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Weaving Chiapas
In the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, a large indigenous population lives in rural communities, many of which retain traditional forms of governance. In 1996, some 350 women of these communities formed a weavers’ cooperative, which they called Jolom Mayaetik. Their goal was to join together to market textiles of high quality in both new and ancient designs. Weaving Chiapas offers a rare view of the daily lives, memories, and hopes of these rural Maya women as they strive to retain their ancient customs while adapting to a rapidly changing world. Originally published in Spanish in 2007, this book captures firsthand the voices of these Maya artisans, whose experiences, including the challenge...
Indigenous Women’s Movements in Latin America
This book presents a comparative analysis of the organizing trajectories of indigenous women’s movements in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia. The authors’ innovative research reveals how the articulation of gender and ethnicity is central to shape indigenous women’s discourses. It explores the political contexts and internal dynamics of indigenous movements, to show that they created different opportunities for women to organize and voice specific demands. This, in turn, led to various forms of organizational autonomy for women involved in indigenous movements. The trajectories vary from the creation of autonomous spaces within mixed-gender organizations to the creation of independent organizations. Another pattern is that of women’s organizations maintaining an affiliation to a male-dominated mixed-gender organization, or what the authors call “gender parallelism”. This book illustrates how, in the last two decades, indigenous women have challenged various forms of exclusion through different strategies, transforming indigenous movements’ organizations and collective identities.
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Hábitat palafítico
Tradicionalmente, las ciudades y los asentamientos se han desarrollado junto al agua: el 90% de las ciudades más grandes del mundo tienen alguna relación directa con ella, en forma de lagos, ríos, canales, puertos, bahías o mar abierto. Esta situación plantea un desafío para la arquitectura moderna, dado que, en el último siglo, como consecuencia del cambio climático, el nivel del mar ha aumentado cerca de 20 cm en las costas. Las soluciones planteadas proponen materiales impermeables, la protección mediante defensas costeras, las barreras contra mareas, las bases flotantes en riberas y las costas, con el objeto de proteger las edificaciones y su entorno. Por su parte, las comunidades han encontrado soluciones para vivir y edificar sus viviendas sobre el agua, resistentes no solo a las fuerzas laterales del viento sino a las del agua. Con esto, minimizan el riesgo potencial de inundación, mientras mantienen el confort dentro de las construcciones.
Hyperborder
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.
Trayectorias y espacios
Como integrante de una Misión Cooperación del Gobierno francés, Jacques Aprile-Gniset (París, 1933-Cali, 2014) arribó a Colombia en 1966 para apoyar la formación de los campos del urbanismo y la planeación en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotá, y la elaboración de planes para las ciudades que estaban en plena ebullición. Conoció a la arquitecta Gilma Mosquera Torres, por aquella época estudiante, y desde la década de 1960 iniciaron juntos un viaje de largo aliento por las geografías, arquitecturas e historias del territorio colombiano, que se traducirá en un trabajo colaborativo sin precedentes sobre las ciudades y los sistemas urbano-aldeanos del país. La obra ...
Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World
Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World investigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Americas, including Mexico and Cartagena de Indias. Edited by María Jesús Zamora Calvo, this collection gathers innovative scholarship that considers how the Holy Office of the Inquisition functioned as a closed, secret world defined by patriarchal hierarchy and grounded in misogynistic standards. Ten essays present portraits of women who, under accusations as diverse as witchcraft, bigamy, false beatitude, and heresy, faced the Spanish and New World Inquisitions to account for their l...
