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Este volumen incluye una selección de artículos aparecidos durante varios años en la revista ?Huellas de Estados Unidos. Estudios, perspectivas y debates desde América Latina.? Su propuesta supone un acercamiento a los estudios sobre los Estados Unidos que implica la idea de desarmar la construcción ideológica que el excepcionalismo ha fundado y que la historio-grafía ortodoxa tradicional se ha encargado de difundir. Estos estudiosos apuestan...
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Employs Robert Bellah's notion of civil religion to explore East Asia's Confucian revival.
Can Confucianism be regarded as a civil religion for East Asia? This book explores this question, bringing the insights of Robert Bellah to a consideration of various expressions of the contemporary Confucian revival. Bellah identified American civil religion as a religious dimension of life that can be found throughout US culture, but one without any formal...
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This volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history. Building on the insights and methodologies that social historians have directed toward urban life, the contributors explore the past as it unfolded in the rural settings in which most Americans have lived during most of American history.
The essays cover a broad range of topics: the character and consequences of manufacturing...
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At a time, when women are being exhorted to "lean in" and work harder to get ahead, Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism encourages both women and men to "let go" instead. The book explores alternatives to the belief that individual achievement, accumulation, and attention-seeking are the road to happiness and satisfaction in life. Letting go demands a radical recognition that the values, relationships, and structures of our...
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One of this book's goals is to evaluate the complex ways that Madrid has served as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Global South from the end of the Franco dictatorship to the present. The other is to examine the city as lived experience, where citizens contest capital's push to shape urban space in its own image through activities of the imagination.
Scholars, investigative journalists, political activists, and a filmmaker combine...
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A wide-ranging scholarly consideration of the martial arts.
This landmark work provides a wide-ranging scholarly consideration of the traditional Asian martial arts. Most of the contributors to the volume are practitioners of the martial arts, and all are keenly aware that these traditions now exist in a transnational context. The book's cutting-edge research includes ethnography and approaches from film, literature, performance, and theater studies....
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Engendering Transnational Voices examines the transnational practices and identities of immigrant women, youth, and children in an era of global migration and neoliberalism, addressing such topics as family relations, gender and work, schooling, remittances, cultural identities, caring for children and the elderly, inter- and multi-generational relationships, activism, and refugee determination.Expressions of power, resistance, agency, and accommodation...
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No se puede resolver una crisis si no se profundiza en ella lo suficiente como para comprenderla. El escándalo del abuso al interior de la Iglesia —de poder, de conciencia y sexual— ha alcanzado una escala planetaria y da cuenta ya no solo de pecados y delitos individuales, sino sobre todo de paradigmas, sistemas, estructuras e instituciones que han facilitado la comisión del abuso, su ocultamiento o su impunidad.
Este volumen incluye el testimonio...
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Victor Nee is Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell University. His books include Remaking the American Mainstream and The New Institutionalism in Sociology. Richard Swedberg is Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell University. He is the author of Principles of Economic Sociology and Max Weber and the Idea...
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¿Qué tipo de lugares existen en las ciudades donde la gente socializa? Qué caracteriza socialmente un sociolugar? ¿Cuáles son las reglas que rigen el comportamiento de los actores de dichos escenarios? ¿Qué tipos de roles adoptan los usuarios de dichos lugares? ¿Qué narraciones se elaboran sobre la experiencia de dichos escenarios? ¿Qué interpretación teórica se puede hacer de la tendencia a socializar en estos lugares y el abandono del...
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Sheds new light on both pro and antislavery politics in the nineteenth-century Americas.
The creation of new frontiers of slave commodity production and the expansion and intensification of slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the southern United States were an integral part of the expansion of the world economy during the nineteenth century. Beginning from this vantage point, The Politics of the Second Slavery brings together a group of international scholars...
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Donald MacKenzie is a professor of sociology at the University of Edinburgh. His most recent book is An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets. Fabian Muniesa is a researcher and teacher at the École des Mines de Paris and a member of the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation. Lucia Siu is a teaching fellow at Hong Kong's Lingnan University.
Around the globe, economists affect markets by saying what markets are doing, what they...
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Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, particularly during the Hellenistic and Roman eras. The volume is organized around five overlapping areas where religion and travel intersect: travel related to honouring deities, including travel to festivals, oracles, and healing sanctuaries; travel to...
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El Centro de Investigación Periodística (CIPER) es una fundación independiente, sin fines de lucro. Su misión es publicar reportajes de acuerdo a principios de máxima calidad e integridad profesional. CIPER no tiene filiación política ni partidista. Su principal objetivo es la fiscalización del poder político, económico y social, para resguardar el buen funcionamiento de la democracia.
CIPER se financia a través de donaciones y sus aportantes...
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At a time when movements for racial justice are front and center in U.S. national politics, this book provides essential new understanding to the study of race, its influence on people's lives, and what we can do to address the persistent and foundational American problem of systemic racism. Knowledge about race and racism changes as social and historical conditions evolve, as different generations of scholars experience unique societal conditions,...
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Comment l'Union européenne peut-elle parvenir à mieux informer et communiquer avec ses citoyens ? Quelles sont les initiatives participatives et délibératives qu'elle a promues à ces fins ? Peuvent-elles contribuer à atténuer sa crise de légitimité chronique ? Devraient-elles être institutionnalisées à l'intérieur du processus décisionnel européen? Et si oui, comment procéder ? Autant de questions auxquelles cet ouvrage apporte des...
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Este libro ha sido pensado como una reconstrucción comparada de las trayectorias que ha tenido el pensamiento social latinoamericano, a través de los ensayistas, el surgimiento de la sociología, la institución de la crítica literaria y la trasformación de ciertos conceptos en relación con coyunturas de la historia social y política colombiana y latinoamericana. El objetivo de esta organización es que el lector pueda conocer el proceso a través...
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Qu'est-ce qui motive l'altruisme et le souci de l'autre?
Quelle place faisons-nous à la solidarité dans nos vies?
Dans un monde qui valorise la performance, la standardisation, la rationalisation, la technologie à outrance, la solidarité représente-t-elle une manière de revenir à l'essentiel?
La solidarité est-elle donnée d'emblée ou bien repose-t-elle sur d'autres valeurs qui la fondent? Est-elle la source de relations vivifiantes...
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One of the biggest challenges for relations between religions is the view of the religious Other. The question touches the roots of our theological views. The Religious Other: Hostility, Hospitality, and the Hope of Human Flourishing explores the views of multiple religious traditions on how to regard otherness. How does one move from hostility to hospitality? How can hospitality be understood not simply as social hospitality but as theological hospitality,...
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