Placing Latin America : contemporary themes in geography / edited by Edward L. Jackiewicz and Fernando J. Bosco.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical geography : the human-environment connection / James Hayes and Benjamin Timms -- The making of a region : five hundred years of change from within and without / Edward L. Jackiewicz and Fernando J. Bosco -- Cycles of economic change : political economy from neocolonialsim to the Bolivarian revolution / Edward L. Jackiewicz and Linda Quiquivix -- Urbanization : socio-spatial dimensions, challenges, and prospects / Fernando J. Bosco and Zia Salim -- Economic and geopolitical vulnerability : causes and consequences / Thomas Klak -- Mass and alternative tourisms in Latin America and the Caribbean / Edward L. Jackiewicz and Thomas Klak -- Drug geographies : a cultural historical profile / Kent Mathewson -- Latin American cinema : spatial imaginings and contested landscapes / James Craine, Giorgio Hadi Curti, and Mirek Lipinski -- Nongovernmental organizations : scale, society, and environment / J. Christopher Brown -- Social movements : places, spaces, and scales of action / Fernando J. Bosco -- Urban environmental politics : flows, responsibility, and citizenship / Sarah A. Moore -- Children and young people : inequality, rights, and empowerment / Kate Swanson -- US-Mexico borderlands : violence and the politics of exclusion / Altha J. Cravey -- Transnational Latin America : movements, places, and displacements / Araceli Masterson-Algar -- Hispanics/Latinos in the United Staes : a geography of change / Regan M. Maas.