Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Geography

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This comprehensive study offers a thematic approach to Latin America, focusing on the dynamic connections between people, places, and environments rather than on pre-defined notions about the region. The book’s well-rounded and accessible analysis includes discussions of borders and migration; transnationalism and globalization; urbanization and the material, environmental and social landscapes of cities; and the connections between economic development and political change. The authors also explore social and ...
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Overview

This comprehensive study offers a thematic approach to Latin America, focusing on the dynamic connections between people, places, and environments rather than on pre-defined notions about the region. The book’s well-rounded and accessible analysis includes discussions of borders and migration; transnationalism and globalization; urbanization and the material, environmental and social landscapes of cities; and the connections between economic development and political change. The authors also explore social and cultural themes such as the illegal drug trade, tourism, children, and cinema. Offering a nuanced and clear perspective, this book will be a valuable resource for all those interested in the politics, economy, and society of a rapidly globalizing continent.

Contributions by: Fernando J. Bosco, J. Christopher Brown, James Craine, Altha J. Cravey, Giorgio Hadi Curti, James Hayes, Edward L. Jackiewicz, Thomas Klak, Mirek Lipinski, Regan M. Maas, Araceli Masterson-Algar, Kent Mathewson, Sarah A. Moore, Linda Quiquivix, Zia Salim, Kate Swanson, and Benjamin Timms.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781442212435
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
  • Publication date: 2/16/2012
  • Edition description: 2nd Edition
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 268
  • Sales rank: 647,325
  • Product dimensions: 6.90 (w) x 9.90 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Edward L. Jackiewicz is professor in the Department of Geography at California State University, Northridge. Fernando J. Bosco is associate professor in the Department of Geography at San Diego State University.
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Fernando J. Bosco and Edward L. Jackiewicz
Part I: Histories, Places, and Environments
Chapter 1: Physical Geography: The Human-Environment Connection
James Hayes and Benjamin Timms
Chapter 2: The Making of a Region: Five Hundred Years of Change from Within and Without
Edward L. Jackiewicz and Fernando J. Bosco
Chapter 3: Cycles of Economic Change: Political Economy from Neocolonialism to the Bolivarian Revolution
Edward L. Jackiewicz and Linda Quiquivix
Chapter 4: Urbanization: Socio-Spatial Dimensions, Challenges, and Prospects
Fernando J. Bosco and Zia Salim
Part II: Economy, Culture, and Society
Chapter 5: Economic and Geopolitical Vulnerability: Causes and Consequences
Thomas Klak
Chapter 6: Mass and Alternative Tourisms in Latin America and the Caribbean
Edward L. Jackiewicz and Thomas Klak
Chapter 7: Drug Geographies: A Cultural Historical Profile
Kent Mathewson
Chapter 8: Latin American Cinema: Spatial Imaginings and Contested Landscapes
James Craine, Giorgio Hadi Curti, and Mirek Lipinski
Part III: People, Place, and Politics
Chapter 9: Nongovernmental Organizations: Scale, Society, and Environment
J. Christopher Brown
Chapter 10: Social Movements: Places, Spaces, and Scales of Action
Fernando J. Bosco
Chapter 11: Urban Environmental Politics: Flows, Responsibility, and Citizenship
Sarah A. Moore
Chapter 12: Children and Young People: Inequality, Rights, and Empowerment
Kate Swanson
Part IV: Transnational Spaces
Chapter 13: US-Mexico Borderlands: Violence and the Politics of Exclusion
Altha J. Cravey
Chapter 14: Transnational Latin America: Movements, Places, and Displacements
Araceli Masterson-Algar
Chapter 15: Hispanics/Latinos in the United States: A Geography of Change
Regan M. Maas
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