"This book investigates the many ways in which industrial capitalist agriculture has penetrated and transformed contemporary Latin America. Using a range of case studies from across the region, the book considers the socio-economic, political and ecological implications of the agro-industrial...

Disposable women and other myths of global capitalism -- Disposable daughters and factory fathers -- Manufacturing bodies -- The dialectics of still life: murder, women, and disposability -- Maquiladora mestizas and a feminist border politics -- Crossing the factory frontier -- Paradoxes and...

This book explains how Latin American countries consolidate economic governance after serious disruptions to their formal and informal policy making routines. It asserts that the process of institutional change that started as a result of such disruptions resulted in complementary institutions,...