This work analyzes the book Inteligencia militar y subversión armada (1968) of Venezuelan General Carlos Soto Tamayo (1917-2000), within the context of Latin American military thought about unconventional warfare. In this sense, the research addresses the problem of the conception of war during the Cold War, especially the sixties, for military…[Read more]

Book Review: John R. Bawden, The Pinochet Generation. The Chilean Military in the Twentieth Century. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2016, 304 p.

This article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.

The Irish Sea which separates Great Britain and Ireland has often been written about in terms of divisions, threats, and hazards. Facing each other across that sea, the coast of Wales and Ireland’s eastern seaboard have a more complex story to tell, one characterised by intimate if troubled lines of connection. A place of passage for centuries, t…[Read more]

While many in academia around the U.S. may anchor themselves in cynical opposition to the proliferation of neoliberal discourse and the policies that accompany, I propose that language departments are in a uniquely privileged position within the humanities to assert the value of our programs within the neoliberal paradigm. Specifically, the…[Read more]

This article probes the history of education and current pedagogical practices among Malayali physician-teachers, vaidya-gurus, of Ayurveda in central Kerala. Considering the sources vaidya-gurus cite as the bases of their teaching styles, especially a three-part method known as mukhāmukhaṃ (‘face-to-face’ instruction), I discuss the place, produc…[Read more]

Presentación del libro “Atomic Surfer” [CANCELADA] Librería Mágica
11 de diciembre de 2021

A bibliographical listing, including audio, video, etc., from the perspective of critical and cultural studies, on the 2020-2021 SARS-CoV-2 pandemic scare (Coronavirus, COVID-19). From ‘A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism, and Philology’, 2021.

In: “Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700-1850,” eds. S. Boscani Leoni, S. Baumgartner and M. Knittel, Leiden, Brill, 2021, pp. 54-57.

The article discusses the manuscript Ny Kgl. Collection 606 8vo. The physical material and contents of the manuscript are described. Two decrees of King Erik Klipping are especially interesting: Erik Klipping’s Ordinance of Vordingborg 1282 and Erik Klipping’s Ordinance 1284. Both point to a connection with manuscript C 75 from the middle of the…[Read more]

This article is about the King Snio episode as it is presented in the Old Danish Rydårbøger (Annales Ryenses), whose four manuscripts are connected to each other. The manuscript E donatione variorum 3 8° is of particular interest as it differs from the other versions.

In this chapter, I am chiefly interested in articulating a theoretical claim that cooperatively run schools can educate the commons causally and reproductively. Cooperatively run schools educate the commons because going to school at a cooperative can cause commons to come about by reproducing the kinds of knowledge and skills necessary to…[Read more]

In this article, I hitch the ever-present awareness of disease in my personal life and our shared world today to a pointed and academic reflection on the ways we consume and re-present information about disease from premodern South Asia that’s contained in texts.

This paper uses Gloria Anzaldúa’s borderlands framework to resignify and recover the marginalized, forgotten sacred feminine and, thereby, South Asian motherlines. The borderlands is conceived of as a new consciousness, an alternative to that which is written in history. It offers a radical synthesis of spiritual healing with anti-oppression wo…[Read more]

In this article we place the discussions of automation in post-work imaginaries within and alongside feminist critiques
and understandings of domestic technology. Structured in three parts, the first surveys debates on the future of work,
showing how feminist materialist critiques of technology would lend themselves to an anti-work rather than…[Read more]

Comentamos algunos elementos de autoengendramienento en el poema épico anglosajón ´Beowulf´. El motivo del autoengendramiento literario emerge espontáneamente allí a partir de la naturaleza misma de la narración—o quizá más bien vemos la emergencia natural de la narración artística a partir de las prácticas sociales que dieron lugar a ella, práct…[Read more]

Comentamos, con ocasión del libro de Ángel Rivera ‘Arqueología del lenguaje’, los principales conceptos de arqueología cognitiva y sus posibles desarrollos en relación en particular a las aportaciones de la lingüística cognitiva y la narratología.

An overview and analysis on the Information Literacy activities and programmes organized by the Universidad de Málaga Library is offered, from their beginnings in 1991-92 to the current programmes. The goals, methodology and main outcomes are presented as well as some conclusions.

We analyse and reflect on the workshop developed in several secondary schools, under the title “Beyond copy and paste: do original works and improve your grades!” and whose objectives have been to assume the importance of gathering reliable and adequate information, knowing some sources of information and documentation useful for academic work,…[Read more]

PowerPoint of the webinar given at the Andalusian School Libraries Conference on the newest trends and proposals in relation to media and information literacy.