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“catherine whittaker”

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  • Citizens against Crime and Violence

    Societal Responses in Mexico

    by Trevor Stack, Irene Álvarez, Denisse Román, Edgar Guerra, Ariadna Sánchez, Iran Guerrero, Salvador Maldonado, Catherine Whittaker, Pilar Domingo, Sasha Jesperson0 ...
    Mexico has become notorious for crime-related violence, and the efforts of governments and national and international NGOs to counter this violence have proven largely futile. Citizens against Crime and Violence studies societal responses to crime and violence within one of Mexico’s most affected regions, the state of Michoacán. Based on comparative ethnography conducted over twelve months by a ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

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    The Magic Feather

    A magical rhyming fairy tale from the author of The Gruffalo

    by Julia Donaldson ...
    Narrated by Jodie Whittaker ...

    Unabridged

    15 min

    **Beautifully read by Jodie Whittaker, best known for her role as The Doctor in Doctor Who.A rhyming fairy tale adventure about the magic of nature from the Number One bestselling Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo, and Catherine Rayner, winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration.**Imagine if you could speak to birds . . . that's just what happens to one little girl when she is given ... Read more

    $7.36 CAD

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  • Kuxlejal Politics

    Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities

    by Mariana Mora ...
    Over the past two decades, Zapatista indigenous community members have asserted their autonomy and self-determination by using everyday practices as part of their struggle for lekil kuxlejal, a dignified collective life connected to a specific territory. This in-depth ethnography summarizes Mariana Mora’s more than ten years of extended research and solidarity work in Chiapas, with Tseltal and ... Read more

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  • Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy

    Participation, Politics, and Culture under Chávez

    Edited by David Smilde, Daniel Hellinger ...
    Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy brings together a variety of perspectives on participation and democracy in Venezuela. An interdisciplinary group of contributors focuses on the everyday lives of Venezuelans, examining the forms of participation that have emerged in communal councils, cultural activities, blogs, community media, and several other forums. The essays validate many of the critiques ... Read more

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  • The Feminist Subversion of the Economy

    Contributions for a Life Against Capital

    by Amaia Pérez Orozco ...
    Translated by Liz Mason-Deese Mason-Deese ...
    The first book by Amaia Pérez Orosco translated into EnglishOne of the leading thinkers on the Spanish left explores the interactions of patriarchy and capitalismConnects theoretical arguments with on-the-ground lived experiencesHow has social reproduction been transformed by a series of environmental and public health crisesPEN Award winning translator of Spanish feminist economic texts Liz Mason ... Read more

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  • Dilemmas of Difference

    Indigenous Women and the Limits of Postcolonial Development Policy

    by Sarah A. Radcliffe ...
    In Dilemmas of Difference Sarah A. Radcliffe explores the relationship of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to the development policies and actors that are ostensibly there to help ameliorate social and economic inequality. Radcliffe finds that development policies’s inability to recognize and reckon with the legacies of colonialism reinforces long-standing social hierarchies, thereby reproducing ... Read more

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  • Violence and Resilience in Latin American Cities

    Edited by Kees Koonings, Dirk Kruijt ...
    Why are Latin American cities amongst the most violent in the world? Over the past decades Latin America has not only become the most urbanised of the regions of the so-called global South, it has also been the scene of the urbanisation of poverty and exclusion. Overall regional homicides rates are the highest in the world, a fact closely related to the spread and use of firearms by male youths, ... Read more

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  • Twenty-First-Century Feminismos

    Women's Movements in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Edited by Simone Bohn, Charmain Levy ...
    Series Book 4 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Social Justice in the Global South
    The women’s movement is a central, complex, and evolving socio-political actor in any national context. Vital to advancing gender equity and gendered relations in every contemporary society, the organization and mobilization of women into social movements challenges patriarchal values, behaviours, laws, and policies through collective action and contention, radically altering the direction of ... Read more

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  • Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America

    by Marcela Ríos Tobar, Jutta Marx, Jutta Borner, Mariana Caminotti ...
    Latin American women’s movements played important roles in the democratic transitions in South America during the 1980s and in Central America during the 1990s. However, very little has been written on what has become of these movements and their agendas since the return to democracy. This timely collection examines how women’s movements have responded to the dramatic political, economic, and ... 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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    Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts

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    High-Risk Fe**minism in Colombia documents the experiences of grassroots women’s organizations 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 catalyze them to mobilize and resist as feminists, even in the face of grave danger. Despite a well-established ... Read more

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