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En todas las áreas, las personas con voluntad de cambio y desarrollo social utilizan las formas artísticas y la creatividad para conmover la esfera pública, atraer la atención, tomar poder sobre los espacios urbanos y generar nuevos lenguajes y voces sociales. El activismo artístico involucra a personalidades creadoras de todas las culturas, se enraíza en ideas políticas esenciales, moviliza ideas de cambio e igualdad social e interesa a las generaciones más jóvenes, en un espíritu que rompe las barreras académicas y las distinciones profesionales. La creatividad activista con frecuencia ha sido percibida como próxima a la categoría del outsider art que engloba el arte producido por no artistas donde el contexto específico sería la protesta política y/o la experimentación social. El artivismo tiene sus raíces en las vanguardias artísticas (dada, futurismo, surrealismo, etc.) y el posterior desarrollo y auge en la década de los años sesenta y setenta del pasado siglo (performance, happening, body art, land art, video art o arte conceptual), que, muchas veces, nace de una especie de desmaterialización del objeto artístico. Este libro se centra en prácticas de creatividad activista de España, Chile, Perú, Reino Unido, Colombia, etc. que tienen que ver con los actuales fenómenos de crisis discursiva, ideológica, política, económica, financiera. Entender el artivismo, un concepto que, nada más pronunciarlo, despierta un amplio abanico de sensaciones.

This book questions the extent to which knowledge and experience can be reasonably, if at all, separated in consideration of the divine. Gregory Palamas's dynamic patterning of unions and distinctions provides the context for a response to this question in which the breadth and depth of human functioning is explored.

The pursuit of women's pleasures, often expected to be constrained under patriarchy, is potentially transgressive and linked to women's emancipation in other realms. This book explores a wide range of examples of women and pleasure in French and francophone culture, from novels to stand-up comedy.

A manifesto for the systems-thinking-informed approach to incident and accident investigation, this accessible text is aimed at experts and generalists alike. A Glossary of Terms explains key concepts.

Through the voices of stakeholders in the field of teaching English to speakers of other languages (ESOL), this volume critically examines models of language provision and integration, the relationship between language and identity, and developing ESOL practices and policy.

Este libro forma parte de un proyecto de refundación conceptual del pensamiento en América latina y que ha sido realizado en cuatro partes. La cuestión periférica. Heidegger, Derrida, Europa (en prensa) es la primera parte en donde se establecen las cuestiones y problemáticas básicas. El fin de la naturaleza. Fallo y propósito en la especulación. Antropología de la naturaleza en la periferia (en prensa) es la segunda parte en donde dichas problemáticas básicas son reformuladas en términos de porvenir. El presente volumen, tercera parte del conjunto, es el desarrollo y expansión argumentativa en términos de mundo de dicha base conceptual y problemática. Y, por último, El pensamiento basura. Transitoriedad, materia, viaje y mundo periférico (2017) constituye la cuarta entrega que explora, basándose en un leading case, los alcances de los precedentes planteos a partir de los significados que el concepto de especulación posee en los colectivos humanos contemporáneos de la periferia. El propósito de este proyecto, del cual además este libro es su ilustración más extensa y variada, es establecer las bases de la noción de ámbito periférico como ecología/ambiente epistémico indispensable a la reflexión intelectual. Y por lo mismo como forma de entendimiento de lo especulativo con lo biosférico.

What is Sci-Fi? Science fiction is a non-realist genre that revels in discovery and revelation, whether through human ingenuity or world-altering paradigm shifts. With accessible chapters on key texts appealing to both general readers and researchers, this volume offers a useful survey of the genre, from Octavia Butler to Westworld.

The general aim of this book is to contribute to a better understanding of metonymy, using the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics. The book argues for a conceptual rather than purely linguistic basis for metonymy and explores distinctions between metonymy and other figurative language.

This book presents a seven-stage model of spiritual awaking amongst women living with chronic "invisible" or contested illnesses which bears relevance for people faced with any kind of life-altering condition. The illnesses featured include ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Electromagnetic Sensitivity, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and Lyme disease.

Ireland and the North is engaged with the relationship between Ireland and the Nordic countries. Chapters include a wide-range of areas including art history, literary history and theory, archaeology, antiquarianism, media studies and political analysis. The book moves beyond the predominant literary paradigm in Irish Studies, expanding the field.

In seguito al 150 Degrees della nascita di Luigi Pirandello, questo volume del Centro Europeo di Studi Pirandelliani si propone di rendere conto di alcuni degli molteplici studi recenti sulla sua opera. I contributi si inspirano alle piu attuali teorie per confrontarsi con temi come le narrazioni contrastanti e i ricordi conflittuali.

This book offers a comparative theological exploration of the challenges and opportunities presented by the Qur'anic representation of Christianity as the People of the Book, ahl al-kitab, in the Qur'anic commentary tradition. It explores the use of the term in the context of our increasingly interconnected and pluralist societies.

This anthology is a collection of four contemporary Chinese plays by the playwright Wan Fang, presented in the original Chinese and in English translation. An introduction by the volume editor offers a survey of the development of modern Chinese drama.

This volume provides readers with a timely study of intergenerational conflicts seen through the eyes of British and Irish playwrights from the medieval period to the twenty-first century. The heart of the discord lies in crises between age and youth, old and new, which play out in clashes of cultures, artistic visions and aesthetic ideals.

Les recherches effectuees sur la texture et la qualite de la voix ou la relation entre la voix et l'affect sont beaucoup plus rares. Le present recueil d'articles offre une perspective pluridisciplinaire au carrefour entre la sociolinguistique, la phonologie et les etudes cinematographiques.

The first book to focus on the original contribution to the field of Critical Pedagogy made by Jacques Ranciere. It represents a significant addition to work on Ranciere as well as to the field of Critical Pedagogy, containing vital insights for the survival and development of education as a democratic, critical and emancipatory project.

This book breaks new ground in drawing on evolutionary psychology in support of advocacy for music education, and the presentation of innovative musical pedagogy. It adopts the perspective that musical experience is the birth right of all human beings through the decisive role it played in the evolution of our species.

Crime fiction is popular internationally despite its cultural specificity. This book offers an accessible analysis of how the choice of translation strategy can significantly affect representations of cultural identity in translations of crime fiction, identifying creative solutions for translation challenges.

This book assembles many examples of good practice to facilitate the task of teaching Spanish Golden Age texts through new methodologies. The volume is infused with a strong belief that there is much to be shared in terms of innovative ideas and practical applications for teaching these classic texts.

Innerhalb der Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts zeigt sich das gehäufte Auftreten des Wortes «Glückseligkeit», was auf eine zentrale Rolle der unter diesem Begriff gefassten Bedeutung im Denken der Zeitgenossen schliessen lässt. Gleichwohl ist diese Kategorie bisher noch nicht als eine zentrale Wertvorstellung literaturhistorisch untersucht, sondern lediglich in kurzen Worten hervorgehoben worden. Diese Lücke versucht die Arbeit von J. Schmidt-Neubauer nun zu schliessen, indem sie an exemplarischen Beispielen eine erste Aufarbeitung der Bedeutung des Begriffes «Glückseligkeit» für die literarische Produktion des 18. Jahrhunderts leistet.