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“edward brudney”

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  • Commemorative Literacies and Labors of Justice

    Resistance, Reconciliation, and Recovery in Buenos Aires and Beyond

    by James S. Damico, Loren D. Lybarger, Edward Brudney ...
    This book examines literacy practices of commemoration marking the 40th anniversary of the March 24, 1976 coup in Argentina. Drawing on research conducted across three distinct sites in Buenos Aires in March 2016—a public university, a Catholic church, and a former naval base and clandestine detention center transformed into a museum space for memory and justice—this book sheds light on the ways ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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    A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution

    by Geo Maher ...
    Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Chávez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. George Ciccariello-Maher contends that this focus on Chávez has obscured the inner dynamics and historical development of the country’s Bolivarian Revolution. In We Created Chávez, by examining social movements and revolutionary groups active before and ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • El Alto, Rebel City

    Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia

    by Sian Lazar, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    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

    $39.99 CAD

  • Battling for Hearts and Minds

    Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973–1988

    by Steve J. Stern, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series Book 2 - Latin America Otherwise
    Battling for Hearts and Minds is the story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, from the 1973 military coup in which he seized power through his defeat in a 1988 plebiscite. Steve J. Stern provides a riveting narration of Chile’s political history during this period. At the same time, he analyzes ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy

    Participation, Politics, and Culture under Chávez

    Edited by David Smilde, Daniel Hellinger ...
    Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy brings together a variety of perspectives on participation and democracy in Venezuela. An interdisciplinary group of contributors focuses on the everyday lives of Venezuelans, examining the forms of participation that have emerged in communal councils, cultural activities, blogs, community media, and several other forums. The essays validate many of the critiques ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • 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

    $40.99 CAD

  • Remembering Pinochet's Chile

    On the Eve of London 1998

    by Steve J. Stern, Walter D. Mignolo, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Irene Silverblatt ...
    Series Book 1 - Latin America Otherwise
    During the two years just before the 1998 arrest in London of General Augusto Pinochet, the historian Steve J. Stern had been in Chile collecting oral histories of life under Pinochet as part of an investigation into the form and meaning of memories of state-sponsored atrocities. In this compelling work, Stern shares the recollections of individual Chileans and draws on their stories to provide a ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Streetwalking

    LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic

    by Ana-Maurine Lara ...
    Series series Critical Caribbean Studies
    Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize (Latin American Studies Association)Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic is an exploration of the ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer persons exercise power in a Catholic Hispanic heteropatriarchal nation-state, namely the Dominican Republic. Lara presents the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Salt in the Sand

    Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present

    by Julia Adams, George Steinmetz, Lessie Jo Frazier ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    Salt in the Sand is a compelling historical ethnography of the interplay between memory and state violence in the formation of the Chilean nation-state. The historian and anthropologist Lessie Jo Frazier focuses on northern Chile, which figures prominently in the nation’s history as a site of military glory during the period of national conquest, of labor strikes and massacres in the late ... Read more

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  • The Mayan in the Mall

    Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala

    by J. T. Way ...
    In The Mayan in the Mall, J. T. Way traces the creation of modern Guatemala from the 1920s to the present through a series of national and international development projects. Way shows that, far from being chronically underdeveloped, this nation of stark contrasts—where shopping malls and multinational corporate headquarters coexist with some of the Western Hemisphere's poorest and most violent ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Stories of Civil War in El Salvador

    A Battle over Memory

    by Erik Ching ...
    El Salvador’s civil war began in 1980 and ended twelve bloody years later. It saw extreme violence on both sides, including the terrorizing and targeting of civilians by death squads, recruitment of child soldiers, and the death and disappearance of more than 75,000 people. Examining El Salvador’s vibrant life-story literature written in the aftermath of this terrible conflict — including memoirs ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Who Is Rigoberta Menchu?

    by Greg Grandin ...
    In 1984, indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchú published a harrowing account of life under a military dictatorship in Guatemala. That autobiography—I, Rigoberta Menchú—transformed the study and understanding of modern Guatemalan history and brought its author international renown. She won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. At that point, she became the target of historians seeking to discredit her ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD