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The Cold War triggered the appearance of U.S.-sponsored re-distributive policies in Latin America with the goal of decreasing the influence of the Soviet Union. We study how organized groups of workers increased the intensity of one of the largest programs of the time, Salvador Allende's land reform in Chile (1970–1973). Using original data in an event study research design, we find that the local political actions of workers—proxied by land invasions—affected the intensity and location of expropriations. We argue this result can be explained by a threat of political unrest.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: An Explanation of Three Types of Links between Economic Elites and Parties -- Chapter 3: Chile: Economic Elites with Their Own Parties -- Chapter 4: Argentina: Economic Elites Outside the Party System -- Chapter 5: Uruguay: Economic Elites Within Polyclass Parties -- Chapter 6: Conclusions. .

In diesem Buch wird die These vertreten, dass die fortschreitende Beziehung zwischen der als vielfältiges Phänomen verstandenen Sexualität und den Grund- und Menschenrechten die wichtigste strukturelle Bedingung war, die die Schwächung von traditionellen Strukturen ermöglicht hat. Der Band enthält eine Fülle von empirischen Belegen für diese These. Dazu zählt die Identifizierung einer ersten Welle der Entkriminalisierung mikrodiverser Sexualitäten in der Weltgesellschaft nach der Französischen Revolution und den Napoleonischen Kriegen durch die Einführung des Schadensprinzips als Rechtfertigung für die Strafverfolgung. Solange sexuelle Beziehungen zwischen Männern keinen objektiven Schaden verursachten, sollten sie von der Strafverfolgung ausgenommen werden. In dem Band wird auch ausführlich erörtert, wie die Ausweitung der Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit auf nationaler und supranationaler Ebene nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zu einem Mechanismus zur Förderung der sexuellen Vielfalt wurde, ohne dass das politische System dabei zwangsläufig eine proaktive Rolle einnehmen musste. Dies stellt die zweite und bis heute andauernde Welle der Entkriminalisierung mikrodiverser Sexualitäten in Bezug auf deren Handlungen, Darstellungen und Zustände dar. Über 200 empirische Beispiele der Rechtsprechung aus dem lateinamerikanischen und europäischen Raum illustrieren diesen Wandel. Der Autor Felipe Ranke lehrt derzeit an der Universität von Chile und der Universität von Santiago de Chile. Seine Forschungsgebiete beziehen sich auf soziologische Theorie und Rechtssoziologie.

Chronicles a Black Puerto Rican man's odyssey and transformation from an incarcerated gang member to the Chairman of the Young Lords Party.Growing up fatherless and poor, Felipe Luciano didn't yearn for wealth or dream of becoming a famous actor or athlete. He was tired of being poor and ached to be a man, to reach that point of sagacity, courage, and independence that would signal to the world that he was now a warrior, ready to fight the battle for truth and justice, to slay the dragon of evil, whatever that might be. In Flesh and Spirit, Luciano paints a vivid portrait of his life in New York City as a member of the city's Latino community as well as his pivotal role in the Young Lords and The Last Poets.Luciano's memoir begins when as a teenage Brooklyn gang member he is convicted of man­slaughter. This pivotal moment changes the trajectory of his life. The American kid raised on Davy Crockett and Superman TV tales emerged from the womb of prison into a harsh, new monochromatic black/white world without the benefit of rose-colored glasses. It was a painful shattering of all his childhood beliefs and the realization that he was a poor Black Puerto Rican in white America clutching onto values that didn't work. The only flotsam in this churning sea of '60s social turmoil was college, poetry, revolutionary activity, and sometimes God. After getting an education, Luciano went on to become an acclaimed poet and political activist who advocates for the Latino population of New York City, for the kids growing up in the same circumstances he did.Sparing no one-not the revolutionaries, the Revolution, nor the author himself-Flesh and Spirit is written with honesty and humility to help guide young people of color and other Americans through the labyrinths of ideology, organization, missteps, false paths, and phony societal promises

"Temporal Regimes provides a theoretical framework for understanding the temporal structures of society; a conceptually rich, empirically nuanced and culturally embodied account of temporal phenomena in contemporary world. What does it imply temporal regimes? How the everyday life as well as the global mobilities coordination requires temporal underpinnings? The answers to these questions mean more than simply understanding the general thesis on acceleration or space-time compression on the one hand; but also, a micro-multiple-localised time experience by gender, class or age, on the other. They also mean understanding in an integrative way the very structural temporalities within the everyday lived, embodied and situated ones. They require both a robust and flexible epistemic analysis considering their material bedrock through political and technological forefront dimensions. Advancing a rigorous, well-grounded theoretical understanding, and offering a useful way to analytically conceptualise the temporal dynamics on our societies, this book will be of interest to advanced students and scholars enquiring a rich set of topics ranging from time and politics, new materialism, conceptual history as well as technology, collective action and social change"--

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. The People's Church -- 1. Thunder in Chicago's Lincoln Park -- 2. "People-Yes, Cathedrals-No!" in Los Angeles -- 3. The People's Church in East Harlem -- 4. Magic in Houston's Northside Barrio -- Conclusion. When History Dreams -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.