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Considering the concept of power in capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian
ritual art form, Varela describes ethnographically the importance
that capoeira leaders (mestres) have in the social configuration of
a style called Angola in Bahia, Brazil. He analyzes how individual
power is essential for an understanding of the modern history of
capoeira, and for the themes of embodiment, play, cosmology, and
ritual action. The book also emphasizes the great significance that
creativity and aesthetic expression have for capoeira's practice
and performance.
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The Sorrows of Mexico (Paperback)
Lydia Cacho, Anabel Hernandez, Juan Villoro, Diego Enrique Osorno, Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez, …
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With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, this
is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power
to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of
its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows. Supported
the Arts Council Grant's for the Arts Programme and by PEN Promotes
Veering between carnival and apocalypse, Mexico has in the last ten
years become the epicentre of the international drug trade. The
so-called "war on drugs" has been a brutal and chaotic failure
(more than 160,000 lives have been lost). The drug cartels and the
forces of law and order are often in collusion, corruption is
everywhere. Life is cheap and inconvenient people - the poor, the
unlucky, the honest or the inquisitive - can be "disappeared"
leaving not a trace behind (in September 2015, more than 26,798
were officially registered as "not located"). Yet people in all
walks of life have refused to give up. Diego Enrique Osorno and
Juan Villoro tell stories of teenage prostitution and Mexico's
street children. Anabel Hernandez and Emiliano Ruiz Parra give
chilling accounts of the "disappearance" of forty-three students
and the murder of a self-educated land lawyer. Sergio Gonzalez
Rodriguez and Marcela Turati dissect the impact of the violence on
the victims and those left behind, while Lydia Cacho contributes a
journal of what it is like to live every day of your life under
threat of death. Reading these accounts we begin to understand the
true nature of the meltdown of democracy, obscured by lurid
headlines, and the sheer physical and intellectual courage needed
to oppose it.
In recent years, the replacement of non-renewable crude oil by
renewable sources has been addressed, particularly in developed
countries. Its main driving force has been the increasing demand
and limited reserves of fossil fuels, the greenhouse gas effect,
and the need of securing energy supplies. Advanced Solid Catalysts
for Renewable Energy Production provides emerging research on
renewable energy production, catalysts, and environmental effects
of increased productivity. While highlighting the challenges for
future generations to develop in the sustainable energy age,
readers will learn the importance of new approaches not only for
synthesizing more active and selective (nano)catalysts, but also,
for designing innovative catalytic processes that can eventually
meet the growing energy efficiency demand and overcome the
environmental issues. This book is an important resource for
academicians, university researchers, technology developers, and
graduate level students.
A well-researched and powerfully argued account of the
disappearance of forty-three students and an analysis of the
cruelty that normalizes atrocity. The word "corruption" is
insufficient for the magnitude of this evil. -from The Iguala 43 On
the night of September 26th, 2014, policemen attacked a group of
student protestors in the Mexican town of Iguala. Forty-three of
these students were then kidnapped and turned over to criminals who
allegedly tortured and murdered them, and then burned their
corpses. The families of the victims refused to accept the official
story, which placed all blame on local actors and absolved the
federal government of any culpability. The anger provoked by this
atrocity, one of the most barbaric acts in recent times, divided
Mexican society in two: on one side were those who unwaveringly
supported the cause of the students and on the other those who
accepted the government's "historic truth." Written in memory of
the forty-three students, this well-researched and powerfully
argued book uncovers the agents, causes, and factors responsible
for this unspeakable crime. It offers an interpretation of these
events that goes beyond the artificial opposition between good and
evil, between rulers and insurgents, and tries instead to
understand the cruelty that normalizes atrocity. Gonzalez Rodriguez
warns us that "this story has been repeated around the world, but
we refuse to see it. If anyone doubts or denies this, then I
challenge them to finish this book. When faced with the acceptance
of horror, we must recover our lucidity and exercise our freedom to
transform this tragic reality."
This volume combines diverse interests and methodologies with a
single purpose: to give an overall picture of the new trends and
perspectives currently used in the study of the epoch of Theodosius
the Great and his successors, with special emphasis on the dynamics
of places, power, belief and learning, and their mutual
interdependencies. It is structured in two main sections - Ancient
History and Archaeology and Philosophy and Literature. 16 essays in
English, 8 in Spanish.
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Field of Battle (Paperback)
Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez, David Lida, Joshua Neuhouser
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The emergence of a geopolitical war scenario, establishing a form
of global governance that utilizes methods of surveillance and
control. In times of war the law is silent. -from Field of Battle
Field of Battle presents the world today as nothing less than a war
in progress, with Mexico an illustrative microcosm of the
developing geopolitical scenario: a battlefield in which violence,
drug trafficking, and organized crime-as well as the alegal state
that works alongside all of this in the guise of fighting against
it-hold sway. The rule of law has been replaced by the dominance of
alegality and the rise of the "a-state." This war scenario is
establishing a form of global governance that utilizes methods of
surveillance and control developed by the United States government
and enforced through its global network of military bases and the
multinational corporations that work in synergy with its espionage
agencies. Geopolitics take advantage of social instability, drug
cartels, state repression, and paramilitarism to establish the
foundations of a world order. Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez argues that
this surveillance and control model has been imposed on the
international community through extreme neoliberal ideology, free
markets, the globalized economy, and the rise of the information
society. The threats are clear. Nation-states are increasingly
unable to respond to societal needs, and the individual has been
displaced by money and technique-the axis of the transhumanist
future foretold by today's electronic devices. The human being as
the prosthesis of an artificial world and as an object of networks
and systems: citizens are the victims of a perverse vision of
reality, caught between the defense of their rights and their will
to insurrection.
This first thematic volume of the new series TRAC Themes in Roman
Archaeology brings renowned international experts to discuss
different aspects of interactions between Romans and 'barbarians'
in the north-western regions of Europe. Northern Europe has become
an interesting arena of academic debate around the topics of Roman
imperialism and Roman face=Calibri>-'barbarian' interactions, as
these areas comprised Roman provincial territories, the northern
frontier system of the Roman Empire (limes), the vorlimes (or
buffer zone), and the distant barbaricum. This area is, today, host
to several modern European nations with very different historical
and academic discourses on their Roman past, a factor in the recent
tendency towards the fragmentation of approaches and the
application of post-colonial theories that have favoured the advent
of a varied range of theoretical alternatives. Case studies
presented here span across disciplines and territories, from
American anthropological studies on transcultural discourse and
provincial organization in Gaul, to historical approaches to the
propagandistic use of the limes in the early 20th century German
empire; from Danish research on warrior identities and Roman
face=Calibri>-Scandinavian relations, to innovative ideas on
culture contact in Roman Ireland; and from new views on
Romano-Germanic relations in Central European Barbaricum, to a
British comparative exercise on frontier cultures. The volume is
framed by a brilliant theoretical introduction by Prof. Richard
Hingley and a comprehensive concluding discussion by Prof. David
Mattingly.
In Capoeira, Mobility, and Tourism: Preserving an Afro-Brazilian
Tradition in a Globalized World, Sergio Gonzalez Varela examines
the mobility of capoeira leaders and practitioners. He analyzes
their motivations and spirituality as well as their ability to
reconfigure social practices. Varela draws on tourism mobilities,
multi-sited ethnography, global networks, heritage, and the
anthropology of ritual and religion in order to stress the
commitment, dedication, and value that international practitioners
bring to capoeira.
The term 'green chemistry' was coined by Anastas and Warner in the
early 1990s and it is nowadays the mainstay of designing and
implementing advanced chemical processes that decrease or eliminate
the use and generation of hazardous substances whilst minimizing
energy consumption.Solution Combustion Synthesis of Nanostructured
Solid Catalysts for Sustainable Chemistry is an interdisciplinary
collection of fundamental and applied cutting-edge studies which
highlight general and specific aspects of the synthesis of
nanostructured catalysts through Solution Combustion Synthesis
(SCS), studying their applications from the perspective of green
chemistry.This book intends to integrate the fundamental principles
of the SCS process with its engineering aspects and covers the
synthesis of a wide variety of catalytic materials. This reference
book can be used as a permanent consulting material for students,
researchers and the general readership for green chemistry,
nanochemistry, materials science and chemical engineering.
By exploring historical events, literary testimonials, and
enigmatic symbols and practices, this book attempts to put together
the pieces that make up the puzzle that is Mexico. "Mediante el
estudio de eventos historicos, testimonios literarios, y simbolos y
practicas enigmaticas, este libro intenta juntar las piezas del
rompecabezas que es Mexico."
The 2015 TRAC proceedings feature a selection of 14 papers summing
up some of the key sessions presented at the conference held at the
University of Leicester in March 2015, which drew over 180
delegates of 17 nationalities from a variety of universities,
museums, and research institutions in the UK, Europe, and North
America. As this conference marked the 25th anniversary of TRAC,
the volume opens with a preface commemorating the last 25 years
with an eye toward the future direction of both conference and
community. The proceedings begin with Dr Andrew Gardner's keynote
paper on the topic of 'Debating Roman Imperialism: Critique,
Construct, Repeat?'. This is followed by an array of papers with
topics ranging in geographic scope and period, from small finds in
early Roman Britain to bathing practices Late Antique North Africa,
and from the investigation of deviant burials to the application of
urban scaling theory in Roman contexts. Because of this diversity
the volume is not broken into specific sections, however, papers
with similar themes are grouped accordingly, allowing the text to
flow and be read as a whole. The range of contributing authors is
also of note, as papers were submitted by PhD students,
post-doctoral researchers, and university faculty, all helping to
make the 25th anniversary of this series one that continues to
emphasise and reflect the aims of TRAC, both as a conference and as
a conduit for exploring more theory-driven approaches to the Roman
past.
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