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Con cautela: América Latina y el Caribe frente a la geopolítica dominante de Trump 2.0
En el marco de las transformaciones globales que definen el primer cuarto del siglo XXI, el segundo mandato de Donald Trump ha reconfigurado el escenario geopolítico, desafiando el orden internacional liberal y promoviendo una agenda basada en el nacionalismo del "America First".
Pablo González Casanova (1922-2023). Una introducción a su obra
Pablo González Casanova rebasa cualquier intento por clasificar una tipología de saberes especializados en disciplinas del conocimiento: fue historiador, sociólogo, economista, politólogo y antropólogo de lo local y del mundo, pasando por América Latina y el Caribe. Su espíritu científico lo llevó a dialogar con las ciencias sociales que se producen por dentro y por fuera del paradigma crítico.
Environments of Inequality: Crisis, Conflicts, Comparisons
Multiple environmental crises and persistent patterns of intersecting inequalities are major global concerns. This edited volume contributes to a better understanding of environments of inequality by examining their various formations and expressions, from the colonial period to the present, with a strong (but not exclusive) focus on the Americas. The nine case studies especially reflect on the interrelationship between social inequality and the natural environment. The authors address crises, conflicts, and comparisons of inequalities from various disciplinary and regional perspectives.
Colapso climático en la región Andina. Dimensiones ecosistémicas, socioeconómicas y sociopolíticas
Este libro, resultado de la colaboración entre la Universidad Politécnica Salesiana de Ecuador y la Friedrich Alexander Universitat de Erlangen-Nürnberg, ofrece una visión integral y multidisciplinar del cambio climático en la región andina. Abarca desde los ecosistemas únicos hasta las dinámicas sociales y políticas que afectan a las comunidades, invitando a reflexionar sobre cómo esta crisis global transforma una de las zonas más diversas del mundo.
El Antropoceno como crisis múltiple. Volumen I. Uso de la tierra
Las metáforas centrales en el imaginario del uso de la tierra en América Latina han sido los mitos duales de la tierra virgen para conquistar y de “El Dorado” para explotar. Partiendo de estas figuras originarias, el presente volumen se focaliza en la apropiación social y el uso de la tierra a partir de las transformaciones de la materia, las prácticas sociales, sus regulaciones políticas y legales, así como los imaginarios construidos sobre los territorios.
Biodiversity – Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America II
Biodiversity should not be understood in biological terms only and as a thing apart from society, but rather as biocultural diversity present in the social world and in various cultures. Such a perspective might allow to relieve social conflicts as well as abuses of power, and slow the appropriation of the biosphere. This volume of the Handbook »The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis« focuses on biodiversity in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene.
Water. Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America, Vol. IV
Conflicts and struggles like urbanization processes and the productive use of water have impacted the relationship of Latin American and Caribbean societies with water for centuries. This volume of the Handbook »The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis« focuses on water in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene. The contributions enrich contemporary debates surrounding the genealogy of the Anthropocene in Latin America with critical perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities.
Land Use. Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America, Vol. I
Socio-ecological conflicts about land use in Latin America are complex: they involve various actors and flare up due to the dynamics of colonization, spatial appropriation, and the commodification of land. This volume of the Handbook »The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis« focuses on land use in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene.
Elites, política y desigualdades en América Latina
Los efectos de la pandemia de covid-19, junto con la vigencia política del progresismo y la pervivencia de la protesta social, han vuelto a subrayar la cuestión de las desigualdades y, con ella, la de las elites. Investigadoras e investigadores del Laboratorio de Conocimiento “Confrontando las desigualdades en América Latina: Perspectivas sobre riqueza y poder explorar estas dimensiones en el tema central del número 303 de la revista Nueva Sociedad, desde diferentes ángulos y perspectivas.
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FIAR Vol. 15.2 (Dec. 2022) Struggles over Mining and Territory in Latin America
The nexus between extractivist activities, mining conflicts and territory has become increasingly visible and discussed both in social movements and local struggles as well as in academic debates, especially in Latin America (Göbel y Ulloa 15).
Violencias y resistencias. América Latina entre la historia y la memoria
Historical studies of violent pasts in Latin America are intrinsically connected to memory studies and, more broadly, to memory politics and memorial cultures. Struggles to explain the construction of the present reflect how societies constantly seek to reinterpret their past, leading to strong political debates and conflicts. The question of how to deal with traumatic past experiences, often related to political violence, has become an issue of great social relevance in many Latin American countries.
La horizontalidad en las instituciones de producción de conocimiento: ¿Perspectiva o paradoja?
Every knowledge producer linked to an institution has experienced the imperatives that, through rules and hierarchies, channel the production of knowledge and limit the results generated there.
Figuraciones de la violencia. Sociología de novelas latinoamericanas
The relationship between sociology and literature has always been characterized by conflicts and complementarities. Since the end of the 19th century, a new episteme on the knowledge of reality and the unrealities that configure it has been consolidated. Whether as a challenge to understand the "human comedy" or as a way of discovering the unconscious, commodity fetishism or the enigma of modernity, sociology and literature have walked the crossroads of the sociological imagination.
La guerra en Ucrania. Miradas desde América Latina
The escalation of the conflict in Eastern Europe following the invasion of Russian troops into Ukrainian territory on February 24, 2022 has immediately become a crisis of global dimensions and consequences. Although Latin America and the Caribbean are supposedly far from the war, they are not exempt from the impacts and political or economic repercussions.
Corona in Lateinamerika
This volume analyzes the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and the policy measures related to its containment in Latin America and the Caribbean. The contributions highlight the consequences of the pandemic in terms of social inequalities, gender relations, violence against women, migration, democracy, human rights, protest mobilization and environmental policy.
(Post-)colonial Archipelagos: Comparing the Legacies of Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines
The Puerto Rican debt crisis, the challenges of social, political, and economic transition in Cuba, and the populist politics of Duterte in the Philippines—these topics are typically seen as disparate experiences of social reality. Though these island territories were colonized by the same two colonial powers—by the Spanish Empire and, after 1898, by the United States—research in the fields of history and the social sciences rarely draws links between these three contexts.
¿Latinoamérica y Paz? Propuestas para pensar y afrontar la crisis de la violencia
Peace is a concept that is not usually associated with Latin America. Rather, various forms of violence, whether criminal, state, economic or cultural, are commonly associated with the region. The studies gathered here emphasize that, although the subcontinent is historically affected by these serious crises, it is also characterized by important attempts to confront them and seek forms of peaceful coexistence. The analytical perspective developed here understands peace as always intertwined with violence and proposes it as a continuous effort of resistance.
Libro de Proyectos La Salud y el Bienestar
This book is an invitation to school communities (students, teachers and families) to build within the school practices a general project that aims to reflect, problematize and propose solutions generated from the school context in order to improve eating habits and well-being as biopsychosocial processes.
Poscolonialismo a prueba. Cuba, Puerto Rico y las Filipinas desde una perspectiva comparada
This volume examines the social, political, economic and cultural legacies of the last three colonies of the Spanish Empire: Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. The three former colonies offer an ideal setting for applying a comparative framework of analysis, insofar as they coincide in that their long-term colonial experiences were shaped by the same colonial powers and, moreover, converge in the difference of their geographical contexts and in their postcolonial trajectories.
Horizontality in Perspective: Interview with Olaf Kaltmeier and Sarah Corona Berkin
In 2012, the book "En diálogo. Metodología horizontales en las ciencias sociales y culturales." (In Dialogue: Horizontal Methodologies in Social and Cultural Sciences), coordinated by Sarah Corona Berkin and Olaf Kaltmeier, was published almost simultaneously in Mexico and Germany (Methoden dekolonialisieren. Eine Werkzeugkiste zur Demokratisierung der Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot).