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Nov 14 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Millions of people have left the #NorthernTriangle region of #CentralAmerica the past years (400,000 on average each year), most heading to the US

Learn about the root causes and the human dimension of forced #migration through these 2 #documentaries & 2 #books

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The Vertical Border (2022). Directed by Sonja Wolf @scwolf5 imdb.com/title/tt198299…
Blood on the Wall (2020). Directed by Sebastian Junger @sebastianjunger and Nick Quested. imdb.com/title/tt126485…
Wolf, Sonja @scwolf5, Forced Migration from the Northern Triangle of Central America: Drivers and Experiences (2020). Available at: cide.edu/blogs/wp-conte…
Sandoval-García, Carlos, Exclusion and Forced Migration in Central America: No More Walls (2017)

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10 concepts or conceptual distinctions all social scientists interested in discussing politics should understand.

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Weber, Max, “Politics as a Vocation,” pp. 77-128, in H.H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (eds.), From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (1946 [1919])

Constant, Benjamin. The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns (1819). Available here: oll.libertyfund.org/title/constant…
Dahl, Robert A., Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition (1971)

Weber, Max, Economy and Society (1978 [1922]: Chs. 11 and 12).

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10 conceptos o distinciones conceptuales que todos los científicos sociales interesados en discutir sobre política deberían comprender.

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Weber, Max, El político y el científico (1919). Disponible aquí: memoriapoliticademexico.org/Textos/6Revolu…

Constant, Benjamin. De la libertad de los antiguos comparada a la de los modernos (1819). Disponible aquí: archivos.juridicas.unam.mx/www/bjv/libros…
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Kuhn, Thomas, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962/1970)

Weber, Max, Politics as a Vocation (1919)

Comte, Auguste, The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte (1853)

Mann, Michael, The Sources of Social Power, Vol 1 (1986)
Przeworski, Adam, Capitalism and Social Democracy (1985: esp. Ch. 5)

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Castells, Manuel, The Information Age. Economy, Society, and Culture Vol. I The Rise of the Network Society (1996
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Weber, Max, La política como vocación (1919). Disponible aquí: memoriapoliticademexico.org/Textos/6Revolu…
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Mann, Michael, Las Fuentes del Poder Social, Vol. 1 (1991)

Marshall, T.H., Ciudadanía y clase social (1950)

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Colonialism & its Legacies I. History is not destiny, but the past shapes the present. & many scholars argue that colonialism has a long-term impact on politics, the economy & society.

These books explore the impact of #colonialism in #Africa, #Asia & globally.

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Cheeseman, Nic @Fromagehomme and Jonathan Fisher @fisheridd, Authoritarian Africa: Repression, Resistance, and the Power of Ideas (2020)
Lange, Matthew, Lineages of Despotism and Development. British Colonialism and State Power (2009)

Acemoglu, Daron @DrDaronAcemoglu, and James A. Robinson, Why Nations Fail: Origins of Power, Poverty and Prosperity (2012)
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Colonialism and its Legacies II. History is not destiny, but the past shapes the present. And many scholars argue that colonialism has a long-term impact on politics, the economy and society.

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Adelman, Jeremy (ed.), Colonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History (1999)
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Engerman, Stanley L., and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Economic Development in the Americas since 1500: Endowments and Institutions (2012)
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