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Linked Democracy (Hardcover)
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Mobile phones are the most ubiquitous communications technology
in the world. Besides transforming the way in which we communicate,
they can also be used as a powerful tool for conflict prevention
and management. This book presents innovative uses of mobile
technologies in the areas of early warning, disaster and
humanitarian relief, governance, citizens' participation, etc. and
cuts across different regions. The book brings together experts and
practitioners from different fields-mobile technologies,
information systems, computer sciences, online dispute resolution,
law, etc.-to reflect on present experiences and to explore new
areas for research on conflict management and online dispute
resolution (ODR). It also reflects on the transition from present
ODR to future mobile Dispute Resolution and discusses key privacy
issues. The book is addressed to anyone involved in conflict
prevention and dispute management aiming to learn how mobile
technologies can play a disruptive role in the way we deal with
conflict.
This book addresses a variety of regional humor traditions such as
exploitation cinema, Brazilian chanchada, the Cantinflas heritage,
the comedy of manners and light sexuality, iconic figures and
characters, as well as a variety of humor registers evident in
different Latin American films.
This collection interrogates sports in Latin America as a key
terrain in which nation is defined and populations are
interpellated through emotionally charged practices (state policy,
media representations, and sports play itself by professionals,
national teams and amateurs) of inclusion and exclusion.
This volume discusses the role of comics in the formation of a
modern sense of nationhood in Latin America and the rise of a
collective Latino identity in the USA. It is one of the first
attempts--in English and from a cultural studies perspective--to
cover Latin/o American comics with a fully continental scope.
Specific cases include cultural powerhouses like Argentina, Brazil,
and Mexico, as well as the production of lesser-known industries,
like Chile, Cuba, and Peru.
Piracy and Intellectual Property in Latin America is the first
sustained effort to present an alternative framework for
understanding piracy and contemporary challenges to global
discourses on intellectual property (IP) in the Americas. While
piracy might just look like theft and derivative reproduction from
the perspective of many right-holders, the contributors to this
volume go beyond this economic-driven logic and show how practices
of copying are in fact practices of reinvention that reflect the
rich social networks and forms of creativity, authorship, commerce,
and consumption that characterize informal economies. From a
perspective informed by contemporary scenarios in Mexico, Brazil,
Chile, Argentina, Peru, Guatemala, and the United States, they
engage in a discussion of alternatives that-predicated on the
importance of protecting culture-allow for other ways of conceiving
prosperity at local, national, regional, and global levels.
Examples discussed include video games, clothing, trinkets, music,
film, TV, and books. Designed to help understand the broader
implications of IP and piracy for the field of Latin American
studies, this book will be a major contribution to Global South
studies, as well as to the growing bibliography on globalization,
informal markets, and piracy.
Academic and research fields are moved by fads, waves,
revolutionaries, paradigm shifts, and turns. They all imply a
certain degree of change that alters the conditions of a stable
system, producing an imbalance that needs to be addressed by the
field itself. New Approaches to Latin American Studies: Culture and
Power offers researchers and students from different theoretical
fields an essential, turn-organized overview of the radical
transformation of epistemological and methodological assumptions in
Latin American Studies from the end of the 1980s to the present.
Sixteen chapters written by experts in their respective fields help
explain the various ways in which to think about these shifts.
Questions posited include: Why are turns so crucial? How did they
alter the shape or direction of the field? What new questions,
objects, or problems did they contribute? What were or are their
limitations? What did they displace or prevent us from considering?
Among the turns included are: memory, transnational, popular
culture, decolonial, feminism, affect, indigenous studies,
transatlantic, ethical, post/hegemony, deconstruction, cultural
policy, subalternism, gender and sexuality, performance, and
cultural studies.
Academic and research fields are moved by fads, waves,
revolutionaries, paradigm shifts, and turns. They all imply a
certain degree of change that alters the conditions of a stable
system, producing an imbalance that needs to be addressed by the
field itself. New Approaches to Latin American Studies: Culture and
Power offers researchers and students from different theoretical
fields an essential, turn-organized overview of the radical
transformation of epistemological and methodological assumptions in
Latin American Studies from the end of the 1980s to the present.
Sixteen chapters written by experts in their respective fields help
explain the various ways in which to think about these shifts.
Questions posited include: Why are turns so crucial? How did they
alter the shape or direction of the field? What new questions,
objects, or problems did they contribute? What were or are their
limitations? What did they displace or prevent us from considering?
Among the turns included are: memory, transnational, popular
culture, decolonial, feminism, affect, indigenous studies,
transatlantic, ethical, post/hegemony, deconstruction, cultural
policy, subalternism, gender and sexuality, performance, and
cultural studies.
Few people think of an Internet domain name like .us or .in as
anything other than an address-when, in fact, it often serves as a
roadmap to national identities and priorities. Addressing the World
looks behind eleven of the 240 global domain names, from the United
States and Australia to Moldova and East Timor, highlighting both
the technology and the larger social constructs that make each
distinct. Stories and first-person accounts by activists,
journalists, Internet administrators, lawyers, and academics
examine the sociological, historical, political, and technological
development of Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLDs).
Addressing the World reveals that technology is not just science
and domain names are not just practical-they are an entryway into
cultural education and understanding. Visit the author's website
for additional information, including chapter abstracts and
pictures and bios of all contributors.
Few people think of an Internet domain name like .us or .in as
anything other than an address when, in fact, it often serves as a
roadmap to national identities and priorities. Addressing the World
looks behind eleven of the 240 global domain names, from the United
States and Australia to Moldova and East Timor, highlighting both
the technology and the larger social constructs that make each
distinct. Stories and first-person accounts by activists,
journalists, Internet administrators, lawyers, and academics
examine the sociological, historical, political, and technological
development of Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLDs).
Addressing the World reveals that technology is not just science
and domain names are not just practical they are an entryway into
cultural education and understanding. Visit the author's website
for additional information, including chapter abstracts and
pictures and bios of all contributors."
The November 2020 US election was arguably the most consequential
since the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln-and grassroots leaders
and organizers played crucial roles in the contention for the
presidency and control of both houses of Congress. Power Concedes
Nothing tells the stories behind a victory that won both the White
House and the Senate and powered progressive candidates to new
levels of influence. It describes the on-the-ground efforts that
mobilized a record-breaking turnout by registering new voters and
motivating an electorate both old and new. In doing so it charts a
viable path to victory for the vital contests upcoming in 2022 and
2024. Contributors include: Cliff Albright, Yong Jung Cho, Larry
Cohen, Sendolo Diaminah, Neidi Dominguez, David Duhalde, Alicia
Garza, Ryan Greenwood, Arisha Michelle Hatch , Jon Liss, Thenjiwe
McHarris, Andrea Cristina Mercado, Maurice Mitchell, Rafael Navar,
Deepak Pateriya, Ai-jen Poo, W. Mondale Robinson, Art Reyes III,
Nse Ufot and Mario Yedidia
This collection interrogates sports in Latin America as a key
terrain in which nation is defined and populations are
interpellated through emotionally charged practices (state policy,
media representations, and sports play itself by professionals,
national teams and amateurs) of inclusion and exclusion.
Mobile phones are the most ubiquitous communications technology
in the world. Besides transforming the way in which we communicate,
they can also be used as a powerful tool for conflict prevention
and management. This book presents innovative uses of mobile
technologies in the areas of early warning, disaster and
humanitarian relief, governance, citizens' participation, etc. and
cuts across different regions. The book brings together experts and
practitioners from different fields-mobile technologies,
information systems, computer sciences, online dispute resolution,
law, etc.-to reflect on present experiences and to explore new
areas for research on conflict management and online dispute
resolution (ODR). It also reflects on the transition from present
ODR to future mobile Dispute Resolution and discusses key privacy
issues. The book is addressed to anyone involved in conflict
prevention and dispute management aiming to learn how mobile
technologies can play a disruptive role in the way we deal with
conflict.
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Second International
Symposium, Latin American Theoretical Informatics, LATIN '95, held
in Valparaiso, Chile in April 1995.
The LATIN symposia are intended to be comprehensive events on the
theory of computing; they provide a high-level forum for
theoretical computer science research in Latin America and
facilitate a strong and healthy interaction with the international
community. The 38 papers presented in this volume were carefully
selected from 68 submissions. Despite the intended broad coverage
there are quite a number of papers devoted to computational graph
theory; other topics strongly represented are complexity, automata
theory, networks, symbolic computation, formal languages, data
structures, and pattern matching.
Piracy and Intellectual Property in Latin America is the first
sustained effort to present an alternative framework for
understanding piracy and contemporary challenges to global
discourses on intellectual property (IP) in the Americas. While
piracy might just look like theft and derivative reproduction from
the perspective of many right-holders, the contributors to this
volume go beyond this economic-driven logic and show how practices
of copying are in fact practices of reinvention that reflect the
rich social networks and forms of creativity, authorship, commerce,
and consumption that characterize informal economies. From a
perspective informed by contemporary scenarios in Mexico, Brazil,
Chile, Argentina, Peru, Guatemala, and the United States, they
engage in a discussion of alternatives that-predicated on the
importance of protecting culture-allow for other ways of conceiving
prosperity at local, national, regional, and global levels.
Examples discussed include video games, clothing, trinkets, music,
film, TV, and books. Designed to help understand the broader
implications of IP and piracy for the field of Latin American
studies, this book will be a major contribution to Global South
studies, as well as to the growing bibliography on globalization,
informal markets, and piracy.
This valuable textbook for advanced students and practitioners
helps readers cultivate a deeper knowledge and critical
understanding of the contexts in which practice with children and
young people takes place, and to develop as critical reflective
practitioners. This new edition is substantially updated to reflect
the changes in the field since the publication of the first
edition. It contains additional chapters discussing new and
emerging topics including: * key theoretical perspectives for
critical practice * the politics of child protection * working with
grieving children * the impact of devolution on policy and practice
with children and young people. Giving equal attention to practice
with both children and young people, this book will be essential
both for students and for practitioners in fields such as social
work, education, health care and related fields.
Precarity and Belonging examines how the movement of people and
their incorporation, marginalization, and exclusion, under epochal
conditions of labor and social precarity affecting both citizens
and noncitizens, have challenged older notions of citizenship and
alienage. This collection brings mobility, precarity, and
citizenship together in order to explore the points of contact and
friction, and, thus, the spaces for a possible politics of
commonality between citizens and noncitizens.The editors ask: What
does modern citizenship mean in a world of citizens, denizens, and
noncitizens, such as undocumented migrants, guest workers,
permanent residents, refugees, detainees, and stateless people? How
is the concept of citizenship, based on assumptions of
deservingness, legality, and productivity, challenged when people
of various and competing statuses and differential citizenship
practices interact with each other, revealing their co-constitutive
connections? How is citizenship valued or revalued when labor and
social precarity impact those who seemingly have formal rights and
those who seemingly or effectively do not? This book interrogates
such binaries as citizen/noncitizen, insider/outsider,
entitled/unentitled, “legalâ€/“illegal,†and
deserving/undeserving in order to explore the fluidity--that is,
the dynamism and malleability--of the spectra of belonging. Â
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This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive Latin American
perspective on the role of humor in the Spanish- and
Portuguese-language internet, highlighting how the production and
circulation of online humor influence the region’s relation to
democracy and civil society and the production of meaning in
everyday life. Several case studies consider memes, including
discussions of political cartoons in Mexico and imagery that
portrays the mismanagement of natural disasters in Puerto Rico.
Essays on Brazil examine how memes are shared on WhatsApp by Jair
Bolsonaro supporters and how the Instagram account Barbie
Fascionista offers memes as political commentary. Other case
studies consider video content, including the sketches of
Argentinian comedian Guillermo Aquino, the short-form material of
Chilean vlogger Germán Garmendia, and a satirical YouTube column
created by journalists in Colombia. Contributors also offer new
methodologies for studying the laughable on social media, including
a model for analyzing fake Twitter accounts. Internet, Humor, and
Nation in Latin America demonstrates that internet humor can
generate novel means of public interaction with the political and
cultural spheres and create greater expectations of governmental
accountability and democratic participation. This volume shows the
importance of paying serious attention to humorous digital content
as part of contemporary culture. Contributors: Eva Paulina Bueno |
Juan Poblete | Alberto Centeno-Pulido | Damián Fraticelli | Juan
Carlos RodrÃguez | Viktor Chagas | Paul Alonso | Ulisses Sawczuk
da Silva | Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste | Alejandra Nallely Collado
Campos | R. Sánchez-Rivera | Mélodine Sommier | Fábio Marques de
Souza
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th
International Symposium on String Processing and Information
Retrieval, SPIRE 2022, held in Concepcion, Chile, in November 2022.
The 23 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed
and selected from 43 submissions. They cover topics such as: data
structures; algorithms; information retrieval; compression;
combinatorics on words; and computational biology.
This book brings together some of the most prominent scholars
working across the spectrum of Latin American and Latino studies to
explore their changing intellectual undertaking in relation to
global processes of change. Critical Latin American and Latino
Studies identifies the challenges and possibilities of more
politically engaged and theoretically critical modes of scholarly
practice. One objective is to provide a brief critical history of
the study of various Latin American cultures--Latino, Chicano,
Puerto Rican, among others. But these essays also serve to assess
the roles of ethnic and area studies in light of changing scholarly
trends, from emphases on gender and sexuality to a focus on
postcoloniality and globalization. The result is an important
contribution to current debates on the conditions of contemporary
knowledge production.
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