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- Transition in El Salvador: a multi-layered process (Paper from Symposium)
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This paper reflects on the obstacles facing Salvadorean NGOs in the transition from war to peace. Firstly, on the difficulties inherent in the peace process itself: insufficient structural change; the trap of electoral politics; a transition process that ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58
- Mano Dura: El Salvador responds to gangs
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Although it is increasingly recognised that violence, crime, and associated fear are challenging democratic governance in Latin America, less attention has been paid to the ways in which state responses to crime contribute to the problem. By analysing El ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- Building bridges across a double divide: alliances between US and Latin American labour and NGOs
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Full-text sample article FREE from Taylor & Francis. Trying to build alliances that span the divide between trade unions and NGOs as well as the divide between the North and the South might seem a utopian task. But this is exactly what an imagina ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:11
- The Spaces of Neoliberalism: Land, Place and Family in Latin America
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Author: Chase, Jacquelyn (ed.) Publisher: Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2002 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:49
- The Mexican tortilla crisis of 2007: the impacts of grain-price increases on food-production chains
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This article examines the case of the Mexican ‘tortilla crisis’ of 2007. Drawing on reviews of literature and the media, key-informant interviews, and secondary databases, the authors explore the response of the Mexican maize–tortilla ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-15 16:33
- Participatory methodologies and product development process: the experience of Mixtec craftswomen in Mexico
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This work presents a product development methodology for use with indigenous rural workers. It is based on the revival of cultural and social values, with a focus on the conservation of natural resources. Illustrated by the case of Mixtec craftswomen in M ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00
- Community-based rehabilitation and development: disabled children in Guyana
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This article examines the challenge facing the rehabilitation of disabled persons, particularly children, as we approach the end of the twentieth century. The potential of a community-based model of rehabilitation is considered in the light of experience ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54
- The use of donkeys in the central highlands of Mexico: a gender perspective
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A historical study of migratory patterns in central Mexico shows that rural communities have seen shifts in population ratios as well as in the type of activities and responsibilities undertaken by men and women. This has also affected women's use of live ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- Private-public partnership, the compact city, and social housing: best practice for whom?
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The Casa Propia programme of the Buenos Aires City Government is an innovative case of public-private financing of social housing. It aims to encourage investors to build housing on private land for sale to low-income buyers receiving `soft' credits from ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- Transforming public space: a local radio’s work in a poor urban community
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Among processes towards democratisation, it has been asserted that alternative radio has a central role in the citizen making of the poor. However, it is important to analyse in detail what possibilities an alternative or citizens’ radio has to st ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-01 11:33
