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Fòrum civil Euromed. Vers un nouveau scénario de partenariat euro-méditerranéen
Esta obra sintetiza el contenido del Fòrum Civil Euromed, organizado por la Gene ralidad de Cataluña a través del Instituto Catalán de la Mediterránea. Participa ron más de mil representantes los cuales debatieron ideas y proyectos primordial espara el movimiento de asociación euromediterránea.
Two Mediterranean Worlds
Observers and students of globalization struggle with two questions. Why are globalizing processes so unevenly distributed between poor and wealthy countries? What effect does this uneven distribution have on the everyday lives of ordinary people? The contributors to this volume find answers to these questions in the Mediterranean, a region divided between the relatively wealthy people of the north shore, who are engaged with Europe and modernized, and their poorer neighbours to the south, who strive daily to meet the same standards of living and modes of governance as their more Westernized neighbours to the north. In these two regions, divergent histories, economies, cultural and linguisti...
Antropología mediterránea
Transcurridos casi un centenar de años desde los trabajos de los pioneros de la disciplina, incluyendo los antropólogos coloniales, los anglosajones y, en las últimas décadas, los autóctonos, el Mediterráneo es visto como una zona de frontera, no sólo en el sentido político y geográfico, sino también desde la perspectiva de la invención de la tradición. Pero también es un laboratorio de larga duración en que los diferentes pueblos y civilizaciones han compartido y adaptado sus creencias y sistemas participativos de solidaridad. Pensar en nuestra tradición y en sus elementos múltiples permite relativizar ciertas visiones y huir del determinismo cultural. Si las fronteras políticas y religiosas parecen rígidas, las prácticas (familiares, rituales y asociativas) componen unas pasarelas que nos ayudan a reconocer aspectos culturales compartidos. Maria-Àngels Roque, historiadora y antropóloga, es directora de Estudios de Culturas Mediterráneas y directora de la revista Quaderns de la Mediterránia del Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània (IEMed).
Islam and Catalonia
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A Companion to Ramon Llull and Llullism
A Companion to Ramon Llull and Lullism offers a comprehensive survey of the work of the Majorcan lay theologian and philosopher Ramon Llull (1232-1316) and of its influence in late medieval, Renaissance, and early modern Europe, as well as in the Spanish colonies of the New World. Llull’s unique system of philosophy and theology, the “Great Universal Art,” was widely studied and admired from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. His evangelizing ideals and methods inspired centuries of Christian missionaries. His many writings in Catalan, his native vernacular, remain major monuments in the literary history of Catalonia. Contributors are: Roberta Albrecht, José Aragüés Aldaz, Linda Báez Rubí, Josep Batalla, Pamela Beattie, Henry Berlin, John Dagenais, Mary Franklin-Brown, Alexander Ibarz, Annemarie C. Mayer, Rafael Ramis Barceló, Josep E. Rubio, and Gregory B. Stone.
Morocco
Cohen and Jaidi trace the development of contemporary Morocco in the Islamic world of North Africa, which is currently at the forefront of the clash between Western-style development and the politicized Islam that now pervades the Arab world. By applying globalization theory to detailed accounts of everyday life in an Arab society, the book is uniquely suited to students. Morocco in particular is a good place to look at this extremely important confrontation. It is among the most liberalized Islamic states, yet it is also in the midst of a revival of politicized Islam, which has its own globalizing agenda. The authors detail how this clash pervades Moroccan culture and society, and what it can tell us about the effects of globalization on the Arab world. Morocco is extremely close to the West in terms of physical proximity, and it is a favoured spot for Western tourists. Yet its closest neighbours in social terms are Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia, all of which have directly experienced the effects of politicized Islam in the last quarter century.
Displaced Women
The essays included in this volume mostly originate from the conference organised by the editors at Glasgow Women’s Library in March 2012. Language, multilingual narratives and interaction between cultures and languages were key themes of the conference. Interdisciplinary and international, the conference, like this edited volume, brought together specialists working in a range of fields and provided an opportunity for exchanges between historians, sociologists, scientists and literary scholars, as well as between theoreticians and practitioners, academics and non-academics. In spite of these many different approaches, all the papers presented here transcend the idea of ‘national identit...
Politics and Power in the Maghreb
The overthrow of the regime of President Ben Ali in Tunisia on 14 January 2011 took the world by surprise. The popular revolt in this small Arab country and the effect it had on the wider Arab world prompted questions as to why there had been so little awareness of it up until that point. It also revealed a more general lack of knowledge about the surrounding western part of the Arab world, or the Maghreb, which had long attracted a tiny fraction of the outside interest shown in the eastern Arab world of Egypt, the Levant and the Gulf. This book examines the politics of the three states of the central Maghreb--Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco--since their achievement of independence from European colonial rule in the 1950s and 1960s. It explains the political dynamics of the region by looking at the roles played by the military, political parties and Islamist movements and addresses factors such as Berber identity and economics, as well as how the states of the region interact with each other and with the wider world. -- Provided by publisher.
