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  • COVID-19 and Social Change in Spain

    Edited by Carlos de Castro, Andrés Pedreño, Marta Latorre ...
    Series series The COVID-19 Pandemic Series
    Originating in the popular Sociología en Cuarantena blog, this volume provides a detailed and multifaceted analysis of the social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.This book originates in the great upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic when the unprecedented announcement of global lockdowns paralysed the world and put social relations on hold. In response, a loose collective of ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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  • Towards a Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities between Europe and Latin America

    Edited by Pedro López-Roldán, Sandra Fachelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5 Latin American countries, along 11 thematic axes: inequalities in the labour market and labour trajectories; asymmetries in the ... Read more

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  • The Feminist Subversion of the Economy

    Contributions for a Life Against Capital

    by Amaia Pérez Orozco ...
    Translated by Liz Mason-Deese Mason-Deese ...
    The first book by Amaia Pérez Orosco translated into EnglishOne of the leading thinkers on the Spanish left explores the interactions of patriarchy and capitalismConnects theoretical arguments with on-the-ground lived experiencesHow has social reproduction been transformed by a series of environmental and public health crisesPEN Award winning translator of Spanish feminist economic texts Liz Mason ... 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

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America

    Decades of Change

    Edited by Margit Ystanes, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the book seeks to understand to what extent the turn to the left at the start of the millennium managed to ... Read more

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  • High-Risk Feminism in Colombia

    Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts

    by Julia Margaret Zulver ...
    High-Risk Fe**minism in Colombia documents the experiences of grassroots women’s organizations that united to demand gender justice during and in the aftermath of Colombia’s armed conflict. In doing so, it illustrates a little-studied phenomenon: women whose experiences with violence catalyze them to mobilize and resist as feminists, even in the face of grave danger. Despite a well-established ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Twenty-First-Century Feminismos

    Women's Movements in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Edited by Simone Bohn, Charmain Levy ...
    Series Book 4 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Social Justice in the Global South
    The women’s movement is a central, complex, and evolving socio-political actor in any national context. Vital to advancing gender equity and gendered relations in every contemporary society, the organization and mobilization of women into social movements challenges patriarchal values, behaviours, laws, and policies through collective action and contention, radically altering the direction of ... Read more

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  • Migration in South America

    IMISCOE Regional Reader

    Edited by Gioconda Herrera, Carmen Gómez ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access regional reader examines emerging issues around new migration patterns in South America and their relationship with changing migration policies over the last twenty years. The first part of the book looks at conceptual discussions on mixed and survival migration, the link between migration and extractivism, and the specific character of transit migration. A second part examines ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Urban Design Under Neoliberalism

    Theorising from Santiago, Chile

    by Francisco Vergara Perucich ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Urban Studies
    This book discusses the status of urban design as a disciplinary field and as a practice under the current and pervasive neoliberal regime.The main argument is that urban design has been wholly reshaped by neoliberalism. In this transformation, it has become a discipline that has neglected its original ethos – designing good cities – aligning its theory and practice with the sole profit-oriented ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Made-to-Measure Future(s) for Democracy?

    Views from the Basque Atalaia

    Edited by Julen Zabalo, Igor Filibi, Leire Escajedo San-Epifanio ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access volume analyses the development of democracy at different levels of governance (from local to global). The Basque search for an institutional and democratic model that adapts to its social needs and solves its problems offers an interesting perspective for analyzing the way in which democracy is seeking new forms of materialization from the local to the global. The volume is ... Read more

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  • Neoliberalism and Urban Development in Latin America

    The Case of Santiago

    Edited by Camillo Boano, Francisco Vergara-Perucich ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    In the 1970s and following on from the deposition of Salvador Allende, the Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet installed a radical political and economic system by force which lent heavy privilege to free market capitalism, reduced the power of the state to its minimum and actively suppressed civil society. Chicago economist Milton Friedman was heavily involved in developing this model, and ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD