Does democracy improve the quality of life for its citizens? Scholars have long assumed that
it does, but recent research has called this orthodoxy into question. This article reviews this …

After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states
began adopting transformative ethno-racial legislation in the late 1980s. In addition to …

———. 2011.“Conflictos sociales y socioambientales en el sector rural y su relación con el
desarrollo rural: SEPIA XIII.” In Perú: El problema agrario en debate, edited by P. Ames and …

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities—places like
Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This …

The Expediency of Culture is a pioneering theorization of the changing role of culture in an
increasingly globalized world. George Yúdice explores critically how groups ranging from …

“Networking Futures [is] an exciting and important book, and a contribution to sociology....
Juris provides us with an understanding of how activists are at the forefront of this global …

This is a bold new study of the recent emergence of democracy in Latin America. Leonardo
Avritzer shows that traditional theories of democratization fall short in explaining this …

" Goldstein returns anthropology to what it does best while taking the reader on a no-holds-
barred ride through the tragicomic world of a Rio favela. She captures the bittersweet …

Why did some Latin American labor-based parties adapt successfully to the contemporary
challenges of neoliberalism and working class decline while others did not? Drawing on a …

Constitutional reform has been one of the most significant aspects of democratization in late
twentieth century Latin America. In The Friendly Liquidation of the Past—one of the first texts …