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Oaxaca Resurgent
Oaxaca Resurgent examines how Indigenous people in one of Mexico's most rebellious states shaped local and national politics during the twentieth century. Drawing on declassified surveillance documents and original ethnographic research, A. S. Dillingham traces the contested history of indigenous development and the trajectory of the Mexican government's Instituto Nacional Indigenista, the most ambitious agency of its kind in the Americas. This book shows how generations of Indigenous actors, operating from within the Mexican government while also challenging its authority, proved instrumental in democratizing the local teachers' trade union and implementing bilingual education. Focusing on ...
Electoral Malpractice
Electoral Malpractice shows how this phenomenon might be reduced by means of a variety of strategies designed to raise the cost of electoral manipulation by increasing the ability of civil society and international actors to monitor and denounce it.
Street Art and Democracy in Latin America
This book explores street art’s contributions to democracy in Latin America through a comparative study of five cities: Bogota (Colombia), São Paulo (Brazil), Valparaiso (Chile), Oaxaca (Mexico) and Havana (Cuba). The author argues that when artists invade public space for the sake of disseminating rage, claims or statements, they behave as urban citizens who try to raise public awareness, nurture public debates and hold authorities accountable. Street art also reveals how public space is governed. When local authorities try to contain, regulate or repress public space invasions, they can achieve their goals democratically if they dialogue with the artists and try to reach a consensus inspired by a conception of the city as a commons. Under specific conditions, the book argues, street level democracy and collaborative governance can overlap, prompting a democratization of democracy.
Planetary Hinterlands
This open access book considers the concept of the hinterland as a crucial tool for understanding the global and planetary present as a time defined by the lasting legacies of colonialism, increasing labor precarity under late capitalist regimes, and looming climate disasters. Traditionally seen to serve a (colonial) port or market town, the hinterland here becomes a lens to attend to the times and spaces shaped and experienced across the received categories of the urban, rural, wilderness or nature. In straddling these categories, the concept of the hinterland foregrounds the human and more-than-human lively processes and forms of care that go on even in sites defined by capitalist extraction and political abandonment. Bringing together scholars from the humanities and social sciences, the book rethinks hinterland materialities, affectivities, and ecologies across places and cultural imaginations, Global North and South, urban and rural, and land and water.
Rhythms of the Pachakuti
In the indigenous Andean language of Aymara, pachakuti refers to the subversion and transformation of social relations. Between 2000 and 2005, Bolivia was radically transformed by a series of popular indigenous uprisings against the country's neoliberal and antidemocratic policies. In Rhythms of the Pachakuti, Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar documents these mass collective actions, tracing the internal dynamics of such disruptions to consider how motivation and execution incite political change. "In Rhythms of the Pachakuti we can sense the reverberations of an extraordinary historical process that took place in Bolivia at the start of the twenty-first century. The book is the product of Raquel Gu...
Dilemas de la acción colectiva en América Latina
Diagnosis of challenges and opportunities faced by grass-roots social movements and non-profit organizations in their relationship with Latin American governments in recent years. Authors point to dilemmas and ambiguities of collective action under various national scenarios, including crises of legitimacy, political shifts and institutional change. Evokes examples from Peru, Colombia, Nicaragua, Argentina, El Salvador, and others. Edition limited to 500 copies.
Contornos de lo polÃtico
Esta obra es una apuesta por la idea sobre cómo hacer sociologÃa. En esta colección de ensayos sobre la memoria social y la protesta en el conflicto oaxaqueño de 2006, las movilizaciones contestatarias del magisterio en contra de la reforma educativa del gobierno de Enrique Peña Nieto, los orÃgenes históricos del neozapatismo en Chiapas, la matanza de Acteal de 1997 o los aportes de la antropologÃa del Estado, se pone en juego un conjunto de presupuestos básicos sobre lo social como un ámbito de la realidad caracterizado por ser contingente, ambiguo y productor de efectos y significados plurales y paradójicos. Los fenómenos sociales se engranan y desgranan en el tiempo. De autorÃ...
La representación polÃtica de cara al futuro
El presente volumen es producto de un esfuerzo colectivo inscrito en mirada disciplinarias de distinto sigo que, en conjunto, contribuyen a ampliar el debate sobre la representación polÃtica y sus vÃnculos con diversas formas de participación e inclusión democráticas. Los trabajos contenidos en este libro invitan a comprender de manera más amplia la relación entre la representación y democracia a partir de un análisis normativo, conceptual e histórico-empÃrico. La apuesta es dar cuenta de los puntos de tensión y articulación entre las formas electorales y no electorales de representación que están presentes en la polÃtica democrática.
J.A. Bayona
«Bayona es una máquina de hacer cine. Es de las gentes más capaces, más inteligentes, pero también de las más artÃsticas que he conocido. Hay personas que creen en la religión pero él cree en su cine». Guillermo del Toro «J.A. sabe cómo crear terror y también el modo de orquestarlo». Steven Spielberg La vida de J. A. Bayona podrÃa ser el guion de una pelÃcula de Spielberg. Nacido en Barcelona, de padres andaluces que huyeron del hambre, ha logrado convertirse en el primer director español de una superproducción: Jurassic World: El reino caÃdo. Ya antes de rodar su primer largometraje, los ejecutivos de Hollywood se habÃan fijado en él, impresionados por sus anuncios y vi...
The Antarctic Politics of Brazil
This book focuses on the connection between Brazil and Antarctica, two regions that can be seen as distant and contrasting, but are physically, culturally and politically associated. Relying on archival material and previous literature, the book offers a thorough account of Brazil’s involvement with one of the most significant regions in the global environment. The author explores the place of Antarctica in geopolitical works and in the first initiatives involving Brazil and the continent, from the rise of geopolitical thought in Brazil in the 1930s up to the present day. He argues that the connection between Brazil and Antarctica is not without its difficulties, but it has been structured in many enduring ways. The book covers causes for the delay and eventual adoption of a now active foreign policy regarding the region, the policy’s early performance in Antarctica, its evolution as a consequence of domestic and international changes, the increasing interest in the environment, and further recent developments.
