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The file and the repertoire

02
June

Diana Taylor's The Archive and the Repertoire is already a classic in its genre. The book is considered one of the most important essays for thinking and rethinking performance within the Latin American space. The author organizes an intense epistemological journey to construct a broad and flexible network encompassing the diversity that makes up performance practices. Organized from highly qualified theoretical sources, the book opens up space to understand the scope of performance situated either in the individual body of solo artists or as a group aesthetic creation, as well as a political resource of the social collective.

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The Assembly of Social Science and Society

02
June

Social science is not a mere observer of reality. In its descriptive, interpretative, and explanatory operations, science is also performing a productive labor in a double dimension: it produces “scientific facts,” configurations that science accepts, and it produces “social facts,” realities external to science, all of which it accomplishes through a complex interweaving of elements, through a complex assemblage. That is the analytical perspective proposed in this book, which makes such an assemblage its object of study.

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The best Chilean journalism 2015

02
June

Since 2003, the Alberto Hurtado University School of Journalism, through the Award for Excellence in Journalism, has recognized the best texts published over the course of a year in the national print media. Through the opinion and debate of an independent and pluralistic jury, made up of prominent journalists and academics, the aim is to recognize and encourage professional practice adhering to the highest ethical, investigative, and writing standards. The works included in this book chronicle the events that shook 2015, such as the Caval and Soquimich scandals, Milogate, corporate price-fixing conspiracies, and the deaths of Mamo Contreras, Douglas Tompkins, and Eduardo Bonvallet, among many other events that reflect a year troubled by major news stories.

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The power in dispute

02
June

The author suggests that political parties, in current times, have lost their capacity to fulfill some of their traditional functions: articulating and aggregating interests. This phenomenon is associated with a more autonomous civil society, which has begun to act within the political system through various collective identities —interest groups and social movements— to claim new and diverse rights and, above all, greater social justice, gradually assuming some functions that were previously exclusive to political parties.

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The Future of Latin American Catholics

02
June

The members of the Manuel Larraín Theological Center, in this volume, offer a set of reflections on Latin American Catholicism, arising from dialogue and exchange.

It is possible to identify some common traits in all the articles, especially in terms of their spirit. On one hand, there is the attempt to integrate one or more perspectives from different fields of knowledge into the reflection on the situation and future of Christianity on the continent: history, sociology, philosophy, psychology, pedagogy, popular wisdom. In this way, faith opens itself to dialogue with rationalities and, in this openness, is intimately enriched and in its capacity to converse with contemporary men and women.

Secondly, attention to the “signs of the times” is also common. We live in a time of profound change. Therefore, careful attention to the underlying movements of history is indispensable. The aim is to interpret them in the light of faith, to recognize God's action, always significant and liberating.

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Differentiation and contingency in Latin America

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02
June

In the words of Daniel Chernilo, from Loughborough University, “understanding the relations between the universal and the particular of our modernity is the constitutive challenge of Latin American sociology. In the best sociological tradition of Gino Germani and Enzo Faletto, Aldo Mascareño takes charge of this problem and offers one of the most original and sophisticated explanations of the last three decades. Mascareño's sociology makes no concessions, recognizes no taboos, and knows nothing of untouchable figures.”.

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God opts for the poor

02
June

The V General Conference of the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopate held in Aparecida (2007) ratifies and highlights the preferential option for the poor. How does Aparecida understand this option? Is this a fundamentally social option or is it also theological? And if it is considered theological, what reasons give it this character? These questions are central if one wants to fully understand and value the preferential option for the poorest as the most significant contribution that the Latin American Church makes to the universal Church.

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Family diversities, care, and migration

02
June

This book analyzes and critically positions the field of family studies in Chile from the perspective of the social, political, and economic transformations taking place in the country, with the purpose of outlining the challenges for up-to-date research on family and kinship from critical, reflexive, and interdisciplinary approaches. In this way, a dialogue is initiated that contributes to unmasking the social inequalities that are produced and reproduced in the processes of naturalizing gender and kinship positions within families in the Chilean context. Studying these diverse family forms and, at best, making these multiple family choices and practices visible is urgent so that they are embraced by public policies.

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Drugs in Chile

02
June

What were the institutions and voices of Chilean society that debated drug use in Chile? How has the drug been viewed from a historical perspective? In what way has it evolved from dangerous to exotic, from a criminal perspective to a sanitary one? What are the symbolic burdens that society has assigned to it? When reviewing the constitution of drug addictions and their practitioners, the distribution circuits of cocaine, morphine, and marijuana, and when noticing the dynamics of regulation and criminalization of their consumption, the impression remains that what was said and done on the matter was tied to or sought to annex itself to other phenomena, other practices, other social groups. Through the reconstruction and analysis of these and other events, this book explores a series of historical processes that unfolded in 20th-century Chile around the drug market.

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Economy and Energy

02
June

This book addresses the challenge of securing reliable, sustainable, and reasonably priced energy, which means analyzing from an economic standpoint how to ensure an adequate energy supply. Recognizing the complexity of the problem, different perspectives are explored, including micro- and macroeconomic, regulatory, environmental, sectoral, and geopolitical viewpoints, highlighting the development of non-conventional renewable energy in electricity generation.

 

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