Search Results - "Buenos Aires"

Diffusion of gender quotas in Latin America and beyond advances and setbacks in the last two decades /

Table of Contents: “…The diffusion of gender quota laws in Latin America / Adriana Piatti-Crocker -- (Argentina) Melida Archenti and Maria Ines Tula (University of Buenos Aires) -- (Brazil) Clara Araujo (State University of Rio de Janeiro) -- (Mexico) Jennifer Piscopo (University of California, San Diego) -- (Mexico, Sub-national) Pär Zetterberg, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden -- (Peru) : Greg Schmidt (University of Texas, El Paso) -- (Costa Rica) : Ana Isabel Garcia Quesada- Costa Rica -- (Dominican Republic) Jacqueline Polanco (Bronx Community College -- Gender quota laws in Latin America : from diffusion to the end of a wave?…”
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Arthur Miller's global theater

Table of Contents: “…Celada -- Arthur Miller in Buenos Aires / Laura Cerrato -- Miller in Scandinavia : focus on Denmark / Kirsten Herold -- The crucible : three British encounters / Louis Marks.…”
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Contemporary Sephardic identity in the Americas an interdisciplinary approach /

Table of Contents: “…/ Edna Aizenberg -- Sephardic and Syrian immigration to America: acculturation and communal preservation / Jane Gerber -- Cultural Zionism as a contact zone: Sephardic and Askenazi Jews bridge the gap on the pages of the Argentine newspaper Israel / Raanan Rein and Mollie Lewis Nouwen -- Syrian Jews in Buenos Aires: between religious revival and return to biblical sources, 1953-90 / Susana Brauner -- Religious movements in Mexican Sephardism / Liz Hamui Halabe -- Transnational identity and Miami Sephardim / Henry A. …”
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Culture, urbanism and planning

Table of Contents: “…Gordon -- The power of anticipation : itinerant images of metropolitan futures : Buenos Aires, 1900-1920 / Margarita Gutman -- Words and history : controversies on urban heritage in Italy / Giorgio Piccinato -- Urban destruction or preservation? …”
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Liberalisation and universal access to basic services telecommunications, water and sanitation, financial services, and electricity.

Table of Contents: “…Universal access in the water and sanitation sector / by Robin Simpson -- Reflections on the goal of universal access in the water and sanitation sector : lessons learned from Ghana, Sengal and Nepal / by Dale Whittington -- Efficiency, equity and liberalisation of water services in Buenos Aires, Argentina / by Miguel Solanes -- pt. 3. …”
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Arrival Cities : Migrating Artists and New Metropolitan Topographies in the 20th Century /

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Place and displacement in the narrative worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar by Tcherepashenets, Nataly

Table of Contents: “…Place in Borges's stories and the irony of revelation -- Familiar places, hidden challenges : revelation present and dissipated in "El Aleph" -- Dreaming in circles, facing the ruins : the mystery and limitations of the human self in "Las ruinas circulares" -- The illusion of power : the magic disc, human vulnerability, and the divine presence in "El disco" -- The infinite book : fear and longing -- Place as displacement in Cortázar's Hopscotch -- Towards the challenge and the refuge : Oliveira's Paris and the capital cities in nineteenth century novels -- Borges's voice in Cortázar's Buenos Aires -- Talita's dream : between Borgesean and Carnivalesque worlds -- The Carnivalesque city and the anxiety of alienation -- Oliveira's homelessness : displacement as "no placement" -- Fictional and 'real' places : convergences and divergences -- The 'exotic' or/and the 'familiar' : "Someone's land" and the traditions of literary utopia -- Challenging conventions and breaking illusions : the city and the language in 62 : modelo para armar -- Revisiting the Minotaur : heterotopia as place and mode of representation in Borges's "La casa de Asterion" -- Boarding the ship: the unresolved mystery of Cortázar's "Malcolm" -- Displacement, dreams and archive in Borges's essays -- Dreaming with Freud : displacement, art and magic in "El sueño de Coleridge" -- The repression of archive and the archivization of repression in "La muralla y los libros" -- Shaping the word : displacement and dialogical discourse in Borges's "La muralla y los libros" and in Kafka's "The Great Wall of China" -- Displacement and the divided self in Cortázar's stories -- Crossing the bridge : psychological division and the writing of discontent -- Beyond the door : rediscovering the multiple self -- Divided lives, overlapping spaces, and the impossibility of self-deception.…”
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Afro-descendants, identity, and the struggle for development in the Americas

Table of Contents: “…Concha-Holmes -- Neoliberal dilemmas : diaspora, displacement, and development in Buenos Aires / Judith M. Anderson -- Pluralizing race / Mamyrah A. …”
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Culture of class radio and cinema in the making of a divided Argentina, 1920-1946 / by Karush, Matthew B. (Matthew Benjamin), 1968-

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Culture of Class : Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920–1946 / by Karush, Matthew B. (Matthew Benjamin), 1968-

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Tango Lessons : Movement, Sound, Image, and Text in Contemporary Practice /

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Medio ambiente : problemas y soluciones /

Table of Contents: “…. -- La ciudad y la evaluación del impacto ambiental: un enfoque económico / Gabriel Quadri de la Torre -- El medio ambiente en la ciudad de Buenos Aires: problemas y soluciones a nivel de la gestión pública / Alberto Morán -- El manejo integral de los problemas ambientales en Berlín y la experiencia en la ciudad de Mexico / Eike Duffing -- Ciudad de Mexico: problemas socioambientales en la gestión del agua / Patricia Romero Lankao…”
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The Big Thaw : Policy, Governance, and Climate Change in the Circumpolar North /

Table of Contents: “…Or, what dual governance failures look like -- Polar communities and cultures in address climate change -- Livelihood and resilience in a marginal northern environment : 1,000 years on the Småland Plateau -- The Holocene catastrophe -- Effects of natural and social stressors on human biology : Northern Sweden in the Little Ice Age -- Surviving climate change : Yup'ik indigenous environmental knowledge, a film project -- Resilience, reindeer, oil, and climate change : challenges facing the Nenets indigenous people in the Russian arctic -- Representations of environmental problems and climate change : the case of the young inhabitants of the city of Buenos Aires -- Future? -- Conclusion: Elegy for the Arctic?…”
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Familia y educación en Iberoamérica /

Table of Contents: “…El papel educador de los padres de familia: táctica de la Iglesia en la lucha de la reformas educativas liberales en Ecuador (1906-1914) / Emmanuelle Rebecca Sinardet -- Un campo de tensión por encauzar la "moral": disputa, resistencia y convivencia entre la sociedad y los educadores (1900-1920) / Lucía Lionetti -- La pluma y la aguja: familia, mujer y educación en el Perú de fines del siglo XIX / Eve Marie Fell -- La prensa como alternativa educativa para las mujeres de prinicipios del siglo XIX / Lourdes Alvarado -- El papel de las mujeres en la educación familiar en Ecuador: inicios del siglo XX / Martha Moscoso -- Enseñanza agrícola, mujer y familia en la política agraria peronista, Buenos Aires, 1946-1955 / Talia Violeta Gutierrez -- Valores y contravalores del mundo indígena: una aproximación desde la cultura de los indios kunas de Panamá / Gaspar Calvo -- La "dignificación" de la familia y el indigenismo oficial en Mexico (1930-1940) / Engracia Loyo -- Entre tradición y modernidad́: el proceso de aculturación en las sociedades indígenas: los centros de capacitación (1940-1946) / Cecilia Greaves…”
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Derecho privado y modernización : América Latina y Europa en la primera mitad del siglo XX /

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Argumentos cuantitativos y cualitativos en sociolingüística : segundo Coloquio de Cambio y Variación Lingüística /

Table of Contents: “…Constantes fónico-comunicativas de la construcción interrogativa, en datos del español del la ciudad de Mexico / Sylvia Ávila Hernández -- Entonación rural del español de Mexico / Jose Coronado Hernández -- El debilitamiento de /tj/ en el español de La Paz, Baja California Sur / Carlos Ivanhoe Gil Burgoin -- Distribución dialectal de /x/ en datos del Atlas Lingüístio de Mexico / Pedro Martín Butragueño -- Forma y función del repertorio de acentos tonales en Cuapiaxtla, Tlaxcala: interrogativas pronominales / Érika Mendoza Vázquez -- Actitudes lingüísticas y entonación: acentos tonales y enunciados interrogativos en el español de Buenos Aires y Montevideo / Leticia Rebollo Couto, Priscila Ferreira de Sá y Natália dos Santos Figuereido -- La variabilidad del segmento /s/ en posición implosiva: estudio comparativo entre residentes del puerto de Acapulco y migrantes a la ciudad de Mexico / Verónica Reyes Taboada.…”
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The cultural life of the automobile roads to modernity / by Giucci, Guillermo, 1954-

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