Suchergebnisse

This essay reviews the following works:
The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia. By Teo Ballvé. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. 228. $27.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781501747540.
Paramilitarismo. Balance de la contribución del CNMH al esclarecimiento histórico. By Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica (CNMH). Bogotá: Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica, 2018. Pp. 234. Free e-book. ISBN: 9789585500051.
Agrarian Capitalism, War and Peace in Colombia: Beyond Dispossession. By Jacobo Grajales. New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 190. $44.95 paperback. ISBN: 978036775707.
Clientelistic Warfare: Paramilitaries and the State in Colombia (1982-2007). By Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019. Pp. 480 pages. $72.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9781787073654.
Borderland Battles: Violence, Crime, and Governance at the Edges of Colombia's War. By Annette Idler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 496. $29.00 paper. ISBN: 9780190849153.
Organized Violence after Civil War: The Geography of Recruitment in Latin America. By Sarah Zukerman Daly. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. 344. $25.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781107566835.

The fact that as of 2008 Castro had already succeeded in installing his brother as President and Prime Minister of Cuba -- and that in late 2010 he seemed poised to also hand over the final title of Head of the Communist Party of Cuba to Raul (Franks 2010) -- impresses the Revolution's supporters and appalls its opponents. How is it that socialist Cuba has endured beyond the existence of the Soviet system that shaped it? In this dissertation, I "bring people back in" (Eckstein 2004, 212) to answer this question. I focus on three specific parts of Cuban daily life--productive activity, consumption practices, and humor. Taken together, these areas of human activity provide a window into Cuban daily life and the complex relationship between citizens and the state that offer a more accurate portrayal of the relationship between Cubans and the socialist state than is often encountered, especially in popular media. This work demonstrates that many of the practices of ordinary Cubans during the Special Period and later can be seen as responses to new state policies, which were, themselves, responses to the country's sudden expulsion from Soviet economic support and insertion into the capitalist global economy. Focused mainly on mitigating the economic crisis, Cuban leaders were unable to anticipate or control most of the social transformations that the new laws and policies of the mid-1990s caused.

Abstract Women's contributions to the farm and farm household have historically been undervalued. An analysis of farm magazine "success" stories through six decades indicates that these stories may be a vehicle for reproducing and transmitting a traditional domestic ideology that separates farm production from the rest of the farm household and that rarely portrays women as significant contributors to the economic well‐being of either. Magazine stories depict women as spouses or farm helpers, but not as producers or decision‐makers. Farm magazines thus offer few models of realistic gender relations for either farm women or farm men.

En este articulo se estudia la cocaina como una mercancia transnacional y como el producto final de una cadena global de comercio. Tal aproximacion permite examinar los vinculos hacia atras y hacia adelante del proceso de produccion desde una perspectiva comparativa. El articulo tiene dos partes: Despues de una breve discusion de las fuentes utilizadas, se examinan los origenes historicos y la estructura actual de la cadena de la cocaina. En la segunda parte, se la compara con la comercializacion de otras mercancias transnacionales para mostrar como, a pesar de obvias diferencias debidas a su ilegalidad, la cocaina se asemeja a ellas en muchos aspectos. (Tareas/DÜI)

A promising option for preventing ankle sprains during sports training is a series of exercises based on the ankle disc training approach (Parkkari, 2001). The mechanism of action of these exercises (referred to as 'stability training') is poorly understood. A biomechanical analysis on the role of the various components of the lower limb including muscles, tendons and ligaments in stabilizing the ankle may provide insight into the mechanism of action. There is little point in conducting a complex and costly biomechanical analysis, however, if stability training cannot be integrated into established sports training programme. The purpose of this pilot study was to asses the feasibility of integrating stability training in recruit training in the New Zealand Defence Force. Recruit training is ideal because it has a high incidence of ankle injuries and is done in a controlled environment. This is a work in progress; the long term aim is to test the effectiveness of stability training in both military and high-risk sports environments using randomised controlled trials.

The future of societies depends on their success in providing pathways whereby young people develop and prepare themselves to be contributing adults to their communities. When these pathways are well marked, stable, supported by the community, and inviting to adolescents, a society can be confident that new generations will join the ranks of adulthood well prepared. When these paths are hazardous, unpredictable, uninviting, or ill fitted to the demands of adulthood in that society, the future is insecure, both for adolescents and for society. This volume and the additional two volumes of this study group (Brown, Larson, && Saraswathi, 2002; Mortimer && Brown, 2002) suggest the following observations about the experiences of youth and how well they are being prepared for adulthood in the 21st century.