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Historieta Doble
A Graphic History of Participatory Action Research
Price:
$29.95
ISBN: 9781487555177
Pub Date: October 2024
Drawing on archives, oral narrative, and ethnographic fieldwork, this graphic novel uncovers the vibrant history of social science research and activism in Latin America.
The North American Auto Industry since NAFTA
Price:
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487527372
Pub Date: August 2024
This book explores key issues affecting the post-NAFTA development and trajectory of North America’s most important economic sector, the automotive industry.
Translation as Home
A Multilingual Life
Price:
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487547929
Pub Date: August 2024
This collection presents a series of autobiographical meditations by Ilan Stavans on how language defines every aspect of our life.
Defining and Defying Borders
Tracing Hispanism across Literary Magazines
Price:
$80.00
ISBN: 9781487548629
Pub Date: February 2024
Defining and Defying Borders describes how journals, magazines, and newspapers chart the complex postcolonial relationship between Spain and Latin America during the modernist era.
Bloom Spaces
Reproduction and Tourism on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica
Price:
$27.95
ISBN: 9781487549695
Pub Date: January 2024
This creative ethnography explores the surprising entanglements between tourism and reproduction on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.
Contemporary Colonialities in Mexico and Beyond
Price:
$85.00
ISBN: 9781487551216
Pub Date: January 2024
Shedding light on historical moments and geographic locations, this book explores coloniality and its legacies in contemporary Mexico.
Forecasts
A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster
Price:
$28.95
ISBN: 9781487542238
Pub Date: May 2023
This collaborative graphic novel explores issues of capitalism and climate change in Paraguay, raising questions about the limits of survival for humans, their food crops, and rural ways of life.
Digital Encounters
Envisioning Connectivity in Latin American Cultural Production
Price:
$80.00
ISBN: 9781487508685
Pub Date: April 2023
Digital Encounters approaches connectivity as a gravitational centre of contemporary Latin American cultural production.
Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean
Price:
$64.95
ISBN: 9781487551506
Pub Date: March 2023
This comprehensive collection examines how communities across Latin America and the Caribbean are responding in dynamic ways to pressing contemporary challenges.
Opportunism and Goodwill
Canadian Business Expansion in Colombia, 1867–1979
Price:
$68.00
ISBN: 9781442646865
Pub Date: April 2021
Opportunism and Goodwill explores the relatively untapped history of Canadian-Colombian relations and the role Canada has played in the modern economic development of the region.
The Living Inca Town
Tourist Encounters in the Peruvian Andes
Price:
$29.95
ISBN: 9781487525668
Pub Date: March 2021
Using an accessible style and innovative visual methods, The Living Inca Town illustrates how tourism can perpetuate and even exacerbate gendered and global inequalities, while also exploring new avenues in which these can be contested.
Revolutionary Visions
Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film
Price:
$56.00
ISBN: 9781487508142
Pub Date: November 2020
Revolutionary Visions traces the emergence of a growing corpus of Latin American films that explore the legacy of Jewish encounters with revolutionary political movements in 1960s and 1970s Latin America.
Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio
Price:
$32.95
ISBN: 9781487524807
Pub Date: November 2020
This bilingual photography book investigates the complexities of today’s war on drugs by examining the art and architecture of Guatemala City’s Pentecostal drug rehabilitation centers.
Gringo Love
Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil
Price:
$30.95
ISBN: 9781487594527
Pub Date: July 2020
Based on original ethnographic research in Brazil, this rich graphic narrative follows several local women as they negotiate the terms of their intimate relationships with foreign tourists and seek a different life for themselves.
Dealing with Peace
The Guatemalan Campesino Movement and the Post-Conflict Neoliberal State
Price:
$74.00
ISBN: 9781487501433
Pub Date: April 2019
Dealing with Peace explores the relationship between the Guatemalan campesino social movement and state agrarian institutions in the period since the end of armed conflict in 1996.
Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala
Price:
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487522971
Pub Date: October 2018
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the struggle for justice and human rights in the aftermath of armed conflict, and in the context of impunity. Topics include the justice system, foreign mining companies and the environment, democratic transition and cultural responses to the struggle for justice.
Historieta Doble
A Graphic History of Participatory Action Research
$29.95
ISBN: 9781487555177
Pub Date: October 2024
The North American Auto Industry since NAFTA
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487527372
Pub Date: August 2024
This book explores key issues affecting the post-NAFTA development and trajectory of North America’s most important economic sector, the automotive industry.
Translation as Home
A Multilingual Life
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487547929
Pub Date: August 2024
This collection presents a series of autobiographical meditations by Ilan Stavans on how language defines every aspect of our life.
Defining and Defying Borders
Tracing Hispanism across Literary Magazines
$80.00
ISBN: 9781487548629
Pub Date: February 2024
Defining and Defying Borders describes how journals, magazines, and newspapers chart the complex postcolonial relationship between Spain and Latin America during the modernist era.
Bloom Spaces
Reproduction and Tourism on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica
$27.95
ISBN: 9781487549695
Pub Date: January 2024
This creative ethnography explores the surprising entanglements between tourism and reproduction on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.
Contemporary Colonialities in Mexico and Beyond
$85.00
ISBN: 9781487551216
Pub Date: January 2024
Shedding light on historical moments and geographic locations, this book explores coloniality and its legacies in contemporary Mexico.
Forecasts
A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster
$28.95
ISBN: 9781487542238
Pub Date: May 2023
This collaborative graphic novel explores issues of capitalism and climate change in Paraguay, raising questions about the limits of survival for humans, their food crops, and rural ways of life.
Digital Encounters
Envisioning Connectivity in Latin American Cultural Production
$80.00
ISBN: 9781487508685
Pub Date: April 2023
Digital Encounters approaches connectivity as a gravitational centre of contemporary Latin American cultural production.
Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean
$64.95
ISBN: 9781487551506
Pub Date: March 2023
This comprehensive collection examines how communities across Latin America and the Caribbean are responding in dynamic ways to pressing contemporary challenges.
Opportunism and Goodwill
Canadian Business Expansion in Colombia, 1867–1979
$68.00
ISBN: 9781442646865
Pub Date: April 2021
Opportunism and Goodwill explores the relatively untapped history of Canadian-Colombian relations and the role Canada has played in the modern economic development of the region.
The Living Inca Town
Tourist Encounters in the Peruvian Andes
$29.95
ISBN: 9781487525668
Pub Date: March 2021
Using an accessible style and innovative visual methods, The Living Inca Town illustrates how tourism can perpetuate and even exacerbate gendered and global inequalities, while also exploring new avenues in which these can be contested.
Revolutionary Visions
Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film
$56.00
ISBN: 9781487508142
Pub Date: November 2020
Revolutionary Visions traces the emergence of a growing corpus of Latin American films that explore the legacy of Jewish encounters with revolutionary political movements in 1960s and 1970s Latin America.
Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio
$32.95
ISBN: 9781487524807
Pub Date: November 2020
This bilingual photography book investigates the complexities of today’s war on drugs by examining the art and architecture of Guatemala City’s Pentecostal drug rehabilitation centers.
Gringo Love
Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil
$30.95
ISBN: 9781487594527
Pub Date: July 2020
Based on original ethnographic research in Brazil, this rich graphic narrative follows several local women as they negotiate the terms of their intimate relationships with foreign tourists and seek a different life for themselves.
Dealing with Peace
The Guatemalan Campesino Movement and the Post-Conflict Neoliberal State
$74.00
ISBN: 9781487501433
Pub Date: April 2019
Dealing with Peace explores the relationship between the Guatemalan campesino social movement and state agrarian institutions in the period since the end of armed conflict in 1996.
Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487522971
Pub Date: October 2018
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the struggle for justice and human rights in the aftermath of armed conflict, and in the context of impunity. Topics include the justice system, foreign mining companies and the environment, democratic transition and cultural responses to the struggle for justice.