Miguel Angel Martinez Lopez – författare

En una pequeña capital de provincias, un empleado de banca en paro, un veterano profesor de instituto y una joven profesora, hastiados de la inoperancia de los políticos locales, deciden crear UsaTuVoto.com, un partido político totalmente original. Este nuevo partido ofrece un portal en internet, a través del cual, los votantes deciden el voto de sus concejales en el ayuntamiento. Este planteamiento choca frontalmente con el poder establecido y su sistema de apoyos, pactos y alianzas políticas, porque el voto siempre pertenece al votante y nunca al partido. Una atrevida y entretenida novela que hace pensar al lector sobre las verdades profundas de la democracia y su puesta en práctica en la vida pública municipal de una pequeña capital de provincia española.

Tres colecciones de poemas recogidas en un único libro. La primera, titulada Desahogos, recoge poemas del trabajo, de la vida personal y de la vida interior. La segunda, bajo el título de ¿Dónde está la esperanza?, recorre la experiencia de la desesperanza de este mundo y busca una luz hacia la que caminar. La tercera parte, Huérfanos poemas, agrupa poemas varios con diversas temática, desde la poesía intimista hasta los poemas de amor.

Un libro didáctico para acercar a los lectores a la poesía. No es un libro técnico ni un manual para el estudio de la literatura, es un libro para disfrutar de la lectura de la poesía, para talleres literarios, para lectores inquietos y para fomento de la lectura poética. Un libro de autoayuda para lectores de poesía.

Una profesora novata que se enfrenta a su tarea en un instituto, un padre de familia que ha perdido todo lo que amaba y un sacerdote inmerso en una crisis vocacional, dibujan un trenzado narrativo donde el lector debe recomponer las fragmentadas historias, encontrar puntos de armonía e identificar las conexiones entre ellas. Tres historias relacionadas con la paternidad, entendida en sentido plural, incluyendo la maternidad, e incluyendo también la paternidad espiritual, no solo la paternidad física.

This edited volume advances our understanding of urban activism beyond the social movement theorization dominated by thesis of political opportunity structure and resource mobilization, as well as by research based on experience from the global north. Covering a diversity of urban actions from a broad range of countries in both hemispheres as well as the global north and global south, this unique collection notably focuses on non-institutionalised or localised urban actions that have the potential to bring about radical structural transformation of the urban system and also addresses actions in authoritarian regimes that are too sensitive to call themselves “movement”. It addresses localized issues cut off from international movements such as collective consumption issues, like clean water, basic shelter, actions against displacement or proper venues for street vendors, and argues that the integration of the actions in cities in the global south with the specificity of their local social and political environment is as pivotal as their connection with global movement networks or international NGOs. A key read for researchers and policy makers cutting across the fields of urban sociology, political science, public policy, geography, regional studies and housing studies, this text provides an interdisciplinary and international perspective on 21st century urban activism in the global north and south.

This edited volume advances our understanding of urban activism beyond the social movement theorization dominated by thesis of political opportunity structure and resource mobilization, as well as by research based on experience from the global north. Covering a diversity of urban actions from a broad range of countries in both hemispheres as well as the global north and global south, this unique collection notably focuses on non-institutionalised or localised urban actions that have the potential to bring about radical structural transformation of the urban system and also addresses actions in authoritarian regimes that are too sensitive to call themselves “movement”. It addresses localized issues cut off from international movements such as collective consumption issues, like clean water, basic shelter, actions against displacement or proper venues for street vendors, and argues that the integration of the actions in cities in the global south with the specificity of their local social and political environment is as pivotal as their connection with global movement networks or international NGOs. A key read for researchers and policy makers cutting across the fields of urban sociology, political science, public policy, geography, regional studies and housing studies, this text provides an interdisciplinary and international perspective on 21st century urban activism in the global north and south.