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Este artículo explora la política de la forma poética en la obra de Néstor Perlongher en el contexto de la última dictadura militar argentina. En primer lugar, se analizan las operaciones de apropiación y adaptación que el poeta, antropólogo y militante argentino realiza sobre el neobarroco cubano de Lezama y Sarduy, a la hora de implantar en el Río de la Plata una poética que Perlongher llamaría "neobarrosa". Luego se estudia la fascinación de Perlongher por los cadáveres nacionales, desde Eva Perón hasta los desaparecidos, y se postula que frente a la opción militante, el argentino se inclina por una necropoética. Así, formas y tradiciones dadas por muertas se levantan como zombis, y en ese énfasis en la corporeidad del lenguaje, Perlongher no sólo pone el cuerpo políticamente sino que les devuelve materialidad a los cuerpos borrados de los desaparecidos.

A Indonèsia, els anys posteriors a la caiguda del règim de Suharto han estat marcats per una proliferació de la cultura devota popular en els mitjans de comunicació. Aquesta proliferació se situa en el context de la transició política d'un règim autoritari a la democràcia, la industrialització dels mitjans de comunicació i la irrupció de l'islam com una de les claus essencials per a entendre l'actual transformació en els àmbits polítics, socials i culturals de la societat indonèsia contemporània. A grans trets, la meva tesi analitza el paper de l'islam en aquesta transformació i com la cultura popular n'ha format part integral. Per mitjà del cas pràctic de la producció d'una telenovel·la religiosa, m'interessa explorar la complexitat que impregna les pràctiques religioses quan el moviment de devoció religiosa s'apropia dels mitjans de comunicació laics/capitalistes per a promoure el culte. En altres paraules, aquest article es pregunta el següent: quan la lògica del moviment de devoció religiosa i la lògica de la indústria mediàtica convergeixen, quin tipus de pràctiques religioses i cinematogràfiques es mantenen, es negocien i es qüestionen? Partint d'un marc metodològic basat en les teories sobre les pràctiques mediàtiques (Bourdieu, 1977 i 1993; Couldry, 2004; Hobart, propera aparició; Rajagopal, 2001), he estructurat en dues dimensions la meva anàlisi sobre com i per què es construeixen, ratifiquen i qüestionen les pràctiques i els estàndards: dimensió interna (on-site) i dimensió externa (off-site). ; In the last few years, Indonesia's post-Suharto's era has been marked by a proliferation of popular piety culture in the media. This proliferation is situated within the political transition from authoritarianism to democracy, the industrialization of media and the emergence of Islam as one of the important keys to unlocking the ongoing transformation of the political, social and cultural spheres of contemporary Indonesian society. My thesis, in general, is a study of the role of Islam in this transformation and how popular culture is an integral part of it. Through my study case of the production of a religious TV series, I want to explore the complexity that makes up religious practices when the piety movement takes up secular/capitalist media to further their movement. In other words, this paper asks: when the logic of the piety movement and the logic of the media industry converge, what kinds of practices in terms of religious practices and film-making practices are maintained, negotiated, and challenged? Building my methodological framework on theories of media practices (Bourdieu, 1977 and 1993; Couldry, 2004; Hobart, forthcoming; Rajagopal, 2001), I divide my analysis into how and why practices and standards are constructed, affirmed and challenged in two foci: on-site and off-site. ; En Indonesia, los años posteriores a la caída del régimen de Suharto han sido marcados por una proliferación de una cultura devota popular en los medios de comunicación. Esta proliferación se sitúa en el contexto de la transición política de un régimen autoritario a la democracia, la industrialización de los medios de comunicación y la irrupción del islam como una de las claves esenciales para entender la actual transformación en los ámbitos políticos, sociales y culturales de la sociedad indonesia contemporánea. A grandes rasgos, mi tesis analiza el papel del islam en esta transformación y cómo la cultura popular ha formado parte integral de ella. Por medio del caso práctico de la producción de una telenovela religiosa, me interesa explorar la complejidad que impregna las prácticas religiosas cuando el movimiento de devoción religiosa se apropia de los medios de comunicación laicos/capitalistas para promover el culto. En otras palabras, este artículo se pregunta lo siguiente: cuando la lógica del movimiento de devoción religiosa y la lógica de la industria mediática convergen, ¿qué tipo de prácticas religiosas y cinematográficas se mantienen, se negocian y se cuestionan? Partiendo de un marco metodológico basado en las teorías sobre las prácticas mediáticas (Bourdieu, 1977 y 1993; Couldry, 2004; Hobart, próxima aparición; Rajagopal, 2001), he estructurado en dos dimensiones mi análisis sobre cómo y por qué se construyen, ratifican y cuestionan las prácticas y los estándares: dimensión interna (on-site) y dimensión externa (off-site).

DURING THIS CENTURY, FRANCE HAS BEEN A COUNTRY WITH A LARGE IMMIGRANT POPULATION. AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR, RESIDENT ALIENS ROSE TO OVER SIX PERCENT OF THE POPULATION. THIS PERCENTAGE DECLINED SLIGHTLY AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR, AND THEN BEGAN TO INCREASE ONCE AGAIN DURING THE 1960S. HOWEVER, IF ALMOST ALL IMMIGRANTS WERE EUROPEAN IN 1946, BY 1975 EUROPEANS COMPRISED SLIGHTLY MORE THAN HALF OF THE RESIDENT ALIEN POPULATION. DURING THE SAME PERIOD, THIRD WORLD IMMIGRANTS INCREASED BY MORE THAN SIX HUNDRED PERCENT. THIS "NEW" IMMIGRATION IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT HAS RAISED ETHNIC AND RACIAL ISSUES IN FRENCH POLITICS THAT HAVE BEEN EXACERBATED BY, BUT NOT CAUSED BY, THE ECONOMIC CRISIS OF THE LAST DECADE. WHILE THE EUROPEAN IMMIGRANT GROUPS HAVE BEEN GRADUALLY DISAPPEARING AS VISIBLE SOCIAL ENTITIES; EITHER THROUGH NATURALIZATION OR DEPARTURE, THE NEW IMMIGRANTS HAVE REMAINED VISIBLE BOTH BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT BEEN NATURALIZED AND BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN PERCEIVED AS ETHNICALLY AND RACIALLY SEPARATE EVEN WHEN THEY HAVE BEEN NATURALIZED. THUS, MANY OF THE "SECOND GENERATION" OF THIRD WORLD IMMIGRANTS, AND ALL OF THE THIRD WORLD RESIDENTS FROM FRENCH OVERSEAS DEPARTMENTS AND TERRITORIES, ARE FRENCH CITIZENS, BUT FORM PART OF THE THIRD WORLD COMMUNITY SOCIALLY AND POLITICALLY. FOR THE FIRST TIME, THERE IS A LARGE SECTOR OF THE FRENCH POPULATION THAT IS BOTH STABLE AND SOCIALLY DIFFERENTIATED AND THAT FORMS A BASIS FOR RACIAL AND ETHNIC CONFLICT.

THE LITERATURE ON POLITICAL BUSINESS CYCLES ARGUES THAT PRESIDENTS AND THEIR TOP POLICY ADVISORS MANIPULATE THE ECONOMY FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES, SEEKING IN PARTICULAR TO CONCENTRATE ECONOMIC PROSPERITY IN PERIODS BEFORE ELECTIONS WHILE CONTAINING THE INEVITABLE ECONOMIC CONTRACTIONS IN POST-ELECTION PERIODS. THIS ARGUMENT IS REEXAMINED HERE USING AMERICAN DATA ON GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES AND MONETARY POLICY FROM 1948 TO 1978. CONTRARY TO EARLIER EMPIRICAL WORK ON THE UNITED STATES, THE FINDINGS PRESENTED HERE SHOW LITTLE EVIDENCE OF POLITICAL MANIPULATION OF THE ECONOMY. THE ANALYSIS CONCLUDES BY ARGUING THAT THE THEORY OF POLITICAL BUSINESS CYCLES GREATLY OVERSTATES THE GOVERNMENT'S ABILITY TO CONTROL THE ECONOMY AND THAT MUCH OF THE EARLIER INDICATIONS OF AN AMERICAN POLITICAL BUSINESS CYCLE WERE SPURIOUS.

Introduction : the original epidemic -- Being Venus -- Plump women and thin, fine men -- The rise of the big black woman -- Birth of the ascetic aesthetic -- American beauty : the reign of the slender aesthetic -- Thinness as American exceptionalism -- Good health to uplift the race -- Fat, revisited -- Epilogue : the obesity epidemic

Introduction -- The 9/11 generation in Silicon Valley -- The new civil rights movement: cross-racial alliances and interfaith activism -- Human rights, uncivil activism, and Palestinianization -- More delicate than a flower, yet harder than a rock: human rights and humanitarianism in Af-Pak -- Coming of age under surveillance: surveillance effects and the post-9/11 culture wars -- Democracy and its others

"Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way to secluded places; they buried themselves underground or built comfortable settlements. Known as maroons, they lived on their own or set up communities in swamps or other areas where they were not likely to be discovered. Although well-known, feared, celebrated or demonized at the time, the maroons whose stories are the subject of this book have been forgotten, overlooked by academic research that has focused on the Caribbean and Latin America. Who the American maroons were, what led them to choose this way of life over alternatives, what forms of marronage they created, what their individual and collective lives were like, how they organized themselves to survive, and how their particular story fits into the larger narrative of slave resistance are questions that this book seeks to answer. To survive, the American maroons reinvented themselves, defied slave society, enforced their own definition of freedom and dared create their own alternative to what the country had delineated as being black men and women's proper place. Audacious, self-confident, autonomous, sometimes self-sufficient, always self-governing; their very existence was a repudiation of the basic tenets of slavery. Sylviane A. Diouf is an award-winning historian specializing in the history of the African Diaspora, African Muslims, the slave trade and slavery. She is the author of Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas (NYU Press, 2013) and Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America, and the editor of Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies. "--

The 2013 Annual Review of Global Peace Operations provides comprehensive information on all current military and--for the first time--civilian peace operations, more than 130 missions, launched by the United Nations, by regional organizations, and by coalitions. Unique in its breadth of coverage, it presents the most detailed collection of data on peace operations available. Features of the 2013 volume include: An analysis of the strategic and political implications of shifting trends in conflict for the leadership of both civilian and military peace operations; a review of the deterrent effect of peace operations; a summary analysis of trends and developments in peace operations in 2012; concise analyses of all peacekeeping and political missions on the ground in 2012; and in-depth explorations of key missions, focusing on those that faced significant challenges or underwent major developments in 2012. Includes extensive full-color maps, figures, and photographs.