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Durante siglos, la narrativa gótica ha fascinado e inquietado al público a partes iguales, resolviendo misterios, explorando los traumas de sus protagonistas, enfrentándolos a lo monstruoso, o transportándolos a escenarios tan hermosos como amenazadores. Estos elementos, no obstante, no acaban en sí mismos: lo que nos incomoda, estremece o aterroriza también nos hace partícipes de una valiosa reflexión donde se abordan temas clave para la existencia humana, desde las dinámicas del poder, lo engañoso de las apariencias o los peligros que entraña un desarrollo científico-tecnológico sin referentes éticos. Este volumen recoge doce estudios de caso que abordan las transformaciones ...
Cultural heritage is increasingly recognized for its contributions to the transition to climate action, and heritage education can play an important role in developing climate adaptation competencies. These can foster positive dialogs surrounding climate change, shift attitudes and inspire actions. However, achieving these goals requires bridging the gap between policy, practice and local capacity building, as well as integrating a multi- and transdisciplinary approach into traditional higher education curricula and models. Bringing together knowledge, practice and experiences from different disciplinary silos, this book provides a wide set of innovative teaching and learning methods, tools ...
La identidad es uno de los conceptos prominentes de nuestra contemporaneidad, una noción que atraviesa discursos políticos, filosóficos y socioculturales de distinto signo. Este volumen analiza las interacciones entre el mundo grecolatino y el actual, y la manera en que las referencias clásicas han contribuido a la conformación y desarrollo de las identidades contemporáneas. Su planteamiento se interesa fundamentalmente por tres de ellas: las identidades individuales (basadas en el género, la sexualidad o la raza, entre otros), las identidades colectivas (nacionales, supranacionales, religiosas, corporativas, etc.) y, finalmente, las identidades digitales (redes sociales, cibercomunid...
Finalist, 2020 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems Honorable Mention, 2021 Asian America Section Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association An inspiring look inside immigrant youth’s political activism in perilous times Undocumented immigrants in the United States who engage in social activism do so at great risk: the threat of deportation. In Organizing While Undocumented, Kevin Escudero shows why and how—despite this risk—many of them bravely continue to fight on the front lines for their rights. Drawing on more than five years of research, including interviews with undocumented youth organizers, Escudero focuses on the movemen...
The last two decades have been marked by intense and accelerated economic, political, and cultural processes that have affected urban spaces. These changes have occurred in different parts of cities (traditional centers, edges, peripheries) and at different levels of the urban system (large and medium-sized cities and in their respective areas of influence). Possibly the clearest expression of the spatial effects on cities can be perceived in their morphological transformations, their territorial dimensions, or in their social problems. Until 2008, urban–territorial processes were a reflection of the logic and inconsistencies of an expansive economic context and of a structural context tha...
Nutrition and Bariatric Surgery discusses nutritional deficiencies and requirements that are often present with diverse bariatric techniques as main mechanisms for weight loss. In addition, the book presents strategies for early detection and supplementation in order to avoid the appearance of deficiency diseases. Finally, the summarizes protocols for the optimal nutritional management of patients undergoing bariatric surgery. Bariatric surgeons, gastroenterologists, endocrinologists, general practitioners, nutritionists, dietitians and nurses specialized in nutritional management will find this resource especially useful.
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Cities across the globe are looking to develop affordable, environmentally friendly, and socially responsible transportation solutions that can meet the accessibility needs of expanding metropolitan populations and support future economic and urban development. When appropriately planned and properly implemented as part of a larger public transportation network, urban rail systems can provide rapid mobility and vital access to city centers from surrounding districts. High-performing urban rail services, when carefully approached as development projects, can help enhance quality of life by giving citizens access to employment opportunities, essential services, urban amenities, and neighboring...
This volume introduces ‘civic Shakespeare’ as a new and complex category entailing the dynamic relation between the individual and the community on issues of authority, liberty, and cultural production. It investigates civic Shakespeare through Romeo and Juliet as a case study for an interrogation of the limits and possibilities of theatre and the idea of the civic. The play’s focus on civil strife, political challenge, and the rise of a new conception of the individual within society makes it an ideal site to examine how early modern civic topics were received and reconfigured on stage, and how the play has triggered ever new interpretations and civic performances over time. The essay...