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Conceiving Freedom
Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
Constituent Power and the Law
Constituent power is the power to create new constitutions. Since it is frequently exercised during or after political revolutions, it has been historically associated with extra-legality and violations of the established legal order. This book examines the relationship between constituent power and the law and the place of constituent power in constitutional history, focusing on the legal and institutional implications that theorists, politicians, and judges have derived from it. Since the 18th and 19th centuries, commentators and citizens have relied on the concept of constituent power to defend the idea that electors have the right to instruct representatives, and that the creation of new...
A Duel of Giants
Combining impeccable scholarship and literary elegance, David Wetzel depicts the drama of machinations and passions that exploded in a war that forever changed the face of European history.
Visualizing Loss in Latin America
Visualizing Loss in Latin America engages with a varied corpus of textual, visual, and cultural material with specific intersections with the natural world, arguing that Latin American literary and cultural production goes beyond ecocriticism as a theoretical framework of analysis. Gisela Heffes poses the following crucial question: How do we construct a conceptual theoretical apparatus to address issues of value, meaning, tradition, perspective, and language, that contributes substantially to environmental thinking, and that is part and parcel of Latin America? The book draws attention to ecological inequality and establishes a biopolitical, ethics-based reading of Latin American art, film, and literature that operates at the intersection of the built environment and urban settings. Heffes suggests that the aesthetic praxis that emerges in/from Latin America is permeated with a rhetoric of waste—a significant trait that overwhelmingly defines it.
Culture, Urbanism and Planning
The relationship between culture and urbanism has been the focus of much discussion and debate in recent years. While globalisation tends towards a homogeneity, successful 'global cities' have a strong individual - and particularly cultural - identity. The economic value of the culture of cities lies not only in the arts taking place there but also in the city’s fabric, its architecture, and in its cultural heritage. This volume brings together a team of leading specialists to examine the policies of image and city marketing which have developed over the past 15 years and whether these are a continuity of earlier strategies. Featuring case studies which illustrate diverse perspectives on linking culture, urbanism and history, the book reviews heritage and planning culture, looking at the experience of urbanism in the 'Old Historic City'. The book also assesses the increasingly important issue of urban images and their influence on planning strategies.
Derecho, justicia y utopía
La tesis central de este libro es que la noción de justicia funciona como puente entre el Derecho, en tanto que práctica social compleja orientada a fines y valores, y la utopía, en tanto que representación de una jerarquía de valores percibida como moralmente superadora de otras. Para ello, se proponen argumentos conceptuales e históricos en favor de esa conexión, desde una perspectiva iusfilosófica pospositivista y desde una perspectiva utopológica transdisciplinar. Se distingue entre utopías literarias, teóricas y prácticas y se procura mostrar la conexión en los tres ámbitos, revisando la obra de autores clásicos como Moro, Campanella, Harrington y Hume, pero también contemporáneos, como Bloch, Rawls, Nozick y Van Parijs. Esos distintos esfuerzos se orientan a resaltar que, desde una concepción del Derecho como práctica social, resulta provechoso interactuar con las visiones sociales críticas de las utopías. La esperanza del trabajo es que este pueda servir como material para desarrollar un enfoque "Derecho y utopía".
