La guerra como campo de batalla: Deconstruyendo mitos y simbolos
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La guerra como campo de batalla
Author: Jorge L. Tizón García
Publisher: Herder Editorial
Published: 2022-11-02
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 8425449634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA pesar de sus justificaciones y de los mitos belicistas embellecedores, la guerra es una de las empresas humanas más antihumanas y que más nos empobrecen a nivel personal, social y ecológico. Por eso, para entender la guerra y poder evitarla hay que comprender y contrarrestar los fundamentos económicos, políticos e ideológicos de la reiteración de los conflictos y de sus defensores. También hay que conocer sus símbolos y mitos, sus representaciones mentales y las emociones, tanto conscientes como inconscientes, que llevan a ella. Porque, como proclama el acta fundacional de la UNESCO: «Las guerras nacen en la mente de los hombres». Jorge L. Tizón, psiquiatra, neurólogo y psicoanalista, intenta describir y sistematizar algunos de esos mitos y símbolos, profundamente enclavados en nuestra cultura, que edulcoran el belicismo en nuestra sociedad y, por tanto, favorecen la explosión de las guerras.
Juan de la Rosa
Author: Nataniel Aguirre
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999-04-29
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0199938873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLong considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's search for his personal identity functions as an allegory of Bolivia's search for its identity as a nation. Set in the early 1800s, the novel is narrated by one of the last surviving Bolivian rebels, octogenarian Juan de la Rosa. Juan recreates his childhood in the rebellious town of Cochabamba, and with it a large cast of full bodied, Dickensian characters both heroic and malevolent. The larger cultural dislocations brought about by Bolivia's political upheaval are echoed in those experienced by Juan, whose mother's untimely death sets off a chain of unpredictable events that propel him into the fiery crucible of the South American Independence Movement. Outraged by Juan's outspokenness against Spanish rule and his awakening political consciousness, his loyalist guardians banish him to the countryside, where he witnesses firsthand the Spaniards' violent repression and rebels' valiant resistance that crystallize both his personal destiny and that of his country. In Sergio Gabriel Waisman's fluid translation, English readers have access to Juan de la Rosa for the very first time.
'Mixed Race' Studies
Author: Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-03-24
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1135170711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMixed race studies is one of the fastest growing, as well as one of the most important and controversial areas in the field of race and ethnic relations. Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from both the social and the biological sciences, as well as the humanities, this reader charts the evolution of debates on 'race' and 'mixed race' from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book is divided into three main sections: tracing the origins: miscegenation, moral degeneracy and genetics mapping contemporary and foundational discourses: 'mixed race', identities politics, and celebration debating definitions: multiraciality, census categories and critiques. This collection adds a new dimension to the growing body of literature on the topic and provides a comprehensive history of the origins and directions of 'mixed race' research as an intellectual movement. For students of anthropology, race and ethnicity, it is an invaluable resource for examining the complexities and paradoxes of 'racial' thinking across space, time and disciplines.
Writing Across Cultures
Author: Angel Rama
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012-05-29
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0822352931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKÁngel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. Writing across Cultures is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature. Originally published in 1982, the book links Rama's work on Spanish American modernism with his arguments about the innovative nature of regionalist literature, and it foregrounds his thinking about the close relationship between literary movements, such as modernism or regionalism, and global trends in social and economic development. In Writing across Cultures, Rama extends the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz's theory of transculturation far beyond Cuba, bringing it to bear on regional cultures across Latin America, where new cultural arrangements have been forming among indigenous, African, and European societies for the better part of five centuries. Rama applies this concept to the work of the Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist José María Arguedas, whose writing drew on both Spanish and Quechua, Peru's two major languages and, by extension, cultures. Rama considered Arguedas's novel Los ríos profundos (Deep Rivers) to be the most accomplished example of narrative transculturation in Latin America. Writing across Cultures is the second of Rama's books to be translated into English.
The Heritage Machine
Author: Pablo Alonso González
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780745338071
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Nomadic Subjects
Author: Rosi Braidotti
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011-05-24
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 023151526X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory, exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political theory. Rosi Braidotti's creative style vividly renders a productive crisis of modernity. From a feminist perspective, she recasts embodiment, sexual difference, and complex concepts through relations to technology, historical events, and popular culture. This thoroughly revised and expanded edition retains all but two of Braidotti's original essays, including her investigations into epistemology's relation to the "woman question;" feminism and biomedical ethics; European feminism; and the possible relations between American feminism and European politics and philosophy. A new piece integrates Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the "becoming-minoritarian" more deeply into modern democratic thought, and a chapter on methodology explains Braidotti's methods while engaging with her critics. A new introduction muses on Braidotti's provocative legacy.
To the Other
Author: Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781557530240
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The Oxford Handbook of Populism
Author: Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 737
ISBN-13: 0198803567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Populism presents the state of the art of research on populism from the perspective of Political Science. The book features work from the leading experts in the field, and synthesizes the main strands of research in four compact sections: concepts, issues, regions, and normative debates. Due to its breath, The Oxford Handbook of Populism is an invaluable resource for those interested in the study of populism, but also forexperts in each of the topics discussed, who will benefit from accounts of current discussions and research gaps, as well as a map of new directions in the study of populism.
On Translation
Author: Christopher Scoates
Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Incorporated
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781881616740
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