<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Ecuatorianistas, <br></div><div><br></div><div>I hope everyone is doing well. Please see the email below with information on a new book on Ecuador by Alan Middleton. It may be of interest to some of you. <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Juan G. Ramos, Ph.D.</div><div>Director, Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies Program<br></div><div>Associate Professor of Spanish<br>Department of Spanish<br>College of the Holy Cross<br>1 College Street<br>Worcester, MA 01610<br>(508) 793-2607<br><a href="mailto:jramos@holycross.edu" target="_blank">jramos@holycross.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div>Chair of the <a href="https://lasa.international.pitt.edu/eng/sections/ecuadorian-studies.aspx" target="_blank">Ecuadorian Studies Section</a> (LASA).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Author of <a href="http://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683400240" target="_blank"><i>Sensing Decolonial Aesthetics in Latin American Arts</i>.</a> Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018.<br><br>Co-editor of <a href="http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137603128" target="_blank"><i>Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures</i></a>. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.</div><br><div><a href="mailto:jramos@holycross.edu" target="_blank"><br></a></div><div><a href="mailto:jramos@holycross.edu" target="_blank"><br></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Alan Middleton</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:Alan.Middleton@bcu.ac.uk">Alan.Middleton@bcu.ac.uk</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 7:24 AM<br>Subject: The Informal Sector in Ecuador<br>To: <a href="mailto:jramos@holycross.edu">jramos@holycross.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:jramos@holycross.edu">jramos@holycross.edu</a>><br></div><br><br>
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Dear Juan,</div>
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I apologise if this is a duplicate message. An earlier one has not appeared in my sent box.</div>
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I would like to let my LASA colleagues know about my new book -<span> </span><i>The Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, Entrepreneurs and Precarious Family Firms</i><span> </span>- possibly by Twitter. I am a member of SLAS in the UK, but not a member of
LASA. Can you advise me about the best way to let them know? <br></div>
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There is a PDF of a flyer for the book, which could be attached to a twitter message, or there is a link to a website: <a href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Informal-Sector-in-Ecuador-Artisans-Entrepreneurs-and-Precarious/Middleton/p/book/9780367192105" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px" target="_blank">https://www.routledge.com/The-Informal-Sector-in-Ecuador-Artisans-Entrepreneurs-and-Precarious/Middleton/p/book/9780367192105</a>
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This book looks back over the last forty years of change and development in Ecuador, showing how macro level changes have impacted families and workplaces on the local level. Traditionally a dependent economy reliant on agricultural exports, the impact of neoliberalism
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Best wishes,</div>
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<p><font size="2">Professor Alan Middleton</font></p>
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