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Fortress America
Gated communities are a new "hot button" in many North American cities. From Boston to Los Angeles and from Miami to Toronto citizens are taking sides in the debate over whether any neighborhood should be walled and gated, preventing intrusion or inspection by outsiders. This debate has intensified since the hard cover edition of this book was published in 1997. Since then the number of gated communities has risen dramatically. In fact, new homes in over 40 percent of planned developments are gated n the West, the South, and southeastern parts of the United States. Opposition to this phenomenon is growing too. In the small and relatively homogenous town of Worcester, Massachusetts, a band of college students from Brown University and the University of Chicago picketed the Wexford Village in November of 1998 waving placards that read "Gates Divide." These students are symbolic of a much larger wave of citizens asking questions about the need for and the social values of gates that divide one portion of a community from another.
OSAL, Observatorio social de América Latina (Año XIII no. 31 mayo 2012).
SUMARIO: *Editorial/Massimo Modonesi (9)- *Entrevista:Somos la generación que perdió el miedo. Entrevista a Camila Vallejo Dowling/ Hernán Ouviña (13)- -Movimientos estudiantiles: *La movilización estudiantil chilena en 2011: una cronología/Juan Urra Rossi (23)- *El acontecimiento estudiantil y el viraje del proceso sociopolítico chileno/Carlos Durán Migliardi (39)- *Proyecciones políticas del movimiento social por la educación en Chile/Daniel Núñez (61)- *El movimiento estudiantil en Colombia, una mirada histórica/Mauricio Archila (71)- *El movimiento estudiantil en la actualidad argentina: una aproximación sociohistórica/Pablo Bonavena y Mariano Millán (105)- *La defensa de...
Procesos políticos de América Latina
Una incisiva lectura crítica del neoliberalismo que ha dominado en América Latina desde la década de los ochenta, un modelo que lejos de resolver los problemas crónicos de la región, concentró la riqueza, debilitó las instancias estatales de integración y fortaleció las represivas, condenó por “organicista” la presencia estatal, invocó la modernización y la competitividad, pero acentuó las asimetrías entre el capital y el trabajo, precarizó a los más vulnerables, y redefinió la democracia a meros procedimientos electorales. Esta obra explora innovadoramente tales resultados.
Transformación del Estado y privatización de la seguridad pública. Policías privadas, cárceles privadas y gated communities en México
La privatización de la seguridad pública, con la participación de empresas privadas en tareas de policía, y la construcción y gestión de cárceles son fenómenos sintomáticos de una transformación del Estado y sus funciones soberanas. Los fenómenos obedecen a mutaciones en sociedades crecientemente desgarradas por antagonismos socioeconómicos, marcadas por el aumento de los índices de criminalidad, y por la generalización del sentimiento de inseguridad. En este sentido, la proliferación de comunidades cerradas (gated communities) sintetiza diferentes determinaciones entretejidas en la privatización de la seguridad pública y la consecuente mutación de ciertas funciones del Estado. Los textos reunidos en este libro analizan la naturaleza, las causas y las implicaciones de este proceso multifacético a partir de dos problemáticas: las relaciones entre la transformación del Estado y la privatización de las funciones policiales y penitenciarias y los modos de la organización de la seguridad por diferentes clases y sectores de la sociedad a través de las comunidades cerradas.
Fundamentals of Sustainable Development
Fundamentals of Sustainable Development is an accessible and interdisciplinary textbook that introduces the concept of sustainable development to students from across the disciplines from economics, management, teacher education, arts and humanities to the natural and social sciences. The impact of development needs to be considered beyond the narrow focus of economic, ecological or social concerns. This new edition builds upon the second edition’s user-friendly and comprehensive overview of the challenges linked to striving for a sustainable, holistic approach to development. Providing a multifaceted approach to the subject in order to encompass what is referred to as ‘people, planet and profit’, this third edition provides a complete update of the text, with an emphasis on topics including the Sustainable Development Goals, the circular economy, climate and energy, and sustainable and future-focused entrepreneurship. This stimulating book is an invaluable resource for students and lecturers in all disciplines who have an interest in the sustainability of our planet, and our human society and economy.
The Fire Next Door
Since the Mexican government initiated a military offensive against its country’s powerful drug cartels in December 2006, some 50,000 people have perished and the drugs continue to flow. In The Fire Next Door, Ted Galen Carpenter boldly conveys the growing horror overtaking Mexico and makes the case that the only effective strategy for the United States is to abandon its failed drug prohibition policy, thus depriving drug cartels of financial resources.
El camino obrero
Saúl Escobar Toledo ofrece a los lectores una síntesis de la historia sindical de México —un tema tan poco estudiado y tan indispensable para comprender el presente— y relata, de una manera clara, la lucha, los personajes históricos y los acontecimientos que permearon y transformaron el mundo del trabajo en nuestro país. El camino obrero. El movimiento sindical en México, 1907-2017 presenta, pues, un recorrido que va desde la consolidación de los sindicatos en México a inicios del siglo XX, pasando por su auge e incansable lucha, hasta su deterioro y posterior declive, resultando en las precarias condiciones laborales de la actualidad.
Galicia Division
This new book is a historical account of the 14th Waffen-SS Galicia Division (also known as the 1st Ukrainian Division of the Ukrainian National Army). In 1943/1944 a determined group of young men and women in Galicia volunteered to serve in a combat division destined for eastern front combat. Their goal: to engage and destroy the Soviet hordes menacing their homeland and to counter Nazi Germany's subjugation of their country. Although initially Galicia's Volunteers would serve in a German sponsored military formation, in actuality the volunteers of the Galicia division wanted to engage all hostile ideologies-both from the east and west-in order to secure a free independent Ukraine. The division's history is presented along with a human aspect of what the soldiers endured during the brutal battles on the eastern front.
Books and Bidders: The Adventures of a Bibliophile
“Genius?” The tall old man with the fan-shaped beard looked eagerly at his companion, then settled back more heavily against the rows and rows of old books lining the walls to the ceiling on all sides of the room. “Of course Edgar was a genius, but in spite of being a gambler and a drunkard—in spite of it, I tell you!” The other, a thin man of lesser years, his long, inquiring face meditative in the twilight, nodded. “You are right,” he agreed. “But what difference did it make? The only question is, would ‘The Raven’ have been any greater without his gambling and drinking? I doubt it.” The argument was on, and my uncle, Moses Polock, would lean forward now and again, wa...
The Conspirators' Hierarchy
This work argues for the existence of a committee of 300, an elite body which controls every aspect of politics, religion, commerce and industry, answerable to no one except itself. It maintains that the confusion of social and moral values in the free world has been deliberately created.
