Are we solid, liquid… or maybe viscous? 2017 Agosto América Latina Following the death of Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman on January 9 of this year, his references to “liquid modernity” echoed throughout Latin America....
We need a mining moratorium given the obsession for gold 2014 Agosto América Latina Gold mining has become a scourge plaguing many Latin American countries. A few transnational giants are operating in certain places but hundreds, thousands,...
The Left and the Progressives: Ten theses on a divorce 2014 Marzo América Latina Governments of the new Left have been dominating Latin America’s political stage recently. In a substantial turnaround, they have supplanted conservative...
The new Left’s extractive model isn’t leading to development 2013 Diciembre América Latina Any contemporary discussion about development is intimately bound to environmental issues. This linkage is particularly intense in South America, particularly...
How Nature’s rights are violated 2013 Marzo América Latina What does the word forest conjure up for us? Some will say it’s a large group of trees. Others will add that it’s also the ferns, orchids, shrubs and...
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