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Decrypting Justice

From Epistemic Violence to Immanent Democracy

by Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo, Marinella Machado-Araujo, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Bethania Assy, Rafael Rolo, Laura Edith Saavedra Hernández, Michael Monclou-Chaparro0, Julián Trujillo-Guerrero1, María Daniela Delgado-Álvarez2, María Elena Rojas3, Jaime Ortega4, Luisa Gabriela Morales-Vega5 ...

Series series Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and through the Global South
This book deploys the theory of encryption of to decrypt justice, setting in opposition Justice, written with the hegemonic capital letters of Western ideas, and justice, in its everyday workings within disparate communal forms and the exercise of multiplicity.As it decrypts justice, the book argues that late-coloniality, through its construction of the “hidden people,” shattered the possibility ... Read more

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This book deploys the theory of encryption of to decrypt justice, setting in opposition Justice, written with the hegemonic capital letters of Western ideas, and justice, in its everyday workings within disparate communal forms and the exercise of multiplicity.As it decrypts justice, the book argues that late-coloniality, through its construction of the “hidden people,” shattered the possibility
... Read more
Social and Solidarity Economy in Cuba

Foundations and Practices for Socialist Development

by Rafael J. Betancourt, Jusmary Gómez Arencibia, Orquídea Hailyn Abreu González, Jany Bárcenas Alfonso, William Bello Sánchez, Luis del Castillo Sánchez, Ovidio D’Angelo Hernández0, Orestes J. Díaz Legón1, Geydis Fundora Nevot2, Lienny García Pedraza3, Joanna Gasmury Roldán4, Enrique Gómez Cabezas5, Yuneidys González Espinosa6, Dianné Griñan Bergara7, Maidolys Iglesias Pérez8, Reynaldo Miguel Jiménez Guethón9, Lázaro Julio Leiva Hoyo0, Oscar Llanes Guerra1, Iriadna Marín de León2, Consuelo Martín Fernández3, Annia Martínez Massip4, Yamira Mirabal González5, Francisco Damián Morillas Valdés6, Mirell Pérez González7, Anelys Pérez Rodríguez8, Camila Piñeiro Harnecker9, Mirlena Rojas Piedrahita0, Mercedes Zenea Montejo1, Elianys de la Caridad Zorio González2 ...

Translated by Rafael J. Betancourt, Catharine Vanderplaats Vallejo ...

Series series Bloomsbury Studies on Cuba
Drawing on the work of contributors from a variety provinces, institutions, and disciplines, Social and Solidarity Economy in Cuba examines the role of Social and Solidarity Economics (SSE) amidst national change in Cuba. The contributors examine a variety of topics, including public–private relations, production chains, gender roles, vulnerable groups, social participation, social balance, and ... Read more

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Drawing on the work of contributors from a variety provinces, institutions, and disciplines, Social and Solidarity Economy in Cuba examines the role of Social and Solidarity Economics (SSE) amidst national change in Cuba. The contributors examine a variety of topics, including public–private relations, production chains, gender roles, vulnerable groups, social participation, social balance, and
... Read more
Cuban Counterpoints

The Legacy of Fernando Ortiz

by Carmen Almodóvar Muñoz, Alejandra Bronfman, Patricia Catoira, Fernando Coronil, María Del Rosario Díaz Rodríguez, Antonio Fernández Ferrer, Tomás Fernández Robaina, Roberto González Echevarría, Benjamin L. Lapidus, María Teresa Linares Savio, Octavio di Leo, José Matos Arévalos, Miguel Angel Puig-Samper Mulero, Consuelo Naranjo Orovio, María Fernanda Ortiz Herrera, Marifeli Pérez-Stable, Enrique S. Pumar, Jorge Ramírez Calzadilla, Rafael Rojas Jr., Pamela Maria Smorkaloff, Jean Stubbs, Viñalet ...

Series series Bildner Western Hemisphere Studies
While Fernando Ortiz's contribution to our understanding of Cuba and Latin America more generally has been widely recognized since the 1940s, recently there has been renewed interest in this scholar and activist who made lasting contributions to a staggering array of fields. This book is the first work in English to reassess Ortiz's vast intellectual universe. Essays in this volume analyze and ... Read more

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While Fernando Ortiz's contribution to our understanding of Cuba and Latin America more generally has been widely recognized since the 1940s, recently there has been renewed interest in this scholar and activist who made lasting contributions to a staggering array of fields. This book is the first work in English to reassess Ortiz's vast intellectual universe. Essays in this volume analyze and
... Read more
Caribbean Migrations

The Legacies of Colonialism

by Anke Birkenmaier, Anke Birkenmaier, Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Edward Chamberlain, Jorge Duany, Vivian Halloran, Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, Daylet Domínguez, Devyn Spence Benson, Iraida H. López, Rafael Rojas0, Jane Bryce1, Rebecca Dirksen2, Kendy Vérilus3, Kiran C. Jayaram4, April J. Mayes5, Emily A. Maguire6, Alejandro Portes7, Jossianna Arroyo8 ...

Series series Critical Caribbean Studies
2021 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Caribbean has long been a key area for empires warring over influence spheres, and where migration waves from Africa, Europe, and Asia accompanied every political transformation. In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of scholars studies the Caribbean’s “unincorporated subjects,” and explores how against all odds, Caribbean artists, filmmakers, and ... Read more

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2021 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Caribbean has long been a key area for empires warring over influence spheres, and where migration waves from Africa, Europe, and Asia accompanied every political transformation. In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of scholars studies the Caribbean’s “unincorporated subjects,” and explores how against all odds, Caribbean artists, filmmakers, and
... Read more
Iberoamerican Observatory of Public Policies in Oral Health: Developing a team to improve oral health

National health system in Costa Rica

by William Brenes, Rafael Porras, Alvaro Salas, Hugo Mora, Gustavo Bermudez, Grettel Molina, Rossi Brender, Melissa Rojas, Angelina Sandoval, Ronni Hirsch, Federico Hoffmaister, Manuel Zamora, Nora Chaves, Ana Cecilia Murillo, Ana C. Parra, Susan Lugo, Cristina Barboza Solis ...

Series series Observatorio Iberoamericano de Politicas Públicas em Saúde Bucal
The Ibero-American Observatory of Public Policies in Oral Health (OIPPSB) is a group composed of researchers from 15 Ibero-American countries with the objective of studying public policies and improving oral health in the countries. This book is part of the collection of books that highlight the public policies on oral health in member countries of the OIPPSB. All books are written in 3 languages: ... Read more

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The Ibero-American Observatory of Public Policies in Oral Health (OIPPSB) is a group composed of researchers from 15 Ibero-American countries with the objective of studying public policies and improving oral health in the countries. This book is part of the collection of books that highlight the public policies on oral health in member countries of the OIPPSB. All books are written in 3 languages:
... Read more
Syncing the Americas

José Martí and the Shaping of National Identity

by Enrico Mario Santí, Esther Allen, Ivan A. Schulman, Anne Fountain, Ariela Schnirmajer, Rafael Rojas Gutiérrez, Laura Lomas, Jorge Camacho, Oleski Miranda Navarro, Reinaldo Suárez, Francisco Morán, Roberto González Echevarría, David Laraway ...

The essays in this collection reflect two of Martí’s key observations during his time in the United States: first, how did he, an exile living in New York, view and read his North American neighbors from a sociocultural, political and literary perspective? Second, how did his perception of the modern nation impact his own concepts of race, capital punishment, poetics, and nation building for Cuba? ... Read more

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The essays in this collection reflect two of Martí’s key observations during his time in the United States: first, how did he, an exile living in New York, view and read his North American neighbors from a sociocultural, political and literary perspective? Second, how did his perception of the modern nation impact his own concepts of race, capital punishment, poetics, and nation building for Cuba?
... Read more
Dictatorships in the Hispanic World

Transatlantic and Transnational Perspectives

by Patricia Swier, Julia Riordan-Goncalves, Ana Corbalán, Carmen Faccini, Irene Gómez Castellano, Yolanda Jurado Rojas, Vek Lewis, Rafael Lara-Martínez, Rick McCallister, Ana Leon-Tavora, Antonio Traverso, Niamh Thornton, Rafael Ocasio ...

This book broaches a comparative and interdisciplinary approach in its exploration of the phenomenon of the dictatorship in the Hispanic World in the twentieth century. Some of the themes explored through a transatlantic perspective include testimonial accounts of violence and resistance in prisons; hunger and repression; exile, silence and intertextuality; bildungsroman and the modification of ... Read more

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This book broaches a comparative and interdisciplinary approach in its exploration of the phenomenon of the dictatorship in the Hispanic World in the twentieth century. Some of the themes explored through a transatlantic perspective include testimonial accounts of violence and resistance in prisons; hunger and repression; exile, silence and intertextuality; bildungsroman and the modification of
... Read more
Fighting over Fidel

The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution

by Rafael Rojas ...

Translated by Carl Good ...

How New York intellectuals interpreted and wrote about Castro's revolution in the 1960sNew York in the 1960s was a hotbed for progressive causes of every stripe, including women's liberation, civil rights, opposition to the Vietnam War—and the Cuban Revolution. Fighting over Fidel brings this turbulent cultural moment to life by telling the story of the New York intellectuals who championed and ... Read more

$29.59 USD

How New York intellectuals interpreted and wrote about Castro's revolution in the 1960sNew York in the 1960s was a hotbed for progressive causes of every stripe, including women's liberation, civil rights, opposition to the Vietnam War—and the Cuban Revolution. Fighting over Fidel brings this turbulent cultural moment to life by telling the story of the New York intellectuals who championed and
... Read more

Balinese Gamelan Music

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by Michael Tenzer ...

With extensive photographs and an audio CD, this guide to Balinese music showcases the history, culture and art of the gamelan ceremony.Bali has developed and nourished an astonishing variety of musical ensembles—called gamelan—comprising dozens of instruments mainly made of bronze or bamboo, and organized into groups with as many as 30 to 40 players. In Balinese Gamelan Music, Michael Tenzer, a ... Read more

$12.99 USD

With extensive photographs and an audio CD, this guide to Balinese music showcases the history, culture and art of the gamelan ceremony.Bali has developed and nourished an astonishing variety of musical ensembles—called gamelan—comprising dozens of instruments mainly made of bronze or bamboo, and organized into groups with as many as 30 to 40 players. In Balinese Gamelan Music, Michael Tenzer, a
... Read more
Sensing the City through Television

Urban identities in fictional drama

by Peter Billingham ...

An investigation of the fictional representations of the city in contemporary British and American television drama, assessing their political, sociological and cultural implications. The book draws on the following five key case studies for specific and detailed analysis:* Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City* Homicide & Life on the Street* Queer as Folk* The Cops* Holding OnEach is discussed in ... Read more

$23.99 USD

An investigation of the fictional representations of the city in contemporary British and American television drama, assessing their political, sociological and cultural implications. The book draws on the following five key case studies for specific and detailed analysis:* Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City* Homicide & Life on the Street* Queer as Folk* The Cops* Holding OnEach is discussed in
... Read more
A Splendid Little War

by Derek Robinson ...

The war to end all wars, people said in 1918. Not for long. By 1919, White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of their country, and Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for War) wanted to see Communism 'strangled in its cradle'. So a volunteer R.A.F. squadron, flying Sopwith Camels, went there to duff up the Reds. 'There's a splendid little war going on,' a British staff ... Read more

$4.99 USD

The war to end all wars, people said in 1918. Not for long. By 1919, White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of their country, and Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for War) wanted to see Communism 'strangled in its cradle'. So a volunteer R.A.F. squadron, flying Sopwith Camels, went there to duff up the Reds. 'There's a splendid little war going on,' a British staff
... Read more
Across the Water

Teaching Irish Music and Dance at Home and Abroad

by Rebecca E. Farrell ...

Immerse students in the music traditions of the Irish, one of North America's largest ethnic populations. Across the Water: Teaching Irish Music and Dance at Home and Abroad gives general music teachers the tools to introduce the music and dance of Ireland while respecting the music's cultural origins. An overview of the history of Irish traditional music provides a basic understanding of the ... Read more

$32.39 USD

Immerse students in the music traditions of the Irish, one of North America's largest ethnic populations. Across the Water: Teaching Irish Music and Dance at Home and Abroad gives general music teachers the tools to introduce the music and dance of Ireland while respecting the music's cultural origins. An overview of the history of Irish traditional music provides a basic understanding of the
... Read more

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