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Jóvenes procedentes de todos los ámbitos del país, de múltiples oficios, de diversos estratos sociales, son autores de este ejercicio narrativo convertido en crónicas sorprendentes, que encarnan talentos insospechados, el grito de bocas silenciadas por circunstancias duras y crueles. Dejaron filtrar la intimidad del conflicto social sobre el azote del Covid-19. Así se abre en este libro una mirada especial sobre el fenómeno universal de la pandemia.

An eminent historian’s biography of one of Mexico’s most prominent statesmen, thinkers, and writers Lucas Alamán (1792–1853) was the most prominent statesman, political economist, and historian in nineteenth-century Mexico. Alamán served as the central ministerial figure in the national government on three occasions, founded the Conservative Party in the wake of the Mexican-American War, and authored the greatest historical work on Mexico’s struggle for independence. Though Mexican historiography has painted Alamán as a reactionary, Van Young’s balanced portrait draws upon fifteen years of research to argue that Alamán was a conservative modernizer, whose north star was always economic development and political stability as the means of drawing Mexico into the North Atlantic world of advanced nation-states. Van Young illuminates Alamán’s contribution to the course of industrialization, advocacy for scientific development, and unerring faith in private property and institutions such as church and army as anchors for social stability, as well as his less commendable views, such as his disdain for popular democracy.

In this engaging book, Eric Van Young traces the political, economic, and social development of Mexico through the crucial one hundred years of its remarkable transition from a relatively prosperous Spanish colony to a violently unstable republic marked by economic stagnation, political confrontation, and burgeoning efforts at modernization. Featuring primary sources from figures of the period, Van Young discusses the political instability of the period—internal warfare, military uprisings, intermittent dictatorships, sharp conflicts among political groupings—and attributes them to a belief by political actors in the fundamental lack of legitimacy in central government institutions after the sweeping away of the Bourbon imperial structure and its replacement first with a very short-lived Mexican empire followed by a series of increasingly authoritarian aspirational republican constitutions.

Mexico’s movement toward independence from Spain was a key episode in the dissolution of the great Spanish Empire, and its accompanying armed conflict arguably the first great war of decolonization in the nineteenth century. This book argues that in addition to being a war of national liberation, the struggle was also an internal war pitting classes and ethnic groups against each other, an intensely localized struggle by rural people, especially Indians, for the preservation of their communities. While local and national elites focused their energies on wresting power from colonial authorities and building a new nation-state, rural people were often much more concerned about keeping village identities and lifeways intact against the forces of state expansion, commercialization, and modernization. Conventional wisdom says that Mexican independence was achieved through a cross-class and cross-ethnic alliance between creole ideologues, military leaders, and a mass following. This book shows that this is not only an incomplete explanation of what went on in Mexico during the decade of armed confrontation that led to Mexico’s independence, but also a distortion of Mexican social and cultural history. The author delves deeply into life histories, previously unexamined texts, statistical social profiling, and local historical ethnography to examine the dynamics of popular rebellion. He focuses especially on Mexico’s Indian villages, but also considers the role of parish priests as insurgent leaders; local conflicts over land, politics, and religious symbols; the influence of messianism and millenarianism in popular insurgent ideology; and the everyday language of political upheaval.

Cuando apenas hay avances en la consolidación teórico-metodológica de los estudios sobre periodismo, surgen nuevas manifestaciones marcadas por dos fenómenos que -paradójicamente- sí son constantes: el dinamismo de la profesión, y las interminables crisis, lo que genera cuestionamientos que alcanzan desde el concepto mismo del periodismo, hasta las dificultades en sus condiciones de producción. Algo similar, aunque quizá menos marcado, ha sucedido con los estudios sobre comunicación: históricamente hay hechos disruptivos, marcados por la dinámica propia de vitalidad y movimiento de la disciplina, que cimbran lo que se sabe y lo que se hace en la comunicación; basta echar un vistazo a los objetos de estudio emergentes, como la Inteligencia Artificial y su papel en los procesos comunicativos.

L’histoire des traites, des esclavages, des abolitions et de leurs héritages est trop souvent mal connue ou invisibilisée. La demande sociale est pourtant forte et de grandes enquêtes scientifiques nourrissent une recherche internationale qui éclaire les questions d’aujourd’hui, autour de la construction des identités politiques et des discriminations. Cependant, beaucoup reste à faire car les avancées de l’histoire scolaire ne sont jamais acquises. Cet ouvrage offre un tour d’horizon international exceptionnel sur les programmes scolaires et les pratiques pédagogiques de l’école élémentaire au lycée en mettant en connexion l’Afrique, les Amériques et l’Europe. De nombreux retours d’expérience et des propositions pédagogiques pluridisciplinaires enracinées dans la recherche sont présentées. Ce livre s’adresse aux spécialistes de l’école ainsi qu’à un large public, intéressé par le croisement des regards sur les représentations de l’esclavage dans les sociétés actuelles et leurs dynamiques.

Ante la tendencia de minusvalorar el buen periodismo frente a los beneficios comerciales, el fracaso de dos proyectos de televisión y la contracción de un diario de larga data en la ciudad de Guadalajara, en este informe se documenta además la inoperancia de los mecanismos institucionales para la protección de periodistas y procesos que garanticen el derecho de acceso a la información. También se documenta el análisis del programa A toda máquina por su perfil oficialista que encubrió irregularidades del gobierno, y el estudio de dos publicaciones católicas: El Puente, de Ciudad Guzmán y el Semanario de la Arquideósesis de Guadalajara. </p> (ITESO, Universidad) (ITESO).

Jóvenes procedentes de todos los ámbitos del país, de múltiples oficios, de diversos estratos sociales, son autores de este ejercicio narrativo convertido en crónicas sorprendentes, que encarnan talentos insospechados, el grito de bocas silenciadas por circunstancias duras y crueles. Dejaron filtrar la intimidad del conflicto social sobre el azote del Covid-19. Así se abre en este libro una mirada especial sobre el fenómeno universal de la pandemia.