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Decrypting Power aims to reach a unifying concept that allows the connection of the fundamental theses stemming from critical legal studies, Subaltern studies, decolonization, law and society, global political economy, critical geopolitics and theories of de-coloniality. This volume proposes that this concept is the ‘encryption of power’, a category of analysis that reveals the weakness of political liberalism when it takes the place of the legitimate fundament of democracy, as well as its consummate capacity to conceal new mechanisms of global power. The theory of encryption of power understands that there is only a world where difference exists as the fundamental and sole order, but also that such a possibility is heavily obstructed by the concentration of power in forms of oppression. The world hangs on the thread of this entangled reality, made up of difference and its denial, of democracy and its simulations, of truth and its codifications. The decryption of power is then, above all, a theory of justice essential to radical democracy, which comes fully-equipped to prevail over the conditions that deny the possibility of an egalitarian world.
El Grupo de Investigaciones en Derecho Procesal de la Universidad de Medellín presenta a la comunidad académica el libro Nuevas dinámicas del derecho procesal. Este libro muestra la evolución y desarrollo contemporáneo del derecho procesal en el ámbito nacional e internacional. En este sentido aborda las siguientes temáticas: el derecho procesal y la cuarta revolución industrial (inteligencia artificial y biotecnología); problemáticas de los mecanismos alternativos de solución de confictos (mediación penal, principio de oralidad y resolución de disputas en línea [ODR]); el derecho procesal de cara a los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible (el medio ambiente como víctima del con...
En la mayoría de los Estados del mundo, el derecho procesal contiene como medio de defensa la generalidad de la impugnación y la especialidad de los recursos como parte integral del instituto de la impugnación para control general de las decisiones de los jueces que por alguna circunstancia se desvían del sendero propio de la pronta, cumplida y eficaz justicia al momento de proferir las providencias dentro de los procesos que vienen rituando por el ruego de quienes están insatisfechos con sus derechos constitucionales y legales1. En el procesalismo judicial, como lo advierte la jurisprudencia adoctrinada, estos medios de control son necesarios para poner fin al desvío de los principios...
Manual dirigido a profesionales y estudiantes de las ciencias de la salud. El lector obtendrá conocimientos y habilidades en Medicina Basadas en la Evidencia (MBE) y en el análisis, interpretación y apreciación crítica de los diferentes diseños de investigación clínica, asimismo, podrá adquirir las herramientas básicas mediante el conocimiento de la estructura de los diferentes ensayos clínicos y de la estadística simple en la presentación de los resultados . Así podrá comenzar a realizar su propio proyecto de investigación.
Derecho internacional. Conceptos, doctrinas y debates es una herramienta indispensable para el aprendizaje y la enseñanza del derecho internacional en Latinoamérica, pues presenta los temas clásicos de la disciplina a través de una mirada práctica y actual por medio de capítulos escritos por treinta y cinco autores y autoras de la región. Esta edición incluye una introducción a las teorías críticas y debates contemporáneos, gracias a ejercicios didácticos y actividades pedagógicas innovadoras que hacen de este libro la compañía ideal para cursos de derecho internacional general y programas sobre derechos humanos, derecho internacional económico o derecho global.
In the late '60s, Julián Ríos began work on what would have been his very first novel, but fearing that it wouldn't pass the stringent Spanish censorship under Franco, decided not to submit the completed book to publishers. Soon distracted by what would be his magnum opus—the Larva series—the manuscript was set aside and forgotten, until the author found and dusted it off almost fifty years later. Quite unlike his later postmodernist work, the short and bitter Procession of Shadows is filled with stories of love, war, and vengeance, focusing on the tiny, remote village of Tamoga—a place where vendettas are passed down from generation to generation, and where violence has left its traces in every corner. A Winesburg, Ohio for the end times, Procession of Shadows shows us a very different side of the usually playful Ríos: dark, direct, and pitiless.
A striking reassessment of the Don Juan myth. A literary tour de force, this extraordinary novel is told in single-minded pursuit of double meanings, but it is serious play. Larva is a rollicking account of a masquerade party in an abandoned mansion in London. Milalias (disguised as Don Juan) searches for Babelle (as Sleeping Beauty) through a linguistic funhouse of puns and wordplay recalling Joyce's Finnegans Wake. A mock-scholarly commentary reveals the backgrounds of the masked revellers, while Rios' allusive language shows that words too wear masks, hiding an astonishing range of further meanings and implications. Larva revives a Hispanic tradition repressed for centuries by introducing the English tradition of puns, palindromes and acrostics (a word puzzle in which certain letters in each line form a word or words) and establishes Rios as the most accomplished successor (in any language) to Joyce.
Juli'n R'os's latest comic extravaganza is at once a serious literary excavation and a lecture as delivered by Groucho Marx on the subject of that great (and often imposing) cornerstone of world literature: James Joyce's "Ulysses." Every book is born out of an earlier book (or books), and much as Joyce's novel unraveled Homer scene by scene, R'os's "The House of Ulysses" returns the favor, giving us the story of several bickering characters hoping to get to the bottom of Joyce's masterpiece (by force, if necessary), their conversation walking the line between a slapstick parody of the Joyce industry and a legitimate "guide for the perplexed." Focusing on each of Ulysses' characters, ideas, and references in turn, "The House of Ulysses" provides a playful, punning, ideal companion for the experienced Joycean and cautious Ulysses-procrastinator alike: one novel dreaming its way through another.
Just as Ezra Pound wrote an "Homage to Sextus Propertius" to pay tribute to an important influence, Julián Ríos offers in his novel an "Homage to Ezra Pound" (as the original Spanish edition is subtitled). On November 1, 1972, news of Pound's death in Venice reaches three Spanish bohemians in London, passionate admirers of "il miglior fabbro" ("the better craftsman," as Eliot called him), who decide to honor Pound's memory by visiting various sites in London associated with him. Filled with allusions to Pound's life and works and written in a style similar to Finnegans Wake, Ríos's word-mad novel features the same characters from his first novel Larva: the poet Milalias, his girlfriend Babelle, and their mentor X. Reis, each of whom writes part of the novel: Milalias writes the Joycean main text, Reis (as Herr Narrator) adds commentary on facing pages, and Babelle furnishes maps and photos. Together, they compile the "Parting Shots" at the end, dazzling short stories that expand upon incidents in the main text. Sound confusing? No more so than The Cantos, and Ríos is much funnier.
To what extent do courts in Latin America protect individual rights and limit governments? This volume answers these fundamental questions by bringing together today's leading scholars of judicial politics. Drawing on examples from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica and Bolivia, the authors demonstrate that there is widespread variation in the performance of Latin America's constitutional courts. In accounting for this variation, the contributors push forward ongoing debates about what motivates judges; whether institutions, partisan politics and public support shape inter-branch relations; and the importance of judicial attitudes and legal culture. The authors deploy a range of methods, including qualitative case studies, paired country comparisons, statistical analysis and game theory.