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Colombia ha enfrentado una historia de violencia y desigualdad, con líderes asesinados, masacres y abusos perpetrados por grupos paramilitares, guerrillas y fuerzas estatales. Un ejemplo reciente son las manifestaciones del paro nacional a finales de abril de 2021, surgidas por el aumento de impuestos de productos esenciales y que fueron marcadas por la brutal represión policial. La violencia y despojo de tierras han sido experiencias cotidianas en la vida de muchos colombianos, particularmente en las zonas rurales y empobrecidas. En este libro, Eduardo Restrepo argumenta que la desigualdad y violencia en Colombia están arraigadas en un orden moral jerarquizado que produce existencias »dispensables«, marcadas por el desprecio y la indiferencia. Aunque el análisis se centra en ese país, sugiere que esta dinámica también puede ser relevante en otros países de América Latina. Restrepo aboga por la importancia de un compromiso ético-político en la elaboración de narrativas más comprensivas sobre los problemas sociales y las luchas por el cambio.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity. --- Bielefeld University Press. --- Latin America. --- Social Inequality. --- Violence.

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Pospopulares: Las culturas populares después de la hibridación es un balance profundo de los debates que, desde hace treinta años, organizaron los estudios sobre las culturas populares latinoamericanas. A la vez, propone nuevas perspectivas en tiempos de crisis de la categoría: la pregunta central es ¿qué significa hoy lo popular? La relación entre las culturas populares y la cultura de masas ha cambiado radicalmente en este siglo, de un modo que los textos clásicos no podían prever. La cultura de masas se ha transformado en el gran organizador y jerarquizador cultural; pero las culturas populares siguen señalando en América Latina un exceso, algo que persiste fuera de lo mediático. Y lo que permanece inalterable, aunque con ropajes siempre renovados, es la desigualdad material y simbólica. Aunque cada vez cuesta más hablar de el pueblo, lo que permanece es la jerarquización, la discriminación, la subalternidad - de clase, de etnia, de raza, de género-, la invisibilización, el silencio. Todos los espacios donde, tercamente, habla lo popular.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. --- Bielefeld University Press. --- Cultural Studies. --- Latin America. --- Social Movements. --- Culturas Populares; Cultura De Masas; Subalternidad; Culturas Plebeyas; Hibridación; Popkultur; Cultural Studies; Soziale Bewegungen; Lateinamerika; Bielefeld University Press; Popular Culture; Social Movements; Latin America

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The richness of social and cultural theory in the humanities offers countless opportunities for using theory-informed concepts in data-based analysis workflows. The contributors to this volume thus encourage further research utilizing out-of-the-box models and approaches to space and place in the field of Digital Humanities. The collection follows the two complementary goals of providing promising conceptualisations of space and place for a broad audience from Digital Humanities, and of presenting current work in Digital Humanities using different conceptualisations of space and place or offering innovative methods for their analysis.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- Bielefeld University Press. --- Digital Humanities. --- Digital Methods. --- Media. --- Social Geography. --- Space. --- Spatial Humanities.

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Debates about the possibility of an open culture - or indeed about the possibility of an open debate about the openness of culture - often turn on questions of standards. But since no benchmark can be absolute, judgement is a proliferation of comparisons. Through a series of case studies in everyday and academic comparison (literature, history, politics, philosophy), Haun Saussy calls out the typical vices of comparison and proposes ways to unseat them. For however much it is abused, distorted, and manipulated, comparison retains an essential link to the idea of justice.

Literary studies: general --- Bielefeld University Press. --- Critique. --- Cultural History. --- Cultural Studies. --- Cultural Theory. --- Culture. --- Ethics. --- Eurocentrism. --- General Literature Studies. --- History. --- Literature. --- Comparison; Ethics; History; Eurocentrism; Critique; Literature; Culture; General Literature Studies; Cultural Theory; Cultural History; Cultural Studies; Bielefeld University Press --- Comparison (Philosophy) --- Intercultural communication. --- Cross-cultural communication --- Communication --- Culture --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Philosophy --- Identity (Philosophical concept) --- Anthropological aspects --- Comparison --- Ethics --- History --- Eurocentrism --- Critique --- Literature --- General Literature Studies --- Cultural Theory --- Cultural History --- Cultural Studies --- Bielefeld University Press

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Luhmann's theory is fascinating and complex. It offers incomparably enlightening insights, references and research opportunities, but reveals its utility only after a quite high competence threshold. Using the reticular form of the glossary, this book makes the theory accessible while maintaining its complexity. Without being obstructed by knowledge gaps or by references to concepts presented elsewhere, readers inside and outside sociology get the required support to explore sociological systems theory and to engage with it. Luhmann himself, in his introduction, praises the form of the glossary to cope with the challenges of the theoretical description of our highly complex society.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- Bielefeld University Press. --- Communication Theory. --- Complexity. --- Social Relations. --- Society. --- Systems Theory. --- Theory of Society. --- Sociological Theory; Systems Theory; Theory of Society; Complexity; Communication Theory; Society; Social Relations; Bielefeld University Press --- Language and languages. --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Sociological Theory --- Systems Theory --- Theory of Society --- Complexity --- Communication Theory --- Society --- Social Relations --- Bielefeld University Press