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Este libro analiza la relación entre el paramilitarismo y diferentes formas de conflictividad agraria en Colombia. A partir de diferentes casos de estudio de la Costa Caribe, los autores retoman debates cruciales sobre el papel de las élites agrarias y su compleja relación con los procesos de privatización de la violencia. ¿Por qué las élites ganaderas se articularon de una forma tan orgánica a la experiencia paramilitar? ¿Todas las élites agrarias hicieron lo mismo? ¿Cómo influyó la aparición de economías ilegales en el mundo rural? También se analizan el despojo de tierras paramilitar y sus diversas interacciones con las dinámicas de violencia, ilegalidad y concentración ...
Introduction : why agroecology? -- The scientific principles of agroecology -- The scientific evidence for agroecology : can it feed the world? -- Scaling up agroecology : social process and organization -- The politics of agroecology -- Conclusions : conform or transform?
A biographical dictionary of historical and descriptive works of Peruvian plastic artists of the 16th to the 20th centuries. The author was the director of the Galeria de Arte 715 in Lima from 1974-2003. Also includes information of art schools, national award winners. The work for this book was completed in 2002 but not printed until 2009.
Battles for Belonging: Women Journalists, Political Culture, and the Paradoxes of Inclusion in Colombia, 1943-1970 examines women journalists who conceived of their publications as political interventions in mid-twentieth-century Colombia. These journalists committed to shaping justice and opportunity for women in society through writing while battling within the publishing realm to also transform and professionalize the practice of journalism in their own terms. By analyzing the contentious narratives of gender and class these women crafted as well as their conflicting efforts to maintain their stature in the printing and public worlds, it reveals the ongoing negotiations involved within th...
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 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th bi-annual Latin American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, CLIHC 2013, held in Guanacasta, Costa Rica, in December 2013. The 11 full papers and 14 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers address all current topics in HCI such as: cultural issues, assistive technologies, usability, accessibility, multimodal inter-faces, design issues, HCI education, and visualization and evaluation techniques, among others.