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Over six billion dollars in developmental assistance is funneled annually through non-governmental organizations (NGOs), yet little is understood about the nature of their relationship with communities and the real impact of their work. This book examines what role NGOs really play in fighting poverty in Latin America. Expert NGO professionals and scholars explore grass-roots relationships between international religious and secular NGOs and poor communities. They probe the power structures, cultural assumptions, dangers and possibilities that underlie NGOs' work. While fighting poverty is the mission of many NGOs, most are aware that they often fail to make things better, and, in fact, may ...
These essays provide historical studies, sociological surveys and analyses of policies and practices in the philanthropic community, not only in the United States but, for comparison's sake, in Mexico and Argentina as well. While descriptive and analytical, this collection also identifies, for policymakers and practitioners, opportunities for more and better involvement in serving Latinos.
With contributions from over 30 scholars, A Global History of Consumer Co-operation surveys the origins and development of the consumer co-operative movement from the mid-nineteenth century until the present day. The contributions, covering the history of co-operation in different national contexts in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australasia, illustrate the wide variety of forms that consumer co-operatives have taken; the different political, economic and social contexts in which they have operated; the ideological influences on their development; and the reasons for their expansion and decline at different times. The book also explores the connections between co-operatives in different pa...
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The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c. 1500–c. 1820) is part of a renewal of interest in the global history of the Dominican Order. Many of the essays were carefully selected among some of the papers presented at the III International Conference on the History of the Order of Preachers in the Americas, a gathering that stands in continuity with the conferences of Mexico (2013) and Bogotá (2016). This book, the contributors of which are active researchers specializing in the history of the Order of Preachers in Latin America, is organized in four parts: Women and the Order of Preachers; “Benditos Bienes”: Libraries and Material Patrimony; Missions, Devotional, and Daily...
During the dark years of the military dictatorship, Tango had fallen into oblivion all over the world, most especially in Argentina. The “Tango Argentino” show was the show that led to the worldwide revival of interest in Tango. It debuted in Paris, then conquered Broadway and, later, the whole world. Juan Carlos Copes, Miguel Ángel Zotto, and Milena Plebs, Gloria and Rodolfo Dinzel, Gloria and Eduardo, Virulazo, and Elvira are some of the artists who participated in this legendary show and are described in great detail in this book, now known as the definitive work on Tango Argentino. Every serious tanguero should know the history of the revival of Tango and this book is for them. Tang...
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Este volumen recoge los trabajos presentados, en el simposio Estado, región y poder local en América Latina, desarrollado en Barcelona el 29 y 30 de noviembre de 2006, por investigadores interesados en analizar y debatir, desde una mirada interdisciplinaria, cuestiones relativas a las características del estado-nación, el surgimiento y la articulación de diversos espacios regionales y la conformación de los poderes locales en la construcción de los estados latinoamericanos. La convocatoria fue organizada por el Taller de Estudios e Investigaciones Andino-Amazónicos (TEIAA), grupo de investigación consolidado de la Universitat de Barcelona (2005SGR 00250) que desde 1991 ha promovido diversas reuniones científicas ya en la Universidad de Barcelona, ya en congresos nacionales e internacionales (AHILA e ICA fundamentalmente), además de haber organizado un seminario permanente con la participación de investigadores de diversas disciplinas humanísticas y de las ciencias sociales, y de estudiantes de postgrado.