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Energy Transitions in Latin America

This book comprehensively analyzes the challenges and opportunities associated with transitioning to sustainable energy systems in Latin America. Recognizing that energy transition goes beyond mere change…

Armando Barrientos

Social Protection in Latin America

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of social protection in Latin America, its origins, institutions, and outcomes. The chapters are organised in three groups. The earlier chapters discuss in turn a…

Liniers

Night Stories: Folktales from Latin America

Three Latin American folktales include the story of La Yuna, a mermaid who lures men to her underwater domain, the tale of La Lechuza, an enormous owl with the face of a woman, and two gauchos' encounter …

Liniers

Night Stories: Folktales from Latin America

Three Latin American folktales include the story of La Yuna, a mermaid who lures men to her underwater domain, the tale of La Lechuza, an enormous owl with the face of a woman, and two gauchos' encounter …

Indigenous Political Representation in Latin America

This book presents a comparative analysis of the struggles of Latin American indigenous peoples for effective representation in national political systems in the region. Through a detailed exploration of …

Urban Wetlands in Latin America

This book is about the contribution of urban wetlands in livable cities. Urban wetlands are very valuable blue-green infrastructure spaces for human settlements, yet they are disappearing as a result of u…

Francisco Valdés-Ugalde

Democracy in Latin America

Between 1978 and 2006, most Latin American countries joined the "third wave of democracy". However, as elected governments were set in place all over the region, authoritarian actors often managed to over…

Corporate Governing in Latin America

Grounded in institutional theories, this volume offers a framework for understanding the evolution of corporate governance in the six leading Latin American countries, namely Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Col…

Paul Alonso

Digital Satire in Latin America

This book analyzes how digital-native audiovisual satire has become increasingly influential in national public debates within Latin America. Paul Alonso examines the role of online video creators in crit…

Gustavo Palamone

Presidential Impeachment in Latin America

This book pursues a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to assess presidential impeachments in Latin America. Mixing methodologies from legal studies and political science, it provides a novel and …

Paul Alonso

Digital Satire in Latin America

Analyzes how digital-native audiovisual satire has become increasingly influential in national public debates within Latin America. Alonso illuminates the role of online video in filling gaps in sociopoli…

Gisela Heffes,

Visualizing Loss in Latin America

Visualizing Loss in Latin America engages with a varied corpus of textual, visual, and cultural material with specific intersections with the natural world, arguing that Latin American literary and cultur…

The Gibson Brothers

The Best Of

Guillaume Fontaine, Carlos Rodrigues de Caires, Taymi Milán, Alejandro Hernández-Luis

Tackling Corruption in Latin America

This book examines anti-corruption policies in Latin America. It compares best practices in public procurement and state budgets in order to provide new insights into policy design for governments, civil …

Socio-Environmental Research in Latin America

This contributed volume presents relevant examples of socio-environmental research that highlight the challenges and opportunities of using geotechnologies in interdisciplinary settings across the vast, c…

Ernesto Che Guevara,

The Awakening Of Latin America

"In a letter to his mother in 1954, a young Ernesto Guevara wrote, "The Americas will be the theater of my adventures in a way that is much more significant than I would have believed." In The Awakening o…

Global Value Chains in Latin America

This book examines the governance and institutional dimensions of the global value chain (GVC) and the barriers of local firms to participate in chains. Focusing on Latin America, this collection analyzes…

Women¿s Football in Latin America

The chapters in the Women s Football in Latin America two volumes will look at the social and historical means of the embodied representation of gender differences that has been deeply embedded in the his…

Black Lives Matter in Latin America

This volume considers how Black activism in Latin America has taken place in varying arenas such as in the academy, digital platforms, and traditional forms of activism. Contributors also examine the impa…