Affective Intellectuals And The Space Of Catastrophe In The Americas
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Author |
: Judith Sierra-Rivera |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0814213782 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780814213780 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas by : Judith Sierra-Rivera
A study of contexts of crisis, which examines the role of writers and intellectuals in working toward social justice.
Author |
: Cas Mudde |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 129 |
Release |
: 2019-10-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781509536856 |
ISBN-13 |
: 150953685X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Far Right Today by : Cas Mudde
The far right is back with a vengeance. After several decades at the political margins, far-right politics has again taken center stage. Three of the world’s largest democracies – Brazil, India, and the United States – now have a radical right leader, while far-right parties continue to increase their profile and support within Europe. In this timely book, leading global expert on political extremism Cas Mudde provides a concise overview of the fourth wave of postwar far-right politics, exploring its history, ideology, organization, causes, and consequences, as well as the responses available to civil society, party, and state actors to challenge its ideas and influence. What defines this current far-right renaissance, Mudde argues, is its mainstreaming and normalization within the contemporary political landscape. Challenging orthodox thinking on the relationship between conventional and far-right politics, Mudde offers a complex and insightful picture of one of the key political challenges of our time.
Author |
: David R. Butler |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 544 |
Release |
: 2021-12-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000522303 |
ISBN-13 |
: 100052230X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Anthropocene by : David R. Butler
This book is devoted to the Anthropocene, the period of unprecedented human impacts on Earth’s environmental systems, and illustrates how Geographers envision the concept of the Anthropocene. This edited volume illustrates that geographers have a diverse perspective on what the Anthropocene is and represents. The chapters also show that geographers do not feel it necessary to identify only one starting point for the temporal onset of the Anthropocene. Several starting points are suggested, and some authors support the concept of a time-transgressive Anthropocene. Chapters in this book are organized into six sections, but many of them transcend easy categorization and could have fit into two or even three different sections. Geographers embrace the concept of the Anthropocene while defining it and studying it in a variety of ways that clearly show the breadth and diversity of the discipline. This book will be of great value to scholars, researchers, and students interested in geography, environmental humanities, environmental studies, and anthropology. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
Author |
: Ariana E. Vigil |
Publisher |
: Global Latin/O Americas |
Total Pages |
: 178 |
Release |
: 2019-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0814255574 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780814255575 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Public Negotiations by : Ariana E. Vigil
Examines how the boundaries of the Latina/o public sphere and representations of gender are negotiated through mass media in twentieth and twenty-first century literature.
Author |
: Fernando Calderón |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2020-08-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781509540037 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1509540032 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Latin America by : Fernando Calderón
Latin America has experienced a profound transformation in the first two decades of the 21st century: it has been fully incorporated into the global economy, while excluding regions and populations devalued by the logic of capitalism. Technological modernization has gone hand-in-hand with the reshaping of old identities and the emergence of new ones. The transformation of Latin America has been shaped by social movements and political conflicts. The neoliberal model that dominated the first stage of the transformation induced widespread inequality and poverty, and triggered social explosions that led to its own collapse. A new model, neo-developmentalism, emerged from these crises as national populist movements were elected to government in several countries. The more the state intervened in the economy, the more it became vulnerable to corruption, until the rampant criminal economy came to penetrate state institutions. Upper middle classes defending their privileges and citizens indignant because of corruption of the political elites revolted against the new regimes, undermining the model of neo-developmentalism. In the midst of political disaffection and public despair, new social movements, women, youth, indigenous people, workers, peasants, opened up avenues of hope against the background of darkness invading the continent. This book, written by two leading scholars of Latin America, provides a comprehensive and up-do-date account of the new Latin America that is in the process of taking shape today. It will be an indispensable text for students and scholars in Latin American Studies, sociology, politics and media and communication studies, and anyone interested in Latin America today.
Author |
: Joshua R. Deckman |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 246 |
Release |
: 2023-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438493428 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1438493428 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Feminist Spiritualities by : Joshua R. Deckman
Feminist Spiritualities aims to complicate contemporary debates surrounding Black/Latinx experiences within a critical framework of decolonial thought, women of color feminisms, politicized emotional structures, and anti-imperial politics. Joshua R. Deckman considers literary and cultural productions from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, and their diasporas in the United States, exploring epistemic spaces that have historically been marked as irrational and inconsequential for the production of knowledge—including social media posts, song lyrics, public writings, speeches, and personal interviews. Analyzing works by Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Mayra Santos-Febres, Rita Indiana Hernández, Ana-Maurine Lara, Elizabeth Acevedo, María Teresa Fernández, Nitty Scott, Lxs Krudxs Cubensi, and Ibeyi, Deckman shows how these authors develop afro-epistemologies grounded in Caribbean feminist spiritualities and manifest a commitment to finding joy and love in difference. Literary, anthropological, and more, Feminist Spiritualities weaves through a series of fields and methodologies in an undisciplined way to contribute new close readings of recent works and fresh assessments of well-known ones.
Author |
: Frans Weiser |
Publisher |
: Global Latin/O Americas |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2020-02-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0814255752 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780814255759 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis False Documents by : Frans Weiser
Examines work by writers and journalists from Latin America and the US who adopted fiction to expose how governments controlled and misrepresented events.
Author |
: Pierre Charbonnier |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2021-06-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781509543731 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1509543732 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Affluence and Freedom by : Pierre Charbonnier
In this pathbreaking book, Pierre Charbonnier opens up a new intellectual terrain: an environmental history of political ideas. His aim is not to locate the seeds of ecological thought in the history of political ideas as others have done, but rather to show that all political ideas, whether or not they endorse ecological ideals, are informed by a certain conception of our relationship to the Earth and to our environment. The fundamental political categories of modernity were founded on the idea that we could improve on nature, that we could exert a decisive victory over its excesses and claim unlimited access to earthly resources. In this way, modern thinkers imagined a political society of free individuals, equal and prosperous, alongside the development of industry geared towards progress and liberated from the Earth’s shackles. Yet this pact between democracy and growth has now been called into question by climate change and the environmental crisis. It is therefore our duty today to rethink political emancipation, bearing in mind that this can no longer draw on the prospect of infinite growth promised by industrial capitalism. Ecology must draw on the power harnessed by nineteenth-century socialism to respond to the massive impact of industrialization, but it must also rethink the imperative to offer protection to society by taking account of the solidarity of social groups and their conditions in a world transformed by climate change. This timely and original work of social and political theory will be of interest to a wide readership in politics, sociology, environmental studies and the social sciences and humanities generally.
Author |
: Guisela Latorre |
Publisher |
: Global Latin/O Americas |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0814214029 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780814214022 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Democracy on the Wall by : Guisela Latorre
Deconstructs the implications of street art to the social, political, and cultural movements of post-Pinochet dictatorship Chile.
Author |
: Pablo Servigne |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 139 |
Release |
: 2020-03-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781509541409 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1509541403 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis How Everything Can Collapse by : Pablo Servigne
What if our civilization were to collapse? Not many centuries into the future, but in our own lifetimes? Most people recognize that we face huge challenges today, from climate change and its potentially catastrophic consequences to a plethora of socio-political problems, but we find it hard to face up to the very real possibility that these crises could produce a collapse of our entire civilization. Yet we now have a great deal of evidence to suggest that we are up against growing systemic instabilities that pose a serious threat to the capacity of human populations to maintain themselves in a sustainable environment. In this important book, Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens confront these issues head-on. They examine the scientific evidence and show how its findings, often presented in a detached and abstract way, are connected to people’s ordinary experiences – joining the dots, as it were, between the Anthropocene and our everyday lives. In so doing they provide a valuable guide that will help everyone make sense of the new and potentially catastrophic situation in which we now find ourselves. Today, utopia has changed sides: it is the utopians who believe that everything can continue as before, while realists put their energy into making a transition and building local resilience. Collapse is the horizon of our generation. But collapse is not the end – it’s the beginning of our future. We will reinvent new ways of living in the world and being attentive to ourselves, to other human beings and to all our fellow creatures.