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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “roberto e barrios”
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  • Governing Affect

    Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction

    by Roberto E. Barrios ...
    Series series Anthropology of Contemporary North America
    Roberto E. Barrios presents an ethnographic study of the aftermaths of four natural disasters: southern Honduras after Hurricane Mitch; New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina; Chiapas, Mexico, after the Grijalva River landslide; and southern Illinois following the Mississippi River flood. Focusing on the role of affect, Barrios examines the ways in which people who live through disasters use ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • A Revelatory Pandemic

    Crisis, Agency, and COVID in Latin America

    Edited by Roberto E. Barrios, Virginia García-Acosta ...
    Series Book 9 - Catastrophes in Context
    Political leaders and the news media described the public-health catastrophe of COVID-19 as a crisis, while scholars and public intellectuals portrayed the pandemic as a debacle that would lay bare the inequities and contradictions of an increasingly neoliberal global political economy and usher in an era of progressive, transformative change. Bringing the anthropologies of disaster, epidemics, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Disaster Upon Disaster

    Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice

    Edited by Susanna M. Hoffma, Roberto E. Barrios ...
    Series Book 2 - Catastrophes in Context
    A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many aspects of disasters, such as driving factors, risk construction, complexity of resettlement, and importance of peoples’ culture, very little has ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Parasitic Diseases of the Lungs

    Edited by Roberto Barrios, Abida K. Haque ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Diagnosis of parasitic lung diseases is often difficult as their clinical manifestations can mimic common respiratory illnesses and routine tests can fail to detect the infections. Parasitic Diseases of the Lungs is designed as a practical guide for pathologists who encounter parasitic diseases of the lung in their daily routine. The book comprises eight chapters. After discussion of the handling ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • Sacrificing Families

    Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders

    by Leisy J. Abrego ...
    Widening global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children, and both mothers and fathers often find that migration in search of higher wages is their only hope. Their dreams are straightforward: with more money, they can improve their children's lives. But the reality of their experiences is often harsh, and structural barriers—particularly those ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Governing the Commons

    The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

    by Elinor Ostrom ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Economies of Desire

    Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic

    by Amalia L. Cabezas ...
    Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization—nothing is as simple as it might seem.Based on ten years of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Social Roots of Risk

    Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience

    by Kathleen Tierney ...
    Series series High Reliability and Crisis Management
    The first decade of the 21st century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters. Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that catastrophic events can have on developing countries, while 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina showed that first world nations remain vulnerable.The Social Roots of Risk argues against the widespread notion that cataclysmic occurrences ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • 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

    $43.99 CAD

  • State of the World 2014

    Governing for Sustainability

    by The Worldwatch Institute, David W. Orr, Tom Prugh, Michael Renner, John Gowdy, Robert Engelman, Michael L. Weber, Conor Seyle, Matthew Wilburn King, Matt Leighninger, Diana Lind, Monty Hempel, Peter Brown, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Cormac Cullinan, Isabel Hilton, Sam Geall, Shakuntala Makhijani, Aaron Sachs, Inge Kaul, Maria Ivanova, Rick Worthington, Sean Sweeney, Dr., Thomas Palley, Gar Alperovitz, Colleen Cordes, David Bollier, Burns Weston, Petra Bartosiewicz, Marissa Miley, Evan Musolino, Katie Auth, Nina Netzer, Judith Gouverneur, Josephine Mitschke, Ian Johnson, Yu Hongyuan ...
    Series series State of the World
    Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.’s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments’ progress has been lackluster. That’s not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from the bottom up rather than the top down. Action—on climate, species loss, inequity, and other ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • 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

    $40.99 CAD

  • I'm Neither Here nor There

    Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty

    by Patricia Zavella ...
    I’m Neither Here nor There explores how immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican Americans and migrants from Mexico. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Patricia Zavella describes how poor and working-class Mexican Americans and migrants to California’s central coast struggle for agency amid the region’s deteriorating economic conditions and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD