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Scholarship related to environmental questions in Latin America has only recently begun to coalesce around citizenship as both an empirical site of inquiry and an analytical frame of reference. This has led to a series of new insights and perspectives, but few efforts have been made to bring these various approaches into a sustained conversation across different social, temporal and geographic contexts. This volume is the result of a collaborative endeavour to advance debates on environmental citizenship, while simultaneously and systematically addressing broader theoretical and methodological questions related to the particularities of studying environment and citizenship in Latin America. Providing a window onto leading scholarship in the field, the book also sets an ambitious agenda to spark further research

Is Latin America experiencing a resurgence of leftwing governments, or are we seeing a rebirth of national-radical populism? Are the governments of Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, and Rafael Correa becoming institutionalized as these leaders claim novel models of participatory and direct democracy? Or are they reenacting older traditions that have favored plebiscitary acclamation and clientelist distribution of resources to loyal followers? Are we seeing authentic forms of expression of the popular will by leaders who have empowered those previously disenfranchised? Or are these governments as char

Teun A. van Dijk brings together a multidisciplinary team of linguists and social scientists from eight Latin American countries (Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Peru), creating the first work in English that provides comprehensive insight into discursive racism across Latin America

Cultural tourism has become an important source of revenue for Latin American countries, especially in the Andes and Meso-America. This book analyses its effects and the processes of cultural change it provokes in local societies.

Annotation The 2008 Labour Overview for Latin America And The Caribbean is special. This edition provides evidence of the effects of an unprecedented international crisis that has cast a shadow over the global economy and is reflected in the employment situation in the region. Employment will be a challenge in 2009. As ILO Director-General, Juan Somavia stated, "The ILO's message is realistic, not alarmist" with respect to this situation. it should be stressed that this crisis is not hitting the region at a bad time. The region has experienced several years of favourable economic growth, which has had a direct impact on the employment situation. The 2008 Labour Overview indicates that unemployment diminished For The fifth consecutive year, permitting Latin America And The Caribbean to reach unemployment rates not seen since 1992. The 2008 Labour Overview states that these results mark the end of a positive cycle in the urban unemployment rate. According To The figures for urban employment provided by the countries, which our specialists used to conduct the analysis, The effects of the economic slowdown became apparent beginning in the third quarter of 2008.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- About the Series -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS, DECOLONIZATION, AND CULTURAL AGENCY -- Gordon Brotherston, America and the Colonizer Question: Two Formative Statements from Early Mexico -- José Rabasa, Thinking Europe in Indian Categories, or, ''Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You'' -- José Antonio Mazzotti, Creole Agencies and the (Post)Colonial Debate in Spanish America -- PART TWO REWRITING COLONIAL DIFFERENCE -- Russell G. Hamilton, European Transplants, Amerindian In-laws, African Settlers, Brazilian Creoles: A Unique Colonial and Postcolonial Condition in Latin America -- Sara Castro-Klaren, Posting Letters: Writing in the Andes and the Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Debate -- Elzbieta Sklodowska, Unforgotten Gods: Postcoloniality and Representations of Haiti in Antonio Benítez Rojo's ''Heaven and Earth'' -- PART THREE OCCIDENTALISM, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE GEOPOLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE -- Aníbal Quijano, Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America -- Walter D. Mignolo, The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Di√erence -- Santiago Castro-Gómez, (Post)Coloniality for Dummies: Latin American Perspectives on Modernity, Coloniality, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge -- Eduardo Mendieta, Remapping Latin American Studies: Postcolonialism, Subaltern Studies, Post-Occidentalism, and Globalization Theory -- Ramón Grosfoguel, Developmentalism, Modernity, and Dependency Theory in Latin America -- PART FOUR RELIGION, LIBERATION, AND THE NARRATIVES OF SECULARISM -- Enrique Dussel, Philosophy of Liberation, the Postmodern Debate, and Latin American Studies -- Michael Löwy, The Historical Meaning of Christianity of Liberation in Latin America -- Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Secularism and Religion in the Modern/Colonial World-System: From Secular Postcoloniality to Postsecular Transmodernity -- PART FIVE COMPARATIVE (POST)COLONIALISMS -- Peter Hulme, Postcolonial Theory and the Representation of Culture in the Americas -- Fernando Coronil, Elephants in the Americas? Latin American Postcolonial Studies and Global Decolonization -- Amaryll Chanady, The Latin American Postcolonialism Debate in a Comparative Context -- Román de la Campa, Postcolonial Sensibility, Latin America, and the Question of Literature -- Mary Louise Pratt, In the Neocolony: Destiny, Destination, and the Tra≈c in Meaning -- PART SIX POSTCOLONIAL ETHNICITIES -- Mario Roberto Morales, Peripheral Modernity and Di√erential Mestizaje in Latin America: Outside Subalternist Postcolonialism -- Catherine E. Walsh, (Post)Coloniality in Ecuador: The Indigenous Movement's Practices and Politics of (Re)Signification and Decolonization -- Arturo Arias, The Maya Movement: Postcolonialism and Cultural Agency -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

The Pilgrims and Puritans did not arrive on the shores of New England alone. Nor did African men and women, brought to the Americas as slaves. Though it would be hard to tell from the historical record, European colonists and African slaves had children, as did the indigenous families whom they encountered, and those children's life experiences enrich and complicate our understanding of colonial America. Through essays, primary documents, and contemporary illustrations, Children in Colonial America examines the unique aspects of childhood in the American colonies between the late sixteenth a

This book demonstrates the vast range of philosophical approaches, regional issues and problems, perspectives, and historical and theoretical frameworks that together constitute feminist philosophy in Latin America and Spain. It makes available to English-Speaking readers recent feminist thought in Latin America and Spain to facilitate dialogue among Latin American, North American, and European thinkers.

The Pilgrims and Puritans did not arrive on the shores of New England alone. Nor did African men and women, brought to the Americas as slaves. Though it would be hard to tell from the historical record, European colonists and African slaves had children, as did the indigenous families whom they encountered, and those children's life experiences enrich and complicate our understanding of colonial America.Through essays, primary documents, and contemporary illustrations, Children in Colonial America examines the unique aspects of childhood in the American colonies between the late sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries. The twelve original essays observe a diverse cross-section of children-from indigenous peoples of the east coast and Mexico to Dutch-born children of the Plymouth colony and African-born offspring of slaves in the Caribbean-and explore themes including parenting and childrearing practices, children's health and education, sibling relations, child abuse, mental health, gender, play, and rites of passage.Taken together, the essays and documents in Children in Colonial America shed light on the ways in which the process of colonization shaped childhood, and in turn how the experience of children affected life in colonial America

Sociologist Manuel Antonio Garreton discusses contemporary challenges to democratization in Latin America in this work. He pays particular attention to the example of Chile, analysing the country's return to democracy and its hopes for continued prosperity following the 1973 coup.

1 The Day after the Death of a Revolution -- 2 Disenchanted and Triumphant toward the 21st Century: A Prospect of Cultural Moods in South America -- 3 Neither Apocalyptic nor Integrated (Eight Debatable Paradoxes) -- 4 Realism and Revolt, Twenty Years Later (Paris 1968-Santiago de Chile 1988) -- 5 What is Left Positive from Negative Thought? A Latin American Perspective -- 6 Postmodernism and Neoliberalism in Latin America -- 7 The Crisis of Legitimacy of the Planning State -- 8 Is the Social Thinkable without Metanarratives? -- 9 Utopia against Crisis, or How to Awake from a Long Insomnia.

"In Populist Seduction in Latin America, Carlos de la Torre shows that populism did not disappear, as expected, with the modernization of society. Combining the study of populist discourse with an analysis of the social and political setting for the emergence and persistence of populism. Professor de la Torre argues that the durability of populism is explained by the deficient incorporation of the popular sectors into Latin American democracies."--Jacket

"Historical analysis of theories of interdependence in US policy since World War II. Examines their application toward Central America from 1950s-80s"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57

"Series of eight papers on the prospects for consolidated democracy in Latin America prepared in 1993 by the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center in conjunction with the Olof Palme International Foundation. Selected essays focus on: 1) obstacles to the democratization process; 2) the political consequences of economic reform programs; and 3) the external context for democratization. In a perceptive chapter on 'transitology,' Schmitter argues that the increased reliance on multilateral diplomacy and international organizations in the aftermath of the Cold War has brought pressure to bear on the remaining non-democracies and recidivist democracies in the region. Authors express concern about the negative impact of some economic reforms on democratic consolidation"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57

The tribunal of the holy office of the inquisition in colonial Spanish America / José Toribio Medina -- The inquisition in colonial Peru / Henry Charles Lea -- The church and the inquisition in the Spanish American colonies / Salvador de Madariaga -- Visitas and books / Irving A. Leonard -- The struggle between an archbishop and a viceroy in seventeenth-century new Spain / Hubert Howe Bancroft -- The debate over Indian policy in seventeenth-century Brazil : the Jesuits vs. the colonists and local government officials / Mathias C. Kiemen -- Catholicism and the national tradition / Aurelio Espinosa Polit -- Intellectual opposition to the tradition of Catholicism / William Rex Crawford -- The conflict in Mexico between the civil power and the clergy, 1854-1876 : defense of the civil power / Emilio Portes Gil -- The conflict in Mexico between the civil power and the clergy, 1854-1876 : defense of the clergy / Félix Navarrete -- Church and state in Peru during the first century of independence / Francis Merriman Stanger