Obstinate Star

Obstinate Star
Author: Rafael Bernabe
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 636
Release: 2024-09-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 900470793X

Obstinate Star is a history of Puerto Rico’s independence struggle against Spanish and U.S. colonialism. From the time of the Napoleonic Wars, it traces the movement’s currents, within and beyond the island, linking them to ongoing social conflicts and international trends and conjunctures. Beginning with the radical democratic fight against Spanish control, it moves on to the early reactions to U.S. rule, the role of Nationalism, Communism and New Deal currents during the Great Depression and the Second World War, the rise of new forces in the wake of the Cuban revolution and recent struggles in the epoch of capitalist globalisation.

Puerto Rican Jam

Puerto Rican Jam
Author: Frances Negrón-Muntaner
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 1997
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0816628483

Challenges the framing of Puerto Rican cultural politics as a dichotomy between nationalism and colonialism. Discussions of Puerto Rican cultural politics usually fall into one of two categories, nationalist or colonialist. Puerto Rican Jam moves beyond this narrow dichotomy, elaborating alternatives to dominant postcolonial theories, and includes essays written from the perspectives of groups that are not usually represented, such as gays and lesbians, youth, blacks, and women. Among the topics discussed are the limitations of nationalism as a transformative and democratizing political discourse, the contradictory impact of American colonialism, language politics, and the 1928 U.S. congressional hearings on women's suffrage in Puerto Rico.

Subject People and Colonial Discourses

Subject People and Colonial Discourses
Author: Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1994-01-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791415900

Critically drawing on recent theorizations of post-structuralism, feminism, critical criminology, subaltern studies, and post-coloniality he examines the mechanisms through which colonized subjects become recognized, contained, and represented as subordinate.

Analysing Fascist Discourse

Analysing Fascist Discourse
Author: Ruth Wodak
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2013-03-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1135097240

This book focuses primarily on continuities and discontinuities of fascist politics as manifested in discourses of post-war European countries. Many traumatic pasts in Europe are linked to the experience of fascist and national-socialist regimes in the 20th century and to related colonial and imperialist expansionist politics. And yet we are again confronted with the emergence, rise and success of extreme right wing political movements, across Europe and beyond, which frequently draw on fascist and national-socialist ideologies, themes, idioms, arguments and lexical items. Post-war taboos have forced such parties, politicians and their electorate to frequently code their exclusionary fascist rhetoric. This collection shows that an interdisciplinary critical approach to fascist text and talk—subsuming all instances of meaning-making (oral, visual, written, sounds, etc.) and genres such as policy documents, speeches, school books, media reporting, posters, songs, logos and other symbols—is necessary to deconstruct exclusionary meanings and to confront their inegalitarian political projects.

The Cosmopolitics of Solidarity

The Cosmopolitics of Solidarity
Author: Johanna Leinius
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2022-05-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030990877

This volume discusses how commonality and difference are negotiated across heterogeneous social movements in Latin America, especially Peru. It applies cosmopolitics as an analytical lens to understand the intricacies of social movement encounters across difference, without imposing colonial hierarchies or categorizations. The author blends multiple theoretical approaches—such as social movement research, postcolonial feminism, and post-foundational discourse theory—with ethnographic insights to develop a theory of cosmopolitical solidarity. Providing a transnational and intersectional perspective on the politics of social justice in a postcolonial context, this book will appeal to students of social movements, gender studies, racism, Latin American studies, and international relations, as well as practitioners involved in activism, social work, or international cooperation.

State, Labor, Capital

State, Labor, Capital
Author: Paul G. Buchanan
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2017-03-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0822977206

Organized labor has played a critical role in political transition away from authoritarianism in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Buchanan views the institutional networks where these new governments strive to maintain democracy, focusing on the role of national labor administrations.This book argues that because democratic capitalist regimes are founded on a state-mediated class compromise, institutionalizing labor relations is a major concern. Institutions that foster equitable labor-management bargaining are at the foundation of workers' acquiescence to bourgeois rule.

Toward a Discourse of Consent

Toward a Discourse of Consent
Author: Gabriel Villaronga
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2004-08-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Focuses on the interaction between American authorities, the Popular Democratic Party (PPD), and its multiple supporters that informed colonial politics in Puerto Rico.

Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 51

Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 51
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 936
Release: 1992
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies. Coverage includes relevant books as well as over 800 social science and 550 humanities journals and volumes of conference proceedings. Most records include abstracts with evaluations.