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Political Illusion and Reality
Are all governments--east and west, Muslim and secular, authoritarian and constitutional, Republican and Democratic--fundamentally the same, all of them under the extraordinary, growing power of "technique" and bureaucracy? Is all politics, then, just an illusory affair of lies, deception, propaganda, partisan passions, and chaos on the surface of government and party? In his vast and penetrating writings, Bordeaux sociologist Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) points in those directions. Political Illusion and Reality is a collection of twenty-three essays on Ellul's political thought. Veteran as well as younger Ellul scholars, political leaders, activists, and pastors, discuss aspects of Ellul's thought as they relate to their own fields of study and political experience. Beginning with his 1936 essay "Fascism, Son of Liberalism," translated and published here in English for the first time, Ellul and these authors will provoke readers to think some new thoughts about politics and government, and think more deeply about the main issues we face in our politically divided and troubled times.
Designs and Anthropologies
The chapters in this captivating volume demonstrate the importance and power of design and the ubiquitous and forceful effects it has on human life within the study of anthropology. The scholars explore the interactions between anthropology and design through a cross-disciplinary approach, and while their approaches vary in how they specifically consider design, they are all centered around the design-and-anthropology relationship. The chapters look at anthropology for design, in which anthropological methods and concepts are mobilized in the design process; anthropology of design, in which design is positioned as an object of ethnographic inquiry and critique; and design for anthropology, in which anthropologists borrow concepts and practices from design to enhance traditional ethnographic forms. Collectively, the chapters argue that bringing design and anthropology together can transform both fields in more than one way and that to tease out the implications of using design to reimagine ethnography--and of using ethnography to reimagine design--we need to consider the historical specificity of their entanglements.
Postgrowth Imaginaries
Postgrowth Imaginaries brings together environmental cultural studies and postgrowth economics to examine radical cultural shifts sparked by the global financial crisis. The globalization of an economic culture addicted to constant growth destroys the ecological planetary systems while failing to fulfil its social promises. A transition toward what Prádanos calls 'postgrowth imaginaries'--the counterhegemonic cultural sensibilities that are challenging the growth paradigm--is well underway in the Iberian Peninsula today.
The Police Journal
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Nuevos comunalismos
Cambio climático descontrolado, pérdida masiva de biodiversidad, desigualdad social creciente, crisis de cuidados, agotamiento de los recursos naturales, neocolonialismo extractivista... Atravesamos una emergencia civilizatoria que está generando profundas discontinuidades sociales que, a su vez, amenazan la posibilidad de vidas buenas en todo el mundo. Sin duda existe el riesgo de que en los próximos años se fortalezcan los discursos de la extrema derecha o revivan viejos autoritarismos de izquierda. Pero también puede ocurrir todo lo contrario. El gran reto no es tanto perpetuar el discurso de la catástrofe ecosocial como construir alternativas y elaborar propuestas capaces de afrontar los desafíos que supone el Capitaloceno. En este libro tratamos de mostrar que de la emergencia podemos pasar al decrecimiento, a transformaciones políticas que combinen la austeridad material con una profundización en la igualdad, la justicia y la autonomía social. Un decrecimiento que en estas páginas se alía con el comunalismo, es decir, con las reflexiones que han pensado en instituciones que, ayer y hoy, tienen potencial de recuperar, construir y organizar los comunes.
New York
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Dateline Mexico
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Mirando hacia el futuro.
Las redes digitales han hecho posible la existencia del espacio virtual, el ámbito donde los internautas pueden operar con la información y establecer relaciones online.En la perspectiva de sus aplicaciones sociales, la virtualización consiste en la utilización de recursos informativos y comunicativos para acompañar a las actividades presenciales o para sustituirlas. En la perspectiva del desarrollo humano, la virtualización es un procedimiento tecnológicamente mediado de incrementar la transferencia de la ejecución a la indicación. Esa transferencia ha hecho posible que la información actúe en la configuración, el funcionamiento y control de todo sistema, actividad o relación q...
ISLA
Clippings of Latin American political, social and economic news from various English language newspapers.
