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Bruno Latour, the French sociologist, anthropologist and long-established superstar in the social sciences is revisited in this pioneering account of his ever-evolving political philosophy. Breaking from the traditional focus on his metaphysics, most recently seen in Harman's book Prince of Networks, the author instead begins with the Hobbesian and even Machiavellian underpinnings of Latour's early period encountering his shift towards Carl Schmitt...
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From broadsheet newspapers to television shows and Hollywood films, capitalism is increasingly recognised as a system detrimental to human existence. Colin Cremin investigates why, despite this de-robing, capitalism remains a powerful and seductive force.
Using materialist, psychoanalytic and linguistic approaches, Cremin shows how capitalism, anxiety and desire enter into a mutually supporting relationship. He identifies three ways in which...
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Five years into capitalism's deepest crisis, which has led to cuts and economic pain across the world, Against Austerity addresses a puzzling aspect of the current conjuncture: why are the rich still getting away with it? Why is protest so ephemeral? Why does the left appear to be marginal to political life?
In an analysis which challenges our understanding of capitalism, class and ideology, Richard Seymour shows how 'austerity' is just one...
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Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish is one of the best-selling works of critical theory and a key text on many undergraduate courses. However, it is a long, difficult text which makes Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro's excellent step-by-step reading guide a welcome addition to the How to Read Theory series.
Undergraduates across a wide range of disciplines are expected to have a solid understanding of Foucault's key terms, which have become...
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In this bold and innovative book, Massimo Modonesi weaves together theory and political practice by relating the concepts of subalternity, antagonism and autonomy to contemporary movements in Latin America and elsewhere.
In a sophisticated account, Modonesi reconstructs the debates between Marxist authors and schools of thought in order to sketch out informed strategies of resistance. He reviews the works of Gramsci, Negri, Castoriadis and Lefort,...
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As mankind is moving onto the next stage of its evolution, spiritual maturity in order to reach balance, which will be a golden age, human beings will have to choose, with a united voice, to transcend the current paradigm of division and violence. It is thus paramount that each individual understands his or her role for the advent of this future. There are decisions to be made at two levels: collective action and individual action. At the collective...
7) Ciudadanía digital y desarrollo local: Experiencias y procesos de participación en la Unión Europea
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Hoy las Nuevas Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación ofrecen múltiples herramientas para la gobernabilidad y el desarrollo de las ciudades. Con la irrupción de estas tecnologías se han roto las formas tradicionales de articulación ciudadana, proliferando distintas iniciativas de apropiación tecnológica y autonomía por parte de los movimientos sociales, además de más o menos acertadas políticas públicas que persiguen la integración...
8) Changing the Course of AIDS: Peer Education in South Africa and Its Lessons for the Global Crisis
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Changing the Course of AIDS is an in-depth evaluation of a new and exciting way to create the kind of much-needed behavioral change that could affect the course of the global health crisis of HIV/AIDS. This case study from the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic demonstrates that regular workers serving as peer educators can be as-or even more-effective agents of behavioral change than experts who lecture about the facts and so-called appropriate health...
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Hannah Arendt is one of the most famous political theorists of the twentieth century, yet in the social sciences her work has rarely been given the attention it deserves. This careful and comprehensive study introduces Arendt to a wider audience.
Finn Bowring shows how Arendt's writings have engaged with and influenced prominent figures in the sociological canon, and how her ideas may shed light on some of the most pressing social and political...
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From police on the street, to the mayor of New Orleans and FEMA administrators, government officials monumentally failed to protect the most vulnerable residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast during the Katrina disaster. This violation of the social contract undermined the foundational narratives and myths of the American nation and spawned a profound, often contentious public debate over the meaning of Katrina's devastation. A wide range of voices...
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Para algunos el ser humano es una especie más entre tantas otras. Reducido a la condición de animal, evolucionado cuando no máximamente dañino, sólo sería otro eslabón en el proceso evolutivo, sin trascendencia. Defender su superioridad sería caer en especismo, un modo insidioso de creerse superior. La moral, la dignidad, solo serían superestructuras culturales, ficciones.
Para otros lo despreciable es justamente la condición biológica....
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La diferencia parece obvia, pero en ocasiones se confunden las experiencias del envejecimiento y de la vejez; y aunque están estrechamente ligadas, comprender por qué no son lo mismo es fundamental para llevar una vida de calidad, independientemente de los años que se tengan. Este libro aborda las comprensiones y representaciones que tienen las mismas personas viejas, desde una perspectiva teórica, interdisciplinaria y fenomenológica, sobre la...
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En apretada síntesis, Pilar Arcidiácono sostiene que la dinámica de los programas sociales después de la crisis se caracterizó por la participación protagónica de la esfera de la "sociedad civil" en las diferentes etapas de la política pública; una mayor tendencia a la familiarización de las responsabilidades en materia de bienestar; un énfasis en la "mercantilización" de la fuerza de trabajo, a partir de fortalecer los mecanismos para...
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Este libro ofrece un trabajo innovador y disruptivo en lo que a ciencias sociales refiere. La autora rompe la inercia impuesta por las tradiciones sociológicas preeminentes, abriendo puertas y ventanas epistemológicas.
Construye, a través de su trabajo de investigación, una acción bilingüe y flexibles puentes comunicacionales con los integrantes de movimientos sociales de la zona de la triple frontera entre la Argentina, Brasil y Paraguay,...
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Este libro tiene la finalidad de resumir y presentar algunos de los hitos más relevantes que ha tenido el IV Congreso Uruguayo de Sociología desarrollado entre el 24 y el 26 de julio de 20 19 y que llevó como nombre "El oficio del sociólogo/a en tiempos de cambio". Este libro se basa en los cuatro pilares principales que impulsaron el Congreso:
1) la práctica del oficio o profesión de la sociología desde la perspectiva de sus propios actores,...
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La Ciudad de la Llama Azul. Luces y sombras sobre el cerro Uritorco es el primer libro que narra la verdadera historia de Ángel Cristo Acoglanis ("Saruma"), un personaje esquivo que desde 1983 hasta su muerte contactó a centenares de personas para instruirlas en su particular doctrina esotérica. Sus discípulos eran posteriormente invitados a solitarias alturas montañosas, desde las cuales podían verse luces nocturnas que parecían responder...
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El propósito de El páramo reformista es entender qué nos hace resistentes al cambio. Si asumimos esta dificultad, quizás comprendamos por qué toda reforma debe ser sostenida y evaluada de manera permanente. Antes de creer en una transformación súbita y radical o pensar que solo se trata de reemplazar a quienes gobiernan, el autor busca convencernos de que este proceso es un camino cuesta arriba, en el cual es mucho más fácil fracasar que...
18) Art and Pep
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Green Planet Films
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2022.
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Art Johnston and Pepe Peña are civil rights leaders whose life and love is a force behind LGBTQ+ equality in the heart of the country. Their iconic gay bar, Sidetrack, has helped fuel movements and create community for decades in Chicago's queer enclave. But, behind the business and their historic activism exists a love unlike any other. The documentary film ART AND PEP tells the inspiring story of the long struggle for equality and their fight to...
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First Run Features
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2022.
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Animals teach us about life, loss, and resilience. Welcome to Liberty Wildlife, a rehabilitation and conservation center in the American Southwest. By caring for animals, we discover the relationships that connect all living things. We also explore the deep significance of feathers to Native American cultures. Narrated by Peter Coyote, this film celebrates the circle that makes our lives whole.
20) City of Trees
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Filmhub, Inc
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2024.
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Since 1990, nonprofit Washington Parks & People has tried to reduce poverty and violence in Washington, D.C. neighborhoods by improving parks. At the height of the recession, the organization received a stimulus grant to create a "green" job-training program in communities hardest hit. They had two years to help unemployed people find jobs and care for parks in their neighborhoods.What sounds like a simple goal — putting people back to work by planting...
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