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Transculturation
Transculturation: Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin America explores the critical potential inherent in the notion of “transculturation” in order to understand contemporary architectural practices and their cultural realities in Latin America.Despite its enormous theoretical potential and its importance within Latin American cultural theory, the term transculturation had never permeated into architectural debates. In fact, none of the main architectural theories produced in and about Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century engaged seriously with this notion as a way to analyze the complex social, cultural and political circumstances that affect the developme...
Transculturation
Deals with cultural studies
Onetti and Others
Explores the connections between Onetti, a foundational figure of the 1960s "Boom" in Latin American literature, and other relevant writers and texts from Latin America and beyond.
Millington and Sutherland Williams on The Proceeds of Crime
The Proceeds of Crime, this new edition has been fully updated to include all important legislative changes over the last three years, and covers all significant case law, including discussion on the release of restrained funds to meet legal expenses following the decisions of the Court of Appeal in Briggs-Price v RCPO and the rights of innocent spouses in the matrimonial home in Gibson v RCPO. It also covers changes in regulation and enforcement including an examination of the future of civil recovery following the abolition of the Assets Recovery Agency and the transfer of its power to the Serious Organized Crime Agency. The new edition incorporates in-depth coverage of the relevant legislation, with analysis of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and reference to case law under both the Drug Trafficking Act 1994 and the Criminal Justice Act 1988.
Brazilian Railway Culture
Brazilian Railway Culture examines the cultural relationship Brazil has had with its railways since tracks were first laid by British, American and French engineers in the nineteenth century. ‘Railway’ and ‘Brazil’ are words not often found in the same sentence. Yet each year over seven hundred million passengers are carried by train in the major urban centres, and tens of thousands of visitors enjoy heritage steam rides at over a dozen restored lines and museums. Brazilian Railway Culture starts from the premise that Brazilian society and culture is not just samba, football and sex. The book takes a journey through Brazilian cultural output from 1865 to the present day, examining no...
