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Reckoning with Harm
The Toxic Relations of Oil in Amazonia
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477327784
Pub Date: October 17th, 2023
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
An ethnography of the Ecuadorian Amazon that demonstrates the need for a relational, place-based, contingent understanding of harm and toxicity.
Banana Cultures
Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781477322802
Pub Date: March 30th, 2021
Format: Paperback
368 Pages
A lively, interdisciplinary history of why the banana became America's most popular fresh fruit and how its popularity has affected the “banana republics” of Central America.
Radical Cartographies
Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781477320884
Pub Date: September 15th, 2020
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Shedding light on the innovative uses of participatory mapping emerging from Latin America’s marginalized communities, this diverse collection reconceptualizes what maps mean as representations of identity and place.
Plant Kin
A Multispecies Ethnography in Indigenous Brazil
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477317402
Pub Date: May 14th, 2019
Format: Paperback
328 Pages
Using sensory ethnobotany to understand people-plant relationships and gardening practices in the Brazilian Cerrado, this multispecies ethnography presents a non-Western approach to environmental conservation and resilience.
Life in Oil
Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781477315088
Pub Date: April 2nd, 2018
Format: Paperback
302 Pages
Revealing how the key fuel of the global era affects the communities where petroleum is extracted, this beautifully written ethnography describes how the Cofán people are surviving at the center of the Ecuadorian oil industry.
Cattle in the Backlands
Mato Grosso and the Evolution of Ranching in the Brazilian Tropics
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781477311141
Pub Date: January 24th, 2017
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Bringing much-needed historical perspective to contemporary debates about the impacts of ranching in the tropics, this book explores how cattle raising transformed a remote region of Brazil economically, socially, and environmentally.
Learning from Bogotá
Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781477311042
Pub Date: January 17th, 2017
Format: Hardcover
190 Pages
Learning from Bogotá illuminates how a former “drug capital” has been transformed into a “pedagogical city,” where redesigned public spaces teach residents how to reconnect with one another and become more engaged citizens
Rainforest Cowboys
The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 9781477310601
Pub Date: April 15th, 2015
Format: Paperback
212 Pages
This ambitious interdisciplinary study is the first to examine the interlinked economic uses and cultural practices and beliefs surrounding cattle in Western Amazonia, where cattle raising is at the center of debates about economic development and environ
Evo's Bolivia
Continuity and Change
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780292758681
Pub Date: May 1st, 2014
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
An accessible account of Evo Morales’s first six years in office, offering analysis of major issues as well as interviews with a wide variety of people, resulting in a valuable primer on Bolivia and Morales’s “process of change”.
Subterranean Struggles
New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477302064
Pub Date: November 15th, 2013
Format: Paperback
361 Pages
Blending perspectives from geography and political ecology, this pioneering essay collection probes the recent resurgence of global investment in mineral and hydrocarbon extraction in Latin America, examining the environmental and social consequences thro
Reckoning with Harm
The Toxic Relations of Oil in Amazonia
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477327784
Pub Date: October 17th, 2023
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Banana Cultures
Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781477322802
Pub Date: March 30th, 2021
Format: Paperback
368 Pages
Radical Cartographies
Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781477320884
Pub Date: September 15th, 2020
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Plant Kin
A Multispecies Ethnography in Indigenous Brazil
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477317402
Pub Date: May 14th, 2019
Format: Paperback
328 Pages
Life in Oil
Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781477315088
Pub Date: April 2nd, 2018
Format: Paperback
302 Pages
Cattle in the Backlands
Mato Grosso and the Evolution of Ranching in the Brazilian Tropics
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781477311141
Pub Date: January 24th, 2017
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Learning from Bogotá
Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781477311042
Pub Date: January 17th, 2017
Format: Hardcover
190 Pages
Rainforest Cowboys
The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 9781477310601
Pub Date: April 15th, 2015
Format: Paperback
212 Pages
Evo's Bolivia
Continuity and Change
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780292758681
Pub Date: May 1st, 2014
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
Subterranean Struggles
New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477302064
Pub Date: November 15th, 2013
Format: Paperback
361 Pages