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Book Decadencia y auge de las identidades

Download or read book Decadencia y auge de las identidades written by José Manuel Valenzuela Arce and published by El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En los años recientes se observa un importante resurgimiento de movimientos étnicos y nacionalistas. Paralelamente a los procesos de integración que se realizan en Europa, o a las dimensiones mundiales de los flujos informativos y los alcances de las industrias culturales, surgen movimientos étnicos o nacionalistas como actores fundamentales de la acción social. Estos movimientos emanan de identidades étnicas y culturales de grupos sociales sumamente heterogéneos, por lo que es necesario replantear la discusión en torno de la cultura nacional, la identidad cultural y el nacionalismo como componentes importantes de la acción social. En Decadencia y auge de las identidades, José Manuel Valenzuela Arce compila 11 ponencias presentadas en el seminario “Cultura nacional, identidad cultural y modernización”, realizado en El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Las diversas perspectivas con que se aborda el tema de las identidades destacan que la identidad nacional se construye y reconstruye a través de los grados de cercanía y alejamiento de los proyectos dominantes de nación. La identidad es huella y sendero, marca y proyecto, rostro y máscara, realidad y simulacro. Es un campo de disputa entre actuaciones posibles y un juego de espejos donde se redefinen rasgos comunes y se ponderan diferencias.

Book Decadencia y auge de las identidades

Download or read book Decadencia y auge de las identidades written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Border Culture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ilan Stavans
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2010-02-09
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 365 pages

Download or read book Border Culture written by Ilan Stavans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The border between the United States and Mexico, despite attempts at containment, remains a vast and uniquely malleable yet indefinable region. With Border Culture, Ilan Stavans has collected essays representative of the tangled experiences and issues central to life between cultures. Divided into two sections, Border Culture covers topics essential to better understanding this often misunderstood region and state-of-mind. The first section, "Considerations," culls essays covering socio-economic and political topics illustrating the hyper reality of life and living on La Frontera. Section two, "Testimonios," takes careful consideration of lives affected by the border, either as a finite place, alternate universe, or the framework of the border as a state-of-mind, through various historic and literary accounts of La Frontera. This enlightening and comprehensive collection will no doubt help readers better understand border culture.

Book Mass Media and Free Trade

Download or read book Mass Media and Free Trade written by Emile G. McAnany and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As United States television programs, movies, music, and other cultural products make their way around the globe, a vigorous debate over "cultural imperialism" is growing in many countries. This book brings together experts in economics, sociology, anthropology, the humanities, and communications to explore what effects the North American Free Trade Agreement will have on the flow of cultural products among Mexico, the United States, and Canada. After an overview of free trade and the cultural industries, the book covers the following topics: dominance and resistance, cultural trade and identity in relation to Mexico and to French Canada, and intellectual property rights. Based on present trends, the contributors predict that there will be a steadily increasing flow of cultural products from the United States to its neighbors. This book grew out of a 1994 conference that brought together leaders of the cultural industries, policy makers, and scholars. It represents state-of-the-art thinking about the global influence of U.S. cultural industries.

Book The Meanings of Macho

Download or read book The Meanings of Macho written by Matthew C. Gutmann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling study of machismo in Mexico City, Matthew Gutmann overturns many stereotypes of male culture in Mexico and offers a sensitive and often surprising look at how Mexican men see themselves, parent their children, relate to women, and talk about sex. This tenth anniversary edition features a new preface that updates the stories of the book's key protagonists.

Book Latino Cultural Citizenship

Download or read book Latino Cultural Citizenship written by William Flores and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through years of ethnographic work in Latino centers in San Antonio, Los Angeles, New York, San Jose, and Watsonville, California, eight prominent Latino scholars from disciplines such as anthropology, political science, and literary and legal studies explore the dynamics of Latino community-building and "cultural citizenship"-the use of cultural expression to claim political rights in the larger culture while maintaining a vibrant local identity. Chapters detail acts of cultural affirmation in Christmas festival celebrations in Texas, cannery strikes in California, educational programs in New York, and much more. A pathbreaking work of Latino scholarship, this book will help redefine the conversation about the future of community and the nature of citizenship in the United States The scholars in the interdisciplinary Inter-University Project (IUP) who wrote this book include Renato Rosaldo (Stanford University), Richard R. Flores (University of Wisconsin), Ana L. Juarbe (Hunter College), Blanca G. Silvestrini (University of Puerto Rico), Raymond Rocco (University of California, Los Angeles), the late Rosa Torruellas (Hunter College), and the volume's editors, William V. Flores (California State University, Northridge) and Rina Benmayor (California State University, Monterey Bay).

Book International Security  Peace  Development and Environment   Volume I

Download or read book International Security Peace Development and Environment Volume I written by Ursula Oswald Spring and published by EOLSS Publications. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Security, Peace, Development, and Environment is a component of Encyclopedia of Institutional and Infrastructural Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on International Security, Peace, Development, and Environment deals, in seven parts and two volumes , with a myriad of issues of great relevance to our world such as: human, social, gender and environmental security; the transition in earth history from the holocene to the anthropocene potentially causing disasters and increasing resource scarcity; limits to growth, use of na­tural resources, sustainable livelihood and productive system through technology; rise of conflicts due to scarce and polluted resources and the concentration of humans in limited spaces of big cities; the gender violence; peace education and peace teaching as mechanisms to strengthen citizenship and to improve the understanding of cultural diversity; mechanisms to strengthen the resistance against monopolist interests in the present global world and whistle blowing as a phenomenon to protect social peace and civil resistance. The presentation culminates with a discussion on the means of active nonviolence to reinforce democratic behavior and to reduce tensions and violent outcomes in a complex world. These two volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.

Book Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema

Download or read book Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema written by Thomas G. Deveny and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema, Thomas Deveny takes the unique approach of looking at film and immigration with a global perspective, examining emigration and immigration films from Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Central America, and the Hispanic Caribbean. Deveny approaches each movie with a close textual analysis, keeping in mind the sociological theories regarding migration, as well as incorporating criticism on the film. Films such as Flowers from Another World, Return to Hansala, El Camino, 14 Kilometers, María Full of Grace, and others are studied throughout.

Book Routledge Handbook of Chicana o Studies

Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Chicana o Studies written by Francisco A. Lomelí and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Chicana/o Studies is a unique interdisciplinary resource for students, libraries, and researchers interested in the largest and most rapidly growing racial-ethnic community in the United States and elsewhere which can either be identified as Chicano, Latino, Hispanic, or Mexican-American. Structured around seven comprehensive themes, the volume is for students of American studies, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities. The volume is organized around seven critical domains in Chicana/o Studies: Chicana/o History and Social Movements Borderlands, Global Migrations, Employment, and Citizenship Cultural Production in Global and Local Settings Chicana/o Identities Schooling, Language, and Literacy Violence, Resistance, and Empowerment International Perspectives The Handbook will stress the importance of the historical origins of the Chicana/o Studies field. Starting from myth of origins, Aztlán, alleged cradle of the Chicana/o people lately substantiated by the findings of archaeology and anthropology, over Spanish/Indigenous relations until the present time. Essays will explore cultural and linguistic hybridism and showcase artistic practices (visual arts, music, and dance) through popular (folklore) or high culture achievements (museums, installations) highlighting the growth of a critical perspective grounded on key theoretical formulations including borderlands theories, intersectionalities, critical race theory, and cultural analysis.

Book Gringolandia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen D. Morris
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Release : 2005-02-10
  • ISBN : 1461637112
  • Pages : 327 pages

Download or read book Gringolandia written by Stephen D. Morris and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2005-02-10 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico's views of the United States have been characterized as stridently anti-American, but recent policy changes in Mexico-culminating with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)-mark a fundamental transformation in the relationship. This thoughtful and original work answers questions about the impact of these policy shifts on Mexican nationalism and perceptions of the United States. Have popular and elite views changed? Has the government's anti-American rhetoric become anachronistic? What has been the effect on Mexican national identity? As the only developing country to have entered into a free trade agreement with a developed country, Mexico offers a unique and invaluable case study of the impact of globalization on a nation and its national identity. Exploring Mexico's experience also allows us to consider how other countries perceive the United States, especially in the post-9/11 climate. Analyzing the diversity of Mexican views of the United States, Gringolandia contributes a rich and nuanced dimension to our understanding of contemporary Mexico and Mexicans' feelings about the vital cross-border relationship.

Book Contemporary Majority Nationalism

Download or read book Contemporary Majority Nationalism written by Alain Gagnon and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years nationalism has been associated with political demands by minority nations that challenge the rights of the central state. However, over the last two decades many works have challenged this perspective, arguing that nationalism - as a political phenomenon - is likely to emerge among both majority and minority nations. In light of a renewed interest in the study of national Contemporary Majority Nationalism brings together a group of major scholars committed to making sense of this widespread phenomenon. To better illustrate the reality of majority nationalism and the way it has been expressed, authors combine analytical and comparative perspectives. In the first section, contributors highlight the paradox of majority nationalism and the ways in which collective identities become national identities. The second section offers in-depth case study analyses of France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Canada, and the United States. This book is an international project led by three members of the Research Group on Plurinational Societies based at Université du Québec à Montréal.

Book After Colonialism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gyan Prakash
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 0691037426
  • Pages : 363 pages

Download or read book After Colonialism written by Gyan Prakash and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from history to anthropology to literary studies--and across regions--from India to Palestine to Latin America to Europe--the essays in this volume reexamine colonialism and its aftermath. Leading literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists engage with recent theories and perspectives in their specific studies, showing the centrality of colonialism in the making of the modern world and offering postcolonial reflections on the effects and experience of empire. The contributions cross historical analysis of texts with textual examination of historical records and situate metropolitan cultural practices in engagements with non-metropolitan locations. Interdisciplinarity here means exploring and realigning disciplinary boundaries. Contributors to After Colonialism include Edward Said, Steven Feierman, Joan Dayan, Ruth Phillips, Anthony Pagden, Leonard Blussé, Gauri Viswanathan, Zachary Lockman, Jorge Klor de Alva, Irene Silverblatt, Emily Apter, and Homi Bhabha.

Book Boletin Bibliografico III

Download or read book Boletin Bibliografico III written by and published by UNAM. This book was released on with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mestizaje

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  • Author : Nestor Medina
  • Publisher : Orbis Books
  • Release : 2014-07-30
  • ISBN : 1608333612
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book Mestizaje written by Nestor Medina and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Perspectives on Las Am  ricas

Download or read book Perspectives on Las Am ricas written by Mathew C. Gutmann and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-01-31 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on Las Américas: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation charts new territory by demonstrating the limits of neatly demarcating the regions of ‘Latin America’ and the ‘United States’. This landmark volume presents key readings that collectively examine the historical, cultural, economic, and political integration of Latina/os across the Americas, thereby challenging the barriers between Latina/o Studies and Latin American/Caribbean Studies. Brings together key readings that collectively examine the historical, cultural, economic, and political integration of Latina/os across the Americas. Charts new territory by demonstrating the limits of neatly demarcating the regions of 'Latin America' and the 'United States'. Challenges the barriers between Latina/o Studies and Latin American/Caribbean Studies as approached by anthropologists, historians, and other scholars. Offers instructors, students, and interested readers both the theoretical tools and case studies necessary to rethink transnational realities and identities.

Book The Romance of Democracy

Download or read book The Romance of Democracy written by Matthew C. Gutmann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-10-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider perspective on contemporary Mexico, this text examines the meaning of democracy in the lives of working-class residents in Mexico City in 2002. It provides a detailed, bottom-up exploration of what men and women think about national and neighbourhood democracy.

Book Qualitative and Quantitative Models in Socio Economic Systems and Social Work

Download or read book Qualitative and Quantitative Models in Socio Economic Systems and Social Work written by José Luis Sarasola Sánchez-Serrano and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main purpose of this book is not only to present recent studies and advances in the field of social science research, but also to stimulate discussion on related practical issues concerning statistics, mathematics, and economics. Accordingly, a broad range of tools and techniques that can be used to solve problems on these topics are presented in detail in this book, which offers an ideal reference work for all researchers interested in effective quantitative and qualitative tools. The content is divided into three major sections. The first, which is titled “Social work”, collects papers on problems related to the social sciences, e.g. social cohesion, health, and digital technologies. Papers in the second part, “Education and teaching issues,” address qualitative aspects, education, learning, violence, diversity, disability, and ageing, while the book’s final part, “Recent trends in qualitative and quantitative models for socio-economic systems and social work”, features contributions on both qualitative and quantitative issues. The book is based on a scientific collaboration, in the social sciences, mathematics, statistics, and economics, among experts from the “Pablo de Olavide” University of Seville (Spain), the “University of Defence” of Brno (Czech Republic), the “G. D’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy) and “Alexandru Ioan Cuza University” of Iaşi (Romania). The contributions, which have been selected using a peer-review process, examine a wide variety of topics related to the social sciences in general, while also highlighting new and intriguing empirical research conducted in various countries. Given its scope, the book will appeal, in equal measure, to sociologists, mathematicians, statisticians and philosophers, and more generally to scholars and specialists in related fields.