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Key Texts for Latin American Sociology comprises translations of key texts from the Latin American Sociology canon. It is the first book to curate and then translate these key texts into English, bringing together texts from leading sociologists in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Bolivia, and Uruguay, to provide comprehensive coverage of a wide range of issues in Latin American Sociology. By drawing attention to embedded issues such as development, inequalities, oppression and representation, the key texts approach sociology in its most authentic terms: as a means of understanding and committing to social change. The result of five years of collaboration between colleagues from 15 Latin American Countries, this volume was conceived at a workshop in Mendoza in 2013, where the scientific committee discussed the difference between “classics” and “key-texts” in Latin American sociology.
Development (Again) in Question: Trends in Critical Debates on Capitalism, Development and Modernity in Latin America1
Development (Again) in Question: Trends in Critical Debates on Capitalism, Development and Modernity in Latin America1
For more than sixty years, Latin America has experienced – possibly enjoyed and suffered – significant twists and turns regarding the thought and practice of ‘development’. Although this has largely been ascribed to economic, cultural and knowledge production processes in metropolitan coutries (before: core countries; today: the Global North), ‘development’ has always undergone its own shifts and reinvented itself in our continent. Not much has changed today, although, as we will see, it could be said that the last five years have marked a true reinvention of ...
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