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Feminist movements from the Americas provide some of the most innovative, visible, and all-encompassing forms of organizing and resistance. With their diverse backgrounds, these movements address sexism, sexualized violence, misogyny, racism, homo- and transphobia, coloniality, extractivism, climate crisis, and neoliberal capitalist exploitation as well as the interrelations of these systems. Fighting interlocking axes of oppression, feminists from the Americas represent, practice, and theorize a truly "intersectional" politics. Feminisms in Movement: Theories and Practices from the Americas brings together a wide variety of perspectives and formats, spanning from the realms of arts and activism to academia. Black and decolonial feminist voices and queer/cuir perspectives, ecofeminist approaches and indigenous women's mobilizations inspire future feminist practices and inform social and cohabitation projects.With contributions from Rita Laura Segato, Mara Viveros Vigoya, Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso, and interviews with Anielle Franco (Brazilian activist and minister) and with the Chilean feminist collective LASTESIS

This book probes into the dynamics between Orthodox Christianity and the COVID-19 pandemic, unraveling a profound transformation at institutional and grassroots levels. Employing a multidisciplinary approach, and drawing upon varied data sources, including surveys, digital ethnography, and process tracing, it presents unprecedented insights into church-state relations, religious practices, and theological traditions during this crisis. Chapters analyze divergent responses across countries, underscore religious-political interplay, and expose tensions between formal and informal power networks. Through case studies, the book highlights the innovative adaptability within the faith, demonstrated by new religious practices and the active role of local priests in responding to the pandemic. It critically examines how the actions of religious and political figures influenced public health outcomes. Offering a fresh perspective, the book suggests that the pandemic may have permanently influenced the relationship between Orthodox Christianity, public health, and society

This book analyzes the theoretical and political positions of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) against imperialism in the context of the Second Boer War, taking into consideration the following components: colonialism, in the sense of the SDF's assessment of the European colonial expansion and the reality of colonial peoples, in this case the situation of the Boer people and the native populations of South Africa; colonial politics, understood as the discussions of the government of the colonies, whether the possibility of establishing some type of imperial federation or the need to abandon them; imperialism itself, which included debates on the economic causes of the expansion of powers and its character as a generalized policy of bourgeois states or phase of capitalism; the imperialist war and national defense in the sense of the possibility of a war between the European powers and the need to defend Great Britain and its possessions and, the second Boer war itself, which implies taking into account the causes attributed to the conflict, the positions of the different party members (supporting or condemning the conflict) and the means to stop it.

Una defensa a la cultura de la libertad desde los conocimientos científicos hasta las tradiciones, usando como base el juicio crítico, las artes, los valores, las costumbres y los modos de vida. Desde este nuevo enfoque, Carlos Rodríguez Braun realiza un análisis sobre el liberalismo que va más allá de lo meramente económico, y nos ofrece una visión 360º de cómo influye en aspectos cotidianos como la Iglesia, el periodismo, la tauromaquia y la política, la desigualdad y la literatura. A través de estas páginas, nos transmite que la esencia de la cultura de la libertad es que «la libertad no ha de ser propiciada y defendida por sus benéficos efectos económicos, aunque los tenga». La libertad es buena de por sí, es buena por sí misma, independientemente de sus consecuencias. Porque la libertad no es un medio. La libertad es un fin. «Al afirmarse como soberano en el siglo XVI, la potencia expansiva del Estado alteró la trayectoria liberal de la historia de Europa y, en consecuencia, la de sus proyecciones extraeuropeas, determinada, como explica magistralmente Carlos Rodríguez Braun, por los Diez Mandamientos. La Revolución francesa eliminó definitivamente la soberanía de Dios, el origen del poder, y, liberado el deus mortalis del Deus inmortalis, tiende inevitablemente a ser totalitario, aunque se presente como liberal. Los ensayos recogidos en este libro ejemplifican las incongruencias y falacias del pseudoliberalismo dominante, enemigo de la auténtica tradición liberal».