Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Argentina
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Statistical Yearbook, Republic of Argentina
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Argentina
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Argentina
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Bibliographic Guide to Latin American Studies 1996
Author: G K HALL
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780783817644
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780783817644
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America
Author: Jane S. Jaquette
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822392569
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Latin American women’s movements played important roles in the democratic transitions in South America during the 1980s and in Central America during the 1990s. However, very little has been written on what has become of these movements and their agendas since the return to democracy. This timely collection examines how women’s movements have responded to the dramatic political, economic, and social changes of the last twenty years. In these essays, leading scholar-activists focus on the various strategies women’s movements have adopted and assess their successes and failures. The book is organized around three broad topics. The first, women’s access to political power at the national level, is addressed by essays on the election of Michelle Bachelet in Chile, gender quotas in Argentina and Brazil, and the responses of the women’s movement to the “Bolivarian revolution” in Venezuela. The second topic, the use of legal strategies, is taken up in essays on women’s rights across the board in Argentina, violence against women in Brazil, and gender in the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Peru. Finally, the international impact of Latin American feminists is explored through an account of their participation in the World Social Forum, an assessment of a Chilean-led project carried out by women’s organizations in several countries to hold governments to the promises they made at international conferences in Cairo and Beijing, and an account of cross-border organizing to address femicides and domestic abuse in the Juárez-El Paso border region. Jane S. Jaquette provides the historical and political context of women’s movement activism in her introduction, and concludes the volume by engaging contemporary debates about feminism, civil society, and democracy. Contributors. Jutta Borner, Mariana Caminotti, Alina Donoso, Gioconda Espina, Jane S. Jaquette, Beatriz Kohen, Julissa Mantilla Falcón, Jutta Marx, Gabriela L. Montoya, Flávia Piovesan, Marcela Ríos Tobar, Kathleen Staudt, Teresa Valdés, Virginia Vargas
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822392569
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Latin American women’s movements played important roles in the democratic transitions in South America during the 1980s and in Central America during the 1990s. However, very little has been written on what has become of these movements and their agendas since the return to democracy. This timely collection examines how women’s movements have responded to the dramatic political, economic, and social changes of the last twenty years. In these essays, leading scholar-activists focus on the various strategies women’s movements have adopted and assess their successes and failures. The book is organized around three broad topics. The first, women’s access to political power at the national level, is addressed by essays on the election of Michelle Bachelet in Chile, gender quotas in Argentina and Brazil, and the responses of the women’s movement to the “Bolivarian revolution” in Venezuela. The second topic, the use of legal strategies, is taken up in essays on women’s rights across the board in Argentina, violence against women in Brazil, and gender in the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Peru. Finally, the international impact of Latin American feminists is explored through an account of their participation in the World Social Forum, an assessment of a Chilean-led project carried out by women’s organizations in several countries to hold governments to the promises they made at international conferences in Cairo and Beijing, and an account of cross-border organizing to address femicides and domestic abuse in the Juárez-El Paso border region. Jane S. Jaquette provides the historical and political context of women’s movement activism in her introduction, and concludes the volume by engaging contemporary debates about feminism, civil society, and democracy. Contributors. Jutta Borner, Mariana Caminotti, Alina Donoso, Gioconda Espina, Jane S. Jaquette, Beatriz Kohen, Julissa Mantilla Falcón, Jutta Marx, Gabriela L. Montoya, Flávia Piovesan, Marcela Ríos Tobar, Kathleen Staudt, Teresa Valdés, Virginia Vargas
Globalization
Author: Gernot Kohler
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590333464
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The majority of people around the world are experiencing oppressive and destructive forces which manifest themselves in starvation, income polarisation, joblessness, stress, violence, and so on. What is the nature of these forces? If we call them "globalisation", can there be good globalisation as well as bad globalisation? Is this a new phenomenon or just a continuation of history as it has always been? This book brings together a wide range of expertise addressing these problems from a world-systems perspective.
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590333464
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The majority of people around the world are experiencing oppressive and destructive forces which manifest themselves in starvation, income polarisation, joblessness, stress, violence, and so on. What is the nature of these forces? If we call them "globalisation", can there be good globalisation as well as bad globalisation? Is this a new phenomenon or just a continuation of history as it has always been? This book brings together a wide range of expertise addressing these problems from a world-systems perspective.
G.K. Hall Bibliographic Guide to Latin American Studies
Author: Benson Latin American Collection
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Statistical Yearbook of the Argentine Republic
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Argentina
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Argentina
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Factors Affecting Learning and Cost Effective Schooling in Latin America
Author: Laura Randall
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Despite many internationally-funded projects, literacy remains low in much of Latin America. Based on reviews of national programs and surveys administered in 1999 to a sample of public primary school students, parents, teachers, principals, and country education directors, this study sheds light on the Latin American quality of education. After de
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Despite many internationally-funded projects, literacy remains low in much of Latin America. Based on reviews of national programs and surveys administered in 1999 to a sample of public primary school students, parents, teachers, principals, and country education directors, this study sheds light on the Latin American quality of education. After de
Contentious Lives
Author: Javier Auyero
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822331155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
DIVAn oral history of popular protest in today's Argentina./div
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822331155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
DIVAn oral history of popular protest in today's Argentina./div
Rethinking Development in Latin America
Author: Charles H. Wood
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271025155
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Understanding development in Latin America today requires both an awareness of the major political and economic changes that have produced a new agenda for social policy in the region and an appreciation of the need to devise better conceptual and methodological tools for analyzing the social impact of these changes. Using as a reference point the issues and theories that dominated social science research on Latin America in the period 1960&–80, this volume contributes to &“rethinking development&” by examining the historical events that accounted for the erosion or demise of once-dominant paradigms and by assessing the new directions of research that have emerged in their place. Following the editors&’ overview of the new conceptual and social agendas in their Introduction, the book proceeds with a review of previous broad conceptual approaches by Alejandro Portes, who emphasizes by contrast the advantages of newer &“middle-range&” theories. Subsequent chapters focus on changes in different arenas and the concepts and methods used to interpret them: &“Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Social Policy&”; &“Citizenship, Politics, and the State&”; &“Work, Families, and Reproduction&”; and &“Urban Settlements, Marginality, and Social Exclusion.&” Contributors, besides the editors, are Marina Ariza and Orlandina de Oliveira, Diane Davis, Vilmar Faria, Joe Foweraker, Elizabeth Jelin, Alejandro Portes, Joe Potter and Rudolfo Tuir&án, Juan Pablo P&érez S&áinz, Osvaldo Sunkel, and Peter Ward.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271025155
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Understanding development in Latin America today requires both an awareness of the major political and economic changes that have produced a new agenda for social policy in the region and an appreciation of the need to devise better conceptual and methodological tools for analyzing the social impact of these changes. Using as a reference point the issues and theories that dominated social science research on Latin America in the period 1960&–80, this volume contributes to &“rethinking development&” by examining the historical events that accounted for the erosion or demise of once-dominant paradigms and by assessing the new directions of research that have emerged in their place. Following the editors&’ overview of the new conceptual and social agendas in their Introduction, the book proceeds with a review of previous broad conceptual approaches by Alejandro Portes, who emphasizes by contrast the advantages of newer &“middle-range&” theories. Subsequent chapters focus on changes in different arenas and the concepts and methods used to interpret them: &“Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Social Policy&”; &“Citizenship, Politics, and the State&”; &“Work, Families, and Reproduction&”; and &“Urban Settlements, Marginality, and Social Exclusion.&” Contributors, besides the editors, are Marina Ariza and Orlandina de Oliveira, Diane Davis, Vilmar Faria, Joe Foweraker, Elizabeth Jelin, Alejandro Portes, Joe Potter and Rudolfo Tuir&án, Juan Pablo P&érez S&áinz, Osvaldo Sunkel, and Peter Ward.
Social Movements and State Power
Author: James Petras
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Leading academics investigate the left turn in Latin American politics.
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Leading academics investigate the left turn in Latin American politics.