Latin America's Global Border System

Latin America's Global Border System
Author: Beatriz Zepeda
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2022-05-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000581462

Latin America’s Global Border System is the opening volume in the first collection of academic works devoted exclusively to borders and illegal markets in Latin America. This volume features expert discussions on border issues of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico and Peru, as well as studies on illegal markets, cities, and gender as a first step to understanding the intricacies of the global border system of illegal markets and Latin America’s role in it. The book constitutes a valuable source of information on the geographic, economic, demographic, and social characteristics of the most important Latin American border regions, and their relation to global illegal markets, while also offering valuable insights into the ways illegal markets are organized in each country and how they connect across borders to create the global border system. This book will not only be a valuable resource for academics and students of international relations, security studies, border studies and contemporary Latin America, but will also prove relevant to national and international policy-makers devoted to foreign, security and development policies.

Neo-extractivism in Latin America

Neo-extractivism in Latin America
Author: Maristella Svampa
Publisher:
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2019-10-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108707122

This Element analyses the political dynamics of neo-extractivism in Latin America. It discusses the critical concepts of neo-extractivism and the commodity consensus and the various phases of socio-environmental conflict, proposing an eco-territorial approach that uncovers the escalation of extractive violence. It also presents horizontal concepts and debates theories that explore the language of Latin American socio-environmental movements, such as Buen Vivir and Derechos de la Naturaleza. In concluding, it proposes an explanation for the end of the progressive era, analyzing its ambiguities and limitations in the dawn of a new political cycle marked by the strengthening of the political rights.

Caribbean Visions

Caribbean Visions
Author: Caribbean Studies Association
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1990
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

CARIBBEAN VISIONS is a collection of ten presidential addresses of ten Presidents of the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA). CSA is the premier organization that studies the Caribbean. The CSA was founded in 1975. The ten addresses, an introduction & a conclusion by Jones-Hendrickson, comprise the total of the book. The book provides an assessment of the legacy of the Caribbean Studies Association to the people of the Caribbean in the Caribbean & the diaspora. CARIBBEAN VISIONS are visions of & for the Caribbean by some of the many leaders who have decided to master an understanding of the social & political dynamics of the Caribbean. Selling Points: 1--Important essays from an international array of scholars; 2--Addresses on a broad variety of topics; 3--Offers visions of & for the Caribbean which visions will transcend time & space; 4--Published by the Eastern Caribbean Institute, an emerging small press of the Caribbean & the U. S. A. Member of the Society of Scholarly Publishing, National Writers Club & COSMEP, the International Association of Independent Publishers.

The Ecological Native

The Ecological Native
Author: Astrid Ulloa
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135475849

This text analyzes indigenous peoples' processes of identity construction as ecological natives. It opens space for reconstructing all the different networks, conditions of emergence, and implications (political, cultural, social and economic) of one specific event: the consolidation of the relationship between indigenous peoples and environmentalism. This text is based on ethnographic information and focused on the historical process of the emergence of indigenous peoples' movements in Latin America, in general, and indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta do Columbia (SNSM), in particular. It demonstrates the process of the construction of indigenous peoples' environmental identities as an interplay of local, national and transnational dynamics among indigenous peoples and environmental movements and discourses in relation to global environmental policies.

Geopolíticas

Geopolíticas
Author: Emilio Piazzini
Publisher: Carreta
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2008
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Agent-based Modeling and Simulation in Archaeology

Agent-based Modeling and Simulation in Archaeology
Author: Gabriel Wurzer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2014-11-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 331900008X

Archaeology has been historically reluctant to embrace the subject of agent-based simulation, since it was seen as being used to "re-enact" and "visualize" possible scenarios for a wider (generally non-scientific) audience, based on scarce and fuzzy data. Furthermore, modeling "in exact terms" and programming as a means for producing agent-based simulations were simply beyond the field of the social sciences. This situation has changed quite drastically with the advent of the internet age: Data, it seems, is now ubiquitous. Researchers have switched from simply collecting data to filtering, selecting and deriving insights in a cybernetic manner. Agent-based simulation is one of the tools used to glean information from highly complex excavation sites according to formalized models, capturing essential properties in a highly abstract and yet spatial manner. As such, the goal of this book is to present an overview of techniques used and work conducted in that field, drawing on the experience of practitioners.

Environmental Governance in Latin America

Environmental Governance in Latin America
Author: Fabio De Castro
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2016-03-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137505729

This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The multiple purposes of nature – livelihood for communities, revenues for states, commodities for companies, and biodiversity for conservationists – have turned environmental governance in Latin America into a highly contested arena. In such a resource-rich region, unequal power relations, conflicting priorities, and trade-offs among multiple goals have led to a myriad of contrasting initiatives that are reshaping social relations and rural territories. This edited collection addresses these tensions by unpacking environmental governance as a complex process of formulating and contesting values, procedures and practices shaping the access, control and use of natural resources. Contributors from various fields address the challenges, limitations, and possibilities for a more sustainable, equal, and fair development. In this book, environmental governance is seen as an overarching concept defining the dynamic and multi-layered repertoire of society-nature interactions, where images of nature and discourses on the use of natural resources are mediated by contextual processes at multiple scales.

Costa Rica

Costa Rica
Author: Carolyn Hall
Publisher: Westview Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 1985-10-20
Genre: History
ISBN:

Memory Against Culture

Memory Against Culture
Author: Johannes Fabian
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2007
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780822340775

Recent essays by prominent anthropologist on questions of time, memory, and ethnography.