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This book brings together different perspectives on the representation of the Spanish Civil War in digital and analog games, considering them an important part of the cultural production inspired by this historical event. Games must be understood as powerful disseminators of historical stories due to their influence on the processes of memory and reification of the past. Therefore, it is essential to analyze the ideologies they transmit and the visions of the past they offer to players—just like literature, cinema and comics. In this sense, this work introduces the study of games about the Civil War and evaluates the recreational environments in which they appear. It aims to reflect on how games, as distinctive media, can enrich research on conflict and historical memory in general. The case studies of games set in the Spanish Civil War allow us to discover and discuss the visions about the historical moment that circulate in the world of games. The Spanish Civil War in games and recreational environments also offers an overview of methods and theories for the analysis of games as cultural artifacts.

The Afro-Hispanic Reader and Anthology, bilingual in its presentation in both Spanish and English, enables a more fulsome discussion on African Diasporic literature and cultural forms and a wider embrace of cultural production by writers of African ancestry in the Americas, Caribbean and Africa. Invaluable in its connection of African Diaspora Studies; Spanish and Portugese cultural studies; literary criticism and Latin American Literature to Caribbean studies generally, this collection will further enhance the link between African and the Americas, In what is perhaps the first published collection of works by authors of African ancestry in Spanish America and Equitorial Guinea - the only former Spanish colony in Africa - editors Paulette Ramsay and Antonio D. Tillis draw together a critical study of the literary production of this hitherto unrecognized body of scholars

Former visual arts director in Colombia's Ministry of Culture (1997-2001), and after more than 10 years in the United States, author Miguel Rojas-Sotelo explains how the new Colombian Constitution (1991) shaped cultural policies and the production and professionalization of visual art, literature, and mass media. The book "examines the insistence of Colombian middle class intellectuals to reexamine the founding events of the nation, including the scientific, geographical and ethnographic Expeditions of the mid-19th century. This tendency responds to a nostalgic desire to claim an uncompleted process to construct modernity. It is an example of societal schizophrenia but at the same time of social sensitivity that seeks to understand the nationœs present by uncovering the retro. A comparative examination of the work of the artists María Elvira Escallón (b. 1954) and Libia Posada (b. 1961) is used to illustrate aspects of public life and its interactions with the domestic sphere in Colombia. Subsequently, the text focuses on the cultural violence that has marginalized, exoticized and racialized certain population groups that are constitutive of the nation. This section presents the case of Abel Rodríguez (b.1941), a Nonuya indigenous man who has over the past decade, like a modern day successor to the Expedition naturalists, dedicated himself to illustrating thousands of botanical and animal species. Rodríguez is an example of a process of adaptation and capture that has rejected the denial of non-Eurocentric viewpoints that marked the logic of the Expeditions and of Western scientific thinking. Such responses are now embedded in the processes of cultural construction inaugurated by the 1991 Constitution and the emergence of new cultural markets in the country. Finally, the work of Juan Obando (b. 1980) illustrates an interstitial space that gives rise to a critical/anarchic possibility. The book discusses the way in which an image has been constructed of a docile nation based on a popular culture that has been domesticated by the forces of the global market (associated in this case with narcoculture). The international brandingʺ of the country and its bizarre domestic mirror are present in Obandoœs work, apparent in its bi-directional movement: at the same time central to, and on the margins of, national debate: operating, like many contemporary creators in the country, along a geological fault line." (HKB Translation)--Verso Cover

Throughout history, different cultural traditions, all of them with considerable linguistic diversity, have flourished and converged in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern regions. The International Conference of Junior Researchers in Mediterranean and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures provided a transverse and interdisciplinary framework of discussion and reflection on the intellectual and cultural production of the Mediterranean and the Near East, from its earliest stages to the present

The potential of the nine municipalities in the department of Cundinamarca, which were favored by the Railroad Girardot is immense; the variety of ecosystems located throughout the 132 km in the southwestern coffee plantations is extraordinary. If the stations have not yet been recovered, is perhaps by the difficulty to assign them a use new. The book raises the possibility of considering the 28 stations as parts of a single mechanism, regardless of the political-administrative division of the territory, arranged on a communication channel which is located on a different landscape, linking various means of life and production

"Through a series of rich photographs, Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio tells a compelling story about the war on drugs in Central America. The book focuses on the country of Guatemala, now the principle point of transit for the cocaine that is produced in the Andes and bound for the United States and Canada. Alongside a spike in the use of crack cocaine, Guatemala City has witnessed the proliferation of Pentecostal drug rehabilitation centers. The centers are sites of abuse and torment, but also lifesaving institutions in a country that does not provide any other viable social service to those struggling with drug dependency. Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio explores these centers as architectural forms, while also showcasing the cultural production that takes place inside them, including drawings and letters created by those held captive. This stunning work of visual ethnography humanizes those held inside these centers, breaks down stereotypes about drug use, and sets the conditions for a hemispheric conversation about prohibitionist practices - by revealing intimate portraits of a population held hostage by a war on drugs."--

This book emphasizes reflections on social relations and power that arepossible to delineate in the production/reproduction of inequality and precariousness in the ordercolonial, patriarchal and capitalist; in the radical or necropolitical violence that characterizes the scene contemporary, and along with it, the resistance processes that oppose and fracture it. From that will to oppose, fracture and also to transform, we emphasize the character committed to the investigations that each chapter presents, and that activist or militant seeks contribute to the construction of knowledge that transcends the traditional logic of thinking and produce knowledge. Thus, we distinguish the possibility of a research practice that contributes to the struggles and social transformations, either making them visible or generating theoretical debates in where political positions have a place.

This book analyzes the uses of music in the cinema in Chile in terms of meaning and interpretation, considering the socio-political circumstances that have marked the country during the 20th century. The time frame of this research ranges from 1939 when the sustained production of films with optical sound was established in the country and 1973, when the civil-military coup d'état destroyed all the pillars of the cultural field in Chile and many filmmakers and composers left for the exile. This work aims to challenge existing historiography and research by emphasizing the sound dimension of Chilean cinema. Far from being a secondary and decorative aspect, music has been a central element in different moments and practices of Chilean cinema both internally in its formal and narrative proposals and externally in its discursiveness and links with the social and political.

General Introduction xiii . - Mauricio A. Font. - . - Part I Economy. - . - Introduction: Economic Liberalization. - 3 (6). - Mauricio A. Font. - . - 1 Perspective on a Changing Cuba. - 9 (13). - Mauricio A. Font. - . - 2 Updating Cuba's Economic Model. - 22 (14). - Omar Everleny Perez Villanueva. - . - 3 Cuba's Evolving Public Policies toward Small Enterprise. - 36 (14). - Archibald R. M. Ritter. - . - 4 New Forms of Enterprise in Cuba's Changing Economy. - 50 (14). - Camila Pineiro Harnecker. - . - 5 Foreign Exchange Constraints: Crisis, Adjustment, and Gradual Exit. - 64 (17). - Pavel Vidal Alejandro. - . - 6 Sector agropecuario y lineamientos. - 81 (16). - Armando Nova Gonzalez. - . - 7 Cuba's Agricultural Transformations: Moving toward Market Socialism?. - 97 (14). - Mario A. Gonzalez-Corzo. - . - 8 Tourism in Cuba: Barriers to Economic Growth and Development. - 111 (13). - Hilary Becker. - . - 9 Cuba's Socialist Economy from Distorted Tertiarization to Market-Compatible Reforms. - 124 (13). - Alberto Gabriele. - . - 10 Forecasting Cuba's Economy: Two Years, Five Years, and Twenty Years. - 137 (28). - Emily Morris. - . - Part II Politics and Civil Society. - . - Introduction. - 165 (4). - Carlos Riobo. - . - 11 Cuba: Institutional Challenges for a Heterodox Reform. - 169 (7). - Carlos Alzugaray. - . - Armando Chaguaceda Noriega. - . - 12 The Politics of Culture in Cuba. - 176 (15). - Yvon Grenier. - . - 13 Expansion of the Religious Media in Contemporary Cuba. - 191 (12). - Margaret E. Crahan. - . - 14 Indirect Confrontation: The Evolution of the Political Strategy of the Cuban Catholic Church. - 203 (16). - Robert A. Portada III. - . - 15 Race in Cuban Society Today: The Letter and the Spirit. - 219 (9). - Miguel Barnet. - . - 16 Sparks of Civil Society in Cuba: Afro-Cuban Cultural Production, Artistic Interventions, and the Struggle for a New Public Sphere. - 228 (15). - Zoya Kocur. - . - 17 Clase versus raza en Cuba: la cuestion racial y el alzamiento del Partido Independiente de Color bajo la perspectiva anarquista (1902-1913). - 243 (15). - Amparo Sanchez Cobos. - . - 18 Cuban Freemasons in the Development of Civil Society and Political Opening. - 258 (15). - Jorge Luis Romeu. - . - Part III Cuba and the World. - . - Introduction. - 273 (4). - Carlos Riobo. - . - 19 Cuba's Reintegration into a Changing World. - 277 (10). - Mauricio A. Font. - . - 20 Globalization and the Socialist Multinational: Cuba at the Intersection of Business and Human Rights. - 287 (13). - Larry Cata Backer. - . - 21 La posicion comun de la Union Europea respecto a Cuba: una reflexion critica. - 300 (16). - Jose Chofre-Sirvent. - . - Carmen Anton-Guardiola. - . - 22 North Americans in Cuba in the 1960s. - 316 (14). - David Strug. - . - 23 Reinventing Guantanamo: Cuba-US Biofuel Production Capability. - 330 (16). - J. R. Paron. - . - Maria P. Aristigueta. - . - Conclusion 346 (5). - Mauricio A. Font. - . - Appendix: Economic Indicators 351 (2). - Janaina Said. - . - Acronyms and Terms 353 (4). - Bibliography 357 (31). - Index 388 (17). - About the Contributors 405 . - Close. - . -

Children, and space : multidisciplinary approaches to identity childhood / Margarita Sánchez Romero, Eva Alarcón García and Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez -- Steps to children's living spaces / Grete Lillehammer -- Complexity,CooperationandChildhood : An Evolutionary Perspective / Juan Manuel Jiménez-Arenas -- Children as potters : apprenticeship patterns from Bell Beaker pottery of Copper Age Inner Iberia (Spain) (c. 2500-2000 cal BC) / Rafael Garrido-Pena and Ana Mercedes Herrero-Corral -- Social Relations between adulthood and childhood in the Early Bronze Age site of Peñalosa (Baños de la Encina, Jaen, Spain) / Eva Alarcón García -- Gender and childhood in the II Iron Age : the pottery centreof Las Cogotas (Ávila, Spain) / Juan Jesús Padilla Fernández and Linda Chapon -- "Playing with mud" : an ethnoarchaeological approach to childhood learning of pottery making in northeast Ghana / Manuel Calvo, Jaume García Rosselló, David Javaloyas and Daniel Albero Contents -- Infantile Individuals: the Great Forgotten of Ancient Mining and Metallurgical Production / Luis Arboledas Martínez and Eva Alarcón García -- Learning to be adults : games and childhood on the outskirts of the big city (San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina) / Daniel Schavelzon -- Disabled Children and Domestic Living Spaces in Britain, 1800-1900 / Mary Clare Martin -- La evolución de los espacios de aprendizaje de la infancia a través de los modelos pedagógicos / Victoria Carmona Buendía and Elisa Valero Ramos -- Montessori y el ambiente preparado: un espacio de aprendizaje para los niños / Fátima Ortega Castillo -- Didactics of childhood : the case study of prehistory / Antonia García Luque -- Once upon a time : Childhood and archeology from the perspective of Spanish museums / Isabel Izquierdo Peraile, Clara López Ruiz and Lourdes Prados Torreira -- Home to Mother : the Long Journey to not Lose one's own Identity / Angela Anna Iuliucci -- Use of Molecular Genetic Procedures for Sex determination in Guanches' Children's Remains / Matilde Arnay, Alejandra Calderón Ordóñez, Rosa Fregel, Guacimara Ramos, Emilio González and José Pestano -- Salud y crecimiento en la Edad del Cobre : Un estudio preliminar de los individuos subadultos de Camino del Molino (Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia, España) : Un sepulcro colectivo del III Milenio cal. BC/ Susana Mendiela, Carme Rissech, María Haber and Daniel Turbón -- Infant Burials during the Copper and Bronze Ages in the Iberian Jarama River Valley : a preliminary study about childhood in the funerary context during III-II millennium BC / Raquel Aliaga Almela, Corina Liesau, Concepción Blasco, Patricia Ríos and Lorenzo Galindo -- Premature Death in the Vaccean Aristocracy at Pintia (Padilla de Duero/Peñafiel, Valladolid) : Comparative Study of the Funerary Rituals of two Little "princesses" / Carlos Sanz Minguez -- Dying young in Archaic Gela (Sicily) : from the Analysis of the Cemeteries to the Reconstruction of early colonial Identity / Claudia Lambrugo -- Maternidad e inhumaciones perinatales en el vicus romanorrepublicano de el Camp de les Lloses (tona, Barcelona) : lecturas y significados / Montserrat Duran i Caixal, Imma Mestres i Santacreu and M. Dolors Molas Font -- Children and funerary space : Ritual behaviours in the Greek colonies of Magna Graecia and Sicily / Diego Elia and Valeria Meirano -- Children and their burial practices in the early medieval cemeteries of Castel trosino and Nocera Umbra (Italy) / Valentina de Pasca -- La cultura lúdica en los rituales funerarios infantiles : los juegos de velorio / Jaume Bantulà Janot and Andrés Payà Rico -- Compartir la experiencia de la muerte : El niño muerto y el niño enfrentado a la muerte / Virginia de la Cruz Lichet

The aim of this book is to explore new forms and cultural practices in the digital age that challenge or undermine the hegemonic modes of knowledge production historically related to the written text. It is reassess non-textual production strategies and mechanisms that open up the possibility of new ways of knowledge. The authors of the essays gathered here believe that research based on art, digital communities and open access, expanded writtimg, performance and digital multimedia interventions are strategies that challenge notions traditional knowledge and at the same time are expanding the criteria beyond strictly from concepts of epistemology to explore transformations of known formats and the specific conditions that are they manifest in the information society. These investigations contribute to think the ways in which knowledge is looking for and finding new ways, even in the very bowels of the hegemonic institutions. It is proposed that the knowledge, beyond the text as hegemonic format, should include both studies as a theoretical and methodological paradigm through which is interpreted and social reality is analyzed, as well as their mobilization and activation to the hegemony; it theorizes about the dislocation effect on traditional epistemology caused by digitalization and new media, and explores the impact of new media and the digitization not only in everyday social practice, but in traditional conceptions art

"El Mundo Hispanohablante Contemporáneo : historia, política, sociedad y cultura is a comprehensive and innovative course for advanced students of Spanish. Offering a constructivist approach to the study of the contemporary civilizations, cultures and histories of the Spanish-speaking world, the course focuses on learning as an active process that enables learners to develop high-level critical thinking skills through the exposure, examination and discussion of a variety of authentic films, songs and literary texts. Divided into two parts: Part One covers Socio-Political Changes while Part Two looks at Globalization. High-interest topics covered include: politics, economic developments, behaviours, identity, immigration, attitudes, believes, and cultural products. Each chapter begins with an introduction to the general topic followed by various activities that lead students to critically analyse a range of authentic materials. Learners are able to practice higher level critical-thinking and linguistic skills through a wealth of exercises which culminate in a capstone section at the end of each chapter that guides students to a final production using the concepts learned and sources utilized throughout the lesson"--Provided by publisher

Autobiographical discourses, as means of expression and vindication of the self, offer female authors/artists the opportunity to define their own identity. The objective of this work is to offer a new approach to the feminine universe of visual self-representation. Self- narration should be at the center of feminist attention, being one of the most effective methods that women can apply to talk about their experiences and conditions. This research attempts to bring together multiethnic voices and promotes an interdisciplinary resource that interests not only literature and culture, but also other fields of the humanities, such as history, sociology, and gender and disability studies. One of the main intentions is to dismantle traditional forms of identity and destroy social borders, adopting difference as a unique component of each individual. Through personal narratives, photographs, films, paintings, murals, and digital productions, these female works examine themes such as homophobia, political identity, native sovereignty, motherhood, lesbian identity, and different minority cultural identities. Some of the selected authors live on the fringes of white supremacy due to belonging to minority ethnic and social groups. Other voices live outside the dominant heteronormative system because they recognize themselves as lesbian or bisexual. Beyond these circumstances, all the authors are discriminated against for being women in a patriarchal context. The different visual stories explore the contrasting nuances of women's racial and/or lesbian identity that are often perceived as outsiders within their own country. All the artists who are the subject of my analysis face different forms of repression and are motivated by a desire for social recognition. These marginalized groups invite readers to develop new forms of cross-cultural dialogues, practices, and alliances

Foreword --How Should International Arbitrators Tackle Corruption Issues? --Notes on Amiable Compositeurs under Argentine Law --Arbitraje y Derecho de Defensa --The Opportunity to Be Heard: Accommodating Amicus Curiae Participation in Investment Treaty Arbitration --Jurisdiction of Arbitral Tribunals in Islamic Law (Shari'a) --Arbitration and Mediation Combined. The Independence and Impartiality of Arbitrators --Deliberation and Drafting Awards in International Arbitration --ICSID Versus Non-ICSID Investment Treaty Arbitration --Commercial Arbitration and the Italian and EC Antitrust Legislation with an Emphasis on Intellectual Property Rights. --Bernardo Cremade's Contribution to the Development of Arbitration Law in Latin America --Arbitrabilité et Droit de la Concurrence --Polygamy of Treaties in Arbitration - A Latin American and MERCOSUL Perspective --May Courts in Latin American Countries Refuse Recognition and/or Enforcement of a Foreign Arbitral Award that Is Being Challenged at the Place of Arbitration? --Advocacy and the Functions of Lawyers in International Arbitration --The Arbitrator's Failure to Disclose Conflicts of Interest: Is It Per Se a Ground for Annulling the Award? --El Turismo Arbitral, ¿Realidad o Espejismo? --Validity in Spain of Bills of Lading's Jurisdiction Clauses and Anti-Suit Injunctions in the European Union --Collection of Evidence in International Arbitration --Leveraging the Arbitral Process to Encourage Settlement: Some Practical and Legal Issues --The New Law on Arbitration in Syria --Ethics in Arbitration --Clearer Ethics Guidelines and Comparative Standards for Arbitrators --Set-offs Are Not Counterclaims in International Arbitration --Remarks on the Sovereign Immunity from Execution and Its Interpretation by Some Systems and Their Courts --International Arbitration and Jura Novit Curia - Towards Harmonization --Contra los Recursos Infundados --La Ironí a de Compétence-Compétence --Attorneys' Fees Agonistes: The Implications of Inconsistency in the Awarding of Fees and Costs in International Arbitrations --Cultural Clashes in International Commercial Arbitration: How Much of a Real Issue? --Non-Signatories and Arbitration: Recent Developments --Elena Gutiérrez García de Cortázar --Misconduct by Proxy? Trying to Understand Article 22 of the ECT --State Intervention in the Financial Crisis and International Investment Arbitration --Electronically Stored Information and Privilege in International Arbitration --When is an "Investment" an "Investment"? - Formalities of Approval and Limitations on Their Application --Economic Crisis and Arbitration --Juan-Carlos Jiménez-Mancha --Brief Reflections on the Application of Norms by International Arbitrators --Applications for "Revision" in Investment Arbitration: Selected Current Issues --Fraud and Corruption in international Arbitration --Multi-Step Dispute Resolution Clauses --Countermeasures, Diplomatic Protection, and Investor-State Arbitration --The Entitlement of the State and Public Entities to Arbitrate Under Lebanese Law --Some Considerations About Current International Arbitration Conduct --¿Existe Hostilidad Hacia el Arbitraje de Inversión en América latina? --Bilateral Investment Treaty Arbitration in the Early 21st Century --Collisions of Legal Regimes in World Society. The Umbrella Clause as a Substantive and Procedural Mechanism of Legal Coordination --Some Comments on Denial of Justice in Public and Private International Law After Loewen and Saipem --Ventajas e Inconvenientes del Arbitraje Institucional --Limits of Consent - Arbitration without Privity and Beyond --The Principles of international Arbitration Practice in France --Use of Arbitration in the WTO --The Evolving Nature of Provisional Measures --How Case Law Made Mexico a True International Arbitration Place --Selected Nationality Issues in ECT Arbitration --Arbitration and Anti Suit Injuctions in the Case Law of the European Court of Justice --Unlawful interference with International Arbitration by National Courts of the Seat in the Aftermath of Saipem v. Bangladesh --International Arbitration as an Analogue to the International Civil Society --Evidence in International Arbitration: A Synthetic Glimpse --Investment and Economic Development – The World Bank Connection --Arbitration Is Useful Only if It Is Better than Court Proceedings --Fast-Track Arbitration Agreements of MAC Clauses --The Right of Foreign Investors to Access the Domestic Spanish Markets – An Analysis of Art. 2 Para. 1 of the Spanish Bilateral Investment Treaties --Belated Jurisdictional Objections in ICSID Arbitration --The Application of Arbitration to Public Entities. The Spanish Case --The 2000 Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments. A Latin American Perspective --Most Favoured Nation (MFN) Clauses in Bilateral Investment Treaties --Preliminary Judgments, Lis Pendens and Res Iudicata in Arbitration Proceedings --The Document Production Master and the Experts' Facilitator: Two Possible Aides for an Efficient Arbitration --Interviewing and Preparing Witnesses for Testimony in International Arbitration Proceedings: The Quest for Developing Transnational Standards of Lawyers' Conduct --A New Approach to International Investment Agreements (IIAS) in Brazil --Treaty Planning: Current Trends in international Investment Disputes that Impact Foreign Investment Decisions and Treaty Drafting.