Art Of Captivity Arte Del Cautiverio

Author : Kevin Lewis O'Neill,Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781487535629

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Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio by Kevin Lewis O'Neill,Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela Pdf

Through a series of rich photographs, Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio tells a compelling story about the war on drugs in Central America. Entirely bilingual in both English and Spanish, 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.

Author : Kevin Lewis O'Neill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1487535619

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Art of Captivity by Kevin Lewis O'Neill Pdf

This bilingual photography book investigates the complexities of today's war on drugs by examining the art and architecture of Guatemala City's Pentecostal drug rehabilitation centers.

Author : Daniel M. Knight
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800731943

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Vertiginous Life by Daniel M. Knight Pdf

Vertiginous Life provides a theory of the intense temporal disorientation brought about by life in crisis. In the whirlpool of unforeseen social change, people experience confusion as to where and when they belong on timelines of previously unquestioned pasts and futures. Through individual stories from crisis Greece, this book explores the everyday affects of vertigo: nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, the sense of falling, and unknowingness of Self. Being lost in time, caught in the spin-cycle of crisis, people reflect on belonging to modern Europe, neoliberal promises of accumulation, defeated futures, and the existential dilemmas of life held captive in the uncanny elsewhen.

Author : Greg Elmer,Stephen J. Neville
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781040018187

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The Politics of Media Scarcity by Greg Elmer,Stephen J. Neville Pdf

This book questions the predominance of “media abundance” as a guiding concept for contemporary mediated politics. The authors argue that media abundance is not a universal condition, and that certain individuals, communities, and even nations can more accurately be referred to as media scarce – where access to media technologies and content is limited, highly controlled, or surveilled. Through case studies that focus on guerilla militants, incarcerated Indigenous people, and cold war‐era infrastructure, including Soviet “closed” or “secret” cities and Canadian nuclear bunkers, the book’s chapters interrogate how the once media scarce later “speak” to – and can be heard by – the predominant, abundant media culture. Drawing from several art projects and diverse cultural sites, the book highlights how media scarce communities negotiate and otherwise narrate their place in the world, their past experiences and lives, and escape from subjugation. To better understand media scarce politics, the book asks how and when communities become – by accident or force, by choice or necessity – media scarce. This innovative and insightful text will appeal to students and scholars around the world working in the areas of media and politics, art and politics, visual studies, surveillance studies, and communication studies.

Author : Esther Fernández,Adrienne L. Martin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487538934

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Drawing the Curtain by Esther Fernández,Adrienne L. Martin Pdf

Miguel de Cervantes’s experimentation with theatricality is frequently tied to the notion of revelation and disclosure of hidden truths. Drawing the Curtain showcases the elements of theatricality that characterize Cervantes’s prose and analyses the ways in which he uses theatricality in his own literary production. Bringing together the works of well-known scholars, who draw from a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches, this collection demonstrates how Cervantes exploits revelation and disclosure to create dynamic dramatic moments that surprise and engage observers and readers. Hewing closely to Peter Brook’s notion of the bare or empty stage, Esther Fernández and Adrienne L. Martín argue that Cervantes’s omnipresent concern with theatricality manifests not only in his drama but also in the myriad metatheatrical instances dispersed throughout his prose works. In doing so, Drawing the Curtain sheds light on the ways in which Cervantes forces his readers to engage with themes that are central to his life and works, including love, freedom, truth, confinement, and otherness.

Author : Angélica Gorodischer
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780826501424

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Jaguars' Tomb by Angélica Gorodischer Pdf

Jaguars' Tomb is a novel in three parts, written by three interconnected characters. Part one, "Hidden Variables" by María Celina Igarzábal, is narrated by Bruno Seguer. Seguer in turn is the author of the second part, "Recounting from Zero" ("Contar desde zero"), in which Evelynne Harrington, author of the third, is a central character. Harrington, finally, is the author of "Uncertainty" ("La incertidumbre"), whose protagonist is the dying Igarzábal. Each of the three parts revolves around the octagonal room that is alternately the jaguars' tomb, the central space of the torture center, and the heart of an abandoned house that hides an adulterous affair. The novel, by Argentine author Angélica Gorodischer, is both an intriguing puzzle and a meditation on how to write about, or through, violence, injustice, and loss. Among Gorodischer's many novels, Jaguars' Tomb most directly addresses the abductions and disappearances that occurred under the Argentine military dictatorship of 1976–83. This is the fourth of Gorodischer's books translated into English. The first, Kalpa Imperial—translated by Ursula Le Guin—was selected for the New York Times summer reading list in 2003.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004395701

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Jews and Muslims Made Visible in Christian Iberia and Beyond, 14th to 18th Centuries by Anonim Pdf

This volume aims to show through various case studies how the interrelations between Jews, Muslims and Christians in Iberia were negotiated in the field of images, objects and architecture during the Later Middle Ages and Early Modernity.

Author : William Gaddis
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 969 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681374673

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The Recognitions by William Gaddis Pdf

A postmodern masterpiece about fraud and forgery by one of the most distinctive, accomplished novelists of the last century. The Recognitions is a sweeping depiction of a world in which everything that anyone recognizes as beautiful or true or good emerges as anything but: our world. The book is a masquerade, moving from New England to New York to Madrid, from the art world to the underworld, but it centers on the story of Wyatt Gwyon, the son of a New England minister, who forsakes religion to devote himself to painting, only to despair of his inspiration. In expiation, he will paint nothing but flawless copies of his revered old masters—copies, however, that find their way into the hands of a sinister financial wizard by the name of Recktall Brown, who of course sells them as the real thing. Dismissed uncomprehendingly by reviewers on publication in 1955 and ignored by the literary world for decades after, The Recognitions is now established as one of the great American novels, immensely ambitious and entirely unique, a book of wild, Boschian inspiration and outrageous comedy that is also profoundly serious and sad.

Author : Kevin Lewis O'Neill
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520260627

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City of God by Kevin Lewis O'Neill Pdf

'City of God' explores the role of neo-Pentecostal Christian sects in the religious, social & political life of Guatemala. O'Neill examines one such church, looking at how its practices have become acts of citizenship in a new, politically relevant era for Protestantism.

Author : Kevin Lewis O'Neill
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520960091

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Secure the Soul by Kevin Lewis O'Neill Pdf

"I’m not perfect," Mateo confessed. "Nobody is. But I try." Secure the Soul shuttles between the life of Mateo, a born-again ex-gang member in Guatemala and the gang prevention programs that work so hard to keep him alive. Along the way, this poignantly written ethnography uncovers the Christian underpinnings of Central American security. In the streets of Guatemala City—amid angry lynch mobs, overcrowded prisons, and paramilitary death squads—millions of dollars empower church missions, faith-based programs, and seemingly secular security projects to prevent gang violence through the practice of Christian piety. With Guatemala increasingly defined by both God and gangs, Secure the Soul details an emerging strategy of geopolitical significance: regional security by way of good Christian living.

Author : Kevin Lewis O'Neill
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226624792

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Hunted by Kevin Lewis O'Neill Pdf

“A necessary addition to the literature on Latin America’s Pentecostals, whose number exceeds 100 million . . . a highly readable text.” —Times Higher Education “It’s not a process,” one pastor insisted, “rehabilitation is a miracle.” In the face of addiction and few state resources, Pentecostal pastors in Guatemala City are fighting what they understand to be a major crisis. Yet the treatment centers they operate produce this miracle of rehabilitation through extraordinary means: captivity. These men of faith snatch drug users off the streets, often at the request of family members, and then lock them up inside their centers for months, sometimes years. Hunted is based on more than ten years of fieldwork among these centers and the drug users that populate them. Over time, as Kevin Lewis O’Neill engaged both those in treatment and those who surveilled them, he grew increasingly concerned that he, too, had become a hunter, albeit one snatching up information. This thoughtful, intense book will reframe the arc of redemption we so often associate with drug rehabilitation, painting instead a seemingly endless cycle of hunt, capture, and release. “O’Neill uses his dramatic story of the manhunt to rethink Foucauldian pastoral power . . . [an] utterly brilliant book.” —PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review “The theme of Kevin Lewis O’Neill’s fascinating book, Hunted—i.e., drug addicts kidnapped and held in involuntary confinement in treatment centers run by Guatemalan Pentecostals—may strike readers as so outré or outrageous as to provoke a reaction . . . Hunted consists in brilliant participant-observer reportage.” —Pneuma

Author : John King
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521636515

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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture by John King Pdf

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Author : Brian A. Catlos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521889391

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Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050–1614 by Brian A. Catlos Pdf

An innovative study which explores how the presence of Muslim communities transformed Europe and stimulated Christian society to define itself.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Crocodiles
ISBN : 2880329876

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Crocodiles, Their Ecology, Management, and Conservation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alcira Duenas,Alcira Dueñas
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781607320197

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Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" by Alcira Duenas,Alcira Dueñas Pdf

Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial rule, these writings challenged colonial hierarchies and ethnic discrimination in attempts to redefine the Andean role in colonial society. Scholars have long assumed that Spanish rule remained largely undisputed in Peru between the 1570s and 1780s, but educated elite Indians and mestizos challenged the legitimacy of Spanish rule, criticized colonial injustice and exclusion, and articulated the ideas that would later be embraced in the Great Rebellion in 1781. Their movement extended across the Atlantic as the scholars visited the seat of the Spanish empire to negotiate with the king and his advisors for social reform, lobbied diverse networks of supporters in Madrid and Peru, and struggled for admission to religious orders, schools and universities, and positions in ecclesiastic and civil administration. Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" explores how scholars contributed to social change and transformation of colonial culture through legal, cultural, and political activism, and how, ultimately, their significant colonial critiques and campaigns redefined colonial public life and discourse. It will be of interest to scholars and students of colonial history, colonial literature, Hispanic studies, and Latin American studies.