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REGIONAL POLITICS LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
Brookings Institution Press
NARCO NOIR Mexico's Cartels, Cops, and Corruption
Vanda Felbab-Brown Crime and security expert Vanda Felbab-Brown conducted more than eight years of fieldwork across Mexico analysing policy interventions in key crime and violence hotspots, as well as in control cases. The result is this work: an extensive and unique set of organised crime case studies. It also includes an extensive section of policy recommendations, providing a detailed analysis of how to improve law enforcement capacity and strategies.
Feb 2022 300pp 9780815728184 Hardback £22.95 / €27.00
Academica Press
CUBA The Doctrine of the Lie
Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat A thoroughly researched and profoundly revealing work on two themes of vital importance to the world today: the true nature of totalitarianism and how religion, philosophy, culture, tradition, and individual freedom are the most effective antibodies for countering this deadly ontological virus.
Feb 2022 212pp 9781680537413 Hardback £51.50 / €58.00
Brookings Institution Press
AUTOCRACY RISING How Venezuela Transitioned to Authoritarianism
Javier Corrales Venezuela enjoyed periods of democratically elected governments in the latter half of the twentieth century, but in the past two decades has increasingly descended into autocratic rule, coupled with economic collapse. This work explores how and why this happened.
Apr 2022 220pp 9780815738077 Paperback £26.50 / €30.00
University Press of Florida
REIMAGINING THE GRAN CHACO Identities, Politics, and the Environment in South America
Edited by Silvia Hirsch, Paola Canova & Mercedes Biocca Traces the changes taking place in the Gran Chaco, a biodiverse region at the intersection of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. Representing a range of contemporary scholarship, this book illuminates how the region's indigenous groups are negotiating these transformations in their own terms.
Oct 2021 360pp 9781683402862 Paperback £32.95 / €38.00 9781683402114 Hardback £89.50 / €103.00
Lynne Rienner Publishers
BRAZILIAN POLITICS ON TRIAL Corruption & Reform Under Democracy
Luciano Da Ros & Matthew M. Taylor Provides a framework for evaluating the bottlenecks to effective accountability in Brazil and analyses the successes and failures of anticorruption efforts from the early days of the democratic transition through the demise of the massive Lava Jato investigations.
Feb 2022 281pp 9781626379978 Hardback £76.95 / €89.00
CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY IN THE ANDES Strongmen, Broken Constitutions, and Regimes in Crisis
Edited by Maxwell A. Cameron & Grace M. Jaramillo Although military coups are rare in the Andean countries, democracies remain prone to deep political crises caused by elected leaders who abuse their power – often with broad public approval. This book offers an analytical framework that disaggregates the components of democratic regimes, along with case studies and comparisons from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
Aug 2022 262pp 9781955055420 Hardback £79.50 / €92.00
POLICING & POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA When Law Enforcement Breaks the Law
Diego Esparza Though police are supposed to serve and protect, they all too often rob and abuse. Why? And what can be done about it? That is the central puzzle addressed in this book. Drawing on the disparate cases of Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, Diego Esparza analyses why some countries' police forces are more corrupt than others and considers what policy initiatives can turn an abusive police force into one that works for its citizens.
Aug 2022 180pp 9781955055505 Hardback £72.95 / €85.00
UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICA Fifth Edition
Edited by Henry (Chip) Carey A new edition that reflects the many changes that have occurred in the region since the previous edition was published. A new chapter on crime and security, along with new treatments of such subjects as geography, history, politics, economics, and international relations, make for an unparalleled introduction to the complexities of Latin America.
Mar 2022 525pp 9781626379770 Paperback £26.50 / €30.00
Michigan State University Press
SALSA CONSCIENTE Politics, Poetics, and Latinidad in the Meta-Barrio
Andrés Espinoza Agurto Latinos in the United States
Explores the significance and developments of the Salsa consciente movement, a Latino musico-poetic and political discourse that exploded in the 1970s but then dwindled in momentum into the early 1990s.
Dec 2021 340pp 9781611864014 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00
University of Michigan Press
HUMAN CAPITAL VERSUS BASIC INCOME Ideology and Models of Anti-Poverty Programs in Latin America
Fabian A. Borges Combining cross-national quantitative research covering the entire region and in-depth case studies based on field research, Human Capital versus Basic Income challenges the conventional wisdom that these two transformations were unrelated.
Feb 2022 280pp 9780472038978 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00 9780472132928 Hardback £56.95 / €66.00
Rutgers University Press
EQUALIBERTY IN THE DUTCH CARIBBEAN Ways of Being Non/Sovereign
Edited by Yvon van der Pijl & Francio Guadeloupe Critical Caribbean Studies
A collection of essays that explore questions of equality and freedom on the non-sovereign islands of the Dutch Caribbean. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research, historical and media analysis, the study of popular culture, and autoethnographic accounts, the contributors challenge assumptions about political non/sovereignty.
Apr 2022 210pp 9781978818668 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00 9781978818675 Hardback £97.50 / €113.00
HIGH-RISK FEMINISM IN COLOMBIA Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts
Julia Margaret Zulver Documents the experiences of grassroots women's organisations that united to demand gender justice during and in the aftermath of Colombia's armed conflict. In doing so, it illustrates a little-studied phenomenon: women whose experiences with violence catalyse them to mobilise and resist as feminists, even in the face of grave danger.
May 2022 212pp 9781978827097 Paperback £24.50 / €28.00 9781978827103 Hardback £97.50 / €113.00
PRECARIOUS DEMOCRACY Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil
Edited by Benjamin Junge et al Bringing together powerful and intimate stories and portraits from Brazil's megacities to rural Amazonia, this volume demonstrates the necessity of ethnography for understanding social and political change, and provides crucial insights on one of the most epochal periods of change in Brazilian history.
Sep 2021 238pp 9781978825659 Paperback £32.50 / €38.00 9781978825666 Hardback £105.00 / €122.00
BESTSELLER
United Nations Publications
United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Responds to the demands of users who require reliable and sound statistical information in order to analyse the economic, social and environmental situation of the region.
Oct 2021 82pp, English / Spanish 9789211220674 Paperback £89.50 / €100.00
University of Wisconsin Press
Jessica Stites Mor Critical Human Rights
Facing repression, the Latin American left in the ‘60s and ‘70s found connection in transnational exchange, organising with activists in Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. By exploring South-South solidarity, this volume begins conversations about what makes these movements unique, how they shaped political identities, and their influence.
Feb 2022 280pp 9780299336103 Hardback £74.95 / €87.00
The University of North Carolina Press
LULA AND HIS POLITICS OF CUNNING From Metalworker to President of Brazil
John D. French Known around the world simply as Lula, in 2003 Luis Inacio Lula da Silva became the thirty-fifth president of Brazil. John French, one of the foremost historians of Brazil, provides the first critical biography of the leader whom even his political opponents see as strikingly charismatic, humorous, and endearing.
2020 520pp 9781469655765 Hardback £28.50 / €33.00
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