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Peruvian Lives across Borders
In Peruvian Lives across Borders, M. Cristina Alcalde examines the evolution of belonging and the making of home among middle- and upper-class Peruvians in Peru, the United States, Canada, and Germany. Alcalde draws on interviews, surveys, participant observation, and textual analysis to argue that to belong is to exclude. To that end, transnational Peruvians engage in both subtle and direct policing along the borders of belonging. These acts allow them to claim and maintain the social status they enjoyed in their homeland even as they profess their openness and tolerance. Alcalde details these processes and their origins in Peru's gender, racial, and class hierarchies. As she shows, the idea of return—whether desired or rejected, imagined or physical—spurs constructions of Peruvianness, belonging, and home. Deeply researched and theoretically daring, Peruvian Lives across Borders answers fascinating questions about an understudied group of migrants.
A Dynamic Theory of Populism in Power
"The relationship between populism and democracy is a hotly debated topic. Some believe that populism is inherently bad for democracy because it is anti-pluralist and confrontational. Others argue that populism can reinvigorate worn-out democracies in need of an infusion of greater popular participation. This book advances this debate by examining the empirical relationship between populism in power and democracy in five Latin American countries. These cases reveal that populism in power does not always lead to the demise of democracy; rather, it does so only under certain varieties of populism. When populist chief executives are bent on using the state's repressive apparatus to subvert demo...
Hacia una ética en la era del biopoder
Este libro explora la dimensión ética de las resistencias ejercidas contra el biopoder. Hacia una ética en la era del biopoder analiza tres fenómenos específicos (la norma, la sexualidad y el gobierno) articulados por los mecanismos de control y regulación del biopoder en los que se desarrollan resistencias que ejecutan prácticas éticas. Puntualmente, el libro estudia la dimensión ética de los siguientes tres casos de resistencia: el movimiento fourierista y anarquista del siglo xix, que se enfrentó a los mecanismos de normalización del dispositivo carcelario; el movimiento gay de las décadas de los setenta y los ochenta, que luchó en contra del dispositivo de sexualidad; y la deserción del Ejército de los Estados Unidos durante las guerras de Afganistán e Irak, en la que existe un combate frente a diversos mecanismos de gobierno.
Justice at a Distance
The current global-justice literature starts from the premise that world poverty is the result of structural injustice mostly attributable to past and present actions of governments and citizens of rich countries. As a result, that literature recommends vast coercive transfers of wealth from rich to poor societies, alongside stronger national and international governance. Justice at a Distance, in contrast, argues that global injustice is largely home-grown and that these native restrictions to freedom lie at the root of poverty and stagnation. The book is the first philosophical work to emphasize free markets in goods, services, and labor as an ethical imperative that allows people to pursue their projects and as the one institutional arrangement capable of alleviating poverty. Supported by a robust economic literature, Justice at a Distance applies the principle of noninterference to the issues of wealth and poverty, immigration, trade, the status of nation-states, war, and aid.
Etnografía y espacio
La etnografía no puede ser una suma de herramientas aplicadas en un espacio dado, y a unos sujetos considerados fuentes de información o “ejemplares”; al contrario, ella permite acompañar procesos, dinámicas, relaciones, personas, materiales...
States of Return
"State of Return theoretically explores the concept of "return" and ethnographically traces different experiences of return migration across the globe with emphases on temporality, kinship, and citizenship. Collectively, contributors show how return significantly reconfigures the lives of people as they move across borders"--
El sexo y el texto.
Esta antología procura mirar de cerca el cruce entre etnografía y sexualidad, a la vez que problematizar sus interrogantes epistemológicas y metodológicas en América Latina. Los textos reunidos muestran que los entrecruzamientos entre deseo y normas morales, espacios de intimidad y foros públicos, afectos y economías de sobrevivencia o identidades e instituciones suceden de manera singular y con características particulares. En El sexo y el texto. Etnografías y sexualidad en América Latina, la sexualidad no es un objeto compartido y delimitado sino un terreno de disputas socioculturales, fisuras políticas y epistémicas, así como confrontaciones institucionales y subjetivas.
Spain and the Wider World since 2000
This book offers the first comprehensive study of Spanish foreign policy since 2000. Based on privileged access to some of Spain’s most important foreign policy actors – including Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Foreign Minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos – the book offers an insider account of how Spanish foreign policy was shaped within the context of international diplomacy. It offers crucial new insights into the foreign policy of the PSOE governments (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, 2004 to 2011). The volume considers the changes on the international stage since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, showing how regional conflicts and tensions affected the policy ag...
Hugo Chávez
Este libro es el resultado del esfuerzo conjunto de un grupo de académicos de distintas nacionalidades que desde sus líneas de investigación realizan análisis que le brindan al lector elementos para comprender de manera global lo que significa una década de gobierno del presidente Chávez en Venezuela. El texto corresponde a una lectura profunda de la actual política venezolana que va más allá de los estereotipos, prejuicios y de la polarización con la que este tema ha sido comúnmente tratado.
