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“daniel n silva”

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  • Language as Hope

    by Daniel N. Silva, Jerry Won Lee ...
    Although it feels like we live in a time of seeming hopelessness, this pioneering book illustrates what language can teach us about the practice, logic, and feasibility of hope in the twenty-first century. Silva and Lee highlight how people living in Brazilian urban peripheries, who have grown accustomed to unrelenting prejudice and violence on an everyday basis, use language to survive and imagine ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

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    Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia

    by Kathryn A. Woolard ...
    Series series Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language
    Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political movement for an independent Catalonia has brought renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and politically, to speak or not to speak Catalan and to claim Catalan identity. In this book, Kathryn ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • In Defense of Common Life

    The Political Thought of Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar

    by Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar ...
    Translated by JD Pluecker ...
    The essential political and theoretical work of one of Latin America’s most important contemporary theorists.Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar is one of the foremost Latin American political thinkers. From armed Indigenous struggle in the Bolivian altiplano to the contemporary wave of feminist uprisings, Raquel Gutiérrez's life and work have spanned and spurred on some of the most important political ... Read more

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  • Paulo Freire

    A Philosophical Biography

    by Walter Omar Kohan ...
    Paulo Freire (1921-1997) is one of the most widely read and studied educational thinkers of our time. His seminal works, including Pedagogy of the Oppressed,sparked the global social and philosophical movement of critical pedagogy and his ideas about the close ties between education and social justice and politics are as relevant today as they ever were. In this book, Walter Omar Kohan interweaves ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Rising Up, Living On

    Re-Existences, Sowings, and Decolonial Cracks

    by Catherine E. Walsh ...
    Series series On Decoloniality
    In Rising Up, Living On, Catherine E. Walsh examines struggles for existence in societies deeply marked by the systemic violences and entwinements of coloniality, capitalism, Christianity, racism, gendering, heteropatriarchy, and the continual dispossession of bodies, land, knowledge, and life, while revealing practices that contest and live in the cracks of these matrices of power. Through ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Global Portuguese

    Linguistic Ideologies in Late Modernity

    Edited by Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
    This book aims at deconstructing and problematizing linguistic ideologies related to Portuguese in late modernity and questioning the theoretical presuppositions which have led us to call Portuguese ‘a language.’ Such an endeavor is crucial when we know that Portuguese is a language which is increasingly internationalized, used as the official language in four continents (in ten countries) and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Multilingual Brazil

    Language Resources, Identities and Ideologies in a Globalized World

    Edited by Marilda C. Cavalcanti, Terezinha M. Maher ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
    This book brings together cutting edge work by Brazilian researchers on multilingualism in Brazil for an English-speaking readership in one comprehensive volume. Divided into five sections, each with its own introduction, tying together the themes of the book, the volume charts a course for a new sociolinguistics of multilingualism, challenging long-held perceptions about a monolingual Brazil by ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • A Sociolinguistics of Diaspora

    Latino Practices, Identities, and Ideologies

    Edited by Rosina Márquez Reiter, Luisa Martín Rojo ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
    This volume brings together scholars in sociolinguistics and the sociology of new media and mobile technologies who are working on different social and communicative aspects of the Latino diaspora. There is new interest in the ways in which migrants negotiate and renegotiate identities through their continued interactions with their own culture back home, in the host country, in similar diaspora ... Read more

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  • Constituting Central American–Americans

    Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation

    by Maritza E. Cárdenas ...
    Series series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
    Central Americans are the third largest and fastest growing Latino population in the United States. And yet, despite their demographic presence, there has been little scholarship focused on this group. Constituting Central American-Americans is an exploration of the historical and disciplinary conditions that have structured U.S. Central American identity and of the ways in which this identity ... Read more

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  • Film and Democracy in Paraguay

    by Eva Karene Romero ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is dedicated to the study of Paraguayan film, particularly small cinemas and movies which represent a socio-politically charged perspective that has until now been overlooked in Latin American Studies. Romero demonstrates that these films are critical to understanding the dynamics of politics and cultural identity in Latin America as a whole. An in-depth exploration of the Latin American ... Read more

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  • The Darkening Nation

    Race, Neoliberalism and Crisis in Argentina

    by Ignacio Aguiló ...
    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    At the turn of the twenty-first century, Argentina was in the midst of its worst economic crisis in decades, the result of years of drastic neoliberal reforms. This book looks at the way ideas about race and nationhood were conveyed during this period of financial meltdown and national emergency, examining in particular how the neoliberal crisis led to the critical self-questioning of the dominant ... Read more

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  • Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures

    Edited by Juan G. Ramos, Tara Daly ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures engages and problematizes concepts such as “decolonial” and “coloniality” to question methodologies in literary and cultural scholarship. While the eleven contributions produce diverse approaches to literary and cultural texts ranging from Pre-Columbian to contemporary works, there is a collective questioning of the very idea of ... Read more

    $98.09 USD