El desaparecido como problema filosófico y político


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La presente investigación pretende presentar la justicia restaurativa como solución posible al problema que significa para la democracia en España la existencia de cientos de miles de desaparecidos. Esta realidad constituye un problema político de primer orden, así como de falta de justicia –en el sentido filosófico y jurídico–, tanto para estas víctimas y sus familiares como para la sociedad al completo. Un problema político en el sentido de que nuestra democracia se sustenta en un «proyecto de olvido» con respecto al sufrimiento de los vencidos de la Guerra Civil y el franquismo fraguado en la transición. También de comunidad política fragmentada a causa del silencio en relación con los desaparecidos vencidos del franquismo. Por tanto, supone, a su vez, una evidente anomalía democrática. Prueba de ello es tanto la prolongación en el tiempo sin resolución–dos décadas desde la primera exhumación–, la falta de consenso político y social entorno a la resolución del problema y la evidencia del sufrimiento para miles de familiares de víctimas de estos desaparecidos...










PERIODISTAS SIN MIEDO 1


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RECOPILACIÓN DE NOTAS PERIODÍSTICAS MUY COMPROMETIDAS CON LA REALIDAD MUNDIAL DEL SIGLO XXI Y LAS NUEVAS FORMAS DE DOMINIO Y ESCLAVIUD





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Conversaciones literarias con novelistas contemporáneos


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Entrevistas con Ricardo Piglia y ocho eminentes escritores españoles: Antonio Muñoz Molina, Juan José Millás, José María Merino, Enrique Vila-Matas, Quim Monzó, Cristina Fernández Cubas, Pedro Zarraluki y Ray Loriga. Van precedidas de ensayos que se centran en la obra de cada autor, de una introducción general, donde se presentan los temas tratados, y las acompaña una bibliografía detallada.




Ensayos Y Notas


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Disappearances and Police Killings in Contemporary Brazil


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The book offers an interdisciplinary qualitative study of the history of policing in Brazil and its colonial underpinnings, providing theoretical accounts of the relationship between biopolitics, space, and race, and post-colonial/decolonial work on the state, violence, and the production of disposable political subjects. Focused empirically on contemporary (1985-2015) police killings and disappearances in favelas, particularly in Rio de Janeiro, the books argues that the invisibility of this phenomenon is the product of a colonial mindset – one that has persisted throughout Brazil’s experience of both dictatorship and re-democratisation and is traceable to the legacies of the Portuguese empire and the plantation system implemented. Analysing the development of the police as a colonial mechanism of social control, Villenave shows how the "war on drugs" reproduces this same colonial logic and renders some, overwhelmingly black, lives disposable and thus vulnerable to unchecked police brutality and death. It will be of interest to students and scholars of international politics and also contributes to critical security studies, postcolonial and de-colonial thought, global politics, the politics of Latin America and political geography.




Gore Capitalism


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An analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today's hyper-consumerist stage of capitalism. “Death has become the most profitable business in existence.” —from Gore Capitalism Written by the Tijuana activist intellectual Sayak Valencia, Gore Capitalism is a crucial essay that posits a decolonial, feminist philosophical approach to the outbreak of violence in Mexico and, more broadly, across the global regions of the Third World. Valencia argues that violence itself has become a product within hyper-consumerist neoliberal capitalism, and that tortured and mutilated bodies have become commodities to be traded and utilized for profit in an age of impunity and governmental austerity. In a lucid and transgressive voice, Valencia unravels the workings of the politics of death in the context of contemporary networks of hyper-consumption, the ups and downs of capital markets, drug trafficking, narcopower, and the impunity of the neoliberal state. She looks at the global rise of authoritarian governments, the erosion of civil society, the increasing violence against women, the deterioration of human rights, and the transformation of certain cities and regions into depopulated, ghostly settings for war. She offers a trenchant critique of masculinity and gender constructions in Mexico, linking their misogynist force to the booming trade in violence. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to analyze the new landscapes of war. It provides novel categories that allow us to deconstruct what is happening, while proposing vital epistemological tools developed in the convulsive Third World border space of Tijuana.