El presente texto constituye el Prefacio a la segunda edición (2011) del ya clásico La
invención del tercer mundo: Construcción y deconstrucción del desarrollo (1996). Después …

How does profound and persistent social and economic inequality impact the integrity of the
rule of law? The main objective of this chapter is to try to understand the effects of the …

The objective of this article is to reflect on the binomial ethnicity-development within a
historical perspective and from the vantage point of the Andean world. It seeks to visualize …

This review article synthesizes research findings which demonstrate that mining in the
Andes is transforming local livelihoods by changing water quality and quantity and land …

In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the
importance of materials in political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the …

Democratization studies became a sub-field of political science/international relations only
very gradually. Despite the rich pool of data generated by the early 'third wave'transitions in …

Latin American development is being rapidly transformed, with popularly elected
governments embarking on reversals of neoliberalism informed by autochthonous notions of …

Why talk of indigeneity rather than of Indigenous peoples? This report examines the critical
purchase on questions of inequality, subjectivity and power offered by critical geographies of …

Penelope Anthias's Limits to Decolonization addresses one of the most important issues in
contemporary indigenous politics: struggles for territory. Based on the experience of thirty-six …

This book offers an innovative perspective on the ever-widening gap between the poor and
the state in Latin American politics. It presents a comprehensive analysis of the main social …