Media Power in Central America
Title | Media Power in Central America PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Rockwell |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2010-10-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0252092287 |
Media Power in Central America explores the political and cultural interplay between the media and those in power in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, and Nicaragua. Highlighting the subtle strangulation of opposition media voices in the region, the authors show how the years since the guerrilla wars have not yielded the free media systems that some had expected. Rick Rockwell and Noreene Janus examine the region country by country and deal with the specific conditions of government-sponsored media repression, economic censorship, corruption, and consumer trends that shape the political landscape. Challenging the notion of the media as a democratizing force, Media Power in Central America shows how governments use the media to block democratic reforms and outlines the difficulties of playing watchdog to rulers who use the media as a tool of power.
Latin America
Title | Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2017-04-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022644306X |
“Latin America” is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively. Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three interlocking steps: first, an intellectual history of the concept of Latin America in its natural historical habitat—mid-nineteenth-century redefinitions of empire and the cultural, political, and economic intellectualism; second, a serious and uncompromising critique of the current “Latin Americanism”—which circulates in United States–based humanities and social sciences; and, third, accepting that we might actually be stuck with “Latin America,” Tenorio-Trillo charts a path forward for the writing and teaching of Latin American history. Accessible and forceful, rich in historical research and specificity, the book offers a distinctive, conceptual history of Latin America and its many connections and intersections of political and intellectual significance. Tenorio-Trillo’s book is a masterpiece of interdisciplinary scholarship.
Coffee and Power
Title | Coffee and Power PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffery M. Paige |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780674136496 |
In the revolutionary years between 1979 and 1992, it would have been difficult to find three political systems as different as El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, yet they found a common destination in democracy and free markets. Paige shows that the divergent political histories and the convergent outcome were shaped by one commodity: coffee.
Media Systems and Communication Policies in Latin America
Title | Media Systems and Communication Policies in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | M. Guerrero |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 517 |
Release | 2014-10-07 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1137409053 |
Media Systems and Communication Policies in Latin America proposes, tests and analyses the liberal captured model. It explores to what extent to which globalisation, marketization, commercialism, regional bodies and the nation State redefine the media's role in Latin American societies.
Latin America, Media, and Revolution
Title | Latin America, Media, and Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | J. Darling |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2008-04-28 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230612008 |
This book compares rebel media use in three Mesoamerican rebellions: the Nicaraguan Revolution, the Salvadoran civil war and the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico. Directly comparing media use in all three rebellions provides a richer understanding of the role of media in social change, particularly violent change.
Politics of Latin America
Title | Politics of Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Harry E. Vanden |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Latin America |
ISBN | 9780190647407 |
Now in its sixth edition, Politics of Latin America: The Power Game explores both the evolution and the current state of the political scene in Latin America. This text demonstrates a nuanced sensitivity to the use and abuse of power and the importance of social conditions, gender, race, globalization, and political economy throughout the region. It is uniquely divided into two parts: one that treats big-picture, thematic questions, and one that focuses on particular countries through case studies of ten representative nations: Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua, and Bolivi
Media Power and Democratization in Brazil
Title | Media Power and Democratization in Brazil PDF eBook |
Author | Mauro Pereira Porto |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0415897211 |
This book analyzes the relationship between media power and democratization in transitional societies based on a case study about TV Globo, Brazil's largest media group.