Two new books funded at Liverpool University Press via OtF
Posted by Kira Hopkins on Nov. 15, 2024 at 1011
Liverpool University Press is pleased to announce the funding of two new open access books thanks to the existing supporters, and recently joined new library members of the Opening the Future (OtF) programme.
Published over October and November 2024, our new OA books will be freely accessible and readable online, and will also be available in print.
Jurisdictional Battlefields: Political Culture, Theatricality, and Spanish Expeditions in Charcas in the second half of the sixteenth century by Mario Graña Taborelli
This book examines three expeditions by the Spanish to the borders of Charcas, a district that covers present-day Bolivia and the northwest of Argentina, in the second half of the sixteenth century, using an approach that has not been attempted until now. Scholarship on these events has framed them as part of a gradual top-down process of centralisation driven by the Crown to extend its power and build a colonial ‘state’ in the Americas. This book challenges that view, approaching the expeditions through an analysis of the political culture that underpinned them. It explores the events within the process of installation and consolidation of royal jurisdiction, understood here as the authority to establish law and deliver justice, in a remote area. This was a process achieved through coercion and violence, as well as negotiation and consensus, that involved both the Spanish and indigenous peoples, and that frequently created overlapping jurisdictions, via downscaling of politics and dispersal of power. Jurisdictional politics were decided and settled in battlefields and courts and involved the theatricalization of power, to make a distant monarch present, which, paradoxically, made such absence the more evident. The book is an invitation to re-dimension the scope of Spain’s empire
Democrazy in Spain: Cinema and New Forms of Social Life (1968-2008) by Isabel M. Estrada
The 2008 financial crisis prompted the most significant social protests since 1968 in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. These protests generated not only social reform but also collaborative and affective affiliations, often seen through artistic and cultural materials. Taking Spain as a focal point, this book examines film production at both points in time, showing how it emerges from simultaneously divergent and comparable economic and political milieux. The book aims to recognize and celebrate the political responsibility exercised and expressed by a new generation of Spaniards deeply immersed in those protests. Through the convergences of two markedly significant periods in two separate centuries, filmmakers expose the deficiencies of Spain’s democracy in 2008—the D€MOCRAZY in the title, a slogan seen on a banner carried by the protesters—while creating a new sensibility and forms of social life that bring back the notions of community and the common good that had been forgotten in the midst of such a brittle environment.
Funding for these new OA titles comes from the Press’ collective library membership programme Opening the Future, bringing the initiative’s OA output to 9 published titles.
Opening the Future at Liverpool University Press is a cost-effective way for libraries to increase their digital collections on Hispanic and Lusophone studies.
Subscribing libraries get unlimited multi-user access to a curated package of backlist books, with perpetual access after three years. The Press uses membership funds solely to produce new frontlist titles in OA format.
More information on Opening the Future can be found on the website.
For further information:
Author: Mario Graña Taborelli
ISBN: ISBN:9781835537091 (Hardcover) |eISBN:9781835537107 (PDF) |eISBN:9781835537114 (ePub)
Publication Date: 1st October 2024
Details: 256 pages
Democrazy in Spain: Cinema and New Forms of Social Life (1968-2008)
Author: Isabel M. Estrada
ISBN: ISBN:9781835536896 (Hardcover) |eISBN:9781835536902 (PDF) |eISBN:9781835536919 (ePub)
Details: 160 pages
The full list of OA titles funded by our generous member library subscribers can be found at lup.openingthefuture.net/forthcoming, and the backlist packages to which libraries may subscribe can be found here: lup.openingthefuture.net/packages.