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  • Musical Ritual in Mexico City

    From the Aztec to NAFTA

    by Mark Pedelty ...
    On the Zócalo, the main square of Mexico City, Mexico's entire musical history is performed every day. "Mexica" percussionists drum and dance to the music of Aztec rituals on the open plaza. Inside the Metropolitan Cathedral, choristers sing colonial villancicos. Outside the National Palace, the Mexican army marching band plays the "Himno Nacional," a vestige of the nineteenth century. And all ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • War Stories

    The Culture of Foreign Correspondents

    by Mark Pedelty ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Security and Society
    What are the influences on war correspondents as they report on news in war-torn countries? Originally published in 1995, Mark Pedelty explores the lives, work and culture of an international press corps. He writes about the reporters who covered El Salvador’s civil war. Going beyond those specifics to look at the institutions, practices, myths, and rituals that pattern the work of journalists ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Performing Environmentalisms

    Expressive Culture and Ecological Change

    by John Holmes McDowell, Rebecca Dirksen, Aaron S. Allen, Eduardo S Brondizio, Assefa Tefera Dibaba, Mary Hufford, Mark Pedelty0, Jennifer C. Post1, Chie Sakakibara2, Jeff Todd Titon3, Rory Turner4, Lois Wilcken5 ...
    Performing Environmentalisms examines the existential challenge of the twenty-first century: improving the prospects for maintaining life on our planet. The contributors focus on the strategic use of traditional artistic expression--storytelling and songs, crafted objects, and ceremonies and rituals--performed during the social turmoil provoked by environmental degradation and ecological collapse. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Water, Rhetoric, and Social Justice

    A Critical Confluence

    by Mostafa Aniss, Elizabeth Brunner, Jordan Christiansen, Emilie Falc, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Kelsey Mesmer, Chris Ingraham, Alicia Lehrer, Emma Lundberg, Jacob Miller, Rahul Mitra0, Gabi Mocatta1, Mark Pedelty2, Theresa R. Castor4, Christopher S. Thomas6, Joshua Trey Barnett7, Catherine J. Bruns8, James Coleman McGuffey9, Christopher J. Oldenburg0, Aimee Kendall Roundtree1, Casey R. Schmitt2 ...
    Series series Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene
    Water, Rhetoric, and Social Justice: A Critical Confluenceexamines how individuals and communities have responded on a global scale to present day water crises as matters of social justice, through oratory, mass demonstration, deliberation, testimony, and other rhetorical appeals. This book applies critical communication methods and perspectives to interrogate the pressing yet mind-boggling ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    by Joan Didion ...
    Series series Vintage Original
    The perfect introduction to one of our greatest modern writers: Joan Didion "has the instincts of an exceptional reporter and the focus of a historian, [with] a novelist’s appreciation of the surreal" (Los Angeles Times Book Review).Whether she’s writing about civil war in Central America, political scurrility in Washington, or the tightly-braided myths and realities of her native California, Joan ... Read more

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  • Three Nights In Havana

    Pierre Trudeau, Fidel Castro, and the Cold War World

    by Robert Wright ...
    On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became the first leader of a NATO country to visit Cuba since the crippling 1960 American economic embargo. Accompanied by his wife, Margaret, and baby Michel, Trudeau was greeted in Havana by 250,000 cheering Cubans and a 30-foot poster of himself. “Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!” Trudeau would famously shout at the love-in.In this ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Colombia and the United States

    War, Unrest and Destabilization

    by Mario A. Murillo ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    Every year the United States spends millions of dollars to help the war-ravaged country of Colombia. But help it with what? In Colombia and the U.S. Mario Murillo explores the misdirected and devastating impact that U.S. military "aid" continues to have on the war torn-people of Colombia. Beginning with a brief history of Colombia, Murillo analyzes the complex forces driving Colombia's current ... Read more

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  • The Art of Protest

    Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present

    by T. V. Reed ...
    A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistanceThe Art of Protest, first published in 2006, was hailed as an “essential” introduction to progressive social movements in the United States and praised for its “fluid writing style” and “well ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The School of the Americas

    Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas

    by Lesley Gill, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U.S. Army center that has trained more than sixty thousand soldiers and police, mostly from Latin America, in counterinsurgency and combat-related skills since it was founded in 1946. So widely documented is the participation of the School’s graduates in torture, murder, and political repression throughout Latin ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Art of Protest

    Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle

    by T.V. Reed ...
    Imagine the civil rights movement without freedom songs and the politics of women's movements without poetry. Or, more difficult yet, imagine an America unaffected by the cultural expressions and forms of the twentieth-century social movements that have shaped our nation. The first broad overview of social movements and the distinctive cultural forms that express and helped shape them, The Art of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • We Created Chávez

    A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution

    by Geo Maher ...
    Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Chávez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. George Ciccariello-Maher contends that this focus on Chávez has obscured the inner dynamics and historical development of the country’s Bolivarian Revolution. In We Created Chávez, by examining social movements and revolutionary groups active before and ... Read more

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  • The FARC

    The Longest Insurgency

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    Series series Rebels
    Garry Leech has written the definitive introduction to the FARC, examining the group's origins, aims, and ideology, and looking at its organizational and operational structures. The book also investigates the FARC's impact on local, regional, and global politics and explores its future direction.'Rebels' is an exciting and innovative new series looking at contemporary rebel groups and their place ... Read more

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