The Role of Mexico's Plural in Latin American Literary and Political Culture

The Role of Mexico's Plural in Latin American Literary and Political Culture
Author: J. King
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2015-12-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781349538829

In this book, the Mexican magazine Plural (1971-1976) provides a privileged vantage point from which to assess the developments that transformed Mexican and Latin American literary and political culture in the 1970s.

The Role of Mexico's Plural in Latin American Literary and Political Culture

The Role of Mexico's Plural in Latin American Literary and Political Culture
Author: J. King
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2008-04-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781403980786

In this book, the Mexican magazine Plural (1971-1976) provides a privileged vantage point from which to assess the developments that transformed Mexican and Latin American literary and political culture in the 1970s.

Aesthetics and Politics in the Mexican Film Industry

Aesthetics and Politics in the Mexican Film Industry
Author: M. MacLaird
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2013-06-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137319348

Evaluating a broad selection of Mexican films produced from the early 1990s to the present, this study examines how production methods, audience demographics, and aesthetic approaches have changed throughout the past two decades and how these changes relate to the country's transitions to a democratic political system and a free-market economy.

New Political Spaces in Latin American Natural Resource Governance

New Political Spaces in Latin American Natural Resource Governance
Author: H. Haarstad
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2012-10-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137073721

Case studies written by anthropologists, geographers, political scientists, and sociologists provide empirical detail and analytical insight into states' and communities' relations to natural resource sectors, and show how resource dependencies continue to shape their political spaces.

Art Museums of Latin America

Art Museums of Latin America
Author: Michele Greet
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2018-03-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351777904

Since the late nineteenth century, art museums have played crucial social, political, and economic roles throughout Latin America because of the ways that they structure representation. By means of their architecture, collections, exhibitions, and curatorial practices, Latin American art museums have crafted representations of communities, including nation states, and promoted particular group ideologies. This collection of essays, arranged in thematic sections, will examine the varying and complex functions of art museums in Latin America: as nation-building institutions and instruments of state cultural politics; as foci for the promotion of Latin American modernities and modernisms; as sites of mediation between local and international, private and public interests; as organizations that negotiate cultural construction within the Latin American diaspora and shape constructs of Latin America and its nations; and as venues for the contestation of elitist and Eurocentric notions of culture and the realization of cultural diversity rooted in multiethnic environments.

Faith and Impiety in Revolutionary Mexico

Faith and Impiety in Revolutionary Mexico
Author: M. Butler
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2015-12-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230608809

While Mexico's spiritual history after the 1910 Revolution is often essentialized as a church-state power struggle, this book reveals the complexity of interactions between revolution and religion. Looking at anticlericalism, indigenous cults and Catholic pilgrimage, these authors reveal that the Revolution was a period of genuine religious change, as well as social upheaval.

Youth Violence in Latin America

Youth Violence in Latin America
Author: G. Jones
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2009-10-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 023010133X

This volume provides a systematic overview of the contemporary Latin American youth violence phenomenon. The authors focus specifically on youth gangs, juvenile justice issues, and applied research concerns, providing a rounded and balanced exploration of this increasingly important topic.

Beyond Neoliberalism in Latin America?

Beyond Neoliberalism in Latin America?
Author: J. Burdick
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2009-01-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230618421

While the neoliberal model continues to dominate economic and political life in Latin America, people throughout the region have begun to strategize about how to move beyond this model. Twelve cutting-edge papers investigate how Latin Americans are struggling to articulate a future in which neoliberalism is reconfigured.

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz
Author: Oliver Kozlarek
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2015-07-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3839413044

Octavio Paz is one of the most recognized Latin American writers. His essays offer a sophisticated critique of global modernity. Although his work has advanced many of the arguments that orient our contemporary debates in the social sciences and in philosophy, it has hardly ever been seriously taken into consideration in these disciplines. The volume suggests that this may have been a mistake. Its authors indicate ways in which Paz' essays can be read as substantial contributions to the contemporary debates in various fields. The aim of this book is to present to a non-Spanish speaking audience some of the discussions about Paz' offerings to the ongoing debates. It also wants to make a clear statement: a critique of our contemporary modernity must go hand in hand with a non-exclusive intercultural understanding of Humanism.