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SOBREVIVIENTES contiene los relatos ganadores del Concurso Internacional de Cuento, Diamante. Sus autores, tienen algo que los identifica: Son sobrevivientes. Han asumido sus pruebas, heridas y caídas, como base para crear historias que sean luz para otros. No tuvieron miedo. Corrieron el riesgo y aquí están. Los 10 relatos abarcan temas como volver a empezar, el primer amor, el duelo, la fe, el perdón, sanar culpas, romper cadenas y nunca rendirse. Escribir es el ejercicio más legítimo de existir. Cuando escribimos, somos, estamos, aparecemos, nos abrimos, emergemos. Puede ser una práctica intimidante. Porque nos vemos expuestos, en el mejor de los casos, a interpretaciones erradas. Aun así, para la publicación de este libro, más de cien escritores lo hicieron: Se atrevieron. Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez
In recent decades, powerful institutions have packaged Western democracy for export around the globe. Although Western democracy is grounded in specific historical experiences and cultural assumptions, advocates have generally taken its normative status for granted. So too have most academics. Yet if democracy is broadly understood as government by "the people," it must necessarily differ along with "the people" in question. Just what "the will of the people" is and how it might be realized become questions of pressing importance. Rather than advance alternative definitions of democracy, celebrate alternative democracies, or posit alternatives to democracy, the contributors to this volume fo...
In his own words, Alejandro Tsakimp, a Shuar healer from Ecuador, tells of his lives and relationships, the practice of shamanism, and the many challenges and triumphs he has encountered since childhood.
This work examines the world's indigenous peoples, their cultures, the countries in which they reside, and the issues that impact these groups.
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Social conflicts are ubiquitous and inherent in organized social life. This volume examines the origins and regulation of violent identity conflicts. It focuses on the regulation of conflict: the constraining, directing, and repression of violence through institutional rules and understandings. The core question the authors address is how violence is regulated and the social and political consequences of such regulation. The contributors provide a multidisciplinary multi-regional analysis of identity conflicts and their regulation. The chapters focus on the forging and suppression of religious and ethnic identities, problematic national identities, the recreation of identity in post-conflict...
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In his own words, Alejandro Tsakimp, a Shuar healer from Ecuador, tells of his lives and relationships, the practice of shamanism, and the many challenges and triumphs he has encountered since childhood.