An ethnography on the significance of Selena's afterlife for Latino identity.

Analyzes bilingual intercultural education in Bolivia.

Presents a framework for re-conceptualizing the relationship between neoliberal development and social movements. Moving beyond the notion that development is a hegemonic, homogenizing force that victimizes local communities, this book argues that development processes and social movements shape each other in uneven and paradoxical ways.

A feminist analysis of the Chicano family that sees it as a site of political struggle with patriarchal masculinity, nationalism, and homophobia.

Examines the logic underlying the neoliberal welfare state that South Korea created in response to the devastating Asian Debt Crisis (1997-2001).

Analyzes one of the most important Catholic mission systems in republican-era Latin America.

A biography of the most important woman in the history of economic thought.

Assesses Congress' role in US foreign policy making.

An ethnography of Wall Street, investment bankers and the cultural logics of finance.

The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic, was one of the longest and bloodiest in Latin American history. This work describes how the regime infiltrated civil society by fashioning a 'vernacular politics' based on popular idioms of masculinity and fantasies of race and class mobility.

Explores the uses of anthropology as a mode of philosophical inquiry, an evolving academic discipline, and a means for explicating the complex and shifting interweaving of human bonds and social interactions on a global level. This title investigates changing ideas about cultural inscription on the human body.

Shows how phenomena including globalization, neoliberal notions of the end of history, the growth of the Internet, the efflorescence of architectural and urban planning projects, developments in cultural production, new turns in theory and philosophy, and the growth of the anti-globalization movement came to characterize the long nineties.

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. This book examines how women's movements have responded to the dramatic political, economic, and social changes, focusing on the various strategies women's movements have adopted.

Examining sociocultural, political, and economic transformations in the Caribbean, the author describes how contemporary Caribbean subjects remake themselves in and beyond the Caribbean region, challenging, appropriating, and subverting older, localized forms of creolization.

Shows how the experience of speed has always been political and how it has affected the modern culture. The author describes how speed changed understandings of space, distance, chance, and violence; how the experience of speed was commodified in the dawning era of mass consumption; and how people were incited to abhor slowness and desire speed.

Missions played a vital role in frontier development in Latin America throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This title examines one of the most important Catholic mission systems in republican-era Latin America, the Franciscan missions among the Chiriguano Indians in southeastern Bolivia.

As both an idea and an institution, the family has been at the heart of Chicano/a cultural politics since the Mexican American civil rights movement emerged in the late 1960s. This book explores the competing notions of la familia found in movement-inspired literature, film, video, music, painting, and other forms of cultural expression.

Presents a framework for re-conceptualizing the relationship between neoliberal development and social movements. Moving beyond the notion that development is a hegemonic, homogenizing force that victimizes local communities, this book argues that development processes and social movements shape each other in uneven and paradoxical ways.

Analyzes bilingual intercultural education in Bolivia.

Shedding light on how US foreign policy is made, this book focuses on 'congressional foreign policy entrepreneurs', the often unrecognized representatives and senators who take action on foreign policy matters rather than waiting for the executive branch to do so.