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Latta, Alex, and Hannah Wittman, eds. Environment and Citizenship in Latin America: Natures, Subjects and Struggles. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012.
Scholarship related to environmental questions in Latin America has only recently begun to coalesce around citizenship as both an empirical site of inquiry and an analytical frame of reference. This has led to a series of new insights and perspectives, but few efforts have been made to bring these various approaches into a sustained conversation across different social, temporal and geographic contexts. This volume is the result of a collaborative endeavour to advance debates on environmental citizenship, while simultaneously and systematically addressing broader theoretical and methodological questions related to the particularities of studying environment and citizenship in Latin America. Providing a window onto leading scholarship in the field, the book also sets an ambitious agenda to spark further research. (Text by Berghahn Books)
CEDLA is an inter-university centre for research and documentation on Latin America located in Amsterdam whose series represents the results of original research on Latin America in the field of the Social Sciences, understood in a broad sense to include History, Economics and Geography. The series is directed toward an academic readership, but also aims to reach a larger public of students and informed readers.