Ciencia E Imperialismo En America Latina
Ciencia E Imperialismo En America Latina

Author: Cuvi Nicolas

Publisher: Editorial Academica Espanola

Published: 2011-05-17

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9783844337761

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Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial Estados Unidos ejecuto en America Latina ambiciosos programas para explotar materias primas minerales, vegetales y animales, que requirieron la intervencion de todo su potencial cientifico. Estos programas significaron el inicio de un tipo de intervencion estadounidense en Latinoamerica caracterizada por una activa participacion del Estado en las negociaciones, por la construccion de una dependencia de tecnologia estadounidense en el sur, y porque se oriento los programas agricolas de las naciones latinoamericanas hacia los productos "complementarios," aquellos que Estados Unidos no podia producir en su territorio. Fue asi como se consolidaron las bases del imperialismo sobre las materias primas ejercido por Estados Unidos en America Latina desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX. En este trabajo se profundiza sobre los mecanismos para la explotacion de recursos vegetales iniciados durante ese periodo, enfatizando en los casos de la corteza medicinal de la quina (estrategica para las actividades de guerra) y de las estaciones agricolas cooperativas.

A Living Past
A Living Past

Author: John Soluri

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2018-02-19

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1785333917

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Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date syntheses of current scholarship on critical countries and ecosystems (including Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean, the tropical Andes, and tropical forests) and such cross-cutting themes as agriculture, conservation, mining, ranching, science, and urbanization. Together, these studies provide valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing the region.

Charting a New Course
Charting a New Course

Author: Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780742508934

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For decades F. H. Cardoso has been among the most influential of Latin American scholars, his writings on globalization, dependency, and politics having reached a world-wide audience. This book, the third by Cardoso to appear in English, is the first to incorporate essays written during his tenure as president of Brazil. The transformation of Cardoso's economic and political approach is nowhere better documented than in this broad-ranging collection of writings that span Cardoso's early theoretical work through his pragmatic agenda for Brazil in a rapidly changing world economy. The book also traces the development of one of the world's leading intellectuals, who took theory into the arena of policy when he became head of state.

Dependency Theories in Latin America
Dependency Theories in Latin America

Author: André Magnelli

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-08-12

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1040113338

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This book offers a discussion of the origins of Latin American dependency theories and their implications for contemporary social theory. The book explores the conditions of emergence of this intellectual movement, the trajectories of some of its main formulators, as well as the circulation of their ideas, their reception in other contexts, and their influence on other theoretical formulations and problems of the present. The book is aimed at social scientists interested in broadening the scope of social theory towards the Global South, in processes of knowledge circulation between central and semi-peripheral regions, as well as in understanding the problems of dependency, modernisation, and development processes in Latin America. The book can be used both as an introduction to these themes and to delve deeper into specific issues.

The ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions
The ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions

Author: Sujata Patel

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1847874029

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This latest edition to the ISA handbook series actively engages with the many traditions of sociology in the world. Twenty-nine chapters from prominent international contributors discuss, challenge and re-conceptualize the global discipline of sociology; evaluating the diversities within and between sociological traditions of many regions and nation-states. They assess all aspects of the discipline: ideas and theories; scholars and scholarship; practices and traditions; ruptures and continuities through an international perspective. Its goal is to become a text for debating the contours of international sociology.

The Politics of Academic Autonomy in Latin America
The Politics of Academic Autonomy in Latin America

Author: Fernanda Beigel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1317020588

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Academic autonomy has been a dominant issue among Latin American social studies, given that the production of knowledge in the region has been mostly suspected for its lack of originality and the replication of Euro-American models. Politicization within the higher education system and recurrent military interventions in universities have been considered the main structural causes for this heteronomy and, thus, the main obstacles for 'scientific' achievements. This groundbreaking book analyses the struggle for academic autonomy taking into account the relevant differences between the itinerary of social and natural sciences, the connection of institutionalization and prestige-building, professionalization and engagement. From the perspective of the periphery, academic dependence is not merely a vertical bond that ties active producers and passive reproducers. Even though knowledge produced in peripheral communities has low rates of circulation within the international academic system, this doesn't imply that their production is - or always has been - the result of a massive import of foreign concepts and resources. This book intends to show that the main differences between mainstream academies and peripheral circuits are not precisely in the lack of indigenous thinking, but in the historical structure of academic autonomy, which changes according to a set of factors -mainly the role of the state in the higher education system. This historical structure explains the particular features of the process of professionalization in Latin American scientific fields.

Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Author: Ted George Goertzel

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781555878313

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Provides the background essential to understanding Cardoso's struggle to complete the reforms that he believes are necessary to bring Brazil into the 21st century as a fully modern society. Drawing upon sources such as Cardoso's writings, Senate speeches, press conferences, and numerous interviews (including two with Cardoso himself), the author covers Cardoso's life and intellectual development, his university days and years in exile, his involvement in democratic politics in Brazil, and his remarkable record as president. Although Cardoso carefully read and corrected the manuscript, the author states that this is not an authorized biography and all interpretations and opinions are his own. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR