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Capital Cities in Africa: Power and PowerlessnessSimon Bekker and Göran Therborn, editors Capital cities today remain central to both nations and states. They host centers of political power, not only national, but in some cases regional and global as well, thus offering major avenues to success, wealth and privilege. For these reasons capitals simultaneously become centers of 'counter-power,' locations of high-stakes struggles between the government and the opposition.
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Capital City Politics in Latin America: Democratization and EmpowermentDavid J. Myers and Henry A. Dietz, editors As Latin America's new democratic regimes have decentralized, the region's capital cities—and their elected mayors—have gained increasing importance. Capital City Politics in Latin America tells the story of these cities: how they are changing operationally, how the the empowerment of mayors and other municipal institutions is exacerbating political tensions between local More > | ![]() |
Capitalism and Justice: Envisioning Social and Economic FairnessJohn Isbister In Capitalism and Justice, John Isbister takes a practical approach to some of the most important questions of economic and social justice in the context of the global economy: How big a spread of incomes from rich to poor, for example, is consistent with social justice? Should inheritances be abolished? What sort of commitment should a rich country like the United States make to foreign aid? More > | ![]() |
Capitalizing on the Curse: The Business of MenstruationElizabeth Arveda Kissling Although a regular occurrence for millions of women, menstruation is typically represented in US culture as an illness or a shameful episode—to the benefit of an entire industry. Elizabeth Kissling reveals how corporations capitalize on long-standing negative attitudes about menses to sell solutions for nonexistent problems.
The commercialization of menstruation, Kissling acknowledges, has More > | ![]() |
Caribbean Geopolitics: Toward Security Through Peace?Andres Serbin, translated by Sabeth Ramirez Andres Serbin explores the complex of factors—external and domestic—that have shaped the geopolitical dynamics of the Caribbean region since the emergence, beginning in 1962, of non-Hispanic actors in the form of the newly independent Caribbean states. Serbin is especially concerned with attempts at cooperation and integration in the region, as well as with the impact of the arms race More > | ![]() |
Caribbean Passages: A Critical Perspective on New Fiction from the West IndiesRichard F. Patteson Offering a critical perspective on new fiction from the West Indies, Patteson concentrates on five writers from diverse backgrounds and with differing perspectives and artistic strategies, who nevertheless share a commitment to an imaginative repossession of Caribbean life and consciousness.
The writers discussed are Olive Senior (Jamaica), who combines devices of oral narratives and More > | |
Cashing In on Crime: The Drive to Privatize California State PrisonsKaryl Kicenski What explains the boom in private prisons—especially since the record of privatization for rehabilitating prisoners and saving taxpayer dollars is, at best, mixed? Karyl Kicenski examines the privatization of California state prisons to illuminate the forces that shape and distort our criminal justice policies.
Tracing the growth of private prisons from 1980 to the current day, Kicenski More > | ![]() |
Caught in the Storm [a novel]Seydou Badian, translated by Marie-Thérèse Noiset A gentle novel about the enduring conflict between young and old, new and traditional, foreign and native.
Badian tells the story of a village family in an African country under French rule. The family's father and the eldest son revere the customs of their ancestors, while the younger children are strongly attracted by European ways and ideas. The daughter, Kany, has fallen in love with her More > | ![]() |
Central American Writers of West Indian OriginIan Smart This is the first book-length analysis of the emerging literature written in Spanish by contemporary Central Americans whose grandparents came from the largely English-speaking islands of the Caribbean. Smart shows how the themes of language, religion, identity, exile, the plantation, mestizaje, and interracial love are explored in this literature to their fullest pan- Caribbean potential, and how More > | |
Challenges to Democracy in the Andes: Strongmen, Broken Constitutions, and Regimes in CrisisMaxwell A. Cameron and Grace M. Jaramillo, editors Although military coups are rare in the Andean countries, democracies remain prone to deep political crises caused by elected leaders (especially strongmen, or caudillos) who abuse their power—often with broad public approval. What explains this phenomenon?
The authors of Challenges to Democracy in the Andes propose answers to this question. Offering an analytical framework that More > | ![]() |