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New and Published Books

  1. Civil Society and Participatory Governance

    Municipal Councils and Social Housing Programs in Brazil

    By Maureen M. Donaghy

    Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics

    Democratic institutions should promote accountability of government officials to the needs of citizens. Civil society plays a role in exposing corruption as well as in communicating the needs of low-income residents to officials. Neither the institutions of representative democracy nor the presence...

    Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge

  2. Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production

    By Claire Taylor, Thea Pitman

    Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

    This volume provides an innovative and timely approach to a fast growing, yet still under-studied field in Latin American cultural production: digital online culture. It focuses on the transformations or continuations that cultural products and practices such as hypermedia fictions, net.art and...

    Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Leaving Latinos Out of History

    Teaching US History in Texas

    By Julio Noboa

    Despite being the state with perhaps the longest history of Latino presence, power and influence, Texas has very much under-represented Latinos in its schools history curriculum. Through an analysis of teaching materials and curriculum goals, Noboa investigates the extent to which this significant...

    Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge

  4. The Battle over Spanish between 1800 and 2000

    Language & Ideologies and Hispanic Intellectuals

    Edited by Luis Gabriel-Stheeman, José del Valle

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics

    This book examines the way in which a group of key Spanish and Latin American intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries discussed the concept of the Spanish language. The contributors analyse the ways in which these discussions related to the construction of national identities and...

    Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge

  5. Collective Morality and Crime in the Americas

    By Christopher Birkbeck

    Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

    This study examines the ways in which the moral community is "talked into being" in relation to crime, and the objects of concern that typically occupy its attention. It maps the imagined moral universe of the virtuous and the criminal and charts the relations between these two groups in the "...

    Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge

  6. Feminist Therapy with Latina Women

    Personal and Social Voices

    Edited by Debra M. Kawahara, Oliva Espín

    Feminist Therapy with Latina Women highlights the principles of feminist and multicultural counselling and therapy with Latinas and Latin American women, providing both theoretical approaches and applied frameworks. The authors are all experienced therapists and researchers with a deep...

    Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge

  7. Populism in Venezuela

    By Ryan Brading

    Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics

    Populism in Venezuela analyses the emergence, formation, reproduction and resistance to a left-wing populist project in a major world oil producer. For readers who seek to understand the historical, economical and sociological contexts that gave rise to a 38 year-old mestizo-mulato Lieutenant...

    Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge

  8. The Politics of Central American Integration

    By Rafael A. Sánchez Sánchez

    Series: Latin American Studies

    Since its inception in the 1960s to the regional negotiations in the 1990s and onwards, Central American integration has been a process characterized by both dramatic advances and setbacks. This book provides a theoretical explanation of this ebb and flow, examining different stages including the...

    Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge

  9. U.S.-Venezuela Relations since the 1990s

    Coping with Midlevel Security Threats

    By Javier Corrales, Carlos A. Romero

    Series: Contemporary Inter-American Relations

    Oil makes up one-third of Venezuela's entire GDP, and the United States is far and away Venezuela's largest trading partner. Relations between Venezuela and the United States, traditionally close for most of the last two centuries, began to fray as the end of the Cold War altered the international...

    Published October 4th 2012 by Routledge

  10. Literacy and Numeracy in Latin America

    Local Perspectives and Beyond

    Edited by Judy Kalman, Brian V. Street

    Latin American Literacy and Numeracy Studies (LALNS) are fairly unknown in other parts of the world. This book charts new directions in LALNS and explores the relationship between these studies and international perspectives. Calling upon social practice approaches, New Literacy Studies,...

    Published October 4th 2012 by Routledge