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... is cited parenthetically . © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Council of Trent Catholic Reform New Spain Episcopal authority Mendicant orders Trent: What Happened at the Council . . . and What Happened across the Atlantic Karen...

... (Pedro Almodóvar), new media (Appgree), and literature ( The Winterlings , by Cristina Sánchez-Andrade). The essay, in sum, offers new theoretical tools for identifying the disavowal of authority and showing the limits of certain digital forms of collective decision-making in Spain today. Two Voices...

..., distraction, and hoping to just get by that has made this “new normalcy” possible. On the other hand—and it would be absurd not to admit it—the Spain of the crisis has changed in recent years. As is well known, especially after 2015–16, some of the most extreme effects of economic downfall (among others...

... the new decisionist form of the sovereign . If, as Schmitt states, the sovereign in liberal democracies has no capacity to decide against the permanent state of emergency, then the case of Catalonia makes evident the need for an alternative sovereign figure for such decisions. In the case of Spain...

... by Semiotext(e) this year. Contributors 251 Karen Melvin is associate professor of history at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Her book, Building Colonial Cities of God: Mendicant Orders and Urban Culture in New Spain, was published in 2012...

... provided a useful pretext for a new wave of protests. But the 15M, as it is known in Spain, did not respond to specific government actions, it did not take aim at a particular political party, and its goal was not to topple the current administration. Its orientation was much broader, its timing, more...

... that hit Spain particularly hard, the economy has taken the central stage in the Catalan pro-independence discourse and in its opponent's. In fact, the economic factor is not at all something new when discussing details of Catalonia's difference from Spain at large. For instance, Catalan nationalism grew...

..., and Catalan nationalism in particular. Second, the conviction that Spain needed a “new Reconquest,” the period in Iberian history where Christian forces battled against Muslim rulers, which ended in 1492 with the fall of Granada. By invoking the Reconquest, Vox was reclaiming an essential Catholic Spanishness...

... beyond that, informing profound social discontents, while also providing the elements for new cultural politics and even—although this depends on the result of political struggles—of a new political culture in Spain. Two images have frequently been used to describe the emergence of Podemos...

... transformations in post-15M Spain? Have they exhausted their potential, or have they just scratched the surface of their capabilities? This reflection illustrates some preliminary observations on the ecosystem of the commons and its communities of practice in post-15M Spain. It responds to some of these expansive...

.... Fernández's loud protest in Parliament, a synecdoche for the noise of wooden clogs, became a touchstone for Spain's new institutional politics on the left. The irruption of radical movements in the streets had finally had an effect on the country's political institutions. In fact, Fernàndez's speech could...

... en la cárcel .” In Introducción al estudio de la filosofía , by Antonio Gramsci, 7 – 33 . Barcelona : Crítica . Sacristán Manuel . 1998 . El orden y el tiempo . Madrid : Trotta . Snyder Jonathan . 2015 . Poetics of Opposition in Contemporary Spain . New York : Palgrave...

... into the devastating consequences of crisis and austerity ( 2012 : 549). In diverse genres such as documentary, comedy, police thriller, musical, and family drama, Spain's filmmakers have held up a mirror to the new social realities of the nation: the devastating consequences of austerity, joblessness, and precarious...

... from the public eye. Spain—the Spain of the Black Legend and the Inquisition—marked for the hegemonic culture of the United States an anachronistic past, characterized among other things by cruelty and torture practiced in the name of religious ortho- doxy, that we were destined to overcome...

...Shane McCrae © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 On Race and Innovation Dossier / McCrae 27 Shane McCrae from The Queen of Spain 1 The Queen of Spain was a captive woman, he was a boy. I was a boy, a black boy, Isabella, Queen of Castille...

... at preventing the expansion of the United States; if it was the last of the Spanish American wars against the old colonialism of Spain, it was also the first tangible movement against the new imperialism led by the United States in the contemporary era. This gives a special breadth to the revolutionary...

... of a new freedom is the challenge that imposes itself on us. To meet this challenge, there is no better inspiration than the libertarian spirit of Martí, which comes from Heredia, the first poet of the Cuban nation, and from José de...

..., la lluvia que no cesa: Una relectura del acontecimiento contemporáneo .” 452ºF 15 : 54 – 70 . Gramsci Antonio . 2007 . Quaderni del carcere . 4 vols. Turín : Einaudi . Iglesias Pablo . 2015 . “ Spain on Edge .” New Left Review 93 : 23 – 42 . https://newleftreview.org...

... themselves upon a Native American indigenous population and who imported many enslaved Africans. Through the nineteenth century, the new nation spread across North America, buying Louisiana and gaining Florida from Spain, and then, by war against Spain’s successor, Mexico, conquering Texas...

... Phallus . She is the coeditor of New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement and Global Black Consciousness . Denise Ferreira da Silva is an academic and an artist. She is currently the Samuel Rudin Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New...