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19 and 20
Notes for the next insurrection. A renewed reflection on and a return to the militant research of Colectivo Situaciones twenty years after the Argentinian insurrection.
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A new world of revolutions
The hemispheric politics that shaped popular revolutions against European colonial rule In A New World of Revolutions, Arturo Chang reconstructs the histories, politics, and legacies of the Age of Revolutions (c. 1770–1850) from the vantage point of popular movements in the Americas. Challenging ...
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After the washington consensus
This volume is a successor of sorts to the Institute's 1986 volume Toward Renewed Economic Growth in Latin America, which blazed the trail for the market-oriented economic reforms that were adopted in Latin America in the subsequent years. It again presents the work of a group of leading Latin Am...
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Agriculture and industry in brazil
Agriculture and Industry in Brazil is a study of the economics of Brazilian agriculture and industry, with a special focus on the importance of innovation to productivity growth. It examines technological change in Brazil, highlighting the role of public policy in building institutions and creati...
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Brazilian authoritarianism
How Brazil’s long history of racism and authoritarian politics has led to the country’s present crises and epidemic of violenceBrazil has long nurtured a cherished national myth, one of a tolerant, peaceful, and racially harmonious society. A closer look at the nation's heritage, however, reveals...
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Coup
Coup analyzes the conditions that led to the 2019 coup in Bolivia and details its repressive aftermath.
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Critique of latin american reason
Critique of Latin American Reason is one of the most important philosophical texts to have come out of South America in recent decades. First published in 1996, it offers a sweeping critique of the foundational schools of thought in Latin American philosophy and critical theory.
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Cuba–u.s. relations
Against the background of the history of Cuba–U.S. interconnectedness and in light of Obama’s initiative and Trump’s election, Arnold August deals with the relationship between the two countries, delving into past and current U.S. aggression against Cuba’s artistic field, ideology and politics. ...
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Dancing jacobins
Since independence from Spain, a trope has remained pervasive in Latin America’s republican imaginary: that of an endless antagonism pitting civilization against barbarism as irreconcilable poles within which a nation’s life unfolds. This book apprehends that trope not just as the phantasmatic pr...
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Dancing with dynamite
One step forward, two steps back: When social movements win state power.
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Democracy on the ground
This book examines the complex relationship of the Left, the Right, and democracy through the lens of local politics in Venezuela and Bolivia. Drawing on two years of fieldwork, Gabriel Hetland compares attempts at participatory reform in cities governed by the Left and Right in each country.
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Dependency, neoliberalism and globalization in latin america
Carlos Eduardo Martins ' essential update of the, still indispensable, Marxist Theory of Dependency.
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Diasporic connections
Reighan Gillam shows how Afro-Brazilians draw on African American history and culture to argue that Brazil is typical, not exceptional, emphasizing common experiences across the African diaspora.
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Dispersing power
Building power beyond the state.
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Economic normalization with cuba
Will the Obama administration's decision to normalize relations with Cuba usher in a new era of economic cooperation, trade, and investment between the two countries? This prescient book, published only eight months before President Obama's historic announcement at the end of 2014, provides answe...
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Feminicide and global accumulation
The global struggles against racism, capitalism, and patriarchy revealed by the Black and Indigneous women and trans communities leading its resistance.
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Fifty years of peasant wars in latin america
Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach.
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Havana without makeup
A diplomat and writer with decades of unparalleled knowledge delivers an intimate, unconventional portrait: the single must-read book about Cuba.
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How latin america weathered the global financial crisis
Why has the economy of Latin America responded more positively than Asia, Europe, or the United States after being hit by the recent global financial crisis? Three years after the worst of the crisis, Latin America's GDP is 25 percent higher than its precrisis level. José De Gregorio, Governor of...
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Human development
Capitalism is a system in crisis. In the context of an urgent need for an alternative system, Cuba provides valuable lessons. The Cuban Revolution’s unique features have allowed it to survive both the conditions that brought about the collapse of the Soviet model of socialism and the renewed assa...
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I couldn't even imagine that they would kill us
Harrowing personal narratives describing how Mexican authorities killed, injured, and disappeared scores of students and others in a still-unsolved crime.
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Implementing value capture in latin america
This report provides a review of land value capture's antecedents in Latin America and its longstanding presence in the urban planning agenda. It also examines a variety of land value capture instruments including: property taxation and betterment contributions; exactions and charges for building...
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Latin american foreign policies in the new world order
At a time of growing US-China tensions, and of Latin America’s deepest crisis in a century, Active Non-Alignment option embodies a novel way out of this predicament.
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Lessons from the zapatistas
Essential reading on the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico — its history, its peoples’ autonomy and its revolutionary thought.
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Making land legible
This report describes the past, present, and future role of cadastres as a land policy tool in Latin America. It shows how national, regional, and local jurisdictions have used updated orthodox and or/multipurpose cadastres (MPCs) to strengthen urban financing and inform planning decisions. The r...
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Mapping memory
Interweaves visual and performance theory with memory and affect studies to develop the theory of memory mapping, defined as the visual process of representing the affective, sensorial, polyvocal, and temporally layered relationship between past and present, anchored within the specificities of p...
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Mexico unconquered
A young journalist's chronicles of Mexican social movements and the powers attempting to repress them
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Mi maría: surviving the storm
Puerto Rican voices share their stories of surviving Hurricane María and its aftermath.
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On power and ideology
This succinct series of lectures lays out the parameters of Noam Chomsky's foreign policy analysis.
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Power and impotence
A timely and instructive reconsideration of South America 's recent 'progressive' era.
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Progress in latin america (in the post-covid reality)
This book addresses questions about the lessons learned by Latin American countries and societies from the pandemic.
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Prospects for free trade in the americas
Negotiations on a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) were officially launched at the Santiago Summit in April 1998. This study examines the prospects for the FTAA in light of recent economic and political turmoil in Latin America and the continuing impasse over US "fast-track" authority. The ...
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Repertoires of terrorism
Andreas E. Feldmann examines the disparate behavior of actors including guerrilla groups, state security forces, and paramilitaries during Colombia’s long and bloody civil war. Analyzing the varieties of violence in this conflict, he develops a new theory of the dynamics of terrorism in civil wars.
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Republics of the new world
A sweeping history of Latin American republicanism in the nineteenth centuryBy the 1820s, after three centuries under imperial rule, the former Spanish territories of Latin America had shaken off their colonial bonds and founded independent republics. In committing themselves to republicanism, th...
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Resource nationalism and energy policy
David R. Mares develops a powerful new account of the relationship between state resource ownership and energy policy. He considers the history of Latin American oil and gas policies and provides an in-depth analysis of Venezuela from 1989 to 2016—before, during, and after the presidency of Hugo ...
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Rhetorical powers
Sasikumar Sundaram provides a bold new theory of rhetoric as power politics, demonstrating how non-Western states challenge their silencing within the Western-led international order.
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Sistemas del impuesto predial en américa latina y el caribe
This second edition of Sistemas del impuesto predial presents new data, lessons, and challenges related to property tax systems in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Sistemas del impuesto predial en américa latina y el caribe
This Spanish-language book consolidates a decade's worth of data on fiscal and tax management decisions in 200 jurisdictions across nine Latin American and Caribbean countries. By highlighting advances, lessons learned, and legal, juridical, and technical obstacles that must be addressed, it prov...
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Solito, solita
They are a mass migration of thousands of young people from Central America, yet each one travels alone: solito, solita.
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South american perspectives on cultural diversity
This book delves into the evolution of cultural diversity policies in Argentina, Brazil, and Peru. It highlights the struggles of marginalized groups for equality and explores how these policies challenge the monocultural narratives imposed by nation-states over the last 15 years.
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State of war
The real story behind El Salvador's MS-13 gang and how they have perpetuated three generations of conflict and led to scores of migrants seeking a new life in the United States.
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The combination of all forms of struggle
Investigating the relationship between FARC and the Colombian state from the outbreak of conflict in 1964 to the signing of the final peace agreement in 2016, Alexandra Rachel Phelan offers new insight into the dynamics of insurgencies.
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The dialectic is in the sea
Collected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian intellectuals of the twentieth centuryBeatriz Nascimento (1942–1995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader in Brazil’s Black movement, an innovative and creative thinker whose work offers a radical reimagining of gend...
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The last day of oppression, and the first day of the same
This book offers an overarching political and economic evaluation of the Latin American Left between the late 1990s and 2016.
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The long honduran night
A story of resistance, repression, and US policy in Honduras in the aftermath of a violent military coup.
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The politics of passion
Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners. Wekker vividly describes the lives of these women, who prefer to create alternative families of kin, lovers, and...
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The price of fire
Bolivia's powerful social movements and the forces they're up against.
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