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  • Refeudalization and the Crisis of Civilization

    Political essays by Olaf Kaltmeier and Edgardo Lander

    by Olaf Kaltmeier, Edgardo Lander ...
    Series series Coping with Crisis - Latin American Perspectives
    Discussing the civilizatory crisis and processes of refeudalization this volume brings into dialogue two of the most creative approaches, in Olaf Kaltmeier and Edgardo Lander, to rethink capitalism in the 21st century.In Part 1, Olaf Kaltmeier, takes issue with the state of social inequality in the region, highlighting the concentration of wealth within the upper 1% of society in Latin America. ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Entangled Heritages

    Postcolonial Perspectives on the Uses of the Past in Latin America

    by Olaf Kaltmeier, Mario Rufer ...
    Series series InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict
    Relying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of heritage and articulated histories, but divided alongside the basic difference between colonizers and colonized. This problematic is also evident in contemporary uses of the past. The last decades were crucial to the emergence of new debates: ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Contesting the Anthropocene

    Latin American Perspectives beyond Coloniality and Capitalism

    Edited by Olaf Kaltmeier, Luisa Raquel Ellermeier, Eric McNeill Rummelhoff, Omar Sierra Cháves, Ann-Kathrin Volmer ...
    Series series Coping with Crisis - Latin American Perspectives
    This book provides refreshing and critical conceptualizations of the Anthropocene from Latin American perspectives, addressing questions of coloniality and capitalism. Researchers from different disciplines introduce a variety of new concepts and approaches to explore the social, political, and epistemological causes of the multiple socio-ecological crises and showcase alternative foci to cope ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas

    Edited by Olaf Kaltmeier, Anne Tittor, Daniel Hawkins, Eleonora Rohland ...
    This handbook explores the political economy and governance of the Americas, placing particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences. Forty-six chapters cover a range of Inter-American key concepts and dynamics.The flow of peoples, goods, resources, knowledge and finances have on the one hand promoted interdependence and integration that cut across borders and link the countries of ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas

    Edited by Olaf Kaltmeier, Josef Raab, Mike Foley, Alice Nash, Stefan Rinke, Mario Rufer ...
    The colonial heritage and its renewed aftermaths – expressed in the inter-American experiences of slavery, indigeneity, dependence, and freedom movements, to mention only a few aspects – form a common ground of experience in the Western Hemisphere. The flow of peoples, goods, knowledge and finances have promoted interdependence and integration that cut across borders and link the countries of ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Selling EthniCity

    Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas

    Edited by Olaf Kaltmeier ...
    Bringing together a multidisciplinary team of scholars, this book explores the importance of ethnicity and cultural economy in the post-Fordist city in the Americas. It argues that cultural, political and economic elites make use of cultural and ethnic elements in city planning and architecture in order to construct a unique image of a particular city and demonstrates how the use of ethnicized ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The New Dynamics of Identity Politics in the Americas

    Multiculturalism and Beyond

    Edited by Olaf Kaltmeier ...
    Multiculturalism has shaped identity politics in the Americas over the past decades, as illustrated by politics of recognition, affirmative action, and increasing numbers of internationally recognized cultural productions by members of ethnic minorities. Hinting at postcolonial legacies in political rhetoric and practice multiculturalism has also served as a driving force behind social movements ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Sonic Politics

    Music and Social Movements in the Americas

    Edited by Olaf Kaltmeier, Wilfried Raussert ...
    Series series InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict
    This volume analyses the narration of the social through music and the seismographic function of music to detect social problems and envision alternatives.Beyond state-driven attempts to link musical production to the official narrative of the nation, mass musical movements emerged during the 20th century that provided countercultural and alternative narratives of the prevailing social context. ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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    Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century

    Edited by Steve Ellner ...
    Series series Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom
    This timely book explores the unique challenges facing the left in Latin America today. The contributors offer clear and comprehensive assessments of the difficult conditions and conflicting forces that have brought to power the current leftist regimes in Latin American and the Caribbean and are shaping their development. Avoiding the widely accepted but simplistic dichotomy of “good” and “bad” ... Read more

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  • From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia

    Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation, and the Politics of Evo Morales

    by Jeffery R. Webber ...
    Evo Morales rode to power on a wave of popular mobilizations against the neoliberal policies enforced by his predecessors. Yet many of his economic policies bare striking resemblance to the status quo he was meant to displace. Based in part on dozens of interviews with leading Bolivian activists, Jeff Webber examines the contradictions of Morales' first term in office. ... Read more

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  • Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond

    by Mario Blaser, Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
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  • Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy

    Participation, Politics, and Culture under Chávez

    Edited by David Smilde, Daniel Hellinger ...
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