Placing Latin America
Subtitle: contemporary themes in human geography
By: edited by Edward L. Jackiewicz and Fernando J. Bosco.
Contributors: Jackiewicz, Ed.; Bosco, Fernando J., 1971-
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780742556423; 9780742556430
Subjects: Human geography -- Latin America.; Globalization -- Ecomomic aspects -- Latin America.; Latin America -- Economic conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Eras and errors : a historical and geographical overview of Latin America's economic and political development / Edward L. Jackiewicz and Linda Quiquivix; value: Neoliberal exports and regional vulnerability : overview and critical assessment / Thomas Klak; value: Urbanization, migration, and employment in Latin America : a review of trends / Adrian G. Aguilar and Antonio Vieyra; value: Architectural icons and urban form : the power of place in Latin America / Larry R. Ford; value: U.S.-Mexico borderlands / Altha J. Cravey; value: Spaces of tourism / John Davenport and Edward L. Jackiewicz; value: Sustainable development and ecotourism : general principles and eastern Caribbean case study / Thomas Klak and Ross Flynn; value: Drug geographies / Kent Mathewson; value: NGOs and ongoing changes in Latin American society / J. Christopher Brown; value: The geographies of Latin American social movements / Fernando J. Bosco; value: Urban environmental politics in Latin America / Sarah A. Moore; value: Transnational communities, identities, and moving populations / Susan P. Mains; value: Beyond the nation-state : scaling claims to Latino/a citizenship in the United States / Joel Jennings; value: Cinematic spaces of Latin America / James Craine and Mirek Lipinski.