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Indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorians Facing the Twenty-First Century
The South American country of Ecuador provides a fascinating case study for understanding the construction and emergence of race and ethnic identities. While themes of ethnic identities, indigeneity, and race relations are commonly examined in our respective disciplines, it is less common to bring together essays with from scholars from such a broad variety of disciplines. The papers collected in this volume provide an opportunity to explore indigeneity in comparative perspective with the rest of the region, as well as to highlight the historically important but understudied Afro-Ecuadorian perspectives. The essays in this volume break out of the common tropes and themes that scholars typically employ in their studies of race and ethnicity in Ecuador. In examining Afro-Ecuadorians and Indigenous peoples through the lens of politics, culture, religion, gender, and environmental concerns, we come to a better understanding of the problems and promises facing this country. These essays convey a large diversity of perspectives, disciplines, and issues that reflect the richness and complexities of the social processes that are present in Ecuador.
Refounding State Legitimacy - When experiences and practices speak - Volume 1
The state is no longer the sole player in public action: it is now obliged to interact with civil society, the private sector and populations. This transition from "government" (a state monopoly) to "public governance" (public action with a plurality of actors) implies a certain repositioning. It is in the new relationship between the state and societies that the exercise of political power is called upon to find coherence and to restructure the legitimacy of the state. This diagnosis was the starting point for the reflections contained in this work. From the standpoint of legitimacy, the authors of this book have studied a series of experiences and practices, both in various countries around the world and within different international organisations. They offer a series of descriptive contributions designed to facilitate comprehension and analysis of the processes seeking to legitimise political power, according to a variety of contexts and the diversity of conceptions of power.
Aportes teológicos a una reflexión crítica de la religión
"Este es un libro que desafía a los lectores a reflexionar sobre el fenómeno religioso. La crítica a la religión tiene múltiples orígenes: la filosofía, las ciencias sociales y el pensamiento empírico-positivista, entre otros. El aporte de estas miradas ha sido evidente, pero también insuficiente; aquí se postula que la crítica a la religión más profunda y decisiva hunde sus raíces en la propia tradición teológica. Este libro sitúa a la teología al interior mismo de la experiencia creyente, devela el sentido religioso de la existencia, diagnostica la crisis del catolicismo en el marco de los procesos de cambio cultural que vivimos y, finalmente, muestra cómo la teología c...
En configuración permanente
Las elecciones nacionales del 2018 y las locales del 2019 fueron las primeras elecciones realizadas después de la firma del Acuerdo Final para la Terminación del Conflicto y la Construcción de una Paz Estable y Duradera firmado entre el Gobierno nacional y la guerrilla de las farc. El punto dos de dicho Acuerdo se enfocó en la participación política y en el sistema electoral colombiano para promover la apertura democrática y con esto facilitar la transición del grupo armado a la vida legal. Si bien las reformas políticas que buscaban reglamentar lo pactado por el Gobierno se hundieron en el Legislativo, los cambios políticos e institucionales han incidido en la configuración de un...
El presupuesto participativo
Luego de más de una década de la implementación del presupuesto participativo en Medellín, consideramos pertinente una revisión de algunos de sus logros y desaciertos, enriquecida con el contraste que ofrecen experiencias internacionales como las de puerto alegre, en Brasil. La plata, en argentina y san juan en puerto rico. Hacemos entonces un balance de este mecanismo de participación ciudadana, establecemos sus relaciones con el sistema de controles a la administración pública, revisamos la literatura sobre el tema generado en Medellín, exploramos como fue la transferencia de esta política a la ciudad, y la presentamos en sus luces y sombras, contradicciones y posibilidades. Esperamos así aportar a la comunidad académica, a las organizaciones no gubernamentales y a los policy marker elementos de análisis que permitan alimentar el debate en torno al presupuesto participativo como un instrumento relevante para encontrar soluciones concertadas a los problemas públicos locales, la construcción de ciudadanía y el ejercicio democrático
Pigmentocracies
Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America
Religión como fuente para un desarrollo liberador
La presente publicación se ocupa, en este trasfondo, del rol de la Iglesia católica en América Latina en relación con un desarrollo liberador. Tiene su origen en un congreso que fue llevado a cabo del 19 al 23 de agosto de 2018 por el Stipendienwerk Lateinamerika-Deutschland (Intercambio Cultural Alemán Latinoamericano [Icala]) en colaboración con la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, con ocasión de la celebración de los cincuenta años de la Conferencia de Medellín. 1968 fue también un año clave para la Iglesia católica en Latinoamérica. Con el impulso de Medellín, ella ha encontrado ciertamente una nueva figura: del lado de los pobres, al servicio de la justicia y de la paz. S...
The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence
Bringing together experts across Latin America, North America, and Spain, The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence innovatively revisits Latin American independence within a larger regional, temporal, and thematic framework to highlight its significance for the Age of Atlantic Revolutions. The volume offers a synthetic yet comprehensive tool for understanding and assessing the most current studies in the field and their analytical contributions to the broader historiography. Organized thematically and across different regions of the Iberian Peninsula and Spanish and Luso America, the essays deepen well-known conclusions and reveal new interpretations. They offer analytical interventions that produce new questions on periodization, the meaning of anti-colonialism, liberalism, and republicanism, as well as the militarization of societies, public opinion, the role of sciences, labor regimes, and gender dynamics. A much-needed addition to the existing scholarship, this volume brings a transnational perspective to a critical period of history in Latin America.
Sharing Power
After Barbara Frechette arrived in Colombia in 1994 as the wife of the United States ambassador, she witnessed the fascinating rise of powerful women leaders during the uncertainty of a dangerous drug war that raged for years. Fascinated as to how and why women progressed with such extraordinary speed in Colombia despite facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Frechette asked seven influential women leaders to analyze this paradoxical development. In this re-released version of her original comprehensive study of a womens movement in Colombia that sprang to life after women won the vote in 1957 and blossomed in 1998 when two of the women in this book ran for president, Frechette offers captivating chronological leadership profiles of outstanding women and the family influences, leadership styles, and religious roots that inspired them to seek to better their nation, despite death threats and risks of political exile.
Prisms of the People
Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American democracy but have been burgeoning since the 2016 election, as people struggle to make their voices heard in this moment of societal upheaval. Unfortunately much of that action has not had the kind of impact participants might want, especially among movements representing the poor and marginalized who often have the most at stake when it comes to rights and equality. Yet, some instances of collective action have succeeded. What’s the difference between a movement that wins victories for its constituents, and one that fails? What are the factors that make collective action powerful? Prisms of the People add...
