Author : Manuel May Castillo
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Cultural property
ISBN : 9789087282998
In 2007, the United Nations adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, a landmark political recognition of indigenous rights. A decade later, this book looks at the status of those rights internationally. Written jointly by indigenous and non-indigenous scholars, the chapters feature case studies from four continents that explore the issues faced by Indigenous Peoples through three themes: land, spirituality, and self-determination.
Author : Aníbal Pérez-Liñán
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 16,91 MB
Release : 2007-07-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139464450
Documents the emergence of a pattern of political instability in Latin America. Traditional military coups have receded in the region, but elected presidents are still ousted from power as a result of recurrent crises. Aníbal Pérez-Liñán shows that presidential impeachment has become the main constitutional instrument employed by civilian elites to depose unpopular rulers. Based on detailed comparative research in five countries and extensive historical information, the book explains why crises without breakdown have become the dominant form of instability in recent years and why some presidents are removed from office while others survive in power. The analysis emphasizes the erosion of presidential approval resulting from corruption and unpopular policies, the formation of hostile coalitions in Congress, and the role of investigative journalism. This book challenges classic assumptions in studies of presidentialism and provides important insights for the fields of political communication, democratization, political behaviour, and institutional analysis.
Author : Calista Skye
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 2017-09-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781549713712
Being abducted by aliens was never on my bucket list. But I guess the aliens didn't get that memo, because one night I was beamed aboard a UFO. It dumped me and a bunch of other girls on an alien planet.A jurassic planet where giant, murderous dinosaurs walk around and everything wants to kill me.My only hope of surviving is the first man I met here. His name is Jax'zan, and he's an alien. And a caveman. As in, the hottest super-alpha caveman who ever lived. He's big and strong and doesn't talk much, but he's saved my life so many times now that I've lost count. My insides turn to hot mush whenever he fixes his smouldering eyes on me, and the scandalously sexy and unusual features his sensationally muscular body is rocking totally make me forget time and place.There's only one problem: He's holding me for ransom. And he wants to repopulate his woman-less planet. With me ... Expect steamy scenes, mysterious aliens with features like adult toys, deadly planets and the love story between a BBW from Earth and a sensationally hot alien warrior.Full-length romance novel with no cliffhangers and a happy-ever-after ending!
Author : Héctor Tobar
Publisher : Picador
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250055865
Antonio Bernal is a Guatemalan refugee in Los Angeles haunted by memories of his wife and child, who were murdered at the hands of a man marked with yellow ink. In a park near Antonio's apartment, Guillermo Longoria extends his arm and reveals a sinister tattoo—yellow pelt, black spots, red mouth. It is the sign of the death squad, the Jaguar Battalion of the Guatemalan army. This chance encounter between Antonio and his family's killer ignites a psychological showdown between these two men. Each will discover that the war in Central America has migrated with them as they are engulfed by the quemazones—"the great burning" of the Los Angeles riots. A tragic tale of loss and destiny in the underbelly of an American city, The Tattooed Soldier is Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Héctor Tobar's mesmerizing exploration of violence and the marks it leaves upon us.
Author : Joanna Baillie
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 1806
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Juliet Marie McMullin
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN :
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported more than 7 million deaths from cancer-- 2.5 percent of all deaths--in 2005. Each year there are approximately 11 million new cases, and WHO expects that the number will double by 2020. Although the disease is not uncommon in rich nations, 70 percent of cancer deaths occur in low- and middle-income regions and countries. The growing frequency of the disease reinforces its significance as a metaphor for lack of control and degeneration and as a signifier of difference, something that is part of one's body and world and yet completely unacceptable. In this book, anthropologists examine the lived experiences of individuals confronting cancer and reveal the social context in which prevention and treatment may succeed or fail.
Author : Jennifer Cole
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
"To address how and why youth and children have come to seem so important to globalization, the contributors to this volume look at both the spatial relations of globalization and the temporal dimensions, examining the reality behind truisms such as "youth are the future" or "children are our hope for the future." Discourses of, and practices by, youth and children bring the new temporal conjunctions of globalization into relationship with people's negotiations of the life course. Reaching from the design of children's toys to youth political mobilization, such discourses and practices are critical sites through which people everywhere conceive of, produce, contest, and naturalize the new futures."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Lucy Bond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 2019-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1134106610
Trauma has become a catchword of our time and a central category in contemporary theory and criticism. In this illuminating and accessible volume, Lucy Bond and Stef Craps: provide an account of the history of the concept of trauma from the late nineteenth century to the present day examine debates around the term in their historical and cultural contexts trace the origins and growth of literary trauma theory introduce the reader to key thinkers in the field explore important issues and tensions in the study of trauma as a cultural phenomenon outline and assess recent critiques and revisions of cultural trauma research Trauma is an essential guide to a rich and vibrant area of literary and cultural inquiry.
Author : Jean Michel Massing
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300051670
Surveys the art of the Age of Exploration in Europe, the Far East, and the Americas
Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher :
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Indians
ISBN :
Extensive anthropological, ethnographic, linguistic, archaeological, and historical work on the Indians of the North, Central, and South Americas and, in North America, as far east as the Mississippi Valley.
