Author: Jesús Martínez
Publisher: Editorial UOC
ISBN: 8490647321
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
El Big Crap es el poder económico que se escapa del control político, una fuerza que no ha dejado de crecer mientras aumentaba la brecha entre los más ricos y los que menos tienen. En Barcelona, ese foso separa con claridad el concurrido centro turístico de la periferia marginal, que a veces está físicamente al lado de lugares que atraen a millones de visitantes. Hay quien cree que lo peor de la crisis económica ya ha pasado. Las administraciones aseguran que la ciudad ingresa cada año miles de millones de euros gracias al turismo. Pero lo cierto es que cada vez más personas se quedan sin ver ese dinero del que se supone que nos beneficiamos todos; se quedan ciegos. Según los datos del Instituto Nacional de Estadística sobre condiciones de vida, sigue aumentando el riesgo de que se formen bolsas de pobreza, zonas de marginalidad y atraso económico en un entorno desarrollado. En la Barcelona del Mobile World Congress y de los enormes cruceros, las desigualdades se agigantan, y se siguen viviendo historias de frontera, de héroes que no reciben medallas. Como la de Abderrahman, preocupado por si alguien le roba sus cartones; la de Ndrin, que alimenta a su bebé gracias a la beneficencia, y la de Irene, que lucha para que no la echen de su piso en la Zona Franca de Barcelona.
La pobreza en Barcelona en los años del Big crap (2008-2014)
Author: Jesús Martínez
Publisher: Editorial UOC
ISBN: 8490647321
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
El Big Crap es el poder económico que se escapa del control político, una fuerza que no ha dejado de crecer mientras aumentaba la brecha entre los más ricos y los que menos tienen. En Barcelona, ese foso separa con claridad el concurrido centro turístico de la periferia marginal, que a veces está físicamente al lado de lugares que atraen a millones de visitantes. Hay quien cree que lo peor de la crisis económica ya ha pasado. Las administraciones aseguran que la ciudad ingresa cada año miles de millones de euros gracias al turismo. Pero lo cierto es que cada vez más personas se quedan sin ver ese dinero del que se supone que nos beneficiamos todos; se quedan ciegos. Según los datos del Instituto Nacional de Estadística sobre condiciones de vida, sigue aumentando el riesgo de que se formen bolsas de pobreza, zonas de marginalidad y atraso económico en un entorno desarrollado. En la Barcelona del Mobile World Congress y de los enormes cruceros, las desigualdades se agigantan, y se siguen viviendo historias de frontera, de héroes que no reciben medallas. Como la de Abderrahman, preocupado por si alguien le roba sus cartones; la de Ndrin, que alimenta a su bebé gracias a la beneficencia, y la de Irene, que lucha para que no la echen de su piso en la Zona Franca de Barcelona.
Publisher: Editorial UOC
ISBN: 8490647321
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
El Big Crap es el poder económico que se escapa del control político, una fuerza que no ha dejado de crecer mientras aumentaba la brecha entre los más ricos y los que menos tienen. En Barcelona, ese foso separa con claridad el concurrido centro turístico de la periferia marginal, que a veces está físicamente al lado de lugares que atraen a millones de visitantes. Hay quien cree que lo peor de la crisis económica ya ha pasado. Las administraciones aseguran que la ciudad ingresa cada año miles de millones de euros gracias al turismo. Pero lo cierto es que cada vez más personas se quedan sin ver ese dinero del que se supone que nos beneficiamos todos; se quedan ciegos. Según los datos del Instituto Nacional de Estadística sobre condiciones de vida, sigue aumentando el riesgo de que se formen bolsas de pobreza, zonas de marginalidad y atraso económico en un entorno desarrollado. En la Barcelona del Mobile World Congress y de los enormes cruceros, las desigualdades se agigantan, y se siguen viviendo historias de frontera, de héroes que no reciben medallas. Como la de Abderrahman, preocupado por si alguien le roba sus cartones; la de Ndrin, que alimenta a su bebé gracias a la beneficencia, y la de Irene, que lucha para que no la echen de su piso en la Zona Franca de Barcelona.
Forced from Home
Author: Women's Refugee Commission Staff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781580301022
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781580301022
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Women's Writing in Colombia
Author: Cherilyn Elston
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319432613
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Winner of the Montserrat Ordóñez Prize 2018 This book provides an original and exciting analysis of Colombian women’s writing and its relationship to feminist history from the 1970s to the present. In a period in which questions surrounding women and gender are often sidelined in the academic arena, it argues that feminism has been an important and intrinsic part of contemporary Colombian history. Focusing on understudied literary and non-literary texts written by Colombian women, it traces the particularities of Colombian feminism, showing how it has been closely entwined with left-wing politics and the country’s history of violence. This book therefore rethinks the place of feminism in Latin American history and its relationship to feminisms elsewhere, challenging many of the predominant critical paradigms used to understand Latin American literature and culture.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319432613
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Winner of the Montserrat Ordóñez Prize 2018 This book provides an original and exciting analysis of Colombian women’s writing and its relationship to feminist history from the 1970s to the present. In a period in which questions surrounding women and gender are often sidelined in the academic arena, it argues that feminism has been an important and intrinsic part of contemporary Colombian history. Focusing on understudied literary and non-literary texts written by Colombian women, it traces the particularities of Colombian feminism, showing how it has been closely entwined with left-wing politics and the country’s history of violence. This book therefore rethinks the place of feminism in Latin American history and its relationship to feminisms elsewhere, challenging many of the predominant critical paradigms used to understand Latin American literature and culture.
The Garden Next Door
Author: José Donoso
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780802133687
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
A Chilean writer named Julio and his wife, Gloria, are at a low point in their lives. Constantly bickering, the pair are beset by worries about money, their writing, and their son (who may or may not be plying the oldest profession in Marrakesh). When Julio's boyhood best friend, now a famous artist, lends the couple his luxurious Madrid apartment for the summer, it is an escape for both - but in particular for Julio, who fantasizes about the garden next door and the erotic life of the lovely young aristocratic woman who inhabits it. But Julio's life - and career - unravel In Madrid: he is rebuffed by a famous literary agent, Nuria Monclus, who detests him and his novel; his son's friend from Marrakesh moves in and causes havoc; and Gloria begins to drink. In the face of pitiless adversity, Julio's talent inexorably begins to fade. The garden next door, however, is also Gloria, who has been doing some creating of her own. It is this twist that transforms Donoso's brilliant satire of the writer's life into something even greater: a carefully crafted and bitteily comic meditation on gardens, deceit, and the nature of a writer's muse.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780802133687
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
A Chilean writer named Julio and his wife, Gloria, are at a low point in their lives. Constantly bickering, the pair are beset by worries about money, their writing, and their son (who may or may not be plying the oldest profession in Marrakesh). When Julio's boyhood best friend, now a famous artist, lends the couple his luxurious Madrid apartment for the summer, it is an escape for both - but in particular for Julio, who fantasizes about the garden next door and the erotic life of the lovely young aristocratic woman who inhabits it. But Julio's life - and career - unravel In Madrid: he is rebuffed by a famous literary agent, Nuria Monclus, who detests him and his novel; his son's friend from Marrakesh moves in and causes havoc; and Gloria begins to drink. In the face of pitiless adversity, Julio's talent inexorably begins to fade. The garden next door, however, is also Gloria, who has been doing some creating of her own. It is this twist that transforms Donoso's brilliant satire of the writer's life into something even greater: a carefully crafted and bitteily comic meditation on gardens, deceit, and the nature of a writer's muse.
Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue
Author: Ulla Carlsson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789186523640
Category : Information literacy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789186523640
Category : Information literacy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tango Lessons
Author: Marilyn G. Miller
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822377233
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
From its earliest manifestations on the street corners of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires to its ascendancy as a global cultural form, tango has continually exceeded the confines of the dance floor or the music hall. In Tango Lessons, scholars from Latin America and the United States explore tango's enduring vitality. The interdisciplinary group of contributors—including specialists in dance, music, anthropology, linguistics, literature, film, and fine art—take up a broad range of topics. Among these are the productive tensions between tradition and experimentation in tango nuevo, representations of tango in film and contemporary art, and the role of tango in the imagination of Jorge Luis Borges. Taken together, the essays show that tango provides a kaleidoscopic perspective on Argentina's social, cultural, and intellectual history from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Contributors. Esteban Buch, Oscar Conde, Antonio Gómez, Morgan James Luker, Carolyn Merritt, Marilyn G. Miller, Fernando Rosenberg, Alejandro Susti
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822377233
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
From its earliest manifestations on the street corners of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires to its ascendancy as a global cultural form, tango has continually exceeded the confines of the dance floor or the music hall. In Tango Lessons, scholars from Latin America and the United States explore tango's enduring vitality. The interdisciplinary group of contributors—including specialists in dance, music, anthropology, linguistics, literature, film, and fine art—take up a broad range of topics. Among these are the productive tensions between tradition and experimentation in tango nuevo, representations of tango in film and contemporary art, and the role of tango in the imagination of Jorge Luis Borges. Taken together, the essays show that tango provides a kaleidoscopic perspective on Argentina's social, cultural, and intellectual history from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Contributors. Esteban Buch, Oscar Conde, Antonio Gómez, Morgan James Luker, Carolyn Merritt, Marilyn G. Miller, Fernando Rosenberg, Alejandro Susti
Crude Existence
Author: Kristin Reed
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520258223
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacular economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. Focusing on the everyday realities of people living in the extraction zones, Reed explores the exclusion, degradation, and violence that are the fruits of petrocapitalism in Angola.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520258223
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacular economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. Focusing on the everyday realities of people living in the extraction zones, Reed explores the exclusion, degradation, and violence that are the fruits of petrocapitalism in Angola.
Pandemic Exposures
Author: Fassin Didier
Publisher: Hau
ISBN: 9781912808809
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
An illuminating, indispensable analysis of a watershed moment and its possible aftermath. For people and governments around the world, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to place the preservation of human life at odds with the pursuit of economic and social life. Yet this naive alternative belies the complexity of the entanglements the crisis has created and revealed not just between health and wealth but also around morality, knowledge, governance, culture, and everyday subsistence. Didier Fassin and Marion Fourcade have assembled an eminent team of scholars from across the social sciences to reflect on the myriad ways SARS-CoV-2 has entered, reshaped, or exacerbated existing trends and structures in every part of the globe. The contributors show how the disruptions caused by the pandemic have both hastened the rise of new social divisions and hardened old inequalities and dilemmas. An indispensable volume, Pandemic Exposures provides an illuminating analysis of this watershed moment and its possible aftermath.
Publisher: Hau
ISBN: 9781912808809
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
An illuminating, indispensable analysis of a watershed moment and its possible aftermath. For people and governments around the world, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to place the preservation of human life at odds with the pursuit of economic and social life. Yet this naive alternative belies the complexity of the entanglements the crisis has created and revealed not just between health and wealth but also around morality, knowledge, governance, culture, and everyday subsistence. Didier Fassin and Marion Fourcade have assembled an eminent team of scholars from across the social sciences to reflect on the myriad ways SARS-CoV-2 has entered, reshaped, or exacerbated existing trends and structures in every part of the globe. The contributors show how the disruptions caused by the pandemic have both hastened the rise of new social divisions and hardened old inequalities and dilemmas. An indispensable volume, Pandemic Exposures provides an illuminating analysis of this watershed moment and its possible aftermath.
Three Days Before the Shooting . . .
Author: Ralph Ellison
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0375759549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind several thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing. Five years later, Random House published Juneteenth, drawn from the central narrative of Ellison’s epic work in progress. Three Days Before the Shooting . . . gathers in one volume all the parts of that planned opus, including three major sequences never before published. Set in the frame of a deathbed vigil, the story is a gripping multigenerational saga centered on the assassination of a controversial, race-baiting U.S. senator who’s being tended to by an elderly black jazz musician turned preacher. Presented in their unexpurgated, provisional state, the narrative sequences brim with humor and tension, composed in Ellison’s magical jazz-inspired prose style. Beyond its compelling narratives, Three Days Before the Shooting . . . is perhaps most notable for its extraordinary insight into the creative process of one of this country’s greatest writers, and an essential, fascinating piece of Ralph Ellison’s legacy.
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0375759549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind several thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing. Five years later, Random House published Juneteenth, drawn from the central narrative of Ellison’s epic work in progress. Three Days Before the Shooting . . . gathers in one volume all the parts of that planned opus, including three major sequences never before published. Set in the frame of a deathbed vigil, the story is a gripping multigenerational saga centered on the assassination of a controversial, race-baiting U.S. senator who’s being tended to by an elderly black jazz musician turned preacher. Presented in their unexpurgated, provisional state, the narrative sequences brim with humor and tension, composed in Ellison’s magical jazz-inspired prose style. Beyond its compelling narratives, Three Days Before the Shooting . . . is perhaps most notable for its extraordinary insight into the creative process of one of this country’s greatest writers, and an essential, fascinating piece of Ralph Ellison’s legacy.
The Object of the Atlantic
Author: Rachel Price
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810130130
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Object of the Atlantic is a wide-ranging study of the transition from a concern with sovereignty to a concern with things in Iberian Atlantic literature and art produced between 1868 and 1968. Rachel Price uncovers the surprising ways that concrete aesthetics from Cuba, Brazil, and Spain drew not only on global forms of constructivism but also on a history of empire, slavery, and media technologies from the Atlantic world. Analyzing Jose Marti’s notebooks, Joaquim de Sousandrade’s poetry, Ramiro de Maeztu’s essays on things and on slavery, 1920s Cuban literature on economic restructuring, Ferreira Gullar’s theory of the “non-object,” and neoconcrete art, Price shows that the turn to objects—and from these to new media networks—was rooted in the very philosophies of history that helped form the Atlantic world itself.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810130130
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Object of the Atlantic is a wide-ranging study of the transition from a concern with sovereignty to a concern with things in Iberian Atlantic literature and art produced between 1868 and 1968. Rachel Price uncovers the surprising ways that concrete aesthetics from Cuba, Brazil, and Spain drew not only on global forms of constructivism but also on a history of empire, slavery, and media technologies from the Atlantic world. Analyzing Jose Marti’s notebooks, Joaquim de Sousandrade’s poetry, Ramiro de Maeztu’s essays on things and on slavery, 1920s Cuban literature on economic restructuring, Ferreira Gullar’s theory of the “non-object,” and neoconcrete art, Price shows that the turn to objects—and from these to new media networks—was rooted in the very philosophies of history that helped form the Atlantic world itself.