Development and Decolonization in Latin America

ISBN-13: 9780367627089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 354 str.

Julie Cupples

Opis

Written in an accessible language, this book is a fully updated and revised edition of Latin American Development, a text which provides a comprehensive introduction to Latin American development in the twenty-first century and is anchored in decolonial theory and other critical approaches.

Spis treści

1. Made in Conquest: The Making of Contemporary Latin America  2. A Decolonial History of Latin America  3. Coloniality, Capitalism and Neoliberalism  4. Extractivism and Ontological Politics  5. Latin America in the World  6. The Coloniality of Gender and Sexuality  7. Indigenous Politics and Movements  8. Afrodescendant Politics and Movements  9. Disastrous Development  10. The Latin American City  11. Making the Decolonial Turn

O autorze

Julie Cupples is Professor of Human Geography and Cultural Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She has been working in Latin America since 1990 and has done research in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Colombia, including the San Andrés Archipelago. Her publications have dealt with a range of themes including revolution and conflict, Indigenous and Afrodescendant media practices, gender and sexuality, elections, and disasters and environmental risk.