Laureen Elgert: Charmain Levy, Laureen Elgert, & Valerie L’Heureux. 2023. “Social Movements and the Struggles for Rights, Justice and Democracy in Paraguay.” Palgrave/MacMillan, 2023. ISBN 978-3-031-25882-4 Paraguay is an understudied country where war, dictatorship, and elite capture have produced cycles of popular mobilization and repression. Yet its social movements are less known to international audiences. This book analyzes how social movements contribute to progressive policy, socio-economic development, and democracy in the context of a weak state, authoritarian political elite, and a deficient democratization process. Through case studies of movements involving peasant, indigenous and agrarian rights to land and livelihoods, LGBTQ and feminist struggles, labor union struggles and students demands for access to quality education and social development, the authors also reflect on Paraguay’s particularities and similarities with other countries in the region.
Angel Rivera: Ciencia ficción en Puerto Rico: Heraldos de la catástrofe, el apocalipsis y el cambio. Editorial Disonante, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November, 2021. [Second Edition]
Mimi Sheller: Sheller, M. Advanced Introduction to Mobilities (Edward Elgar, 2021) Leading mobilities theorist Mimi Sheller offers an up-to-date, comprehensive analysis of the complex mobility disruptions of the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath in this timely Advanced Introduction. It outlines the formation of the interdisciplinary field of mobility studies, arguing that mobilities theory is crucial to planning post-pandemic recovery, sustainable communities, and low-carbon transitions.
William San Martín: Global Nitrogen in Sustainable Development: Four Challenges at the Interface of Science and Policy (2020). In W. Leal Filho, Azul, A., Brandli, L., Salvia, A., Wall T. (Eds). Life on Land. Encyclopedia of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71065-5_114-1
Angel Rivera: Ciencia ficción en Puerto Rico: Heraldos de la catástrofe, el apocalipsis y el cambio. Editorial La Secta de los Perros, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March, 2019.
Angel Rivera:El Veneno de la Serpiente: Vida y muerte de Ernesto Lowenthal. Disonante, San Juan, Puerto Rico , 2017. [Novel]
