Browsing Hispanic Studies (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Accommodating the Third Space in a Fourth Society: BDAFRICA, a groundbreaking source for the analysis of African Literature Reception in Spain
(2018)Inherent features of African postcolonial literature have hampered reception quan- tification, which is even more often neglected in countries with limited experience of African decolonization processes. This has been ... -
Adapting to climate change through disaster risk reduction in the Caribbean: lessons from the Global South in tackling the Sustainable Development Goals
(Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, 2022)Developing resilience in conditions of extreme geographic and economic vulnerability, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have learned to share what works for adaptation on the ground through transnational Disaster Risk ... -
Co-production of Climate Services: A diversity of approaches and good practice from the ERA4CS projects (2017?2021)
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Connecting People to Climate Change Action: Informing Participatory Frameworks for the National Dialogue on Climate Action (C-CHANGE)
(Environmental Protection Agency, 2022)Ireland has committed to becoming a net-zero and climate-neutral economy by 2050. The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act set this ambition in legislation, while the Climate Action Plan defines the pathway ... -
Creating Resilient Futures: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)Examines a coherence building opportunity between Climate Change Adaptation, the Sustainable Development Goals and Disaster Risk Reduction agendas. Considers opportunities to address global challenges in the context of ... -
Crossing the border between postcolonial reality and the `outer world': Translation and representation of the third space into a fourth space
(2019)Stemming from poststructuralist interpretations of space and following Bhabha’s third space enunciation, in this paper we have coined the term fourth space and used this concept as a heuristic tool to address the need ... -
Decalogue of the Characteristics of Postcolonial Literature: A Proposal of a Taxonomy for Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature Studies
(2021)This paper aims to offer a classification proposal of the features that are typically found, to a greater or lesser extent, in postcolonial texts in any language. In spite of the fact that this tax- onomy model is based ... -
Design and implementation of a database of Postcolonial African literature published in Spain
(2016)This paper evidences the absence of a repository or databa- se that scompiles the publications of Postcolonial African writing in Spain, thus precluding comprehensive quantitative or qualitative studies on the impact ... -
Digital resources in praxis and research in humanistic translation: The case of the BDAFRICA database
(Comares, 2023)This research highlights the need for a revolution in the convergence between Humanistic Translation and Digital Humanities. It is true that the Translation practice has already led the inclusion of electronic resources, ... -
Eco Artivism in Galician Feminist Fiction: Teresa Moure's A intervención (2010)
(Legenda - Modern Humanities Research Association, 2023)If small literatures have been consistently banished to the margins of history, their women’s voices have been doubly silenced. Narrative by women writing in the language of Galician from the non-state Atlantic nation ... -
Feminisms at Work: The (Re)Production of Gender and Culture in Contemporary Galicia
(2022)Dynamic, multifaceted and multimodal feminist and woman-led artistic production has made its mark in the Galician cultural sphere in recent years. Non-canonical artistic formulations located on the fringes of, and often ... -
Francophone African literature in Spain: A quantitative study based on the BDAFRICA database
(2022)This article intends for the first time to show quantitative data regarding the reception of French-speaking African literature in Spain. Since it was not searchable in any repository, we have used the BDAFRICA bibliographic ... -
Galicia on the Move
(2020)If migratory processes inform and construct global imaginaries, discussions of the societal impact of Galician mobility remain as pertinent as ever. The Galician community has been characterized by the intranational and ... -
Introduction: Can the Sendai Framework, the Paris Agreement, and Agenda 2030 Provide a Path Towards Societal Resilience?
(2022)The Global Risk Report 2021 highlights the portfolio of risks that may reshape the world in the coming years (WEF, The Global Risks Report 2021 (16th ed.). ISBN: 978-2-940631-24-7. http://wef.ch/risks2021, 2021). Although ... -
Language, Performance, Memory and Transculturation in the Jocs Florals Catalans of Cuba
(Environmental Protection Agency, 2022)This article studies the role of language, literature and performance in the consolidation of the Catalan community of Cuba, particularly through the literary prize Jocs Florals Catalans of Havana, celebrated in 1923 and ... -
Los pájaros are feliz and are dreaming about gwiazdy: Facilitating Translingual Creative Writing in the Primary Classroom
(2020)Although one in five state-educated children in England speaks a language other than English at home, there is little space in the National Curriculum for the expression of this linguistic heritage. In this article we ... -
Munster Landscape
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Of Monsters and Women: Feminist Response to Gender-based Violence in Galician Noir
(2022)This article contrasts strategies of resistance to gender-based violence in two examples of audiovisual media which draw on or subvert the burgeoning genre of Galician noir; season one of the TVG-Netflix hit O sabor das ... -
Pandemic natives, pandemic immigrants: Effects of COVID-19 confinement on the wellbeing of children in preschool education
(2021)This study explores the behavioural effects of COVID-19 confinement in preschool children (aged 3–5) based on their parents’ perceptions. Now that policy makers in numerous countries are drawing up new policies on ...