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Within the Latin American context, legal pluralism is often
depicted as a dichotomy between customary law and national law. In
addition, the use of customary law alongside national law is
frequently portrayed as a vehicle of resistance. This book argues
that, because ordinary Indians are not positively biased in favor
of customary law per se, a heterogeneity of legal practices can be
observed on a daily basis, which consequently undermines the
commonly held view of customary law as a "counter-hegemonic
strategy", even if, on other socio-geographical levels, this
thinking in terms of resistance holds true. Based on qualitative
research, the work analyzes how internal conflicts among indigenous
inhabitants of the Ecuadorian highlands are being settled in a
situation of formal legal pluralism, and what can be learned from
this in terms of Indian-state relationships. It is shown that, on a
local level, the phenomenological dimension of legal pluralism can
be termed "interlegality." On a macro level, ontological
assumptions underscore that legal pluralism is still seen as a
dichotomy between customary and national law. Multidisciplinary in
nature, the book will be of interest to academics and researchers
working in the areas of Legal Pluralism, Cultural Anthropology and
Latin American Studies.
This book offers an approach to business and executive coaching
that properly aligns the practice in the culture of business
through the use of a relational "coaching axis" that helps to
manage the complexity of the organisation and the individual as
dual clients. Business and executive coaching occurs within an
organisational context with the goal of promoting success at all
levels of the organisation by affecting the actions of those being
coached (Worldwide Association of Business Coaches, 2007). This
form of coaching is distinct from other types in two ways, firstly
it is focused on achieving business outcomes, and secondly, both
the individual being coached and the sponsoring organization are
simultaneously the client. This book explains how a coach manages
the complexity of helping these two clients by acting as a
narrative bridge between their stories. It offers a relational
approach which resists remedial or curative notions born from
coaching's human science roots and instead aligns to workplace
realities.
This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a
centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and
The Bridge (1930). Hart Crane, prodigiously gifted and tragically
doom-eager, was the American peer of Shelley, Rimbaud, and Lorca.
Born in Garrettsville, Ohio, on July 21, 1899, Crane died at sea on
April 27, 1932, an apparent suicide. A born poet, totally devoted
to his art, Crane suffered his warring parents as well as long
periods of a hand-to-mouth existence. He suffered also from his
honesty as a homosexual poet and lover during a period in American
life unsympathetic to his sexual orientation. Despite much critical
misunderstanding and neglect, in his own time and in ours, Crane
achieved a superb poetic style, idiosyncratic yet central to
American tradition. His visionary epic, The Bridge, is the most
ambitious and accomplished long poem since Walt Whitman's Song of
Myself. Marc Simon's text is accepted as the most authoritative
presentation of Hart Crane's work available to us. For this
centennial edition, Harold Bloom, who was introduced to poetry by
falling in love with Crane's work while still a child, has
contributed a new introduction.
This book offers an approach to business and executive coaching
that properly aligns the practice in the culture of business
through the use of a relational "coaching axis" that helps to
manage the complexity of the organisation and the individual as
dual clients. Business and executive coaching occurs within an
organisational context with the goal of promoting success at all
levels of the organisation by affecting the actions of those being
coached (Worldwide Association of Business Coaches, 2007). This
form of coaching is distinct from other types in two ways, firstly
it is focused on achieving business outcomes, and secondly, both
the individual being coached and the sponsoring organization are
simultaneously the client. This book explains how a coach manages
the complexity of helping these two clients by acting as a
narrative bridge between their stories. It offers a relational
approach which resists remedial or curative notions born from
coaching's human science roots and instead aligns to workplace
realities.
In the 1960s and 1970s, an energetic new social movement emerged
among Mexican Americans. Fighting for civil rights and celebrating
a distinct ethnic identity, the Chicano Movement had a lasting
impact on the United States, from desegregation to bilingual
education. Rethinking the Chicano Movement provides an astute and
accessible introduction to this vital grassroots movement. Bringing
together different fields of research, this comprehensive yet
concise narrative considers the Chicano Movement as a national, not
just regional, phenomenon, and places it alongside the other
important social movements of the era. Rodriguez details the many
different facets of the Chicano movement, including college
campuses, third-party politics, media, and art, and traces the
development and impact of one of the most important post-WWII
social movements in the United States.
In the 1960s and 1970s, an energetic new social movement emerged
among Mexican Americans. Fighting for civil rights and celebrating
a distinct ethnic identity, the Chicano Movement had a lasting
impact on the United States, from desegregation to bilingual
education. Rethinking the Chicano Movement provides an astute and
accessible introduction to this vital grassroots movement. Bringing
together different fields of research, this comprehensive yet
concise narrative considers the Chicano Movement as a national, not
just regional, phenomenon, and places it alongside the other
important social movements of the era. Rodriguez details the many
different facets of the Chicano movement, including college
campuses, third-party politics, media, and art, and traces the
development and impact of one of the most important post-WWII
social movements in the United States.
Within the Latin American context, legal pluralism is often
depicted as a dichotomy between customary law and national law. In
addition, the use of customary law alongside national law is
frequently portrayed as a vehicle of resistance. This book argues
that, because ordinary Indians are not positively biased in favor
of customary law per se, a heterogeneity of legal practices can be
observed on a daily basis, which consequently undermines the
commonly held view of customary law as a "counter-hegemonic
strategy", even if, on other socio-geographical levels, this
thinking in terms of resistance holds true. Based on qualitative
research, the work analyzes how internal conflicts among indigenous
inhabitants of the Ecuadorian highlands are being settled in a
situation of formal legal pluralism, and what can be learned from
this in terms of Indian-state relationships. It is shown that, on a
local level, the phenomenological dimension of legal pluralism can
be termed "interlegality." On a macro level, ontological
assumptions underscore that legal pluralism is still seen as a
dichotomy between customary and national law. Multidisciplinary in
nature, the book will be of interest to academics and researchers
working in the areas of Legal Pluralism, Cultural Anthropology and
Latin American Studies.
Set in Pittsburgh in the early 1900's, The Leap Year Boy is the
story of an extraordinary boy named Alex Miller, born into a
working class family on February 29, 1908. What makes Alex so
remarkable is that even though he's full term, he weighs just two
pounds, one ounce and is nine inches long. Despite his size, Alex
is perfectly healthy. However, his body grows at one-fourth the
rate of a normal child-so that after one year, he's the size of a
three-month-old-but his mind grows much quicker. Eventually, so do
certain parts of his body and his ability to do various and unusual
things with them. As Alex's special abilities become apparent,
those around him see him as both a miracle child and a freak of
nature-a freak to exploit. How Alex saves himself from the designs
of others is at the heart of the novel.
Each spring during the 1960s and 1970s, a quarter million farm
workers left Texas to travel across the nation, from the Midwest to
California, to harvest America's agricultural products. During this
migration of people, labour, and ideas, Tejanos established
settlements in nearly all the places they travelled to for work,
influencing concepts of Mexican Americanism in Texas, California,
Wisconsin, Michigan, and elsewhere. In The Tejano Diaspora, Marc
Simon Rodriguez examines how Chicano political and social movements
developed at both ends of the migratory labour network that flowed
between Crystal City, Texas, and Wisconsin during this period.
Rodriguez argues that translocal Mexican American activism gained
ground as young people, activists, and politicians united across
the migrant stream. Crystal City, well known as a flash point of
1960s-era Mexican Americanism, was a classic migrant sending
community, with over 80 percent of the population migrating each
year in pursuit of farm work. Wisconsin, which had a long tradition
of progressive labour politics, provided a testing ground for
activism and ideas for young movement leaders. By providing a view
of the Chicano movement beyond the Southwest, Rodriguez reveals an
emergent ethnic identity, discovers an overlooked youth movement,
and interrogates the meanings of American citizenship. Published in
association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest
Studies, Southern Methodist University, USA.
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