Social Sciences

Social Sciences
Author: Katherine D. McCann
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 958
Release: 2000-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780292752436

Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Katherine D. McCann is acting editor for this volume. The subject categories for Volume 57 are as follows: Electronic Resources for the Social Sciences Anthropology Economics Geography Government and Politics International Relations Sociology

Akademia cartonera

Akademia cartonera
Author: Ksenija Bilbija
Publisher: UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2009
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781934795101

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "academic articles, cartonera publications catalog, and bibliography."--CD-ROM label.

The Forest Frontier

The Forest Frontier
Author: Peter A. Furley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1134950438

Destructive patterns of Amazonian evolution are now infecting relatively untouched Northern Brazil - driven by the gold rush and demographic and economic forces from the South. The Forest Frontier assesses whether the Northern Amazonian States can avoid the same pressures and problems that affect the peoples and environments of the South. It examines the social and environmental nature of land development in Roraima, the most northerly of the Brazilian Amazonian states. Possessing most of the classic problems facing other States as well as containing a combination of political, cultural and environmental features, Roraima's development is at a frontier. Offering a critical assessment of the nature and pace of agricultural advance into Roraima, The Forest Frontier will provide a better understanding to plan for the inevitable development to come.

At the End of the Rainbow?

At the End of the Rainbow?
Author: Gordon MacMillan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1995
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780231103558

Throughout the 1980s, a combination of widespread poverty and favorable gold prices encouraged hoards of wildcat miners to penetrate some of the Amazon's rainforest headwaters in search of new deposits. Now, hundreds of makeshift camps threaten the future of both the rainforest and the indigenous people who inhabit it. This book explains how gold fever came to grip the Amazon and considers the changes it has brought to the region. It contains a vivid account of the violent clash between forty thousand miners and the Yanamami Indians in the state of Roraima, as well as thoroughly researched arguments that explore the perspectives of the farmers, ranchers, natives, and others involved in this historic moment.

Venezuela

Venezuela
Author: Vanessa Cartaya
Publisher:
Total Pages: 114
Release: 1997
Genre: Marginality, Social
ISBN:

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Jesús M. González-Pérez
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 669
Release: 2022-07-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000605906

This handbook presents the great contemporary challenges facing cities and urban spaces in Latin America and the Caribbean. The content of this multidisciplinary book is organized into four large sections focusing on the histories and trajectories of urban spatial development, inequality and displacement of urban populations, contemporary debates on urban policies, and the future of the city in this region. Scholars of diverse origins and specializations analyze Latin American and Caribbean cities showing that, despite their diversity, they share many characteristics and challenges and that there is value in systematizing this knowledge to both understand and explain them better and to promote increasing equity and sustainability. The contributions in this handbook enhance the theoretical, empirical and methodological study of urbanization processes and urban policies of Latin America and the Caribbean in a global context, making it an important reference for scholars across the world. The book is designed to meet the interdisciplinary study and consultation needs of undergraduate and graduate students of architecture, urban design, urban planning, sociology, anthropology, political science, public administration, and more.

Turismo y cultura: retos y perspectivas en América Latina

Turismo y cultura: retos y perspectivas en América Latina
Author: Julián Osorio
Publisher: U. Externado de Colombia
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2014-06-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9587720806

Este libro es un proyecto académico en el que se presentan diversos debates teóricos, reflexiones, casos de estudio y experiencias en los que se profundiza en diversos ejes de análisis sobre el fenómeno turístico, sus impactos, tensiones y prácticas sociales relacionadas con la cultura. Es un aporte al análisis y profundización de esta temática, dada su importante trascendencia en América Latina. Esperamos que los artículos, que han sido producto de la reflexión teórica o de la práctica investigativa, aporten al avance del conocimiento en la relación entre estos ejes, a partir de reflexiones teóricas, casos de estudio y análisis comparativos en relación con diversos territorios que le apuestan al turismo El libro se estructura en tres ejes de análisis. El primero, relacionado con las “Políticas públicas y el turismo cultural”; el segundo, enfocado a las “Dinámicas sociales, culturales y simbólicas en las relaciones entre turismo y cultura” y, el último, aporta a la comprensión de las “Tensiones e impactos del turismo sobre la cultura”. Con ello se espera cubrir un amplio espectro de enfoques que den cuenta de los retos a los que se deben enfrentar los hacedores de políticas públicas, los gestores, la academia y los actores locales, en relación con la implementación de proyectos y acciones en diversos territorios con múltiples dinámicas sociales asociadas a estos procesos. En este proyecto editorial se vincularon investigadores con 17 artículos que desde diversos lugares del continente aportaron su trabajo para que esta iniciativa fuera una realidad y se tejiera un collage de múltiples y variadas posturas sobre esta temática en la región. El libro aporta un sinnúmero de reflexiones e interrogantes que podrían derivar en un futuro en proyectos de investigación que permitan generar una mayor comprensión de las complejas relaciones entre cultura y turismo.

José Antonio Torres Martino

José Antonio Torres Martino
Author: José Antonio Torres Martinó
Publisher: La Editorial, UPR
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2006
Genre: Art, Puerto Rican
ISBN: 9780847701629

An art book, a memoir and a critical appraisal, of its subject, artist Torres Martino (b. Puerto Rico). Includes selected bibliographies of works by and about the author and indexes of names and illustrations. "Ponce native humanist, Jos Antonio Torres Martino is a personage of many hats, a wizard that has handled many herbs with intelligence, talent and social commitment. He is presented to us as a contemporary renaissance man: painter, serigraphist, engraver, columnist, union leader, talk-radio host, television anchorman, professor of the university, journalist and art intellectual"- Mario E. Roche Morales.