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Reinventing a Small, Worldly City
Focusing on Cardiff, the capital city of Wales in the UK, this book reflects on a contemporary small European city – its development, characteristics, and present struggles. Following a century in which it was dubbed the world’s ‘coaltropolis’, the decline in demand for coal meant that Cardiff endured an acute process of de-industrialisation. In seeking to address this and the related high levels of unemployment, it has experienced a process of cultural and social reinvention since the 1980s, and more significantly after Wales turned into a devolved nation in the late 1990s. Cardiff’s development from a small port into a capital city is examined and special attention is paid to the...
Stories to Read on the Couch
"Stories carry us into other lives, evoking feelings so real they impress. It's moments outside this world where the new can be extravagant, surprising, unthinkable. Or deliciously bucolic. And so, between one and the other, we get involved in an intriguing way: either we can't interrupt the reading at all, or we do it moved by the urgency in dividing the intense fascination."
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Reinventing a Small, Worldly City
Focusing on Cardiff, the capital city of Wales in the UK, this book reflects on a contemporary small European city – its development, characteristics, and present struggles. Following a century in which it was dubbed the world’s ‘coaltropolis’, the decline in demand for coal meant that Cardiff endured an acute process of de-industrialisation. In seeking to address this and the related high levels of unemployment, it has experienced a process of cultural and social reinvention since the 1980s, and more significantly after Wales turned into a devolved nation in the late 1990s. Cardiff’s development from a small port into a capital city is examined and special attention is paid to the...
Unorthodox Kin
Unorthodox Kin is a groundbreaking exploration of identity, relatedness, and belonging in the context of profound global interconnection. Naomi Leite paints a poignant and graceful portrait of Portugal's urban Marranos, who trace their ancestry to fifteenth-century Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism and now seek connection with the Jewish people at large. Their story raises questions fundamental to the human condition: how people come to identify with far-flung others; how some find glimmerings of mystical connection in a world said to be disenchanted; how identities are lived in practice and challenged in interaction; how the horizons of kinship expand in a globally interconnected era; and how feelings of relatedness emerge between strangers and gather strength over time. Focusing on mutual imaginings and face-to-face encounters between urban Marranos and the foreign Jewish tourists and outreach workers who travel to meet them, Leite draws on a decade of ethnographic research in Portugal to trace participants' perceptions of self, peoplehood, and belonging as they evolve through local and global social spaces.
From Christianity to Judaism
A biography of Isaac Orobio de Castro, a crypto-Jew from Portugal and one of the most prominent intellectual figures in the 17th century. This work sheds light on the life of a Jewish community of former Christians in Amsterdam and examines their dilemmas and attempts to create a new identity.
O colecionador de Ruas-Uma varanda para o rio
Pedro, um menino de rua que de seu nada tem, a não ser o nome, e Douro, um cão abandonado, estão destinados, desde o dia em que decidiram ser família, a cruzar-se com o conceituado chef Henrique e o enigmático Velho do Marquês, pelas ruas da cidade do Porto. São elas, em jeito de premonição, as testemunhas dos encontros e desencontros das suas histórias de vida, tão belas quanto trágicas. Abril, um mês, cujas manhãs se cobrem por uma luz excessivamente branca que fere os olhos e o coração de quem já tem os olhos em choro. É nele que a dor que todos conhecem se torna mais intensa e inesperada, retirando-lhes o conforto de quem há muito tempo já é só e já é triste. O novo livro de Ana Gonçalves é, assim, o primeiro de uma trilogia intitulada O Colecionador de Ruas que apresenta como mote principal a manifestação da dor como o único elemento capaz de unir o Homem para além dos seus propósitos individuais.
We Were Having Fun
Illustrated book about a toxic relation ship between two people with very controversial ideias of love.
Women, Crime, and Forgiveness in Early Modern Portugal
Looking at the experiences of women in early modern Portugal in the context of crime and forgiveness, this study demonstrates the extent to which judicial and quasi-judicial records can be used to examine the implications of crime in women’s lives, whether as victims or culprits. The foundational basis for this study is two sets of manuscript sources that highlight two distinct yet connected experiences of women as participants in the criminal process. One consists of a collection of archival documents from the first half of the seventeenth century, a corpus called 'querelas,' in which formal accusations of criminal acts were registered. This is a rich source of information not only about ...
Albert the mushroom, the berry and the acorn
A children's tale, in which we get to know the adventures of Albert, the red squirrel. Come and meet Albert and his friends.
