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Free Download Latin American Politics in the Neoliberal Era: The Changing Dynamics of Class Struggle
by Henry Veltmeyer
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1837978425 | 199 Pages | PDF | 2.54 MB

Free Download Latin-Ish: More Than 100 Recipes Celebrating American Latino Cuisines by Marisel Salazar
English | August 20, 2024 | ISBN: 1682688267 | 264 pages | MOBI | 162 Mb
Savor the boundary-breaking dishes and rich tastes of Alta California, Tex-Mex, Floribbean, and other quintessentially American culinary traditions.

Free Download Keith John Richards, "Themes in Latin American Cinema: A Critical Survey, 2d ed. Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1476677824 | 2020 | 303 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
This updated and expanded edition gives critical analyses of 23 Latin American films from the last 20 years, including the addition of four films from Bolivia. Explored throughout the text are seven crucial themes: the indigenous image, sexuality, childhood, female protagonists, crime and corruption, fratricidal wars, and writers as characters.

Free Download The Other Latecomers: How Latin American Firms are Changing the Playbook on Innovation? by Javier Papa
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 143 Pages | ISBN : 3031684222 | 5.5 MB
In recent years, developing countries have seen the emergence of successful and innovative firms, albeit often with state support. Argentina, which faces challenges including industrial decline and macroeconomic turbulence, offers an intriguing context for studying latecomer firms, as few have managed to innovate and compete globally without significant state backing.

Free Download Sharon Barcan Elswit, "The Latin American Story Finder: A Guide to 470 Tales from Mexico, Central America and South America, Listing Subjects a"
English | ISBN: 0786478950 | 2015 | 328 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Anything is possible in the world of Latin American folklore, where Aunt Misery can trap Death in a pear tree; Amazonian dolphins lure young girls to their underwater city; and the Feathered Snake brings the first musicians to Earth.

Free Download Rob Vos, Lance Taylor, Ricardo Paes de Barros, "Economic Liberalization, Distribution and Poverty: Latin America in the 1990s"
English | 2003 | pages: 463 | ISBN: 1840648716 | PDF | 1,1 mb
Since the late 1980s, almost all Latin American countries have undergone a series of far-reaching economic reforms, particularly in the areas of financial and capital account liberalization and trade. This book provides a comparative and analytical framework for assessing the impact of these reforms upon 16 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, including: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, and Peru.

Free Download Paul K Eiss, Joanne Rapport, "The Politics and Performance of Mestizaje in Latin America: Mestizo Acts"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0367892359 | EPUB | pages: 136 | 0.8 mb
The term "mestizaje" is generally translated as race mixture, with races typically understood as groups differentiated by skin color or other physical characteristics. Yet such understandings seem contradicted by contemporary understandings of race as a cultural construct, or idea, rather than as a biological entity. How might one then approach mestizaje in a way that is not definitionally predicated on ‘race,’ or at least, on a modernist formulation of race as phenotypically expressed biological difference? The contributors to this volume provide explorations of this question in varied Latin American contexts (Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru), from the16th century to the present. They treat ‘mestizo acts’ neither as expressions of pre-existing social identities, nor as ideologies enforced from above, but as cultural performances enacted in the in-between spaces of social and political life. Moreover, they show how ‘mestizo acts’ not only express or reinforce social hierarchies, but institute or change them – seeking to prove – or to dismantle – genealogies of race, blood, sex, and language in public and political ways. The chapters in this book originally published as a special issue of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.

Free Download P. Rich, "Latin America: Its Future in the Global Economy"
English | 2001 | pages: 301 | ISBN: 0333929012, 1349425427 | PDF | 1,0 mb
Latin America: It’s Future in the Global Economy is a timely contribution to the effort to meet the complex challenges entailed in Latin America’s increasing participation in world markets. Taking into account the recent changes in the region and a future WTO conference, twelve economists and two international trade lawyers provide a framework for the analysis of trade negotiations by identifying key points of disagreement among trading partners, and discuss controversial issues such as the environment, labour and agriculture, exceptional protection, investment, services, e-commerce and the efficiency of the dispute settlement mechanism. The contributors identify the optimum approach for Latin America to take in protecting its interests and enhancing its advantages in global trade, and assess the various tools that negotiators might use during the forthcoming round of multilateral negotiations. They make concrete recommendations concerning trade strategy, policy, implementation and management together with suggestions as to how Latin America and other developing countries can increase their bargaining power in order to deal with new circumstances as they arise.

Free Download Irune Gabiola, "Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres"
English | ISBN: 1433159090 | 2020 | 184 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres examines the power of affect in structuring decolonizing modes of resistance performed by social movements such as COPINH (Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras). Despite a harsh legacy of colonialism, indigenous communities continue suffering from territorial displacements, dispossession, and human rights abuses due to extractivist projects that are violently destroying their land and, therefore, the environment. In particular, the Lenca communities in Honduras have been negatively affected by Western ideas of "progress" and "development" that have historically eliminated ancestral knowledges and indigenous ecological cosmologies while reinforcing Eurocentrism. Nevertheless, by reflecting on and articulating strategies for resisting neoliberalism, COPINH and its cofounder Berta Cáceres’ commitment to environmental activism, ecofeminism, and intersectional struggles has contributed affectively and effectively to the production of democratic encounters in pursuit of social justice. In homage to Berta, who was brutally assassinated for her activism in 2016, this book takes the reader on an affective journey departing from the violent affects experienced by the Lencas due to colonial disruption, contemporary industrialization, and criminalization, towards COPINH’s political and social intervention fueled by outrage, resistance, transnational solidarity, care, mourning, and hope. In this way, subaltern actors nurture the power to―in line with Brian Massumi’s interpretation of affect―transform necropolitics into natality with the aim of creating a fairer and better world.

Free Download Ronald Schwartz, "Latin American Films, 1932-1994: A Critical Filmography"
English | ISBN: 0786422262 | 2005 | 304 pages | PDF | 29 MB
In 1931 Antonio Moreno completed Santa, Mexico’s first true sound film. In it he established one of the foremost genres of Latin American cinema-the popular melodrama-which continues to this day. Latin American filmmakers came to the fore in the fifties and sixties and, as 1992’s Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) showed, Latin American films continue to be a major part of the international film scene.