Sergio Ramírez’s memoir of the Nicaraguan Revolution and his exit from the Sandinista movement illuminates the dark recesses of revolutionary politics
Categories: Central America, Nicaragua, North America, United States
Tag: Social history
Ways of looking
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Edward McCaughan blends cultural theory with the study of social movements to come up with an original view of the ideology hidden in images
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
War in the sewers
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A new form of neoliberal violence is being directed against the discarded humanity that stalks the filthy sewers beneath the US-Mexico border at Nogales
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Creolization and Contraband
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Creolization and Contraband: Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World, Linda M Rupert, 2012, University of Georgia Press
Categories: South America, Venezuela
Patients of the State
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Patients of the State: The Politics of Waiting in Argentina, Javier Auyero, 2012, Duke University Press
Categories: Argentina, South America
Tectonic Shifts
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Tectonic Shifts: Haiti Since the Earthquake, Edited by Mark Schuller and Pablo Morales, 2012, Kumarian Press
She gods
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A timely study of Mexican icons of the divine feminine offers a new perspective on the history of religion at a time when the Church is gender confused
Categories: Mexico, North America
Realm of the possible
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Raúl Zibechi’s classic survey of Latin American social movements offers an inspiring vision of a new world being actively forged in the gaps of capitalism
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, North America, South America, Venezuela
Race risks
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The study of race and racism in Latin America is complicated by the many different roles these have played in political development
Categories: Bolivia, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South America, Venezuela
Unspeakable Violence
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Unspeakable Violence: Remapping US and Mexican National Boundaries, Nicole M Guidotti-Hernández, 2011, Duke University Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States