This title describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the colonizer and the colonized, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of progress and civilisation.
Ideal for independent travellers, this guidebook to Trinidad and Tobago, written by destination experts, combines must-see sights with hidden gems and offers essential tips for both planning and on-the-ground adventures. It's sustainably printed to ensure environmental responsibility. Inside this Trinidad and Tobago travel book, you'll find: ......
Venezuela's Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project
A front-row seat to Venezuela's most innovative socialist project, with important lessons for movements worldwide Commune or Nothing! Venezuela's Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project opens a window on one of the most ambitious revolutionary projects of our time, as it took shape in a country suffering the cruel consequences of US ......
Saul Luciano Lliuya guides tours in the mountains and his family grow corn, wheat, barley, and potatoes on their farm in Huaraz, Peru, a community of more than 100,000 people in the Andes near Palcacocha, a glacial lake. Palcacocha, however, is growing, as is the major flood risk to Huaraz. Climate change through the emission of greenhouse ......
Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe
In A Wide Net of Solidarity, Anne Garland Mahler traces the impact of the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas (LADLA,Liga Antimperialista de las AmEricas) on racial justice and anti-extractive struggles from the early twentieth century to the present. Founded in 1925 in Mexico City by a group of multinational activists, LADLA brought together ......
How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance
Offering a portrait of the past and future of Puerto Rican resistance through one of its loudest and proudest voices, P FKN R draws on interviews with musicians, politicians, and journalists as well as ethnographic research to set Bad Bunny and Puerto Rican resistance in an historical, political, and cultural context. Authors Vanessa ......
In Acoustic Colonialism, Luis E. Carcamo-Huechante examines the role of sound in Chilean and Mapuche cultural production over the last two centuries. Carcamo-Huechante theorizes sound as a territory of racial, patriarchal, and colonial hegemony as well as of Mapuche struggle, agency, and response to what he calls acoustic colonialism. From the ......
This pocket-sized guide is a convenient, quick-reference companion to discovering the beauty of Caribbean cruising. From the glitzy ships to islands as different as Barbados and St-Barthelemy, this guide aims to cover the popular ports of call, including places not considered part of the region, such as the Bahamas, Mexico and Central America, but ......
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A New York Public Library (NYPL) Best Book for Kids A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of the Year Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Most Notable Book "A book to be read and remembered: a tribute to children whose lives were lost to forces not of their own creation." -- Kirkus ......