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What does it mean to be a Latino man in the United States today? David Abalos shows how the traditional cultural stories—the male roles of the mujeriego (the womanizer), the macho, and the patriarch—are becoming unlivable. Too many men choose manipulation, power, or violence in response, in an effort to restore the old order. But there is an alternative, argues Abalos. Demonstrating that Latino men can participate in the creation of a new way of living, Abalos boldly reconsiders how the personal can be political. He redefines machismo as the pride in self that allows Latino men to choose and create new and better stories for themselves as faithful lover, as political innovator, as archetypal guide. And he shows how the transforming Latina/o family can generate a new and vital comunidad Latina in the United States

Laura Espinoza : transformación digital en la industria de la moda en México / Delia Lizette Huezo-Ponce, Lorena García Caballero -- Mujeres artesanas emprendedoras en La Piedad, Michoacán : caso de éxito de fortalecimiento comunitario regional / Natalia Alejandra Salinas Bravo, Francisco Ernesto Navarrete-Báez, Irma Livier de Regil Sánchez -- El rol de la mujer en las industrias creativas : Amparo Vázquez y el documental Muchacha / Elizabeth Tiscareño-García, Florina Guadalupe Arredondo-Trapero -- CALCO : plataformas, redes e intermediaciones : impulso, difusión e intercambio desde las prácticas artísticas contemporáneas / Rocío Cárdenas Pacheco -- Fotógrafas más allá de la lente : emprendimiento y fotografía contemporánea en Colombia / Juanita Solano Roa -- Ana Casas Broda e Hydra : fotografía, educación y emprendimiento cultural en México / Jacob Israel Bañuelos Capistrán -- Edición e independencia : el trabajo de dos editoras colombianas / Manuela Fajardo González -- Historias que laten : un espacio para la escritura, innovación y evolución de la crónica venezolana / Irma Sanchez -- Epílogo : lo que dios no permite, las mujeres lo hacen / Omar Rincón

Since the 1970s, Nicaragua has experienced four major regime changes—shifts in its fundamental logic, structure, and operational code of governance. What accounts for such instability? Have other states that transitioned to democracy followed a similar path? Considering these questions, David Close explores the dynamics of Nicaragua's movements toward and away from democracy since 1979

What does Cuba's socialist economy look like today, after a half-century of fluctuating strategies? Are the reforms instituted by Raúl Castro improving living conditions and boosting production and efficiency? What challenges does the government face in crafting policies to address the country's most critical problems? Paolo Spadoni offers deeply informed answers to these questions as he traces the evolution of Cuba's economy, explores the current state of affairs in key sectors, and assesses the likelihood that government efforts to cure Cuba's economic woes will be successful

Bergbau, soziale Konflikte und Umweltkatastrophen - seit den 1990er Jahren erlebt Lateinamerika einen historischen Rohstoffboom. Welche Rolle spielen die Betreiber der Minen in den Abbauregionen? Wie schaffen sie Akzeptanz unter der lokalen Bevölkerung? Und welche politischen Auswirkungen zieht dies nach sich? Alexandra Bechtum analysiert das Handeln transnationaler Bergbauunternehmen in Argentinien und hinterfragt kritisch die sozial- und infrastrukturpolitischen Maßnahmen, die Bergbauunternehmen in den Abbauregionen industrieller Goldminen implementieren. Dabei stellt sie Fragen von Demokratie und Entwicklung in den Fokus

Introduction: Sexual Frontiers, Racialized Bodies, and Sexual Capital -- The Oikopolitic: The Father of All, Brokering of the Californiana Body, and the "Natural Order of Things" in Alta California -- Circuits of Brown, Black, and Red: The Politics of Racialized Gender and Sexuality in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands -- Absent Presence: The Ghost of the "Only Woman Hanged" in Texas and the Abstract Labor of Gender Racial Formations -- Productive Racialized Sex: The Sexual Economy of the Southwest Borderlands, the Nuevomexicana Body Politic, and Memory Archives -- Technology of "Unproductive" Brown Bodies: The Political Economy of Prostitution and Racialized Sexual Pathology in Arizona at the Turn of the Century.

1. Implementation Discretion in Public Diplomacy: An Introduction -- 2. Programs at Departments of State and Defense -- 3. Implementation and Public Diplomacy -- 4. Mixed Impacts of Organizational Culture -- 5. Public Diplomacy becomes Measurable Outcome -- 6. Public Diplomacy Constrained by Limited Resources -- 7. Public Diplomacy in the Eye of the Beholder.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of boxes -- List of tables -- List of figures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Plurality System -- 3 Majoritarian Systems -- 4 Proportional Systems -- 5 Voting in UK General Elections -- 6 Voting in Scotland -- 7 Voting in Wales -- 8 Voting in Northern Ireland -- 9 Voting in Elections to the European Parliament -- 10 Conclusion -- References -- Index

This major work on Texas politics explores the complicated relations between the politically disorganized Texas blue-collar class and the "rich and the fabulously rich," whose interests have been protected by "brilliant practitioners of horse trading, guile, the jovial but serious threat, the offer that can't be refused."

Beginning with the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1875 and ending with the death of General Francisco Franco in 1975, this book explores the intersection of education and nationalism in Spain. Based on a broad range of archival and published sources, including parliamentary and ministerial records, pedagogical treatises and journals, teachers' manuals, memoirs, and a sample of over two hundred primary and secondary school textbooks, the study examines ideological and political conflict among groups of elites seeking to shape popular understanding of national history and identity through the schools, both public and private. A burgeoning literature on European nationalisms has posited that educational systems in general, and an instrumentalized version of national history in particular, have contributed decisively to the articulation and transmission of nationalist ideologies. The Spanish case reveals a different dynamic. In Spain, a chronically weak state, a divided and largely undemocratic political class, and an increasingly polarized social and political climate impeded the construction of an effective system of national education and the emergence of a consensus on the shape and meaning of the Spanish national past. This in turn contributed to one of the most striking features of modern Spanish political and cultural life--the absence of a strong sense of Spanish, as opposed to local or regional, identity. Scholars with interests in modern European cultural politics, processes of state consolidation, nationalism, and the history of education will find this book essential reading

Ausgehend von der Weltwirtschaftskrise behandelt dieser Band die gesellschaftlichen, politischen und wirtschaftlichen Dynamiken der Länder Lateinamerikas und gibt einen Ausblick ins 21. Jahrhundert. Dargestellt werden sozioökonomische und politische Wandlungsprozesse, aber auch länderspezifische Besonderheiten, sowie kulturgeschichtliche Entwicklungen neben historiographischen und gesellschaftspolitischen Debatten

Why are Jews so attracted to India, to Hinduism, and to Buddhism in the United States as well as Israel? They travel there by the thousands, attracted by the exoticism of course, but, Adelman believes, also drawn by an atavistic connection, dating back to the great Persian empires that extended from the land of Israel to the Indian subcontinent, linking the religions, myths, legends, literature, customs, even languages over the centuries. Influenced by her own profoundly mystical experiences, Adelman provides the history, explains the religions, shows the common origins, and gives astonishing examples of parallel symbolism