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Investigating the complex interrelations between culture and
politics in a wide range of social movements in Latin America, this
book focuses on the cultural politics enacted by social movements
as they struggle for new visions and practices of citizenship,
democracy, social relations, and development. The volume explores
the potential of these cul
Investigating the complex interrelations between culture and
politics in a wide range of social movements in Latin America, this
book focuses on the cultural politics enacted by social movements
as they struggle for new visions and practices of citizenship,
democracy, social relations, and development. The volume explores
the potential of these cultural politics for fostering alternative
political cultures and social transformations. Theoretical and
empirical chapters assess and build upon novel conceptions of
culture and politics in a variety of disciplines and
fields-particularly anthropology, political science, sociology,
feminist theory, and cultural studies. The notion of the cultural
politics of social movements provides a lens for analyzing emergent
discourses and practices grounded in society and culture, the state
and political institutions, and the extent to which they may
unsettle, or be reinscribed into, the dominant neoliberal
strategies of the 1990s. Contributors explore how social
movements-urban popular, women's, indigenous, and black movements
as well as movements for citizenship and democracy-engage in the
cultural resignification of notions such as rights, equality, and
difference, thus altering what counts as political. By highlighting
simultaneously the cultural dimensions of the political and the
political dimensions of the cultural, the book transcends the
distinction between "new" and "old" social movements and thus
significantly renews our understanding of them.
The contributors to Beyond Civil Society argue that the
conventional distinction between civic and uncivic protest, and
between activism in institutions and in the streets, does not
accurately describe the complex interactions of forms and locations
of activism characteristic of twenty-first-century Latin America.
They show that most contemporary political activism in the region
relies upon both confrontational collective action and civic
participation at different moments. Operating within fluid,
dynamic, and heterogeneous fields of contestation, activists have
not been contained by governments or conventional political
categories, but rather have overflowed their boundaries, opening
new democratic spaces or extending existing ones in the process.
These essays offer fresh insight into how the politics of activism,
participation, and protest are manifest in Latin America today
while providing a new conceptual language and an interpretive
framework for examining issues that are critical for the future of
the region and beyond. Contributors. Sonia E. Alvarez, Kiran Asher,
Leonardo Avritzer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Andrea Cornwall, Graciela
DiMarco, Arturo Escobar, Raphael Hoetmer, Benjamin Junge, Luis E.
Lander, Agustin Lao-Montes, Margarita Lopez Maya, Jose Antonio
Lucero, Graciela Monteagudo, Amalia Pallares, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Ana
Claudia Teixeira, Millie Thayer
A general introduction to expert systems dealing with uncertainty
and learning methods; describing the most common methods and
pointing out their deficiencies.
The contributors to Beyond Civil Society argue that the
conventional distinction between civic and uncivic protest, and
between activism in institutions and in the streets, does not
accurately describe the complex interactions of forms and locations
of activism characteristic of twenty-first-century Latin America.
They show that most contemporary political activism in the region
relies upon both confrontational collective action and civic
participation at different moments. Operating within fluid,
dynamic, and heterogeneous fields of contestation, activists have
not been contained by governments or conventional political
categories, but rather have overflowed their boundaries, opening
new democratic spaces or extending existing ones in the process.
These essays offer fresh insight into how the politics of activism,
participation, and protest are manifest in Latin America today
while providing a new conceptual language and an interpretive
framework for examining issues that are critical for the future of
the region and beyond. Contributors. Sonia E. Alvarez, Kiran Asher,
Leonardo Avritzer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Andrea Cornwall, Graciela
DiMarco, Arturo Escobar, Raphael Hoetmer, Benjamin Junge, Luis E.
Lander, Agustin Lao-Montes, Margarita Lopez Maya, Jose Antonio
Lucero, Graciela Monteagudo, Amalia Pallares, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Ana
Claudia Teixeira, Millie Thayer
Brazil has the tragic distinction of having endured the longest
military-authoritarian regime in South America. Yet the country is
distinctive for another reason: in the 1970s and 1980s it witnessed
the emergence and development of perhaps the largest, most diverse,
most radical, and most successful women's movement in contemporary
Latin America. This book tells the compelling story of the rise of
progressive women's movements amidst the climate of political
repression and economic crisis enveloping Brazil in the 1970s, and
it devotes particular attention to the gender politics of the final
stages of regime transition in the 1980s.
Situating Brazil in a comparative theoretical framework, the
author analyzes the relationship between nonrevolutionary political
change and changes in women's consciousness and mobilization. Her
engaging analysis of the potentialities for promoting social
justice and transforming relations of inequality for women and men
in Latin America and elsewhere in the Third World makes this book
essential reading for all students and teachers of Latin American
politics, comparative social movements and public policy, and
women's studies and feminist political theory.
Even though Fidel Castro founded the "26 of July" movement, this
book shows that the organizing throughout Cuba fell on the
shoulders of an underground leader named Frank Pais, who was also
responsible for the survival of the incipient guerrilla force led
by Castro in the Sierra Maestra. Pais became not only the National
Chief of Action-as portrayed in the official publications-but the
top leader of the M-26-7's National Directorate. The antagonism
between Castro and Pais may have been the reason for his mysterious
death when he was only 22 years of age. This is the true story of
his life and legacy. At this crucial time, when historians are
trying to arrive at the revolution's final balance, a book like
this is essential to read before reaching an impartial verdict.
Translocalities/Translocalidades is a path-breaking collection of
essays on Latin American, Caribbean, and United States-based Latina
feminisms and their multiple translations and cross-pollinations.
The contributors come from countries throughout the Americas and
are based in diverse disciplines, including media studies,
literature, Chicana/o studies, and political science. Together,
they advocate a hemispheric politics based on the knowledge that
today, many sorts of Latin/o-americanidades-Afro, queer,
indigenous, feminist, and so on-are constructed through processes
of translocation. Latinidad in the South, North and Caribbean
"middle" of the Americas, is constituted out of the intersections
of the intensified cross-border, transcultural, and translocal
flows that characterize contemporary transmigration throughout the
hemisphere, from La Paz to Buenos Aires to Chicago and back again.
Rather than immigrating and assimilating, many people in the
Latin/a Americas increasingly move back and forth between
localities, between historically situated and culturally specific,
though increasingly porous, places, across multiple borders, and
not just between nations. The contributors deem these
multidirectional crossings and movements, and the positionalities
engendered, translocalities/translocalidades. Contributors. Sonia
E. Alvarez, Kiran Asher, Victoria (Vicky) M. Banales, Marisa
Belausteguigoitia Rius, Maylei Blackwell, Cruz C. Bueno, Pascha
Bueno-Hansen, Mirangela Buggs, Teresa Carrillo, Claudia de Lima
Costa, Isabel Espinal, Veronica Feliu, Macarena Gomez-Barris,
Rebecca J. Hester, Norma Klahn, Agustin Lao-Montes, Suzana Maia,
Margara Millan, Adriana Piscitelli, Ana Rebeca Prada, Ester R.
Shapiro, Simone Pereira Schmidt, Millie Thayer
Translocalities/Translocalidades is a path-breaking collection of
essays on Latin American, Caribbean, and United States–based
Latina feminisms and their multiple translations and
cross-pollinations. The contributors come from countries throughout
the Américas and are based in diverse disciplines, including media
studies, literature, Chicana/o studies, and political science.
Together, they advocate a hemispheric politics based on the
knowledge that today, many sorts of Latin/o-americanidades—Afro,
queer, indigenous, feminist, and so on—are constructed through
processes of translocation. Latinidad in the South, North and
Caribbean "middle" of the Américas, is constituted out of the
intersections of the intensified cross-border, transcultural, and
translocal flows that characterize contemporary transmigration
throughout the hemisphere, from La Paz to Buenos Aires to Chicago
and back again. Rather than immigrating and assimilating, many
people in the Latin/a Américas increasingly move back and forth
between localities, between historically situated and culturally
specific, though increasingly porous, places, across multiple
borders, and not just between nations. The contributors deem these
multidirectional crossings and movements, and the positionalities
engendered, translocalities/translocalidades. Contributors. Sonia
E. Alvarez, Kiran Asher, Victoria (Vicky) M. Bañales, Marisa
Belausteguigoitia Rius, Maylei Blackwell, Cruz C. Bueno, Pascha
Bueno-Hansen, Mirangela Buggs, Teresa Carrillo, Claudia de Lima
Costa, Isabel Espinal, Verónica Feliu, Macarena Gómez-Barris,
Rebecca J. Hester, Norma Klahn, Agustín Lao-Montes, Suzana Maia,
Márgara Millán, Adriana Piscitelli, Ana Rebeca Prada, Ester R.
Shapiro, Simone Pereira Schmidt, Millie Thayer
Por siglos, la doctrina de la trinidad ha sido un cimiento sobre el
cual muchos grupos religiosos han basado toda su doctrina y
creencias. Sin embargo, muchos ignoran la realidad oculta tras esta
doctrina, la cual carece de fundamento biblico. En este libro, el
autor ofrece un analisis extensivo de las bases historicas y
dogmaticas de esta doctrina, exponiendo con evidencia biblica los
grandes fallos y contradicciones encontrados en la misma. En
adicion, se analizan de forma similar diversas creencias asociadas
y/o derivadas de la doctrina de la trinidad, tales como la
naturaleza del espiritu santo y la preexistencia del mesias. Es la
trinidad un enigma para usted? Luego de adquirir y estudiar este
iluminador libro, comprendera mejor la razon, y se convencera del
engano que encierra esta doctrina.
En nuestros dias la proteccion del medioambiente es de suma
importancia. En particular, un problema vital es el tratamiento y
posterior vertido de aguas residuales al interior de estuarios en
zonas costeras. El tratamiento insuficiente tiene un impacto
negativo en actividades productivas y recreativas, sin embargo su
alto coste economico hace imposible elevarlo a altos niveles de
intensidad. En este trabajo se trata de determinar el tratamiento a
aplicar en cada planta depuradora, combinando para ello la teoria
clasica del control optimo de ecuaciones en derivadas parciales con
conceptos basicos de optimizacion multiobjetivo. Se tratan opticas
cooperativas y no-cooperativas, buscando respectivamente optimos
Pareto y equilibrios de Nash. En ambos casos se realiza un riguroso
analisis matematico, se demuestra la existencia de soluciones y se
caracterizan estas de un modo practico, lo que facilita el
desarrollo de algoritmos numericos para su obtencion. Finalmente se
presenta el software SOS (Simulating Optimal Solutions), una
toolbox de Matlab desarrollada por los autores que resulta ser una
herramienta de gran utilidad para la toma de decisiones en este
tipo de problemas."
Research has shown that truancy is frequently associated with
juvenile crime and dropping out of school altogether. With the high
dropout rate in the U.S. and the No Child Left Behind Act holding
schools accountable for their dropout rates, it is essential for
school social workers to contribute to their schools' improvement
plan in meeting annual yearly progress benchmarks. This book, by
well respected researchers and practitioners who have extensive
experience with truancy, covers best practices in truancy at the
community, school, and student/family levels of interventions. It
provides an essential everyday reference guide to research-based
programs and truancy program implementation.
Beginning with an introduction to the essentials of truancy, its
causes and consequences, and state and federal legislation, the
authors then give readers a snapshot of what research has shown to
work so far and what adaptations might look like in various school
settings. Richly detailed case examples illustrate multiple levels
of intervention, from the school-wide prevention and general policy
levels to remedial interventions, including culturally competent
approaches. Eminently practical and easily accessible, with sample
forms, methods of measuring outcomes, ideas for funding, take-away
points, and digestible research summaries, this will be a trusted
toolkit for school professionals seeking to reduce their schools'
dropout rates and improve students' engagement with school.
School-based practitioners and student trainees alike will find a
wealth of reliable information about what is seemingly an
intractable problem. They can immediately begin implementing the
proven and promising practices presented in this practical guide.
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