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Urban Encounters
Affirmative Action and Black Identities in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Winner of the Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section Book Awards. Utilizing an ethnographic study of a public university and its users, Cicalo analyzes the practical and symbolic potential that affirmative action has to redress historically-produced and territorialized inequalities in the urban space.
Indigenous Women’s Movements in Latin America
Gender and Ethnicity in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This book presents a comparative analysis of the organizing trajectories of indigenous women’s movements in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia. The authors’ innovative research reveals how the articulation of gender and ethnicity is central to shape indigenous women’s discourses. It explores the political...
Cultural Politics and Resistance in the 21st Century
Community-Based Social Movements and Global Change in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
By analyzing the cases present in this volume, the editors develop important steps towards a theory of social change that can adequately address the complex realities and intersectionality of identity (race, gender, class, sexuality, nationality) within and among these new movements.
Democracy in “Two Mexicos”
Political Institutions in Oaxaca and Nuevo León
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
This book explains some of the ways in which deteriorated socioeconomic conditions (inequality in particular) and institutional limitations (corruption, electoral exclusion, and a weak rule of law, among others) affect political stability in extremely unequal developing countries, like Mexico, where democracy is not yet fully consolidated.
Gender and Decolonization in the Congo
The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Patrice Lumumba s legacy continues to fire the imagination of politicians, activists, and artists. But women have been missing from accounts of the Congo s decolonization. What new ideals of masculinity and femininity were generated in this struggle? Were masculinist biases re-inscribed in later depictions...
by M. Eze
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
This book mediates a dialectics between power and subjectivity versus history and politics. The invention of Africa is not merely a residue of Africa's encounter with Europe but a project in continuity in contemporary history of Africa, where history has become a location of struggle and meaning,...
Memories of the Maghreb
Transnational Identities in Spanish Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Using a cultural studies approach, this book explores how the Spanish colonization of North Africa continues to haunt Spain's efforts to articulate a national identity that can accommodate both the country's diversity, brought about by immigration from its old colonies, and the postnational demands of its integration in the European Union.
Assembling Neoliberalism
Expertise, Practices, Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This book examines how neoliberalism is constituted from multiple, diverse elements; how these elements are brought together and made to cohere; and the challenges, contestations, and consequences of such. Informed by assemblage thinking, the collection builds on research that emphasizes the forms...
Blair’s Educational Legacy
Thirteen Years of New Labour
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Providing an overview and Marxist assessment of Tony Blair and New Labour's UK education policies, structures, and processes, the contributors in this exciting new collection discuss specific aspects of education policy and practices.
Economics, Governance, and Politics in the Wine Market
European Union Developments
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
The global wine industry is a continually modifying market impacted by financing, culture, and politics. Economics, Governance, and Politics in the Wine Market analyzes recent developments in European Agriculture policies on wine legislation and market trend orientation between political power and market structure.
Confronting Corruption, Building Accountability
Lessons from the World of International Development Advising
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
The crisis that nearly brought the world's financial house down in 2008 demonstrated clearly that the global economy cannot work where there is widespread deception, corruption and lack of accountability. Corruption and lack of accountability are also key reasons why international development assistance so often fails to deliver on its promise.
Management and the Gospel
Luke’s Radical Message for the First and Twenty-First Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
The goals of Management and the Gospel: Luke's Radical Message for the First and Twenty-First Centuries may appear to be simple: it describes what management theory and practice looked like in the first century, uses this as a lens to examine what the Gospel of Luke says about management, and draws...
Muslim Ethiopia
The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics, and Islamic Reformism
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Drawing on international and multidisciplinary expertise, this pioneering edited collection analyzing Islam in contemporary Ethiopia challenges the popular notion of a 'Christian Ethiopia' imagined as the century-old, never colonized Abyssinia, isolated in the highlands and dominated by Orthodox Christianity.
Material Religion in Modern Britain
The Spirit of Things
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
This volume contributes towards to developments in the study of religion that illuminate the plural nature of religious change in modern Britain. It makes a critical intervention in British studies of religion by bringing the analytical insights of material culture, to bear on religion in the British World.