Author: Jorge Larraín
Publisher: LOM Ediciones
ISBN: 9560001779
Category : Political Science
Languages : es
Pages : 165
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Este volumen cierra la serie de cuatro libros en torno al concepto de ideología y entra de lleno en el pensamiento contemporáneo hasta los primeros años del siglo XXI.En él queda de manifiesto el protagonismo que ha adquirido el tema del lenguaje en las diversas corrientes de las Humanidades y las Ciencias Sociales y el modo en que “el giro lingüístico” -como se le ha conocido- ha gravitado en los estudios. La preocupación por el discurso, su naturaleza y sus condiciones no han hecho sino aumentar, instalando, igualmente, una profunda reflexión acerca del sujeto, la razón, el problema de las identidades y de la determinación económica. De este modo, la noción de verdad es puesta rápidamente en entredicho hasta ser disuelta como valor inmutable. El propio concepto de ideología es abandonado y reemplazado por una lógica de la diferencia construida discursivamente por figuras de la talla de Foucault, Lyotard y Laclau en su crítica al estructuralismo. No obstante ello, reaparece un concepto crítico de ideología tanto en el postmodernismo como en el postmarxismo: ya no se trata de cualquier discurso, sino de aquel que pretende fijar significados y tener la verdad. Así, este concepto recupera su sentido negativo que alguna vez tuvo, pero reencuentra, paradójicamente en una época que sospecha de la epistemología, una cierta utilidad crítica, asilándose en una perspectiva relativista.
Author: Ngai Ming Yip
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811317305
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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This edited volume advances our understanding of urban activism beyond the social movement theorization dominated by thesis of political opportunity structure and resource mobilization, as well as by research based on experience from the global north. Covering a diversity of urban actions from a broad range of countries in both hemispheres as well as the global north and global south, this unique collection notably focuses on non-institutionalised or localised urban actions that have the potential to bring about radical structural transformation of the urban system and also addresses actions in authoritarian regimes that are too sensitive to call themselves “movement”. It addresses localized issues cut off from international movements such as collective consumption issues, like clean water, basic shelter, actions against displacement or proper venues for street vendors, and argues that the integration of the actions in cities in the global south with the specificity of their local social and political environment is as pivotal as their connection with global movement networks or international NGOs. A key read for researchers and policy makers cutting across the fields of urban sociology, political science, public policy, geography, regional studies and housing studies, this text provides an interdisciplinary and international perspective on 21st century urban activism in the global north and south.
Author: Gregory Claeys
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814715710
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Child-molesting priests, embezzled church treasures, philandering ministers and rabbis, even church-endorsed pyramid schemes that defraud gullible parishioners of millions of dollars: for the past decade, clergy misconduct has seemed continually to be in the news. Is there something about religious organizations that fosters such misbehavior? Bad Pastors presents a range of new perspectives and solidly grounded data on pastoral abuse, investigating sexual misconduct, financial improprieties, and political and personal abuse of authority. Rather than focusing on individuals who misbehave, the volume investigates whether the foundation for clergy malfeasance is inherent in religious organizations themselves, stemming from hierarchies of power in which trusted leaders have the ability to define reality, control behavior, and even offer or withhold the promise of immortality. Arguing that such phenomena arise out of organizational structures, the contributors do not focus on one particular religion, but rather treat these incidents from an interfaith perspective. Bad Pastors moves beyond individual case studies to consider a broad range of issues surrounding clergy misconduct, from violence against women to the role of charisma and abuse of power in new religious movements. Highlighting similarities between other forms of abuse, such as domestic violence, the volume helps us to conceptualize and understand clergy misconduct in new ways.
Author: Pamela Gossin
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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"This reference defines the rapidly emerging interdisciplinary field of literature and science. An introductory essay traces the history of the field, its growing reputation, and the current state of research. Broad in scope, the volume covers world literature from its beginnings to the present and illuminates the role of science in literature and literary studies. Included are more than 650 alphabetically arranged entries on topics, themes, writers, scientists, works, theories and methodologies. A wide range of experts contributed entries, each ending with a brief bibliography. The entire volume closes with a list of works for further reading."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Thomas Luckmann
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Company
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Author: Julian Jackson
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780199244287
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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The penultimate volume in the Short Oxford History of Europe series analyses a period dominated by war, economic dislocation, revolution, and counter-revolution. In a set of thematic chapters, Julian Jackson and a leading international team of historians trace the continuities of the period, as well as the major ruptures of two World Wars.
Author: Dr Byron Miller
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472404440
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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As social movements have become more complex, geographers are increasingly studying the spatial dynamics of collective resistance and sociologists and political scientists increasingly analyzing the role of space, place and scale in contentious political activity. Occupying a position at the intersection of these disciplinary developments, this book brings together leading scholars to examine how social movements have employed spatial practices to respond to and shape changing social and political contexts. It is organised into three main sections: (1) Place, Space and Mobility: sites of mobilization and regulation, (2) Scale and Territory: structuring collective interests, identities, and resources, and (3) Networks: connecting actors and resources across space. It concludes by suggesting that different spatialities (place, scale, networks) interlink within one another in particular instances of collective action, playing distinctive yet complementary roles in shaping how these actions unfold in the political arena. By mapping state of the art conceptual and empirical terrain across Geography, Sociology, and Political Science, 'Spaces of Contention' provides readers with a much needed guide to innovative research on the spatial constitution of social movements and how social movements tactically and strategically approach and produce space.
Author: John V. Apczynski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780536014054
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Author: Robert Fichter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Self-help housing
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Author: John Beverley
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822382199
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
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The term “subalternity” refers to a condition of subordination brought about by colonization or other forms of economic, social, racial, linguistic, and/or cultural dominance. Subaltern studies is, therefore, a study of power. Who has it and who does not. Who is gaining it and who is losing it. Power is intimately related to questions of representation—to which representations have cognitive authority and can secure hegemony and which do not and cannot. In this book John Beverley examines the relationship between subalternity and representation by analyzing the ways in which that relationship has been played out in the domain of Latin American studies. Dismissed by some as simply another new fashion in the critique of culture and by others as a postmarxist heresy, subaltern studies began with the work of Ranajit Guha and the South Asian Subaltern Studies collective in the 1980s. Beverley’s focus on Latin America, however, is evidence of the growing province of this field. In assessing subaltern studies’ purposes and methods, the potential dangers it presents, and its interactions with deconstruction, poststructuralism, cultural studies, Marxism, and political theory, Beverley builds his discussion around a single, provocative question: How can academic knowledge seek to represent the subaltern when that knowledge is itself implicated in the practices that construct the subaltern as such? In his search for answers, he grapples with a number of issues, notably the 1998 debate between David Stoll and Rigoberta Menchú over her award-winning testimonial narrative, I, Rigoberta Menchú. Other topics explored include the concept of civil society, Florencia Mallon’s influential Peasant and Nation, the relationship between the Latin American “lettered city” and the Túpac Amaru rebellion of 1780–1783, the ideas of transculturation and hybridity in postcolonial studies and Latin American cultural studies, multiculturalism, and the relationship between populism, popular culture, and the “national-popular” in conditions of globalization. This critique and defense of subaltern studies offers a compendium of insights into a new form of knowledge and knowledge production. It will interest those studying postcolonialism, political science, cultural studies, and Latin American culture, history, and literature.
