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Finding Josep Solanes: mobilizing the legacies of Republican exile in Spanish cultural studies
Get PDFUsing the example of Republican exile Josep Solanes, this article argues how the category of exile and the reality of the Republican exile of 1939 can be mobilized for a political questioning of the meanings of “Spanish” in twentieth-century Spanish culture as defining and framing disciplinary areas. Still a very little known author, the article reconstructs the disciplinary fields, historical conflicts, personal encounters, border and language crossings necessary to assess Solanes’ work, the conditions of his radical intervention in the field of psychiatry, first in Catalonia and later in France and Venezuela, and how they framed his conceptualization of the experience of exile. The last part of the article, through a consideration of Solanes’ explorations of the exilic as a post-national condition, reflects on what could be the political and ethical conditions to recuperate a legacy that resists being inscribed in, or identified with, the nation. In an important way, this article should be read as an introduction to the very little known Josep Solanes that lays out the importance of his work and signals its potential for further research on new directions in the study of exile
Reconstrucciones desde lo visual: lo arqueológico. Num. 60 Año 20 (2017) mayo-agosto. Alquimia. Sistema Nacional de Fototecas
No full text- Editorial - La Quemada, por Ignacio Gutiérrez Ruvalcaba - Vestigios fotográficos: Los hallazgos de Francisco Plancarte en Michoacán, por Claudia Espejel Carbajal - Las exploraciones de Jorge Acosta en San Pedro Tidaá, Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, por Ángel Iván Rivera Guzmán - Portafolio - Coleccionista de mariposas, por Vera Castillo - Reparación y Consolidación del Edificio de las Columnas en Mitla, por Leopoldo Batres - Sinafo - Soportes e imágenes, por Carlos Vázquez Olvera y María del Carmen Solanes Carraro - Reseñas, por Rebeca Monroy Nasr y Mariana Rubio de los Santos
lugar de huida
No full textLa información de esta miniguía se basa en los trabajos de los proyectos dirigidos por los arquitectos Miguel Messmacher e Ignacio Marquina.Los primeros habitantes de Cholula se asentaron alrededor de una laguna, hoy desaparecida, al este de la ciudad actual. Ese primer poblado, tal vez sólo una pequeña aldea, se desarrolló entre los años 800-200 a.C.(Preclásico Medio). El centro ceremonial más antiguo surgiría, probablemente, hacia los años 200-100 a.C. Cholula fue un importante centro ceremonial y urbano, de gran extensión, durante el Clásico (100-700 d.C.). Para entonces, suponemos existió un gobierno capaz de organizar y dirigir aquellas actividades que requerían de una amplia participación social, esto se refleja en la magnitud de sus principales monumentos. Sobre la historia del periodo Clásico existen diversas interpretaciones. Para algunos investigadores, el desarrollo de la ciudad fue paralelo al de Teotihuacan -en ese entonces el centro hegemónico el Altiplano-, y su auge, decadencia y abandono habrían sido simultáneos. Para otros, Cholula permaneció, tiempo después de la caída de Teotihuacan y, aprovechó el vacío ocasionado por ese evento, como un importante centro urbano y comercial. Por motivos aún inciertos, la Gran Pirámide fue abandonada hacia los años 700-800 d.C. y la ciudad perdió gran parte de su población. Tras este periodo de decadencia, resurge y es el principal centro religioso y de mercado del Posclásico (1200-1 521).</p
Los Murales de Cholula: Puebla
No full textEsta miniguía se basa en los trabajos de los arqueólogos lgnacio Marquina, Florencia Muller, Ponciano Salazar y Jorge AcostaEntre los numerosos vestigios que se localizan en la zona arqueológica de Cholula destacan los murales que aún se conservan en algunos de sus edificios. En ellos, dependiendo de la época de elaboración, se representan narraciones, como en el Mural de los Bebedores, y motivos simbólicos, como los de los edificios en el Patio de los Altares. En las instalaciones del museo de sitio hay réplicas de los murales de los Bebedores y las Mariposas.</p
The privatization of public water utilities
No full textIncludes bibliographyLatin America has kept in step with the worldwide trend towards the privatization of public utilities. Its motivation for doing so stems from a number of factors: an economic philosophy, its quest for greater efficiency, macroeconomic situations, debt-equity swaps, decisions to bring private capital into the management of public utilities during times of economic crisis, and others. This article analyses the characteristics and components of public utilities, the differences existing between one utility and another (particularly in terms of their capital/revenue ratio);, the rigidity of supply and investment, the possibilities of giving consumers a choice, the concept of economies of scale and how it ties in with the notion of monopolies, and the legal implications of monopolistic systems. It also examines some aspects of the legal regulation of utilities, such as administrative controls, the idea of reasonable profit levels, control by holding companies, regulation and monitoring mechanisms, and terms and conditions of service, including some components of the relationship between water use and the management of water resources. Among the specific cases of utility privatizations which are reviewed, particular attention is devoted to the case of the United Kingdom, which is currently the subject of public debate; selected aspects of Spain's Public Administration Contracts bill are outlined as well. In conclusion, the author suggests that the countries of the region should take comparable legislation and the experience of other nations into account and should set up suitable regulatory and monitoring systems prior to privatization
"Mi cámara dirá las bellezas del terruño" Mustafá, fotógrafo guanajuatense. Alquimia. Sistema Nacional de Fototecas: Reconstrucciones desde lo visual: lo arqueológico. Num. 60 Año 20 (2017) mayo-agosto
No full textIntegral geometry and valuations
No full textValuations are finitely additive functionals on the space of convex bodies. Their study has become a central subject in convexity theory, with fundamental applications to integral geometry. In the last years there has been significant progress in the theory of valuations, which in turn has led to important achievements in integral geometry. This book originated from two courses delivered by the authors at the CRM and provides a self-contained introduction to these topics, covering most of the recent advances. The first part, by Semyon Alesker, is devoted to the theory of convex valuations, with emphasis on the latest developments. A special focus is put on the new fundamental structures of the space of valuations discovered after Alesker's irreducibility theorem. Moreover, the author describes the newly developed theory of valuations on manifolds. In the second part, Joseph H. G. Fu gives a modern introduction to integral geometry in the sense of Blaschke and Santaló, based on the notions and tools presented in the first part. At the core of this approach lies the close relationship between kinematic formulas and Alesker's product of valuations. This original viewpoint not only enlightens the classical integral geometry of Euclidean space, it has also produced previously unreachable results, such as the explicit computation of kinematic formulas in Hermitian spaces
Una nota sobre la crisi del franquisme i la transició a la democràcia
Get PDFA trenta anys de la mort de Franco i en un moment d'extensió de "revisionismes" de diversos signes, però que tenen en comú el menysteniment o la ignorància de la naturalesa de la dictadura i de les condicions reals del procés de canvi polític que va viure Espanya a la segona meitat dels anys setanta, aquí es recull un breu recordatori de l'escenari de la fi de la dictadura i de l'inici de la transició a la democràcia.A treinta años de la muerte de Franco y en un momento de extensión de los "revisionismos" de diversos signos, pero que tienen en común la poca atención o ignorancia de la naturaleza de la dictadura y de las condiciones reales del proceso de cambio político que vivió España en la segunda mitat de los años setenta, aquí se recoge un breve recordatorio del escenario del final de la dictadura y el inicio de la transición democrática.To thirty years of the death of Franco and in a moment of extension of the "revisionisms" of diverse signs, but that have in common the little attention or ignorance of the nature of the dictatorship and of the real conditions of the process of political change in Spain in the second half of the seventies, the author propose a brief commemorative one of the setting of the dictatorship' end and the start of the democratic transition
The local universe in the era of large surveys. I. Spectral classification of S0 galaxies
Get PDFThis is the first paper in a series devoted to review the main properties of galaxies designated S0 in the Hubble classification system. Our aim is to gather abundant and, above all, robust information on the most relevant physical parameters of this poorly-understood morphological type and their possible dependence on the environment that could later be used to assess their possible formation channel(s). The adopted approach combines the characterisation of the fundamental features of the optical spectra of 68, 043 S0 with heliocentric z ≲ 0.1 with the exploration of a comprehensive set of their global attributes. A principal component analysis is used to reduce the huge number of dimensions of the spectral data to a low-dimensional space facilitating a bias-free machine-learning-based classification of the galaxies. This procedure has revealed that objects bearing the S0 designation consist, despite their similar morphology, of two separate sub-populations with statistically inconsistent physical properties. Compared to the absorption-dominated S0, those with significant nebular emission are, on average, somewhat less massive, more luminous with less concentrated light profiles, have a younger, bluer and metal-poorer stellar component, and avoid high-galaxy-density regions. Noteworthy is the fact that the majority of members of this latter class, which accounts for at least a quarter of the local S0 population, show star formation rates and spectral characteristics entirely similar to those seen in late spirals. Our findings suggest that star-forming S0 might be less rare than hitherto believed and raise the interesting possibility of identifying them with plausible progenitors of their quiescent counterparts.© 2020 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical SocietyThe authors thank the reviewer for his/her detailed, insightful and
encouraging comments, which have enabled us to refine the focus of the paper. We acknowledge financial support from the
Spanish AEI and European FEDER funds through the research
project AYA2016–76682–C3. J.L.T. was also partially supported
by a collaboration scholarship from the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona and the University of Barcelona.
Additional funding for this work has been provided by the State
Agency for Research of the Spanish MCIU through the Centre of Excellence Severo Ochoa’s award for the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía under contract SEV–2017–0709. This research has made use of data from the following databases: NASASloan Atlas at http://nsatlas.org/, Morphological catalogue
for SDSS galaxies by Domínguez Sánchez et al. (2018), GALEXSDSS-WISE at http://pages.iu.edu/~salims/gswlc/, and
both Portsmouth Stellar Kinematics and Emission Line Fluxes and
eBOSS Firefly at https://www.sdss.org/dr15/data_access/
value-added-catalogs/. We are grateful to all the people involved in the gathering, reduction, and processing of the data contained in all these catalogues, as well as the public and private
institutions that have provided the necessary funding, resources and
technical support to make possible both all these surveys and the
release of their findings to the community.Peer reviewe
