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Revised and reissued in light of recent events, this classic and now increasingly important book is an exception in the literature on terrorism. Based on complex observations of actual movement participants, Wieviorka's book addresses a broad spectrum of terrorist activity—from Italian left-wing terrorists to Basque nationalist groups to the international terrorism of Palestine and the Middle East. The result is an incisive analysis of what terrorists believe and what they hope to achieve through their actions. For this new edition, Wieviorka adds new material that remaps the state of terrorism after the events of 2001.
Partiendo de una breve panorámica de la historia, la articulación social y la cultura del País Vasco, el libro se adentra en los fundamentos sobre los que se ha levantado y evolucionado el nacionalismo vasco en general y el abertzale en particular. A continuación se centra en la historia de ETA propiamente dicha, desde el preámbulo de la formación del Consejo Vasco de Resistencia de 1947 hasta 1965: un relato en el que toman la palabra algunos de sus protagonista directos y en el que se ponen de relieve las relaciones de la incipiente organización con el pueblo, los intelectuales y los trabajadores vascos. A partir de aquí se desarrolla la parte principal del libro, en la que se irá...
In this sweeping history of reproductive surgery in Mexico, Elizabeth O'Brien traces the interstices of religion, reproduction, and obstetric racism from the end of the Spanish empire through the post-revolutionary 1930s. Examining medical ideas about operations (including cesarean section, abortion, hysterectomy, and eugenic sterilization), Catholic theology, and notions of modernity and identity, O'Brien argues that present-day claims about fetal personhood are rooted in the use of surgical force against marginalized and racialized women. This history illuminates the theological, patriarchal, and epistemological roots of obstetric violence and racism today. O'Brien illustrates how ideas ab...