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A fascinating historical examination of the Santiago Metro system as a microcosm of Chilean national identity during the twentieth century The Santiago Metro, the largest urban infrastructure project in Chile’s history, was designed in the 1960s in response to rapid urban growth. Despite the upheavals of Salvador Allende’s democratic socialism (1970–1973) and Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship (1973–1990), the project survived and is now the largest metro system in South America. What explains its success? How did its meaning shift under democracy and dictatorship? What does its history reveal about struggles for a more just city? Drawing on Chilean and French archives, Andra...
How do places manipulate our emotions? How are spaces affectious in their articulation and design? This book provides theoretical frameworks for exploring affective dimensions of architectural sites based on the notion that heritage, as an embodied experience, is embedded in places and spaces. Drawing together an interdisciplinary collection of essays spanning geographically diverse architectural sites — including Ford’s Theater, the site of President Lincoln’s assassination; the Estadio Nacional of Santiago, Chile, where 12,000 detainees were held following the ouster of President Salvador Allende; and Unit 731, the site of a biological and chemical warfare research unit of the Imperi...
Upon his retirement from active service as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia in 2011, Justice Koontz had completed more than four decades of service to citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In order to recognize that service and help preserve Justice Koontz legacy as one of the outstanding jurists in Virginia and the United States, the Salem/Roanoke County Bar Association instituted this project to collect all of Justice Koontz's published opinions, both from his tenure as a Justice of the Supreme Court and as an inaugural member of the Court of Appeals of Virginia. The fifth volume to be produced by the Opinions Project includes opinions, concurrences and dissents authored by Justice Koontz during the middle years of his service as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. It is dedicated to the honor of Harry Lee Carrico, the long-time Chief Justice of the Court who retired during the time of the reports contained in the volume.
Historia del movimiento feministas y de mujeres en Chile. Sus páginas recorren todas las organizaciones históricas de mujeres, enfatizando en las que tuvieron un horizonte feminista, en cuanto lucha por la liberación de la opresión sufrida por las mujeres en tanto sexo-mujer.
Esta obra se refiere a la "mentalidades, discursos y prácticas del Estado y la sociedad chilena ante el pueblo mapuche". Es resultado de una investigación historiográfica acerca de las relaciones entre este pueblo y el Estado y la sociedad chilenas entre los gobiernos dictatoriales de Ibañez (1927-1931) y Pinochet (1973-1990). Se evidencia en el estudio que el reiteradamente aludido "problema indígena" que el pensamiento liberal trató de encauzar secularmente hacia la "integración" del indígena en la economía, la sociedad y ciudadanía, se convierte, al final del periodo estudiado en su contrario: "el problema wingka", es decir la creciente dificultad de los poderes públicos y privados para administrar la relación entre la "sociedad mayoritaria" y identidad mapuche.
England’s Virgin Queen, Elizabeth Tudor, had a reputation for proficiency in foreign languages, repeatedly demonstrated in multilingual exchanges with foreign emissaries at court and in the extemporized Latin she spoke on formal visits to Cambridge and Oxford. But the supreme proof of her mastery of other tongues is the sizable body of translations she made over the course of her lifetime. This two-volume set is the first complete collection of Elizabeth’s translations from and into Latin, French, and Italian. Presenting original and modernized spellings in a facing-page format, these two volumes will answer the call to make all of Elizabeth’s writings available. They include her rende...
Este libro es un estudio indispensable para aquellas personas motivadas por la historia del transporte y movilidad urbana en la ciudad de Santiago de Chile. El texto ahonda en variados temas cruciales para comprender el impacto de la movilidad y los medios de transporte modernos para la ciudad y las sociedades urbanas. A lo largo de sus capítulos se da cuenta del impacto del transporte colectivo en el desarrollo histórico de Santiago, y en particular del constante choque entre los deseos de modernización con la realidad socioeconómica, política o técnica del país.
Este volumen abarca desde 1900 hasta 1930. Incluye también una memoria visual de treinta páginas con figuras de intelectuales y políticos, vivienda y paisaje urbano, progreso tecnológico, actividades sociales populares y de elite, pintura y artes plásticas. El volumen combina un nivel descriptivo, analítico e interpretativo y tienen un carácter transdiciplinario donde se mezclan la historia de las ideas, los estudios literarios, la sociología de la cultura, los estudios culturales y la historia política y social.
El texto aborda el transporte público precisamente como problema y como experiencia de vida; los avatares de la ETCE construyen una historia social y rebasan con mucho la descripción de máquinas y recorridos, de planes y documentos sobre el tema. Hasta hoy, la ETCE ha sido la única experiencia de transporte colectivo urbano donde el Estado asumió una responsabilidad directa en la difícil tarea de recorrer el laberinto-ciudad. Sus trabajadores, por lo demás, fueron quizás los únicos que por ello generaron una experiencia, una voz pública y una memoria que logró instalarse junto a las opiniones de los “expertos”, los políticos de carrera y los empresarios en el tema.
Exploring lives lived, written and narrated in and from the Global South, the far South and the ultimate South, Antarctica, this book asks how life writing from southerly compass points impact both how we understand and read life narratives, and ultimately how we perceive our planet. Southern geographies, histories and lives have often been overlooked and defined by northern perspectives; Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere redresses this North/South alignment in its critical examination of life stories, memoirs, biographies and autobiographies from the southern hemisphere, providing a countervailing and alternative perspective that will unsettle, challenge and enrich the imaginative no...