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Street Art and Democracy in Latin America
This book explores street art’s contributions to democracy in Latin America through a comparative study of five cities: Bogota (Colombia), São Paulo (Brazil), Valparaiso (Chile), Oaxaca (Mexico) and Havana (Cuba). The author argues that when artists invade public space for the sake of disseminating rage, claims or statements, they behave as urban citizens who try to raise public awareness, nurture public debates and hold authorities accountable. Street art also reveals how public space is governed. When local authorities try to contain, regulate or repress public space invasions, they can achieve their goals democratically if they dialogue with the artists and try to reach a consensus inspired by a conception of the city as a commons. Under specific conditions, the book argues, street level democracy and collaborative governance can overlap, prompting a democratization of democracy.
Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology
Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology addresses the global issue of equal access to information and communications technology (ICT) by persons with disabilities. The right to access the same digital content at the same time and at the same cost as people without disabilities is implicit in several human rights instruments and is featured prominently in Articles 9 and 21 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The right to access ICT, moreover, invokes complementary civil and human rights issues: freedom of expression; freedom to information; political participation; civic engagement; inclusive education; the right to access the highest level of scientific...
The Other Border Wars
The Other Border Wars: Conflict and Stasis in Latin American Culture questions bordering as an organizing principle of culture, conflict, and politics. Shannon Dowd argues that Central and South American border conflicts such as the Chaco War, between Bolivia and Paraguay (1932–1935); the Soccer War, between El Salvador and Honduras (1969); and the Falklands/Malvinas War, between Argentina and the United Kingdom (1982); can be considered as stasis, meaning civil strife, rather than polemos, meaning international war. Through analyses of literature, film, and theater, Dowd shows that border conflict is entwined with domestic strife, reinforced by stagnant geographical lines, and magnified under globalization. Deploying a capacious theory of stasis to question modern sovereignty and bordering, Dowd examines border zones from the outbreak of hostilities to the present, highlighting the lasting legacies of enclosure and violence. The Other Border Wars asks readers to consider how cultural expression challenges the purported fixity of Latin American borders, and even the very idea of bordering.
Nature Fantasies
In this original study, Gabriel Horowitz examines the work of select nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American writers through the lens of contemporary theoretical debates about nature, postcoloniality, and national identity. In the work of José Martí, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Jorge Luis Borges, Augusto Roa Bastos, Cesar Aira, and others, he traces historical constructions of nature in regional intellectual traditions and texts as they inform political culture on the broader global stage. By investigating national literary discourses from Cuba, Argentina, and Paraguay, he identifies a common narrative thread that imagines the utopian wilderness of the New World as a symbolic site of independence from Spain. In these texts, Horowitz argues, an expressed desire to return to the nation’s foundational nature contributed to a movement away from political and social engagement and toward a “biopolitical state,” in which nature, traditionally seen as pre-political, conversely becomes its center.
Disability Interactions
Disability interactions (DIX) is a new approach to combining cross-disciplinary methods and theories from Human Computer Interaction (HCI), disability studies, assistive technology, and social development to co-create new technologies, experiences, and ways of working with disabled people. DIX focuses on the interactions people have with their technologies and the interactions which result because of technology use. A central theme of the approach is to tackle complex issues where disability problems are part of a system that does not have a simple solution. Therefore, DIX pushes researchers and practitioners to take a challenge-based approach, which enables both applied and basic research t...
Decolonizing Democracy
Decolonizing Democracy: Intersections of Philosophy and Postcolonial Theory analyzes the concept and the discourse of democracy. Ferit Güven demonstrates how democracy is deployed as a neo-colonial tool to discipline and further subjugate formerly colonized peoples and spaces. The book explains why increasing democratization of the political space in the last three decades produced an increasing dissatisfaction and alienation from the process of governance, rather than a contentment as one might have expected from "the rule of the people.” Decolonizing Democracy aims to provide a conceptual response to the crisis of democracy in contemporary world. With both a unique scope and argument, this book will appeal to both philosophy and political science scholars, as well as those involved in postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and peace studies.
Palenque (Colombia)
Palenque es patrimonio afrodescendiente en proceso de creciente visibilización y rápida globalización. En este libro, el misterio de su origen así como la peculiar evolución de su lengua criolla y cultura invitan a siete investigadores de las Ciencias Sociales a complejizar sus preguntas a través de un acercamiento interdisciplinario alimentado de reflexiones teóricas así como de los métodos de las ciencias vecinas. El trabajo de campo con informantes nativos y la consulta de archivos y bibliotecas nacionales e internacionales han sido el punto de partida de las investigaciones del presente volumen.
Formación estética de pies a cabeza
Este libro invita a la formación estética, como un elemento clave para la infancia y la adolescencia, asociándola a la vida cotidiana y a las artes. Se fundamenta en los filósofos John Dewey, Katya Mandoki, Alain Kerlan y otros investigadores. Explora de qué modos trabajan hoy los artistas con no artistas, dentro del transformado campo artístico contemporáneo. Interroga sobre el potencial político de las artes en nuestras sociedades latinoamericanas. Tomando en cuenta qué se necesita para lograr la "ciudadanía cultural", en una democracia que no sea ilusoria. Las artes se analizan en sus relaciones con las TIC y los medios de comunicación. Pues estas innovaciones están produciend...
Guías de Diagnostico y Tratamiento
Guías de Diagnostico y Tratamiento de la Sociedad Argentina de Hematologia
La política del arte
Politics in art? In what sense is art political? The author explains the influence of politics in contemporary art in Colombia through four specific cases. In the first case, the author explains that the political character of the art of Doris Salcedo has generated a vast discussion that accuses a theoretical lightness requesting more solid studies. In his second case, "artivist" Fernando Pertuz, emerges as a possibility of looking at the resistance as a model of intervention. Despite Pertuz national and international success, little has been written on his work, and almost nothing about his relationship with the political environment. The last two cases, the art of the "Ecollective Corporation" and the art project "Práctica artística en la grieta" (Artistic practice in the crack) by Ludmila Ferrari, represent new opportunities to explore some specific spaces of political intervention in art. In both cases, the social emerges as the fundamental node.
