Editorial Board: Olaf Kaltmeier, Sarah Corona Berkin, Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, and Gerardo Gutiérrez
This series is published in cooperation with The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS). As a Center for Advanced Latin American Studies, CALAS seeks to foment research of interest in the social sciences and humanities in Latin America, applying historical, scientific, and systematic approaches and employing transdisciplinary and transregional dialogue.
Coping with Crisis - Latin American Perspectives combines three types of publications.
By Pablo Alabarces, Néstor García Canclini
March 08, 2024
In this book, renowned Latin American intellectuals, Pablo Alabarces and Néstor García Canclini, bring us up to date on the changes in the status and role of the popular classes in Latin American democracies over the past two decades. Building on decades-long research and experience in the field of...
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By Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, Irene Lungo Rodríguez
September 15, 2023
In this book, Hans-Jürgen Burchardt and Irene Lungo-Rodríguez lead a transdisciplinary team of experts to advance our understanding of wealth in Latin America. Combining conceptual discussions with empirical research, they analyze characteristics of wealth, and the implications for inequality. ...
By Sarah Corona Berkin, Claudia Zapata
June 30, 2023
In this edifying volume Sarah Corona and Claudia Zapata extrapolate the causes for the divisions between groups in Latin American society, bringing their years of experience investigating the conditions and consequences of heterogeneity in the region. First, Corona approaches the problem of ...
By Olaf Kaltmeier, Edgardo Lander
June 02, 2023
Discussing the civilizatory crisis and processes of refeudalization this volume brings into dialogue two of the most creative approaches, in Olaf Kaltmeier and Edgardo Lander, to rethink capitalism in the 21st century. In Part 1, Olaf Kaltmeier, takes issue with the state of social inequality in ...