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  • Endangered City

    The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá

    par Austin Zeiderman ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

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  • El Alto, Rebel City

    Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia

    par Sian Lazar, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Collections series Latin America Otherwise
    Combining anthropological methods and theories with political philosophy, Sian Lazar analyzes everyday practices and experiences of citizenship in a satellite city to the Bolivian capital of La Paz: El Alto, where more than three-quarters of the population identify as indigenous Aymara. For several years, El Alto has been at the heart of resistance to neoliberal market reforms, such as the export ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • Brazil on the Move

    par John Dos Passos ...
    John Dos Passos, the distinguished American novelist and historian has been personally interested in Brazil for the last fifteen years. He first visited the country in 1948, and returned again in 1956 and 1962. This book, which is based on his experiences in Brazil, presents the people and landscapes of a young country on the move.Here you will find several extraordinary reports on Brasilia, first ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $14.99 CAD Maintenant $11.99 CAD

  • Between Riverside and Crazy (TCG Edition)

    par Stephen Adly Guirgis ...
    "Guirgis, like other storytellers who explore the sacred and profane, is most interested in how grace transforms us."—The New YorkerWritten with humor, tenderness, grit, and wonderment by acclaimed playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, Between Riverside and Crazy is an extraordinary new play: a dark comedy about a man trying to maintain control as the world unravels around him.City Hall is demanding ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Hard Times in the Marvelous City

    From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

    par Bryan McCann ...
    Beginning in the late 1970s, activists from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro challenged the conditions—such as limited access to security, sanitation, public education, and formal employment—that separated favela residents from Rio's other citizens. The activists built a movement that helped to push the nation toward redemocratization. They joined with political allies in an effort to institute an ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • Cities From Scratch

    Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America

    Modifié par Brodwyn Fischer, Bryan McCann, Javier Auyero ...
    This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America's urban poor. Until recently, scholars have mainly viewed these settlements through the prisms of crime and drug-related violence, modernization and development theories, populist or revolutionary politics, or debates ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • Writing the Modern City

    Literature, Architecture, Modernity

    Modifié par Sarah Edwards, Jonathan Charley ...
    Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity, political idealism and architectural innovation. Writing the Modern City explores the diverse and fascinating relationships between literature, ... En savoir plus

    $108.99 CAD

  • The Politics of the Past in an Argentine Working-Class Neighbourhood

    par Lindsay DuBois ...
    Collections series Anthropological Horizons
    The Argentine dictatorship of 1976 to 1983 set out to transform Argentine society. Employing every means at its disposal - including rampant violation of human rights, union busting, and regressive economic policies - the dictatorship aimed to create its own kind of order. Lindsay DuBois's The Politics of the Past explores the lasting impact of this authoritarian transformative project for the ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Gendered Paradoxes

    Women's Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador

    par Amy Lind ...
    Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its “free market” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country’s poor, including women’s groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses on women’s participation in the political and economic restructuring process of the past twenty-five years, ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Tour Guide

    Walking and Talking New York

    par Jonathan R. Wynn ...
    Collections series Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
    Everyone wants to visit New York at least once. The Big Apple is a global tourist destination with a dizzying array of attractions throughout the five boroughs. The only problem is figuring out where to start—and that’s where the city’s tour guides come in.These guides are a vital part of New York’s raucous sidewalk culture, and, as The Tour Guide reveals, the tours they offer are as fascinatingly ... En savoir plus

    $37.29 CAD

  • A Century of Violence in a Red City

    Popular Struggle, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights in Colombia

    par Lesley Gill ...
    In A Century of Violence in a Red City Lesley Gill provides insights into broad trends of global capitalist development, class disenfranchisement and dispossession, and the decline of progressive politics. Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions, neighborhood organizations, and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, from their origins in the 1920s to their effective activism ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • Laws of Chance

    Brazil's Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life

    par Amy Chazkel, PhD ...
    Collections series Radical Perspectives
    The lottery called the jogo do bicho, or “animal game,” originated as a raffle at a zoo in Rio de Janeiro in 1892. During the next decade, it became a cultural phenomenon all over Brazil, where it remains popular today. Laws of Chance chronicles the game’s early history, as booking agents, dealers, and players spread throughout Rio and the lottery was outlawed and driven underground. Analyzing the ... En savoir plus

    $45.99 CAD