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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “alfredo joignant”
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  • Acting Politics

    A Critical Sociology of the Political Field

    by Alfredo Joignant ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Critique: Future Imperfect
    Following Bourdieu, this book seeks ‘to think about politics without thinking politically’, advancing the view that politics as conventionally understood does not take place in a social vacuum, but in the context of a certain topography of society that cannot be reduced to formal spaces (such as a parliament). Engaging with Bourdieu’s theory of fields and focusing specifically on the notion of the ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Social Protest and Conflict in Radical Neoliberalism

    Chile, 2008–2020

    Edited by Alfredo Joignant, Nicolás M. Somma ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book analyzes collective protests and contentious politics in Chile over a span of 13 years. Utilizing an unprecedented database developed by the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES), twenty social scientists provide a systematic overview of conflicts between 2008 and 2020 in the so-called “laboratory of neoliberalism”. Readers will understand different aspects of social ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Malaise in Representation in Latin American Countries

    Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay

    Edited by Alfredo Joignant, Mauricio Morales, Claudio Fuentes ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited volume examines malaise with democracy within three middle-income Latin American countries - Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. In particular, the book focuses on the gap within public opinion on democratic system within the context of crisis of representation and breakdowns of democracy. Based on a study using comparative and systematic survey data, the contributors of this volume provide ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

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  • Greening Brazil

    Environmental Activism in State and Society

    by Kathryn Hochstetler, Margaret E. Keck ...
    Greening Brazil challenges the claim that environmentalism came to Brazil from abroad. Two political scientists, Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck, retell the story of environmentalism in Brazil from the inside out, analyzing the extensive efforts within the country to save its natural environment, and the interplay of those efforts with transnational environmentalism. The authors trace ... Read more

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  • The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America

    Decades of Change

    Edited by Margit Ystanes, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the book seeks to understand to what extent the turn to the left at the start of the millennium managed to ... Read more

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  • Neoliberalism, Interrupted

    Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America

    by Mark Goodale, Nancy Postero ...
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  • Migration in South America

    IMISCOE Regional Reader

    Edited by Gioconda Herrera, Carmen Gómez ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access regional reader examines emerging issues around new migration patterns in South America and their relationship with changing migration policies over the last twenty years. The first part of the book looks at conceptual discussions on mixed and survival migration, the link between migration and extractivism, and the specific character of transit migration. A second part examines ... Read more

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    The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America

    Edited by Thomas Muhr ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
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  • The Great Gap

    Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Latin America

    Edited by Merike Blofield ...
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    Explaining Theoretical Puzzles and Policy Continuities

    Edited by Félix E. Martín, Nicolás Terradas, Diego Zambrano ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    Strategic Culture(s) in Latin America elucidates why many state actors in the Global South exhibit a remarkable degree of policy continuity in their external behavior despite structural incentives for change.This book contends that the theoretical notion of strategic culture is instructive to explain such a puzzle. It extends the application of strategic culture beyond the policy of nuclear ... Read more

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