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En este libro se presenta una investigación sobre la modernización de la universidad colombiana en la segunda mitad del siglo XX, asumida como el andamiaje estratégico mediante el cual gobernantes, organizadores y diseñadores de políticas, confluyen en un proyecto modernizador, entendido como una manera de pensar en clave de gobierno de la población y de los procesos productivos del país. Aquí se consolida con la adopción sistemática de ciertas apropiaciones del modelo norteamericano de...
| Автор | Óscar Pulido Cortés |
No hace mucho, en un periódico mexicano apareció una viñeta en la que se veía al diablo muy preocupado, charlando con un colega por la situación de violencia que sufre el país. «Durante décadas», venía a decir, «temimos que se colombianizara México, ahora lo que nos da miedo es que se mexicanice el infierno…»"En estos días de cardos y espinas laborales he empezado a leer un libro editado por Melusina, felizmente radical como todos los suyos, que tiene un título irresistible: Capitalismo gore." –...
| Автор | Sayak Valencia |
El psicoanalista británico John Flügel redactó en 1935 este incisivo volumen sobre la huidiza naturaleza del vestido y sus implicaciones individuales y sociales que no deja de ser también un sutil e irónico alegato político en favor de la liberación sartorial del hombre. Sus páginas son, además, un preciso análisis de las diferencias indumentarias entre hombres y mujeres, así como un ameno repaso histórico y filosófico a la evolución de la ropa con un particular hincapié en la «Gran Renuncia»...
| Автор | John Carl Flügel |
There are a number of anthologies on violence, but none exist as presented in this conversational interview format, which provides a meaningful and sophisticated introduction into the most cutting-edge thinking on the problem of violence in the contemporary world. The market for this book includes readers of the New York Times , as half of these conversations were first published in their online philosophy column «The Stone.» The other half come from the Los Angeles Review of Books . The...
| Автор | Brad Evans |
Adoption is not for the faint of heart. Labours of Love chronicles the journeys of Canadians who have overcome heartbreaking obstacles to become parents. Their stories are as diverse as our country, and span the borders of our world. While each account is unique in its own way, the stories are connected by the overwhelmingly commonality of the power of human connection.
| Автор | Deborah A. Brennan |
A revealing look at the pleasure we get from hating figures like politicians, celebrities, and TV characters, showcased in approaches that explore snark, hate-watching, and trolling The work of a fan takes many forms: following a favorite celebrity on Instagram, writing steamy fan fiction fantasies, attending meet-and-greets, and creating fan art as homages to adored characters. While fandom that manifests as feelings of like and love are commonly understood, examined less frequently are the...
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Winner, 2020 American Book Award, given by the Before Columbus Foundation How games have been used to establish and combat Asian American racial stereotypes As Pokémon Go reshaped our neighborhood geographies and the human flows of our cities, mapping the virtual onto lived realities, so too has gaming and game theory played a role in our contemporary understanding of race and racial formation in the United States. From the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese American internment to the model...
| Автор | Tara Fickle |
Winner of the 2012 Outstanding Book Award in Cultural Studies, Association for Asian American Studies[/b] Puro Arte explores the emergence of Filipino American theater and performance from the early 20th century to the present. It stresses the Filipino performing body's location as it conjoins colonial histories of the Philippines with U.S. race relations and discourses of globalization. Puro arte, translated from Spanish into English, simply means “pure art.” In...
| Автор | Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns |
"Johnson astutely reveals that franchises are not Borg-like assimilation machines, but, rather, complicated ecosystems within which creative workers strive to create compelling 'shared worlds.' This finely researched, breakthrough book is a must-read for anyone seeking a sophisticated understanding of the contemporary media industry." —Heather Hendershot, author of What's Fair on the Air?: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest While immediately...
| Автор | Derek Johnson |
Most American college campuses are home to a vibrant drinking scene where students frequently get wasted, train-wrecked, obliterated, hammered, destroyed, and decimated. The terms that university students most commonly use to describe severe alcohol intoxication share a common theme: destruction, and even after repeated embarrassing, physically unpleasant, and even violent drinking episodes, students continue to go out drinking together. In Getting Wasted, Thomas Vander Ven provides a unique...
| Автор | Thomas Vander Ven |
Passing for what you are not–whether it is mulattos passing as white, Jews passing as Christian, or drag queens passing as women–can be a method of protection or self-defense. But it can also be a uniquely pleasurable experience, one that trades on the erotics of secrecy and revelation. It is precisely passing's radical playfulness, the way it asks us to reconsider our assumptions and forces our most cherished fantasies of identity to self-destruct, that is centrally addressed in Passing:...
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For over a century, America's nutrition authorities have heralded milk as «nature's perfect food,» as «indispensable» and «the most complete food.» These milk «boosters» have ranged from consumer activists, to government nutritionists, to the American Dairy Council and its ubiquitous milk moustache ads. The image of milk as wholesome and body-building has a long history, but is it accurate? Recently, within the newest social movements around food, milk has lost favor. Vegan anti-milk...
| Автор | E. Melanie Dupuis |
Language is integral to oursocial being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language?The mentally disabled, “wild” children, people with autism and otherneurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificialintelligences, have all engaged with language from a position at its borders.In the intricate verbal constructions of modern literature, the‘disarticulate’—those at the edges of language—have,...
| Автор | James Berger |
Throughout Brazil, Afro-Brazilians face widespread racial prejudice. Many turn to religion, with Afro-Brazilians disproportionately represented among Protestants, the fastest-growing religious group in the country. Officially, Brazilian Protestants do not involve themselves in racial politics. Behind the scenes, however, the community is deeply involved in the formation of different kinds of blackness—and its engagement in racial politics is rooted in the major new cultural movement of...
| Автор | John Burdick |
One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments. Focusing on the particular histories of objects, images, spaces and persons who embodied it, this book portrays the historical journey from weapons of sorcery looted by the police, to hidden living stones, to public works of art attacked by...
| Автор | Roger Sansi |
What happens to people, places and objects that do not fit the ordering regimes and progressive narratives of modernity? Conventional understandings imply that progress leaves such things behind, and excludes them as though they were valueless waste. This volume uses the concept of indeterminacy to explore how conditions of exclusion and abandonment may give rise to new values, as well as to states of despair and alienation. Drawing upon ethnographic research about a wide variety of contexts,...
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The industrial food system has created a crisis in the United States that is characterized by abundant food for privileged citizens and “food deserts” for the historically marginalized. In response, food justice activists based in low-income communities of color have developed community-based solutions, arguing that activities like urban agriculture, nutrition education, and food-related social enterprises can drive systemic social change. Focusing on the work of...
| Автор | Garrett Broad |
Laura Pulido traces the roots of third world radicalism in Southern California during the 1960s and 1970s in this accessible, wonderfully illustrated comparative study. Focusing on the Black Panther Party, El Centro de Acción Social y Autonomo (CASA), and East Wind, a Japanese American collective, she explores how these African American, Chicana/o, and Japanese American groups sought to realize their ideas about race and class, gender relations, and multiracial alliances. Based on thorough...
| Автор | Laura Pulido |
Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly detailed cultural history of L.A. from 1940 to 1970 traces the rise of a new suburban consciousness adopted by a generation of migrants who abandoned older American cities for Southern California's booming urban region. Eric Avila explores expressions of this new «white identity» in popular culture with provocative discussions of Hollywood and film noir, Dodger Stadium,...
| Автор | Eric Avila |
