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The Place of Stone Monuments
This volume considers the significance of stone monuments in Preclassic Mesoamerica. By placing sculptures in their cultural, historical, social, political, religious, and cognitive contexts, the seventeen contributors utilize archaeological and art historical methods to understand the origins, growth, and spread of civilization in Middle America.
Dissident Women
Yielding pivotal new perspectives on the indigenous women of Mexico, Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas presents a diverse collection of voices exploring the human rights and gender issues that gained international attention after the first public appearance of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in 1994. Drawing from studies on topics ranging from the daily life of Zapatista women to the effect of transnational indigenous women in tipping geopolitical scales, the contributors explore both the personal and global implications of indigenous women's activism. The Zapatista movement and the Women's Revolutionary Law, a charter that came to have tremendous symboli...
Decoding Gender
Gender discrimination pervades nearly all legal institutions and practices in Latin America. The deeper question is how this shapes broader relations of power. By examining the relationship between law and gender as it manifests itself in the Mexican legal system, the thirteen essays in this volume show how law is produced by, but also perpetuates, unequal power relations. At the same time, however, authors show how law is often malleable and can provide spaces for negotiation and redress. The contributors (including political scientists, sociologists, geographers, anthropologists, and economists) explore these issues-not only in courts, police stations, and prisons, but also in rural organizations, indigenous communities, and families. By bringing new interdisciplinary perspectives to issues such as the quality of citizenship and the rule of law in present-day Mexico, this book raises important issues for research on the relationship between law and gender more widely.
Women, Ethnicity, and Nationalisms in Latin America
With case studies covering Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia and Mexico, this is the first book to explore the links between gender and nationalism in the context of Latin America. It includes contributions from Latin American scholars to offer a unique and revealing view of the most important political and cultural issues.
MOOCs in the Education of the Future: Digitizing Training
This monographic tackles the challenges faced by MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses), which are mainly to give free quality education for as much students as possible, offering personalized training, improving contact between teacher and students, finding appropriate means of evaluation, measuring attendance, and attesting the level of completion through certificates, etc. However, we need to bear in mind that this is not merely a technological movement, but rather the beginning of a more general trend that might transform the models that have been in place for the last century, making way for new pedagogical methods such as learning through exploration or even gamification. What we have before us are much more than tools for the massive dissemination of content; it is actually a phenomenon with the potential to disrupt, whose final impact cannot be accurately predicted, which is why various scenarios are contemplated in the monographic.
Empowering Women
The expansion of married women's property rights was a main achievement of the first wave of feminism in Latin America. As Carmen Diana Deeere and Magdalena Leon reveal, however, the disjuncture between rights and actual ownership remains vast. This is particularly true in rural areas, where the distribution of land between men and women is highly unequal. In their pioneering, twelve-country comparative study, the authors argue that property ownership is directly related to womenÆs bargaining power within the household and community, point out changes resulting from recent gender-progressive legislation, and identify additional areas for future reform, including inheritance rights of wives.
Iniciativas privadas y bienes públicos de la geografía y la historia natural de México (1830-1950)
Iniciativas privadas y bienes públicos de la geografía y la historia natural de México (1830-1950) da cuenta de algunos proyectos de producción de conocimiento impulsados por particulares y en donde sus intereses por la educación o el desarrollo económico e industrial configuraron algunas de sus características, varias de ellas con claros fines privados o lucrativos. Sin embargo, como resultado de distintos procesos históricos, la ciencia que produjeron, sus maquinarias e instrumentos, así como los especímenes que acumularon contrajeron beneficios más generales y formaron parte de un patrimonio social a través de sus aplicaciones económicas, o bien, su exhibición en museos, en donde además de facilitar su estudio, sirvieron la educación popular. El libro expone siete estudios de caso que analizan las particularidades de los actores y espacios de las prácticas geográficas y naturalistas desarrolladas tanto por profesionistas especializados como amateurs de diversos orígenes sociales que participaron en el estudio y apropiación de los recursos naturales de México, así como la exploración territorial a escalas regional y nacional.
Espacios de producción de conocimientos geográficos y naturalistas de México, siglos XVIII al XX
Espacios de producción de conocimientos geográficos y naturalistas de México, siglos XVIII al XX presenta ocho capítulos que abordan la práctica científica de geógrafos, naturalistas, ingenieros y profesoras normalistas en el marco de diversas instancias académicas, ya fueran agrupaciones, escuelas de instrucción profesional, dependencias gubernamentales, observatorios y gabinetes naturalistas que se conjugaron con las iniciativas de la esfera pública a través de la prensa de amplio público. En cada capítulo, el autor o autora examina una serie de fuentes históricas novedosas para la historiografía de la ciencia mexicana, por ejemplo, las revistas educativas y agrícolas, los periódicos políticos y la correspondencia entre los hacendados.
Cine, turismo y territorio. Aportes iberoamericanos
El presente libro va más allá de los ámbitos estrictamente urbanos, aunque conviene señalar que cada día resulta más difícil la definición, e incluso la propia delimitación de la ciudad. Además, el complejo de actividades que representa el turismo contemporáneo constituye un factor muy importante de urbanización de todo el territorio, al articular unas áreas de recepción y unas de emisión, generalmente urbanas, además de utilizar estrategias de publicidad, medios de transporte, imágenes y espacios simbólicos. El turismo, en definitiva, es una forma de consumo de unos ciudadanos en territorios distintos a los de su residencia habitual y el consumo se ha constituido de alguna manera en la lógica cultural de la globalización contemporánea (Carreras y Martínez-Rigol, 2020). El turismo hoy, al fin, ha quebrado todas las fronteras, incluso todas las barreras: las climáticas con el turismo ártico y antártico, las altitudinales, con la masificación del Everest, hasta las planetarias, con el turismo cósmico a la estación espacial internacional y a satélites y planetas.
