In the current scenario of expansion of neo-liberal and market-oriented policies, large-scale assessment has become an increasingly pervasive technology of power. Given their consequences, and the high stakes derived from ...

Urban transport in the largest Latin American and Caribbean cities consumes about 3.5% of regional GDP — a percentage that is inflated by the effects of traffic congestion. In addition to the costs of congestion in terms ...

Thelma Holder, who was eighty-one at the time of the interview, was born in Panama of Guyanese parents and grew up in New York. Hannali McDavid was born in Guyana and came to New York at the age of twenty-seven. She worked ...

Collective protest grew recently in Chile, yet we know little about the characteristics and determinants of the tactics employed. By examining more than 2 300 protest events between 2000 and 2012, we explore the determinants ...