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Media Practices, Social Movements, and Performativity
As individuals incorporate new forms of media into their daily routines, these media transform individuals’ engagement with networks of heterogeneous actors. Using the concept of media practices, this volume looks at processes of social and political transformation in diverse regions of the world to argue that media change and social change converge on a redefinition of the relations of individuals to larger collective bodies. To this end, contributors examine new collective actors emerging in the public arena through digital media or established actors adjusting to a diversified communication environment. The book offers an important contribution to a vibrant, transdisciplinary, and international field of research emerging at the intersections of communication, performance and social movement studies.
Narrativa digital. Experiencias y propuestas
En Narrativa digital. Experiencias y Propuestas, se presenta el trabajo de profesores e investigadores respecto a una temática que tiene una fuerte presencia en diversos ámbitos de la sociedad actual y en el que la educación se encuentra directamente inmersa: la narración, y en particular, la narración digital. Así, la narrativa digital se aborda desde diversas perspectivas, todas ellas enfocadas a aplicaciones muy concretas y detalladas, con la finalidad de compartir experiencias, reflexiones y propuestas.
»La Santa Muerte« - Leben mit dem Tod
Seit den frühen 2000er Jahren hat ein religiöses Phänomen aus Mexiko transnational besondere Popularität und öffentliche Sichtbarkeit erlangt: Die Verehrung von La Santa Muerte (Der Heilige Tod). Doch wer sind die Gläubigen? Welche Erfahrungen und Schicksale teilen sie? Und wie lässt sich dieser Verehrungskult erklären? Ausgehend von Feldforschungen in den Grenzregionen der USA und Mexiko bestimmt Silke Müller den sozialen Hintergrund dieses Phänomens. Dabei rekonstruiert sie objektiv-hermeneutisch vier gemeinsame Milieuerfahrungen der Gläubigen, die zu der Verehrung in einem spezifischen Passungsverhältnis stehen und sie gleichzeitig auch bedingen.
Oxidative Stress and Chronic Degenerative Diseases
This work responds to the need to find, in a sole document, the affect of oxidative stress at different levels, as well as treatment with antioxidants to revert and diminish the damage. Oxidative Stress and Chronic Degenerative Diseases - a Role for Antioxidants is written for health professionals by researchers at diverse educative institutions (Mexico, Brazil, USA, Spain, Australia, and Slovenia). I would like to underscore that of the 19 chapters, 14 are by Mexican researchers, which demonstrates the commitment of Mexican institutions to academic life and to the prevention and treatment of chronic degenerative diseases.
Paediatric Nephrology
This pocket-sized book is designed to provide up-to-date information for the general paediatrican and paediatric nephrologist, including advice on care of emergencies, chronic disorders and covering common and rare conditions. It is highly relevant for the day-to-day care of patients on the ward or in the outpatient clinic.
The Fabric of Cultures
Fashion is both public and private, material and symbolic, always caught within the lived experience and providing an incredible tool to study culture and history. The Fabric of Cultures examines the impact of fashion as a manufacturing industry and as a culture industry that shapes the identities of nations and cities in a cross-cultural perspective, within a global framework. The collected essays investigate local and global economies, cultures and identities and the book offers for the first time, a wide spectrum of case studies which focus on a diversity of geographical spaces and places, from global capitals of fashion such as New York, to countries less known or identifiable for fashion such as contemporary Greece and soviet Russia. Highly illustrated and including essays from all over the world, The Fabric of Cultures provides a comprehensive survey of the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on fashion, identity and globalisation.
Critical Medical Anthropology
Critical Medical Anthropology presents inspiring work from scholars doing and engaging with ethnographic research in or from Latin America, addressing themes that are central to contemporary Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA). This includes issues of inequality, embodiment of history, indigeneity, non-communicable diseases, gendered violence, migration, substance abuse, reproductive politics and judicialisation, as these relate to health. The collection of ethnographically informed research, including original theoretical contributions, reconsiders the broader relevance of CMA perspectives for addressing current global healthcare challenges from and of Latin America. It includes work spanning four countries in Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala and Peru) as well as the trans-migratory contexts they connect and are defined by. By drawing on diverse social practices, it addresses challenges of central relevance to medical anthropology and global health, including reproduction and maternal health, sex work, rare and chronic diseases, the pharmaceutical industry and questions of agency, political economy, identity, ethnicity, and human rights.
The Iberian Peninsula Between 300 and 850
The first work to address the end of Roman Hispania and the emergence of Medieval Spain from a principally archaeological perspective
For We are Sold, I and My People
On the basis of systematic research and personal experience, For We Are Sold, I and My People uncovers some of the social costs of modern production. Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly peels off the labels--"Made in Taiwan," "Assembled in Mexico"--and the trade names--RCA, Sony, General Motors, United Technologies, General Electric, Mattel, Chrysler, American Hospital Supply--to reveal the hidden human dimensions of present-day multinational manufacturing procedures. Focusing on Cuidad Juarez, located at the United States-Mexican border, Fernandez-Kelly examines the reality of maquiladoras, the hundreds of assembly plants that since the 1960s have been used by the Mexican government as part of its development strategy. Most maquiladoras function as subsidiaries of large U.S.-based corporations and a majority of the employees are women. Drawing from current knowledge in political economy and anthropology, this study focuses on one common denominator of the international division of labor--a growing proletariat of Third World women exploited by what some experts are calling "the global assembly line."
