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Power Struggles
Wind energy is often portrayed as a panacea for the environmental and political ills brought on by an overreliance on fossil fuels, but this characterization may ignore the impact wind farms have on the regions that host them. Power Struggles investigates the uneven allocation of risks and benefits in the relationship between the regions that produce this energy and those that consume it. Jaume Franquesa considers Spain, a country where wind now constitutes the main source of energy production. In particular, he looks at the Southern Catalonia region, which has traditionally been a source of energy production through nuclear reactors, dams, oil refineries, and gas and electrical lines. Despi...
Culture and Society in Tourism Contexts
This book strives to understand the social and cultural dynamics in Mediterranean tourist destinations through ethnographic examples from Greece, Spain, Egypt, France, Malta and Crete. It observes and examines the social, cultural and relational processes involved as migrants, tourists and new residents converge with locals in daily life.
A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula
A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula is the second comparative history of a new subseries with a regional focus, published by the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. As its predecessor for East-Central Europe, this two-volume history distances itself from traditional histories built around periods and movements, and explores, from a comparative viewpoint, a space considered to be a powerful symbol of inter-literary relations. Both the geographical pertinence and its symbolic condition are obviously discussed, when not even contested. Written by an international team of researchers who are specialists in the field, this history is the first attempt at applying a comparative approach to the plurilingual and multicultural literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. The aim of comprehensiveness is abandoned in favor of a diverse and extensive array of key issues for a comparative agenda. A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula undermines the primacy claimed for national and linguistic boundaries, and provides a geo-cultural account of literary inter-systems which cannot otherwise be explained.
A Research Agenda for Economic Anthropology
The financial crisis and its economic and political aftermath have changed the ways that many anthropologists approach economic activities, institutions and systems. This insightful volume presents important elements of this change. With topics ranging from the relationship of states and markets to the ways that anthropologists’ political preferences and assumptions harm their work, the book presents cogent statements by younger and established scholars of how existing research areas can be extended and the new avenues that ought to be pursued.
Cultural Tourism
Cultural tourism is not only a major industry but also a support for national identity and a means for preserving heritage. Interdisciplinary explorations of cultural tourism, with essays about tourism between globalization and authenticity, township tourism in Soweto, South Africa, tourism in the culturally regenerated city, the new tourism areas in London, cultural routes, in the footsteps of Goethe, Humbert and Ulysses, tourism in inland Spain, indicators and qualitative observatories of heritage tourism, ecotourism and religious tourism in the North of Portugal, the festivalization of society, the consequences of the European Capitals of Culture, the economic impact of festivals, the future of cultural tourism: grounds for pessimism or optimism? Review in: Journal of cultural economics. 32(2008)3(.231-236).
Conceptualismo(s) poéticos, políticos y periféricos
El libro aborda por primera vez el amplio abanico de los nuevos lenguajes artísticos que irrumpen en España en los años sesenta y setenta del siglo XX. En los Conceptualismo(s) poéticos se analizan los nuevos comportamientos artísticos que se desarrollan desde el fin del Informalismo y el inicio del Pop hasta el paso a los años ochenta, en el marco de un contexto histórico, político y social estigmatizado por la decadencia del franquismo. Destacan artistas individuales y colectivos que inauguran nuevas prácticas como la acción, el vídeo, el cine experimental, las nuevas relaciones entre el arte y el lenguaje, la naturaleza, la política, el objeto… Un arte que se expande hacia l...
El projecte de l'espai viari
El tombant del segle XIX al XX fou prolífic en la producció de manuals en l’àmbit de la bibliografia urbanística. Recordem els textos de Stübben, Baumeister, Eberstad i Henard o, una mica més tardà, el Town Planning in Practice de Raymond Unwin. Eren anys d’afirmació d’una disciplina i de difusió de tècniques i conceptes, i aquells manuals tenien la immensa utilitat de resumir el més substancial d’una matèria. Més tard, cap als anys seixanta i setanta, destaquen tot un seguit de textos de disseny urbà impulsats pel Greater London Council. I ara, a l’inici del segle XXI, en temps d’incerteses en el camp de l’urbanisme, tornem a necessitar bons manuals, com és aque...
