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New Realism, New Barbarism
Leading scholars discuss ideology and hotly contested post-structuralist theory.
Mexico's Rebellious Afterlives
Mexico's Rebellious Afterlives: Armed Uprisings and Activism in the Narco War examines nonviolent activism and armed uprisings in the narco war. Olof Kjell Oscar Ohlson argues that relatives of Mexico’s many victims of violence, often without earlier experiences of human rights advocacy, become activists protesting violence or form self-armed citizens’ police to resist state, capitalist, and criminal violence. Ohlson develops innovative theories on political afterlives and rituals of rebellion, demonstrating how political street protests transform over time to become annual commemorative events at new memorial sites for the disappeared.
Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century
"Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century is an interdisciplinary approach to human mobility in Central America and beyond"--
The Weariness of Democracy
Liberal democracy today, having aligned itself with capitalism, is producing a generalized feeling of weariness and disillusionment with government among the citizenry of many countries. Because of a decades-long march of globalized capitalism, economic oligarchies have gained oppressive levels of political power, and as a result, the economic needs of many people around the world have been neglected. It then becomes essential to remember that our ability to change society emerges from our power to formulate different questions; or, in this case, alternative understandings of democracy. This book draws together a variety of alternative theories of democracies in a quest to expose readers to ...
Regional Integration, Development, and Governance in Mesoamerica
This book provides an overview of governance and development in the Mesoamerican Region (MAR), the design and scope of the Plan Puebla Panamá (PPP), its relationship to pre-existing regional organisms and its transformation into Proyecto Mesoamérica. The PPP was introduced as a holistic project that would reverse the cycles of poverty in Mesoamerica. However, the plan incited huge opposition from many groups within Mesoamerica, and throughout its duration few of its objectives were met. The author analyses the plan and describes the regional setting and precursors, as well as the US policy towards the Mesoamerican countries. Using this approach with an analysis of governance in Mesoamerica, this monograph shows a more complete picture of why this ambitious development project did not reach its goals and draws applicable insights to other regions where governance is complex.
Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil
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...
Mano Dura Policies in Latin America
Leading scholars and policy analysts from around the Americas come together to untangle the factors that have fuelled the implementation of mano dura politics, their rising popularity, and impacts across nine widely heterogeneous countries in Latin America. Beginning with a discussion on the concept of mano dura, the editors move to survey various theoretical approaches to punitivism, and later review of the empirical research evaluating different drivers behind the adoption of tough on crime policies. Since hard-line initiatives often have consequences beyond the general goal of reducing violence, they then analyze the impacts of these policing strategies on crime rates and different democr...
Izquierda y neoliberalismo de México a Brasil
Izquierda y neoliberalismo de México a Brasil, de Nayar López Castellanos, analiza el proceso de imposición del modelo neoliberal en América Latina y la actuación y respuesta de la izquierda partidaria, destacando los casos de México y Brasil. El autor aborda el tema con un enfoque crítico que busca evidenciar el lenguaje neoliberal y las desastrosas consecuencias sociales que ha generado en los países de la región. De igual forma desarrolla la historia del PRD de México y el PT de Brasil, dos partidos representativos de las fuerzas de la izquierda latinoamericana que, a pesar de sus propuestas de cambio y su destacada lucha por alcanzar justicia y democracia, carecen de una verdadera alternativa de Estado y continúan cargando con viejos y nuevos vicios de la política tradicional, situación que poco a poco lo va alejando de sus raíces populares y revolucionarias. Sin duda, esta obra ofrece importantes lineamientos para el debate sobre la izquierda y el neoliberalismo en una América Latina que continua buscando un mejor futuro para este nuevo siglo.
Marxismos y pensamiento crítico en el Sur global
En la era del simulacro del «pluralismo», aparentemente nada es peligroso. ¡Todo se puede discutir! Todo… menos el poder capitalista y la dominación del dinero, el Mercado y el capital sobre el conjunto de la vida humana y la naturaleza.El presente libro apunta a cuestionar no una parcela inofensiva y hasta simpática de «disidencia controlada», sino el conjunto del sistema capitalista. Sus investigaciones impugnan las versiones edulcoradas del mismo, así como también las expresiones extremistas de la «nueva» derecha neofascista, xenófoba y misógina. Por eso somete a examen y discusión el mainstream aceptado pasivamente como «normal», aquel donde la tradición y el pensamien...
