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4 days ago · Dependency theory also holds that Latin American countries did not experience a feudalist stage, implying that the region’s economies transitioned from the early colonial period to the era of global capitalism with a certain degree of development and with an already established role as providers of cheap raw materials. 4 This allowed the cost of reproducing the labour force in the core ...
3 days ago · Biographies. Ronaldo Munck is a professor of sociology and director of the Centre for Engaged Research at Dublin City University and a senior researcher at the Institute Interdisciplinario de Estudios e Investigaciones d América Latina of the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He is co-editor of Latin American Social Movements and Progressive ...
2 days ago · The bicentennials of those events accelerated the availability of digital resources about Latin American independence. Libraries, archives, museums, and other educational institutions have created websites and mounted digital exhibits that provide overviews of the history for the general public, students, and researchers in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
2 days ago · The contributions of Latin American social scientists to dependency theory had a profound impact on development studies and policy. Their work challenged the dominant modernization paradigm and offered a critical framework to understand the persistent inequalities and structural impediments faced by developing countries.
Duggan’s Latin American experience began in 1929, when his father Stephen Duggan, who directed the Institute of International Education (IIE), sent Laurence on an extensive tour of Latin America to organize scholarly and professional exchange programs as secretary of the IIE’s Latin American Division.
5 days ago · Asian-Latin American literature is a heterogeneous body of writing by Latin American authors of Asian ancestry who identify themselves as Asian immigrants or as descendants of Asian immigrants.
4 days ago · Moreover, adaptations following implementation gaps that SLOs experience may develop into street-level policy change (Gofen et al., 2023). Specifically, when implementation efforts fail to meet local conditions of the local public served, SLOs may serve as experimental sites to develop more efficient policy instruments, which are later adopted as a formal policy change.
