The United States and Latin America in the 1980s

The United States and Latin America in the 1980s

Author: Kevin J. Middlebrook

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published: 2010-11-23

Total Pages: 665

ISBN-13: 082297519X

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Major political and economic events of the 1980s such as the international debt crisis, the 1982 Falklands War, the return to democratic rule in a number of countries, and the prolonged crisis in Central America, focused great attention on the U.S. and its dealings in Latin America. In this volume, experts from Latin America, the United States and Europe offer profound insights on the state of U.S.-Latin American relations, external debt and capital flows, trade relations, democracy, human rights, migration, and security during the 1980s.


Human Rights, Social Movements and Activism in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

Human Rights, Social Movements and Activism in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

Author: Mariana Cunha

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-09-11

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 3319962086

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This edited collection explores how contemporary Latin American cinema has dealt with and represented issues of human rights, moving beyond many of the recurring topics for Latin American films. Through diverse interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological approaches, and analyses of different audiovisual media from fictional and documentary films to digitally-distributed activist films, the contributions discuss the theme of human rights in cinema in connection to various topics and concepts. Chapters in the volume explore the prison system, state violence, the Mexican dirty war, the Chilean dictatorship, debt, transnational finance, indigenous rights, social movement, urban occupation, the right to housing, intersectionality, LGBTT and women’s rights in the context of a number of Latin American countries. By so doing, it assesses the long overdue relation between cinema and human rights in the region, thus opening new avenues to aid the understanding of cinema’s role in social transformation.


Human Rights Worldwide

Human Rights Worldwide

Author: Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2006-06-08

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1851097678

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This work offers an insightful guide to the global struggle for human rights, the problems and shortcomings of the international human rights regime, and the resources essential to human rights studies. From royal decrees in the ancient kingdoms of Persia and Babylon to the latest controversies over reform of the United Nations, establishing international human rights norms has been a recurrent, if sometimes elusive, objective in world affairs. Internationally and domestically, controversies over human rights continue to fuel endless debate in politics, legal discourse, and the media. International human rights norms and treaties have helped to put Balkan war criminals behind bars, but genocidal acts continue in other parts of the world. Can governments, equipped with coercive power, eliminate human rights abuses? Who will counterbalance the increasing power of transnational corporations? How effective are the NGOs? Do human rights become a luxury under threats to the national security?


Judicial Independence and Human Rights in Latin America

Judicial Independence and Human Rights in Latin America

Author: E. Skaar

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-02-14

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 0230117694

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This comparative analysis, focusing on Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, explores the complex relationship between executive politics and judicial action, showing that judicial independence is a crucial factor in prosecution. It will engage Latin Americanists as well as all who are concerned with justice and human rights around the world.


Latin American Literature in Transition 1980–2018: Volume 5

Latin American Literature in Transition 1980–2018: Volume 5

Author: Mónica Szurmuk

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-12-08

Total Pages: 671

ISBN-13: 1108982646

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How do we address the idea of the literary now at the end of the second decade in the 21st century? Many traditional categories obscure or overlook significant contemporary forms of cultural production. This volume looks at literature and culture in general in this hinge period. Latin American Literature in Transition 1980-2018 examines the ways literary culture complicates national or area studies understandings of cultural production. Topics point to fresh, intersectional understandings of cultural practice, while keeping in mind the ongoing stakes in a struggle over material and intangible cultural and political borders that are being reinforced in formidable ways.


Handbook of Latin American Studies

Handbook of Latin American Studies

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 962

ISBN-13:

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Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies. Coverage includes relevant books as well as over 800 social science and 550 humanities journals and volumes of conference proceedings. Most records include abstracts with evaluations.


Human Rights in the Americas

Human Rights in the Americas

Author: James T. Lawrence

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781590339343

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The existence of human rights helps secure the peace, deter aggression, promote the rule of law, combat crime and corruption, and prevent humanitarian crises. These human rights include freedom from torture, freedom of expression, press freedom, women's rights, children's rights, and the protection of minorities. This book surveys the countries of the Americas and is augmented by a current bibliography and useful indexes by subject, title and author.


Brazil in Reference Books, 1965-1989

Brazil in Reference Books, 1965-1989

Author: Ann Hartness

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780810824003

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More than 1,650 entries citing reference sources, including handbooks, specialized dictionaries, encyclopedias, and statistical compilations.