Discrimination, stigmatization, xenophobia, heightened securitization - fear and blaming of "aliens within" - characterize the world infected by COVID-19. Such fears have a long cultural history, however, particularly in connecting pathology with race, poverty, and migration. This volume explores theory and narratives of disease, danger, and displacement through the lenses of cultural, literary, and film studies, historical representation, ethnics studies, sociology and cultural geography, classics, music, and linguistics. Investigations range from, for example, illness discourse in the ancient classics to images of perilous intruders in the Age of Trump, from the Haitian Revolution and subsequent zombie stereotypes to current, problematic refugee resettlement in the US South and Greek islands, from the urban underworld in nineteenth-century sensation novels to ethnic women "on the stroll" in coronavirus times. The collection is organized into three thematically intertwined parts: Stigmatizing the Racialized Underclass; Pathologizing the Other; Constructing and Countering Collapse. It examines changing or recurrent aporias in tropes of belonging and exclusion, as well as the birthing of new forms of identity, agency, and countercultural expression.

This book constitutes the carefully refereed and revised selected papers of the 4th Canada-France MITACS Workshop on Foundations and Practice of Security, FPS 2011, held in Paris, France, in May 2011. The book contains a revised version of 10 full papers, accompanied by 3 keynote addresses, 2 short papers, and 5 ongoing research reports. The papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The topics covered are pervasive security and threshold cryptography; encryption, cryptanalysis and automatic verification; and formal methodsin network security."

Human brains can be seen as knowledge processors in a distributed system. Each of them can achieve, conscious or not, a small part of a treatment too important to be done by one. These are also "hunter / gatherers" of knowledge. Provided that the number of contributors is large enough, the results are usually better quality than if they were the result of the activity of a single person, even if it is a domain expert. This type of activity is done via online games.

Four writers cross paths in the streets of Madrid and can't get enough of each other. "Sex, Dreams and Solitude" is a collection of short stories and poems about everyday life. Gripping first-person contemporary narratives. Poetry meant to be spoken, in search of its literary roots. Raw confessions of urban daydreamers.

Analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of Chile, based on geographical location and available resources.

Migration is the most volatile sociopolitical issue of our time, as the current escalation of discourse and action in the United States and Europe concerning walls, border security, refugee camps, and deportations indicates. The essays by the international and interdisciplinary group of scholars assembled in this volume offer critical filters suggesting that this escalation and its historical precedents do not preclude redemptive counterstrategies. Encoded in narratives of affiliation and escape, these counterstrategies are variously launched as literary, cinematic, and civic interventions in past and present constructions of diasporic, migratory, or exilic identities. The essays trace these narratives through the figure of the "exile" as it moves across times, borders, and genres, transmogrifying into the fugitive, the escapee, the refugee, the nomad, the Other. Arguing that narratives and figures of migration to and in Europe and the Americas share tropes that link migration to kinship, community, refuge, and hegemony, the volume identifies a transhistorical, transcultural, and transnational common ground for experiences of mediated diaspora, migration, and exile at a time when public discourse and policy-making emphasize borders, divisions, and violent confrontations.

Bien qu'art invisible et ephemere, la musique en tant que pratique sociale collective reste malgre tout un art profondement ancre dans son contexte social et culturel. La musique classique, ou musique savante, est l'art qui, tout au long de son histoire, a eu les rapports les plus fusionnels et ambigus avec le pouvoir politique. Potentiellement subversive et critique vis-a-vis du pouvoir, la musique classique et ses acteurs furent le plus souvent soumis et utilises par ce dernier pour legitimer son existence et sa domination. La musique classique, ses espaces et ses publics repondent a un ensemble de normes sociales et culturelles. Cet ouvrage tente de devoiler ces normes, d'en comprendre les enjeux politiques, et d'en percevoir l'evolution dans l'histoire."

Cet ouvrage offre une multitude de r ponse vos questions. Le monde est une cr ation sans nul doute une cr ation myst rieuse. L'approche de ce monde qui est parall le au n tre doit tre compris pour l'assimiler. Ce livre d voile des secrets inavou s jusqu' pr sent. Un monde parfait avec ces r gles et ces lois. L'apprentissage de l'esprit tel qu'il devrait tre l'origine. L'essence m me de la cr ation!

Ils sont nos nouveaux bien-pensants : ils etaient autrefois reactionnaires et se disaient de droite, ils sont aujourd'hui progressistes et se croient de gauche. Leur caracteristique ? Juger les faits et les opinions selon leur idee de la vertu, et non selon la verite, puisque leur morale s'accommode du mensonge. Leurs moyens ? Les medias. Leurs armes ? La negation des faits et la nazification des opinions. Ils s'appellent Plenel, Fourest, Joffrin, Ruquier, Boutelja, Diallo, Taubira, Thuram, Noah, Melenchon, Berge, Garrido, Schiappa - mais leur nom est Legion : ce sont les nouveaux vertueux, et ils mentent en meute, car quitter la solitude, c'est quitter la verite.

In this groundbreaking collection of essays, anarchism in Latin America becomes much more than a prelude to populist and socialist movements. The contributors illustrate a much more vast, differentiated, and active anarchist presence in the region that evolved on simultaneous-transnational, national, regional, and local-fronts. Representing a new wave of transnational scholarship, these essays examine urban and rural movements, indigenous resistance, race, gender, sexuality, and social and educational experimentation. They offer a variety of perspectives on anarchism's role in shaping ideas about nationalism, identity, organized labor, and counterculture across a wide swath of Latin America.

Most studies on Latin America tend to dismiss anarchism as a prelude to populist and socialist movements. This collection illustrates a much more vast, differentiated, and active anarchist presence in the region that evolved on simultaneous-transnational, national, regional, and local-fronts. Representing a new wave of transnational scholarship, these essays examine urban and rural movements, indigenous resistance, race, gender, sexuality, and social and educational experimentation. The contributors offer a variety of perspectives on anarchism's role in shaping ideas about nationalism, identity, organized labor, and counterculture across a wide swath of Latin America.