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Biographical Research
Studying people’s lives requires acknowledging the multiple entanglements between individual singularity and processes of social patterning. This book testifies how challenging and creative the study of these connections can be. It gathers international contributions that show, in imaginative ways, how a person’s life or specific domains of existence can be observed, tackled, and analysed across time. This volume reveals the potential of biographical research in the production of social theory, in the development of methodological innovation, in giving voice and protagonism to people, and in the understanding of the social unfolding of their lives. It is a testimony of a vibrant and yout...
Networks in the Global World VI
The book offers a rare cross-disciplinary blend of computational and ethnographic network analyses in the areas ranging from politics and urban planning to literature and education. The collected papers were presented at the sixth ‘Networks in the Global World’ conference held on June 22–24, 2022. This biennial conference series revolves around key interdisciplinary issues in the focus of network analysts, such as the multidimensional approach to social reality, translation of theories and methods across disciplines, and mixing of data and methods. The chapters cover relations between social and cultural structures, power, and interaction in communities, social media, and literature. The book will be useful to practicing researchers, graduate and post-graduate students, and educators interested in social relations, politics, economy, and culture.
Vulnerability, Extremism, and Schooling
Vulnerability, Extremism, and Schooling: Restorative Practices, Policy Enactment, and Managing Risk documents and analyzes efforts by educational policymakers to combat susceptibility to extremism within disadvantaged communities. Schools worldwide are increasingly enlisted in the efforts of nation-states to prevent or counter violent extremism. However, since extremism is a notoriously complex and difficult concept to define, attempts to counter violent extremism are inevitably entangled in issues of political and social power. Through the lens of affective governance—which refers to a style of governing emphasizing the emotional and psychological needs of citizens, as well as their sense of connection and belonging to their community—this book draws attention to how policy enactment can be closely aligned with government agendas revolving around the management of risk. The authors argue that extremism is closely tied to systemic marginalization and, while efforts to combat a susceptibility to extremism are important, so is a continual critique of such efforts. This is especially true when approaches are aimed at populations who are already marginalized.
Las trincheras de los cuidados comunitarios
El cuidado comunitario es una buena defensa que tienen las mujeres mayores para resistir los embates de lo que ha significado una vida dedicada al cuidado de los demás: de sus hijos e hijas, de su marido, de sus nietos y nietas, de sus familiares. Esta atención hacia otras personas estructura la vida de las mujeres, condiciona sus tiempos, sus actividades, su participación en la sociedad. Los clubes proporcionan un espacio y un tiempo que las mujeres pueden dedicar a ellas mismas. Comparten actividades, vivencias, deseos y frustraciones; por unas horas abandonan su cotidianidad dedicada a los demás, para ser ellas las protagonistas.
Aprendizaje informal en redes
Este libro, de carácter investigativo, pretende arrojar luz sobre las oportunidades reales que nos puede aportar el aprendizaje informal en el ámbito educativo. Para ello, se divide en tres grandes bloques. El primero se centra en definir qué es el aprendizaje informal, cómo se relaciona con las redes sociales y qué posibilidades ofrece para el desarrollo profesional docente. El segundo bloque, más específico, pone el foco en la red social Twitter, revisando lo que dice la literatura acerca de las ventajas e inconvenientes de su uso con fines educativos. Además, se analizan dos hashtags muy populares en esta red, como es el del #claustrovirtual y el de las #CharlasEducativas, lo cual...
Epistemologías feministas desde el sur
Los textos que aquí se presentan analizan el lugar del conocimiento científico en la sociedad, poniendo en juego la posicionalidad de las mujeres habitantes de un Sur que «también existe» por medio de gestos textuales que intentan fomentar una toma de conciencia acerca de la pertinencia de las genealogías oficiales y habituales, proporcionadas por las instituciones reconocidas de la ciencia, y develar los modos en que las prácticas de conocimiento reproducen relaciones de poder. Intentamos con este trabajo producir y construir nuevas propuestas en la práctica tecnocientífica en tanto terreno de resistencias, intervención y transformación.
Malestar social y desigualdades en Chile
¿Por qué ha habido tal cantidad de manifestaciones y protestas durante los últimos años en Chile? ¿Cómo es que temas tan diversos como el transporte, la educación, la salud, el sistema previsional, los derechos sexuales y reproductivos, la vivienda, la asamblea constituyente, el medio ambiente, etc. han ido suscitado tanta adhesión en la ciudadanía? ¿Cuáles son los focos y causas de este malestar? ¿De qué modo las desigualdades han erosionado los lazos sociales y han cuestionado la legitimidad de las instituciones en el país?
Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire
Between 1560 and 1620, a thousand or more people left the town of Brihuega in Spain to migrate to New Spain (now Mexico), where nearly all of them settled in Puebla de los Angeles, New Spain's second most important city. A medium-sized community of about four thousand people, Brihuega had been a center of textile production since the Middle Ages, but in the latter part of the sixteenth century its industry was in decline—a circumstance that induced a significant number of its townspeople to emigrate to Puebla, where conditions for textile manufacturing seemed ideal. The immigrants from Brihuega played a crucial role in making Puebla the leading textile producer in New Spain, and they were ...
Latinas in the United States
A comprehensive, historical encyclopedia that covers the full range of Latina economic, political, and cultural life in the United States.
Plant Genetic Conservation
The recent development of ideas on biodiversity conservation was already being considered almost three-quarters of a century ago for crop plants and the wild species related to them, by the Russian geneticist N.!. Vavilov. He was undoubtedly the first scientist to understand the impor tance for humankind of conserving for utilization the genetic diversity of our ancient crop plants and their wild relatives from their centres of diversity. His collections showed various traits of adaptation to environ mental extremes and biotypes of crop diseases and pests which were unknown to most plant breeders in the first quarter of the twentieth cen tury. Later, in the 1940s-1960s scientists began to re...
