Traci Roberts-Camps. 2017. Latin American Women Filmmakers: Social and Cultural Perspectives. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center College of Pharmacy Albuquerque, New Mexico

The University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy Albuquerque, New Mexico

Latin American Development: Perspectives and Debates

One of the recurring topics in Latin American debates refers to the dynamics of accumulation and the current models of development. Critical categories such as Extractivism or Neoextractivism, as well as pro-positive ones like Buen Vivir, Common Goods, Rights of Nature, Post-extractivism, among others, traverse social struggles and debates, and are generating a new political grammar that questi...

Income Convergence toward USA: New Evidences for Latin and South American Countries

Abstract In this paper we test two versions of convergence hypothesis namely deterministic or conditional convergence and stochastic or catching up hypothesis using Carrion-i-Silvestre et al. (2005) stationary test. The results show Latin and South American countries (LSA) catching up process toward the USA failed in 1980s and somewhat in 1990s. But in 2000s most of them could lie in converge...

the influence of social and cultural capital on efl students critical thinking skills

the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...