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  • Resonance

    A Multicultural Cello Method

    by Hilary Glen, Laura Usiskin, Angelique Montes ...
    About:Resonance: A Multicultural Cello Method is a pedagogical approach tolearning the cello using music that has contributed to American culture. Wehave included pieces and musical elements from a variety of backgrounds,cultures, and time periods with the goal of creating relevancy and belongingfor anyone wanting to learn the instrument. Through this method, studentslearn to play the cello using ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • A Language of Freedom and Teacher’s Authority

    Case Comparisons from Turkey and the United States

    by Yasemin Tezgiden Cakcak, Hasan Hüseyin Aksoy, Birol Algan, Ebru Eren Deniz, Jean Ann Foley, Anaheed Hill, Damien Jones, Christopher Lanternman0, Christine K. Lemley1, Adam Lockwood2, Jim Manley3, Gretchen McAllister4, Ishmael I. Munene5, Michelle Novelli6, Mustafa Öztürk7, Frances Julia Reimer8, Karen Sealander9, Mustafa Sever0, Brian Andrew Stone1, Laura E. Sujo-Montes2, Ayhan Ural3, Barbara Torre Veltri4, Joseph C. Wegwert5, Fatma Mizikaci7, Pelin Taskin8, Peter McLaren9, Guy Senese0, Gerald Wood2 ...
    A Language of Freedom and Teacher’s Authority: Case Comparisons from Turkey and the United States explores dimensions of authority that are deeply embedded in the profession of teaching. It examines critical dimensions of the foundations of Turkish and U.S. public education, both of which are under new pressures due to changes in the relationship between public schooling and current reforms in ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • Claiming and Contesting Representation in Mexico

    Meanings, Practices and Settings

    by Jose Luis Velasco, Cristina Puga, Laura Beatriz Montes de Oca Barrera, Scott McLean, Alejandro Monsiváis-Carrillo, Carina Galar Martínez, Ricardo Tirado Segura, Ivan Islas, Matilde Luna ...
    Mexico is a country whose global political and economic significance are rapidly increasing. This book offers the first in-depth English-language analysis of the politics of representation in Mexico.Through innovative conceptual work and original case studies, the book explores important trends in Mexican politics and governance through the lens of representation, including who speaks and stands ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • An Island in the Stream

    Ecocritical and Literary Responses to Cuban Environmental Culture

    by David Taylor, Susan E. Bender, Blas Falconer, Heriberto Feraudy Espino, Gabriel Horowitz, Mayra Beatriz Martinez, Margarita Mateo Palmer, Karina Pino Gallardo, Laura Ruiz Montes0, Christina Maria Garcia1, Mariana G. Serra García2, Sylvia Torti3, Scott Slovic4, Alison Hawthorne Deming6, George B. Handley7, Robert Michael Pyle8 ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    An Island in the Stream, a collaboration between Cuban and American writers and scholars, is a diverse collection of ecocritical and literary responses to the natural environment in Cuba and to Cuban environmental culture. The chapters explore Cuba’s vibrant cultural history with particular attention to literature and the visual and performing arts, which are viewed through such lenses as ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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    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

  • 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

    $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

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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

    $32.99 CAD

  • Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela

    The Revolutionary Petro-State

    by Iselin Åsedotter Strønen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book presents an ethnographic study of how grassroots activism in Venezuela during the Chávez presidency can be understood in relation to the country's history as a petro-state. Taking the contested relationship between the popular sectors and the Venezuelan state as a point of departure, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen explores how ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Neoliberalism, Interrupted

    Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America

    by Mark Goodale, Nancy Postero ...
    In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life. Neoliberalism, Interrupted examines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses to neoliberalism's hegemony. In so doing, this vanguard collection of case studies undermines the conventional dichotomies used to understand transformation in this region, such as neoliberalism vs. ... Read more

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  • Endangered City

    The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá

    by Austin Zeiderman ...
    Series series Global Insecurities
    Security and risk have become central to how cities are planned, built, governed, and inhabited in the twenty-first century. In Endangered City, Austin Zeiderman focuses on this new political imperative to govern the present in anticipation of future harm. Through ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Bogotá, Colombia, he examines how state actors work to protect the lives of poor and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD