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  • Music and Cultural Rights

    by Andrew N. Weintraub, Bell Yung, Nimrod Baranovitch, Adriana Helbig, Javier F León, Ana María Ochoa, Silvia Ramos, Helen Rees, Felicia Sandler0, Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman1, Ricardo D Trimillos2 ...
    Framing timely and pressing questions concerning music and cultural rights, this collection illustrates the ways in which music--as a cultural practice, a commercial product, and an aesthetic form--has become enmeshed in debates about human rights, international law, and struggles for social justice. The essays in this volume examine how interpretations of cultural rights vary across societies; ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • ICT as Innovator Between Tourism and Culture

    Edited by Célia M.Q. Ramos, Silvia Quinteiro, Alexandra R. Gonçalves ...
    Lately, tourists consider their mobile devices as essential accessories for the realization of their trip before, during, and after the visit. Such devices allow them to consult information about points of interest, services, or products in real time. Thus, mobile devices have come to be considered as tools to support decision making regarding the realization of trips. In the digital environment, ... Read more

    $206.99 USD

  • Ecologies of Resistance

    Arts, Activism, and Transdisciplinary Futures in Latin America and the Latinx Worlds

    by Ilka Kressner, Ana María Mutis, Professor Elizabeth Marcela Pettinaroli, Josué Chavajay Quincaín, Giovanna Montenegro, Katja Cecchetti-Higgins, Alejandra Olarte, Cordelia E. Barrera0, Alethia Alfonso-García1, Diana Aldrete2, Silvia Mejía3, Juan G. Ramos4, María Mercedes Andrade5, Victoria Saramago6, Victoria L. Garrett7, Tiffany D. Creegan Miller8, Jorge Marcone9 ...
    Reframing traditional conceptions of ecologyEcologies of Resistance brings together fourteen groundbreaking studies on Latin American and Latinx writing, visual and performing arts, film, and activism that propose alternatives to prevailing colonial and neocolonial conceptions of ecology. The contributors question the artificially imposed separation of the human and nonhuman, human dominance over ... Read more

    $35.59 USD

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  • Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother

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  • A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity

    Language, Social Practice, and Identity within Puerto Rican Taíno Activism

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  • Tourism and ICTs: Advances in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability

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