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  • Limits to Decolonization

    Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco

    by Penelope Anthias ...
    Series series Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment
    Penelope Anthias's Limits to Decolonization addresses one of the most important issues in contemporary indigenous politics: struggles for territory. Based on the experience of thirty-six Guaraní communities in the Bolivian Chaco, Anthias reveals how two decades of indigenous mapping and land titling have failed to reverse a historical trajectory of indigenous dispossession in the Bolivian lowlands ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Territories of Life

    Equivocations, Entanglements, and Endurances

    Edited by Mario Blaser, Sylvie Poirier, Penelope Anthias ...
    Territories of Life highlights the multiplicity and heterogeneity of worlds and collectives, some labelled Indigenous, as they struggle to sustain their territories of life. “Territories of life” is the phrase used in this volume to speak about the shapes that these collectives or worlds adopt in the present as they endure the heavy shadow of modernization and coloniality. This label also ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Neoextractivism and Territorial Disputes in Latin America

    Social-ecological Conflict and Resistance on the Front Lines

    Edited by Penelope Anthias, Pabel C. López Flores ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Development Studies
    This book reflects on the continuing expansion of extractive forms of capitalist development into new territories in Latin America, and the resistance movements that are trying to combat the ecological and social destruction that follows.Latin American development models continue to prioritise extractivism: the intensive exploitation and exportation of nature in its primary commodity form. This ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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  • 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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  • Evo's Bolivia

    Continuity and Change

    by Linda C. Farthing, Benjamin H. Kohl ...
    In this compelling and comprehensive look at the rise of Evo Morales and Bolivia’s Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), Linda Farthing and Benjamin Kohl offer a thoughtful evaluation of the transformations ushered in by the western hemisphere’s first contemporary indigenous president. Accessible to all readers, Evo’s Bolivia not only charts Evo’s rise to power but also offers a history of and context ... Read more

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  • 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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  • Greening Brazil

    Environmental Activism in State and Society

    by Kathryn Hochstetler, Margaret E. Keck ...
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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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  • Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America

    by Marcela Ríos Tobar, Jutta Marx, Jutta Borner, Mariana Caminotti ...
    Latin American women’s movements played important roles in the democratic transitions in South America during the 1980s and in Central America during the 1990s. However, very little has been written on what has become of these movements and their agendas since the return to democracy. This timely collection examines how women’s movements have responded to the dramatic political, economic, and ... Read more

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  • Autonomy Is in Our Hearts

    Zapatista Autonomous Government through the Lens of the Tsotsil Language

    by Dylan Eldredge Fitzwater ...
    Series series Kairos
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    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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