In addition to providing a theoretical and historical overview of the concept of utopia from antiquity through postmodernity, this work discusses the diverse manners in which “good places” and “no places” are registered in Latin American poetry in the nineteenth and twentieth ce…
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In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Truman administration officials were presented with a unique “window of opportunity” in that the absence of an external geopolitical threat to U.S. interests in Latin America allowed the State Department to pursue policies aimed at pro…
In the post-World War II era, the United States has regularly supported armed and nonviolent resistance against regimes deemed hostile to U.S. national interests. Today, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the U.S. Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) are the institution…
This thesis eschews an econometric approach to the analysis of microfinance initiatives in favour of a wider, political economy approach. It paints a picture of the international financial and socio-economic environment in which microfinance as a practice has developed since the…
Teachers' strikes, dilapidated school structures, lack of available learning tools for teachers and students, and high student dropout rates were common during Nigeria's years of military rule from 1966 to 1998. The purpose of this study was to understand the reasoning behind th…
Doctrines have been a prevalent form of foreign policy in American history. What explains their origins? The study addresses this question by examining the Reagan Doctrine, a declared policy which pledged aid to anticommunist guerrillas in the Third World. The case study applies…
The global energy trilemma has brought attention to the importance of energy access, in particular to the 1.3 billion people worldwide without access to electricity. Vital for addressing poverty, improving people s quality of lives and meeting the Millennium Development Goals, s…
My research focuses on certain intermediary genres that mark the onset of a local form of modernity in Central America. Although supplemental to the main literary corpus of the time, autobiographies, prefaces and chronicles, poetic and political manifestos—as well as the photogr…
This dissertation explores how access to conditional cash transfers (CCTs) and/or migrant remittances affects the household's decision to apply for a loan, through changes in the household's demand for credit and the aggregate supply of loans it faces. The empirical evaluation u…
This Palgrave Pivot analyzes how six countries in Central America - Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama - connected to and through computer networks such as UUCP, BITNET and the Internet from the 80s to the year 2000. It argues that this story can …
"The pesticide dibromochloropropane, known as DBCP, was developed by the chemical companies Dow and Shell in the 1950s to target worm-like, soil-dwelling creatures called nematodes. Despite signs that it was dangerous, the chemical was widely used in U.S. agriculture and on Chiq…
Development and Globalization is antiessentialist social theory at its very best. Whether re-reading socialist planning debates, economic and social development struggles in the global South, or capitalist and alter-capitalist theories of globalization, David Ruccio engages the …
In recent years, child migrants from Central America have arrived in the United States in unprecedented numbers. But whilst minors from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador make the perilous journey to the north, their Nicaraguan peers have remained in Central America. Nicaragua …
"In recent years, child migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have made the perilous journey to the United States in unprecedented numbers, but their peers in Nicaragua have remained at home. Nicaragua also enjoys lower murder rates and far fewer gang problems when c…
In recent years, child migrants from Central America have arrived in the United States in unprecedented numbers. But whilst minors from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador make the perilous journey to the north, their Nicaraguan peers have remained in Central America. Nicaragua …
