Cultural Identity and Social Liberation in Latin American Thought

Cultural Identity and Social Liberation in Latin American Thought
Author: Ofelia Schutte
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1993-03-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780791413180

"El libro tiene dos grandes temas: la identidad cultural, sobre la que se expresan opiniones balanceadas entre los extremos posibles, y la 'liberacion social', entendida en general como liberacion con respecto a estructuras opresivas. El itinerario de e

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Total Pages: 294
Release: 2009
Genre: History
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Engendering Wealth And Well-being

Engendering Wealth And Well-being
Author: Cathy Rakowski
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2018-02-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429980434

The new international division of labor and the imposition of structural adjustment on Third World countries has necessitated a reexamination of development policies and a reevaluation of the role of gender in their success or failure. Although women often bear the heaviest burden under structural adjustment, there is also considerable evidence of women being empowered through their responses to the challenges of economic restructuring. Based on case study material from Eastern Europe, the Islamic nations, Africa, China, and Latin America, this volume explores the significant contributions women make to the wealth and well-being of their families and nations. The contributors argue persuasively that women may hold the key to sustainable development, an increasingly critical issue at a time when policymakers are reconsidering the full costs and benefits of a growth-fixated development model. One of the first to embody the new “gender and development” paradigm, this book reports on research at the frontiers of knowledge and theory about the gendered outcomes of economic transformation, restructuring, and social change. By incorporating “voices from the South,” it makes a provocative addition to our understanding of the political economy of development and of the relationship between world ecology and the world economy.

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Publisher: Religacion Press
Total Pages: 202
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Researching Women In Latin America And The Caribbean

Researching Women In Latin America And The Caribbean
Author: Edna Acosta-belen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000309800

This volume represents more than just a collection of chapters and bibliographic sources. For us, it provides another example of collective solidarity, hard work, and a relentless commitment to contribute to the process of advancing and transforming knowledge about women's condition. It attempts to update and assess how scholarship on women has impacted different disciplines and fields and examines the multivariate conditions and responses to immediate and long-term realities generated by women from different LatinAmerican and Caribbean countries. The editors hope that this publication, modest as it may be, will be a useful tool to other researchers, educators, and students in their efforts at pursuing and expanding the knowledge and visions that will make our different societies more just and liberating for all their citizens.

Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development

Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development
Author: Tatek Abebe
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 743
Release: 2024-08-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1040109063

The Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development explores how global development agendas and processes of economic development influence children’s lives. It demonstrates that children are not only the frequent targets or objects of development but that they also shape and influence processes of economic, political and sociocultural development. The handbook makes the case for the importance of placing children at the heart of development debates and demonstrates how researchers, policymakers and practitioners can engage children in development. Through reports on field research as well as a critical engagement with theories in development studies and childhood studies, contributors contest normative assumptions about childhood and global development. They tease out and tease apart the complex social, historical, cultural, economic, epidemiological, ecological, geopolitical, and institutional processes transforming what it means to be young in the world today. Showcasing research from both established scholars and early career researchers, and with particular prominence given to the work of authors from the global south, this book will be an essential reference for policymakers, practitioners, and for researchers and students across childhood studies, education, geography, sociology, and global development.

The Sexual History of the Global South

The Sexual History of the Global South
Author: Saskia Wieringa
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2013-04-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1780324049

The Sexual History of the Global South explores the gap between sexuality studies and post-colonial cultural critique. Featuring twelve case studies, based on original historical and ethnographic research from countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the book examines the sexual investments underlying the colonial project and the construction of modern nation-states. Covering issues of heteronormativity, post-colonial amnesia regarding non-normative sexualities, women's sexual agency, the policing of the boundaries between the public and the private realm, sexual citizenship, the connections between LGBTQ activism and processes of state formation, and the emergence of sexuality studies in the global South, this collection is of great geographical, historical, and topical significance.

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Paunch
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Total Pages: 228
Release: 1991
Genre: Literature
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Contested Identities in Costa Rica

Contested Identities in Costa Rica
Author: Liz Harvey-Kattou
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2019
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1789620058

Contested Identities in Costa Rica explores the concept of national identity within the paradigm of the dominant image of the traditional and idealised tico. Considering literature from the 1970s and cinema from the twenty-first century, it analyses how this identity has been challenged through the soft power of creative protest.