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The first Christians were weird. Just how weird is often lost on today's believers.
Within Roman society, the earliest Christians stood out for the oddness of their beliefs and practices. They believed unusual things, worshiped God in strange ways, and lived a unique lifestyle. They practiced a whole new way of thinking about and doing religion that would have been seen as bizarre and dangerous when compared to Roman religion and most other religions...
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In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future.
A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn’t strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University professor, insists that imagination...
3) Sistema Territorial en la Materialidad de la Desaparición Forzada. Departamento de Antioquia-Colombi
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La investigación que aquí se presenta se suscribe en el departamento de Antioquia, espacio que trasciende su formalidad física al develarse su dimensionalidad geográfica desde el análisis de la materialidad que expone la desaparición forzada y su sentido violento en los territorios. De igual manera, se ubica en una temporalidad, que más allá de definirse desde el planteamiento metodológico inicial, fue dictada por los casos de personas desaparecidas...
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Ricardo Gómez Giraldo se propuso aceptar la invitación de algunos historiadores para llenar un vacío a su juicio importante: la falta de estudios que vinculen la historia de las mentalidades con el abordaje de problemas de la sociedad. En este caso, con aquellos que son posiblemente los más significativos de una sociedad moderna: la educación, la ciencia y la tecnología.
Para esto, escudriñó los grandes debates que se dieron sobre esos temas...
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From police on the street, to the mayor of New Orleans and FEMA administrators, government officials monumentally failed to protect the most vulnerable residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast during the Katrina disaster. This violation of the social contract undermined the foundational narratives and myths of the American nation and spawned a profound, often contentious public debate over the meaning of Katrina's devastation. A wide range of voices...
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From broadsheet newspapers to television shows and Hollywood films, capitalism is increasingly recognised as a system detrimental to human existence. Colin Cremin investigates why, despite this de-robing, capitalism remains a powerful and seductive force.
Using materialist, psychoanalytic and linguistic approaches, Cremin shows how capitalism, anxiety and desire enter into a mutually supporting relationship. He identifies three ways in which...
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James L. Nolan, Jr., is Assiociate Professor of Sociology at Williams College. He is the author of The Therapeutic State: Justifying Government at Century's End and the editor of Drug Courts: Theory and Practice.
Drug courts offer radically new ways to deal with the legal and social problems presented by repeat drug offenders, often dismissing criminal charges as an incentive for participation in therapeutic programs. Since the first drug court...
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"Winner of the George Terry Award" United States Army LTC Scott A. Snook serves as an Academy Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences & Leadership at the United States Military Academy. He also directs West Point's Center for Leadership and Organizations Research.
On April 14, 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters accidentally shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopters over Northern Iraq, killing all twenty-six peacekeepers onboard....
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For 150 years, up and down the country, from large cities to rural areas and the remotest islands and highlands, district nurses have been visiting the sick in their own homes. Here they have provided healthcare, and given moral support and advice to people of all ages the length and breadth of Britain.
Follow the story of how, in the 1860s, the Liverpool philanthropist William Rathbone VI set up an experiment in home nursing in his home city, aimed...
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Andrei S. Markovits is Professor of Politics in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of numerous books, including The German Left: Red, Green and Beyond and The German Predicament: Memory and Power in the New Europe. Steven L. Hellerman is a sports journalist and a doctoral candidate at Claremont University's School of Politics and Economics.
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En los últimos años han sido numerosos los intentos de interpretar la deriva social, política y cultural de Occidente desde las ciencias sociales. Sin embargo, no ha sido tan frecuente abordar dicho análisis desde la producción y la construcción de los discursos de las grandes factorías de sentido, que no solo sirven para legitimar procesos como el de la desregulación sino que además modelan una subjetividad adaptada a un supuesto nuevo espíritu...
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India, the Eternal' is a book written towards peace, prosperity and harmony of all humanity. As means to achieve that, three key steps are discussed: redefining the human identity system, reminding ourselves about the concept of Dharma (Ethics) and finally, redefining an individual's success. These methods are then employed to prescribe solutions to a severe problem of the modern world, the situation in the Indian subcontinent. The first chapter of...
14) Why?
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Charles Tilly (1929-2008) was the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. His work focused on large-scale social change and its relationship to contentious politics, especially in Europe, since 1500. His many books include The Politics of Collective Violence; Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650-2000; Social Movements, 1768-2004; Economic and Political Contention in Comparative Perspective , coedited with Maria...
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Un grupo de especialistas en estudios de género abordan en este volumen una diversidad de temas con variados enfoques: feminismos, educación con perspectiva de género desde la infancia, no binarismo y mirada trans, luchas por los derechos LGBTI y su registro histórico, construcción social de la masculinidad, escrituras de mujeres, hackfeminismo, labores de cuidado y presencia de las mujeres en el espacio público, entre otros. En conjunto los...
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Five years into capitalism's deepest crisis, which has led to cuts and economic pain across the world, Against Austerity addresses a puzzling aspect of the current conjuncture: why are the rich still getting away with it? Why is protest so ephemeral? Why does the left appear to be marginal to political life?
In an analysis which challenges our understanding of capitalism, class and ideology, Richard Seymour shows how 'austerity' is just one...
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Todo museo comercia con el pasado y la memoria, y en esa conservación y reunión de objetos -siempre se ha dicho- descansa su ficción fundadora: uno al lado del otro y todos juntos, cada objeto cuenta de por sí una historia, pero asiste, a su vez, al significado colectivo de una historia mayor. La reunión de elementos heterogéneos se vuelve, en un museo, una representación al tiempo que una explicación de una cierta porción del mundo. Los...
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Gary Alan Fine is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. He is the author of Morel Tales: The Culture of Mushrooming, Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work, and With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture.
Learning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team. Teenage debaters also participate in a distinct cultural world--complete with its own...
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«Esta es una breve autobiografía de dos, unas memorias del entrecruce entre una pareja y un momento fundamental de la vida jurídica y política colombiana; se trata de dos mujeres jóvenes y enamoradas, en el momento en que deciden ser pareja y mamás en un país que reconoce formalmente sus derechos, pero en una sociedad todavía muy dividida y problematizada en relación con las parejas entre mujeres. En ese contexto social, los nuevos derechos...
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What is happening when we mistake one thing for another? Disorientations and double takes are a key part of the lived experience of modern capitalism. But the corollary of this is an existential anxiety which motivates a perpetual search for reassurances of our individual and collective identities.
How do we escape self-estrangement and alienation on any level of existence? The experiential gaps in formal bureaucratic and marketised 'life' present...
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