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"Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies."
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
This study of the Mexican meat industry's resistance to American processing methods illustrates one of the popular origins of the Revolution of 1910 and how Mexican butchers preserved their traditional craft.
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil is a groundbreaking comparative analysis of the historical development and contemporary dynamics of LGBT activism in Latin America’s two largest democracies. Rafael de la Dehesa focuses on the ways that LGBT activists have engaged with the state, particularly in alliance with political parties and through government health agencies in the wake of the AIDS crisis. He examines this engagement against the backdrop of the broader political transitions to democracy, the neoliberal transformation of state–civil society relations, and the gradual consolidation of sexual rights at the international level. His comparison highlights similarities betw...
Richard Snyder's study offers an analysis of politics after neoliberalism.
How historically rooted power dynamics have shaped the evolution of civil society globally. The civil society sector—made up of millions of nonprofit organizations, associations, charitable institutions, and the volunteers and resources they mobilize—has long been the invisible subcontinent on the landscape of contemporary society. For the past twenty years, however, scholars under the umbrella of the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project have worked with statisticians to assemble the first comprehensive, empirical picture of the size, structure, financing, and role of this increasingly important part of modern life. What accounts for the enormous cross-national variations i...
Guillermo Soberón es un personaje clave para la salud, la educación y la investigación científica en México en el siglo XX. Esta obra reúne las memorias de su vida profesional, abarcando tres facetas: 1) su formación educativa y su paso por instituciones notables; 2) su desempeño como rector de la UNAM ("el mayor privilegio de mi vida"), y 3) su viraje de la bioquímica hacia el campo de la salud pública, que incluye su experiencia como secretario de Salud federal. En suma, se trata de un testimonio único de las circunstancias por las que hombre y país han transitado a través de difíciles avatares en su desarrollo.
No detailed description available for "1986-1987".