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Local Space, Global Life
This book examines the everyday functioning and impact of international law and the development project, particularly across cities in emergent nations.
Card-Carrying Christians
In the waning years of Latin America's longest and bloodiest civil war, the rise of an unlikely duo is transforming Colombia: Christianity and access to credit. In her exciting new book, Rebecca C. Bartel details how surging evangelical conversions and widespread access to credit cards, microfinance programs, and mortgages are changing how millions of Colombians envision a more prosperous future. Yet programs of financialization propel new modes of violence. As prosperity becomes conflated with peace, and debt with devotion, survival only becomes possible through credit and its accompanying forms of indebtedness. A new future is on the horizon, but it will come at a price.
Official Gazette
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Urban Resilience in a Global Context
Urban Resilience is seen by many as a tool to mitigate harm in times of extreme social, political, financial, and environmental stress. Despite its widespread usage, however, resilience is used in different ways by policy makers, activists, academics, and practitioners. Some see it as a key to unlocking a more stable and secure urban future in times of extreme global insecurity; for others, it is a neoliberal technology that marginalizes the voices of already marginal peoples. This volume moves beyond praise and critique by focusing on the actors, narratives and temporalities that define urban resilience in a global context. By exploring the past, present, and future of urban resilience, this volume unlocks the potential of this concept to build more sustainable, inclusive, and secure cities in the 21st century.
¿Cómo va a ser la montaña un dios?
«Y es que la razón occidental se ríe de las creencias de indios y negros. ¿Cómo va a ser la montaña un dios? Hagámosle un agujero y saquemos ese puto carbón». ¿Cómo va a ser la montaña un dios? es un viaje de ida y vuelta por dos universos separados por miles de kilómetros, pero interconectados por varios hilos: el carbón y la minería, el capital y su logística portuaria, la migración y el exilio. Eduardo Romero traza un puente entre Asturias y Colombia, y nos hace partícipes de una historia real —maravillosamente contada— en la que el «azar global» conecta el destino común de los de abajo.
Guatemala
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Conquest of the Sierra
"Conquest of the Sierra "depicts the colonial experience in the Sierra Zapoteca, a remote mountain region of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. Based on unpublished and hitherto untapped archival sources, this book traces the evolution of a unique regional colonial society.
