De-centring our Gaze: The Urban Slums of Brazil, Venezuela and Bolivia
Enormous political, economic, social and cultural changes are currently having an impact on the entire region of Latin America. Dr Jeremy Lester has been studying the new configurations of social and political protagonists, and here describes some emerging challenges to the traditional order.
The whole article can be downloaded as a PDF file.
Published in British Academy Review, Issue 12 (January 2009).
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