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The Elgar Companion to Gender and Global Migration
This timely Companion traces the interlinking histories of globalisation, gender, and migration in the 21st century, setting up a completely new agenda beyond Western research production. Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Saskia Sassen bring together 27 incisive contributions from leading international experts on gender and global migration, uncovering the multitude of economies, histories, families and working cultures in which local, regional, national, and global economies are embedded.
Journey to Freedom
The first book-length biography of Richard Oakes, a Red Power activist of the 1960s who was a leader in the Alcatraz takeover and the Red Power Indigenous rights movement A revealing portrait of Richard Oakes, the brilliant, charismatic Native American leader who was instrumental in the takeovers of Alcatraz, Fort Lawton, and Pit River and whose assassination in 1972 galvanized the Trail of Broken Treaties march on Washington, DC. The life of this pivotal Akwesasne Mohawk activist is explored in an important new biography based on extensive archival research and key interviews with activists and family members. Historian Kent Blansett offers a transformative and new perspective on the Red Power movement of the turbulent 1960s and the dynamic figure who helped to organize and champion it, telling the full story of Oakes’s life, his fight for Native American self-determination, and his tragic, untimely death. This invaluable history chronicles the mid-twentieth century rise of Intertribalism, Indian Cities, and a national political awakening that continues to shape Indigenous politics and activism to this day.
Travesía Panameña
Travesía panameña es un libro de carácter divulgativo y científico, donde lo imaginario, aventurero y lo verdadero, se interpolan junto con lo coloquial. En él se relata la herencia humana proveniente del Reino Animal, el origen africano y los viajes épicos que ha desarrollado hasta colonizar el Istmo de Panamá. Travesía panameña intenta retomar las preguntas clásicas filosóficas del ser humano: ¿Quiénes somos? ¿De dónde venimos? Y sus respuestas las integra con la exploración de nuestra historia panameña. Rescata de igual manera, algunos héroes indígenas: Paris, Natá, Escoria, Careta, Comogre, entre otros; de quiénes poco se habla en Panamá. Cuenta, cómo, con tenacida...
Tactical Urbanism
Begins with an in-depth history of the Tactical Urbanism movement and its place among other social, political, and urban planning trends. With a detailed set of case studies that demonstrate the breadth and scalability of tactical urbanism interventions, this book provides a detailed toolkit for conceiving, planning, and carrying out projects.
The Ringleader
Everyone keeps their own best interests at heart. Even if it’s at the cost of others. In an upscale high school in Bangalore, India, a young girl becomes a pawn in a corporate game of greed, while her best friend struggles to come to terms with her own identity. As corporate warfare slithers its way into personal lives, seven people find their lives unexpectedly intertwined in a web of deceit, betrayal and danger. As identities, past associations and present weaknesses are revealed, each character struggles to break free of the tentacled arm of corporate rivalry where money is power and motive trumps morals
Perspectivas sociojurídicas sobre el control del crimen
La transformación del conocimiento sobre el crimen y el castigo en la región les ha exigido a los abogados una metamorfosis en su manera de aproximarse a la cuestión criminal. Las provocativas críticas normativas a la política criminal que han sido precursoras de la criminología crítica latinoamericana siguen siendo fundamentales y están presentes en Perspectivas sociojurídicas sobre el control del crimen, pero con una mirada interdisciplinaria más amplia y empíricamente fundamentada, tan necesaria para el fortalecimiento del pensamiento criminológico latinoamericano. A lo largo de estas páginas, investigadores colombianos de diferentes universidades analizan críticamente cómo...
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