Hakutulokset: Sarja Studies of the Americas
yhteensä 139 hakutulosta
The Judicialization of Politics in Latin America
During the last two decades the judiciary has come to play an increasingly important political role in Latin America. Constitutional courts and supreme courts are more active in …
Argentina Since the 2001 Crisis
This timely and interdisciplinary volume analyzes the many impacts of and contrasting responses to the Argentine political, economic, and social crises of 2001-02. Chapters offer …
Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building
This book tells the story of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, an emblematic grassroots social movement of peasant farmers, who unusually declared themselves ‘neutral’ …
Magazines, Tourism, and Nation-Building in Mexico
This open access book discusses the relationship between periodicals, tourism, and nation-building in Mexico. It enquires into how magazines, a staple form of the promotional …
Small States in Global Affairs
This book updates the 1989 volume 'Caribbean in World Affairs' providing a comprehensive and theoretically-grounded account of diplomatic developments in the Caribbean. The new …
Peru in Theory
Can 'theory' teach us anything about Peru? Can 'Peru' teach us anything about theory? The chapters in this volume explore these questions by establishing a productive dialogue …
Law and Politics in Latin America
This book examines contemporary debates on reform endeavors regarding the rule of law, legal institutions, and rights-based discourses of social transformation in Latin America, …
Ronald Reagan and the 1980s
By the end of the 1980s, many Americans looked at the state of the nation with a renewed optimism, which was personified by an enduring American president - Ronald Wilson Reagan. …
Mapping South-South Connections
This book explores contemporary cultural, historical and geopolitical connections between Latin America and Australia from an interdisciplinary perspective. It seeks to capitalise …
The Political Empowerment of the Cocaleros of Bolivia and Peru
This book offers a comparative analysis of the distinct experiences of the Peruvian and Bolivian cocaleros as political actors. In doing so, it illustrates how coca, an …
Narratives of Migration, Relocation and Belonging
This book gives voice to the diverse diasporic Latin American communities living in the UK by exploring first and onward migration of Latin Americans to Europe, with a specific …
Making Brazil Work
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 …