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Worldmaking after empire
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations—a world in which self-determination was synonymous with nation-building—obscure just...
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The souths in her
Nicole M. Morris Johnson analyzes the intertwined relationship between movement and writing in the works of Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, Dianne McIntyre, Maryse Condé, and Ntozake Shange, among others, showing how unexpected encounters with unfamiliar traditions and creative visions of m...
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Imagining the past, remembering the future
Imagining the Past, Remembering the Future investigates the interlinked art, history, religion, philosophy, and cosmology of oral traditions across the Afro-Brazilian diaspora, arguing that these varied cultural expressions together constitute distinctive forms of knowledge.
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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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To the victor, the potatoes!
Newly available in English, a magisterial work by one of the world's most esteemed Marxist literary critics.
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Dēmos
“Unflinching, unrelenting, disarming, and brilliant . . . A powerhouse collection of poems by a powerhouse poet.” —VICTORIA CHANG
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Power and impotence
A timely and instructive reconsideration of South America 's recent 'progressive' era.
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An ethos of blackness
This book is a groundbreaking account of Rastafari, demonstrating that it provides a normative conception of Blackness for people of African descent that resists Eurocentric and colonial ideas.
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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 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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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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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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Roberto bolaño's fiction
Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolaño's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engagin...
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Untrusting
This book investigates the fraught pursuit of democratic policing in Brazil, where trust is both a necessity and a precarious gamble.
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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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Little magazine, world form
Little magazines made modernism. Little Magazine, World Form shows that their reach and importance extended far beyond Europe and the United States. By investigating the global and transnational itineraries of the little-magazine form, Eric Bulson uncovers a worldwide network that influenced the ...
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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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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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Trade relations between colombia and the united states
This volume analyzes the economic effects of a prospective free trade agreement between the United States and Colombia. The study uses the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model of world trade and economic activity to analyze the expected trade and other economic impacts of the prospective FT...
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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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Coming to our senses
Positions affect, or feeling, as our new cultural compass, ordering the parameters and possibilities of what can be known.
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Paris spleen
Paris Spleen is one of the first modern books—formally experimental, morally ambivalent, and relentlessly urban.
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V. s. naipaul's journeys
Sanjay Krishnan rereads V. S. Naipaul’s work to offer new perspectives on his achievements, shortcomings, trajectory, and complicated legacy. While recognizing the flaws and prejudices that shaped and limited Naipaul’s life and art, this book challenges the binaries that have restricted discussio...
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En la entraña del tiempo (in time's core) [spanish-chinese-language edition]
Coral Bracho is one of Mexico's most influential contemporary poets. This anthology culls poems from eight of Bracho's books, presenting her work in both Spanish and traditional character Chinese translation. It affirms the relationship between the brilliant inventions and authentic feel of the n...
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The complete review guide to contemporary world fiction
Profiling hundreds of titles and authors from 1945 to today, this reference provides a fascinating portal into the styles, trends, and genres of the world’s literatures. Arranged by region, country, and language, entries illuminate the fiction of individual nations and cultures, while concise bio...
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Connected histories, shared present
The essays in the book look at the transcontinental dialogic relationship which emerges from the cross-cultural experiences between Latin America, Caribbean and India and directs our gaze towards a present animated by mutual interest and transcultural fertilization.
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The savage detectives reread
David Kurnick argues that the controversies surrounding Roberto Bolaño’s life and work have obscured his achievements—and that The Savage Detectives is still underappreciated for the subtlety and vitality of its portrait of collective life. He explores the novel as an epic of social structure and...
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Adrift
This personal anthology by the award-winning Argentine poet, offers a deep reflection on the transient nature of passions and life, and embraces language as a place where the fleeting can find a form of permanence.
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Music for bamboo strings
A new Collection of haunting prose and poetry from Carlos Pintado.
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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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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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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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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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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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Centring disability
This book demands reconfiguring the centre of knowledge generation by relocating disability from its present peripheral position to the centre.
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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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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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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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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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My mother was a freedom fighter
Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism.
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Island in the net
An exploration of Cuba’s emerging digital culture and Cubans’ creation of grassroots networks, digital black markets, and online spaces for public debateUntil just a few years ago, Cuba was one of the least-connected countries in the world. But as digital technology has become increasingly availa...
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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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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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Coup
Coup analyzes the conditions that led to the 2019 coup in Bolivia and details its repressive aftermath.
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Blue flare: three contemporary haitian poets
Three celebrated poets illuminate the complexity of life in Haiti and its diaspora in the 21st century, particularly for women, in this exceptional and unprecedented trilingual collection. In Évelyne Trouillot’s sensual poems about love and yearning, she asks repeatedly “in what language should I...
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Urban power
Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environmentFor the first time in history, most people live in cities. One in seven are living in slums, the most excluded parts of cities, in which the basics of urban life—including adequate housing, accessible ...
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Underground politics
How Colombian mining communities navigate state power in a context of criminalization and political neglectIn the Chocó rainforests of Colombia, local and settler miners turn to gold as a means to get by and get ahead on the margins of capitalism. They eke out livelihoods while worrying about the...
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The verandah poems
The Verandah Poems was both a departure and a return for Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, who left her village in Jamaica to become an internationally renowned Dub poet and storyteller. This is a book of coming home and coming to terms, of contemplation rather than contention – of mellow, musing, edgy po...
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