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Claiming and Contesting Representation in Mexico
Mexico is a country whose global political and economic significance are rapidly increasing. This book offers the first in-depth English-language analysis of the politics of representation in Mexico. Through innovative conceptual work and original case studies, the book explores important trends in Mexican politics and governance through the lens of representation, including who speaks and stands for whom, on what grounds and in what domains and the challenges they face. Revealing a significant portrait of major tensions in and challenges to democracy across Mexico emerges, this book will be of interest to those researching current trends in the theory and practice of political representation, and readers looking for new perspectives on Mexican politics and governance.
Intellectuals and Communist Culture
This book investigates a central chapter in the history of 20th century intellectualism: the commitment to the communist ideal and the Soviet Union. Focusing on Argentina, whose communist party was among the most important in Latin America, Petra engages with the current literature on Western communism in order to conduct an exhaustive study of the intellectuals, cultural organizations, publications, and debates within Argentine communism in the decades following World War II. Based on rigorous archival research from diverse sources, Petra’s book distances itself from existing teleological visions and institutional approaches to the communist world, offering instead a complex framework in which multiple contexts, scales, and actors frame the larger problem: the intellectual commitment to a political project that brooked no dissent. Intellectuals and Communist Culture also addresses the emergence of Peronism, a crucial movement in Argentine political life to this very day, thus offering an important chapter on Latin American political and intellectual history and an invaluable contribution to the global history of the international communist movement.
Law and Intersystemic Communication
With contributions from experts in the field of sociology of law, this book provides an overview of current perspectives on socio-legal studies. It focuses particularly on the relationship between law and society described in recent social systems theory as ’structural coupling’. The first part of the book presents a reconstruction of theoretical tendencies in the field of socio-legal studies, characterised by the emergence of a transnational model of legal systems no longer connected to territorial borders and culturally specific aspects of single legal orders. In the following parts of the book, the contributions analyse some concrete cases of interrelation between law and society from an empirical and theoretical perspective.
Swimming the Christian Atlantic (2 vols)
Scholarship on the formation of the Atlantic world through contributions from Europe, Africa and the Americas has grown in recent decades. The results offer new understandings of the transformations in ethnic and religious identity faced by peoples from all the surrounding continents. Long used by scholars of Jewish studies, records from the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions have become an important source for historians of Africans and Amerindians in the Iberian colonial orbit. Using these and other materials, this book explores race, religion and politics among three newly and incompletely Christianized groups in the seventeenth century: Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians. This fresh cross-cultural analysis brings these differing trajectories into dialogue.
Foreign Policy Responses to the Rise of Brazil
Brazil has risen. Its economic might and international activism are remarkable, but the limitations to its capacity and will to turn potential power into concrete international influence are equally significant. This book assesses the real impact of the rise of Brazil on other Latin American countries, and how these countries have responded.
Extractive Imperialism in the Americas
Recent changes in the global economy, which include a growing demand for energy and natural resources such as industrial minerals and agro-food products, have brought about a massive devastating pillage of resources in the developing world by multinational corporations as well as states with energy and food security concerns—and concerns about a system (global capitalism) in the throes of a global crisis. These developments have also brought about a major change in the form taken by imperialism (actions taken by the state to advance the interests of the dominant capitalist class). This book explores the changing face of US imperialism in the regional context of the Americas, a major stage in the unfolding drama of a system in crisis.
Gobernanza de la educación media superior: propuestas de intervención educativa
El libro trata de comprender la educación como problema colectivo con la mirada propositiva de la gobernanza participativa y la dirección estratégica como ejes de estructuración pedagógica y adopción de decisiones colegiadas de las estructuras del sistema escolar de los planteles educativos con ángulos de posibles formas estratégicas de intervención en la educación media superior: estructura fundamental de articulación del desarrollo educativo en la construcción del proyecto de país. Con esta perspectiva de análisis en consonancia con las dimensiones de la gobernanza educativa, es fundamental como propuesta de cambio, que permita pensar en acciones que potencien las habilidades...
Migration, Reproduction and Society
In Migration, Reproduction and Society, Alejandro I. Canales offers a theoretical model for understanding the dilemmas presented by migration in the transformation of contemporary society. Aging and changing demographics in advanced societies make economic and social reproduction dependent upon the contributions made by immigration. However, these same demographic processes are conducive to ethnic transformations. The political dilemma facing advanced societies is that immigration is required to ensure their reproduction, but this entails becoming multicultural societies where the political hegemony of ethnic and demographic majorities becomes radically subverted. This paves the way to a per...
Hacia un diálogo interdisciplinario sobre la complejidad social
Por su innovadora y fascinante visión de la materia, la vida, la mente, la sociedad, la información, la técnica y el conocimiento mismo, los estudios sobre la complejidad han ocupado un lugar especial en el panorama científico y cultural global de las últimas cuatro o cinco décadas. No obstante, aún estamos lejos de una teoría unificada de los sistemas complejos o de una propuesta formal aceptada universalmente, y tampoco existe un escenario académico unánime. Coexisten escuelas, tradiciones y perspectivas; en ocasiones, las palabras se usan con significados discordantes; hay encuentros y desencuentros conceptuales, hasta confrontaciones. Algo que es frecuente en el camino del pens...
