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This book examines points of meaningful affinity as well as contention and misrecognition between philosophical traditions of the Americas. Using Rodó's metaphors from The Tempest, it reflects on the perils and possibilities for Inter-American philosophy as an established historical fact, a form of propaganda, or as a legitimate aspiration.

The 2007 Great Recession recorded a "divergence" between the crisis of the most developed countries and the Latin American upturn, nevertheless weakened by historical fragilities. This work deals with this crisis and its basic differences from the older crises of the Thirties and Seventies

Imagining Latinidad examines how Latin American migrants use technology for public engagement, social activism, and to build digital, diasporic communities. Thanks to platforms like Facebook and YouTube, immigrants from Latin America can stay in contact with the culture they left behind. Members of these groups share information related to their homeland through discussions of food, music, celebrations, and other cultural elements. Despite their physical distance, these diasporic virtual communities are not far removed from the struggles in their homelands, and migrant activists play a central role in shaping politics both in their home country and in their host country.Contributors are: Amanda Arrais, Karla Castillo Villapudua, David S. Dalton, Jason H. Dormady, Carmen Gabriela Febles, Alvaro Gonzalez Alba, Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar, Anna Marta Marini, Diana Denisse Merchant Ley, Covadonga Lamar Prieto, Maria del Pilar Ramirez Groebli, David Ramirez Plascencia, Jessica Retis, Nancy Rios-Contreras, and Patria Roman-Velazquez

"The study of environmental politics in Latin America and the Caribbean expands as conflicts stemming from the deterioration of the natural world increase. Yet, this scholarship has not generated a broad research agenda similar to the ones that emerged around other key political phenomena. This Element seeks to address the lack of a comprehensive research agenda in Latin American and Caribbean environmental politics and helps integrate the existing, disparate literatures. Drawing from distributive politics, this Element asks who benefits from the appropriation and pollution of the environment, who pays the costs of climate change and environmental degradation, and who gains from the allocation of state protections"--

This is a concise and highly readable political biography that examines the life of one of the most accomplished American women of the 20th century. Addressing the neglect suffered by women in foreign relations history, this will be of interest to students and scholars of US foreign relations, 20th century US history and US women's history.

"When SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael first called for "Black Power" on a Civil Rights march in 1966 he not only gave name to a movement that shaped one of the most significant periods of the African American freedom struggle in the USA. His background as son of migrants from Trinidad and Tobago also gives an indication on the international dimension of the Black Power movement. Black Power was informed by the ideas of Afro-diasporic intellectuals and Pan-Africanists such as W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Frantz Fanon, and Malcolm X. Deeply rooted in practices of Black transnationalism, Black Power heralded a new era of African American defiance, militancy, and cultural awareness, which transcended the U.S. and left its footprints throughout the Hemisphere, providing marginalized communities beyond national and cultural boundaries with meaningful symbols of resistance and self-affirmation in the face of racial oppression. Black Power's hemispheric impact encouraged the emergence of musical genres, antiracist movements, and border-crossing networks of solidarity among Afro-descendants in the Caribbean, Latin and North America, and continues to be a source of inspiration for the political and cultural expressions of the Black Americas in the 21st century as manifested by the Black Lives Matter movement. This compilation of essays by scholars and activists intends to fill an important gap by addressing Black Power within a historical, polyvocal and multi-locational approach shedding light on manifestations of Black Power from Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, the United States and their entanglements"--

Placing Latin America in the context of debates on economic globalization and the dramatically changing nature of the international system, this volume offers the perspectives of scholars and policymakers from across the Americas. The authors argue that the ongoing diversification of economic and strategic ties presents Latin American nations with new options—and also with dangers. A recurring theme is a caution against excessive optimism regarding the effects of globalization. The book bridges discussions of Latin America and broader world politics, advancing critical insights from within the region together with reflections from a global perspective

Latin America's Global Border System is the opening volume in the first collection of academic works devoted exclusively to borders and illegal markets in Latin America. This volume features expert discussions on border issues of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico and Peru, as well as studies on illegal markets, cities, and gender as a first step to understanding the intricacies of the global border system of illegal markets and Latin America's role in it. The book constitutes a valuable source of information on the geographic, economic, demographic, and social characteristics of the most important Latin American border regions, and their relation to global illegal markets, while also offering valuable insights into the ways illegal markets are organized in each country and how they connect across borders to create the global border system. This book will not only be a valuable resource for academics and students of international relations, security studies, border studies and contemporary Latin America, but will also prove relevant to national and international policy-makers devoted to foreign, security and development policies.

This book analyzes what many critics consider to be the three best examples of modern American political fiction--Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, Edwin O'Connor's The Last Hurrah, and Billy Lee Brammer's The Gay Place--to address a specific problem in American governance: how the intense competition for power among elite factions often results in their ignoring major groups of their constituents, thereby providing political bosses with a rationale to seize authoritarian control of the government in the name of constituent groups who feel ignored or neglected, promising them more democratic rule, but in the process, excluding other groups, so that the bosses themselves become elitist, ruling only for the sake of some constituents and not others.

Cultivating Empire charts the connections between missionary work, capitalism, and Native politics to understand the making of the American empire in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. It presents American empire-building as a negotiated phenomenon that was built upon the foundations of earlier Atlantic empires, and it shows how U.S. territorial and economic development went hand-in-hand. Lori. J. Daggar explores how Native authority and diplomatic protocols encouraged the fledgling U.S. federal government to partner with missionaries in the realm of Indian affairs, and she charts how that partnership borrowed and deviated from earlier imperial-missionary partnerships.Employing the terminology of speculative philanthropy to underscore the ways in which a desire to do good often coexisted with a desire to make profit, Cultivating Empire links eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century U.S. Indian policy—often framed as benevolent by its crafters—with the emergence of racial capitalism in the United States. In the process, Daggar argues that Native peoples wielded ideas of philanthropy and civilization for their own purposes and that Indian Country played a critical role in the construction of the U.S. imperial state and its economy. Rather than understand civilizing missions simply as tools for assimilation, then, Cultivating Empire reveals that missions were hinges for U.S. economic and political development that could both devastate Indigenous communities and offer Native peoples additional means to negotiate for power and endure

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Back to color Ethnic Origins, Race and Nation in Argentine Censuses -- Chapter 3: Statistics, regionalization and the rise of the dimension of the national in Brazil -- Chapter 4: Reckoning the might of the Republic: Official statistics and population in Colombia, 1886-1936 -- Chapter 5: Antonio Peñafiel, a physician collecting statistical figures to create a statistical culture for Mexican public life -- Chapter 6: The Caribbean Crucible. How the colonial experience shaped statistical practices in the French Caribbean -- Chapter 7: The Statistics on the Old French Colony of Guadalupe from the nineteenth century to the interwar period -- Chapter 8: Counting Before the Nations. Statistics and Enlightenment in South America.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Private Equity, Financial Development and Corporate Governance Reform -- Chapter 3. Private Equity and Latin America -- Chapter 4. Institutions: From Rules to Investors -- Chapter 5. Business Association and the Politics of Regulatory Reform -- Chapter 6. Beyond Latin America -- Chapter 7. Conclusions: Private Equity and Development.

1. Introduction: When East is North and South - Jordi Serrano-Muñoz and Chiara Olivieri -- 2. Confronting "the Ends" of Area: Towards a Phenomenology of the Transpacific - Andrea Mendoza -- 3. Ocean Narratives: Fluxes of Commodities Asia-America in the Contemporary Age - Antonio Ortega Santos -- 4. Decolonial Notes on How to Do Research on International Migrations in the World-System - Gennaro Avallone and Yoan Molinero-Gerbeau -- 5. Worshipping Ancestors at the Margins: Indigenous Perceptions of Death in Mexico and Okinawa - Angélica Cabrera Torrecilla -- 6. "This Coronaviurs Shit is Real": Racism and the Decolonization of the Virus - Núria Canalda Moreno and Andrés Felipe Vargas Herreño -- 7. The Feminization of Extractive Violence: A Comparative Study from Colombia and Indonesia - Paulina Pavez and Raul Holz -- 8. China's Lost Connection to the Global South: A Fanonian Reading of Yu Dafu and the Colonized Status of May Fourth Literature in the Japanese Empire - Ashley Liu -- 9. The Vedette "China" on Havana's International Cabaret Stage - Rosanne Sia.

"The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms brings together a team of expert contributors in this critical and innovative volume. Highlighting key trends within the discipline, as well as cutting-edge viewpoints that revise and redefine traditional debates and approaches, readers will come away with an understanding of the complexity of twenty-first-century Latin American cultural production and with a renovated and eminently contemporary understanding of twentieth-century literature and culture. This invaluable resource will be of interest to advanced students and academics in the fields of Latin American literature, cultural studies, and comparative literature"--

This edited collection offers an exploration of American literature in the age of Trumpismunderstood as an ongoing sociopolitical and affective realityby bringing together analyses of some of the ways in which American writers have responded to the derealization of political culture in the United States and the experience of a new American reality after 2016. The volumes premise is that the disruptions and dislocations that were so exacerbated by the political ascendancy of Trump and his spectacle-laden presidency have unsettled core assumptions about American reality and the possibilities of representation. The blurring of the relationship between fact and fiction, bolstered by the discourses of fake news and alternative facts, has not only drawn attention to the shattering of any notion of shared reality, but has also forced a reexamination of the purpose and value of literature, especially when considering its troubled relation to the representation of America. The authors in this collection respond to the invitation to reassess the workings of fiction and critique in an age of Trumpism by considering some of the most recent literary responses to the (new) American realit(ies)including works by Colson Whitehead, Ben Winters, Claudia Rankine, Gary Shteyngart, Jennifer Egan, and Steve Erickson, to name but a few, some of which were composed in the run-up to the 2016 election but were able to accurately and incisively imagine the world to come.