The concept of community participation continues to capture the attention of international
health policymakers and analysts nearly a quarter of a century after it was formally …

One in seven of the world's population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of
these live in the Global South–mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate …

Latin American feminist NGOs have played a critical role in'advocating feminism'by
advancing a progressive policy agenda while simultaneously articulating vital linkages …

After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin
America. Since the triumph of Castro, politicians and historians have accused the left there …

Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place,
mainly in the South. The'mega-cities' of the developing world are home to over 10 million …

Until very recently questions of resistance seemed straightforward, addressed in terms of an
analysis of power. This book demonstrates how new, radical geographies of resistance …

Taking an ethnographic approach to understanding urban violence, Enrique Desmond Arias
examines the ongoing problems of crime and police corruption that have led to widespread …

This book tells the story of how small farmers responded to a free-market onslaught that
devastated one of the Western Hemisphere's most advanced social-democratic welfare …

Crossing disciplinary and chronological boundaries, Volunteer Tourism: Popular
Humanitarianism in Neoliberal Times is the first full-length treatment of volunteer tourism …

Women's Activism and Globalization is a broad and comprehensive collection that shows
how women activists across the globe are responding to the forces of the new world order in …