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Ideology and Cultural Identity

Modernity and the Third World Presence

By: Jorge Larrain

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Ideology and Cultural Identity

Modernity and the Third World Presence

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In this book Jorge Larrain discusses three of the most important concepts in the social sciences: ideology, reason and cultural identity.

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Theories of Development

Capitalism, Colonialism and Dependency

By: Jorge Larrain

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Theories of Development

Capitalism, Colonialism and Dependency

By: Jorge Larrain

This is a new introductory text providing an up-to-date account of leading theories of development. The book includes a discussion of classical accounts of development, particularly that of Marx, but also considers current debates on the issue. Theories of imperialism, neo-imperialism, dependency, world systems theory and other conceptions are all given full and balanced consideration. A feature of the work is the connections drawn between theoretical interpretation and empirical application: in this respect, the author concentrates particularly upon drawing materials from the Latin American experiences. Readable, accurate and incisive, the book also provides an original standpoint upon problems of development. It will be of interest to students and professionals in sociology, political sciences and anthropology.

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Ideology and Cultural Identity

Modernity and the Third World Presence

By: Jorge Larrain

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Modernity and the Third World Presence

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In this book Jorge Larrain discusses three of the most important concepts in the social sciences: ideology, reason and cultural identity.

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Identity and Modernity in Latin America

By: Jorge Larrain

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Identity and Modernity in Latin America

By: Jorge Larrain

In this important new book Jorge Larrain examines the trajectories of modernity and identity in Latin America and their reciprocal relationships. Drawing on a large body of work across a vast historical and geographical range, he offers an innovative and wide-ranging account of the cultural transformations and processes of modernization that have occurred in Latin America since colonial times. The book begins with a theoretical discussion of the concepts of modernity and identity. In contrast to theories which present modernity and identity in Latin America as mutually excluding phenomena, the book shows their continuity and interconnection. It also traces historically the respects in which the Latin American trajectory to modernity differs from or converges with other trajectories, using this as a basis to explore specific elements of Latin America's culture and modernity today. The originality of Larrain's approach lies in the wide coverage and combination of sources drawn from the social sciences, history and literature. The volume relates social commentaries, literary works and media developments to the periods covered, to the changing social end economic structure, and to changes in the prevailing ideologies. This book will appeal to second and third-year undergraduates and Masters level students doing courses in sociology, cultural studies and Latin American history, politics and literature. .

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0745667511

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Theories of Development

Capitalism, Colonialism and Dependency

By: Jorge Larrain

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Capitalism, Colonialism and Dependency

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Glaciers

The Politics of Ice

By: Jorge Daniel Taillant

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Glaciers

The Politics of Ice

By: Jorge Daniel Taillant

Glaciers is a volume about the role glaciers play in our daily lives (often without us knowing), the risks posed to glaciers from natural and anthropogenic activity (including climate change and industrial pollution), and policies and practices that should be employed to protect this fundamental hydrological reserve"--

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199367256

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9780199367252

The Media Commons and Social Movements

Grassroots Mediations Against Neoliberal Politics

By: Jorge Saavedra Utman

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The Media Commons and Social Movements

Grassroots Mediations Against Neoliberal Politics

By: Jorge Saavedra Utman

What does it mean to have a voice in a formal democracy operating under neoliberal guidelines and with an almost entirely private media system? How can the people gain their voice and engage in a dialogue with hegemonic actors and discourses? In this book, Jorge Saavedra Utman examines the role of media and communicative practices during one of the largest social mobilizations in Latin America in the last 30 years: Chile’s 2011 students’ movement. Saavedra Utman observes the eye-catching, subversive, but also intimate practices that, in a country with a liberal democracy and neoliberal policies, allowed people to speak up and become political actors from grassroots positions. Presenting rich qualitative data that is sourced from interviews and focus groups with activists, he introduces a fresh perspective on the study of media and communications and social movements. Saavedra Utman paints a clearer picture of contentious events since 2011 - like the Arab Spring and Occupy – to understand the relevance of media and communications in contemporary quests for participation and democracy. Promising to be an important book, The Media Commons and Social Movements represents a significant contribution to our understanding of communicative dimensions of protest and social change.

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Routledge

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0429863152

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Parties, Elections, and Political Participation in Latin America

By: Jorge I Dominguez

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Parties, Elections, and Political Participation in Latin America

By: Jorge I Dominguez

First Published in 1994. This is Volume five of seven of a collection of essays that gathers together scholarly debates from the 1950s to the 1990s on Mexico, Central and South America. This text looks at topics such as government parties in Latin America, the Mexican elections of 1958, political campaigning, the scope of the Chilean Party systems, the case of Peronism and electoral change amongst others.

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1135564418

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Transparency and Critical Theory

The Becoming-Transparent of Ideology

By: Jorge I. Valdovinos

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Transparency and Critical Theory

The Becoming-Transparent of Ideology

By: Jorge I. Valdovinos

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the critique of contemporary ideology, offering an innovative genealogy of one of its most fundamental discursive manoeuvres: the ideological effacement of mediation. Providing a comprehensive historical revision of media (from the Greeks to the Internet), this book identifies several critical junctures at which the tension between visibility and invisibility has overlapped with conceptions of neutrality—a tension best incarnated in today's use of the word transparency. Then, it traces this term's evolving semantic constellation through a variety of intellectual discourses, exposing it as a key operator in the revaluation of ideals, sensibilities, and modalities of perception that lie at the core of our contemporary attention-based economy.

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Springer Nature

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303095546X

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9783030955465

Meltdown

The Earth Without Glaciers

By: Jorge Daniel Taillant

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Meltdown

The Earth Without Glaciers

By: Jorge Daniel Taillant

We hear about pieces of ice the size of continents breaking off of Antarctica, rapidly melting glaciers in the Himalayas, and ice sheets in the Arctic crumbling to the sea, but does it really matter? Will melting glaciers change our lives? Absolutely.The ice ages and the interglacial periods like we live in now are built and destroyed by glaciers. Glaciers hold three quarters of our freshwater, yet we don't have laws to protection them from climate change. Melting glaciers raise the seas, alter global ecosystems, warm our climate and bring onfloods that swamp millions of acres of land destroying coastal ecosystems and leaving hundreds of millions homeless. Healthy glaciers help keep our planet cool by reflecting solar heat away from the Earth and provide critical freshwater supply to billions that live within their meltwater runoffbasins. But melting glaciers alter ocean temperature, warm the atmosphere and cause havoc to the ocean currents and to the global jet stream, causing inclement weather, prolonged and recurrent droughts, heavy rains and intense, frequent and unpredictable storms. As glaciers melt away, their criticalenvironmental functions and services will wither. And as climate change warms their core, their weakening internal structure will cause a growing number of glacier tsunamis that can send deadly massive ice blocks, rocks, earth and billions of liters of water rushing down mountain valleys that takeout anything in their path. It has happened before in the Himalayas, in the Central Andes, in the Rockies and Western Cascades, and in the European Alps and it will happen again. As glaciers melt so do the vast swaths of permafrost environments that thrive in their surroundings, where thawingmillenary terrain rich in ice but also in methane gas captured hundreds of thousands of years ago, is now released into the atmosphere intensifying climate change even further.In his new book Meltdown, Jorge Daniel Taillant takes readers deeper into the cryosphere and connects the dots between climate change, glacier melt and the impacts that receding glacier ice brings to livability on Earth, to our environments and to our neighborhoods. He walks us through thelittle-known realm of the periglacial environment, a world where invisible subsurface rock glaciers with solid ice cores that will outlive exposed glaciers in our warming climate, but will they suffice to maintain our cryosphere and climate ecology in balance? In two closing chapters Taillant looksat actions that can help stop climate change and save glaciers and also contrasts how society, politics and our leaders have responded to address the COVID-19 pandemic and yet largely failed to address the even larger looming and escalating crisis of climate change.Meltdown is about glaciers and their unfolding demise during one of the most critical moments of our climate crisis. We may still be in time to save the cryosphere, if we can reconsider glaciers in a whole new light and understand the critical role they play in our own sustainability and if we canawaken to see how through glacier melt, geological ages are changing right before our eyes.

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Oxford University Press

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0190080329

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Painting Borges

Philosophy Interpreting Art Interpreting Literature

By: Jorge J. E. Gracia

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Painting Borges

Philosophy Interpreting Art Interpreting Literature

By: Jorge J. E. Gracia

In this groundbreaking book, Jorge J. E. Gracia explores the artistic interpretation of fiction from a philosophical perspective. Focusing on the work of Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most celebrated literary figures of Latin America, Gracia offers original interpretations of twelve of Borges's most famous stories about identity and memory, freedom and destiny, and faith and divinity. He also examines twenty-four artistic interpretations of these stories—two for each—by contemporary Argentinean and Cuban artists such as Carlos Estévez, León Ferrari, Mirta Kupferminc, Nicolás Menza, and Estela Pereda. This philosophical exploration of how artists have interpreted literature contributes to both aesthetics and hermeneutics, makes new inroads into the understanding of Borges's work, and introduces readers to two of the most vibrant artistic currents today. Color images of the artworks discussed are included.

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State University of New York Press

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1438441797

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Tongues of Fallen Angels

Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges [and Others

By: Selden Rodman

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Tongues of Fallen Angels

Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges [and Others

By: Selden Rodman

Selden Rodman's Tongues of Fallen Angels is a collection of conversations with twelve ranking authors, leading men of letters in the Western Hemisphere, with accompanying informal photographs. From Spanish America: Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, the late Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz. From Brazil: Vinicius de Moraes and Joan Cabral de Melo Neto. From Trinidad: the poet-playwright Derek Walcott. From the United States: Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg. Ernest Hemingway, Stanley Kunitz, and Norman Mailer. An impressive list, and all the more so given Rodman's remarkable power to give human substance to figures whose everyday words have been generally ignored in favor of their writings and other public pronouncements. When Rodman's Conversations With Artists appeared in 1957, it aroused a storm of controversy, intentionally polemical, it became a storm center in the battles then raging in the art world. Rodman's journals also contained records of fiery bouts with novelists and poets of stature. He was urged at the time to publish them, but refrained, preferring to wait for a book of a different, more empathic intent, in putting together Tongues of Fallen Angels, Rodman--the editor of such seminal anthologies as One Hundred British Poets and One Hundred American Poems--forcefully asserts the essential social role of the creator. ''The minor poet," he declares, ''is primarily concerned with form or innovation; the major one uses these tools almost unconsciously to say something he feels he has to say--and which the world will be better for hearing.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811205290

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9780811205290

Monarch of the Philippine Nation ebook

Monarchy of Republic, Democratic or Federal Government

By: Jorge Marlo M. Gutierrez

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Monarch of the Philippine Nation ebook

Monarchy of Republic, Democratic or Federal Government

By: Jorge Marlo M. Gutierrez

The Story tells about the brief story or history on how the Philippine Island originate or begin, his people from earliest inhabitants; people to modern people, their political history, from beginning to independent, commonwealth and to the Present Republic and the emerge of new political monarchy administration or the political monarchy in the Nation under the name and philosophical belief of Gutierrez Monarchy as National and State Monarchy of the Philippine and to other Nation that is do not have yet a constitutional monarchy that mostly having a Republic, Democratic or Federal form of Government, and how it created and it briefly explain; from starting of the idea, creation up to proposal of constitutional law and other information involve on understanding, creating and proposing the monarchy of the Philippine and how it will merge in the Republic, Democratic or Federal Government and his political System.

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Philippinecracy Management Corporation

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621835900X

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9786218359000

Capital Controls

Country Experiences with Their Use and Liberalization

By: Ms.Inci Ötker,Mr.Akira Ariyoshi,Mr.Jorge Iván Canales Kriljenko,Mr.Karl Friedrich Habermeier,Mr.Andrei Kirilenko,Mr.Bernard Laurens

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Capital Controls

Country Experiences with Their Use and Liberalization

By: Ms.Inci Ötker,Mr.Akira Ariyoshi,Mr.Jorge Iván Canales Kriljenko,Mr.Karl Friedrich Habermeier,Mr.Andrei Kirilenko,Mr.Bernard Laurens

This paper examines country experiences with the use and liberalization of capital controls to develop a deeper understanding of the role of capital controls in coping with volatile capital flows, as well as the issues surrounding their liberalization. Detailed analyses of country cases aim to shed light on the motivations to limit capital flows; the role the controls may have played in coping with particular situations, including in financial crises and in limiting short-term inflows; the nature and design of the controls; and their effectivenes and potential costs. The paper also examines the link between prudential policies and capital controls and illstrates the ways in which better prudential practices and accelerated financial reforms could address the risks in cross-border capital transactions.

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International Monetary Fund

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1557758743

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9781557758743

The Harmonisation of the International Sale of Goods through Principles of Law and Uniform Rules

By: Jorge Balmaceda

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The Harmonisation of the International Sale of Goods through Principles of Law and Uniform Rules

By: Jorge Balmaceda

This book describes how the international sales of goods have generally been ruled by either English Law or Civil Law, which has often posed problems due to different approaches regarding certain principles and institutions. It clarifies how the Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods of 11th April, 1980, tried to harmonise these differences with a codification technique, typical of civil law, giving privilege to rules of civil law most of the time, but also introducing institutions from common law, that are not incompatible with civil law. It explains why the general principles of civil law and of UNIDROIT help with this goal of harmonisation, integrating the loopholes of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) during its interpretation. The work demonstrates why codification prevails over common law in the CISG most of the time, giving certitude and sophistication to this matter, which is vital for global commerce.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527549127

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9781527549128

Monarch of the Philippine Nation

Monarchy of Government

By: Jorge Marlo Gutierrez

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Monarch of the Philippine Nation

Monarchy of Government

By: Jorge Marlo Gutierrez

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BookRix

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3755444399

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Philosophy and Literature in Latin America

A Critical Assessment of the Current Situation

By: Jorge J. E. Gracia

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Philosophy and Literature in Latin America

A Critical Assessment of the Current Situation

By: Jorge J. E. Gracia

Philosophy and Literature in Latin America presents a unique and original view of the current state of development in Latin America of two disciplines that are at the core of the humanities. Divided into two parts, each section explores the contributions of distinguished American and Latin American experts and authors. The section on literature includes the literary activities of Latin Americans working in the United States, an area in which very little research has been demonstrated and, for that reason, will add an interesting new dimension to the field of Latin American studies.

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SUNY Press

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0791400395

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9780791400395

Fiscal Policy Challenges for Latin America During the Next Stages of the Pandemic: The Need for a Fiscal Pact

By: International Monetary Fund

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Fiscal Policy Challenges for Latin America During the Next Stages of the Pandemic: The Need for a Fiscal Pact

By: International Monetary Fund

The fiscal policy response to the COVID-19 shock in most LAC countries was much larger than during the GFC, suggesting fiscal space was not as tight as expected. We argue that it is feasible and desirable, though not without risks, to embark in a more gradual consolidation path than currently envisaged by several countries in the region. Avoiding an early withdrawal of support in 2021 and 2022 is important given that countries are still facing high rates of contagion and deaths, vaccination will take place very slowly, the economic recovery is partial, uncertain and not strong enough to help those most affected by the twin public health and economic crisis. At the center of this discussion is our conviction that fiscal space is not set in stone and it is endogenous to the medium-term targets and commitments undertaken by governments and congresses throughout the region. Also, revisions to fiscal responsibility frameworks should help anchor fiscal sustainability, as well as improve their effectiveness and flexibility. In this context, low-for-long interest rates and easy market access is generating a situation that, in spite of higher debt levels, interest cost on public debt will remain contained in the foreseeable future. Especially if, as argued in this paper, a more gradual fiscal consolidation path is accompanied with stronger commitments and institutional frameworks that ensure debt is put on a credible downward trajectory once the pandemic is under control. Catalyzing these changes, as well as initiating the debate to design other fiscal reforms to strengthen social protection and increase the progressivity of public finances, would require a broad social consensus and political cohesion around several crucial dimensions of public finances: a fiscal pact. On the other hand, if this agenda is neglected the continuation of low growth, social discontent, and political polarization could drive Latin America towards a very dangerous path of institutional and economic decay.

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1513574337

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Ideology and Cultural Identity

Modernity and the Third World Presence

By: Jorge Larrain

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Ideology and Cultural Identity

Modernity and the Third World Presence

By: Jorge Larrain

∗ This book provides an account of the concept of ideology in relation to poststructuralism and postmodernism. ∗ One of the few books to relate this discussion to third world issues. ∗ Author is internationally known in the field of development studies and for his previous work in ideology.

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Wiley-Blackwell

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0745613152

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9780745613154

Take a Stand

Lessons from Rebels

By: Jorge Ramos

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Lessons from Rebels

By: Jorge Ramos

Renowned journalist Jorge Ramos shares insights and experiences from his long career in journalism with interviews with such luminaries as Fidel Castro, Barbara Walters, Desmond Tutu, Spike Lee, Hugo Chavez, Bill Gates, and Richard Branson"--

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Celebra

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1101989637

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