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Conditional Cash Transfers, Resources, and Political Participation in Latin America

Do conditional cash transfers (CCTs) lead to increased participation in multiple political activities in Latin America? If CCTs contribute to broad political participation, how do CCTs increase

Crisis naturales y textos de emergencia: Cómo leer el sismo del 19 de septiembre de 2017 en la Ciudad de México

one to read not only the seismic event itself but also the tensions and debates surrounding the political context in which it occurred. I propose analyzing the narratives that follow a natural disaster ... conifgurations. I suggest that the physical collapse revealed a new visibility of urban space that simultaneously implied a new legibility of the political space that contains it. - Solo unos días después del

Assessing Evo’s Bolivia: Inclusion, Ethnicity, and Class

Performance in Plurinational Bolivia. By Nancy Postero. Oakland: University of California Press. Pp. xii + 228. $34.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780520294035.   Along the Bolivian Highway: Social Mobility and Political ... Political Arena in Latin America: From Resisting Neoliberalism to the Second Incorporation. Edited by Eduardo Silva and Federico M. Rossi. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press , 2018. Pp. xi 1 Coca Yes

Comparative Orientalism in Latin American Revolutions: Antichinismo of Mexico and El Salvador

subject of continuous debate in Latin American studies. The field of Asian American studies offers a different approach that highlights the political and cultural function of anti-Chinese politics beyond ... ideological formations of Asia and Asians have contributed to the political and cultural life of race in Latin America even when actual populations remained small or nonexistent. By understanding racial

Self-Governance in Bolivia’s First Indigenous Autonomy: Charagua

novel institutions of self-government to assess how local Guaraní leaders are negotiating autonomy, both externally and internally. The result of those negotiations is a hybrid political system in which ... the assembly expresses a significant form of autonomy that promotes intercultural political participation and enacts Indigenous self-government in ways that are important to Guaraní people. Yet, because

La sub representación de mujeres en gabinetes ministeriales: El caso ecuatoriano en perspectiva comparada, 1979–2015

article shows that the increasing number of legislators and size of the government legislative bloc had a positive effect on the presence of women ministers. In addition, the article discusses the political ... article discusses the political importance of the ministries assigned to women during the period. The main empirical finding is that, despite the drastic increase in women ministers during Rafael Correa's

Blood, Nation, Science, and Language: Essentializing Race from the Sixteenth Century to the Present

changed over time, the use of race for political and scientific ends, and the persistence of racial essentialism in the present. The books all pay very close attention to language, and they emphasize ... and Sor Juana to Linnaeus and the US Civil War. They cast new light on the concept of limpieza de sangre and lay out some of the ways that blood was referenced to denote political affiliation with

Investment Treaty Arbitration in Latin America

. First, by focusing on the balance of incentives and opportunities facing political leaders and foreign investors, the study establishes a new basis for understanding the reasons actors opt for the risks ... the analysis of relatively time-invariant structural and institutional conditions and crude indicators to address the role played by the preferences of political actors. Third, by disaggregating

Latin America’s “Great Divergence”: New Research on the Age of Revolution

: 9780190494889.   The Ideology of Creole Revolution: Imperialism and Independence in American and Latin American Political Thought. By Joshua Simon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 284. $32.00 ... Press , 2016. Pp. xvi , USA 2 The Ideology of Creole Revolution: Imperialism and Independence in American and Latin American Political Thought. By Joshua Simon. New York: Cambridge University Press , 2016

Cultures of Authoritarianism and Resistance in Mexico and Brazil

. $28.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822353126.   Rebel Mexico: Student Unrest and Authoritarian Political Culture during the Long Sixties. By Jaime M. Pensado. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. Pp. xi ... , public housing, and universities. Young people’s political expectations were further informed by the popularization of Marxist thought, the inspiration of the Cuban Revolution, and the hemispheric

Cartas desde Buenos Aires: El movimiento homosexual argentino desde una perspectiva transnacional

transnational sexual dissidence movement emanated from and highlighted the political potential of these subjectivities. At the same time, the repressive context of the mid-1970s strengthened the role of ... studying philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires, but above all I’m gay”.32 Oller se crió en Villa Devoto, que había sido uno de los barrios predilectos de la colonia británica en Buenos Aires, y

The Politics of Social Policies in Latin America

Venezuela (2000–2010). By Augusto De Venanzi. Almagro: Editorial Biblioteca Nueva, 2015. Pp. 238. $22.99 paperback. ISBN: 9788416345144.   The Political Logic of Poverty Relief: Electoral Strategies and ... Alisha C. Holland. New York: Cambridge University Press , 2017. Pp. 398. $35.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781316626351 , USA 2 University of Miami , US 3 The Political Logic of Poverty Relief: Electoral Strategies

Liderazgos precarios: Organización y líderes sindicales en perspectiva comparada

did not culminate in solid or articulated organizations. On the basis of interviews and archival work, I argue that it is crucial to understand the permanence of union leaders and their dense political ... - 24 . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh. 2015 .39 Damonte , Gerardo. 2007 . “ The Constitution of Political Identities in the Andes: Mining, Rural Communities, Social Movements and Protests in Bolivia

O subimperialismo brasileiro nos sentidos produzidos sobre o 'brasiguayo' no jornalismo paraguaio

subimperialist project to subjugate Paraguay politically, ideologically, and culturally based on historical relations between Brazil and Paraguay. Linguistic, political, and economic aspects, especially with

Ideology, Expertise, and Industrial Transformations with Mutual Gains: Developmental Professionals in Nicaragua’s Cheese Industry

. Drawing on ideational accounts in political science and sociology, the article then suggests that two explanatory factors set these professionals apart from other comparable actors: their adherence to a ... -focused new industrial policy (NIP) and multinational-centered global value chain (GVC) theories, it offers a novel explanation that draws heavily on ideational accounts from political science and sociology

“Un Estado dentro del Estado que ha creado un nuevo Código Penal”: La Sección Especial de la Policía y la criminalización del comunismo hacia la década de 1930 en Argentina

This article attends to a key chapter in the history of persecution of radicalized political sectors in Argentina: the repression of communism during the early 1930s, led by the Special Section of ... Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/ 9780822390664 - 001 Kalmanowiecki , Laura. 2000 . “Origins and Applications of Political Policing in Argentina” . Latin American Perspectives 27 ( 2 ): 36 - 56 . DOI

Disease/Health/Medicine/History: On the Consolidation of a Subfield of Study

university-certified medicine, to unify the past of the increasingly specialized medical profession, and to emphasize a certain ethos and moral philosophy presented as distinctive, unaltered, and typical of ... science, it discusses the social, cultural, and political contexts in which certain doctors, institutions, and treatments “triumphed,” making a place for themselves in history. It strives to understand the

Convergence of philosophy and science: the Third International Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition

(suppl): 434S-8S. Vegetarian; health; vegetarianism; diet; cancer; cardiovascular disease; Seventh-day Adventists; colon cancer VEGETARIAN DIETS: CONVERGENCE OF PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE First, it is

The Coexistentialism of Chico Science and Brazil’s Manguebeat

considered the pioneer of relational philosophy, or the philosophy of dialogue. Of particular relevance is Buber’s thought regarding interpersonal “encounters” (Begegnung) and what he describes as a type of ... mange beat was the pronounced relationality it embraced. Shifting far beyond the object-centered understanding of knowledge associated with the modernizing European colonial project, the philosophy of

The Challenges of Gender Representation in Latin America

political factors for increasing the representation of women. Specifically, they have found that more progressive attitudes toward women in politics, higher educational attainment, occupational equality for ... examined what female representatives do in office, how their attitudes and political behavior differ (if they do) from traditional office holders, how they are treated in office, and what impacts their