Realidad del calzado femenino en el Municipio de Valledupar
Realidad del calzado femenino en el Municipio de Valledupar

Author: Yuleidis Almarales De Ávila

Publisher: Editorial Academica Espanola

Published: 2014-06-19

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9783848477012

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Teniendo en cuenta que el calzado hace parte esencial de la mujer y que la vanidad femenina no pone limites a la hora de adquirir este producto y aceptando que cada mujer se identifica con uno en particular, la presente investigacion tiene como objetivo mostrar las diversas posibilidades que tiene el municipio de Valledupar en el sector de calzado, exponiendo con claridad cuales son las preferencias del mercado objetivo al cual nos hemos dirigido, mujeres de entre 15 a 35 anos. Se pone en tela de juicio la concepcion erronea que tienen muchos de los productores de calzado los cuales sin estudios previos afirman que estas no estan dispuestas a adquirir el producto de la region, por esto nos centraremos en conocer la realidad del calzado femenino en el municipio de Valledupar estudiando que tan dispuestos estan los duenos de los establecimientos comerciales y las mujeres a adquirirlo, asi como cuales son las especificaciones que este debe tener para que sea reconocido y logre un posicionamiento en la region.

Measuring the Information Society Report 2016
Measuring the Information Society Report 2016

Author: United Nations Publications

Publisher: UN

Published: 2017-09

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9789261214210

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The Measuring the Information Society Report, which has been published annually since 2009, features key ICT data and benchmarking tools to measure the information society, including the ICT Development Index (IDI). The IDI 2016 captures the level of ICT developments in 175 economies worldwide and compares progress made since the year 2014. The MISR 2016 assesses IDI findings at the regional level and highlights countries that rank at the top of the IDI and those that have improved their position in the overall IDI rankings most dynamically since 2014. It will also use the findings of the IDI to analyze trends and developments in the digital divide. The report will present 2015 prices for about 160 countries and provide a detailed analysis of mobile-cellular, fixed-broadband and mobile-broadband prices over the period 2008-2015. It will highlight the role of ICTs in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and present the newly agreed SDG indicator framework, including the ICT indicators. The report will also include a chapter looking into new metrics to measure mobile uptake, and a chapter presenting data analyzing Internet use and uptake.

Hawking Incorporated
Hawking Incorporated

Author: Hélène Mialet

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-06-28

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0226522261

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These days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a reality, as we are all, in one way or another, constantly connected, extended, wired, and dispersed in and through technology. One wonders where the individual, the person, the human, and the body are—or, alternatively, where they stop. These are the kinds of questions Hélène Mialet explores in this fascinating volume, as she focuses on a man who is permanently attached to assemblages of machines, devices, and collectivities of people: Stephen Hawking. Drawing on an extensive and in-depth series of interviews with Hawking, his assistants and colleagues, physicists, engineers, writers, journalists, archivists, and artists, Mialet reconstructs the human, material, and machine-based networks that enable Hawking to live and work. She reveals how Hawking—who is often portrayed as the most singular, individual, rational, and bodiless of all—is in fact not only incorporated, materialized, and distributed in a complex nexus of machines and human beings like everyone else, but even more so. Each chapter focuses on a description of the functioning and coordination of different elements or media that create his presence, agency, identity, and competencies. Attentive to Hawking’s daily activities, including his lecturing and scientific writing, Mialet’s ethnographic analysis powerfully reassesses the notion of scientific genius and its associations with human singularity. This book will fascinate anyone interested in Stephen Hawking or an extraordinary life in science.

Understanding Global Sexualities
Understanding Global Sexualities

Author: Peter Aggleton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-07-26

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1136278125

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Over the course of the past thirty years, there has been an explosion of work on sexuality, both conceptually and methodologically. From a relatively limited, specialist field, the study of sexuality has expanded across a wide range of social sciences. Yet as the field has grown, it has become apparent that a number of leading edge critical issues remain. This theory-building book explores some of the areas in which there is major and continuing debate, for example, about the relationship between sexuality and gender; about the nature and status of heterosexuality; about hetero- and homo-normativity; about the influence and intersection of class, race, age and other factors in sexual trajectories, identities and lifestyles; and about how best to understand the new forms of sexuality that are emerging in both rich world and developing world contexts. With contributions from leading and new scholars and activists from across the globe, this book highlights tensions or ‘flash-points’ in contemporary debate, and offers some innovative ways forward in terms of thinking about sexuality – both theoretically and with respect to policy and programme development. An extended essay by Henrietta Moore introduces the volume, and an afterword by Jeffrey Weeks offers pointers for the future. The contributors bring together a range of experiences and a variety of disciplinary perspectives in engaging with three key themes of sexual subjectivity and global transformations, sexualities in practice, and advancing new thinking on sexuality in policy and programmatic contexts. It is of interest to students, researchers and activists in sexuality, sexual health and gender studies, especially those working from public health, sociological and anthropological perspectives.

Encounters with Popular Pasts
Encounters with Popular Pasts

Author: Mike Robinson

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9783319131849

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This volume is based on the recognition that heritage is popular and popular culture is now readily transformed into heritage, whose meanings and myths reshape social life and political and economic realities, as well as re-make "tradition". The papers in this volume consider: What does popular heritage look like? To whom does it speak? Is it active in dissolving class and cultural boundaries or just in reproducing new ones? How do societies manage a heritage that is fluid, immediate and that straddles extremes of serious conflict and hedonistic frivolity? When and under what circumstances is the creation and expression of new cultural forms - popular culture - capable of being transformed into heritage?

Birds of empire, birds of nation : a history of science, economy, and conservation in United States-Colombia relations
Birds of empire, birds of nation : a history of science, economy, and conservation in United States-Colombia relations

Author: Quintero Toro, Camilo

Publisher: Ediciones Uniandes-Universidad de los Andes

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9586957969

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This book reveals the history behind the trade of Colombian birds as a means of comprehending the scientific, economic and environmental relations between the United States and Colombia from the 1880s to the 1960s. Through the study of the feather trade, scientific expeditions, scientific communities and nature conservation, the author brings to light how international relations and national agendas shaped the study and perception of nature in both countries during those years.

Touring Poverty
Touring Poverty

Author: Bianca Freire-Medeiros

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-11-13

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1136893520

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Touring Poverty addresses a highly controversial practice: the transformation of impoverished neighbourhoods into valued attractions for international tourists. In the megacities of the Global South, selected and idealized aspects of poverty are being turned into a tourist commodity for consumption. The book takes the reader on a journey through Rocinha, a neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro which is advertised as "the largest favela in Latin America". Bianca Freire-Medeiros presents interviews with tour operators, guides, tourists and dwellers to explore the vital questions raised by this kind of tourism. How and why do diverse social actors and institutions orchestrate, perform and consume touristic poverty? In the context of globalization and neoliberalism, what are the politics of selling and buying the social experience of cities, cultures and peoples? With a full and sensitive exploration of the ethical debates surrounding the ‘sale of emotions’ elicited by the first-hand contemplation of poverty, Touring Poverty is an innovative book that provokes the reader to think about the role played by tourism – and our role as tourists – within a context of growing poverty. It will be of interest to students of sociology, anthropology, ethnography and methodology, urban studies, tourism studies, mobility studies, development studies, politics and international relations.

The Cultural Construction of Sexuality
The Cultural Construction of Sexuality

Author: Pat Caplan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 113610660X

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First Published in 1987. Illustrates the argument that sexuality is not a `thing in itself' but a concept that can only be understood with reference to economic, political and social factors.

Women Writing Culture
Women Writing Culture

Author: Gary A. Olson

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1995-09-28

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1438415060

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Women Writing Culture is a collection of six interviews with internationally prominent scholars about feminism, rhetoric, writing, and multiculturalism. Those interviewed include feminist philosopher of science Sandra Harding; cultural critic and philosopher of science Donna Haraway; noted American theorist of women's epistemology Mary Belenky; African-American cultural critic bell hooks; Luce Irigaray, a major exponent of "French Feminism"; and Jean-Francois Lyotard, a philosopher and cultural critic who has helped to define "the postmodern condition." Together, these interviews afford significant insight into these eminent scholars' perspectives on women, writing, and culture, and explore how women write culture through the various postmodern discourses in which they engage.