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"Já se disse que o século XIX foi o século dos impérios, o século XX, das nações e o século XXI será o século das cidades. Essa previsão estava certa: o grande motor do desenvolvimento econômico, social e cultural, na contemporaneidade, são as metrópoles. Nesses assim chamados centros urbanos globais nascem ideias inovadoras e disruptivas, empreendimentos arrojados, oportunidades de trabalho diversificadas, novas tendências de comportamento são fomentadas com influência nas relações afetivas daqueles que aí vivem. Nos lugares de passagem e de interação, por sua vez, vão se formando memórias que constituem a história de cada indivíduo. Na rua, casa da democracia, vis...
A presente obra coletiva debruça-se sobre o tema da transparência administrativa no Direito português e no Direito brasileiro, surgindo aquele, simultaneamente, como um princípio ético e jurídico e assumindo uma importância fundamental no agir administrativo, enquanto contributo para a construção de uma verdadeira "casa de cristal". Foram identificados os principais temas que, em geral e em particular, convocam a relevância da transparência jurídico-administrativa, tendo os Coordenadores convidado autores, destes dois lados do Atlântico, de renome e de acordo com a sua área de especialização para tratar cada um dos temas à luz das particularidades dogmáticas e jurídicas dos respetivos ordenamentos jurídicos, veiculando uma leitura do fenómeno “em espelho”. Resta agora lançar o barco ao mar e esperar que ele chegue a bons leitores, que lhe encontrem utilidade prática e estímulo de indagação teórica.
This is an anatomy of the ethical and political pre-conceptions which underlie theories of justice. It contains evaluative comments on post-Marxists, critical theorists and American contemporaries.
Like snapshots of everyday life in the past, the compelling biographies in this book document the making of the Black Atlantic world since the sixteenth century from the point of view of those who were part of it. Centering on the diaspora caused by the forced migration of Africans to Europe and across the Atlantic to the Americas, the chapters explore the slave trade, enslavement, resistance, adaptation, cultural transformations, and the quest for citizenship rights. The variety of experiences, constraints and choices depicted in the book and their changes across time and space defy the idea of a unified "black experience." At the same time, it is clear that in the twentieth century, "black...
Rio de Janeiro in the first half of the nineteenth century had the largest population of urban slaves in the Americas—primary contributors to the atmosphere and vitality of the city. Although most urban historians have ignored these inhabitants of Rio, Mary Karasch's generously illustrated study provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the city's rich Afro-Cariocan culture, including its folklore, its songs, and accounts of its oral history. Professor Karasch's investigation of the origins of Rio's slaves demonstrates the importance of the "Central Africaness" of the slave population to an understanding of its culture. Challenging the thesis of the comparative mildness of the B...
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He has divided his life story into four parts. In the first, he shows how his early life in rural Arkansas sparked his commitment to people. Then he describes his service to democracy in the military, including his commission in the U.S. Marines, a battlefield promotion in the Pacific and other honors, and his subsequent advancement to the rank of major general.
Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit of emancipation, obscure destructive fantasies inspired the world’s racist populists in places as far apart as Hungary and Arizona, achieving a horrific consummation in the actions of mass murderer Anders Breivik. The subterranean work of dissatisfaction continues. Rage is building, and a new wave of revolts and disturbances will follow. Why? Because the events of 2011 augur a new political reality. These are limited, distorted—sometimes even perverted—fragments of a utopian future lying dormant in the present
Growing up in a half-white, half-brown town and family in South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest struggled with her cultural identity. Upon turning thirty, she ventured to her mother's native Mexico to do some root-searching and stumbled upon a social movement that shook the nation to its core. Mexican Enough chronicles her adventures rumbling with luchadores (professional wrestlers), marching with rebel teachers in Oaxaca, investigating the murder of a prominent gay activist, and sneaking into a prison to meet with indigenous resistance fighters. She also visits families of the undocumented workers she befriended back home. Travel mates include a Polish thief, a Border Patrol agent, and a sultry dominatrix. Part memoir, part journalistic reportage, Mexican Enough illuminates how we cast off our identity in our youth, only to strive to find it again as adults -- and the lessons to be learned along the way.