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  • Latin American Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Bioethics and Disabilities

    Edited by Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann, Sandra Caponi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book provides a critical analysis of the experiences of people with disabilities in Latin America. It covers a wide range of topics related to intellectual and psychosocial disabilities. Written by Latin American researchers and adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, it provides an original sociocultural contribution to bioethics and disability studies literature. It presents an in-depth ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

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    Perception of Opportunity and Academic Orientation Among Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth

    by Edward Fergus ...
    Series series Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
    The focus of this study is on the ways in which skin color moderates the perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation of 17 Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students. More specifically, the study's analysis centered on cataloguing the racial/ethnic identification shifts (or not) in relation to how they perceive others situate them based on skin color. ... Read more

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  • Governing Delinquency Through Freedom

    Control, Rehabilitation and Desistance

    by Géraldine Bugnon ...
    Series series International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation
    This book analyses the non-custodial government of young offenders in two major cities in Brazil. In doing so, it delves into the paradox of an institution exerting control over youths while at the same time promoting their autonomy and responsibility. The study sheds light on the specific logics of power, control, and inequality produced by such institutional settings.The book’s analysis is based ... Read more

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  • Bilingual and Multilingual Education in the 21st Century

    Building on Experience

    Edited by Christian Abello-Contesse, Paul M. Chandler, María Dolores López-Jiménez, Dr. Rubén Chacón-Beltrán ...
    Series Book 94 - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    Bilingual education is one of the fastest growing disciplines within applied linguistics. This book includes the work of 20 specialists working in various educational contexts across Europe, Latin America and North America to create a volume which is both comprehensive in scope and multidimensional in its coverage of current bilingual initiatives. The central themes of this volume, which draws on ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Writings for a Liberation Psychology

    by Ignacio Martín-Baró ...
    “In your country,” Ignacio Martín-Baró remarked to a North American colleague, “it’s publish or perish. In ours, it’s publish and perish.” In November 1989 a Salvadoran death squad extinguished his eloquent voice, raised so often and so passionately against oppression in his adopted country. A Spanish-born Jesuit priest trained in psychology at the University of Chicago, Martín-Baró devoted much ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • The Puerto Rican Syndrome

    by Patricia Gherovici ...
    Series series Cultural Studies
    Winner of the Gradiva Award in Historical Cultural and Literary Analysis and The 2004 Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic AnthropologyDuring the 1950's, US Army medical officers noted a new and puzzling syndrome that contemporary psychiatry could neither explain nor cure. These doctors reported that Puerto Rican soldiers under stress behaved in a very peculiar and dramatic manner, ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Are Mexican Immigrant and Mexican American Female Victims of Intimate Partner Violence Being Served in Memphis, Tennessee?

    Support Services for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence Among Mexican Immigrant and Mexican American Women in Memphis, Tennessee

    by M. Helena Vanderlei Collins ...
    Domestic violence against women is an oppressive condition that extends across race, class, and gender. This work examines intimate partner violence against women in Memphis, Tennessee, focusing on Mexican immigrant and Mexican American female survivors of domestic violence.Author M. Helena Vanderlei Collins interviewed ten Mexican immigrant women and seven Mexican American women to investigate ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Medicalisation of Incest and Abuse

    Biomedical and Indigenous Perceptions in Rural Bolivia

    by Carolina Borda-Niño-Wildman ...
    Combining biomedical, psychological, and anthropological approaches to intergenerational incestuous violence experienced by rural indigenous [and] peasant women in the Andean region, this book raises new questions surrounding humanness and the normalisation of sexual violence. Through original ethnographical research, the author analyses Andean understandings of incest, medical positivist ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Psychology of the Mexican

    Culture and Personality

    by R. Díaz-Guerrero ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    In his quest to understand and describe the behavior of the Mexican, the distinguished Mexican psychologist R. Díaz-Guerrero combines a strong theoretical interest in the relationship of culture to personality with a pragmatic concern for methodology. This collection of essays is rooted both in studies of Mexican psychology as an independent phenomenon and in cross-cultural comparisons of Mexicans ... Read more

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  • Chicana and Chicano Mental Health

    Alma, Mente y Corazón

    by Yvette G. Flores ...
    Series series The Mexican American Experience
    Spirit, mind, and heart—in traditional Mexican health beliefs all three are inherent to maintaining psychological balance. For Mexican Americans, who are both the oldest Latina/o group in the United States as well as some of the most recent arrivals, perceptions of health and illness often reflect a dual belief system that has not always been incorporated in mental health treatments.Chicana and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • English Language Teaching in South America

    Policy, Preparation and Practices

    Edited by Lía D. Kamhi-Stein, Gabriel Díaz Maggioli, Luciana C. de Oliveira ...
    Series Book 109 - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    This book investigates new English language policies and initiatives which have been introduced and implemented across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela. Chapters are organized around three themes. Chapters in the first section critically examine newly-implemented English language policies, as well as factors that contribute to and prevent the implementation of ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Disenfranchised grief in contemporary society

    by Gabriela Casellato ...
    Death itself is already a major taboo in the Western world. The same can be said about grief, particulalry when it is not seen as such - the so-called symbolic and/or ambiguous losses. With this reality in mind, Gabriela Casellato has gathered fundamental texts to better understand the subject. Divided into four parts - "GRIEF IN EARLY-LIFE LOSSES ", "GRIEF IN LOSSES BY NON-NORMATIVE LIFEE-COUSE ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD