Pobreza, exclusión y desigualdad
Author: Jorge Granda Aguilar
Publisher: Flacso-Sede Ecuador
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9978671862
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Alternatives to Privatization
Author: David A. McDonald
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-04-23
Total Pages: 495
ISBN-13: 113650947X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is a vast literature for and against privatizing public services. Those who are against privatization are often confronted with the objection that they present no alternative. This book takes up that challenge by establishing theoretical models for what does (and does not) constitute an alternative to privatization, and what might make them ‘successful’, backed up by a comprehensive set of empirical data on public services initiatives in over 40 countries. This is the first such global survey of its kind, providing a rigorous and robust platform for evaluating different alternatives and allowing for comparisons across regions and sectors. The book helps to conceptualize and evaluate what has become an important and widespread movement for better public services in the global South. The contributors explore historical, existing and proposed non-commercialized alternatives for primary health, water/sanitation and electricity. The objectives of the research have been to develop conceptual and methodological frameworks for identifying and analyzing alternatives to privatization, and testing these models against actually existing alternatives on the ground in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Information of this type is urgently required for practitioners and analysts, both of whom are seeking reliable knowledge on what kind of public models work, how transferable they are from one place to another and what their main strengths and weaknesses are.
Philosophy of Globalization
Author: Concha Roldán
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-06-11
Total Pages: 659
ISBN-13: 3110491680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNot so long ago, it seemed the intellectual positions on globalization were clear, with advocates and opponents making their respective cases in decidedly contrasting terms. Recently, however, the fronts have shifted dramatically. The aim of this publication is to contribute philosophical depth to the debates on globalization conducted within various academic fields – principally by working out its normative dimensions. The interdisciplinary nature of this book’s contributors also serves to scientifically ground the ethical-philosophical discourse on global responsibility. Though by no means exhaustive, the expansive scope of the works herein encompasses such other topics as the altering consciousness of space and time, and the phenomenon of globalization as a discourse, as an ideology and as a symbolic form.
Controversies in Latin American Bioethics
Author: Eduardo Rivera-López
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-06-19
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 303017963X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a first rate selection of academic articles on Latin American bioethics. It covers different issues, such as vulnerability, abortion, biomedical research with human subjects, environment, exploitation, commodification, reproductive medicine, among others. Latin American bioethics has been, to an important extent, parochial and unable to meet stringent international standards of rational philosophical discussion. The new generations of bioethicists are changing this situation, and this book demonstrates that change. All articles are written from the perspective of Latin American scholars from several disciplines such as philosophy and law. Working with the tools of analytical philosophy and jurisprudence, this book defends views with rational argument, and opening for pluralistic discussion.
The Dubious Link
Author: Ariel Armony
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2004-06-02
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0804767289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text examines the dark side of civil society - the cases in which the participation of average citizens leads to undemocratic results. It looks at associational life in pre-Nazi Germany, anti-desegregation movements in the United States and organizations for rights in democratic Argentina.
Derechos humanos y transformación política en contextos de violencia
Author: DANIEL VAZQUEZ; ARIADNA ESTEVEZ.
Publisher: FLACSO Mexico
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 6078517104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnálisis crítico con un enfoque multidisciplinario, único hasta ahora en México, de las oportunidades y desafíos de los derechos humanos. Los autores aquí reunidos analizan los derechos humanos como una práctica social que se realiza en medio de relaciones asimétricas de poder, en el marco del ya convulsionado siglo xxi. Pensados como un discurso que se convierte en práctica social y en campo de disputa para la definición de significados, los derechos humanos pueden generar marcos de oportunidad para la transformación político-social pero, también, pueden constituir un obstáculo para el cambio y la construcción de subjetividades emancipadas.
Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Volume 36 (2020) (VOLUME III)
Author: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-12-28
Total Pages: 879
ISBN-13: 9004509933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Yearbook aims to contribute to a greater awareness of the functions and activities of the organs of the Inter-American system for the protection of human rights. The Yearbook is partly published as an English-Spanish bilingual edition. NB: This book is part of a three volume set. Each volume should be ordered separately!Vol 1 isbn 978-90-04-44560-4Vol 2 isbn 978-90-04-50440-0Vol 3 isbn 978-90-04-50991-7
On the Side of the Poor
Author: Gustavo Gutierrez, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Muller
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2015-03-01
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13: 1608335445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Legacies of Institutionalisation
Author: Claire Spivakovsky
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-07-09
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 1509930744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first collection to examine the legal dynamics of deinstitutionalisation. It considers the extent to which some contemporary laws, policies and practices affecting people with disabilities are moving towards the promised end point of enhanced social and political participation in the community, while others may instead reinstate, continue or legitimate historical practices associated with this population's institutionalisation. Bringing together 20 contributors from the UK, Canada, Australia, Spain and Indonesia, the book speaks to overarching themes of segregation and inequality, interlocking forms of oppression and rights-based advancements in law, policy and practice. Ultimately this collection brings forth the possibilities, limits and contradictions in the roles of law and policy in processes of institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation, and directs us towards a more nuanced and sustained scholarly and political engagement with these issues.
Human Rights Issues and Vulnerable Groups
Author: J. Alberto del Real Alcala
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
Published: 2017-11-13
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1681085763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume covers topics related to human rights issues and problems of people who are overwhelmed by hostile situations around them and are subsequently rendered vulnerable. The situations of vulnerability discussed in this book are related to suffering caused by the moral, family, social, economic or political conditions in which the people, and the groups they belong to, live. Readers are guided through a discussion about rights, as an instrument through which civil society and the ‘Rule of Law’ try to curb or even eliminate the suffering of these people. The aim of such efforts is to restore the situation of vulnerable people to a level of normality. Human Rights Issues and Vulnerable Groups presents a discussion of issues surrounding several kinds of vulnerable groups: minorities, children, gender groups, persons with disabilities, migrants, cultural groups, displaced persons, victims of terrorism, linguistic groups, poor people, people in prison and sexual minorities. The book is a detailed reference for graduates and scholars in law, political science, sociology and social psychology. The volume is also recommended for working professionals who operate with human rights groups and general readers (non-experts) who want to understand the discourse about human rights in a holistic (moral, legal, social, economic, and political) framework.
