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Rebuilding the Left
What future is there for the left, faced with the challenges of the twenty-first century? Based on a lifetime's experience in politics, Marta Harnecker addresses the crisis facing the left today. At its heart, this book is a critique of social democratic realpolitik. Harnecker reminds us that, contrary to today's orthodoxy, politics is not the art of the possible but the art of making the impossible possible by building a social and political force capable of changing reality. She believes that the social experiments being carried out in Latin America today hold out hope that an alternative to capitalism is possible; they are essentially socialist, democratic projects in which the people are the driving force. To create a real alternative to capitalism, though, the left must change. Rebuilding the Left offers real hope to those who still believe that we can create a different world.
Humanities
Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon became the editor in 2000. The subject categories for Volume 58 are as follows: Electronic Resources for the Humanities Art History (including ethnohistory) Literature (including translations from the Spanish and Portuguese) Philosophy: Latin American Thought Music
World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre
An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.
Deepening Local Democracy in Latin America
The resurgence of the Left in Latin America over the past decade has been so notable that it has been called “the Pink Tide.” In recent years, regimes with leftist leaders have risen to power in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Venezuela. What does this trend portend for the deepening of democracy in the region? Benjamin Goldfrank has been studying the development of participatory democracy in Latin America for many years, and this book represents the culmination of his empirical investigations in Brazil, Uruguay, and Venezuela. In order to understand why participatory democracy has succeeded better in some countries than in others, he examines the efforts in urban areas that have been undertaken in the cities of Porto Alegre, Montevideo, and Caracas. His findings suggest that success is related, most crucially, to how nationally centralized political authority is and how strongly institutionalized the opposition parties are in the local arenas.
Reason to Believe
Based on fieldwork among Pentecostal men in Caracas, Venezuela, this ethnography seeks an explanation for the explosion of Evangelical Protestantism, unraveling the cultural and personal dynamics of Evangelical conversion to show how and why these men make the choice to convert, and how they come to have faith in a new system of beliefs.
Haciendo posible lo imposible
Tras hacer una breve síntesis de los más relevantes acontecimientos ocurridos en América Latina a partir de la revolución cubana, la autora da cuenta de los cambios fundamentales del mundo en los últimos cuarenta años y de la situación en la que se encuentra hoy la izquierda para enfrentar los desafíos del mundo actual; plantea ideas para la reorganización de este sistema y propone criterios para distinguir entre una izquierda reformista y una con objetivos revolucionarios. El libro recuerda que la política no es el arte de lo posible, sino el arte de construir la fuerza social y política capaz de cambiar la realidad haciendo posible en el futuro lo que hoy aparece como un imposible.
Antípodas de la violencia
Este libro examina la relación entre cultura y seguridad ciudadana en ocho ciudades latinoamericanas. Incorpora en los diagnósticos, los análisis, las encuestas y las acciones un concepto de cultura amplio. Lo que más nos interesa de la cultura es su poder regulador. La distribución mundial de los homicidios y los suicidios muestra enormes diferencias entre países cuya explicación no puede sino reconocerle un peso grande a las diferencias culturales. La capacidad que tiene cada cultura de regular, interpretar y justificar o no ciertos comportamientos ofrece claves vitales para comprender y hacer frente a los problemas que confluyen en la actual crisis de seguridad ciudadana en América Latina. La impunidad cultural y la impunidad moral vienen a veces a sumar su efecto a la impunidad legal.
