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Convivencia
While Convivencia is a specific historical term that has come to represent an idea of peaceful co-existence, Convivencia: Urban Space and Migration in a Small Catalan Town complicates this simplistic vision. Instead, it shows how convivencia has been and is indeed always conflict-ridden by scrutinising the relations between cultural diversity and social conflicts and considering why some social conflicts are said to be inherently cultural. It does this through a multi-scalar extended case study of a small town in Northern Catalonia, Spain. Starting from an ethnography, it sheds light on the multiple local-global processes inherent to the social construction of the “migrant problem” and i...
Of Love and Loathing
Policies concerning marriage, morality, and intimacy were central to the efforts of the Spanish monarchy to maintain social control in colonial Charcas. The Bourbon Crown depended on the patriarchal, caste-based social system on which its colonial enterprise was built to maintain control over a vast region that today encompasses Bolivia and parts of Peru, Chile, Paraguay, and Argentina. Intimacy became a fulcrum of social control contested by individuals, families, the state, and the Catholic Church, and deeply personal emotions and experiences were unwillingly transformed into social, political, and moral challenges. In Of Love and Loathing, Nicholas A. Robins examines the application of la...
Concordia en las Cortes y violencia en las cárceles
Rige la actividad de nuestras prisiones, desde su aprobación en 1979 hasta la actualidad, la primera Ley Orgánica de la entonces naciente democracia española: la General Penitenciaria. El Gobierno de Adolfo Suárez abordó la situación carcelaria con determinación y la Cortes Generales aprobaron con el más amplio consenso posible una norma jurídica de elevada calidad técnica que trasladó a la ejecución penal los postulados del Estado social y democrático de Derecho entonces anhelado. Esta Ley Orgánica se justifica en la insostenible situación del sistema penitenciario heredado del franquismo y surge gracias a la firme voluntad mostrada por todos los responsables políticos para ...
Hyperborder
Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a seven hundred-mile-long fence: the US–Mexican border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today. Hyperborder provides the most nuanced portrait yet of this dynamic region. Author Fernando Romero presents a multidisciplinary perspective informed by interviews with numerous academics, researchers, and organizations. Provocatively designed in the style of other kinetic large-scale studies like Rem Koolhaas's Content and Bruce Mau’s Massive Change, Hyperborder is an exhaustively researched report from the front lines of the border debate.
