En este libro se analiza la interpretación histórica que realiza el político mexicano Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) en dos de sus libros: Un proyecto alternativo de nación (2004) y La mafia que se adueñó de México y el 2012 (2010). Se consideraron sólo estos libros debido a que fueron escritos y publicados con la finalidad de difundir…[Read more]

This is a chapter about the Chilean experience toward Democracy (1983-1990).

El objetivo general de este trabajo es analizar la interpretación histórica que realiza el político mexicano Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) en dos de sus libros: Un proyecto alternativo de nación (2004) y La mafia que se adueñó de México y el 2012 (2010). Se consideraron sólo estos libros debido a que fueron escritos y publicados con la finali…[Read more]

The Brazilian Northeast has been a constant subject for journalists of one of the world’s leading media companies – The New York Times – between 1933 and 1945. This study investigates the multiple Northeast representations formulated in The New York Times’ pages when the Americans were spotlight is on the region. It delineates similarities and…[Read more]

chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Translation & Activism

Introduction to The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism

This co-authored essay reflects on the process of co-translation as a form of co-authorship, drawing on examples taken from Persian poetry and the history of Russian-English literary translation.

This research examines Tad Szulc’s writings and performance (1926-2001) in inter-American post-war relations. He was an American intellectual relevant to inter-American relations in the second half of the twentieth century. He was a press professional linked to The New York Times. He made an itinerant journalistic coverage that crossed America…[Read more]

As the Pāṇḍava brothers move through the forest in the third book of the Mahābhārata, they hear stories of fantastic transformations and journeys: a band of gods all masked as the same prince, dice that become thieving birds, a sage turned into a hunted deer, a woman who traverses Yama’s realm. These tales recast and elucidate the condit…[Read more]

This paper investigates the memory of bilateral relations produced by the U.S. Embassy in Brazil on the social network Flickr in the early months of the administration of the Democrat President Barack Obama. The set of images and texts in 19 posts made by the Embassy?s profile on the network in the first half of 2009 is analyzed here. It…[Read more]

This paper investigates the memory of bilateral relations produced by the U.S. Embassy in Brazil on the social network Flickr in the early months of the administration of the Democrat President Barack Obama. The set of images and texts in 19 posts made by the Embassy?s profile on the network in the first half of 2009 is analyzed here. It…[Read more]

Hasta hace poco, los estudios sobre las prácticas musicales al interior de una logia masónica cubana eran casi inexistentes. Con la identificación de la Música para ritual masónico de Ramón Figueroa Morales dentro del Archivo de Música de la Catedral de Santiago de Cuba (AMCSC), se dio el primer paso hacia el entendimiento del tema en cuesti…[Read more]

En este trabajo analizamos Los empeños de una casa de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, una versión de la comedia de capa y espada en la que los valores patriarcales se critican y subvierten, mientras que los personajes femeninos adquieren complejidad y un inusitado protagonismo, pues en ellos se refleja cómo las mujeres de la época encaran los obst…[Read more]

Interview with Martha Hennessy, the granddaughter of Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker, on her life, her anti-nuclear and peace activism, and ongoing trial as part of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7.

In the summer of 2018, I visited Nancy Fraser at her home to conduct an interview on the various social, economic, and political struggles of our day. From the fight against neoliberalism to the movements challenging the far-right, Fraser analyzes our contemporary situation, remaining firmly rooted in the Marxist tradition. Central to Fraser’s…[Read more]

In the year 1397 in the parish of Tuttington (Norfolk), a woman whose name is lost to history, frantic to rid herself of the evil spirit that possessed her, turned to suicide. She attempted first to hang herself, but her husband discovered her while life remained in her body, cut down the rope, and comforted her. A few weeks later she tried once…[Read more]

An examination of three cases of judicial separation from the late medieval court of York.

Since the publication of Philippe Aries’ Centuries of Childhood in the early 1960’s, historians of the family have been intrigued by the prospect of a history of change in familial sentiment. 1 Aries’ study of attitudes about children from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, based primarily on art and material evidence, demonstrates…[Read more]

This paper asks us to rethink the boundaries between consent and coercion in medieval England. From gentle persuasion to threats and abuse, coercion was a part of the courtship process. Although late medieval society expected parents to play an active, even heavy-handed, role in matchmaking, the English church recognized the possibility that…[Read more]

When Isabelle, widow of Richard Vergeons, commissioned the writing of a bill of complaint to Chancery at the end of the fifteenth century, she was clearly at the end of her tether. Six months before the writing of the petition, the wife of Thomas Hyll, a wire monger of London, approached the petitioner’s husband, begging for ‘‘secour and saufg…[Read more]