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The Western museum is a battleground—a terrain of ideological, political, and economic contestation. Almost everyone today wants to rethink the museum, but how many have the audacity to question the idea of the universal museum itself? In A Programme of Absolute Disorder, Françoise Vergès puts the museum in its place. Exploring the Louvre's history, she uncovers the context in which the universal museum emerged: as a product of colonialism, and of Europe's self-appointed claim to be the guardian of global heritage.

Esto es el resumen de una Investigación realizada a la Generación de Los Baby Boomers, para que de una forma amena, clara y corta, sepan su origen, quiénes fueron, qué hicieron, quiénes son actualmente y qué harán en los próximos años. Los Baby Boomers, la Generación que Revolucionó al mundo, nacida entre 1.946 y 1.964 está caracterizada por ser la de más alta población, con respecto a otras generaciones. Originada después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, donde todos los soldados volvieron a sus casas. Este fenómeno ocurrió en los países occidentales, como los Estados Unidos,...

Toward a Relational Foodscape in Chinese and Japanese North American Literature adopts a relational perspective of food justice to reread literary texts, mainly by contemporary Chinese and Japanese American/Canadian writers. The book highlights that the environment and race are closely intertwined in Asian North American ecocriticism. Yiyi He demonstrates how a food justice ecocritical lens informed by the East Asian (especially Chinese) notion “relational foodscape” challenges the binary between humans and more-than-humans while emphasizing relations and reciprocity between them. Yiyi ...