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  • Building the Commune

    Radical Democracy in Venezuela

    af Geo Maher ...
    Serier serie Jacobin
    Since 2011, a wave of popular mobilizations has swept the globe, from Occupy to the Arab Spring, 15M in Spain and the uprisings in Greece. Their demands were varied, but what they share is a commitment to ideals of radical democracy, and a willingness to experiment with new forms of organization to achieve this. In fact, the countries of Latin America have been experimenting with such projects ... Læs mere

    80,47 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

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  • Crude Nation

    How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela

    Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude—the world’s largest reserves—an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist government controls this vast resource and has used its wealth to foster voter support, ultimately wreaking economic havoc.Crude Nation reveals the ways in which this mismanagement has led to Venezuela’s ... Læs mere

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  • Making Brazil Work

    Checking the President in a Multiparty System

    Serier serie Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers the first conceptually rigorous analysis of the political and institutional underpinnings of Brazil's recent rise. Using Brazil as a case study in multiparty presidentialism, the authors argue that Brazil's success stems from the combination of a constitutionally strong president and a robust system of checks and balances. ... Læs mere

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  • Contesting Trade in Central America

    Market Reform and Resistance

    In 2004, the United States, five Central American countries, and the Dominican Republic signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), signaling the region’s commitment to a neoliberal economic model. For many, however, neoliberalism had lost its luster as the new century dawned, and resistance movements began to gather force. Contesting Trade in Central America is the first book-length ... Læs mere

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  • Oil and Nation

    A History of Bolivia's Petroleum Sector

    Serier serie Energy and Society
    Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Bolivia’s contentious twentieth-century history. Bolivia’s oil, Cote argues, instigated the largest war in Latin America in the 1900s, provoked the first nationalization of a major foreign company by a Latin American state, and shaped both the course and the consequences of Bolivia’s transformative National Revolution of 1952. Oil and natural gas ... Læs mere

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  • Kuxlejal Politics

    Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities

    af Mariana Mora ...
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  • Indigenous Women’s Movements in Latin America

    Gender and Ethnicity in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia

    Serier serie Crossing Boundaries of Gender and Politics in the Global South
    This book presents a comparative analysis of the organizing trajectories of indigenous women’s movements in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia. The authors’ innovative research reveals how the articulation of gender and ethnicity is central to shape indigenous women’s discourses. It explores the political contexts and internal dynamics of indigenous movements, to show that they created different ... Læs mere

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  • Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian Crusader: Volume I

    The Years 1914-1960

    Playwright, journalist, and spectacularly successful governor, Carlos Lacerda was Brazil's foremost orator in the 20th century and its most controversial politician. He might have become president in the 1960s had not the military taken over. In the words of eminent historian José Honório Rodrigues, "No one person influenced the Brazilian historical process as much as Carlos Lacerda from 1945 to ... Læs mere

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  • After Revolution

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  • The Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of Communism

    The Practical Consciousness of the African People of Haiti

    Using a variant of structuration theory, what Paul C. Mocombe calls phenomenological structuralism, this work explores and highlights how the African religion of Vodou and its ethic, i.e., syncretism, materialism, communal living or social collectivism, democracy, individuality, cosmopolitanism, spirit of social justice, xenophilia, balance, harmony, and gentleness, gave rise, under the leadership ... Læs mere

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  • Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America

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  • Growth, Equality, and the Mexican Experience

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