Igualdad bajo sospecha

EQUALITY UNDER SUSPICION - The transforming power of education - The book describes equality based on the idea that no woman should be less equal in opportunity or in human rights than any man. Even with the granting of equality to women in public life, women’s domestic labour will always be unequal to that of men. The hidden patriarchal agenda of public institutions can subvert the apparent equality of legal rights. Education is one of the most powerful ways in which gender and social relations of production are reproduced. The combined influence of gender and class construction in schools ...

La sociedad mapuche ha cambiado profundamente en las últimas décadas. Estos cambios son profundos: de ser una minoría discriminada ha pasado a ser un grupo, aún marginado, con una presencia insoslayable en la sociedad y política chilenas. Esta es una investigación acerca de las situación actual de los mapuche y su heterogeneidad contemporánea.

This excellent history of Peru proposes and proves an entirely new thesis on its nineteenth century: the changes in its economy that might have led to a better future were undone by taxes and other demands at the national, provincial and local levels. The failure of Peru owes a good deal to wartime taxes and local tax farming of the countryside. Professor Christine Hunefeldt does for the mundane issue of taxation what she has already done for Peruvian slavery and women’s rights; she writes a new history based on the evolution of a tax structure that changed for the worse over time. This is...

Clear evidence that sedentary farmers cultivated both maize and manioc in the Colombian Amazon Basin by 2700 B.C. During the first few centuries A.D. a larger population actively managed organic garbage and eventually transported large quantities of silt from the river banks to improve the agricultural yields of the plateau they farmed. Complete text in English and Spanish.

Cuando Helena Maleno llegó a Marruecos en 2002 con su hijo, dos maletas y un proyecto laboral de tres meses no podía imaginar hasta qué punto aquel país y la lucha por los derechos de las poblaciones migrantes que lo atravesaban transformarían su vida para siempre. Ya instalada en Tánger de forma definitiva, Helena se adentró en los asentamientos provisionales de los bosques que rodean Ceuta y Melilla y empezó a denunciar sin descanso las violaciones de derechos de aquellos que buscan cruzar, por tierra o por mar, una frontera que les permita alcanzar Europa. La primera llamada desde...