Visualizing Loss In Latin America

Author : Gisela Heffes
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031288319

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Visualizing Loss in Latin America by Gisela Heffes Pdf

Visualizing Loss in Latin America engages with a varied corpus of textual, visual, and cultural material with specific intersections with the natural world, arguing that Latin American literary and cultural production goes beyond ecocriticism as a theoretical framework of analysis. Gisela Heffes poses the following crucial question: How do we construct a conceptual theoretical apparatus to address issues of value, meaning, tradition, perspective, and language, that contributes substantially to environmental thinking, and that is part and parcel of Latin America? The book draws attention to ecological inequality and establishes a biopolitical, ethics-based reading of Latin American art, film, and literature that operates at the intersection of the built environment and urban settings. Heffes suggests that the aesthetic praxis that emerges in/from Latin America is permeated with a rhetoric of waste—a significant trait that overwhelmingly defines it.

Author : Jens Andermann,Gabriel Giorgi,Victoria Saramago
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110775969

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Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics by Jens Andermann,Gabriel Giorgi,Victoria Saramago Pdf

The Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics offers a comprehensive overview of Latin American aesthetic and conceptual production addressing the more-than-human environment at the intersection between art, activism, and critique. Fields include literature, performance, film, and other audiovisual media as well as their interactions with community activisms. Scholars who have helped establish environmental approaches in the field as well as emergent critical voices revisit key concepts such as ecocriticism, (post-)extractivism, and multinaturalism, while opening new avenues of dialogue with areas including critical race theory and ethnicity, energy humanities, queer-*trans studies, and infrastructure studies, among others. This volume both traces these genealogies and maps out key positions in this increasingly central field of Latin Americanism, at the same time as they relate it to the environmental humanities at large. By showing how artistic and literary productions illuminate critical zones of environmental thought, articulating urgent social and material issues with cultural archives, historical approaches and conceptual interventions, this volume offers cutting-edge critical tools for approaching literature and the arts from new angles that call into question the nature/culture boundary.

Author : Scott Weintraub
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429839399

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Latin American Technopoetics by Scott Weintraub Pdf

Latin American Technopoetics: Scientific Explorations in New Media analyzes the ways in which poetry and multimedia installations by six prominent poets and artists engage, and in turn are engaged by, scientific discourses. In its innovative readings of contemporary digital media works, Latin American Technopoetics is the first book to investigate the powerful dialogue between recent techno-cultural phenomena, literature, and various scientific fields. This cutting-edge analysis of poetic and artistic experimentation—robots that compose and recite poetry, algorithms that create visualizations of poetic language or of the connections between everyday language and scientific terminology, arrays of multi-dimensional poetic spaces, and telematic and transgenic art—makes a strong case for the increasing viability of a scientific poetics currently gaining prominence in Latin American literary and media studies, digital humanities, and science and technology studies.

Author : Linda R. Berg,Mary Catherine Hager
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-10
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015078799973

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Visualizing Environmental Science by Linda R. Berg,Mary Catherine Hager Pdf

This book follows a unique approach by placing a greater emphasis on visual learning as a means for environmental scientists to understand and connect with the central issues of environmental science. It vividly illustrates the overarching role that humans play in our planet's environmental problems and successes. In each chapter, What a Scientist Sees features are presented to highlight a concept or phenomenon from the perspective of a professional in the field. Process diagrams are also used to depict complex processes. Environmental scientists will be able to reinforce their understanding of the field and gain new insights with this second edition.

Author : Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Group problem solving
ISBN : 9782831714219

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Visualizing sustainable landscapes : understanding and negotiating conservation and development trade-offs using visual techniques by Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono Pdf

Author : Jason Chang,Ben Barson,Alexis Dudden
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781629639796

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The Cargo Rebellion by Jason Chang,Ben Barson,Alexis Dudden Pdf

The Cargo Rebellion tells a true story of mutiny on the high seas in which four hundred indentured Chinese men overthrew their captor, the Connecticut businessman and slave trader Leslie Bryson, taking a stand against an exploitative global enterprise. The laborers learned that Bryson’s claimed destination of San Francisco was a lie to trick them into deadly servitude in the dreaded guano islands of Peru. Reaching a dramatic tipping point, the mutineers rose up and killed Bryson and several of the ship's officers and then attempted to sail back to China. This book's centerpiece, a deft graphic account of the rebellion in the context of the “coolie trade” and the struggle to end traffic in human “cargo,” is supported by essays that spotlight the rebellion itself, how the subject of indentured Asian workers is being taught in classrooms, and how Chinese workers shaped the evolution of American music, particularly in the making of the first drum set. The Cargo Rebellion is a history from below that does justice to the memory of hundreds of thousands of indentured workers and demonstrates how Asian migration to the Americas was rooted in slavery, colonialism, and the life-and-death struggle against servitude.

Author : Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque,Umesh Patil,Ákos Máthé
Publisher : Springer
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789402415520

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Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of South America by Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque,Umesh Patil,Ákos Máthé Pdf

This volume in the series deals with the major Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) of South America, providing information on major aspects of this specific group of plants on that continent (botany, traditional usage, chemistry, production/collection practices, trade and utilization). Brazil, in particular, offers an immense amount of biodiversity, including plants with great pharmacological interest and ethno-medicinal importance. Contributions are from internationally recognized professionals, specialists of the Medicinal and Aromatic Plant domain and have been invited mostly from the members of the International Society for Horticultural Science and International Council for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants.

Author : Julia Alexis Kushigian
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Apocalypse in literature
ISBN : 9781469681900

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The Resilient Apocalypse by Julia Alexis Kushigian Pdf

"Portraits of 'good battling evil' in the geography of Hell come in many forms in the Hispanic World. Apocalyptic nightmares, fearful images of life, chaos and death are inclusive and interdepEndent, yet simultaneously project an exceptional quality. Where images remain unfulfilled in narrow allegiances to a proscribed End, this investigation explores how narrative logic may challenge unified notions of finalities. Redeploying transglobal character and narrative potential, it distinguishes itself by training the lens on New Beginnings. Its analysis embeds resilient formulas for combating the End through resistance in Latin America and Spain revealed in gilded illustration, decolonizing drama, messianic chronicles and poetry, baroque letters, racially-motivated novels, sexuality-threatening films, and intimidating immigrant photos complete with destruction wreaked by climate change. Through chaos the resilient Apocalypse simultaneously performs as an internal defense (a vehicle for mourning) and a counter-discourse to power (a mechanism for resistance). Its strategy listens to and keeps the enemy 'in sight and in mind,' a formula for grappling with and engaging difference that analyzes the traces left on each other's cultural fabric in an open-Ended, communal struggle. This study argues for decolonizing the politics of the End and reformulating an incomplete, mythical, uncanny quality into a poetics of resistance garnering communal solutions and obligations. Here the Apocalypse is unremittingly sought after to redefine social justice, salvation and reality over time and past collateral damage, ironically providing future hope against itself, the crushing fear of the End. It crystalizes what had yet to be comprehensively explored: how rival traditions internalize competing apocalyptic worldviews to arrive at sustainable plans of action, time-tested, reputable cultural models to control dissension from within and without, and social goals supported by traces the other imprints on their cultural ethos. Bracketing the finality of the End and arguing the process from conflict archaeology toward New Beginnings, salvation, solace or hope, resolves an incomplete myth by negotiating the afterward. Revealing how plural, competing viewpoints of the End go a long way to legitimize each other, this theory of unfulfilled promise forever changes the way we engage the other and value the self"

Author : The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003835660

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Survival: August 2023 by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Pdf

Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment. In this issue: François Heisbourg assesses that Ukraine might have to accept the de facto division of the country to secure a fast track into NATO Daniel Byman writes that state ties to terrorist groups are likely to feature in the western alliance’s long-term confrontation with Russia and in its rivalry with China Juan Pablo Medina Bickel and Irene Mia assess that global climate mitigation and the energy transition could reinforce South America’s geopolitical clout From the Survival archives, the late David P. Calleo predicted in 1999 that a successful euro would enhance the EU’s diplomatic and military capabilities, while the late James Dobbins considered in 2012 how the US could prevent a war with China Dana H. Allin and John L. Harper reflect on long-time Survival contributing editor David P. Calleo’s legacy And nine more thought-provoking pieces, as well as our regular Book Reviews and Noteworthy column. Editor: Dr Dana Allin Managing Editor: Jonathan Stevenson Associate Editor: Carolyn West

Author : Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez,María Milagros López
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822380771

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The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader by Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez,María Milagros López Pdf

Sharing a postrevolutionary sympathy with the struggles of the poor, the contributors to this first comprehensive collection of writing on subalternity in Latin America work to actively link politics, culture, and literature. Emerging from a decade of work and debates generated by a collective known as the Latin American Studies Group, the volume privileges the category of the subaltern over that of class, as contributors focus on the possibilities of investigating history from below. In addition to an overview by Ranajit Guha, essay topics include nineteenth-century hygiene in Latin American countries, Rigoberta Menchú after the Nobel, commentaries on Haitian and Argentinian issues, the relationship between gender and race in Bolivia, and ungovernability and tragedy in Peru. Providing a radical critique of elite culture and of liberal, bourgeois, and modern epistemologies and projects, the essays included here prove that Latin American Subaltern Studies is much more than the mere translation of subaltern studies from South Asia to Latin America. Contributors. Marcelo Bergman, John Beverley, Robert Carr, Sara Castro-Klarén, Michael Clark, Beatriz González Stephan, Ranajit Guha, María Milagros López , Walter Mignolo, Alberto Moreiras, Abdul-Karim Mustapha, José Rabasa, Ileana Rodríguez, Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Javier Sanjinés, C. Patricia Seed, Doris Sommer, Marcia Stephenson, Mónica Szurmuk, Gareth Williams, Marc Zimmerman

Author : Perry, Jim,Falzon, Charlie
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231000171

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Climate change adaptation for natural World Heritage sites: a practical guide by Perry, Jim,Falzon, Charlie Pdf

Author : Brian Larson,Mark Davis,Dan English,Paul Purington
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780071810227

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Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power View (ENHANCED EBOOK) by Brian Larson,Mark Davis,Dan English,Paul Purington Pdf

The only official guide to Tableau 8, the award-winning BI software In this book, Certified Tableau trainer and bestselling BI author George Peck teaches you how to build meaningful data visualizations and dashboards using Tableau 8. Complete with training videos, Tableau 8: The Official Guide provides comprehensive coverage of the latest version of Tableau, the BI software designed for faster data analysis and better business dashboards. Electronic content features original Camtasia videos that bring all examples to life Shows how to build dashboards and analytics in minutes and hours, not days and weeks Enables informed business decision-making based on real data discovery

Author : Okocha, Desmond Onyemechi,Yousaf, Muhammad,Onobe, Melchizedec J.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781668480953

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Handbook of Research on Deconstructing Culture and Communication in the Global South by Okocha, Desmond Onyemechi,Yousaf, Muhammad,Onobe, Melchizedec J. Pdf

There are inequalities in global knowledge production in communication outlets, cultural practices, and governance problems. Under this symbiotic relationship, they reinforce the cultural ideas, values, and governance systems operating in the Western countries as an ideal and role model for the Global South countries. Media is regarded as the agent of change for communication and cultural values. Indigenous knowledge production and dissemination is an essential feature to get a better insight into Global South countries. Likewise, dewesternizing and demystifying societal culture and governance issues are pertinent in this age of information. The Handbook of Research on Deconstructing Culture and Communication in the Global South focuses on local production practices keeping in view the local needs of communication outlets and societal and cultural sensitivities. This Indigenous knowledge would provide deeper and richer insights into the problems and sensitivities of Global South countries. To achieve this end, this book adopts a broader approach encompassing development issues, democratic values, digitalization practices, gender equality issues, and more. Covering topics such as biocultural activism, language ideology, and religiocentrism, this major reference work is a valuable resource for graduate students, sociologists, government officials, students and educators of higher education, librarians, development organization leaders, religious scholars, policymakers, researchers, and academicians.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Magnetic materials
ISBN : UCSD:31822022859318

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Proceedings of the VI Latin American Workshop on Magnetism, Magnetic Materials and Their Applications by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rudi Bleys
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 0826447236

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Images of Ambiente by Rudi Bleys Pdf

"The book is a contribution to the historical study of gay and lesbian art, yet calls for altering its parameters in ways that fully recognize social and cultural difference. It provides a chronological and conceptual framework for studying the tropes of 'homotextual' expression in a Latin American context. More than one hundred illustrations, gathered from various sources across Latin America, North America and Europe, allow the reader to personally witness this fascinating and, until now, concealed story."--BOOK JACKET.