Cambio climático, cambio civilizatorio: aproximaciones teóricas
Cambio climático, cambio civilizatorio: aproximaciones teóricas

Author: Guzmán Hennessey, Manuel

Publisher: Editorial Universidad del Rosario

Published: 2012-12-10

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9587383001

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La amenaza del cambio climático nos obliga a poner los ojos en la sociedad y en la vida, a reflexionar en colectivo sobre la necesidad de construir una nueva sociedad cimentada sobre valores centrados en la primacía de la vida sobre los bienes materiales. Empezar a pensar en nuevos modelos económicos del desarrollo que reduzcan gradualmente la presión sobre los ecosistemas y postulen alternativas más humanas, capaces de neutralizar las axiologías inhumanas de los mercados, es el propósito de esta publicación. A ella hemos invitado a muchos pensadores de España y de América Latina que están trabajando sobre este nuevo desafío del conocimiento. La serie que bajo el título 'Cambio Climático Nueva Sociedad' ha tenido a bien apoyar la Universidad del Rosario, y que está bajo la coordinación académica de la red KLN, también persigue crear una comunidad intelectual que colaborativamente trabaje en la tarea de diseñar enfoques teóricos y metodológicos para ayudar a la humanidad a enfrentar el cambio climático, mediante una adaptación cultural de la especie que posibilite el surgimiento de una civilización (forma de vivir) en paz consigo misma y en armonía con la naturaleza, como lo resumió el científico social Antonio Elizalde, inspirador de esta publicación.A ella hemos invitado a muchos pensadores de España y de América Latina que están trabajando sobre este nuevo desafío del conocimiento. La serie que bajo el título 'Cambio Climático Nueva Sociedad' ha tenido a bien apoyar la Universidad del Rosario, y que está bajo la coordinación académica de la red KLN, también persigue crear una comunidad intelectual que colaborativamente trabaje en la tarea de diseñar enfoques teóricos y metodológicos para ayudar a la humanidad a enfrentar el cambio climático, mediante una adaptación cultural de la especie que posibilite el surgimiento de una civilización (forma de vivir) en paz consigo misma y en armonía con la naturaleza, como lo resumió el científico social Antonio Elizalde, inspirador de esta publicación.La serie que bajo el título 'Cambio Climático Nueva Sociedad' ha tenido a bien apoyar la Universidad del Rosario, y que está bajo la coordinación académica de la red KLN, también persigue crear una comunidad intelectual que colaborativamente trabaje en la tarea de diseñar enfoques teóricos y metodológicos para ayudar a la humanidad a enfrentar el cambio climático, mediante una adaptación cultural de la especie que posibilite el surgimiento de una civilización (forma de vivir) en paz consigo misma y en armonía con la naturaleza, como lo resumió el científico social Antonio Elizalde, inspirador de esta publicación.

The Politics of Political Science
The Politics of Political Science

Author: Paulo Ravecca

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-02-11

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1351110535

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In this thought-provoking book, Paulo Ravecca presents a series of interlocking studies on the politics of political science in the Americas. Focusing mainly on the cases of Chile and Uruguay, Ravecca employs different strands of critical theory to challenge the mainstream narrative about the development of the discipline in the region, emphasizing its ideological aspects and demonstrating how the discipline itself has been shaped by power relations. Ravecca metaphorically charts the (non-linear) transit from “cold” to “warm” to “hot” intellectual temperatures to illustrate his—alternative—narrative. Beginning with a detailed quantitative study of three regional academic journals, moving to the analysis of the role of subjectivity (and political trauma) in academia and its discourse in relation to the dictatorships in Chile and Uruguay, and arriving finally at an intimate meditation on the experience of being a queer scholar in the Latin American academy of the 21st century, Ravecca guides his readers through differing explorations, languages, and methods. The Politics of Political Science: Re-Writing Latin American Experiences offers an essential reflection on both the relationship between knowledges and politics and the political and ethical role of the scholar today, demonstrating how the study of the politics of knowledge deepens our understanding of the politics of our times.

The Future of the Past: Paths towards Participatory Governance for Cultural Heritage
The Future of the Past: Paths towards Participatory Governance for Cultural Heritage

Author: Gabriela García

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2021-05-30

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1000401278

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The Future of the Past is a biennial conference generally carried out during the commemoration date of the incorporation of Santa Ana de Los Ríos de Cuenca Ecuador as a World Heritage Site (WHS). It initiated in 2014, organized by the City Preservation Management research project (CPM) of the University of Cuenca, to create a space for dialoguing among interested actors in the cultural heritage field. Since then, this space has served to exchange initiatives and to promote coordinated actions based on shared responsibility, in the local context. The third edition of this conference took place in the context of the 20th anniversary of being listed as WHS and a decade of CPM as the Southern host of the PRECOM3OS UNESCO Chair (Preventive Conservation, Maintenance and Monitoring of Monuments and Sites). For the very first time, and thanks to the collaboration with the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation of the University of Leuven (Belgium), the conference expanded its local scope. On this occasion, contributions reflected round a worldwide challenge in the cultural field: revealing the paths towards participatory governance of cultural heritage. Participatory governance is understood as institutional decision-making structures supported by shared responsibilities and rights among diverse actors.

The Caste War of Yucatán
The Caste War of Yucatán

Author: Nelson A. Reed

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780804740012

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This is the classic account of one of the most dramatic episodes in Mexican history--the revolt of the Maya Indians of Yucatán against their white and mestizo oppressors that began in 1847. Within a year, the Maya rebels had almost succeeded in driving their oppressors from the peninsula; by 1855, when the major battles ended, the war had killed or put to flight almost half of the population of Yucatán. A new religion built around a Speaking Cross supported their independence for over fifty years, and that religion survived the eventual Maya defeat and continues today. This revised edition is based on further research in the archives and in the field, and draws on the research by a new generation of scholars who have labored since the book's original publication 36 years ago. One of the most significant results of this research is that it has put a human face on much that had heretofore been treated as semi-mythical. Reviews of the First Edition "Reed has not only written a fine account of the caste war, he has also given us the first penetrating analysis of the social and economic systems of Yucatán in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." --American Historical Review "In this beautifully written history of a little-known struggle between several contending forces in Yucatán, Reed has added an important dimension to anthropological studies in this area." --American Anthropologist "Not only is this exciting history (as compelling and dramatic as the best of historical fiction) but it covers events unaccountably neglected by historians. . . . This is a brilliant contribution to history. . . . Don't miss this book." --Los Angeles Times "One of the most remarkable books about Latin America to appear in years." --Hispanic American Report

Animate Earth
Animate Earth

Author: Stephan Harding

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

Published: 2006-09-15

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1603581499

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Modern science and western culture both teach that the planet we inhabit is a dead and passive lump of matter, but as Stephan Harding points out, this wasn't always the prevailing sentiment and in Animate Earth he sets out to explain how these older notions of an animate earth can be explained in rational, scientific terms. In this astounding book Harding lays out the facts and theories behind one of the most controversial notions to come out of the hard sciences arguably since Sir Isaac Newton's Principia or the first major publications to come out of the Copenhagen School regarding quantum mechanics. The latter is an important parallel: Whereas quantum mechanics is a science of the problem--it gave rise to the atomic bomb among other things--Gaia Theory in this age of global warming and dangerous climate change is a science of the solution. Its utility: Healing a dying planet becomes an option in a culture otherwise poised to fall into total ecological collapse. Replacing the cold, objectifying language of science with a way of speaking of our planet as a sentient, living being, Harding presents the science of Gaia in everyday English. His scientific passion and rigor shine through his luminous prose as he calls us to experience Gaia as a living presence and bringing to mind such popular science authors as James Gleick. Animate Earth will inspire in readers a profound sense of the interconnectedness of life, and to discover what it means to live harmoniously as part of a sentient creature of planetary proportions. This new understanding may solve the most serious problems that face us as a species today.

Territory
Territory

Author: David Delaney

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1405153059

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This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine. A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term "territory". Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field. Addresses specific areas including interpretations of territorial structures; the relationship between territoriality and scale; the validity and fluidity of territory; and the practical, social processes associated with territorial re-configurations. Stresses that our understanding of territory is inseparable from our understanding of power. Uses Israel/Palestine as an extended illustrative case study. The author’s strong legal and geographical background gives the work an authoritative perspective.

Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico
Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico

Author: Enrique Florescano

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2014-03-19

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0292786549

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In Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico, noted Mexican scholar Enrique Florescano’s Memoria mexicana becomes available for the first time in English. A collection of essays tracing the many memories of the past created by different individuals and groups in Mexico, the book addresses the problem of memory and changing ideas of time in the way Mexicans conceive of their history. Original in perspective and broad in scope, ranging from the Aztec concept of the world and history to the ideas of independence, this book should appeal to a wide readership.

Sociology of the Future
Sociology of the Future

Author: Wendell Bell

Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Published: 1971-10-12

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 1610440390

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Concerns itself with the future of sociology, and of all social science. The thirteen authors—among them Wendell Bell, Kai T. Erikson, Scott Greer, Robert Boguslaw, James Mau, and Ivar Oxaal—are oriented toward a redefinition of the role of the social scientist as advisor to policymakers and administrators in all major areas of social concern, for the purpose of studying and shaping the future. This book contains research strategies for such "futurologistic" study, theories on its merits and dangers, as well as an annotated bibliography of social science studies of the future.

Icanchu's Drum
Icanchu's Drum

Author: Lawrence Eugene Sullivan

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 1036

ISBN-13:

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Engaging People in Sustainability
Engaging People in Sustainability

Author: Daniella Tilbury

Publisher: IUCN

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9782831708232

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The book is based on the exchange of professional experiences which featured in an IUCN CEC workshop in August 2002. Practitioners from around the world shared their models of good practice and explored the challenges involved in engaging people in sustainability. The difficulties facing practitioners vary between country and context but some challenges are universal: A lack of clarity in communicating what is meant by sustainable development; An ambition to educate everyone to bring about a global citizenship; Social, organisational or institutional factors constrain change to sustainable development, yet there is an emphasis on formal education, and community educators do not receive the same support; A lack of balance in addressing the integration of environmental, social and economic dimensions leading to an interpretation that ESD is mainly about environment and conservation issues; New learning (rather than teaching) approaches are called for to promote more debate in society. Yet, few are trained or experienced in these new approaches. Practitioners need support to explore new ways of promoting learning. [Foreword, ed].