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Latin American Peasants
The essays in this collection examine agrarian transformation in Latin America and the role in this of peasants, with particular reference to Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Central America. Among the issues covered are the impact of globalization and neo-liberal economic policies.
Antropologías en América Latina
¿Cuáles son los alcances y retos que se presentan en las prácticas de las antropologías en América Latina? Este volumen intenta responder a este interrogante vinculando las experiencias de varios antropólogos y antropólogas de once países. La compilación busca ilustrar la convergencia de varias tendencias y la riqueza del análisis que deriva de las experiencias de las antropologías en la región.
System in Crisis
Mounting hostility to the hegemony of the United States; tumbling stock markets; environmental destruction; sluggish economic growth, unprecedented income inequality, and growing poverty: something fundamental is wrong, argue Petras and Veltmayer. They assert that globalization is a mere euphemism for capitalism in its current global, imperialist projection. They show how resistance to capitalist globalization is being organized among very diverse social sectors, from rural peasants to the middle class in wealthy countries of the North. They conclude their analysis by assessing the possibilities for unifying the diverse forces of opposition to neoliberalism, capitalism and imperialism and the prospects for an alternative socialist form of development.
Histories of Perplexity
By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude and Histories of Perplexity—study the histories of Colombia over the past two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the Americas. The volumes bring together over 40 scholars based in Colombia, the United States, England, and Canada working in various disciplines to discuss how a country that has been consistently presented as a rarity in Latin America provides critical examples to re-examine major historical problems: republicanism and liberalism; export economies and agrarian modernization; populism and cultural politics of state fo...
Juan Valdez
El innegable éxito de la identidad corporativa de la Federación Nacional de Cafeteros-Juan Valdez, el cual le ameritó ubicarse dentro de las diez marcas más importantes del mundo (según la revista Times), se interpela desde las voces de dos organizaciones del Cauca. En efecto, este libro busca analizar, dentro de otras aristas, dos corrientes importantes en el devenir de las marcas: su propósito corporativo y su incidencia social. Al respecto, llama la atención el gran despliegue de publicaciones y estudios alrededor de la estrategia de mercado Juan Valdez, las cuales se ubican desde corrientes disciplinares económicas y publicitarias; sin embargo, son escasas las investigaciones que...
