Sueno Y Razon De America Latina

This book of collected essays by Laurence Whitehead, an eminent scholar of Latin America, explores the structures and influences that bind together the region, shedding light on this vast and rapidly changing culture zone.

This volume explores several notable themes related to social, political, and religious movements in Latin America and offers insightful historical perspectives to understand national, regional, and global issues from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. This volume’s collected chapters focus on the Latin American society and are divided into three sections. The first section, Social, presents some cultural, demographic, and urban changes that have occurred with increasing frequency in Latin America from the early twentieth century onward. The second section, Political, shows migratory, political, and identity movements that in recent decades have re-emerged with force. Finally, the third section, Religious, analyzes various Latin American religious visions with their particular characteristics. From the religious hegemony of Catholicism, a change in the religious panorama in the last decades can be seen intermingled with politics, history, and society.

This volume focuses on the contemporary political, economic and security affairs of the Western Hemisphere. Following a decade of focus on economic matters around the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the authors argue that the Bush Doctrine formed in the wake of 9/11 has resulted in a renewed U.S. concentration on security matters.

La actitud competitiva e individualista de la "sociedad capitalista del conocimiento" ha generado y sigue generando una carrera loca en la apertura de programas doctorales en Colombia y América Latina. Estos programas, en su generalidad, están ofreciendo más de lo mismo en el sentido de repetir los modelos extranjeros con una visión colonialista de mantener el status quo. Consideramos que el libro "La formación doctoral en América Latina... ¿más de lo mismo?, ¿una cuestión pendiente?" aspira a desvelar los entresijos de esta formación y proponer otras visiones que intentan ofrecer respuestas posibles a los numerosos interrogantes que nos planteamos para la región. Invitamos a los lectores a participar del desafío.