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The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities
The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities provides a series of exemplary studies conjoining perspectives from Asian, African, and Latin American Studies on subjectivity in the Global South as a central category of social and cultural analysis. The contestation of the Northern myth of the autonomous subject—the dispositive that contests subject formation in the South by describing it as fragmented, incomplete, delayed or simply deviant, has been a cornerstone of theory production from the South over the years. This volume’s contributions offer an interdisciplinary and transarea dialogue, reframing issues of selfhood and alterity, of personhood, of the human, of the...
Mediascapes of Ruined Geographies in the Global South
This book undertakes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural interrogation of the Global South through the prisms of media and cultural studies. It closely explores the quotidian (re)territorialization, and brazen ruination of the material geographies of this vast expanse of the world by forces and proxies of (neo)colonialism and global capitalism of resource extraction. We cite the ongoing expulsion of Palestinians from their homelands by occupational forces, the emerging detritus dump across Mexico City and Lagos, the infrastructural precariousness of the favelas of Brazil, the unending resource-war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and the flagrant operation of the oil industry i...
Global Urban Justice
Provides theoretical and practical insights into how the new phenomenon of human rights cities contributes to global urban justice.
Art Museums of Latin America
Since the late nineteenth century, art museums have played crucial social, political, and economic roles throughout Latin America because of the ways that they structure representation. By means of their architecture, collections, exhibitions, and curatorial practices, Latin American art museums have crafted representations of communities, including nation states, and promoted particular group ideologies. This collection of essays, arranged in thematic sections, will examine the varying and complex functions of art museums in Latin America: as nation-building institutions and instruments of state cultural politics; as foci for the promotion of Latin American modernities and modernisms; as sites of mediation between local and international, private and public interests; as organizations that negotiate cultural construction within the Latin American diaspora and shape constructs of Latin America and its nations; and as venues for the contestation of elitist and Eurocentric notions of culture and the realization of cultural diversity rooted in multiethnic environments.
Y Tu Mamá También
Y Tu Mamá También (2001), an intelligent and sensual road movie directed by Alfonso Cuarón and co-written by him and his brother Carlos, is both an acclaimed feature by a director who would go on to win Oscars and a box office success abroad and in its native Mexico, where it was the biggest grossing local film of all time. Its teenage protagonists Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna went on to be major stars of global cinema. Yet on its release the film was vilified by established Mexican critics as a coarse comedy and 'Penthouse fantasy' of youthful lust for an older woman. Paul Julian Smith's lucid study of the film argues that Y Tu Mamá También not only addresses with playful serious...
Subjetividades de la megaurbe mexicana: de la articulación estética a la participación política
El presente libro ofrece una aproximación a los estudios sobre la Ciudad de México a partir de las subjetividades que en esta se producen. Los textos ponen en evidencia cómo el diseño y las políticas de desarrollo urbano de la Ciudad de México han producido, condicionado y reproducido la estratificación y la desigualdad social, así como las formas de organización, solidaridad, participación y acción tanto individual como colectiva. Asimismo, lo largo de las reflexiones vemos como emergen constantemente subjetividades y acciones que resisten, subvierten y transforman dicha (infra)estructura y políticas; por ello, la relevancia de los sujetos y las subjetividades megaurbanas –su experiencia, agencia, resiliencia, etcétera– se tornan centrales para vislumbrar verdaderamente la complejidad de la Ciudad de México. Derivado de lo anterior, el presente libro está organizado a partir de tres ejes de análisis de las subjetividades megaurbanas –articulaciones estéticas, experiencia y resiliencia, y participación política–, a través de los cuales diecinueve investigadores de diversas universidades exploran algunas rutas de compresión.
Pensamiento, Pandemia y Big Data
This book explores the political, social and cultural consequences of COVID-19 through a corpus of over 15.000 articles published in Spain and Latin America in the first pandemic year. Organized around four epistemic fields (geopolitics, gender, biopolitics, philosophy and culture), the contributions offer a quantitative and qualitative analysis combining Big Data tools and humanistic thought.
Ruta 80. Recuerdos del aula
Ruta 80 es una antología de cuentos que consigna a diez escritores mexicanos nacidos en la década de 1980. Como su antología hermana, Ruta 70, este volumen de relatos tiene sólo una coincidencia: cada narración evoca a algún personaje adolescente. Por lo demás, entre las historias hay amplias diferencias estilísticas y temáticas. Por sus circunstancias tan diversas, los personajes que habitan estas páginas tienen poco, o más bien nada, que ver entre sí, pero compartirás con ellos angustias, sueños, enojos, esperanzas…
Georgina's Reasons
"...her singularity took the form of a charm which—once circumstances had made them so intimate—it was impossible to resist or conjure away." The beautiful New Yorker, Georgina Gressie, causes distress to her rich family when she announces that she wishes to marry Raymond Benyon, a penniless navy lieutenant. They marry secretly and have a child which she gives to an Italian woman during a trip to Europe... Georgina then proceeds to marry another man. But why? Discover Georgina's reasons behind her peculiar actions in this romance novel, full of plot twists and unexpected turns. Henry James (1843 – 1916) is regarded one of the greatest novelists in the English language. Born in the United States, but mainly living and working in Europe, he was largely occupied with the clash of personalities and cultures between the Old World and the New World. He explored this topic in his famous novels 'The Portrait of a Lady' and 'The Wings of the Dove'. James was thrice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
