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by Carolina Rocha
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012
Examines contemporary cinematic representations of Argentine masculinities, the social construction of gender, and the financing of domestic film production following Argentina's 1990 change to a neo-liberal economic model.
The Memory of State Terrorism in the Southern Cone
Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Through various lenses and theoretical approaches, this book explores the contested experiences, meanings, realms, goals, and challenges associated with the construction, preservation, and transmission of the memories of state repression in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.
Blackness in the Andes
Ethnographic Vignettes of Cultural Politics in the Time of Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
This book examines, in Andean national contexts, the impacts of the 'Latin American multicultural turn' of the past two decades on Afro Andean cultural politics, emphasizing both transformations and continuities.
Real-Time Diplomacy
Politics and Power in the Social Media Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
In light of the events of 2011, Real-Time Diplomacy examines how diplomacy has evolved as media have gradually reduced the time available to policy makers. It analyzes the workings of real-time diplomacy and the opportunities for media-centered diplomacy programs that bypass governments and directly engage foreign citizens.
Applying Relational Sociology
Relations, Networks, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Edited by François Depelteau and Christopher Powell, this volume and its companion, Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and Theoretical Issues, addresses fundamental questions about what relational sociology is and how it works.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
This book is a comparative study of educational policies over the past two decades in Latin America. These policies, enacted through constitutional reforms, sought to protect the right of Indigenous peoples to a culturally inclusive education. The book assesses the impact of these policies on educational...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This edited volume helps bridge the elusive gap between theory and practice in dealing with the issue of "security" broadly conceived. A quarter of a century has passed since the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. Yet our notions of security remain mired in Cold War thinking whose realist ethos...
Curriculum Studies in Mexico
Intellectual Histories, Present Circumstances
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Of interest to scholars both within and outside the U.S., this volume reports how curriculum studies scholars in Mexico understand their field's intellectual history, its present circumstances, and the relations among these intersecting domains with globalization.
Whose God Rules?
Is the United States a Secular Nation or a Theolegal Democracy?
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
This book demonstrates that the United States, whether we like it or not, is a theolegal nation - a democracy that simultaneously guarantees citizens the right to free expression of belief while preventing the establishment of a state religion.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
This book studies the phenomenon of fundamentalism in the United States. It contains historical and contemporary scholarly analysis of the Christian movements that emerged around the time of the Moral Majority.
The Black Campus Movement
Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965–1972
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book provides the first national study of this intense and challenging struggle which disrupted and refashioned institutions in almost every state. It also illuminates the context for one of the most transformative educational movements in American history through a history of black higher education and black student activism before 1965.
Gramsci, Political Economy, and International Relations Theory
Modern Princes and Naked Emperors
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
This book seeks to provide the most comprehensive and sustained engagement and critique of neo-Gramscian analyses available in the literature. In examining neo-Gramscian analyses in IR/IPE, the book engages with two fundamental concerns in international relations: (i) The question of historicity and (ii) The analysis of radical transformation.
by A. Ware
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Recently, there has been a high level of conflict in American politics. Massive disagreements over government policies have pitted one group of Americans against another. This book explores how and why this style of politics developed and argues that fundamental disagreements between Americans have always been at the root of its politics.
Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema
Road Films in a Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Many South American films that use the popular road movie format to examine regional culture and attitudes, especially in Argentina and Brazil. Pinazza performs a careful cultural analysis of the films and investigates how road movies deal with narratives on nationhood whilst simultaneously inserting themselves in a transnational dialogue.