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Placing Latin America : contemporary themes in geography
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- Creator
- edited by Edward L. Jackiewicz, Fernando J. Bosco
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Fourth edition
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2020]
- ©2020
- Physical Details
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- viii, 263 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781538126295, 153812629X, 9781538126301, 1538126303, 9781538126318, 9781538126318
- OCLC
- on1140118584
- Previous edition: 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction to the fourth edition / Fernando J. Bosco and Edward L. Jackiewicz -- Imagining and creating Latin America as a region / Fernando J. Bosco -- Historical geography : five hundred years of change from within and without / Edward L. Jackiewicz and Fernando J. Bosco -- Global challenges, regional change, and persistent inequalities : an overview of Latin America's political economy / Edward L. Jackiewicz and Ashlee Sellung -- Economic and geopolitical vulnerabilities and opportunities / Thomas Klak -- Latin American cities : transitions and transformations / Zia Salim and Fernando J. Bosco -- Cities and sustainability : neoliberal urban governance and policy initiatives / Carolina Sternberg -- Physical geography : the human-environment context / Benjamin F. Timms and James J. Hayes -- Natural resources : booms and busts between nationalism and neoliberalism / Christian Brannstrom -- Genetically modified crops and the remaking of Latin America's food landscape / Elizabeth Fitting -- Mass and alternative tourisms in Latin America and the Caribbean / Edward L. Jackiewicz and Thomas Klak -- Drugs' place in Latin America's geographies / Kent Mathewson and Zoe Pearson -- Children and young people : inequality, rights, and empowerment / Kate Swanson -- Latin American social movements : places, scales, and networks of action / Regional geographies of the US-Mexico Border / Kimberly Collins and Michal Kohout -- Transnational Latin America : movements, places, and displacements / Araceli Masterson-Algar