Coping with Crisis - Latin American Perspectives
About the Book Series
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.
- Volumes from four main research groups: Visions of Peace: Transitions Between Violence and Peace in Latin America; Confronting Social Inequality: Perspectives on Wealth and Power; Coping with Environmental Crises; and Regional Identities in Multiple Crises.
- Translated short monographs titled "Afrontar las crisis desde América Latina".
- Anthologies and monographs authored by CALAS senior fellows’ and research group investigations.
Becoming a Plebeian Leader: Moral Careers, Life-Stories and Statecraft in Guayaquil, Ecuador (1960-2022)
1st Edition
By José Antonio Villarreal Velásquez
October 10, 2025
In Becoming a Plebeian Leader, José Antonio Villarreal Velásquez examines situations where ordinary women and men become plebeian leaders in urban-popular neighborhoods. Combining oral history, archival research, and ethnography, the book examines plebeian leaders’ moral careers through and within ...
Post-Popular Cultures and Digital Capitalism in Latin America: Essays by Néstor García Canclini and Pablo Alabarces
1st Edition
By Pablo Alabarces, Néstor García Canclini
July 30, 2025
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...
Peace in Latin America: Shifting Paradigms in the Studies of Culture, Society and Politics
1st Edition
By David Díaz Arias, Christine Hatzky, Werner Mackenbach, Sebastián Martínez Fernández, Joachim Michael, Hinnerk Onken
December 30, 2024
This volume shifts the focus from violence to peace studies in Latin America and sheds light on how social groups and individuals resist to violence and strive to create peaceful or at least less violent conditions of conviviality. Drawing on social sciences, history, and anthropology, but also on ...
Wealth, Development, and Social Inequalities in Latin America: Transdisciplinary Insights
1st Edition
Edited
By Hans-Jürgen Burchdart, Irene Lungo Rodríguez
December 18, 2024
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. ...
Critical Interculturality and Horizontal Methodologies in Latin America
1st Edition
By Sarah Corona Berkin, Claudia Zapata
November 28, 2024
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 ...
Refeudalization and the Crisis of Civilization: Political essays by Olaf Kaltmeier and Edgardo Lander
1st Edition
By Olaf Kaltmeier, Edgardo Lander
November 28, 2024
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 ...