. Vargas, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes ...
    Series Book 6 - Keywords
    2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by CHOICE MagazineIntroduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Latinx StudiesKeywords for Latina/o Studies is a generative text that enhances the ongoing dialogue within a rapidly growing and changing field. The keywords included in this collection represent established and emergent terms, categories, and concepts that undergird Latina/o studies ... 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

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