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Latin American Critical Thought. Theory and Practice
The resurgence of LATin AmericAn criTicAL thought in the late 1990s and the early twenty-first century has brought about some discoveries that distinguish it from the sociological production of the world. it is a scientific framework that has taken on the features of a new social scientific paradigm. A growing number of authors have aligned themselves with this perspective, with visions that include critical read- ings geared to contributing to transformative social change, in a Latin American context. Thus, we ask ourselves: What are the characteristics that distinguish Latin American critical thought and give it its identity? What are its germinal features and what are its unresolved matters? A distinguishing feature of this thought is its belonging to social sciences, particularly sociology and its traditions of critical theory, whose roots, as gramsci said, do not come from fundamentalist op- position but rather from the acquisition of scientific certainty on the basis of critical analysis (...)
Fronteiras abertas da América Latina
O presente livro reúne algumas das contribuições mais destacadas do XXVIII Congresso da Associação Latinoamericana de Sociologia (ALAS), que ocorreu na cidade do Recife, no mês de setembro de 2011, com a presença de um público importante de quase cinco mil participantes. O sucesso do encontro se deve, em parte, ao destaque que os organizadores do evento demos ao tema das novas fronteiras disciplinares e geográficas da América Latina para se pensar os desafios contemporâneos de desenvolvimento do pensamento crítico na região em consonância com as transformações do pensamento global. Como articular as perspectivas de generalização de um pensamento sociológico produzido regionalmente com as perspectivas de adequação regional e local de um pensamento global? Essa foi uma interrogação que atravessou todo o debate. (...)
Trabajo y capitalismo : relaciones y colisiones sociales
Este libro aborda, desde diferentes perspectivas y contextos nacionales, las temáticas relevantes del trabajo contemporáneas, tales como la flexibilidad y la precariedad, el sindicalismo y los movimientos de resistencia, los procesos y cadenas de valor, las subjetividades y contextos, así como los metabolismos en clave de género y sistema.
Constitucion de la Republica de Cuba
La historia del constitucionalismo cubano comienza en 1812, según varios historiadores, con la promulgación de la Constitución del 18 de marzo de 1812 como resultado de las Cortes de Cádiz, que dieron organización constitucional a todo el imperio español y en consecuencia a la Isla de Cuba que era parte de su territorio. En el 24 de febrero de 1976, en un acto solemne celebrado en el Teatro "Carlos Marx" en la ciudad de La Habana, la actual constitución cubana fue proclamada. El proceso para reemplazar a la Constitución del 1940 fue irregular ya que el gobierno no siguió el proceso elaborado por el artículo 286 de ese documento.
Hunter of Stories
The internationally acclaimed last work by the legendary Latin American writer Master storyteller Eduardo Galeano was unique among his contemporaries (Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa among them) for his commitment to retelling our many histories, including the stories of those who were disenfranchised. A philosopher poet, his nonfiction is infused with such passion and imagination that it matches the intensity and the appeal of Latin America's very best fiction. Comprised of all new material, published here for the first time in a wonderful English translation by longtime collaborator Mark Fried, Hunter of Stories is a deeply considered collection of Galeano's final musings and stories on history, memory, humor, and tragedy. Written in his signature style -- vignettes that fluidly combine dialogue, fables, and anecdotes -- every page displays the original thinking and compassion that has earned Galeano decades and continents of renown.
On Education
What is the role of education in a world where we no longer have a clear vision of the future and where the idea of a single, universal model of humanity seems like the residue of a bygone age? What role should educators play in a world where young people find themselves faced with deep uncertainty about their future, where the prospects of securing a stable, long-term career seem increasingly remote and where intensified population movements have created more diverse communities in which different cultures find themselves living side by side, no longer bound together by the belief that the other would eventually be assimilated into ‘our' culture? Faced with the bewildering features of our...
Social Theory Today
Social theory has undergone dramatic changes over the past fifteen years. The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive survey of those changes, and an authoritative statement on current trends of development in social thought. The contents of the book range in a systematic way across the major traditions of social theory prominent today. Among the topics covered are the relationships between modern social theory and the 'classics' of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the connections between social theory and mathematical social science; and the logical status of generalizations in the social sciences. Traditions of thought discussed include: behaviourism; symbolic interactionism; Parsonian theory; analytical theory; structuralism and post-structuralism; ethnomethodology; structuration theory; world systems theory; Marxism and critical theory.
Social Policies and Emotions
This book analyzes the connections between social policies and politics of sensibilities. The authors show how social policies build sociabilities, experiences and sensibilities, producing processes of conflict avoidance and consecration of the given. After discussing violence against women as a case study in order to understand the current state of social policies, the authors then describe how the “place” and “value” of education have become central features to social policies in order to disband conflict. Finally, they explain the emergence of a social phenomenon in the last sixteen years in Latin America and particularly Argentina: the compensatory consumption system and the resulting emergence of the “assisted citizen.”
La Patria del Criollo
This translation of Severo Martínez Peláez’s La Patria del Criollo, first published in Guatemala in 1970, makes a classic, controversial work of Latin American history available to English-language readers. Martínez Peláez was one of Guatemala’s foremost historians and a political activist committed to revolutionary social change. La Patria del Criollo is his scathing assessment of Guatemala’s colonial legacy. Martínez Peláez argues that Guatemala remains a colonial society because the conditions that arose centuries ago when imperial Spain held sway have endured. He maintains that economic circumstances that assure prosperity for a few and deprivation for the majority were alter...
