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Durante el estallido social de 2019, la palabra "dignidad" fue ampliamente utilizada por los manifestantes para expresar sus distintas demandas. Históricamente, los sectores populares también la han usado para exigir reconocimiento y protección por parte del Estado. En este libro, a partir de diversas investigaciones realizadas durante los últimos años, se analiza qué significa vivir dignamente para los sectores populares en la actualidad. Estamos...
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Hay momentos en que es posible y quizá necesario reunir textos que han sido escritos recientemente, junto a otros publicados y comentados, en algunos casos, con generosa opinión por lectores y amigos. Este es el caso de estos ensayos y crónicas. En la primera parte, "La comunidad abusada", reuní varios ensayos, especialmente uno sobre el "abuso", que inicia y ordena el conjunto del libro, otro sobre la "memoria", seguido de recuerdos personales...
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Estructurado como una composición musical, con un preludio y seis "movimientos", este libro es un esfuerzo por entretejer voces críticas en torno al concepto y las realidades del "desarrollo", tal y como es entendido por la cultura posindustrial occidental contemporánea, e intenta comprender las tensiones que se revelan entre aquel, las ciudades, la tierra, la naturaleza y la vida.
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Existe un fenómeno en las principales ciudades mexicanas cuya eclosión se extiende desde las últimas dos décadas y que impone cierta consternación sobre las formas para explicar la vida en las ciudades. Desde la década de 1990, se ha revelado una forma de producir y habitar la metrópoli que rompe con los moldes tradicionales de vida urbana e incluso suburbana. Fruto de ciertas políticas neoliberales de gestión del territorio, tendentes a...
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Discussions of class make many Americans uncomfortable. This accessible book makes class visible in everyday life. Solely identifying political and economic inequalities between classes offers an incomplete picture of class dynamics in America, and may not connect with people's lived experiences. In Reading Classes, Barbara Jensen explores the anguish caused by class in our society, identifying classism-or anti–working class prejudice-as a central...
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Chile es un país con niveles inaceptables de desigualdad, donde las brechas entre los territorios son un componente muy importante del problema general. Preocupados especialmente por esta situación, este libro y el proyecto de investigación que lo origina, abordan tres proposiciones fundamentales: primero, que en el escenario político actual están dadas las condiciones para avanzar en superar la dimensión territorial de la desigualdad. Segundo,...
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La crisis económica que sacude el mundo desde 2008 y sus respuestas sociales a lo largo del planeta han demostrado la necesidad política de contar con una clase trabajadora, hoy huérfana y desnortada del proceso de cambio, cuyos problemas raras veces aparecen en los debates televisivos o se resuelven en los programas electorales. ¿Es la clase media una identidad política válida para quebrar el capitalismo o solo una trampa que disuelve la conciencia...
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Snobbery is a more serious matter than some may think: the arguments around Brexit and Trump show that accusations of snobbery have become part of political discourse and public sentiment, building social divisions and reflecting deeper issues of class inequality. Social class is not simply about wealth, health and life-chances but also about everyday social experience, such as being included or excluded. As social inequality grows, snobbery is becoming...
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Politicians continually tell us that anyone can get ahead. But is that really true? This important book takes readers behind the closed doors of elite employers to reveal how class affects who gets to the top. Friedman and Laurison show that a powerful 'class pay gap' exists in Britain's elite occupations. Even when those from working-class backgrounds make it into prestigious jobs, they earn, on average, 16% less than colleagues from privileged backgrounds....
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La danza de los tastoanes (tlatoanis, jefes indígenas) es la representación popular de una serie de acciones donde los conquistadores españoles son rechazados violentamente por los naturales de Tonalá, quienes los vencen, destrozan y comen en la personificación de Santiago Apóstol, santo al que los peninsulares recurren en sus luchas. Pero cuando los tonaltecas son derrotados, reciben como castigo a su rebeldía los varazos de Santiago resucitado....
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Why are poor Americans so patriotic? They have significantly worse social benefits compared to other Western nations, and studies show that the American Dream of upward mobility is, for them, largely a myth. So why do these people love their country? Why have they not risen up to demand more from a system that is failing them? In Broke and Patriotic, Francesco Duina contends that the best way to answer these questions is to speak directly to America's...
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Why is it getting harder to secure a job that matches our qualifications, buy a home of our own and achieve financial stability? Underprivileged people have always faced barriers, but people from middle-income families are increasingly more likely to slide down the social scale than climb up. Duncan Exley, former Director of the Equality Trust, draws on expert research and real life experiences – including from an actor, a politician, a billionaire...
94) Frostbite
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While on a school skiing trip, guardian-in-training Rose faces everything from misunderstandings between friends to fights among factions of Moroi as reports of horrific Strigoi attacks raise tensions, ultimately leading Rose and some of those closest to her into a battle that teaches her much about life, death, and love.
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Social climber Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'Bouquet, ' of course!) puts her best foot forward in this high-class comedy. She performs selfless acts of charity for the lower classes (her sisters), doles out invaluable advice to her husband Richard, acts the part of adoring eldest daughter to her incapacitated Daddy, and still finds time to keep the neighbors on edge with her morning coffees and candlelight dinner parties.
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For Darl Union, life in Burnt Stand, North Carolina, has always been a mixture of wealth, privilege, loneliness and sinister family secrets. Even her childhood love for Eli Wade, the son of a stone cutter, was tangled in a web of deceit and murder. His father, an innocent man, died for killing her great aunt. Now Darl and Eli must come to grips with the past and all its mysteries.
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1950s. In the border town of La Frontera, young love blooms at first sight between Fulgencio Ramirez, the son of impoverished immigrants, and Carolina Mendelssohn, the local pharmacist's daughter. Their bonds will be undone by a force more powerful than they could have known. Thirty years later Fulgencio Ramirez, RPh, is conducting his daily ritual of reading the local obituaries in his pharmacy office. After nearly a quarter of a century of waiting,...
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On the other side of Medio's border wall, the oppressed class fights for freedom and liberty, sacrificing what little they have to become defenders of the cause. Carmen Santos is one of La Voz's best soldiers: she spent years undercover, but now, with her identity exposed and the island on the brink of a civil war, Carmen returns to La Voz's headquarters. There she must reckon with her beloved leader, who is under the influence of an aggressive new...
100) The Cherry Orchard
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The Cherry Orchard (1903) is Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov's final play. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, directed by acclaimed actor Konstantin Stanislavski-who also played the role of Leonid Gayev, the bizarre and uninspired brother of Madame Ranevskaya. It has since become one of twentieth century theater's most important-and most frequently staged-dramatic works.
After five years of living in...
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