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This volume reflects on questions of human rights in the context of globalization. The essays responding to this subject are rich and varied: they focus on legal acceptance as well as consequences of human rights with regard to social rights and the necessary protection of the environment connected or close to those rights. Another approach to the subject featured in the volume is the legal recognition and the consideration of human rights as moral rights. With concepts on universality, a new cosmopolitism, cultural pluralism and perspectives on religious variants and technological advances...

¿Quién puede parar el avance de las drogas sintéticas? Nadie, porque la química va más rápido que la ley. Todo empieza bien, como siempre empieza lo que acaba mal. Un gobierno legaliza la producción y comercialización de drogas sintéticas con la esperanza de multiplicar sus fines médicos. Al otro lado del mundo, un científico ambicioso descubre ahí un resquicio para lucrarse. La grieta se multiplica, las reglas del juego cambian. Es lo que ha ocurrido en silencio durante los últimos seis años: drogas nuevas e imposibles de rastrear están llenando las calles y fiestas de decenas ...

Between the 15th and 17th centuries, sugar cultivation and processing, a Mediterranean industry throughout the Middle Ages, experienced what we can aptly describe as the first period of its prosperous Atlantic history. This book explores the material dimension of sugar mills and the landscapes of which they are both cause and effect.

Each year, for three days in September, the citizens of Jocotan, an ancient indigenous community near Guadalajara, Mexico, symbolically reenact the Spanish conquest of Mexico in mock battles between Santiago, the patron saint of Spain, and the Tastoanes, the leaders of the indigenous resistance. Paradoxically, the Jocotenos honor Santiago, their special protector, and incorporate both Christian and indigenous practices and beliefs in their fiesta. Employing the concept of hegemony, the author explores what the festival means culturally to the community and shows how it enables Jocotenos to...