Nos ajustamos al criterio del devenir activo al entablar conversacion con algunos relatos sobre devenires alegres en el contexto del conflicto armado y la guerra, porque permite acceder a realidades que se presentan singulares y significativas por expresar afinidades y complicidades con la vida. Y esto, a su vez, en la creacion de salidas y respuestas. De las vidas alegres que nos ocupan aqui, vamos a insistir al abordar la tematica esp ...
La izquierda legal y reformista ha sido decisiva en la lucha por la ampliacion de la democracia colombiana en las ultimas decadas. Que varias guerrillas se hayan convertido en el germen de coaliciones, partidos o movimientos politicos luego de arduos procesos de paz con diferentes gobiernos; que Bogota, ciudad capital, haya tenido gobernantes con extraccion reconocida de movimientos de izquierda, y que de ahi provenga tambien un candidato presid ...
Der Fall der Berliner Mauer war fur viele Jugendliche, und sicher nicht nur fur sie, ein einschneidendes Erlebnis in ihrem Leben. Die vorliegende Untersuchung geht der Frage nach, welche Rolle die Medien fur die Jugendlichen bei der Wahrnehmung der anderen Stadthalfte spielten, wie sie die Offnung der Grenzen und den Vollzug der deutschen Einheit erlebten und wie sie die Zukunft in einem geeinten Deutschland einschatzen. Diese Regionalstudie «La ...
"The lives of Quimby's finely drawn characters interweave to produce a panorama as wide and full of light as the near–desert setting."— PUBLISHERS WEEKLY , starred reviewMeg Mogrin sells pricey houses, belongs to the mayor's inner circle, and knows more than she's letting on about her sister's death. Isaac Samson lives in a tent and believes Thomas Edison invented the Reagan presidency. When their t ...
A darkly humorous architectural guide to the decrepit newBritain that neoliberalism built. Back in 1997, New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, British cities became the laboratories of the new enterprise economy: glowing monuments to finance, property speculation, and the service industry—until the crash. In A Guide to the New Ruins ...
Este es un libro militante. Las reflexiones y los destinos de las mujeres que aqui se presentan no evocan ni la pasividad ni el conformismo con una sociedad que las pone en un segundo plano. Todo lo contrario. Este libro retrata las historias de veintitres mujeres de America Latina que interpelan el mundo e incitan a los miembros de sus comunidades a la accion a favor del bien comun. Y al liderar ese proceso, rien, lloran y se emocionan al compa ...
Exploring notions of activism and space as narrated by Karen displaced persons and refugees in the Thai-Burma borderlands, this book looks beyond refugees as passive victims or a ‘humanitarian case’. Instead, the book examines the active engagement the Karen have with their persecution and displacement and their subsequent emplacement in the borderlands. A key focus of the book is to look at this engagement in terms of spaces of solidarity – con ...
Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience. Drawing on a range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, law, architecture, and history, each of the chapters describes a particular ...
From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of war-torn Europe in camps within Britain’s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Northern and Southern Rhodesia. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, complex relationships that developed among refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors. While intervening in key historical debates ...
