Peregrinaciones de una paria

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

This bibliography, the most comprehensive yet published, contains over 4,100 citations and offers a wealth of useful information to aid the researcher in locating sources for the study of the foreign policy of the French Second Empire. It includes books, articles, doctoral dissertations, and general studies of major diplomatic history topics relating to the political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of Second Empire foreign policy that have been published between the mid-1880s and the mid 1980s in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

Durante las últimas tres décadas, las industrias extractivas y los derechos indígenas se globalizaron de manera simultánea. Así, los conflictos relacionados con la explotación de los territorios indígenas se han hecho cada vez más frecuentes, violentos y extendidos en todo el mundo. En ese proceso, también se han "juridizado": cada vez más, las instituciones y el lenguaje jurídicos son protagonistas en los modos en que se formulan, procesan y resuelven esas disputas. Este cambio, que a primera vista puede parecer positivo, requiere una mirada más atenta y matizada. Ese es el...

Los cinco ensayos reunidos en este libro giran todos alrededor de un sistema de conceptos entrelazados: populismo, democracia, política, medios de comunicación y lenguaje. Anclado en ideas muy claras como que “según su modo funcional primario, los medios de comunicación modernos son menos medios informativos que portadores de infecciones”, o bien que “las aberraciones morales y políticas empiezan casi siempre con descuidos lingüísticos”, Sloterdijk desentraña el funcionamiento de las sociedades capitalistas modernas, discutiendo contra el sentido común y las ideas...

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,...