CONOCIENDO JAPÓN DESDE UNA PERSPECTIVA HISPANO-JAPONESA

El contrato social es un libro emblemático en la historia del pensamiento político occidental, un libro impulsor de revoluciones –la de 1789- y de revolucionarios –de Robespierre a Simón Bolívar y Fidel Castro–, una obra a contracorriente que ensalza, en la Europa de las monarquías absolutas, la democracia directa de las repúblicas de la Antigüedad en las que el pueblo, reunido en asamblea, legislaba. El texto, malentendido con frecuencia, lejos de encarnar los grandes principios de la democracia moderna, como se ha dicho, reniega de ellos, tanto del sistema representativo...

El libro constituye un acercamiento transversal, crítico y propositivo al régimen jurídico de los lugares de culto que contribuya a superar la dispersión normativa y el vacío jurídico existentes. Ello desde la óptica de procurar el mayor grado de disfrute de la libertad religiosa y de culto tanto para los fieles como para las confesiones.

In the central highland Maya communities of Guatemala, the demands of the global economy have become a way of life. This book explores how rural peoples experience economic and cultural change as their country joins the global market, focusing on their thoughts about work and sustenance as a way of learning about Guatemala’s changing economy. For more than a decade, Liliana Goldín observed in highland towns both the intensification of various forms of production and their growing links to wider markets. In this first book to compare economic ideology across a range of production systems,...

"They came for her husband. The trucks arrived with a crash, the occupants came down screaming, their grandchildren played in the street, both ran scared. It was seven thirty in the afternoon. They were followed by at least six men. Others stayed outside, on duty. In the rustic interior courtyard, María Ordóñez could only hug the little ones. The only room with a door inside the house was the one below. The invaders tore her down. But there was no one behind. They seized a laptop, a tablet, a camera, two cell phones: the reporter's work tools. He slept on the top floor. The fatigue of two...