América Latina. Los derechos y las prácticas ciudadanas a la luz de los movimientos populares
América Latina. Los derechos y las prácticas ciudadanas a la luz de los movimientos populares

Author: Diana Margarita - Autor/a Favela Gavia

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A partir, fundamentalmente, de los análisis de caso y los datos que ha sistematizado el Observatorio Social de América Latina (OSAL), nuestra propuesta gira en torno a dos preguntas centrales: ¿qué características presenta la noción de ciudadanía en las luchas sociales latinoamericanas recientes?, y ¿qué importancia adquiere dicha dimensión para la consecución de un propósito democrático?Buscando responder ambas, hemos dividido la exposición en tres apartados. En el primero se exploran los elementos que han favorecido el reposicionamiento de la noción de ciudadanía, dentro del horizonte y discurso de las movilizaciones que a partir del año 2000 han aparecido en distintos puntos del subcontinente. En el segundo, se examinan las características más relevantes que desde nuestro punto de vista hilvanan su diversidad. Y, finalmente, en el último se desarrollan las razones por las cuales consideramos que la noción de ciudadanía ocupa un lugar estratégico en la lucha social latinoamericana de este inicio de milenio.

Nomadic Subjects
Nomadic Subjects

Author: Rosi Braidotti

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2011-05-24

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 023151526X

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For more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory, exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political theory. Rosi Braidotti's creative style vividly renders a productive crisis of modernity. From a feminist perspective, she recasts embodiment, sexual difference, and complex concepts through relations to technology, historical events, and popular culture. This thoroughly revised and expanded edition retains all but two of Braidotti's original essays, including her investigations into epistemology's relation to the "woman question;" feminism and biomedical ethics; European feminism; and the possible relations between American feminism and European politics and philosophy. A new piece integrates Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the "becoming-minoritarian" more deeply into modern democratic thought, and a chapter on methodology explains Braidotti's methods while engaging with her critics. A new introduction muses on Braidotti's provocative legacy.

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 Politics of Wellbeing
The Politics of Wellbeing

Author: Ian Bache

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-07-04

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 3319583948

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This volume is the first collection in the field of wellbeing studies that places politics centre stage. Through a combination of intellectual inquiry, empirically-grounded research, and investigation across different settings, this book aims to provide fresh insights and develop new lenses through which to understand the rise and significance of the wellbeing agenda. Divided into three parts, it considers how to define wellbeing for public policy; the prospects for wellbeing as a force for political change; and the link between policy agendas and the everyday lives of people. The book explores the key political issues of power, democracy, and the legitimacy of wellbeing evidence in a range of settings – international, national and subnational/substate. The volume will appeal to wellbeing and politics scholars, as well as students and general readers with an interest in these new political agendas.

Fake News
Fake News

Author: Brian McNair

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-09

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1351392883

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Fake News: Falsehood, fabrication and fantasy in journalism examines the causes and consequences of the ‘fake news’ phenomenon now sweeping the world’s media and political debates. Drawing on three decades of research and writing on journalism and news media, the author engages with the fake news phenomenon in accessible, insightful language designed to bring clarity and context to a complex and fast-moving debate. The author presents fake news not as a cultural issue in isolation but rather as arising from, and contributing to, significant political and social trends in twenty-first century societies. Chapters identify the factors which have laid the groundwork for fake news’ explosive appearance at this moment in our globalised public sphere. These include the rise of relativism and the crisis of objectivity, the role of digital media platforms in the production and consumption of news, and the growing drive to produce online content which attracts users and generates revenue.