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En este artículo exploro cómo los mayas yucatecos emplean el silencio como una de las principales estrategias de resistencia a la asimilación, y sugiero que ayuda a explicar su indiferencia a la legislación recientemente aprobada para proteger sus derechos. En parte, baso mi análisis en conversaciones con jóvenes y abuelos, cuyas profecías y prácticas cotidianas contribuyen a la continuada fortaleza de la cultura, de cara a las políticas neo-coloniales del presente. La creencia de que «no pasa nada en Yucatán» alimenta la noción de una apatía maya, pero que tiene sus raíces en los discursos oficiales y académicos que históricamente han descartado a los mayas por considerarlos irrelevantes en la esfera pública. Por último, examino cómo los mayas han adaptado sus estrategias para preservar sus autonomías, a pesar de las políticas paternalistas dirigidas a su asimilación.

THE AUTONOMY OF THE MAYAN PEOPLES OF YUCATAN AND THEIR SILENCE IN RELATION TO ASSIMILATION POLICIES AND THE LEGISLATION OF THEIR RIGHTSABSTRACTIn this article the author explores how the Mayans from Yucatan use silence as one of their main strategies to resist assimilation, suggesting that this helps explain their indifference toward the recently approved legislation to protect their rights. Her analysis is based in part on conversations with young people and elders whose prophesies and everyday practices contribute to the ongoing strength of their culture in the face of current neo-colonial policies. The belief that «nothing happens in Yucatan» feeds the notion of the existence of apathy among the Mayans, and has its roots in the official and academic discourses that historically have discarded the Mayans as irrelevant to the public sphere. Lastly, it examines how in spite of the paternalistic policies aimed at assimilation, the Mayans have adapted their strategies in order to preserve their autonomy.

"In this incisive book, André Duarte examines the health crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and the contemporary crisis of democracy. Reflecting on President Jair Bolsonaro's misgovernment of Brazil, as evidenced by his political actions, speeches and omissions from March 2020 to September 2021, and using concepts like biopolitics, neoliberalism and necropolitics, Duarte proposes three interrelated hypotheses to demonstrate Bolsonaro's sharp distrust of democracy. First, that Bolsonaro's rhetoric during the first year and a half of the pandemic revealed a dangerous mixture of biopolitical, neoliberal and necropolitical governmentality strategies. Second, the pandemic in Brazil intensified the politically damaging side effects brought by neoliberalism and biopolitics, once the necropolitical vector assumed precedence. And third, Bolsonaro's political 'agenda' aimed to implement a façade democracy in Brazil either by violent means or by slowly distorting it from within, slowly blurring the differences between democracy and authoritarianism. Conceptualizing democracy not exclusively as a political regime organized around a definite set of political institutions and normative legislative documents, Duarte exposes why Bolsonaro eschewed the political tasks assumed by so many other political leaders when confronted with the pandemic. Pandemic and Crisis of Democracy is an important book for researchers, students, and anyone concerned about the dangers that surround the democratic experience in the contemporary world"--

"In this incisive book, André Duarte examines the health crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and the contemporary crisis of democracy. Reflecting on President Jair Bolsonaro's misgovernment of Brazil, as evidenced by his political actions, speeches and omissions from March 2020 to September 2021, and using concepts like biopolitics, neoliberalism and necropolitics, Duarte proposes three interrelated hypotheses to demonstrate Bolsonaro's sharp distrust of democracy. First, that Bolsonaro's rhetoric during the first year and a half of the pandemic revealed a dangerous mixture of biopolitical, neoliberal and necropolitical governmentality strategies. Second, the pandemic in Brazil intensified the politically damaging side effects brought by neoliberalism and biopolitics, once the necropolitical vector assumed precedence. And third, Bolsonaro's political 'agenda' aimed to implement a façade democracy in Brazil either by violent means or by slowly distorting it from within, slowly blurring the differences between democracy and authoritarianism. Conceptualizing democracy not exclusively as a political regime organized around a definite set of political institutions and normative legislative documents, Duarte exposes why Bolsonaro eschewed the political tasks assumed by so many other political leaders when confronted with the pandemic. Pandemic and Crisis of Democracy is an important book for researchers, students, and anyone concerned about the dangers that surround the democratic experience in the contemporary world"--

1. Introduction -- 2. Constructions -- 3. The enactment of space, place and territory -- 4. Sensing the city -- 5. Mapping the city -- 6. Conceiving the city -- 7. Conceiving the city : what is next? -- 8. Challenging the city -- 9. Final remarks : spatial negotiations.

In this new work, Pascariu and Duarte, along with an international group of acclaimed scholars, delve into key challenges currently facing the European Union. They Analyze the effect of peripherality across the EU regions which will be of great interest to those countries and regions facing a process of integration.