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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the securitisation of climate change in the US, Germany and Mexico and offers a rethinking of securitisation theory. Resting on a Foucauldian governmentality approach, it discusses how different climate security discourses have transformed the political handling of climate change and affected policies, practices and institutions. Going beyond the literature’s predominant focus on the global level, it gives a fine-grained examination of the political and institutional changes in different national contexts. Drawing on the governmentalisation of security, the book develops a new understanding of securitisation that focuses on the role of power. In d...
This book provides the first systematic comparative analysis of climate security discourses. It analyses the securitisation of climate change in four different countries: USA, Germany, Turkey, and Mexico. The empirical analysis traces how specific climate-security discourses have become dominant, which actors have driven this process, what political consequences this has had and what role the broader context has played in enabling these specific securitisations. In doing so, the book outlines a new and systematic theoretical framework that distinguishes between different referent objects of securitisation (territorial, individual and planetary) and between a security and risk dimension. It t...
This book has outlined many aspects of traditionalism and modernity, although the topics here are divergent; the consistent part of it is that all of the authors mostly come from the same disciplines of Sociology and Social Anthropology. The main concern is to find out the socio-cultural changes that have occurred due to modernization and development. From that perspective, the book is very useful to understand Sociology and Social Anthropology from diversities based on traditionalism and modernity. It contains eleven articles contributed by a few renowned sociologists and social anthropologists from a number of countries around the world, focusing on diversified issues on traditionalism and...
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En el proceso formativo de los jóvenes estudiantes de ciencias sociales son varias las aristas que inciden en las habilidades para confrontar el aprendizaje adquirido en las aulas con la realidad de la vida cotidiana. Parafraseando a María Luisa Tarrés, la capacidad para observar, escuchar y comprender es fundamental para quienes se adentran al estudio de la subjetividad social. Mediante un acercamiento constante y sistemático al entorno de lo cotidiano se abre un panorama amplio de interpretación de la realidad social, por ello los enfoques cualitativos de investigación se tornan importantes en la formación académica y profesional del nivel estudiante de ciencias sociales.
"La UNAM convocó a más de doscientos destacados investigadores de las principales instituciones académicas del país, tanto públicas como privadas, a participar en el seminario "Agenda del Desarrollo 2006-2020". "Los trabajos presentados se dividieron en quince seminarios modulares". p. 5.
esta obra, resultado de la disertación doctoral del autor y dirigida a la comunidad académica interesada en el funcionamiento de las democracias contemporáneas, tiene como objetivo analizar el rol de representación política de los legisladores en dos sistemas federales latinoamericanos: brasil y méxico. Para ello, propone un modelo analítico que describe la naturaleza de la representación y explora, a través de una sólida construcción teórica, diferentes variables que pueden impactar en la dirección del rol representativo. sin lugar a dudas, esta obra permitirá entender la labor de los representantes en su quehacer legislativo y la relación entre estos y los ciudadanos, e interpretar los factores e intereses que intervienen en el funcionamiento de las democracias participativas en la actualidad.