Book Review Essay
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Pedagogy of Insurrection speaks to the ambiguity of Peter McLaren’s insurgent political philosophy: he describes himself as a revolutionary Marxist, a Roman Catholic socialist, and a critic of the state capitalism of the USSR, while defending the social-democratic Latin American governments associated with the “Pink Tide.”
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Seasonal Workers makes the lives and livelihoods of agricultural workers visible within the geography of agro-industrial production, allowing us to confront the contradictions of a region symbolizing healthy eating through the paradigm of a Mediterranean diet that focuses on the consumption of fruits and vegetables, yet pits agricultural workers from three continents against one another.