Latin American & Hispanic Studies Books

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