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El libro trata sobre las dinámica de las fuerzas de desarrollo y de la resistencia asociadas con los avances del ›extractivismo‹ (inversiones extranjeras en la extracción de recursos naturales) en el contexto Latinoamericano, y esto en condiciones de una crisis multidimensional del sistema capitalista. Se analiza los impactos socioecológicos negativos, así como la resistencia a los avances del extractivismo en las comunidades que viven estos impactos. El libro sera de gran interés para todos interesados en encontrar una salida a la crisis actual para poder participar en la construccóin de un otro mundo de desarrollo sostenible y la justicia social y ambiental.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. --- America. --- Bielefeld University Press. --- Latin America. --- Political Sociology. --- Political System. --- Social Inequality. --- South American History.

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A growing number of protest movements across the globe - such as for equal civil status and reproductive freedom, as well as against sexualized violence - show that women's and gender rights are highly contested. Against the backdrop of a long unequal history of rights implementation, the contributors to this volume deal with the question of why and in which ways gender equality has become contested in various political contexts. Local case studies examine the relevant structural, institutional, and socio-cultural causes of the global challenges to equality. This book follows an interdisciplinary approach and unites scholars from law, linguistics, cultural studies, history, social sciences, and gender studies.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies. --- Anti-Genderism. --- Bielefeld University Press. --- Gender Studies. --- Gender. --- Global Perspectives. --- Interdisciplinarity. --- Intersectionality. --- Law. --- Politics. --- Postcoloniality. --- Queer Theory. --- Sociology of Law. --- Sex role --- Protest movements. --- Reproductive rights. --- Sociological aspects.

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Abordar la existencia de unas clases medias negras en Colombia no sólo es difícil sino un aparente contrasentido, un oxímoron, porque la gente negra es imaginada como inevitablemente pobre y de »clase baja«. Pero ¿acaso no existen otras experiencias de clase dentro de esta población? Para responder al vacío investigativo sobre este grupo social este libro examina la configuración de las clases medias negras desde finales de los años treinta del siglo xx, a partir de las historias de vida de miembros de tres generaciones de familias originarias de la región del Pacífico y el Caribe que se identifican como parte de esta clase. Esta indagación se hace desde una perspectiva interseccional, que asume que no se puede entender el funcionamiento de las relaciones de poder que dan forma a estas experiencias desde un solo marco explicativo (de clase, género o raza), y que para hacerlo se deben considerar sus mutuas interrelaciones y afectaciones.

Middle class. --- Bourgeoisie --- Commons (Social order) --- Middle class --- Middle classes --- Social classes --- Social conditions --- Clases Sociales --- Interseccionalidad --- Colombia --- Población Negra --- Amerika --- Rassismus --- Politische Soziologie --- Postkolonialismus --- Lateinamerika --- Bielefeld University Press --- America --- Racism --- Political Sociology --- Postcolonialism --- Latin America

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"A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy's greatest champions. In 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning democracy. From that moment onward, the French aristocrat would dedicate his life as a writer and politician to ending despotism in his country and bringing it into a new age. In this authoritative and groundbreaking biography, leading Tocqueville expert Olivier Zunz tells the story of a radical thinker who, uniquely charged by the events of his time, both in America and France, used the world as a laboratory for his political ideas.Placing Tocqueville's dedication to achieving a new kind of democracy at the center of his life and work, Zunz traces Tocqueville's evolution into a passionate student and practitioner of liberal politics across a trove of correspondence with intellectuals, politicians, constituents, family members, and friends. While taking seriously Tocqueville's attempts to apply the lessons of Democracy in America to French politics, Zunz shows that the United States, and not only France, remained central to Tocqueville's thought and actions throughout his life. In his final years, with France gripped by an authoritarian regime and America divided by slavery, Tocqueville feared that the democratic experiment might be failing. Yet his passion for democracy never weakened.Giving equal attention to the French and American sources of Tocqueville's unique blend of political philosophy and political action, The Man Who Understood Democracy offers the richest, most nuanced portrait yet of a man who, born between the worlds of aristocracy and democracy, fought tirelessly for the only system that he believed could provide both liberty and equality"-- "Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)-who was born in the shadow of the French Revolution and died a few years before the American Civil War-witnessed a remarkable era in the history of the West. His aristocratic family survived the revolutionary period, though many branches were cut down during the Terror, and Alexis grew up with a keen understanding that one world was ending and a new one was being born. Adventurous and curious, he traveled extensively in North America as a young man. There, he trained his observant eyes on his official duties-documenting conditions in the prison system-but became fascinated with America's experiments in democracy. Tocqueville was an avid political theorist, and he recorded his impressions in Democracy in America, still read to this day and considered one of the most provocative and insightful commentaries on the American experience. Tocqueville remained both an intellectual and an active politician for the majority of his life. He watched the revolutions take hold in 1848 across Europe, and he died in 1859, after penning his other famous work, The Old Regime and the Revolution. In this book, Olivier Zunz aims to convey how the world in which Tocqueville lived became his laboratory for political theory. Without downplaying Tocqueville's anxieties about the future, or about democracy's potential pathologies, Zunz places dedication to achieving a new kind of democracy at the center of his subject's life and work. He takes seriously Tocqueville's attempts to apply the lessons of his texts to French politics, and, throughout, he looks to Tocqueville's political career and activism as a guide to the meaning of his major texts. Drawing on his unparalleled familiarity with Tocqueville's own words and letters, Zunz offers a definitive biography of a remarkable thinker whose life formed a ligature between the ancien regime and the emerging democratic age"--

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"We are told that, in dreaming, anything is possible. Dreams are imaginings that are not supposedly linked to concrete experience or action or inhibited by the social and political disadvantages that may come from one's class position, race, ethnicity, or gender. They do not articulate a roadmap for achievement or a path to a specific end in the way that aspirations or projects do. They are mental exercises that provide a vision of a person's inner self and desired identity. In this book, Karen Cerulo and Janet Ruane interrogate what it means to dream, what our dreams look like, and whether our social location impacts what, when, how, and if we dream. Drawing on data from interviews and focus groups with 272 people from different social backgrounds, the authors argue that while dreams are generally treated as personal and unique, they are quite clearly patterned in very predictable ways. People's dreams differ from age to age, group to group, and context to context, and the chapters focus on different subsets of the study participants. After examining how race, class, and gender impact dreaming, the authors examine different life stages and finally those who have faced "ruptures" in their life stories. In Dreams of a Lifetime, the authors conclude that dreams represent the starting point of our perception of "fit"; they tell the story of where we think we belong, what life paths we consider taking, and what we think we deserve before that story is lived. And that story is built from the cultural lessons to which we are exposed in our daily social interactions and the cultural contexts in which we live."--

Desire. --- Dreams. --- Ambition. --- Fantasy. --- Self-actualization (Psychology) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Abdomen. --- Addition. --- Americans. --- Amphisbaenia. --- Anatomy of Hope. --- And babies. --- Ann Swidler. --- Appendage. --- Asexual reproduction. --- Budding. --- Career. --- Certification. --- Cess. --- Cestoda. --- Coccyx. --- Comrade. --- Concept. --- Consciousness. --- Copayment. --- Cultural capital. --- Culture. --- Designer. --- Dream Story. --- Duke University Press. --- Employment. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Evolution. --- Evolutionary developmental biology. --- Extracurricular activity. --- Family. --- Finding. --- Fixed income. --- Focus group. --- Forelimb. --- Germline. --- Graduation Rate. --- Graduation. --- History. --- Hymenoptera. --- I Wish (manhwa). --- Illustration. --- Imagination. --- Income. --- Intention. --- Invention. --- Laborer. --- Lamarckism. --- Life satisfaction. --- Livelihood. --- Living wage. --- Long Term. --- Longitudinal study. --- Make A Difference. --- Marital status. --- Medalist. --- Middle class. --- Month. --- Most recent common ancestor. --- Narrative. --- Need for achievement. --- Nemertea. --- Net worth. --- Obligation. --- Obstacle. --- Optimism. --- Ovipositor. --- Ownership. --- Percentage. --- Personal experience. --- Phylum. --- Plymouth Colony. --- Prediction. --- Probability. --- Productivity. --- Profession. --- Publication. --- Quality Education. --- Quality time. --- Queen for a Day. --- Race (human categorization). --- Requiem for a Dream. --- Respondent. --- Result. --- School of thought. --- Second Life. --- Sept. --- Sexual maturity. --- Social class. --- Social space. --- Spouse. --- Student. --- Support group. --- The Iconic. --- Their Lives. --- Thought. --- Treatise. --- Ulna. --- Uncertainty. --- Upper class. --- Wealth.