Emigrar después de la crisis

Este libro es una crónica del funesto capítulo que está escribiendo Europa sobre la inmigración y de cómo el intento de conseguir una vida mejor por parte de los subsaharianos se ha convertido en el último holocausto europeo.

Nationalism is one of the major social and political issues of modern times, and a subject of intense intellectual debate. The most important and influential theory of nationalism is that of Ernest Gellner (1925-1995). This volume assesses every aspect of that theory, bringing together an exceptional set of scholars to explain, criticise and move beyond Gellner's work. In doing so the book establishes the state-of-play within the theory of nationalism, and complements Gellner's account by bringing political variables back into play. The book is unique in offering sustained attention to a...

Following the 1996 treaty ending decades of civil war, how are Guatemalans reckoning with genocide, especially since almost everyone contributed in some way to the violence? Meaning “to count, figure up” and “to settle rewards and punishments,” reckoning promises accounting and accountability. Yet as Diane M. Nelson shows, the means by which the war was waged, especially as they related to race and gender, unsettled the very premises of knowing and being. Symptomatic are the stories of duplicity pervasive in postwar Guatemala, as the left, the Mayan people, and the state were each...

¿Cuáles son las psicopatologías de la vida cotidiana y del imaginario social en la posmodernidad? ¿Han afectado los procesos de reestructuración económica, social y política a la construcción cultural, la definición del arte y al funcionamiento psicológico de los sujetos posmodernos? ¿Cómo se integran estos cambios culturales con los modos de comportamiento y de codificación del ?estar-en-el-mundo? vigentes en la actualidad? En esta obra Zygmunt Bauman rastrea la fenomenología de las nuevas formas del malestar segregadas por las actuales pautas de comportamiento cultural y la...