Exclusiones

Uslar Pietri, autor de estas pginas que traen a cuento las diversas epopeyas de la conformacin del Nuevo Mundo (de indgenas, negros y conquistadores), hace un llamado a la concordia, la eliminacin de los obstculos que provocan la indefinicin y el aislamiento racial y cultural que vienen del primer mestizaje.

The fact that a journalist of the written press, an editor for more than thirty years, suddenly starts writing with pictures, taking photos, can only mean two things: either he is gone mad or the world has been so reversed that it is not recognizable anymore. Jordi Panyella (Barcelona, 1966) is still writing in the newspaper El Punt Avui, as he always has, but the world has now changed radically. And specially in his city, following the brutal impact of the crisis of the Covid-19. Through a story woven with images taken during two months of confinement, Barcelona 2020 unfolds the every day...

Nationalism is one of the major social and political issues of modern times, and a subject of intense intellectual debate. The most important and influential theory of nationalism is that of Ernest Gellner (1925-1995). This volume assesses every aspect of that theory, bringing together an exceptional set of scholars to explain, criticise and move beyond Gellner's work. In doing so the book establishes the state-of-play within the theory of nationalism, and complements Gellner's account by bringing political variables back into play. The book is unique in offering sustained attention to a...

Cuando, a principios de 2007, varias parejas homosexuales comenzaron a presentar recursos de amparo en la Justicia porque se querían casar, parecía imposible que lo lograran. Y cuando la Federación Argentina LGBT, junto con el diputado Eduardo Di Pollina y las diputadas Silvia Augsburger y Vilma Ibarra, empezó a impulsar una reforma al Código Civil en el Congreso para legalizar el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo, casi nadie lo tomó en serio. Estaban locos si pensaban que algo así pasaría en la Argentina. Pero pasó. El autor de este libro formó parte de ese grupo de locos...