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El libro Educación y salud en grupos vulnerables nace del interés de profesionales e investigadores de la salud y la educación por radiografiar la situación de los principales grupos vulnerables en materia educativa y sanitaria, permitiendo, a través de esa interacción, conectar espacios de pensamiento y actuación en torno a las urgencias sociales del momento. Esta cartografía de la vulnerabilidad en los ámbitos socioeducativo y sanitario es especialmente acuciante en un contexto marcado por la crisis social, económica y migratoria, así como por los procesos de precarización a los que asisten los sectores menos privilegiados. La velocidad a la que se producen los cambios sociales y culturales, en un mundo globalizado, requiere de análisis y estrategias adaptación certeras. En ese sentido, el manual ofrece una compilación de aportaciones que buscan facilitar la actualización de las y los profesionales.
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Groupware (CRIWG 2003). The conference was held in the city of Autrans, on the spectacular Vercors plateau in the foothills of the French Alps. The or- nizing committee could not have thought of a better setting to inspire lively discussions and re?ection on open issues facing the ?eld of groupware. The CRIWG workshops have been motivated by advances in Computer- Supported Cooperative Work, and by the need for CSCW to meet the challenges of new application areas. With this ninth meeting, CRIWG aimed to provide a forum for academic researchers and professionals to exchange their experiences and ideas about problems a...
Este libro es el tercer volumen que publica la Asociación Madrileña de Sociología sobre diferentes aspectos de la realidad social de Madrid. Constituye una importante aportación al fondo de conocimientos actualizados acerca de la Comunidad de Madrid, que serán muy útiles para la política social que deberá seguirse en estos años de recuperación tras la crisis. Nos hemos planteado abordar la comprensión de los desafíos sociales actuales de Madrid y para ello hemos orientado nuestras investigaciones en tres grandes apartados: el primero económico, con especial atención al emprendimiento y la vivienda; el segundo más demográfico, atento a los cambios recientes en el trabajo, la i...
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A “darkly hilarious” (Elle) novel about a fictionalized Fidel Castro and an octogenarian Cuban exile obsessed with seeking revenge by the National Book Award finalist Cristina García, this “clever, well-conceived dual portrait shows what connects and divides Cubans inside and outside of the island” (Kirkus Reviews). Vivid and teeming with life, King of Cuba transports readers to Cuba and Miami, and into the heads of two larger-than-life men: a fictionalized Fidel Castro and an octogenarian Cuban exile obsessed with seeking revenge against the dictator. García’s masterful twinning of these characters combines with a rabble of other Cuban voices to portray the passions and realities of two Cubas—on the island and off— in a pulsating story that entertains and illuminates.
When Spanish photographer Cristina Garcia Rodero went to study art in Italy, in 1973, she fully understood the importance of home. Yet her time abroad formented a deeper interest in was happening in her own country and, as a result, at the age of 23, Garcia Rodero returned to Spain and started a project that she hoped would capture the essence of the myriad Spanish traditions, religious practices and rites that were already fading away. What started as a five-year project ended up lasting 15 years and came to be the book España Oculta(Hidden Spain) published in 1989. At 39 years old, Garcia Rodero had managed to compile a kind of anthropological encyclopedia of her country. The work also captured a key moment in Spain’s history – with Spanish dictator Franco dying in 1975, and the country commencing a period of transition – something that would come to have a huge effect on the way the nation’s cultural traditions and rites were experienced and performed from then on.
Setting out the historical national and religious characteristics of the Italians as they impact on the integration within the European Union, this study makes note of the two characteristics that have an adverse effect on Italian national identity: cleavages between north and south and the dominant role of family. It discusses how for Italians family loyalty is stronger than any other allegiance, including feelings towards their country, their nation, or the EU. Due to such subnational allegiances and values, this book notes that Italian civic society is weaker and engagement at the grass roots is less robust than one finds in other democracies, leaving politics in Italy largely in the hands of political parties. The work concludes by noting that EU membership, however, provides no magic bullet for Italy: it cannot change internal cleavages, the Italian worldview, and family values or the country’s mafia-dominated power matrix, and as a result, the underlying absence of fidelity to a shared polity—Italian or European—leave the country as ungovernable as ever.
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