1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453909403321

Autore

Contreras Sheila Marie

Titolo

Blood lines [[electronic resource] ] : myth, indigenism, and Chicana/o literature / / Sheila Marie Contreras

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2008

ISBN

0-292-79405-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Chicana matters series

Disciplina

810.9/37

Soggetti

American literature - Mexican American authors - History and criticism

Literature and myth

Mexican Americans in literature

Indigenous peoples in literature

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Ethnology - Methodology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-202) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Myths, indigenisms, and conquests -- Mexican myth and modern primitivism: D.H. Lawrence's The plumed serpent -- The Mesoamerican in the Mexican-American imagination: Chicano movement indigenism -- From La Malinche to Coatlicue: Chicana indigenist feminism and mythic native women -- The contra-mythic in Chicana literature: refashioning indigeneity in Acosta, Cervantes, Gaspar de Alba, and Villanueva.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451449403321

Titolo

Global governmentality [[electronic resource] ] : governing international spaces / / edited by Wendy Larner and William Walters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, NY, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-134-38609-5

0-203-35416-8

1-280-07753-0

0-203-45848-6

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; ; 28

Altri autori (Persone)

LarnerWendy

WaltersWilliam <1964->

Disciplina

327.1/01

Soggetti

International organization

Globalization

Power (Social sciences)

Authority

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: global governmentality; Rethinking key concepts; Liberalism    what's in a name?; Nomos and the politics of world order; Global networks, international networks, actor networks; The security of governance; Problems, practices, assemblages, regimes; Governing through the social: representations of poverty and global governmentality; The international government of refugees; The clash of governmentalities: displacement and return in Bosnia-Herzegovina; The political rationality of European integration

Forms of governance, governmentality and the EU's Open Method of CoordinationEthical capitalism; Global benchmarking: participating 'at a distance' in the globalizing economy; Insecurity and the dream of targeted governance; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Foucault's thoughts on governmentality have made a significant impact



on the studies of power and governance in modern societies. However, most studies of governmentality confine themselves to the exploration of power within nation-states. Global Governmentality extends Foucault's political thought towards international studies, exploring the governance of the global, the international, the regional and many other extra-domestic spaces.Combining historical and contemporary outlooks, this book offers innovative interdisciplinary explorations of such issues as international peacekee