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  • Indigenous Cultures and Sustainable Development in Latin America

    by Timothy MacNeill ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book outlines development theory and practice over time as well as critically interrogates the “cultural turn” in development policy in Latin American indigenous communities, specifically, in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, and Bolivia. It becomes apparent that culturally sustainable development is both a new and old idea, which is simultaneously traditional and modern, and that it ... Read more

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  • Encountering Development

    The Making and Unmaking of the Third World

    by Arturo Escobar ...
    How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Intersectionality

    by Patricia Hill Collins, Sirma Bilge ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    The concept of intersectionality has become a central topic in academic and activist circles alike. But what exactly does it mean, and why has it emerged as such a vital lens through which to explore how social inequalities of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability, and ethnicity shape one another?In this fully revised and expanded second edition of their popular text, Patricia Hill Collins ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Territories of Difference

    Place, Movements, Life, Redes

    by Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of engagement with a group of Afro-Colombian activists of Colombia’s Pacific rainforest region, the Proceso ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Rethinking Race, Class, Language, and Gender

    A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky and Other Leading Scholars

    by Pierre Wilbert Orelus ...
    Oftentimes, critical examinations of oppression solely focus on one type and neglect others. In this single volume, Pierre Orelus examines the way various forms of oppression, such as racism, classism, capitalism, sexism, and linguicism (linguistic discrimination) operate and limit the life chances people, across various race, class, language, and gender lines, have. Utilizing dialogue as a form ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Communication and Social Change

    A Citizen Perspective

    by Thomas Tufte ...
    Series series Global Media and Communication
    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

    $21.00 USD

  • Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond

    by Mario Blaser, Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    For more than fifteen years, Mario Blaser has been involved with the Yshiro people of the Paraguayan Chaco as they have sought to maintain their world in the face of conservation and development programs promoted by the state and various nongovernmental organizations. In this ethnography of the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based “life projects” of the Yshiro, and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Human Rights

    Concepts, Contests, Contingencies

    Edited by Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns ...
    Series series The Amherst Series In Law, Jurisprudence, And Social Thought
    Today the language of human rights, if not human rights themselves, is nearly universal. Human Rights brings together essays that attend to both the allure and criticism of human rights. They examine contestation and contingency in today's human rights politics and help us rethink some of the basic concepts of human rights. Questions addressed in Human Rights include: Can national self ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Culture and Development in a Globalizing World

    Geographies, Actors and Paradigms

    Edited by Sarah Radcliffe ...
    Using recent research on development projects around the world, this book argues that culture has become an explicit tool and framework for development discourse and practice. Providing a theoretical and empirically informed critique, this informative book includes conceptual overviews and case studies on topics such as:development for indigenous peoplenatural resource managementsocial capital 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

    $28.79 USD

  • Intercultural Utopias

    Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia

    by Joanne Rappaport, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Although only 2 percent of Colombia’s population identifies as indigenous, that figure belies the significance of the country’s indigenous movement. More than a quarter of the Colombian national territory belongs to indigenous groups, and 80 percent of the country’s mineral resources are located in native-owned lands. In this innovative ethnography, Joanne Rappaport draws on research she has ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America

    by Leonardo Avritzer ...
    This is a bold new study of the recent emergence of democracy in Latin America. Leonardo Avritzer shows that traditional theories of democratization fall short in explaining this phenomenon. Scholars have long held that the postwar stability of Western Europe reveals that restricted democracy, or "democratic elitism," is the only realistic way to guard against forces such as the mass mobilizations ... Read more

    $35.99 USD