Women and Change in Latin America

Women and Change in Latin America
Author: June C. Nash
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1986
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780897890700

A fine collection . . . this is a volume every person with interests in the social sciences and/or Latin America should read. "American Anthropologist" Outlines in impressive detail the dimensions of women's powerlessness and shows the rich array of strategies women use to survive the oppression of their daily lives. "Women's Review of Books"

Markets in Oaxaca

Markets in Oaxaca
Author: Scott Cook
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2014-01-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 147730116X

Markets in Oaxaca is a study of the regional peasant marketing system in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. It relates the marketing system to other aspects of the regional economy, to neighboring regions, and to the Mexican national economy. Combining ethnographic, theoretical, and regional analyses, it suggests new directions in the fields of peasant and development studies. Contributors to the volume describe the operation and nature of several marketplaces in the region, analyze village-based artisan production and various specialized economic roles (particularly the role of traders), and describe the operation of several total regional marketing systems. The editors then consider their findings against the background of political, economic, and social structures from the pre-Conquest period to the present. In their conclusion, the editors find the regional peasant economy to be responsive both to the influence of the urban metropolitan sector, on the one hand, and to its own indigenous structural integrity and internal dynamism, on the other. In addition to the editors, the contributors to Markets in Oaxaca are Ralph L. Beals, Richard L. Berg Jr., Beverly Chiñas, Herbert M. Eder, Charlotte Stolmaker, Carole Turkenik, John C. Warner, Ronald Waterbury, and Cecil R. Welte. Their essays combine analyses of the elements of the system within a comprehensive theoretical framework. Together, they present a complete and integrated view of a peasant economy.

Mayan Visions

Mayan Visions
Author: June C. Nash
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135957134

A significant work by one of anthropology's most important scholars, this book provides an introduction to the Chiapas Mayan community of Mexico, better known for their role in the Zapatista Rebellion.

From Tank Town to High Tech

From Tank Town to High Tech
Author: June C. Nash
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1989-08-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1438414153

This is a book about the impact of high tech defense production on individuals, families, and communities. It analyzes the restructuring of an American industry around high tech defense production, and the effect of this restructuring on employment opportunities and on the redistribution of profits. The author is concerned with the construction of corporate hegemony which she defines in Gramscian terms as leadership by large corporations, establishing a pattern for industrial organization. Focusing on regional economic history and corporate policy, Dr. Nash identifies the interconnected issues that bear on the relationship between industrial transformation and social life, on the restructuring of the American economy, and the consequences of militarization and commercialization on the family and community.

Transforming Latin America

Transforming Latin America
Author: Craig Arceneaux
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2005-07-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0822972808

This ambitious book offers a clear and unified framework for understanding political change across Latin America. The impact of U.S. hegemony and the global economic system on the region is widely known, and scholars and advocates alike point to Latin America's vulnerability in the face of external forces. In spite of such foreign pressure, however, individual countries continue to chart their own courses, displaying considerable variation in political and economic life. Looking broadly across the Western Hemisphere, with examples from Brazil, the Southern Cone, the Andes, and Central America, Arceneaux and Pion-Berlin identify general rules that explain how international and domestic politics interact in specific contexts. The detailed, accessible case studies cast new light on such central problems as neoliberal economic reform, democratization, human rights, regional security, environmental degradation, drug trafficking, and immigration. And they consider not only what actors, institutions, and ideas matter in particular political contexts, but when, where, and how they matter. By dividing issues into the domains of "high" and "low" politics, and differentiating between short-term problems and more permanent concerns, they create an innovative typology for analyzing a wide variety of political events and trends.

I Spent My Life in the Mines

I Spent My Life in the Mines
Author: Juan Rojas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 390
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780231079372

This compelling autobiographical account tells the story of Juan Rojas, a Bolivian tin miner, his wife Petrona Mamani and their children. They recounted their experiences to June Nash during her field trips to Bolivia between 1969 and 1986.

Women, Men, and the International Division of Labor

Women, Men, and the International Division of Labor
Author: June C. Nash
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1984-06-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 143841417X

The last few decades have witnessed a growing integration of the world system of production on the basis of a new relationship between less developed and highly industrialized countries. The effect is a geographical dispersion of the various production stages in the manufacturing process as the large corporations of industrialized "First World" countries are attracted by low labor costs, taxes, and relaxed production restrictions available in developing countries. This collection of papers focuses on inequalities among different sectors of the labor force, particularly those related to gender, and how these are affected by the changing international division of labor.

Ethnographic Collaborations in Latin America

Ethnographic Collaborations in Latin America
Author: J. Nash
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2016-05-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137521236

This volume examines the importance of establishing egalitarian relationships in fieldwork, and acknowledging the impact these relationships have on scholarly findings and theories. The editors and their contributors investigate how globalization affects this relationship as scholars are increasingly involved in shared networks and are subject to the same socio-economic systems as locals. The editors argue for a processual approach that begins with an analysis of researchers' personal and professional backgrounds that inform the cooperative relationships they establish during fieldwork—often a long term process—in countries such as Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Brazil.

Social Movements

Social Movements
Author: Vincenzo Ruggiero
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Political science
ISBN: 9780415445825

This timely reader provides an anthology of the literature on social movements, including the key texts relating to the notions of conflict, social change and collective action. The editors have selected and commented on the cameos found in this field of analysis and research, from classical sociology through to contemporary social movement theory.