Despite a pronounced shift away from Eurocentrism in Spanish and Hispanic studies departments in US universities, many implicit and explicit vestiges of coloniality remain firmly in place. While certain national and linguistic expressions are privileged, others are silenced with predictable racial and gendered results. Decolonizing American Spanish challenges not only the hegemony of Spain and its colonial pedagogies, but also the characterization of Spanish as a foreign language in the United States. By foregrounding Latin American cultures and local varieties of Spanish and reconceptualizing the foreign as domestic, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera works to create new conceptual maps, revise inherited ones, and institutionalize marginalized and silenced voices and their stories. Considering the University of Puerto Rico as a point of context, this book brings attention to how translingual solidarity and education, a commitment to social transformation, and the engagement of student voices in their own languages can reinvent colonized education.
After American Studies is a timely critique of national and transnational approaches to community, and their forms of belonging and trans/patriotisms. Using reports in multicultural psychology and cultural neuroscience to interpret an array of cultural forms—including literature, art, film, advertising, search engines, urban planning, museum artifacts, visa policy, public education, and ostensibly non-state media—the argument fills a gap in contemporary criticism by a focus on what makes cultural canons symbolically effective (or not) for an individual exposed to them. The book makes important points about the limits of transnationalism as a paradigm, evidencing how such approaches often reiterate presumptive and essentialized notions of identity that function as new dimensions of exceptionalism. In response to the shortcomings in trans/national criticism, the final chapter initiates a theoretical consideration of a postgeographic and postcultural form of community (and of cultural analysis).
Title: Viaggio per la Tauride fatto nel 1820 ... Tradotto dal Russo ... da pregevole scrittore napolitano. Edited by E. Catalano.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights include the development of language, political and educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations, and European expansion into the New World. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Murav'ev-apostol, Ivan Matveevich; Catalano, Errico; 1833. 8 . 10290.d.37.
One out of every three dollars invested abroad in 2012 was originated in multinationals from developing countries. This study sheds light on the characteristics, motivations, strategies, and needs of emerging market investors. By including information on investors, potential investors, and non-investors, the study identifies differentiating factors among them that are associated with investment decisions. Results show that emerging market investors are active players in international trade markets; they operate predominantly in manufacturing, and are publicly listed and larger than non-investors. They exhibit a strong regional bias: they invest more heavily in neighbors and in other countries in their own regions. Outward FDI from emerging markets is primarily market-seeking. Expanding regional and host markets emerged as the most important factor influencing the location of investments. However, emerging markets' firms face binding costs of investing in distant, culturally dissimilar markets, resulting, in practice in a trade-off between market size and market familiarity. Transaction costs associated with geographical and cultural differences have a greater impact on services sector firms that exhibit a stronger regional bias. Bilateral investment treaties (BITs) partly offset these costs associated with investing in faraway and/or unfamiliar markets. In addition, international trade agreements increase the perceived attractiveness of a host country to potential investors. Political factors constitute binding constraints that deter emerging markets' firms from investing in developing markets. Yet, investors value political stability and transparency more than corruption control, fair and regular elections, and risk of expropriation in the host country. IPAs play only a marginal role in raising awareness of investment opportunities in developing countries, and may be particularly ineffective in many African countries. Nevertheless, IPAs appear to be a widely used and useful resource for investors once they have made the decision to enter a specific market. IPA services tend to be more valuable for smaller and less productive firms. Overall, the new TNCs from emerging economies do not appear to differ dramatically from their predecessors from developed and developing countries in previous waves of OFDI. Results suggest that to attract FDI from emerging economies, countries need to maintain market-friendly, liberal trade and investment policies. In addition, joining international trade and investment agreements can be benefitial to reduce transaction costs associated with cross border investment. Countries also need to provide a stable and predictable political and institutional environment. Last and not least, it is important to revamp IPAs and increase their effectiveness in raising awareness of investment opportunities and meeting investors' needs.
Por alguna circunstancia de tu vida, laboral, social, familiar, debes desarrollar una exposici n oral ante un p blico. -Tal ves seas un docente a n con pocas tablas, o con muchas ganas de sentirte muy a gusto en tus exposiciones, -o en tu empresa te han pedido que seas t quien presente un producto/servicio nuevo, -o se trata de transmitir un proyecto o una idea ante tu equipo o tus compa eros, -o ante tus jefes, -o ante tus clientes, -o tu familia te ha pedido que hables en nombre de todos en una celebraci n privada. El caso es que tienes una cita ineludible, posiblemente con fecha, hora y lugar ya determinados. Si te encuentras en una de las situaciones anteriores, es probable que te preguntes y ahora qu hago? Cu les son los pasos que debo dar para hacer una buena exposici n? Pues bien, en este libro queremos darte las claves para que alcances tu meta, los consejos y trucos que te lleven a desarrollar una gran exposici n oral, que te haga sentir que has comunicado con tu audiencia y transmitido todo lo que quer as transmitir. Y adem s, podr s incorporar a tus necesidades futuras un m todo, un sistema al que acudir tantas veces como sea necesario. Un sistema que t mismo ir s enriqueciendo con tu experiencia, con tu propia manera de hacerlo tuyo.
Music from a Speeding Train explores the uniquely Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations of the Soviet cultural system. It situates Russian- and Yiddish- language authors in the same literary universe—one in which modernism, revolution, socialist realism, violence, and catastrophe join traditional Jewish texts to provide the framework for literary creativity. These writers represented, attacked, reformed, and mourned Jewish life in the pre-revolutionary shtetl as they created new forms of Jewish culture.
Hace mucho... mucho tiempo... en los tiempos de los disquetes de 5 1/4 pulgadas, program algunos juegos en Basic, el primer lenguaje de programaci n que aprend . Luego, en la universidad, segu programando juegos en C++; inclusive hice una versi n de Sokoban en Assembler puro; pero el proceso era arduo y con resultados algo desalentadores. La cuesti n es que desarrollar videojuegos con el mero lenguaje de programaci n, sin las ayudas incorporadas y optimizadas de un motor o engine, hoy s lo ser a parte de un desaf o de programaci n planeado por el mism simo Jigsaw que de algo realmente pr ctico y con raz n de ser. Hoy existen muchos motores y librer as de juegos (Skyline, Manu, CryEngine, Phaser IO, tan s lo por nombrar algunos y no a los mismos de siempre). Sin embargo, hay uno que me llama mucho la atenci n: se trata de Godot Engine, un motor de c digo abierto para desarrollar juegos multiplataforma 2D y 3D. Un verdadero tesoro Y tal es el excelente futuro que le auguro que me anim a escribir un libro introductorio sobre este motor...
El pensamiento dentro del periodo conocido como Espa a Imperial se ha visto salpicado por los "ismos" arbitrismo, tacitismo, erasmismo, antimaquiavelismo, etc. Todo ello hace pensar que todo pensamiento propio se ha reflejado como una simple recepci n o respuesta a corrientes extranjeras. Desde este estudio se intenta dar una respuesta conjunta a todos estos movimientos desde su verdadero significado.
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