In This Land Is Ours Now, Wendy Wolford presents an original framework for understanding social mobilization. She argues that social movements are not the politically coherent, bounded entities often portrayed by scholars, the press, and movement leaders. Instead, they are constantly changing mediations between localized moral economies and official movement ideologies.

A new salvo in Verso’s burgeoning series on communism, after Badiou, Žižek and Groys.

After Neoliberalism addresses the rise of the left in Latin America and the lack of research surrounding the topic. Gustavo Flores-Macias offers a new and compelling analysis of leftist movements and the party system in Latin America.

Is Brazil ready to take its place among the world's leading powers? The authors examine Brazil's hard power and soft power resources, assessing the challenges the country will need to overcome in order to build its own "Brazilian dream" and project itself on the international stage.

Editors: Debra A. Castillo and Stuart A. Day

In Mexico, the participation of intellectuals in public life has always been extraordinary, and for many the price can be high. Highlighting prominent figures that have made incursions into issues such as elections, human rights, foreign policy, and the drug war, this volume paints a picture of the ever-changing context of Mexican intellectualism.

Editors: Teri L. Caraway, Maria Lorena Cook, and Stephen Crowley 

Democratization in the developing and postcommunist world has yielded limited gains for labor. Explanations for this phenomenon have focused on the effect of economic crisis and globalization on the capacities of unions to become influential political actors and to secure policies that benefit their members.