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Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a seven hundred-mile-long fence: the US–Mexican border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today. Hyperborder provides the most nuanced portrait yet of this dynamic region. Author Fernando Romero presents a multidisciplinary perspective informed by interviews with numerous academics, researchers, and organizations. Provocatively designed in the style of other kinetic large-scale studies like Rem Koolhaas's Content and Bruce Mau’s Massive Change, Hyperborder is an exhaustively researched report from the front lines of the border debate.
This book holds two main concepts: citizenship and adult education, and presents a diverse scope of ideas and experiences from different countries and perspectives in a rich indication to edify liberating practices and researches. Citizenship is closely linked with participation. When people are encouraged to take part in an authentic process of decision making, people do participate in public affairs. Here is the true meaning of citizenship related to the old idea to take part, to get involved in public issues and transform their community through participation. On the other hand, Lifelong Learning’s concepts and practices seem to have forgotten that adult education is more than the prepa...
Esta edición de Luna Córnea constituye una amplia monografíaa sobre Nacho López, uno de los fotógrafos mexicanos más importantes de la segunda mitad del siglo XX: mejor conocido por su fotoperiodismo en las revistas ilustradas, también exploró la arquitectura, la danza y la antropología. Pero son sus imágenes precisas y rigurosas, lúcidas y críticas, de las calles capitalinas las que lo convierten en el fotógrafo por excelencia de la contradictoria urbe de mediados de siglo. Nacho López también creó cierto tipo de cine, suerte de performance callejero, en el que despliega recursos narrativos eficientes e insospechados.