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  • Social Movements and Leftist Governments in Latin America

    Confrontation or Co-optation?

    Edited by Gary Prevost, Carlos Oliva Campos, Professor Harry E Vanden ...
    In recent years, the simultaneous development of prominent social movements and the election of left and centre-left governments has radically altered the political landscape in Latin America. These social movements have ranged from the community based 'piqueteros' of Argentina that brought down three governments in the space of a month in 2001 to the indigenous movements in Ecuador and Bolivia ... Read more

    $38.89 CAD

  • José Carlos Mariátegui: An Anthology

    Edited by Marc Becker Becker, Harry E. Vanden ...
    José Carlos Mariátegui is one of Latin America’s most profound but overlooked thinkers. A self-taught journalist, social scientist, and activist from Peru, he was the first to emphasize that those fighting for the revolutionary transformation of society must adapt classical Marxist theory to the particular conditions of Latin American. He also stressed that indigenous peoples must take an active, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Latin American Social Movements

    Radical Action from Below

    Edited by Harry E. Vanden, Richard Stahler-Sholk, Marc Becker ...
    Series series Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom
    This groundbreaking text explores the dramatic evolution in Latin American social movements over the past fifteen years. Leading scholars examine a variety of cases that highlight significant shifts in the region. First is the breakdown of the Washington Consensus and the global economic crisis since 2008, accompanied by the rise of new paradigms such as buen vivir (living well). Second are ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

  • The New Global Politics

    Global Social Movements in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Gary Prevost, Harry Vanden, Peter Funke ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Over the past decade, there has been an unprecedented mobilization of street protests worldwide, from the demonstrations that helped bring progressive governments to power in Latin America, to the Arab Spring, to Occupy movements in the United States and Europe, to democracy protests in China. This edited volume investigates the current status, nature and dynamics of the new politics that ... Read more

    $85.19 CAD

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    by Manuel Castells ...
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    In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy.Extensive new preface examines how dramatic recent events have transformed the socio ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Evidence for Hope

    Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century

    by Kathryn Sikkink ...
    Series series Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
    A history of the successes of the human rights movement and a case for why human rights workEvidence for Hope makes the case that, yes, human rights work. Critics may counter that the movement is in serious jeopardy or even a questionable byproduct of Western imperialism. They point out that Guantánamo is still open, the Arab Spring protests have been crushed, and governments are cracking down on ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Democracies Divided

    The Global Challenge of Political Polarization

    Edited by Thomas Carothers, Andrew O'Donohue ...
    A must-read for anyone concerned about the fate of contemporary democracies.-Steven Levitsky, co-author of How Democracies Die2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleWhy divisions have deepened and what can be done to heal themAs one part of the global democratic recession, severe political polarization is increasingly afflicting old and new democracies alike, producing the erosion of democratic ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • Labor Versus Empire

    Race, Gender, Migration

    Edited by Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Raul A. Fernandez, Vivian Price, David Smith, Linda Trinh Võ ...
    The essays in this collection address issues significant to labor within regional, national and international contexts. Themes of the chapters will focus on managed labor migration; organizing in multi-ethnic and multi-national contexts; global economics and labor; global economics and inequality; gender and labor; racism and globalization; regional trade agreements and labor. ... Read more

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  • Governing Irregular Migration

    Bordering Culture, Labour, and Security in Spain

    by David Moffette ...
    Series series Law and Society
    This thorough analysis of immigration governance in Spain explores the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion at play at one of Europe’s southern borders. David Moffette analyzes Spain’s processes of immigration governance and reveals the complicated series of legal obstacles facing many migrants.Differential access to border mobility is a central concern of contemporary politics, and nowhere is this ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Future of Human Rights

    by Alison Brysk ...
    Human rights have fallen on hard times, yet they are more necessary than ever. People all over the world – from Amazonian villages to Iranian prisons – need human rights to gain recognition, campaign for justice, and save lives. But how can we secure a brighter future for human rights? What changes are required to confront the regime’s weaknesses and emerging global challenges?In this cutting-edge ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Movements of Movements

    Edited by Jai Sen ...
    Our world today is not only a world in crisis but also a world in profound movement, with increasingly large numbers of people joining or forming movements. What Makes Us Move?, the first of two volumes, provides a background and foundation for understanding the extraordinary range of uprisings around the world: Tahrir Square in Egypt, Occupy in North America, the indignados in Spain, Gezi Park in ... Read more

    $9.09 CAD

  • Governing Women

    Women’s Political Effectiveness in Contexts of Democratization and Governance Reform

    Edited by Anne Marie Goetz ...
    Series series Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development
    Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16% on average, the striking outliers – Rwanda with 49% of its assembly female, Argentina with 35%, Liberia and Chile with new women presidents this year – have raised expectations that there is an upward trend in women’s representation from which we may expect big changes in the quality of governance. But getting women ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD