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  • Weaponizing Maps

    Indigenous Peoples and Counterinsurgency in the Americas

    Maps play an indispensable role in indigenous peoples’ efforts to secure land rights in the Americas and beyond. Yet indigenous peoples did not invent participatory mapping techniques on their own; they appropriated them from techniques developed for colonial rule and counterinsurgency campaigns, and refined by anthropologists and geographers. Through a series of historical and contemporary ... Leer más

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  • Radical Cartographies

    Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America

    Cartography has a troubled history as a technology of power. The production and distribution of maps, often understood to be ideological representations that support the interests of their developers, have served as tools of colonization, imperialism, and global development, advancing Western notions of space and place at the expense of Indigenous peoples and other marginalized communities. But ... Leer más

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  • What's the Problem?: Demystifying Why We All Need Bitcoin

    de Joe Bryan ...
    Everything flows from the money.We live in a world plagued by financial crises, soaring costs of living, political instability, and increasing societal division. But these problems aren't random. They all stem from one fundamental issue—the money is broken.What's the Problem? is a thought-provoking exploration of how fiat distorts everything—from the prices we pay to the systems we rely on. ... Leer más

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    Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic

    Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization—nothing is as simple as it might seem.Based on ten years of ... Leer más

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  • U.S. Central Americans

    Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance

    In summer 2014, a surge of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America to the United States gained mainstream visibility—yet migration from Central America has been happening for decades. U.S. Central Americans explores the shared yet distinctive experiences, histories, and cultures of 1.5-and second-generation Central Americans in the United States.While much has been written about U.S. and ... Leer más

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  • Amazonian Geographies

    Emerging Identities and Landscapes

    Amazonia exists in our imagination as well as on the ground. It is a mysterious and powerful construct in our psyches yet shares multiple (trans)national borders and diverse ecological and cultural landscapes. It is often presented as a seemingly homogeneous place: a lush tropical jungle teeming with exotic wildlife and plant diversity, as well as the various indigenous populations that inhabit ... Leer más

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  • Beyond Civil Society

    Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Out of the Mainstream

    Water Rights, Politics and Identity

    Water is not only a source of life and culture. It is also a source of power, conflicting interests and identity battles. Rights to materially access, culturally organize and politically control water resources are poorly understood by mainstream scientific approaches and hardly addressed by current normative frameworks. These issues become even more challenging when law and policy-makers and ... Leer más

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  • Monumental Ambivalence

    The Politics of Heritage

    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    From ancient Maya cities in Mexico and Central America to the Taj Mahal in India, cultural heritage sites around the world are being drawn into the wave of privatization that has already swept through such economic sectors as telecommunications, transportation, and utilities. As nation-states decide they can no longer afford to maintain cultural properties—or find it economically advantageous not ... Leer más

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  • Activists beyond Borders

    Advocacy Networks in International Politics

    Valuable reading for anyone concerned with contemporary dynamics of social change. â• International AffairsMargaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. ... Leer más

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  • A Future for Amazonia

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    Blending ethnography with a fascinating personal story, A Future for Amazonia is an account of a political movement that arose in the early 1990s in response to decades of attacks on the lands and peoples of eastern Ecuador, one of the world's most culturally and biologically diverse places. After generations of ruin at the hands of colonizing farmers, transnational oil companies, and Colombian ... Leer más

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  • Governing Indigenous Territories

    Enacting Sovereignty in the Ecuadorian Amazon

    Governing Indigenous Territories illuminates a paradox of modern indigenous lives. In recent decades, native peoples from Alaska to Cameroon have sought and gained legal title to significant areas of land, not as individuals or families but as large, collective organizations. Obtaining these collective titles represents an enormous accomplishment; it also creates dramatic changes. Once an ... Leer más

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