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Book Exclusi  n social y contracultura de la solidaridad

Download or read book Exclusi n social y contracultura de la solidaridad written by Joaquín García Roca and published by Ediciones Hoac. This book was released on 1998 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El siglo XX se cierra con tres heridas por donde afloran sus contradicciones y conflictos: la emergencia de un mundo único que se configura desigual y antagónico, la sociedad de riesgos con la aparición de una nueva vulnerabilidad humana y los procesos de exclusión social con sus satélites de marginalidad, inadaptación y desagregación. La solidaridad, que se despliega en la piedad ante el otro, en el reconocimiento del otro y en la universalidad para el otro, es la energía vital y el paradigma a partir del cual nuestra sociedad puede tomar conciencia de sí misma y buscar con urgencia soluciones. En la actualidad, la realidad se ha ido poblando de una rica geografía de prácticas, discursos y narraciones contraculturales. En el giro del siglo, cuando las condiciones de la vida presentan tantos desgarros, las políticas sociales, las ideológicas, las iniciativas ciudadanas y las tradiciones religiosas se legitimarán y acreditarán en contacto con los excluidos del bienestar, con los pueblos crucificados y con el reverso de la historia. La credibilidad última del cristianismo hoy está en activar chispas mesiánicas contra una organización social que expulsa y orilla, en comprometerse en la creación de nuevas posibilidades para un futuro más humano y en recrear nuevos escenarios de solidaridad.

Book Disaster Studies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Janki Andharia
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2020-03-25
  • ISBN : 981329339X
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book Disaster Studies written by Janki Andharia and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers several dimensions of disaster studies as an emerging discipline. It is the inaugural book in the series ‘Disaster Studies and Management’ and deals with questions such as “Is disaster management a field of practice, a profession, or simply a new area of study?” Exploring intersectionalities, the book also examines areas of research that could help enhance the discourse on disaster management from policy and practice perspectives, revisiting conventional event-centric approaches, which are the basis for most writings on the subject. Several case studies and comparative analyses reflect a critical reading of research and practice concerning disasters and their management. The book offers valuable insights into various subjects including the challenge of establishing inter- and multi-disciplinary teams within the academia involved in disaster studies, and sociological and anthropological readings of post-disaster memoryscapes. Each of the contributors has an enduring interest in disaster studies, thus enriching the book immensely. This book will be of interest to all the students and scholars of disaster studies and disaster management, as well as to practitioners and policymakers.

Book International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness

Download or read book International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness written by Paul Cloke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recent academic studies in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, this book is the first international text on homelessness in rural areas. Consisting of fifteen specially commissioned chapters, International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness provides comparative material on the cultural, political and policy contexts of rural homelessness, examining the nature and scale of the issue and the complex local geographies of rural homelessness.

Book Aporophobia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adela Cortina
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2022-11-15
  • ISBN : 0691239428
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Aporophobia written by Adela Cortina and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why “aporophobia”—rejection of the poor—is one of the most serious problems facing the world today, and how we can fight it In this revelatory book, acclaimed political philosopher Adela Cortina makes an unprecedented assertion: the biggest problem facing the world today is the rejection of poor people. Because we can’t recognize something we can’t name, she proposes the term “aporophobia” for the pervasive exclusion, stigmatization, and humiliation of the poor, which cuts across xenophobia, racism, antisemitism, and other prejudices. Passionate and powerful, Aporophobia examines where this nearly invisible daily attack on poor people comes from, why it is so harmful, and how we can fight it. Aporophobia traces this universal prejudice’s neurological and social origins and its wide-ranging, pernicious consequences, from unnoticed hate crimes to aporophobia’s threat to democracy. It sheds new light on today’s rampant anti-immigrant feeling, which Cortina argues is better understood as aporophobia than xenophobia. We reject migrants not because of their origin, race, or ethnicity but because they seem to bring problems while offering nothing of value. And this is unforgivable in societies that enshrine economic exchange as the supreme value while forgetting that we can’t create communities worth living in without dignity, generosity, and compassion for all. Yet there is hope, and Cortina explains how we can overcome the moral, social, and political disaster of aporophobia through education and democratic institutions, and how poverty itself can be eradicated if we choose. In a world of migrant crises and economic inequality, Aporophobia is essential for understanding and confronting one of the most serious problems of the twenty-first century.

Book From Walmart to Al Qaeda

Download or read book From Walmart to Al Qaeda written by David Murillo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Walmart to Al Qaeda explains the fuzzy, complex and seemingly incomprehensible concept of globalization. What is globalization? What are the core topics, theories and competing ideologies? Are we walking towards homogenization or towards a global collision of cultures and identities? The potential risks and challenges for the global economy, corporations and political regimes are acknowledged by most but not fully understood. This book provides a refreshing new look at how society is being shaped by globalization and how these apparent destructive patterns can be both explained and potentially remedied.Globalization is both a concept and a cliché. It is a term that is used to explain an economic system or the state of the world. David Murillo sets out the questions and identifies the interrelationships of different disciplines to both understand the issues and also find solutions. The book discusses globalization and current attempts to conceptualize and measure it. There are theoretical and ideological debates on whether globalization is inevitable and the various alternatives for interpreting how the world works.Accompanying Teaching Notes are available on request with the purchase of this book.

Book Revista de Fomento Social

Download or read book Revista de Fomento Social written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women and Homelessness in Europe

Download or read book Women and Homelessness in Europe written by Bill Edgar and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume provides, for the first time, a picture of the nature and causes of homelessness among women across the European member states. Its findings will stimulate further research and encourage transnational cooperation in the development of appropriate policies and support services.Women and homelessness in Europe:considers the gender-specific issues contributing towards homelessness among women in Europe;assesses the contribution of economic and social change to the risk of homelessness;examines the changing composition of the female homeless population;describes the pattern and evaluates the effectiveness of service provision available to homeless women;explores the experiences of homeless women using these services.

Book Poetry and Ethics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrea Grieder
  • Publisher : Globethics.Net
  • Release : 2018-06
  • ISBN : 9782889312436
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Poetry and Ethics written by Andrea Grieder and published by Globethics.Net. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on the topic of ethics and poetry consists of contributions from different continents on the subject of applied ethics related to poetry. It allows for a comparison of the healing power of words from various religious, spiritual and philosophical traditions.

Book International Community Psychology

Download or read book International Community Psychology written by Stephanie Reich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-03 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature Chiefly in the Fields of Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences

Download or read book International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature Chiefly in the Fields of Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Adi  s Ni  o

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deborah T. Levenson
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2013-04-09
  • ISBN : 0822353156
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Adi s Ni o written by Deborah T. Levenson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Levenson examines transformations in the Guatemalan gangs called Maras from their emergence in the 1980s to the early 2000s. A historical study, Adiós Niño describes how fragile spaces of friendship and exploration turned into rigid and violent ones in which youth, and especially young men, came to employ death as a natural way of living for the short period that they expected to survive. Levenson relates the stark changes in the Maras to global, national, and urban deterioration; transregional gangs that intersect with the drug trade; and the Guatemalan military's obliteration of radical popular movements and of social imaginaries of solidarity. Part of Guatemala City's reconfigured social, political, and cultural milieu, with their members often trapped in Guatemala's growing prison system, the gangs are used to justify remilitarization in Guatemala's contemporary postwar, post-peace era. Portraying the Maras as microcosms of broader tragedies, and pointing out the difficulties faced by those youth who seek to escape the gangs, Levenson poses important questions about the relationship between trauma, memory, and historical agency.

Book Concerns of Women  an Indian Theological Response

Download or read book Concerns of Women an Indian Theological Response written by Indian Theological Association. Annual Meeting and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed research papers.

Book Cultural Politics and Resistance in the 21st Century

Download or read book Cultural Politics and Resistance in the 21st Century written by K. Dellacioppa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By analyzing the cases present in this volume, the editors develop important steps towards a theory of social change that can adequately address the complex realities and intersectionality of identity (race, gender, class, sexuality, nationality) within and among these new movements.

Book Occupation Culture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Moore
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 9781570273032
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Occupation Culture written by Alan Moore and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Occupation Culture is the story of a journey through the world of recent political squatting in Europe, told by a veteran of the 1970s and '80s New York punk art scene. It is also a kind of scholar adventure story. Alan W. Moore sees with the trained eye of a cultural historian, pointing out pasts, connections and futures in the creative direct action of today's social movements. Occupation Culture is based on five years of travel and engaged research. It explicates the aims, ideals and gritty realities of squatting. Despite its stature as a leading social movement of the late twentieth century, squatting has only recently received scholarly attention. The rich histories of creative work that this movement enabled are almost entirely unknown.

Book Literature  Testimony and Cinema in Contemporary Colombian Culture

Download or read book Literature Testimony and Cinema in Contemporary Colombian Culture written by Rory O'Bryen and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory and mourning in Colombia. This book provides the first in-depth examination of a representative range of contemporary Colombian cultural engagements with the conflicts known simply as La Violencia that began in Colombia in the late 1940s. These include Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazábal's now classic revision of the 'novela de la Violencia', the autobiographical cycle of acclaimed author Fernando Vallejo, versions of the testimonio by Alfredo Molano and internationally renowned novelist Laura Restrepo, as well as cinematic works by Carlos Mayolo and Luis Ospina. These cultural icons, many of whom are remarkably understudied, show how the heterogeneity of social and cultural processes condensed in La Violencia demands a deconstruction of 'violence' in Colombian culture. This argument is developed in dialogue with European and Latin American cultural theory and contributes to theoretical debates surrounding issues of memory and mourning developed in other Latin American contexts. The narratives explored in this book provide alternatives to abstract historicism and show us how to imagine ways out of deeply rooted cycles of violence. Yet their insistence on haunting and spectres signals the problems besetting the task of mourning in Colombia, positing history rather than psychology as a remainder that troubles efforts to forge collective memories and enact social reconciliation. RORY O'BRYEN lectures in Latin American literature and culture at the University of Cambridge.

Book Employment in Metropolitan Areas

Download or read book Employment in Metropolitan Areas written by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Squatters  Movement in Europe

Download or read book The Squatters Movement in Europe written by Squatting Europe Kollective and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Squatters' Movement in Europe is the first definitive guide to squatting as an alternative to capitalism. It offers a unique insider's view on the movement - its ideals, actions and ways of life. At a time of growing crisis in Europe withhigh unemployment, dwindling social housing and declining living standards, squatting has become an increasingly popular option. The book is written by an activist-scholar collective, whose members have direct experience of squatting: many are stillsquatters today. There are contributions from the Netherlands, Spain, the USA, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and the UK. In an age of austerity and precarity this book shows what has been achieved by this resilient social movement, which holdslessons for policy-makers, activists and academics alike.