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This book comes from a ten-year-long study of the digital divide in Austin, Texas, that gradually turned into a broader inquiry into Austin's history as a segregated city, its turn toward becoming a technopolis, what the city and various groups did to try to address the digital divide once it was identified as a major issue in the 1991s, and how various groups and individuals were affected by those programs, as well as by the larger history of Austin.

Austin is widely admired and emulated as a successful example of a technopolis. Often, however, too little attention is paid to the lives of the digital have-nots. This book attempts to remedy this by presenting theoretically informed findings from a ten-year study of the digital divide, or digital inequity, in Austin, covering the period through the dot-com boom and beyond. It examines Austin's turn toward becoming a technopolis by situating it in its history as a segregated city and examines the impact of efforts by the city administration and other groups to address the digital divide.

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En este ambicioso análisis, David D. Laitin demuestra que las profundas diferencias religiosas existentes en la sociedad yoruba (Nigeria), dividida entre el cristianismo y el islamismo, no actúan como factor polarizador o cebador de conflictos.

Para explicar esta inusual tolerancia religiosa y despolitización de la religión, presenta una teoría complementaria, la teoría de la hegemonía, que desarrolla a partir de la obra de Antonio Gramsci. Poniendo en el centro de atención el papel hegemónico de la administración británica en el país yoruba durante el siglo XIX, el autor muestra que las teorías de la política "centradas en el estado", dominan nuestra comprensión de la dimensión cultural de la política.

Debates sobre tradición y modernidad, contenido y rol de la cultura o relación entre religión y política se entrecruzan en estas páginas, apoyados con abundante material empírico, historiográfico o procedente del trabajo de campo del propio autor.