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Showing 1 to 20 of 169 for “"Latin American Studies"”.
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The Girl Who Cried "Why?": Using Inquiry/Constructivist Methodology to Create Integrated History/English Webpages with Academy Sophmores
… an integrated exploration of industrialization, Latin American studies, and poetry through the use of webpage design. The study includes a detailed definition of this methodology as well as a discussion of the intrinsic democratic quality of this methodology. The study looks closely at the …
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Forgotten Pueblos: La Alianza Federal de Mercedes and the Cultural Politics of Indo-Hispano
… had been lost in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War in the mid-19th century. This dissertation draws from a diverse collection of archived writings and publicity materials produced by La Alianza over the span of its roughly 15 year existence and situates the movement as a rich site of …
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these americas: Black and Indigenous Poetics Exhausting the Human
… potential of literary practice. I put Indigenous studies in conversation with a range of related interdisciplines such as Black, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies to map interrelations, shared histories, divergences, and explicit as well as implicit concerns with the Americas as site of …
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<i>Desde el fuego que en mí arde</i>: Performance, literatura y cine afro-latinoamericano producidos por mujeres afrodescendientes en Perú, Cuba y Brasil (1960–2000)
… played in the cultural identity formation of Latin America when inserting ‘race’ as a category of socio-political analysis and cultural production. How did their films, performances, and texts challenge national narratives and imaginaries after 1960? Although in the sixties, women improved …
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The promiscuity of freedom : development and governance in the age of neoliberal networks
This study brings together science and technology studies, political anthropology, and Latin American studies, by studying the practices and political reasoning of neoliberal networks in Peru. It analyses the extension of such networks by studying the relationships and subjectivities cultivated …
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Subjugated Bodies, Normalized Subjects: Representations Of Power In The Panamanian Literature Of Roberto Díaz Herrera, Rose Marie Tapia And Mauro Zúñiga Araúz
… range of social problems affecting women in Latin America, focusing on the subjugation and control of women's bodies through prostitution. This chapter uses Foucault's notion of biopower to illustrate how subjugation operates through globalization and the sex trade market. Chapter five uses …
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The City Encomium in Medieval and Humanist Spain
… five Spanish humanist authors who wrote similar Latin prose encomia for Peninsular cities (Palencia on Seville, 'Geronimo' on Cordoba, Pau on Barcelona, Proaza on Valencia and Sobrarias on Alcaniz). To better illustrate this transfer, the collective Italian model is first analyzed here in terms …
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Essays on Poverty Reduction in Latin America
The third paper sheds light on the spatial distribution of poverty, and the intra-regional dynamics of income distribution within a country (Ecuador). The paper assesses the importance of geographical, physical, and human capital variables in explaining differences in consumption growth in …
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Cadê o mico? Where is the tamarin?: Locating monkeys in the politics of land and conservation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
<p>The golden lion tamarin is a small, endangered monkey found in only a few municipalities in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This dissertation explores the project to conserve this rare primate, a project that links together agrarian reform, forest restoration, agroforestry, and conservation …
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Capoeira as a Resource: Multiple Uses of Culture Under Conditions of Transnational Neoliberalism
… to explore how capoeira’s circulation in North American markets enables its multiple uses. A central commitment to theoretical analysis is conveyed by each chapter’s distinctive theoretical framing. Chapter One demonstrates processes of creation of political and ideological value as it examines …
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Within and Against the Market: The Guatemalan Campesino Movement under Neoliberal Peace
… lessens the impact of the movement. Six case studies—with the National Indigenous and Campesino Coordinator (Coordinadora Nacional Indígena y Campesina, CONIC), the Campesino Committee of the Highlands (Comité Campesino del Altiplano, CCDA), and four rural communities—direct the dissertation …
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Forced Displacement and Racialization: The Colombian Experience
This thesis compares the differential processes of racialization from a Colombian perspective experienced by three groups of displaced migrants in the global North and South. First, internally displaced persons (IDPs) who have been forced to move to the Coffee Region in Colombia after leaving their …
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Hartazgo: Understanding how #YoTeCreo emerged in Venezuela
This thesis explores how digital feminist activism sparked, using as a case study #YoTeCreo movement in Venezuela. Using the FemMesh to connect feminists knowledges, nodes and entanglements together with a transnationalized intersectionality, I discuss how this digital activism occurred locally. As …
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Adaptation Narratives: Climate Change and Environmental Politics in Mexican Costal Communities
This dissertation explores some key challenges the Mexican government and international organizations such as the World Bank may face when implementing climate change adaptation initiatives in coastal lagoon communities in the Mexican state of Tabasco, in the Gulf of Mexico. My analysis of the …
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Moving, waiting, searching across borders: Gendered geographies of violence, disappearance and contestation in southern Mexico
… of political geography, critical border studies, refugee studies and transnational feminist approaches. The study and grounded analysis originate from feminist ethnographic and participatory action research with migrant women, feminist and women’s groups, collectives searching for the …
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Natural Resource Revolutions: Mexico and Cuba Within the Sphere of U.S. Hegemony
… defiance helped to define U.S. foreign policy in Latin America? This dissertation presents a detailed examination of the contexts surrounding both the Mexican and Cuban Revolutions and their struggle against imperialist-driven interventions by the United States in Latin America and the Caribbean. …
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