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On Democratic Politics
The German-born, Chilean author Norbert Lechner remains one of Latin America’s most prominent and creative social scientists. His work is indebted to the intense debates regarding theories of modernization, developmentalism, and dependence that took place in Latin American intellectual and political circles. These theoretical sources were present as a cognitive horizon in his essential writings, and many of the central concerns that enlivened his oeuvre arose from his intellectual immersion in these deliberations. If the confrontations with the revolutionary discourses of the 1960s informed his vision of the Latin American state, his experience with authoritarianism led him to pose a quest...
Cuba: ¿Ajuste o transición? Impacto de la reforma en el contexto del restablecimiento de las relaciones con Estados Unidos
El proceso que los gobiernos de Cuba y Estados Unidos iniciaron recientemente para normalizar sus relaciones coloca en el centro de atención el debate sobre los alcances y la profundidad de los cambios que están en curso en la isla caribeña. Este nuevo escenario no puede comprenderse sin tener en cuenta la implementación de un modelo de “actualización del socialismo”, a partir del cual, “sin prisa pero sin pausa”, se está transformando el país. En este libro un conjunto de prestigiosos académicos discute y analiza exhaustivamente los cambios internos que se producen en las diferentes dimensiones y dinámicas de la sociedad cubana, así como sus implicaciones económicas, políticas y sociales. Las reflexiones contenidas en este volumen muestran a las reformas como un acontecimiento crucial que puede definir el futuro de Cuba en más de un aspecto.
El cambio constitucional en Cuba
Compilación de artículos sobre los cambios constitucionales en Cuba, desde una perspectiva multidisciplinaria. Los dos primeros ensayos, a cargo de Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Arechavaleta y Rafael Rojas, realizan un recorrido por la historia constitucional cubana, desde el texto fundacional del liberalismo hispánico, de 1812 en Cádiz, hasta la Constitución socialista de 1976. Marlene Azor y Armando Chaguaceda hacen una radiografía del orden constitucional de 1976 y el reordenamiento conceptual de la dotación de derechos fundamentales. Yvon Grenier y Velia Cecilia Bobes se internan en el periodo de diferenciación entre sociedad y Estado que siguió a la institucionalización del sistema cubano. Para concluir, Ramón I. Centeno y Haroldo Dilla estudian el sistema político cubano, sus resistencias al cambio o sus posibilidades de apertura en los próximos años.
Building Transnational Networks
Building Transnational Networks tells the story of how a broad group of civil society organizations came together to contest free trade negotiations in the Americas. Based on research in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, the United States, and Canada, it offers a full hemispheric analysis of the creation of civil society networks as they engaged in the politics of trade. The author demonstrates that most effective transnational actors are the ones with strong domestic roots and that 'southern' organizations occupy key nodes in trade networks. The fragility of activist networks stems from changes in the domestic political context as well as from characteristics of the organizations, the networks, or the actions they undertake. These findings advance and suggest new understandings of transnational collective action.
Re-reading Jose Martí (1853-1895)
Re-evaluates Jose Marti's contribution to Latin America's literature and political evolution.
A Century of Revolution
Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the 1970s and 1980s. In his introduction to A Century of Revolution, Greg Grandin argues that the dynamics of political violence and terror in Latin America are so recognizable in their enforcement of domination, their generation and maintenance of social exclusion, and their propulsion of historical change, that historians have tended to take them for granted, leaving unexamined important questions regarding their form and meaning. The essays in...
Havana Beyond the Ruins
Looks at portrayals of Havana in literature, music, and the visual arts in the post-Soviet era, as the city is reinvented as a destination for international tourists and business ventures.
Cuban Studies 49
Cuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in English and Spanish and a large book review section. Cuban Studies 49 includes dossiers on gender and feminism, economy, and history of education.
Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba
Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the globalization of Cuban culture, along with the bankruptcy of the state, partly modified the terms of intellectual engagement. However, no significant change took place at the political level. In Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba, De Ferrari looks into the extraordinary survival of the Revolution by focusing on the personal, political and aesthetic social pacts that determined the configuration of the socialist state. Through close critical readings of a representative set of contemporary Cuban novels and works of visual art, this book argues that ethics and gender, rather than ideology, account for the intellectuals’ fidelity to the Revolution. Community and Culture does three things: it demonstrates that masculine sociality is the key to understanding the longevity of Cuba’s socialist regime; it examines the sociology of cultural administration of intellectual labor in Cuba; and it maps the emergent ethical and aesthetic paradigms that allow Cuban intellectuals to envision alternative forms of community and civil society.
Latin America and Contemporary Modernity
In this book, renowned author José Maurício Domingues places Latin America within the third phase of global modern civilization and offers a general theoretical approach to contemporary Latin America. He sees modernity as configured by episodic modernizing moves which, when counting on strong identity and organization as well as clear-cut projects, may assume the aspect of modernizing offensives. Highlighting subjects as law, rights and justice as well as globalization and development, Dominguez places Latin America in the uneven, combined and contradictory development of modern civilization and offers a final assessment of its possibilities and limits. The book will be of interest to researchers and students of modernity, globalization, Latin America, sociological theory and its key concepts.
