Global Latin America : into the twenty-first century /

"Latin America has a unique historical and cultural context, is home to emerging global powers such as Brazil and Mexico, and is tied to world regions including China, India, and Africa. Global Latin America considers this regional interconnectedness and examines its meaning and impact in a glo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gutmann, Matthew C., 1953- (Editor ), Lesser, Jeff (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Colección:Global square ; v. 1.
Temas:
Regionalism > Latin America.
Globalization > Latin America.
Régionalisme > Amérique latine.
Mondialisation > Amérique latine.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Diplomatic relations
Globalization
Regionalism
Social conditions
Latin America > Foreign relations.
Latin America > Social conditions.
Amérique latine > Relations extérieures.
Amérique latine > Conditions sociales.
Latin America
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part One: The Latin American past in the global present
  • Looking at the Past and the Future without Fear: An Interview with Ricardo Lagos
  • The Conversion of Francis: The First Latin American Pope and the Women He Needs
  • Fidel Castro: The First Superdelegate
  • Poem: "Cruces de fronteras / Border Crossings"
  • From Illustrating Problems to Offering Solutions: Latin America as a Global Source of Social Innovation
  • Manga: "Che Guevara"
  • Part Two: Tongues and feet
  • Borges's Library: Latin America, Language, and the World
  • Love, Protest, Dance, Remix
  • Poem: "Lo prohibido"
  • Breaking the Machine: South American Fútbol
  • Roy Choi, Ricardo Zárate, and Pacific Fusion Cuisine in Los Angeles
  • Part Three: Science, Technology, and Health
  • The Rise of Brazil's Globally Connected Amazon Soybean Agriculture
  • Constructing Parallels: Brazilian Experts in Mozambique
  • Poem: "Perfecto Flores"
  • A Long Strange Trip: Latin America's Contribution to World Drug Culture
  • Part Four: Communities
  • Introduction to Rigoberta Menchú Tum
  • Nobel Lecture
  • Sex worker activism and labor
  • Poem: 'Ajustes familiares / Family Adjustments'
  • Latin American travel: the other side of tourism encounters
  • Brazil circles the globe
  • Part Five: Art moves the world
  • The Latin American novel as international merchandise
  • Traveling melodrama: Telenovelas and exporting southern moralities; or, how can something so bad still be so good?
  • Poem: 'Los invisibles / Invisibility'
  • The girl from Shinjuku: how a Japanese Brazilian diva keeps Bossa Nova alive in China
  • 'More than a nationality' : an interview with Gael Garcia Bernal about Latin American cinema and the world.

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