Sociedad civil y teoría política

Desde hace dos o tres décadas las identidades colectivas han vuelto a surgir, como un eje privilegiado de movilización entre distintos tipos de colectivos y grupos sociales indígenas, afrodescendientes, grupos religiosos, de género etcétera. ¿Por qué y cómo se activa dicho registro identitario, en la ciudad y en el campo, en muchos países de América Latina y del mundo? Entre 2002 y 2006, un equipo internacional de investigadoras e investigadores de México, Colombia y Francia se dio a la tarea de confrontar experiencias e interpretaciones teóricas, con el fin de construir una...

The Cordillera Escalera mountain range on the Loreto-San Martín border in Amazonian Peru was hardly known to scientists until the September 2013 expedition described in this report. The book includes an in-depth description of the history, daily life, and natural resource use of local Shawi communities, richly illustrated with >100 color photographs, as well as the results of rapid inventories of geology, plants, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals in the Cordillera Escalera. Also discussed are threats to and opportunities for the landscape and its people, and recommendations...

This study examines science fiction written originally in Spanish. It reviews the general state of the genre in the Hispanic world and then concentrates on analyzing key novels and short stories from Argentina, Cuba, Mexico and Spain. Authors examined include Carlos Saiz Cidoncha, Angel Torres Quesada, Rafael Marin Trechera, Tomas Salvador, Magdalena Moujan Otano, Angelica Gorodischer, Alejandro Vignatti, Daina Chaviano, Miguel Mihura, Alberto Vanasco, Eduardo Goligorsky, Domingo Santos, Rosa Montero, Elia Barcelo, Gabriel Bermudez Castillo, Pablo Capanna, Carlos Maria Caron.

A study of the political and archaeological controversies surrounding the Castilian Necropoleis of the V-VI Centuries AD and the Visigoth Settlement in the Iberian Peninsula. The author attempts to deconstruct the various controversies and presents fresh analysis based on the archaeological data and literary evidence.