Fearless Cities

Fearless Cities

Author: Ada Colau

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781780265032

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A guide to winning back our towns and cities from below by municipalist platform Barcelona en Comu. In a world in which fear and insecurity are being twisted into hate, and inequalities, xenophobia and authoritarianism are on the rise, a renewed municipalist movement is standing up to defend human rights, radical democracy and the common good.


Mexican Law

Mexican Law

Author: Stephen Zamora

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780199288489

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In addition to setting forth rules and legal doctrines (with reference to practical application of the law), this volume surveys the key institutions that make and enforce the law in Mexico, and places them in their historical and cultural context.


Catalan Independence and the Crisis of Sovereignty

Catalan Independence and the Crisis of Sovereignty

Author: Óscar García Agustín

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-12-14

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 3030548678

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This book explores the conflict between the Catalan project to become independent and the Spanish state’s opposition to any attempt of secessionism. The volume addresses some of the key political and academic issues of contemporary European societies: nationalism, separatism and sovereignty. The banned referendum in Catalonia in October 2017 unveiled the existence of multiple crises, from territorial to economic and political. Indeed, the Catalan issue is about the crisis of sovereignty: who holds legitimacy to make decisions, and who is in power legally and politically? The book is structured according to three themes: sovereignty and its people, where the realignment to independence, populism and the definition of the demos are discussed; collective identities and actions, to account for the shaping of ‘us’, the importance of collective memory and the cross-alliances forged during the referendum; and internationalization, focusing on Europeanisation, international media and comparative constitutional perspectives.


Preventing Ageing Unequally

Preventing Ageing Unequally

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2017-10-18

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9264279083

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This report examines how the two global mega-trends of population ageing and rising inequalities have been developing and interacting, both within and across generations.


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].


Forced Evictions

Forced Evictions

Author: Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions

Publisher: Cohre

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 9789295004054

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Solidarity and the 'Refugee Crisis' in Europe

Solidarity and the 'Refugee Crisis' in Europe

Author: Óscar García Agustín

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-07-19

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 3319918486

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New forms of solidarity are being shaped as a response to the European “refugee crisis.” The state—in the form of national governments—has not been able to implement any viable or sustainable solution to the crisis, but the solidarity movement has been very visible and active in European countries. This book offers a conceptualization of three types of solidarity: autonomous, civic, and institutional solidarity. This framework is applied to three case studies, illustrating the emergence of different forms of solidarity: the City Plaza Hotel in Athens, the Danish “friendly neighbors,” and Barcelona as refuge city.


Podemos and the New Political Cycle

Podemos and the New Political Cycle

Author: Óscar García Agustín

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-11-17

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 3319634321

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This edited volume explores the context in which the Spanish party Podemos operates as both an agent and product of political cycles. It provides an account of the party’s genealogy, ideological environment and relation to other political initiatives in Latin America and Western Europe. The contributors address the multiples dynamics generated by Podemos as a new party developed out of the economic crisis, the structural crisis concerning social democracy and the incarnation of the welfare state project, and, more generally, out of the Left. It will appeal to upper-level students and scholars interested in Spanish politics, history, culture and sociology.


The Worth of the Social Economy

The Worth of the Social Economy

Author: Marie J. Bouchard

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9789052015804

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This book fills a gap in the literature about the social economy. of today must cater and for which questions of evaluation appear to be the most telling. --


Towards an Inclusive Democracy

Towards an Inclusive Democracy

Author: Takēs Phōtopoulos

Publisher: Continuum

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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This book develops a new conception of democracy and sketches its political and economic contours as well as its philosophical foundations which cannot be sought in natural or social evolution but in the development of a new liberatory project.