In Mexican exile, Rodolfo Halffter developed his own compositional style without renouncing European roots. The aim of this study is to determine the musical techniques and resources employed by in Diferencias for orchestra (1970) order achieve synthesis he sought between Germanic modernity Spanish tradition: treatment twelve-tone row twelve sections work examined, as well stylistic characteris...

The aim of this work is to analyze the process by which psychoanalysis categories joined scientific and popular culture in Francoism. To do so, we will start with criticism reinterpretations that different experts did on Freud’s theory adapt it new political-social context. This analysis allow us show how reappropriation signification a progressive modern was achieved based doctrinal principles...

Writing from the vantage point of the America of Bush and Bill Frist, in which the banning not only of abortion but also of many forms of contraception seems a distinct possibility, it is refreshing to read about a place where abortion rights are not imminently under threat. One might think that such a place would be considered a bastion of rational ‘modernity’ when compared with the embrace of...

Abstract Theorising a non-Eurocentric “global international relations” has been main preoccupation of scholars associated with political sociology (IPS). In this article, I argue that within the IPS tradition have provided powerful critique of, but no clear alternative to, Eurocentrism. This is partly attributable to their insufficient problematisation historical narratives propel capitalism ba...