Two decades of neoliberalism in Latin America have left legacies of uneven growth, inequity
and lackluster democracy. This book offers an original and grounded discussion of what …

This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre's vision of racial and cultural mixture
(mestiçagem-or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazilian culture in the twentieth …

Cambodia's Second Kingdom is an exploration of the role of nationalist imaginings,
discourses, and narratives in Cambodia since the 1993 reintroduction of a multiparty …

Argentina has been a country of immigration since the Republican period. Moreover
migration has played a key role in the construction of Argentinian nationhood. This paper …

Globally, there is a commitment to eliminate poverty; and yet the politics that have caused
anti-poverty policies to succeed in some countries and to fail in others have been little …

In the 1980s and more rapidly in the 1990s communications technology began to
interconnect individuals and communities in different countries (Vertovec 2001). This …

This article focuses on the nexus between state infrastructural power and legitimacy. A
comparative case study of nationalism in mid-twentieth-century Mexico and Argentina …

Scholars have recognized that contentious political action typically draws on relatively stable
scripts for the enactment of claims making. But if such repertoires of political practice are …

In Chile and Argentina, indigenous Mapuche intellectuals contend that there is a single
Mapuche nation that spans the Chile–Argentina border. When Mapuche people talk about …

Until recently, sociologists have paid surprisingly little attention to the relationship between
emotions and nationalism. Existing accounts remain homogeneous, linear and …