A systematic reassessment, by two leading figures in the field, of the paradigm of international development in both theory and practice. It offers an overview and critique of development theory and strategy, and a new framework for the analysis of global inequality, poverty and development in an era of globalization.
Border culture emerges through the intersection and engagement of imagination, affinity and identity. It is evident wherever boundaries separate or sort people and their goods, ideas or other belongings. It is the vessel of engagement between countries and peoples—assuming many forms, exuding a variety of expressions, changing shapes—but border culture does not disappear once it is developed, and it may be visualized as a thread that runs throughout the process of globalization. Border culture is conveyed in imaginaries and productions that are linked to borderland identities constructed in the borderlands. These identities underlie the enforcement of control and resistance to power that also comprise border cultures. Canada’s borders in globalization offer an opportunity to explore the interplay of borders and culture, identify the fundamental currents of border culture in motion, and establish an approach to understanding how border culture is placed and replaced in globalization. Published in English.
Pick and Sirkin show how IMIFAP, a Mexican NGO, has employed a development strategy to encourage the establishment of a participatory, healthy and educated citizenry. The program strategy is grounded in Amartya Sen's approach to sustainable development through expanding individual's capabilities and freedoms.It presents the Framework for Enabling Empowerment (FrEE) and the step by step strategy "Programming for Choice," based on the practical experience and evaluation of IMIFAP's programs. The end goal is to achieve sustainable community and individual development that can be expanded across a variety of life domains (social, economic, political, education, health and psychological). The book shows how community development can be enhanced if people are enabled to make accountable choices and expand their alternatives. International development efforts will not be sustainable if we continue to build schools without quality teachers; health clinics without enhancing logistical and psychological access and improving quality of care; and laws that are not enforced. Institutions will only flourish if their leaders and bureaucrats enhance their personal capabilities. The central...
Fully updated new edition of the best-selling political biography.He is a most unlikely revolutionary: a middle-aged, middle-class former grammar schoolboy who honed his radicalism on the mean streets of rural Shropshire. Last summer, this little-known outsider rode a wave of popular enthusiasm to win the Labour Party leadership by a landslide, with a greater mandate than any British political leader before him. This new edition of the critically acclaimed biography brings the Jeremy Corbyn story fully up to date, setting out how this very British iconoclast managed to snatch the leadership of a party he spent forty years rebelling against and, despite rebellion from within his own ranks, managed to galvanise millions to vote for him in the 2017 general election. Engaging, clear-sighted and above all revealing, Comrade Corbyn explores the extraordinary story of the most unexpected leader in modern British politics.
En el presente texto se analizan problemas, soluciones y representaciones en torno a los derechos humanos, fruto de investigaciones terminadas. Con relación a los problemas, el capítulo I estudia la concepción individualista de los derechos humanos que dificulta su implementación efectiva, mientras el capítulo II reflexiona acerca del comportamiento del Estado colombiano ante el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos que impacta negativamente en la garantía de los derechos de las víctimas. Respecto a las soluciones, varios capítulos se ocupan de algunas políticas públicas destinadas a la población víctima del conflicto armado y el desplazamiento forzado interno. Tal es el caso de los capítulos VII y VIII los cuales analizan, respectivamente, las estrategias de intervención psicosocial dirigidas a la promoción y fortalecimiento de la salud mental en población víctima de violencia sociopolítica y las acciones que el Estado colombiano ha desarrollado con el propósito de garantizar los derechos de las personas con discapacidad en el contexto de guerra interna. En cuanto a las representaciones acerca de los derechos humanos y su vulneración, los cuatro...
The session was attended by members of the FAO, a representative from a UN specialised agency and by observers of six intergovernmental and international non-governmental organisations. Several working documents were presented by the Secretariat for discussion and decision by the Sub-committee, and a number of emerging issues and related areas of work were also considered.
As Latin America completes its second decade of neoliberal reforms, Pellegrino A. Luciano takes readers on an ethnographic journey back to a moment of monumental social and economic change in Peru. In Neoliberal Reform in Machu Picchu, Luciano describes the privatization struggles and challenges of people living in the district of Machu Picchu, a heritage area and tourism destination, during the early 2000s. This Incan citadel became central to the Peruvian government’s neoliberal policies and efforts to project a new global image and attract foreign capital. Luciano analyzes the role of middle-class actors in consequence, resistance, and accommodation to these neoliberal changes. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, political science, economics, tourism studies, and history.
Winner, 2016 ALA-Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century, Tace Hedrick illuminates how discourses of Americanization, ethnicity, gender, class, and commodification shape the genre of "chica lit," popular fiction written by Latina authors with Latina characters. She argues that chica lit is produced and marketed in the same ways as contemporary romance and chick lit fiction, and aimed at an audience of twenty- to thirty-something upwardly mobile Latina readers. Its stories about young women's ethnic class mobility and gendered romantic success tend to celebrate twenty-first century neoliberal narratives about Americanization, hard work, and individual success. However, Hedrick emphasizes, its focus on Latina characters necessarily inflects this celebratory mode: the elusiveness of meaning in its use of the very term "Latina" empties out the differences among and between Latina/o and Chicano/a groups in the United States. Of necessity, chica lit also struggles with questions about the actual social and economic "place" of Latinas and Chicanas in this same neoliberal landscape; these questions unsettle its ...
A maneira de introducción; Globalizando la agricultura y reinventando lo local; Homogeización, conflictos e identidade; Algunas reflexiones sobre la economía política agraria de fines del siglo XX; Lan presistencia de la pequeña producción mercantil en un pueblo rural de Argentina: factores favorables y factores limitantes; La inserción de las economías rurales en el processo de globalización. El caso de la provincia de Ñuble en Chile; Entre las exigencias de los mercados y el control de los trabajadores. La fruticultura en el Nordeste de Brasil; Estado, desarrollo y organizaciones locales de productores en México; Cooperativismo, globalização e competitividade. Impactos regionais e locais; Fruticultura e emprego: o caso do Platô de Neópolis, Brasil; Integración agroalimentaria. Trayectorias empresariales comparadas en la fruticultura argentina de exportación; Estrategias empresarias y dinámicas territoriales en el complejo oleginoso del sur de la provincia de Buenos Aries; Del la producción extensiva a los feedlots: cambios en la organización productiva y comercial de los sistemas genadoros en la Argentina.
Biographic research on the role of Elena Sansinena de Elizalde (b. Argentina -d. 1970) as the main promoter of modern art in the Rio de la Plata area. Includes the testimonies and texts of her close friends and artists: Marta M. Campomar, José Luis Romero, Victoria Ocampo, Romero Brest, José Ortega y Gasset and Jorge Luis Borges. Many former emerging artists like Pettoruti, Xul Solar, Berni, Basalda, Spilimbergo y Soldi were first exhibited in her art gallery "Asociación Amigos del Arte"
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