Book, The Poor's Struggle for Political Incorporation: The Piquetero Movement in Argentina

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The Poor's Struggle for Political Incorporation: The Piquetero Movement in Argentina by Federico M. Rossi

This book offers an innovative perspective on the ever-widening gap between the poor and the state in Latin American politics. It presents a comprehensive analysis of the main social movement that mobilized the poor and unemployed people of Argentina to end neoliberalism and to attain incorporation into a more inclusive and equal society. The piquetero (picketer) movement is the largest movement of unemployed people in the world. This movement has transformed Argentine politics to the extent of becoming part of the governing coalition for more than a decade. Rossi argues that the movement has been part of a long-term struggle by the poor for socio-political participation in the polity after having been excluded by authoritarian regimes and neoliberal reforms. He conceptualizes this process as a wave of incorporation, exploring the characteristics of this major redefinition of politics in Latin America.

Book, "The Rise of the Left" by Ronaldo Munck

The Rise of the Left 
by Ronaldo Munck

Book Review of:
The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left
by Emir Sader
London and New York: Verso, 2011.

Book, "Gender, Body, and Medicine in Urban Ecuador: Ethnographic Explorations of Women’s Embodiment" by Erynn Masi de Casanova

Gender, Body, and Medicine in Urban Ecuador. Ethnographic Explorations of Women’s Embodiment 
by Erynn Masi de Casanova

Book Reviews of:
Casandra Paola Herrera Caicedo Cuerpos en re-construcción: El consumo de cirugía estética en la ciudad de Ambato. Quito: FLACSO Ecuador, 2012.
Elizabeth F. S. Roberts God’s Laboratory: Assisted Reproduction in the Andes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
Ann Miles Living with Lupus: Women and Chronic Illness in Ecuador. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013. London and New York: Zed Books, 2013.

Book, "The United States and Cuba: From Closest Enemies to Distant Friends" by Francisco López Segrera

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The United States and Cuba: From Closest Enemies to Distant Friends (Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom) by Francisco López Segrera

This timely book takes the historic restoration of diplomatic ties between Cuba and the United States in 2015 as the point of departure for a Cuban perspective on future relations. Tracing the history of the long and contentious relationship, Francisco López Segrera analyzes the pre-revolutionary and Cold War periods as well as more recent changes within each nation and in the international environment that led to the diplomatic opening and the abandonment of regime change as the goal of U.S. policy. He considers factors such as the declining influence of hard-line Cuban exiles in the United States; almost universal calls from Latin America, Europe, and other U.S. allies for constructive diplomatic engagement; and the economic restructuring underway in Cuba following the crisis of the “Special Period” triggered by the collapse of the Soviet Union. The author also identifies conditions favoring further progress, as well as outstanding issues that may constitute barriers—especially the blockade, U.S. demands for a Western-style democracy in Cuba, and its refusal to return the Guantánamo naval base to Cuban sovereignty. Comparing the differing perceptions shaping policies on both sides, López Segrera weighs the steps that will be necessary for the two countries to move toward full normalization.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 140 • Trim: 5 3/4 x 8 3/4

978-1-4422-6721-3 • Hardback • April 2017 • $75.00 • (£49.95)

978-1-4422-6722-0 • Paperback • April 2017 • $25.00 • (£15.95)

978-1-4422-6723-7 • eBook • April 2017 • $23.00 • (£15.95)

Book, "Memory, Truth, and Justice in Contemporary Latin America" edited by Roberta Villalón

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Memory, Truth, and Justice in Contemporary Latin America (Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom) edited by Roberta Villalón

As new social actors have emerged in Latin America, the process of dealing with the legacy of still-unresolved human rights abuses has been significantly reinvigorated. This powerful text provides the first systematic analysis of the second wave of memory and justice mobilization throughout the region. A multidisciplinary group of authors, many from the global south, consider the changed political, economic, and social conditions that have led to new forms of social action. They trace the growth of human rights groups as fundamental political organizations in the post-dictatorship era, the participation of public authorities in the investigation and persecution of human rights abusers, and the implementation of national and international human rights legislation. Pairing clear explanations of concepts and debates with cases studies, the book offers a unique opportunity for students to understand and interpret the history and politics of a range of Latin American countries.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 280 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-4422-6724-4 • Hardback • July 2017 • $85.00 • (£54.95)

978-1-4422-6725-1 • Paperback • July 2017 • $37.00 • (£24.95)

978-1-4422-6726-8 • eBook • July 2017 • $35.00 • (£23.95)

Book, "Twentieth-Century Latin American Revolutions" by Marc Becker

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Twentieth-Century Latin American Revolutions (Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom) by Marc Becker

Revolutions are a commonly studied but only vaguely understood historical phenomenon. This clear and concise text extends our understanding with a critical narrative analysis of key case studies: the 1910–1920 Mexican Revolution; the 1944–1954 Guatemalan Spring; the 1952–1964 MNR-led revolution in Bolivia; the Cuban Revolution that triumphed in 1959; the 1970–1973 Chilean path to socialism; the leftist Sandinistas in Nicaragua in power from 1979–1990; failed guerrilla movements in Colombia, El Salvador, and Peru; and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela after Hugo Chávez’s election in 1998. Historian Marc Becker opens with a theoretical introduction to revolutionary movements, including a definition of what “revolution” means and an examination of factors necessary for a revolution to succeed. He analyzes revolutions through the lens of those who participated and explores the sociopolitical conditions that led to a revolutionary situation, the differing responses to those conditions, and the outcomes of those political changes. Each case study provides an interpretive explanation of the historical context in which each movement emerged, its main goals and achievements, its shortcomings, its outcome, and its legacy. The book concludes with an analysis of how elected leftist governments in the twenty-first century continue to struggle with issues that revolutionaries confronted throughout the twentieth century.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 272 • Trim: 6 1/4 x 9 1/4

978-1-4422-6586-8 • Hardback • June 2017 • $85.00 • (£54.95)

978-1-4422-6587-5 • Paperback • June 2017 • $30.00 • (£19.95)

978-1-4422-6588-2 • eBook • June 2017 • $28.00 • (£18.95)

Book, "Urban Latin America: Inequalities and Neoliberal Reforms" (Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom) by Tom Angotti

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Urban Latin America: Inequalities and Neoliberal Reforms (Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom)

Edited by Tom Angotti

Latin America is one of the most urbanized regions of the world. To understand Latin America today it is important to trace the origins and characteristics of the urban-rural divide, inequalities within urban areas, and the prospects for change. This is particularly important and timely given the challenges of widening environmental and social disparities, climate change, and climate justice. The authors critically analyze urban issues within the context of the national and regional political economy, neoliberal governance, and urban social movements. Latin America’s cities are sharply divided into wealthy enclaves and large peripheral areas, reflecting deep social and economic inequalities, leading to notable movements and reforms. This text explores Latin American cities, their history, similarities and differences, and current problems.

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Pages: 306 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-4422-7447-1 • Hardback • August 2017 • $89.00 • (£60.00)

978-1-4422-7448-8 • Paperback • August 2017 • $35.00 • (£23.95)

978-1-4422-7449-5 • eBook • August 2017 • $33.00 • (£22.95)

Book Review, The Topsy-Turvy Path to Twenty-first-Century Socialism. The Limitations of the New Left in Latin America

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The Topsy-Turvy Path to Twenty-first-Century Socialism. The Limitations of the New Left in Latin America 
by Nicole Fabricant

Book Review:
Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-first-Century Socialism.
by Roger Burbach, Michael Fox, Federico Fuentes
London and New York: Zed Books, 2013.

Book Review, Today's Left in Power: Promises and Problems

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Today's Left in Power: Promises and Problems
by Hobart A. Spalding



Book Review for Latin America’s Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century.
by Steve Ellner (ed.)
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.

Book, Rethinking Latin American Social Movements: Radical Action From Below

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Rethinking Latin American Social Movements: Radical Action From Below 

Edited By LAP Editors Richard Stahler-Sholk; Harry E. Vanden and Marc Becker 

This groundbreaking text explores the dramatic evolution in Latin American social movements over the past fifteen years. Leading scholars examine a variety of cases that highlight significant shifts in the region. First is the breakdown of the Washington Consensus and the global economic crisis since 2008, accompanied by the rise of new paradigms such as buen vivir (living well). Second are transformations in internal movement dynamics and strategies, especially the growth of horizontalism (horizontalidad), which emphasizes non-hierarchical relations within society rather than directly tackling state power. Third are new dynamics of resistance and repression as movements interact with the "pink tide" rise of left-of-center governments in the region. Exploring outcomes and future directions, the contributors consider the variations between movements arising from immediate circumstances (such as Oaxaca's 2006 uprising and Brazil's 2013 bus fare protests) and longer-lasting movements (Vía Campesina, Brazil's MST, and Mexico's Zapatistas). Assessing both the continuities in social movement dynamics and important new tendencies, this book will be essential reading for all students of Latin American politics and society.

Book, "The Rise of the Left" by Ronaldo Munck

The Rise of the Left 
by Ronaldo Munck

Book Review of:
The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left
by Emir Sader
London and New York: Verso, 2011.

Book, "Gender, Body, and Medicine in Urban Ecuador: Ethnographic Explorations of Women’s Embodiment" by Erynn Masi de Casanova

Gender, Body, and Medicine in Urban Ecuador. Ethnographic Explorations of Women’s Embodiment 
by Erynn Masi de Casanova

Book Reviews of:
Casandra Paola Herrera Caicedo Cuerpos en re-construcción: El consumo de cirugía estética en la ciudad de Ambato. Quito: FLACSO Ecuador, 2012.
Elizabeth F. S. Roberts God’s Laboratory: Assisted Reproduction in the Andes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
Ann Miles Living with Lupus: Women and Chronic Illness in Ecuador. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013. London and New York: Zed Books, 2013.

Book, "Activist Scholarship and Urban Land Invasions" by Marc Becker

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Book Review:  "Activist Scholarship and Urban Land Invasions." 

Paul Dosh Demanding the Land: Urban Popular Movements in Peru and Ecuador, 1990–2005. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.

By Marc Becker

Book Review, "Challenges Facing the Latin American Left According to Marta Harnecker" by Steve Ellner

Book Review
Challenges Facing the Latin American Left According to Marta Harnecker 
by Steve Ellner

Marta Harnecker, A World to Build: New Paths toward Twenty-first-Century Socialism.
Translated by Fred Fuentes. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2015.

Book, "Activist Scholarship and Urban Land Invasions" by Marc Becker

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Book Review:  "Activist Scholarship and Urban Land Invasions." 

Paul Dosh Demanding the Land: Urban Popular Movements in Peru and Ecuador, 1990–2005. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.

By Marc Becker

Book, "The New Latin American Left: Cracks in the Empire" Edited By Jeffrey R. Webber and Barry Carr

The New Latin American Left 
Cracks in the Empire 
EDITED BY JEFFERY R. WEBBER AND BARRY CARR 
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Book, Economic Life of Mexican Beach Vendors: Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta, and Cabo San Lucas

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Economic Life of Mexican Beach Vendors: Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta, and Cabo San Lucas
by Tamar Diana Wilson

Economic Life of Mexican Beach Vendors: Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta, and Cabo San Lucas is based on interviews with 82 men and 84 women who vend their wares on beaches in three Mexican tourist centers. Assuming that some people may actively choose self-employment in the informal or semi-informal economy, the employment and educational aspirations of the vendors and their levels of satisfaction with their work are explored. Most of the vendors had other family members who were also vendors, and 75 (45.2 percent) had 5 or more family members who vended, most usually on Mexican beaches. The vendors are aware of the forces of globalization (though they do not express these forces in those words), as revealed by their responses to questions as to how the current world economic recession has affected them. The beach vendors live in essentially segregated neighborhoods that can be considered apartheid-like, far from the tourist zones.

Most of the vendors or their parents are rural-to-urban migrants and cross ethnic, linguistic, and economic borders as they migrate to and work in what have been called transnational social spaces. Of the vendors interviewed, 82 (49.4 percent) speak an indigenous language, and of these, 60 (73.2 percent) speak Nahuatl. The majority are from the state of Guerrero, but there were also Zapotec-speakers from Oaxaca. Both indigenous and non-indigenous women take part in beach vending. They are often wives, daughters, or sisters of male beach vendors, and they may be single, married, living in free union, or widowed. Their income is often of central importance to the household economy. This monograph aims to bring their stories to tourists and to scholars and students of tourism development and /or the informal or semi-informal economy in Mexican tourist centers.

Book, Açúcar no sertão : a ofensiva capitalista no Nordeste do Brasil

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Açúcar no sertão : a ofensiva capitalista no Nordeste do Brasil
by Mônica Dias Martins

O livro de Mônica Dias Martins analisa como a ditadura operou no Nordeste do Brasil, abordando o caso a partir de anotações colhidas em anos de convivência com os trabalhadores, documentos oficiais, noticiais de jornal e entrevistas. O resultado foi uma rica descrição dos atores dessa aventura: os militares empenhados em modernizar o país, os técnicos do Banco Mundial que orientaram a ação governamental, o empresário que obteve vultosos financiamentos públicos, os políticos que intermediaram os negócios, os meios de comunicação que prepagaram o pretendido milagre de tornar a terra seca em campos verdejantes e os trabalhadores rurais que tiveram seu mundo desorganizado para pior. Esse estudo é pleno de ensinamentos sobre a modernização experimentada no semi-árido com o endosso das agências 

Book, "Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean." Edited By Richard L. Harris and Jorge Nef

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Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean – New Edition 
EDITED BY RICHARD L. HARRIS AND JORGE NEF

For an additional chapter on health and human security: Click Here. 
For suggested resources for each chapter in the book: Click Here. 
For additional resources on ecological and social issues: Click Here. 
For additional resources on indigenous peoples: Click Here.
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.

Book, "Today’s Left in Power: Promises and Problems" by Hobart A. Spalding

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Today’s Left in Power: Promises and Problems 
by Hobart A. Spalding

Book Review of:
Latin America’s Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century.
by Steve Ellner (ed.)
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.