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Political Bodies
Adriana Cavarero has been, and continues to be, one of the most innovative and influential voices in Italian political and feminist thought of the last forty years. Known widely for her challenges to the male-dominated canon of political philosophy (and philosophy more broadly construed), Cavarero has offered provocative accounts of what constitutes the political, with an emphasis on embodiment, singularity, and relationality. Political Bodies gathers some of today’s most prominent and well-established theorists, along with emerging scholars, to contribute their insights, questions, and concerns about Cavarero's political philosophy and to put her work in conversation with other feminist thinkers, political theorists, queer theorists, and thinkers of race and coloniality. A new essay by Adriana Cavarero herself closes out the volume. Political Bodies ventures beyond the familiar boundaries of Cavarero's own writing and is a testament to the generative encounters that her philosophy makes possible.
In the Shadow of Tungurahua
In the Shadow of Tungurahua relates the stories of the people of Penipe, Ecuador living in and between several villages around the volcano Tungurahua and two resettlement communities built for people displaced by government operations following volcanic eruptions in 1999 and 2006. The stories take shape in ways that influence prevailing ideas about how disasters are produced and reproduced, in this case by shifting assemblages of the state first formed during Spanish colonialism attempting to settle (make “legible”) and govern Indigenous and campesino populations and places. The disasters unfolding around Tungurahua at the turn of the 21st century also provide lessons in the humanitarian politics of disaster—questions of deservingness, reproducing inequality, and the reproduction of bare life. But this is also a story of how people responded to confront hardships and craft new futures, about forms of cooperation to cope with and adapt to disaster, and the potential for locally derived disaster recovery projects and politics.
Candidata Indígena Marichuy: No venderse, no rendirse, no claudicar (Magis 458)
“Bajar y no subir”: es uno de los principios del Congreso Nacional Indígena, que a finales de mayo de 2017 dio a conocer, respaldado por el ezln, la elección de María de Jesús Patricio como vocera del Concejo Indígena de Gobierno. Marichuy, como se la conoce, es una mujer nahua de Tuxpan, Jalisco, dedicada a la práctica y la preservación de la herbolaria y la medicina tradicional. Aunque no se logró que figurara como candidata en la boleta de la elección presidencial de 2018, lo más importante del proceso en que participó consistió en trabajar por la organización de los pueblos indígenas y, también, de toda la población mexicana agraviada por la pobreza, por la desigualdad, por la violencia y por la impunidad. Por otro lado, en este número de Magis —y también a propósito de mujeres que han sabido hacer las cosas de un modo distinto— presentamos a la física Jimena Canales, cuyo trabajo como investigadora y como historiadora de la ciencia la ha llevado a ganar reconocimiento internacional. (ITESO) (Magis)
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.
20,000 Spanish American Pseudonyms
A compilation of pen names used by writers of Spanish America from the earliest colonial times until the present. Those readers wishing to verify a pseudonym for an author, and those wishing to find more detail regarding the author's use of a particular pseudonym will find 20,000 Spanish American Pseudonyms an invaluable reference tool for beginning their research.
Enciclopedia Internacional de Pseud·ʼnimos
This Encyclopedia is the first to compile pseudonyms from all over the world, from all ages and occupations in a single work: some 500,000 pseudonyms of roughly 270,000 people are deciphered here. Besides pseudonyms in the narrower sense, initials, nick names, order names, birth and married names etc. are included. The volumes 1 to 9 list persons by their real names in alphabetical order. To make the unequivocal identification of a person easier, year and place of birth and death are provided where available, as are profession, nationality, the pseudonym under which the person was known, and finally, the sources used. The names of professions given in the source material have been translated into English especially for this encyclopaedia. In the second part, covering the volumes 10 to 16, the pseudonyms are listed alphabetically and the real names provided. Approx. 500,000 pseudonyms of about 270,000 persons First encyclopedia including pseudonyms from all over the world, all times and all occupations Essential research tool for anyone wishing to identify persons and names for his research within one single work
Susana López Charretón. La ciencia vs. Los virus (Magis 463)
Este número de Magis ofrece a sus lectores una entrevista con la viróloga mexicana Susana López Charretón, recientemente distinguida con el Doctorado Honoris Causa por el Sistema Universitario Jesuita. Se trata de una científica cuyo trabajo en el conocimiento de los virus que más amenazan a la población está marcado por un profundo compromiso social; en esta charla, habla de su trayectoria y de las implicaciones de su trabajo, así como de la importancia de la participación de las mujeres en la ciencia. También se presenta un reportaje sobre el uso que los gigantes informáticos hacen de los datos personales de los usuarios, un problema al que se ha prestado cada vez más atención a partir de las revelaciones sobre las prácticas de la empresa Cambridge Analytica con la información de millones de usuarios de Facebook. Por otro lado, se incluye una semblanza del ilustrador y diseñador mexicano Eduardo Salles, quien ha influido considerablemente en los modos en que consumimos información a través de las redes sociales. (ITESO) (Magis)
