Resistencia y solidaridad
Resistencia y solidaridad

Author: Raúl Fornet-Betancourt

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13:

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Como los recientes sucesos de la guerra contra Iraq y sus consecuencias han puesto de manifiesto, resulta cada vez más evidente que, apoyada por la creciente militarización de la política que padecemos, la estrategia de globalización capitalista que despliegan hoy el imperio y sus aliados significa no sólo una amenaza real para la comunidad internacional y sus instancias institucionales de convivencia sino también un asalto totalitario a la vida misma de la humanidad en su diversidad contextual. De este peligro trata el presente libro, ofreciendo primero un análisis crítico e interdisciplinar de la globalización como proyecto de universalización de estrategias neoliberales. Pero el volumen habla sobre todo de la reacción de la humanidad ante este peligro, de su voluntad de defensa, activando y ensayando posibilidades de solidaridad y liberación. Colaboradores: Nidia Arrobo Rodas-Nancy E. Bedford-Leonardo Boff-José María Castillo-Jordi Corominas-Beat Dietschy-Ulrich Duchrow-Enrique Dussel-Margit Eckholt-Orlando O. Espín-Heriberto Franco Barrios-María E. Fuentes-Ivone Gebara-Giulio Girardi-Franz J. Hinkelammert-Diego Irarrázaval-Ada María Isasi-Díaz-Rosa E. Lara-Eleazar López Hernández-Aquiles Montoya-Margarita Muñoz-Petul Cut Cha-Miguel W. Ramos-Pilar Rojas-Hans Schelkshorn-Dorothee Sölle-Elisabeth Steffens-Juan José Tamayo-Acosta-Aiban Wagua

International Community Psychology
International Community Psychology

Author: Stephanie Reich

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-07-03

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 0387495002

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This is the first in-depth guide to global community psychology research and practice, history and development, theories and innovations, presented in one field-defining volume. This book will serve to promote international collaboration, enhance theory utilization and development, identify biases and barriers in the field, accrue critical mass for a discipline that is often marginalized, and to minimize the pervasive US-centric view of the field.

Identity in Narrative
Identity in Narrative

Author: Anna De Fina

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2003-10-27

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 902729612X

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This volume presents both an analysis of how identities are built, represented and negotiated in narrative, as well as a theoretical reflection on the links between narrative discourse and identity construction. The data for the book are Mexican immigrants' personal experience narratives and chronicles of their border crossings into the United States. Embracing a view of identity as a construct firmly grounded in discourse and interaction, the author examines and illustrates the multiple threads that connect the local expression and negotiation of identity to the wider social contexts that frame the experience of migration, from material conditions of life in the United States to mainstream discourses about race and color. The analysis reveals how identities emerge in discourse through the interplay of different levels of expression, from implicit adherence to narrative styles and ways of telling, to explicit negotiation of membership categories.

Manifesto of New Realism
Manifesto of New Realism

Author: Maurizio Ferraris

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2014-12-01

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 1438453795

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Philosophical realism has taken a number of different forms, each applied to different topics and set against different forms of idealism and subjectivism. Maurizio Ferraris's Manifesto of New Realism takes aim at postmodernism and hermeneutics, arguing against their emphasis on reality as constructed and interpreted. While acknowledging the value of these criticisms of traditional, dogmatic realism, Ferraris insists that the insights of postmodernism have reached a dead end. Calling for the discipline to turn its focus back to truth and the external world, Ferraris's manifesto—which sparked lively debate in Italy and beyond—offers a wiser realism with social and political relevance.

The Failure of Modern Civilization and the Struggle for a "deep" Alternative
The Failure of Modern Civilization and the Struggle for a

Author: Claudia von Werlhof

Publisher: Beiträge zur Dissidenz

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783631615522

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Western civilization is the Utopia of a better and higher life on Earth. The globalization of neo-liberalism proves that this project has failed. The paradigm of «Critical Theory of Patriarchy» explains this failure and discusses alternatives. By confronting the central civilizations in history, the egalitarian, life-oriented matriarchal one, and the hierarchical, nature and life dominating, hostile patriarchal one, we see that 5000 years of patriarchy have «replaced» matriarchies and nature itself by a «progressive» counter-world of «capital». This transformation characterizes «capitalist patriarchy» including «socialism». Its demise is due to the «alchemical» destruction of the world's resources, thought of, theologically legitimized and fetishized as «creation». This violence is not recognized. Elites have, instead, begun with a new «military alchemy», treating the whole Planet as weapon of mass destruction. Hence, the «Planetary Movement for Mother Earth».

Contests and Contexts
Contests and Contexts

Author: John Walsh

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9783039119141

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Despite being Ireland's national and first official language, Irish is marginalised and threatened as a community language. The dominant discourse has long dismissed the Irish language as irrelevant or even an obstacle to Ireland's progress. This book critiques that discourse and contends that the promotion of Irish and sustainable socio-economic development are not mutually exclusive aims. The author surveys historical and contemporary sources, particularly those used by the Irish historian J.J. Lee, and argues that the Irish language contributes positively to socio-economic development. He grounds this argument in theoretical perspectives from sociolinguistics, political economy and development theory, and suggests a new theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between language and development. The link between the Irish language and Ireland's socio-economic development is examined in a number of case studies, both within the traditional Irish-speaking Gaeltacht communities and in urban areas. Following the spectacular collapse of the Irish economy in 2008, this critical challenge to the dominant discourse on development is a timely and thought-provoking study.

Gender in Latin America
Gender in Latin America

Author: Sylvia H. Chant

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780813531960

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A comprehensive state-of-the-art review of gender in one of the world's most diverse and dynamic regions. The authors draw on a wide range of sources, including their own field research, to explore changes and continuities in gender roles, relations and identities during the late twentieth century into the twenty-first. Debunking traditional universalizing stereotypes, diversity in gender is highlighted in relation to the cross-cutting influences of age, class, sexuality, ethnicity, rural-urban residence, and migrant status.