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The Global Minotaur

Author : Yanis Varoufakis
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1783606126
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book The Global Minotaur written by Yanis Varoufakis and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The emerging rock-star of Europe's anti-austerity uprising.' Daily Telegraph 'A spirited book.' New Yorker In this remarkable and provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, explodes the myth that financialisation, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed and globalisation were the root causes of both the Eurozone crisis and the global economic crisis. Rather, they are symptoms of a much deeper malaise which can be traced all the way back to the Great Crash of 1929, then on through to the 1970s: the time when a Global Minotaur was born. Today's deepening crisis in Europe is just one of the inevitable symptoms of the weakening Minotaur; of a global system which is now as unsustainable as it is imbalanced. Going beyond this, Varoufakis reveals how we might reintroduce a modicum of reason into what has become a perniciously irrational economic order. An essential account of the socio-economic events and hidden histories that have shaped the world as we now know it.

The Global Minotaur

Author : Yanis Varoufakis
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781780320144
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Global Minotaur written by Yanis Varoufakis and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable and provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis explodes the myth that financialisation, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed and globalisation were the root causes of the global economic crisis. Rather, they are symptoms of a much deeper malaise which can be traced all the way back to the Great Crash of 1929, then on through to the 1970s: the time when a 'Global Minotaur' was born. Just as the Athenians maintained a steady flow of tributes to the Cretan beast, so the 'rest of the world' began sending incredible amounts of capital to America and Wall Street. Thus, the Global Minotaur became the 'engine' that pulled the world economy from the early 1980s to 2008. Today's crisis in Europe, the heated debates about austerity versus further fiscal stimuli in the US, the clash between China's authorities and the Obama administration on exchange rates are the inevitable symptoms of the weakening Minotaur; of a global 'system' which is now as unsustainable as it is imbalanced. Going beyond this, Varoufakis lays out the options available to us for reintroducing a modicum of reason into a highly irrational global economic order. An essential account of the socio-economic events and hidden histories that have shaped the world as we now know it.

La pesadilla que no acaba nunca

Author : Christian Laval
Publisher : Editorial GEDISA
ISBN 13 : 8416919496
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book La pesadilla que no acaba nunca written by Christian Laval and published by Editorial GEDISA. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europa se fragmenta, se desgarra, se desacredita. Los refugiados políticos y climáticos aumentan dramáticamente; los partidos xenófobos recogen el sentimiento de abandono de la población empobrecida; las vidas rotas por el desempleo son incontables. Y sin embargo, las fuerzas responsables de la crisis económica de la última década parecen fortalecidas. ¿Cómo explicarlo? En esta obra, última parte de una trilogía iniciada con La nueva razón del mundo y Común (Gedisa, 2013 y 2015), Christian Laval y Pierre Dardot vuelven a estimular nuestra reflexión con un brillante ensayo que pone su acento en la necesidad de comprender la lógica profunda de esta radicalización neoliberal, la cual lleva a cabo una confiscación de la experiencia común y funciona como un metódico sistema de vaciamiento de la democracia. Pero los autores también nos recuerdan que nada está decidido todavía. El despertar de la actividad democrática que vemos emerger en los movimientos y experimentos políticos de los últimos años es una señal de que la lucha contra el neoliberalismo y por habitar otra Europa ya ha comenzado.

Syriza

Author : Sáez Díez-Medina, Aitor
Publisher : Editorial UOC
ISBN 13 : 8491162771
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Syriza written by Sáez Díez-Medina, Aitor and published by Editorial UOC. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El 25 de enero de 2015, Syriza llegó al poder. Era una victoria histórica. Toda Europa la vio como el inicio de un cambio. Inmersa en una crisis galopante, Grecia llevaba cinco años bajo programas de recortes y austeridad. Era el último grito para librarse de esas políticas. El bipartidismo griego se había desmoronado. En ese contexto, el grupo liderado por Alexis Tsipras subió como un meteorito. Menos de un año después, caía a la misma velocidad. Las arcas públicas estaban vacías, se había decretado un corralito y, en un referéndum, los griegos votaron en masa lo opuesto a lo que obtuvieron. ¿Cómo llegaron hasta ahí? ¿Era Syriza algo verdaderamente nuevo? ¿Por qué lo que proponía no funcionó? ¿Se trata solo de un relevo socialdemócrata? Estas y otras preguntas son las que responden Aitor Sáez y Gerard De Josep en un texto cronológico que avanza a ritmo trepidante. La exposición de los hechos, con su debido contexto, habla por sí sola: el auge y caída de la nueva izquierda griega.

Industrial relations and financial globalization

Author : Ignasi Brunet
Publisher : PUBLICACIONS UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI
ISBN 13 : 8484246205
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Industrial relations and financial globalization written by Ignasi Brunet and published by PUBLICACIONS UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capitalism in its modern form has become universal and has a presence in practically every country in the world, including those which once called themselves Communist. This book studies its effects on different labor markets, from those linked to highly tertiary economies (EU-27, USA and Japan, to the most productive economies, such as China, and on to economic models that are in full transition from secondary to tertiary economies, as is the case in several Latin American countries.

Sustainable Development in the Anthropocene

Author : Luis-Alberto Padilla
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030803996
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Development in the Anthropocene written by Luis-Alberto Padilla and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Anthropocene sustainable development responds to socio-economic, environmental and political crises provoked by humankind due to global warming and the great acceleration of human intervention in ecosystems. This book introduces readers to current debates on sustainable development and to a holistic and multidisciplinary approach. Regional integration and supranational institutions are fundamental for sustainable development. The democratisation of the international system requires a new multilateralism. Global problems of demography, economic ideology of unlimited growth, the prevailing technocratic paradigm, consumerism, problems of waste, fossil fuels, industrial food production, use of fertilisers, water management and climate change are discussed, and the importance of multilateral agreements for security, sustainable peace and development is explored. This planetary crisis may be solved by international cooperation based on the UN sustainable development goals. This book - provides a concise synthesis of the main subjects of sustainable development studies- links development studies to multilateral diplomacy as practised by UN bodies and organisations- gives a new holistic and multidisciplinary approach to environmental and social sciences in the Anthropocene epoch.

Úrsula Oswald Spring: Pioneer on Gender, Peace, Development, Environment, Food and Water

Author : Úrsula Oswald Spring
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319947125
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Úrsula Oswald Spring: Pioneer on Gender, Peace, Development, Environment, Food and Water written by Úrsula Oswald Spring and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to initiate among students and other readers critical and interdisciplinary reflections on key problems concerning development, gender relations, peace and environment, with a special emphasis on North-South relations. This volume offers a selection of the author's research in different parts of the world during 50 years of contributing to an interdisciplinary scientific debate and addressing social answers to urgent global problems. After the author's biography and bibliography, the second part analyses the development processes of several countries in the South that resulted in a dynamic of underdevelopment. The deep-rooted gender discrimination is also reflected in the destructive exploitation of natural resources and the pollution of soils, water and air. Since the beginning of the Anthropocene in the mid-20th century, the management of human society and global resources has been unsustainable and has created global environmental change and multiple conflicts over scarce and polluted resources. Peace and development policies aiming at gender equity and sustainable environmental management, where water and food are crucial for the survival of humankind, focus on systemic alternatives embedded in a path of sustainability transition. • This book reviews multiple influences from Europe, Africa and Latin America on a leading social scientist and activist on gender, development and environment aiming at a world with equity, sustainability, peace and harmony between nature and humans.• This pioneer volume analyses social and environmental conflicts and peace processes in Latin America, with a special focus on Mexico, by addressing the development of under-development, global environmental change, poverty, nutrition and the North-South gap.• This volume focuses on environmental deterioration with a special emphasis on food and water and proposes systemic changes towards a sustainability transition with peace, regional development and gender equity.• This pioneering work offers alternative approaches to regional development, food sovereignty and holistic development processes from a gender perspective.

The Man in the High Castle

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547572484
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Man in the High Castle written by Philip K. Dick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery is back. America, 1962. Having lost a war, America finds itself under Nazi Germany and Japan occupation. A few Jews still live under assumed names. The 'I Ching' is prevalent in San Francisco. Science fiction meets serious ideas in this take on a possible alternate history.

The Lathe Of Heaven

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1668014963
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Lathe Of Heaven written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new introduction by Kelly Link, the Locus Award-winning science fiction novel by legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin, set in a world where one man’s dreams rewrite the future. During a time racked by war and environmental catastrophe, George Orr discovers his dreams alter reality. George is compelled to receive treatment from Dr. William Haber, an ambitious sleep psychiatrist who quickly grasps the immense power George holds. After becoming adept at manipulating George’s dreams to reshape the world, Haber seeks the same power for himself. George—with some surprising help—must resist Haber’s attempts, which threaten to destroy reality itself. A classic of the science fiction genre, The Lathe of Heaven is prescient in its exploration of the moral risks when overwhelming power is coupled with techno-utopianism.

Urban Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Literature

Author : José Eduardo González
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319924389
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Urban Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Literature written by José Eduardo González and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays studies the depiction of contemporary urban space in twenty-first century Latin American fiction. The contributors to this volume seek to understand the characteristics that make the representation of the postmodern city in a Latin American context unique. The chapters focus on cities from a wide variety of countries in the region, highlighting the cultural and political effects of neoliberalism and globalization in the contemporary urban scene. Twenty-first century authors share an interest for images of ruins and dystopian landscapes and their view of the damaging effects of the global market in Latin America tends to be pessimistic. As the book demonstrates, however, utopian elements or “spaces of hope” can also be found in these narrations, which suggest the possibility of transforming a capitalist-dominated living space.

Central American Literatures as World Literature

Author : Sophie Esch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501391895
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Central American Literatures as World Literature written by Sophie Esch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the notion that Central American literature is a marginal space within Latin American literary and world literary production, this collection positions and discusses Central American literature within the recently revived debates on world literature. This groundbreaking volume draws on new scholarship on global, transnational, postcolonial, translational, and sociological perspectives on the region's literature, expanding and challenging these debates by focusing on the heterogenous literatures of Central America and its diasporas. Contributors discuss poems, testimonios, novels, and short stories in relation to center-periphery, cosmopolitan, and Internationalist paradigms. Central American Literatures as World Literature explores the multiple ways in which Central American literature goes beyond or against the confines of the nation-state, especially through the indigenous, Black, and migrant voices.

The Mexican Crack Writers

Author : Héctor Jaimes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319627163
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book The Mexican Crack Writers written by Héctor Jaimes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a rich and cutting-edge analysis of one of the most prominent literary groups in Latin America: the Mexican Crack Writers. The first part explores the history of the group and its relation to the Latin American literary tradition, while the second part is devoted to the critical analysis of the works of each of the authors: Ricardo Chávez Castañeda, Ignacio Padilla, Pedro Ángel Palou, Eloy Urroz and Jorge Volpi. The volume is further enriched by the inclusion, in the appendix, of the two manifestos of the group: the Crack Manifesto and the Crack Postmanifesto (1996-2016). It will be of great interest to students and scholars focusing on contemporary Latin American literature.

Classicising Crisis

Author : Barbara Goff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351115480
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Classicising Crisis written by Barbara Goff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geopolitical shifts and economic shocks, from the Early Modern period to the 21st century, are frequently represented in terms of classical antecedents. In this book, an international team of contributors - working across the disciplines of Classics, History, Politics, and English - addresses a range of revolutionary transformations, in England, America, France, Haiti, Greece, Italy, Russia, Germany, and a recently globalised world, all of which were accorded the classical treatment. The chapters investigate discrete cases of classicising crisis, while the Introduction highlights patterns among them. The book asks: are classical equations a prized ideal, when evidence warrants, or linkages forced by an implacable will to power, or good faith attempts to make sense of events otherwise bafflingly unfamiliar and dangerous? Finally, do the events thus classicised retain, even increase, their power to disturb and energise, or are they ultimately contained? Classicising Crisis: The Modern Age of Revolutions and the Greco-Roman Repertoire is essential reading for students and scholars of classics, classical reception, and political thought in Europe and the Americas.

Policing the Global South

Author : Danielle Watson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000781941
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Policing the Global South written by Danielle Watson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policing the Global South provides scholarship which further transnationalises and democratises ideas about policing practices and philosophies, highlighting renovations in approaches to policing studies, and injecting innovative perspectives into the study of policing from scholars positioned on the ‘periphery’. Criminological knowledge depolarisation underscores a conscious effort by scholars from the Global South to increase intellectual knowledge focused on developing context-specific responses to issues not aligned to Northern ideological positions and specific to the non-Northern context. Such shifts draw attention to the expanse of spaces beyond Northern centres rife with challenges unlike any specific to those experienced or conceptualised by scholars from the Global North with an applied Northern criminological lens. Applying a postcolonial lens to empirical knowledge from country-specific cases in former colonies in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Pacific, and Latin America, this book examines how policing issues not aligned to Northern ideological positions and specific to non-Northern contexts are addressed. The primary purpose is to share innovations in the field of policing – service provision, threats to security, crime responses, justice and international trends – developed in postcolonial developing-country contexts. Given the aim of the book and the contributors’ own research on issues of policing across the globe, it discusses themes including but not limited to the colonial legacies and their impact on policing; how plural regulatory systems and partnerships are navigated by the police; the linkages between access to justice, community perceptions, and police legitimacy; innovations and challenges in organisational reform, crime prevention, and community partnerships; and the expanding roles of police organisations in the Global South. While each chapter presents a policing issue in a country within a specific part of the Global South, the book highlights how important it is to frame responses based on contextual realities informed by an awareness of the past and present, with a goal of informing the future. Delivering a much-needed introduction to those specialising in policing in developing countries, this book is invaluable reading for academics and students of criminology, criminal justice, governance, policy, and IR, as well as professionals in policing organizations across the globe.

Translation and Localisation in Video Games

Author : Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317617835
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Translation and Localisation in Video Games written by Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a multidisciplinary study of the translation and localisation of video games. It offers a descriptive analysis of the industry – understood as a global phenomenon in entertainment – and aims to explain the norms governing present industry practices, as well as game localisation processes. Additionally, it discusses particular translation issues that are unique to the multichannel nature of video games, in which verbal and nonverbal signs must be cohesively combined with interactivity to achieve maximum playability and immerse players in the game’s virtual world. Although positioned within the theoretical framework of descriptive translation studies, Bernal-Merino incorporates research from audiovisual translation, software localisation, computer assisted translation, comparative literature, and video game production. Moving beyond this framework, Translation and Localisation in Video Games challenges some of the basic tenets of translation studies and proposes changes to established and unsatisfactory processes in the video game and language services industries.

The Farthest Shore

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 144245993X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book The Farthest Shore written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the prince of Enlad declares the wizards have forgotten their spells, Ged sets out to test the ancient prophecies of Earthsea.

How Is World Literature Made?

Author : Gesine Müller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311074838X
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book How Is World Literature Made? written by Gesine Müller and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate over the concept of world literature, which has been taking place with renewed intensity over the last twenty years, is tightly bound up with the issues of global interconnectedness in a polycentric world. Most recently, critiques of globalization-related conceptualizations, in particular, have made themselves heard: to what extent is the concept of world literature too closely connected with the political and economic dynamics of globalization? Such questions cannot be answered simply through theoretical debate. The material side of the production of world literature must therefore be more strongly integrated into the conversation than it has been. Using the example of Latin American literatures, this volume demonstrates the concrete construction processes of world literature. To that purpose, archival materials have been analyzed here: notes, travel reports, and correspondence between publishers and authors. The Latin American examples provide particularly rich information about the processes of institutionalization in the Western world, as well as new perspectives for a contemporary mapping of world literature beyond the established dynamics of canonization.