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El panorama que enfrentan los pueblos originarios se presenta como una trasformación o aniquilación de su cultura, ante procesos como desarrollo, megaproyecto, rentabilidad y privatización, entre otros, inherentes al capitalismo. Frente a esta situación existe la palabra tácita y revolucionaria del proyecto neozapatista a través del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN), quien, a la fecha (2020), articula el pensamiento indígena maya en su expresión tojolabal, mam, tzeltal, chol, tzotzil, zoque y mestizo. Proyecto político que, sin duda, ha sido un referente en distintas partes del continente americano y del mundo, desde donde se observa la lucha del sureste de México ...
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ÔA fascinating collection of essays commenting on and developing FrankenbergÕs IKEA theory of legal transfer. With valuable theoretical analyses, comparative studies, attention to gender issues, post-colonial contexts, imposed law and legal history, this book is essential reading for anyone thinking about the circulation of legal models especially, but not only, in the area of constitutional law.Õ Ð David Nelken, University of Cardiff, UK ÔFrankenbergÕs work gives a new insight of what comparative law can be in the context of globalization, representing an outstanding achievement. His theory of ÒtransferÓ supersedes the metaphors of mainstream scholarship, displaying that constitutio...
In the 1940s chemists discovered that barbasco, a wild yam indigenous to Mexico, could be used to mass-produce synthetic steroid hormones. Barbasco spurred the development of new drugs, including cortisone and the first viable oral contraceptives, and positioned Mexico as a major player in the global pharmaceutical industry. Yet few people today are aware of Mexico’s role in achieving these advances in modern medicine. In Jungle Laboratories, Gabriela Soto Laveaga reconstructs the story of how rural yam pickers, international pharmaceutical companies, and the Mexican state collaborated and collided over the barbasco. By so doing, she sheds important light on a crucial period in Mexican his...
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