Jan De Vos: 7 books

Book cover of La paz de Dios y del Rey

La paz de Dios y del Rey

La conquista de la Selva Lacandona (1525-1821)

by Jan de Vos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 31, 2015

El largo proceso de destrucción de las civilizaciones prehispánicas se inició con la llegada a América de los primeros europeos y no ha llegado aún a su término. Una de las víctimas de este proceso fue una pequeña tribu indígena del sureste de México, los lacandones, que, como señala Jan de Vos, fue totalmente exterminada durante el dominio español.
Book cover of The Metamorphoses of the Brain – Neurologisation and its Discontents
by Jan De Vos
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016

What are we exactly, when we are said to be our brain? This question leads Jan De Vos to examine the different metamorphoses of the brain: the educated brain, the material brain, the iconographic brain, the sexual brain, the celebrated brain and, finally, the political brain. This first, protracted...
Book cover of Psychologization and the Subject of Late Modernity
by Jan De Vos
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013

Jan De Vos's second book on psychologization argues that psychology IS psychologization, a phenomenon traced back from Late-Modernity to the Enlightenment. Engaging with seminal thinkers such La Mettrie, Husserl, Lasch and Agamben, the book teases out the limits of psychoanalysis as a critical tool.
Book cover of Psychologisation in Times of Globalisation
by Jan De Vos
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012

Today more than ever, our understanding of ourselves, others and the world around us is described in psychological terms. Psychologists deeply influence our society, and psychological-discourse has invaded companies, advertising, culture, politics, and even our social and family life. Moreover, psychologisation...
Book cover of Oro verde

Oro verde

La conquista de la selva lacandona por los madereros tabasqueños, 1822-1949

by Jan De Vos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 18, 2015

En 1822, año en que la provincia colonial de Las Chiapas se independiza definitivamente de España, la selva lacandona es descubierta por primera vez como reserva forestal. A partir de ese súbito ingreso en la historia moderna, este inmenso baluarte natural ha sido escenario de un enfrentamiento entre forasteros y pobladores autóctonos.
Book cover of Una tierra para sembrar sueños

Una tierra para sembrar sueños

Historia reciente de la Selva Lacandona, 1950-2000

by Jan de Vos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 26, 2015

El autor narra la historia de la selva a través de los sueños de ocho personajes que son representativos de cada tema: la explotación maderera, la colonización campesina, la iniciativa finquera, la intervención gubernamental, la unión ejidal, la evangelización autóctona, el refugio guatemalteco y el alzamiento zapatista.
Book cover of Constructions of Neuroscience in Early Childhood Education
by Michel Vandenbroeck, Jan De Vos, Wim Fias
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017

This book explores and critiques topical debates in educational sciences, philosophy, social work and cognitive neuroscience. It examines constructions of children, parents and the welfare state in relation to neurosciences and its vocabulary of brain architecture, critical periods and toxic stress. The...
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