An innovative roadmap to facing our past and present selvesHonest, aching, and intimate, self-elegies are unique poems focusing on loss rather than death, mourning versions of the self that are forgotten or that never existed. Within their lyrical frame, multiple selves can coexist—wise and naïve, angry and resigned—along with multiple timelines, each possible path stemming from one small choice that both creates new selves and negates potential selves. Giving voi...

The concept of identity has steadily emerged in importance in the field of intercultural communication, especially over the last two decades. In a transnational world marked by complex connectivity as well as enduring differences and power inequities, it is imperative to understand and continuously theorize how we perceive the self in relation to the cultural other. Such understandings play a central role in how we negotiate relationships, build alliances, promote peace, and strive for soc...

Taking up the charge to study discourses of marginalized groups, while simultaneously extending scholarship about Latina/os in the field of Communication, Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces: Somos de Una Voz? provides the most current work examining the vernacular voices of Latina/os. The editors of this diverse collection structure the book along four topics-Locating Foundations, Citizenship and Belonging, The Politics of Self-Representation, and Trans/National Voces

El autor elabora un análisis sobre el poder industrial y el poder relativo de los trabajadores. Este estudio, desde la óptica de la posición estratégica, arroja nueva luz en torno al trabajo obrero y a la posición sindical. Este ensayo forma parte de las investigaciones académicas sobre industrias como la textil, la cervecera, la energética, la petroquímica y la de la comunicación, y se añade al proyecto de Womack, Historia obrera 1880-1950. Veracruz, nudo estratégico industrial.

This volume examines the relationship between states and organized crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing the criminalization of the state. The volume also explores the nature of organized crime in countries throughout the Americas from Central America to the Southern Cone.

¿Por qué esta presencia ambigua de la filosofía en el psicoanálisis? Este libro surge en medio de esta pregunta. Una provocación para tratar de entender la "tirantez" que existe en esta relación entre el psicoanálisis y la filosofía, entre Lacan y Foucault. En esta empresa nos vimos abocados a la ambigüedad de ponerlos uno en frente del otro a partir de un "con(tra)", queriendo así mostrar las divergencias de apreciación en cual o tal momento o acerca de cual o tal tema. Se trata de un esf...

Changing patterns of energy production and consumption are transforming the geopolitics of the global system. The BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (not discussed in this volume), a loose conglomeration of emerging powers, are part of the change as are Western powers.Variations in the energy policies of the Americas, especially the United States and Canada, are altering existing dynamics. Both states are increasing energy production and are projected to...

Undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United StatesA “border” is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical territories, as a judicial marker of citizenship, and as an ideological trope for defining inclusion and exclusion. It has implications for both the empowerment and subjugation of any given populace. Both real and imagined, th...

Esta obra es producto de un trabajo colectivo en torno al cuerpo momificado de una pequeña niña que data aproximadamente del año 340 antes de Cristo. Los restos momificados, su entorno ambiental y su contexto cultural se analizaron desde la perspectiva de las ciencias médicas, forenses, antropológicas y arqueológicas. Este esfuerzo científico permitió un mejor entendimiento de la vida y la muerte de los antiguos pobladores de esta región ubicada al sur de la Sierra Gorda, hoy Municipio de ...

The increasing global prevalence of obesity and nutrition-based non-communicable disease has many causes, including food availability; social norms as evidenced in local foodways; genetic predisposition; economic circumstance; cultural variation in norms surrounding body composition; and policies affecting production, distribution, and consumption of food locally and globally. The Applied Anthropology of Obesity:Prevention, Intervention, and Identity advances understanding of the many cult...

The book examines contemporary immigration policy and immigrant assimilation with a focus on the adoption of sanctuary ordinances in US local governments in connection with Latino in-migration. It also investigates the adoption of anti-immigrant settlement local ordinances in many local governments with particular focus on local law enforcement positions taken on enforcement of federal immigration laws. The book investigates a wide range of county-level characteristics of 3,000+ U.S. count...

The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated approach was tested in both the US and in Mexico. Two overview chapters cover related information on Cuba and on coastal zone management in Mexico. The comprehensive data on management pol...