Conspiración en el Sur


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Desde Cataluna a Estados Unidos. La vida cruzada de dos familias catalanas que apoyaron la segregacion de los Estados del Sur en favor de los cubanos exiliados que la impulsaron.




2020 Poemas de la realidad a la conspiración a la ciencia-ficción: Información vs Desinformación


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El año 2020 ha sido un año de terribles privaciones y sufrimientos a niveles Bíblicos; año en que nos invade un nuevo virus, creando una pandemia mundial; hiriéndonos a todos, por igual, sepultándonos eternamente en las profundas aguas del olvido. Todos estos meses del 2020 nos han agobiado la vida a un nivel casi apocalíptico; el encerramiento obligatorio, el uso de mascarillas, los toques de queda; todo esto nos indica que este caos no se trata de noticias fraudulentas.Estamos viviendo en un estado de alarma eterno; vivimos en una nueva normalidad a la que la sociedad no está acostumbrada. Decimos adiós a nuestros seres queridos: padres y madres; hermanos y hermanas; hijos e hijas; tíos y tías; abuelos y abuelas; estudiantes y amigos.El libro "2020" está basado en las experiencias vividas de personas –sus memorias, sus quejas, sus anécdotas y sus publicaciones electrónicas– que han sido bombardeadas constantemente por “fake news" y teorías de conspiraciones.El propósito del libro es la de expresar ideas, controversias, discusiones, conceptos y actitudes que nos lleven a reflexionar sobre lo que somos, a dónde vamos y cuál es el propósito de nuestra existencia. El libro está dividido en seis categorías que son: Pandemia, Conspiración, Ciencia-Ficción, Política, Esperanza, y Otros. En el texto encontraremos temas como: la vida, la muerte, el amor, la esperanza, el fatalismo, la política, la ciencia, la religión, el transhumanismo, la mentira, la historia, el racismo, la ciencia-ficción, la sociedad, y la supervivencia, entre otros. Aunque parezca ser una obra de cruda imaginación, se pretende presentar hechos históricos que han cambiado el curso de la historia humana, y que nos hagan reflexionar sobre el propósito de nuestras vidas en éste, nuestro único, planeta Tierra.













Darkness in El Dorado


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What "Guns, Germs, and Steel" did for colonial history, this book will do for modern anthropology, telling the explosive story of how ruthless journalists, self-serving anthropologists, and obsessed scientists placed the Yanomami, one of the Amazon basin's oldest tribes, on the cusp of extinction. A "New York Times" Notable Book. of photos.




Coming of the Spanish Civil War


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This classic text is made newly available in a substantially revised and updated second edition.




Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories


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Taking a global and interdisciplinary approach, the Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories provides a comprehensive overview of conspiracy theories as an important social, cultural and political phenomenon in contemporary life. This handbook provides the most complete analysis of the phenomenon to date. It analyses conspiracy theories from a variety of perspectives, using both qualitative and quantitative methods. It maps out the key debates, and includes chapters on the historical origins of conspiracy theories, as well as their political significance in a broad range of countries and regions. Other chapters consider the psychology and the sociology of conspiracy beliefs, in addition to their changing cultural forms, functions and modes of transmission. This handbook examines where conspiracy theories come from, who believes in them and what their consequences are. This book presents an important resource for students and scholars from a range of disciplines interested in the societal and political impact of conspiracy theories, including Area Studies, Anthropology, History, Media and Cultural Studies, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology.




Venezuela Reframed


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The role of the indigenous population in the formation of the Bolivarian constitution is one of Latin America's most important untold stories. Considered a beacon of twenty-first century socialism by many, Venezuela is witnessing the paradoxical emergence of 'indigenous capitalisms' as the government and various indigenous actors are driven by notions of development and enfranchisement grounded in the ideology of multiculturalism. Venezuela Reframed shows that a considerable part of indigenous activism, aligned with the Bolivarian governments, has paved the way for development in classical, social-democratic terms. It looks at how, in opposition to sectors of the indigenous population fighting for effective autonomy, many legitimate claims are being usurped to consolidate capitalist relations. Boldly arguing that romanticized notions of cultural indigeneity hide growing class struggle, this book is essential reading not just for those interested in Venezuela, but all those interested in the prospects of democracy, contemporary states and alternatives to capitalism worldwide.




Conspiracy Theories and Latin American History


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This book is a systematic inquiry of conspiracy theories across Latin America. Conspiracy theories project not only an interpretive logic of reality that leads people to believe in sinister machinations, but also imply a theory of power that requires mobilizing and taking action. Through history, many have fallen for the allure of conspiratorial narratives, even the most unsubstantiated and bizarre. This book traces the main conspiracy theories developing in Latin America since late colonial times and into the present, and identifies the geopolitical, socioeconomic and cultural scenarios of their diffusion and mobilization. Students and scholars of Latin American history and politics, as well as comparatists, will find in this book penetrating analyses of major conspiratorial designs in this multi-state region of the Americas.