Una agenda de paz para tiempos turbulentos


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Los desafíos que se han planteado durante la segunda década del siglo XXI no son los mismos que los de finales del siglo pasado y, por ello, el trabajo a favor de la paz necesita una revisión a fondo. En este libro, que tiene una intención didáctica, Vicenç Fisas intenta sintetizar una agenda temática en forma de decálogo, agrupando y seleccionando los grandes temas que, desde su punto de vista, constituyen los ejes centrales de un trabajo por la paz para la época actual, mirados desde un prisma holístico. Más allá de evitar las guerras, el trabajo por la paz ha de incluir componentes que son propios de varios movimientos sociales y políticos, en una suma de esfuerzos multidimensionales, donde la justicia social, la salud del planeta y la satisfacción de las necesidades humanas básicas juegan un papel decisivo. Nunca habíamos tenido problemas tan globales como en el presente, y el cambio climático es una muestra de ello, por lo que cualquier agenda de actuación, con su análisis previo, ha de tener esa mirada sobre el conjunto del planeta. Toca pensar más allá de nuestras fronteras y, por consiguiente, trazar líneas de actuación que puedan compartirse desde cualquier lugar del planeta. Establecer los pasos a seguir para este proceso, de forma realista, pero ambiciosa al mismo tiempo, puede ser un buen comienzo, pero para ello habrá que hacer propuestas concretas y someterlas a debate..




La paz es posible


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Women Who Run with the Wolves


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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One million copies sold! “A deeply spiritual book [that] honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women.”—The Washington Post Book World Book club pick for Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wildish nature belong to us at birth, society’s attempt to “civilize” us into rigid roles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, many from her own traditions, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr. Estés has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.




Blue Geopolitics


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Since the formation of the United Nations in 1945 the world has changed dramatically. The intention of the original signatories was to protect future generations from the scourge of war, to reaffirm the faith in human rights and the dignity of the individual and to promote social progress. How has the UN matched up to these expectations? Is there a good argument that now, in the 1990s, the UN should undergo radical reform?




Forest Law


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This artist's book accompanies the exhibition of a collaborative project by Swiss artist Ursula Biemann and Brazilian architect Paulo Tavares, presented at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, MSU in August 2014. Forest Law is a dynamic visual-textual engagement with the legal, ecological, cosmological and scientific dimensions of the tropical forest in the Ecuadorian Amazon. A trajectory through a transforming landscape, the book illuminates a series of legal cases and indigenous struggles for the rights of nature, incorporating text fragments, video stills and newly designed maps as well as a selection from legal documents, historical archives and other research material. This publication is coupled with the exhibition catalogue The Land Grant: Forest Law.




South American Independence


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Examining women writers from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Colombia, this book traces the contradictions inherent in revolutionary movements that, while arguing for the rights of all, remained ambivalent, at best, about the place of women. It reveals the complex role of women in shaping the vexed ideologies of independence.




Resonant Violence


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From the Holocaust in Europe to the military dictatorships of Latin America to the enduring violence of settler colonialism around the world, genocide has been a defining experience of far too many societies. In many cases, the damaging legacies of genocide lead to continued violence and social divisions for decades. In others, however, creative responses to this identity-based violence emerge from the grassroots, contributing to widespread social and political transformation. Resonant Violence explores both the enduring impacts of genocidal violence and the varied ways in which states and grassroots collectives respond to and transform this violence through memory practices and grassroots activism. By calling upon lessons from Germany, Poland, Argentina, and the Indigenous United States, Resonant Violence demonstrates how ordinary individuals come together to engage with a violent past to pave the way for a less violent future.




The Moncada Attack


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The account of Fidel Castro's rise to power is not complete without mention of the failed atacks of July 26, 1953, on the Cuban army garrisons at Moncada and Bayamo. This text views this initial overthrow attempt as a propaganda victory that marked the start of Castro's ascent to national power.




Great Transition


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