1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457063503321

Autore

Dangl Benjamin

Titolo

The price of fire [[electronic resource] ] : resource wars and social movements in Bolivia / / Benjamin Dangl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh ; ; Oakland, CA, : AK Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-73185-8

9786612731853

1-84935-040-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

303.6/20984

Soggetti

Social movements - Bolivia

Power (Social sciences) - Bolivia

Natural resources - Social aspects - Bolivia

Electronic books.

Bolivia Politics and government 1982-2006

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Revolution in reverse -- More than a leaf : coca and conflict in Bolivia -- Water war in Cochabamba : a victory against fear -- IMF backlash : que se vayan todos! -- Occupy, resist, produce -- The wealth underground -- El Alto : the city that contains a nation -- Paradise now : street theater, hip-hop, and women creating -- Continent on a tightrope -- Bolivian movement : the Morales administration.

Sommario/riassunto

Bolivia's powerful social movements and the forces they're up against.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465075403321

Autore

Goldberg Shari

Titolo

Quiet testimony [[electronic resource] ] : a theory of witnessing from nineteenth-century American literature / / Shari Goldberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8232-5479-8

0-8232-6105-0

0-8232-5480-1

0-8232-5478-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/382

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Witness bearing (Christianity) in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Arriving at quiet -- Emerson: testimony without representation -- Douglass: testimony without identity -- Melville: testimony without voice -- James: testimony without life -- Conclusion: Staying quiet.

Sommario/riassunto

The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary attunement to the unspoken, the elusively present, and the subtly haunting. Quiet Testimony finds in such attunement a valuable rethinking of what it means to encounter the truth. It argues that four key writers—Emerson, Douglass, Melville, and Henry James—open up the domain of the witness by articulating quietude’s claim on the clamoring world.The premise of quiet testimony responds to urgent questions in critical theory and human rights. Emerson is brought into conversation with Levinas, and Douglass is considered alongside Agamben. Yet the book is steeped in the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, in which speech and meaning might exceed the bounds of the recognized human subject. In this context, Melville’s characters could read the weather, and James’s could spend an evening with dead companions.By following the path by which ostensibly unremarkable entities come to



voice, Quiet Testimony suggests new configurations for ethics, politics, and the literary.