LibGuides: SPAN 311: Social Change in the Latinx World (Dr. Barbas Rhoden): Home

Background Sources

Finding Social Movements

Social Movements in Latin America by Ronaldo Munck
Publication Date: 2020
Social movements are organized by type (workers, women, indigenous, and so on) and then by country.
Movimientos sociales en America Latina: perspectivas, tendencias y casos by Paul Almeida and Allen Cordero Ulate, editors
Publication Date: 2017
Introduction to social movements in Latin America. This is a great source to harvest search terms from - how is the author referring to social movements? What keywords keep appearing? Then put those into OneSearch.

Policy Commons This link opens in a new window
A platform for objective, fact-based research from the world’s leading policy experts, nonpartisan think tanks, IGOs and NGOs, with access to more than 30 million pages of curated policy reports, briefs, analyses, working papers, and datasets from thousands of policy organizations.

Data and Reports

Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista provides statistics and ready-made graphics from more than 20,000 sources on thousands of topics. The section on Politics & Society Reports is probably most helpful for this class.

CIA World Factbook
A website for official data on countries, as well as current national and transnational issues for each country.
UNData (United Nations Data)
The country profiles have data on economic, social, and environmental and infrastructure indicators. You can see change over time because each indicator has data from 2010, 2015, and 2021.

News Sources

Access World News This link opens in a new window
News articles from around the world in both Spanish and English. Use the map search to narrow your search by country.

Searching OneSearch for Spanish Language Sources

To search for Spanish-language sources in OneSearch, change the language drop down in the top search box to "Spanish."

To retrieve sources in both Spanish and English, scroll down to the language section in the left search bar. Hover to the left of each language to bring up the check box, and click there to include a language. Click save to update your results list.

To search for a term or idea in English and Spanish at the same time, put the English phrase on one line in the top search box and the Spanish in the line below it. Change the drop down on the far left of the second line to "OR" to find either of the two sets of keywords in a single results list.