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Conversas com sociólogos brasileiros
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 472

Conversas com sociólogos brasileiros

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Editora 34

Dos estudos fundadores, preocupados com a questão da identidade nacional e com a sistematização da disciplina como ciência, até as tendências mais recentes de Sociologia brasileira, os depoimentos deste livro permitem acompanhar as trajetórias de 21 dos principais sociólogos de nosso país, como Florestan Fernandes, Octavio Ianni, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Gabriel Cohn e José de Souza Martins, entre outros.

Crime and the Administration of Justice in Buenos Aires, 1785-1853
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Crime and the Administration of Justice in Buenos Aires, 1785-1853

Crime and the Administration of Justice in Buenos Aires, 1785-1853, analyzes the emergence of the criminal justice system in modern Argentina, focusing on the city of Buenos Aires as a case study. It concentrates on the formative period of the postcolonial penal system, from the installation of the second Audiencia (the superior justice tribunal in the viceroyalty of Río de la Plata) in 1785 to the promulgation of the Argentine national constitution in 1853, when a new phase of interregional organization and codification began. Through analysis of criminal cases, Barreneche shows how different interpretations of liberalism, the changing roles of the new police and the military, and the institutionalization of education all contributed to the debate on penal reform during Argentina's transition from colony to state. Only through understanding the historical development of legal and criminal procedures can contemporary social scientists come to grips with the struggle between democracy and authoritarianism in modern Argentina.

Social Sciences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 998

Social Sciences

"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...

Cities, Violence and Gender: Findings and Concepts of the 21st Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 120
História econômica do Brasil contemporâneo
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 344

História econômica do Brasil contemporâneo

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: EdUSP

Trata do nacionalismo e das políticas econômicas posteriores a 1930, a industrialização e desenvolvimento do mesmo período, o pensamento econômico no Brasil após a Segunda Guerra Mundial, o problema da dívida externa, a modernização da agricultura e trajetórias e visões da inflação brasileira.

Social Representations for the Anthropocene: Latin American Perspectives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 424

Social Representations for the Anthropocene: Latin American Perspectives

The Anthropocene has become a field of studies in which the influence of human activity on the Earth System and nature is both the main threat and the potential solution. Social Representations Theory has been evolving since the 1960s.It links knowledge and practice in everyday life and is an effective way to deal with systemic crises based on common sense. This book assembles key contributions by Latin American scholars working with social representations in the social sciences that are of conceptual relevance to the study of the Anthropocene and that investigate the societal consequences of complex interrelations between common sense and topics of global relevance, such asthe contradiction...

The Colonization of the Amazon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 394

The Colonization of the Amazon

Deforestation in the Amazon, one of today's top environmental concerns, began during a period of rapid colonization in the 1970s. Throughout that decade, Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida, a Stanford-trained economist, conducted a complex and massive economic study of what was going on in the Amazon, who was investing what, what was gained, and what it cost in all its aspects. The Colonization of the Amazon, the resulting work, brings together information on the physical, demographic, institutional, and economic dimensions of directed settlement in the Amazon Basin and raises significant questions about the gains and losses of the settlers, the reasons for these outcomes, and the economic rationale behind the devastation of the rainforest. Particularly illuminating is Almeida's exploration of the role of the frontier in Brazil and her distinction between types of migrants and migrations. She concludes that the political costs avoided by not undertaking agrarian reform are being paid by devastating the Amazon, with the conflict between distribution and conservation steadily worsening. Today, it can no longer be circumvented."

Higher Education and Police
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 283

Higher Education and Police

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-02-14
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  • Publisher: Springer

This edited collection is concerned with the ideas, challenges, demands and framework of conditions behind police education from an international perspective. Whilst not directly concerned with a classical comparison of education concepts from different countries, the broad range of international contributors consider issues such as professionalization programmes, how higher education programmes influence police organizations, as well how higher education influences police practice in a global context. Examining a wide array of countries from Germany to China and Brazil to show the flawed nature of an education system based purely upon an approach concerned with police officer numbers, the editors of this book argue for the need for greater scientific education among police around the world to meet contemporary developments. A timely and well-informed study, this book meets a crucial gap in the literature and will serve as an important contribution to existing work on policing, crime prevention, and theoretical criminology.

Democratizing Democracy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 561

Democratizing Democracy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-08-17
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  • Publisher: Verso Books

The majorconflicts between the Global North and the South can be expected toresult from the confrontation of alternative conceptions of democracy,mainly between liberal or representative democracy and participatorydemocracy. The hegemonic model of democracy, while prevailing on aglobal scale, guarantees no more than low-intensity democracy. Inrecent times, participatory democracy has exhibited a new dynamic,engaging mainly subaltern communities and social groups that fightagainst social exclusion and the suppression of citizenship. In thiscollection of reports from the Global South—India, South Africa,Mozambique, Colombia, and Brazil—De Sousa Santos and his colleaguesshow how, in some cases, the deepening of democracy results from thedevelopment of dual forms of participatory and representativedemocracy, and points to the emergence of transnational networks ofparticipatory democracy initiatives. Such networks pave one of the waysto the reinvention of social emancipation. This is volume 1 of the Reinventing Social Emancipation project, edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos.