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Fear and Progress
Utilizing hundreds of confidential documents from authorities in the Franco government, Fear and Progress: Ordinary Lives in Franco's Spain, 1939-1975 recounts the experiences of Spanish citizens who lived during the 40-year Franco dictatorship. Rejects traditional explanations of the length of Franco's power and the dictator's legacy Utilizes hundreds of confidential documents from authorities in the Franco government Provides insights into life during the Franco era: how political violence and repression were experienced; how the dictatorship exploited illusions of peace and prosperity for its own benefit; and how the regime's legacy was manipulated Reveals the Franco government's social callousness and manipulation of events
Challenging the Borders of Justice in the Age of Migrations
The volume gathers theoretical contributions on human rights and global justice in the context of international migration. It addresses the need to reconsider human rights and the theories of justice in connection with the transformation of the social frames of reference that international migrations foster. The main goal of this collective volume is to analyze and propose principles of justice that serve to address two main challenges connected to international migrations that are analytically differentiable although inextricably linked in normative terms: to better distribute the finite resources of the planet among all its inhabitants; and to ensure the recognition of human rights in curr...
Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature
Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints examines the concepts and role of women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts from the late fifteenth to seventeenth centuries from the perspective of feminist disability theories. This study explores a wide range of Spanish medical, regulatory and moral discourses, illustrating how such texts inherit, reproduce and propagate an amalgam of Western traditional concepts of female embodiment. It goes on to examine concrete representations of deviant female characters, focusing on the figures of syphilitic prostitutes and physically decayed aged women in literary texts such as Celestina, Lozana an...
Granny and the Heist
Premiered in 1981, The Granny and the Heist (La estanquera de Vallecas) interweaves tense excitement, comic banter and moments of great tenderness in its examination of an area of Madrid equally ignored by Spain's nascent democracy as it had been under the Franco dictatorship. Contains a new critical introduction and language-teaching resources.
J.L. Vives: De Subventione Pauperum sive De Humanis Necessitatibus, Libri II
This work by the Spanish humanist and philosopher, Juan Luis Vives, is the first tract of its kind in the Western world to treat the problem of urban poverty and propose concrete suggestions for a policy of social legislation. The treatise, published in 1526, is dedicated to the civil authorities of Bruges and deals specifically with the problems of that city, but with potential universal application. Vives calls upon the wealthy to share their blessings with those less fortunate, emphasizing that possessions are not given to us for our own use only but to share them with our neighbour. The reader will often find Vives' reflections and solutions surprisingly modern. The book includes an edition of the Latin text and an English translation.
Manual para el Trabajo Social Comunitario
MANUAL FOR COMMUNITARIAN SOCIAL WORK - This book is a basic document for students and professionals of the different disciplines of Social Sciences related to community action: social workers, socio-cultural animators, social educators, psychologists, etc., who want to develop their professional activity in this collective ambience, professionals who believe in what they do and why they do it, and who are willing to accompany the community and its members in a process of change and growth.
Alain Touraine
First published in 2004. The seventeen essays in this volume discuss the work of Alain Touraine and consider his contribution to the social sciences. The text includes his most recent thinkings on the market and communities.
Contemporary Spanish Politics
This fully revised and updated third edition reflects the considerable changes in Spain over the last decade as the country celebrates 40 years of its constitution. The author gives fresh insight into the formal and informal workings of this dynamic southern European democracy. Thoroughly examining Spain’s historical background, political culture, core political institutions and foreign policy-making, each chapter provides a research-based overview of the studied topic which can then be used as the basis for further research by students. Key themes of the book include: A thorough overview of contemporary Spanish politics, especially the governments of Zapatero and Rajoy; Spain’s politica...
La buscona desabrida
En el Oviedo de los años 70, los albores de la adolescencia de Eva la hacen sentirse enemistada con la decencia y el recato. Hastiada de tanto seguir los rancios consejos de sus padres, busca desesperadamente las vías prohibidas que, a no dudar, la han de conducir al colmo de la felicidad más cumplida. Tras haberse abandonado por juego y desafío a un pariente licencioso; un tío, perverso y predador de prendas infantiles, la descarriada y desabrida buscona consiente que, por temor a la malevolencia y por cuestiones morales, este le busque un substituto idóneo, cuya tenuidad e ingenuidad le permitan seguir entregándose a su pasatiempo favorito: el placer barato, aunque excesivamente costoso. Dispuesta a seguir los flujos del instinto, se entrega de lleno a la búsqueda de lo que reclama su ego. Desgraciadamente, numerosos serán los ardides y escollos que tendrá que arrostrar para satisfacer una voluntad tan desquiciada como la suya. Pero sabido es que: «toda dicha que no está al alcance de la mano, no es más que quimera».
