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Maria Dolors Garcia-Ramon

Autor: Janice Monk , Maria Prats Ferret , Susana M. Veleda Da Silva

Número de Páginas: 215

A través de la mirada crítica y disidente que el feminismo y el enfoque de género llevan implícitos, Maria Dolors Garcia-Ramon (la geógrafa española con mayor proyección internacional) demuestra la necesidad y la viabilidad de la renovación de los estudios socio-espaciales. Para Garcia-Ramon, el que las mujeres sean finalmente visibles en el paisaje geográfico proviene tanto de las transformaciones ocurridas en su entorno social como de los cambios que se han dado dentro de la disciplina geográfica. Partiendo de un f eminismo académico y militante, sus numerosas aportaciones, tanto teóricas como aplicadas, plantean cómo la transversalidad de la geografía del género permite reconsiderar las relaciones entre los espacios de la producción y los de la reproducción a la vez que posibilita cuestionar los límites de la geografía social, la cultural, la económica y la política. Este libro es un ensayo crítico sobre la autora y su obra que incluye, además, una selección de sus textos fundamentales y un artículo inédito.

Maria Dolors Garcia - Ramon: Geografía y género, disidencia e innovacion

Número de Páginas: 288

Geografía rural

Autor: María Dolores García Ramón , Antoni F. Tullas I Pujol , Núria Valdovinos Perdices

Número de Páginas: 235

Tratado de geografía humana

Autor: Georges Bertrand

Número de Páginas: 670

Balance y evaluación crítica de las teorías y escuelas desarrolladas en los diversos campos de la Geografía Humana contemporánea desde una perspectiva socio-cultural. La obra recorre tanto los campos tradicionales de la Geografía Humana -la geografía rural, regional o urbana- como otros campos emergentes, como la geografía de las religiones, ciberespacio, vida cotidiana, turismo entre muchos otros. Obra de referencia innovadora en el conocimiento geográfico.

Professor Joan Vilà Valentí

Autor: Juan Vilá Valentí

Número de Páginas: 1590

El presente volumen recoge un total de 115 artículos, recopilados con motivo del homenaje al Dr. Joan Vilà Valentí, i que se dividen en tres apartados: uno dedicado a glosar la trayectoria académica y científica del Dr. Vilà, otro sobre pensamiento geográfico y el último sobre trabajos de geografía regional.

Social Inclusion and Economic Development in Latin America

Autor: Mayra Buvinić , Jacqueline Mazza , Ruthanne Deutsch

Número de Páginas: 361

Poverty and inequality in Latin America are easily recognizable in the faces of women, Afro-descendents, the indigenous, people with disabilities, victims of HIV/AIDS, and other groups outside the societal mainstream. Social Inclusion and Economic Development in Latin America reviews the common features of these excluded populations, including their invisibility in official statistics and the stigma, discrimination, and disadvantages they have long endured. But it also examines the region's inclusionary policies and programs that can improve access by these groups to the quality social services and economic and political resources these groups need to level the playing field. Case studies examine ethnic and racial political organization, gender quotas, and labor markets across the region, and social exclusion in Brazil, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru. Comparative studies summarize social inclusion policies of both the European Union and selected countries on the Continent.

Power and Gender in European Rural Development

Autor: Henk De Haan

Número de Páginas: 314

Since the early 1990s, new public and private actors, emphasizing issues such as landscape, nature, environment and food safety, have challenged EU rural development policies. This book looks at this innovative framework and, in particular, the impacts of the interactions between established interests and newcomers in local power relations. Specific attention has been given to the gendered nature of these processes. Case studies from throughout Western Europe analyze local rural power relations and present overviews of the significance of rural gender relations. The book demonstrates that traditional and new forms of social organization in rural areas create new forms of political participation. Changing forms of social capital and political participation not only influence the relation between state and civil society, but also male-female relationships. The book argues that the dynamics of these gendered power relations produce competing discourses, which can often hinder policy making and implementation.

Placing Critical Geography

Autor: Lawrence D. Berg , Ulrich Best , Mary Gilmartin , Henrik Gutzon Larsen

Número de Páginas: 334

This book explores the multiple histories of critical geography as it developed in 14 different locations around the globe, whilst bringing together a range of approaches in critical geography. It is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive account of a wide variety of historical geographies of critical geography from around the world. Accordingly, the chapters provide accounts of the development of critical approaches in geography from beyond the hegemonic Anglo-American metropoles. Bringing together geographers from a wide range of regional and intellectual milieus, this volume provides a critical overview that is international and illustrates the interactions (or lack thereof) between different critical geographers, working across a range of spaces. The chapters provide a more nuanced history of critical geography, suggesting that while there were sometimes strong connections with Anglo-American critical geography, there were also deeply independent developments that were part of the construction of very different kinds of critical geography in different parts of the world. Placing Critical Geographies provides an excellent companion to existing histories of critical...

Encompassing Gender

Autor: Mary M. Lay , Janice J. Monk , Deborah Rosenfelt

Número de Páginas: 580

From Beijing to Seattle, women's movements within academe and in local-global communities are growing at an unprecedented rate, raising pointed questions about paradigms of Western feminism, development, global trade, and scholarship. Despite this growing visibility, the perspectives of far too many women, especially from the Global South, are still excluded from mainstream U.S. scholarship. Presented with the task of preparing students for life in this new and rapidly shrinking world, many scholars have found themselves overwhelmed by the need to cross disciplinary and geographic borders. But some faculty are leading the way -- often in defiance of academic traditions and prejudices -- to a curriculum that reflects consequences of globalization. Encompassing Gender is the long-awaited anthology of more than 40 essays by 60 scholars, many of them working in curriculum-transformation groups that cut across the humanities, the sciences, and the social sciences, all of them committed to an interdisciplinary approach to internationalizing the curriculum.

Bridging Worlds - Building Feminist Geographies

Autor: Anindita Datta , Janet Momsen , Ann M. Oberhauser

Número de Páginas: 321

This book marks the 30th anniversary of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography, honouring the contributions of Janice Monk in establishing the field of feminist geography. The collection is published as part of the series International Studies of Women and Place that Janice Monk co-edited with Janet Momsen for over 30 years. The chapters, from over 45 leading international scholars, encompass key areas Monk has contributed to within feminist geography. The collaborative nature of this project reflects the networks and themes Monk nurtured throughout her long and impactful career. The book provides critical insights to wide-ranging topics that include the development of feminist geography in different global contexts, gendered geographies of work and everyday life, and gender and environmental concerns. Diverse voices and perspectives in this book will serve as invaluable resources for scholars interested in gender and feminist geographies, the history of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography, career trajectories of women geographers in different parts of the world, gendered geographies of the life course, as well as feminist analyses of environmental issues. The book will ...

Geography and National Identity

Autor: David Hooson

Número de Páginas: 423

This volume of especially commissioned essays explores the geography of, and the role of geography in, national and proto-national identity. Place and national identity are bound together. Attachment to the one is almost always inseparable from the sense of the other. Yet, as this volume shows, the articulated self-conscious linking of place and identity is by and large a modern phenomenon that took root in nineteenth-century Europe. The formation of supranational states and the much vaunted globalization of culture led many to believe there would be a progressive dilution of national identities and a growing agglomeration of places and nations into larger state units. Precisely the reverse has taken place. This book explores the connections between identity and homeland, showing how a place may be perceived as archetypal, endowed with love and celebrated in music and poetry, yet be a pretext for violence and war. It examines the evolution of ideas about identity and their manifestations in a wide variety of settings, from the former Soviet Union to the island states of the South Pacific.

El alma del cuerpo

Autor: Luisa Murano

Número de Páginas: 77

La autora, una de las principales pensadoras del siglo XX, reacciona ante la enorme presión sobre las "madres subrogadas" y la demanda de legalización de prácticas que niegan el aspecto ético y la dignidad de la mujer. En su análisis considera los "vientres de alquiler" como la forma más actual de explotación del cuerpo de las mujeres, reflexiona en torno a la relación de la mujer con su propio cuerpo —a la luz de un neoliberalismo cultural que predica su total disponibilidad— y exalta la unicidad de la relación madre-criatura que se va formando. Un texto para entender el debate que preocupa a la política, al derecho, a la ética y a la familia.

La geografía en 100 preguntas

Autor: Rocío Pérez Gañán

Número de Páginas: 330

Las claves imprescindibles para entender la compleja relación de ser humano con el medio natural, desde las antiguas civilizaciones hasta las sociedades contemporáneas del mundo globalizado. Desde los conceptos básicos, escuelas teóricas, ramas fundamentales y su evolución histórica hasta su interrelación con otras ciencias, la geografía como tecnociencia y sus aplicaciones más vanguardistas. ¿Aire acondicionado o calefacción ante el cambio climático?, ¿Cuál es la responsabilidad de la geografía general respecto a las dinámicas humano-naturaleza?, ¿Vivimos de forma local, global o globalocal?, ¿El conocimiento geográfico durante la Edad Media se sumergió en un oscurantismo científico?, ¿Fueron la conquista de América y el giro heliocéntrico una revolución para la geografía?, ¿Era posible dar la vuelta en 80 días a la circunferencia terrestre en 1872 o fue todo un cuento de Verne?, ¿Existió un romance entre la geografía moderna, la política imperialista, el expansionismo y el colonialismo?, ¿Tenemos una geografía poscolonial, decolonial o transcolonial?, ¿Es una ciencia actual comprometida con las sociedades y el entorno?, ¿Sistemas de...

La ciudad y los otros

Autor: Fernando Luis Nespral-martinez

Número de Páginas: 163

Nos hemos propuesto reflexionar acerca de la ciudad utilizando la lógica del periscopio, un instrumento concebido para poder ver aquello que por causa de un obstáculo nos es vedado, logrando tal proeza a través de un simple juego de espejos que refleja imágenes de manera de hacérnoslas visibles. Tenemos la convicción de que a través de este mecanismo, mirando a partir de la mirada de los otros reflejada en los relatos de viajeros, podremos apreciar imágenes que de otra forma resultarían invisibles en el horizonte de la ciudad, un objeto por naturaleza complejo, sumatoria de hechos físicos y sociales, que multiplica sus facetas a través de las sucesivas reescrituras que, como en un palimpsesto, va superponiendo a lo largo de la historia. Sucede que la alteridad inherente a la condición del viajero hace que éste se sorprenda y destaque situaciones que al nativo, por su hábito, le resultan transparentes. Pero también el registro de los viajeros, más cercano a la experiencia de lo urbano que a su crítica académica, nos permite voltear la mirada hacia el habitar de la ciudad sorteando el obstáculo que muchas veces constituyen los preconceptos propios de la profesión.

En Femenino Voces, Miradas, Territorios

Autor: Montserrat Villarino Pérez , Ofelia Rey Castelao , Rocío Sánchez Ameijeiras

Número de Páginas: 476

Abarca un rico espectro de temas y puntos de vista: características poblacionales y dinámicas de las sociedades rurales, historia social, militar y política de las épocas moderna y contemporánea, la representación del cuerpo femenino en el arte y la publicidad...

Un viaje sin viajero: relato de extranjeras en Calcuta

Autor: Botero Carvajal, Lorena , Puente Moreno, Orlando

Número de Páginas: 216

Esta publicación, que relata la permanencia de tres estudiantes de diferentes nacionalidades en Calcuta -la colombiana, en una pasantía académica- revela prácticas sociales que le imprimen a la estudiante y, por ende al lector, elementos universales al enfrentarla a un choque cultural determinante en el desarrollo posterior de su vida. Además, devela y denuncia aspectos fraudulentos en organizaciones que ofrecen posibilidades educativas o de intervención social en diferentes partes del mundo y que, sin ser una organización "de papel", ejercen actividades sinuosas o marginales alejadas de lo que sus pintorescos catálogos anuncian.

Viajes y geografías

Autor: Perla Zusman , Hortensia Castro

Número de Páginas: 263

La época actual se caracteriza por la intensificación y el aumento en la heterogeneidad de los desplazamientos. Esos movimientos han tenido y tienen diferentes causas, motivaciones y duraciones: dentro de una amplia gama de prácticas de movilidad puede distinguirse aquellas vinculadas a las migraciones laborales o provocadas por fenómenos naturales, hambrunas y conflictos políticos o religiosos, hasta aquellas relacionadas con motivos de estudio, empresariales, científicos y de turismo. Frente a esta situación, algunos estudios inscriptos en las Ciencias Sociales han revisado los conceptos y los métodos tradicionales, y han elaborado nuevos enfoques analíticos para examinar problemáticas asociadas al viaje, al traslado y al movimiento. La Geografía no ha escapado a esta situación. Este libro reúne diversos estudios que abordan el papel de los desplazamientos en la configuración de lugares en tiempos pasados y presentes. En el marco de los procesos de desterritorialización y reterritorialización del capital, la reflexión sobre las prácticas de los viajeros, de los turistas y de los migrantes, ofrece elementos para construir una Geografía Cultural que encuentre...

Horacio Capel, geógrafo (eBook)

Autor: Luis Urteaga , Vicente Casals

Número de Páginas: 674

No son pocos los maestros que dejan una impronta indeleble en sus alumnos y ;colaboradores, tanto por la orientación ideológica con la que se enfrentan a su magisterio como por la contribución decisiva a la formación humana de sus discípulos. La carrera del profesor Horacio Capel es, como revela la presente miscelánea, un modelo y un referente para la Universidad de Barcelona. A la luz de las líneas de investigación que ha desarrollado a lo largo de su trayectoria, sus colegas y discípulos han concebido un libro que, como las obras del propio Capel, está llamado a convertirse en un manual de referencia y en una recomendación bibliográfica inexcusable para los estudios de geografía urbana y teoría de la geografía, ámbitos en los que destacan las perspectivas significativamente innovadoras a nivel internacional aportadas por el homenajeado.

Feminisms in Geography

Autor: Pamela Moss , Karen Falconer Al-hindi

Número de Páginas: 287

In this innovative reader, Pamela Moss and Karen Falconer Al-Hindi present a unique, reflective approach to what feminist geography is and who feminist geographers are. Their carefully crafted textbook invigorates feminist debates about space, place, and knowledges with a fine balance among teaching chapters, reprints, and original essays. Offering an anthology that actually questions the very purpose of an anthology, the editors create and then negotiate a tension between reinforcing and destabilizing scholarly authority. Students and scholars will find both the approach and the discussion essential for a full and nuanced understanding of feminist geography.

Exploració, geografia i estudis postcolonials : una mirada de gènere sobre les narratives (Gertrude Bell, 1868-1926) / discurs de recepció de Maria Dolors Garcia Ramon com a membre numerària de la Secció de Filosofia i Ciències Socials, llegit el 21 de ma

Autor: María Dolores García Ramón

Número de Páginas: 36

Miradas desde la perspectiva de género

Autor: Isabel De Torres Ramírez

Número de Páginas: 255

Una obra necesaria que proporciona a especialistas y lectores en general, información y reflexión sobre qué son, qué han significado y significan los Estudios de las Mujeres, al tiempo que pone de manifiesto la presencia de las mujeres en los espacios universitarios y su participación en la producción y transformación del conocimiento científico y tecnológico. A lo largo de sus páginas se hace ver la capacidad del feminismo para generar lo que se ha llamado el feminismo académico, cuya meta es transformar el conocimiento, liberándolo de los sesgos de género desde no importa qué disciplina. El libro se estructura en tres partes: 'Nuevas perspectivas para el conocimiento y la investigación', 'Repensar las disciplinas desde una óptica nueva', 'La sociedad de la información también es cosa de mujeres', y un epílogo: 'Las mujeres en el laberinto de cristal universitario'. Una obra colectiva en la que se aprecia la multidisciplinariedad de los Estudios de las Mujeres, y se muestran los caminos inéditos que la mujeres universitarias abren a la investigación y el conocimiento.

Family Disintegration

Autor: Anton Purcell

Número de Páginas: 262

The contemporary family is being distracted, disturbed and distraught by societal pressures from every direction. The nuclear family concept, believed crucial to child rearing, is becoming passé according to census data. Or has the wave of disruption to families crested? It is hoped that this bibliography will serve as a useful tool to researchers seeking further information on families and the pressures being exerted upon them in the 21st century.

A Geographical Century

Autor: Vladimir Kolosov , Jacobo García-Álvarez , Michael Heffernan , Bruno Schelhaas

Número de Páginas: 256

This volume of specially commissioned interpretative essays marks the centenary of the establishment of the International Geographical Union in 1922. Written by leading human and physical geographers from all parts of the world, A Geographical Century considers the history and present condition of geography as an international science. Based on the latest research, A Geographical Century provides new and critical analyses of the different forms of geographical internationalism that emerged during the 20th century; the changing relations between geography and cognate disciplines in the natural and social sciences; the geopolitics of international geographical collaboration; and the prospects of geography as a 21st century international science.

Comisión Permanente de la Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología. Memoria 1987-1988

Autor: España. Comisión Interministerial De Ciencia Y Tecnología. Comisión Permanente

Número de Páginas: 187

Spanish Spaces

Autor: Ann Davies

Número de Páginas: 209

Contemporary cultural geography and contemporary Spanish culture are married in this pioneering study of space and place. Spain's varied terrain—with complex negotiations between the rural, urban, and coastal—offers an ideal setting in which to explore questions of landscape, space, and place. In Spanish Spaces, Ann Davies draws on contemporary Spanish film and literature to explore Spain's sophisticated sense of its geographical and spatial self.

Feminist Translation Studies

Autor: Olga Castro , Emek Ergun

Número de Páginas: 292

Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives situates feminist translation as political activism. Chapters highlight the multiple agendas and visions of feminist translation and the different political voices and cultural heritages through which it speaks across times and places, addressing the question of how both literary and nonliterary discourses migrate and contribute to local and transnational processes of feminist knowledge building and political activism. This collection does not pursue a narrow, fixed definition of feminism that is based solely on (Eurocentric or West-centric) gender politics—rather, Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives seeks to expand our understanding of feminist action not only to include feminist translation as resistance against multiple forms of domination, but also to rethink feminist translation through feminist theories and practices developed in different geohistorical and disciplinary contexts. In so doing, the collection expands the geopolitical, sociocultural and historical scope of the field from different disciplinary perspectives, pointing towards a more transnational, interdisciplinary ...

Women, Europe and the New Languages of Politics

Autor: Hilary Footitt

Número de Páginas: 230

This book contributes to the debates around the presence and activity of women in politics, as well as the part which language plays in shaping and developing political activity. Footitt argues that, in a world of shifting roots and multiple identities, the stories we tell, the ways in which we understand the relationships between us, and the communities we imagine ourselves belonging to, are of ever-increasing political importance. At the centre of the study are the women from 12 European Union countries who participate in the transnational political site of the European Parliament. Using interviews with female Members of the European Parliament from the late 90s and early 00s, and a close textual study of speeches in the European Parliament, Hilary Footitt argues that women have created a language of politics that transcends nationalities and political parties and contributes to engendering democracy, defining citizenship and imagining the community of Europe. Politics, she argues, is multilingual, and an understanding of the varieties of vocabularies and grammars that are potentially available to us may help us to create a more inclusive and dynamic political process.

Gentrification as a Global Strategy

Autor: Abel Albet , Núria Benach

Número de Páginas: 329

This book memorializes the work of one of Geography’s leading, critical thinkers and a public intellectual known world-wide: Neil Smith. It presents a rich collection of insights from leading international and interdisciplinary experts, drawing on Neil Smith’s ideas for inspiration and debate. This book demonstrates the relevance and usefulness

La ville autrement

Autor: Irène Micha , Dina Vaiou

Número de Páginas: 190

Cet ouvrage rassemble des approches de la ville qui visent à révéler la mosaïque des relations et des situations socio-spatiales composant la pluralité de l’espace dans les villes de l’Europe du Sud. Il s’appuie sur l’étude pluridisciplinaire du quotidien, en relevant ses implications genrées et spatiales, dans le contexte du Sud européen et par le biais d’une perspective qui lui est particulière. Ce contexte, caractérisé par une grande diversité, est perçu comme un véritable laboratoire, aussi bien de la pratique locale que de la mondialisation des flux et des réseaux. À travers différents cas d’étude, comme les relations entre les migrants et les habitants de Terzigno ou encore les flux et mouvements des enfants à Athènes, La ville autrement examine de multiples aspects de la vie urbaine afin de proposer une relecture de la ville du Sud européen au regard des évolutions socio-économiques récentes.

Le différend saharien devant l'Organisation des Nations Unies

Número de Páginas: 250

Le différend autour du Sahara occidental ne s'inscrit dans aucune des formes préétablies de la conflictualité internationale. Sa spécificité a justement plaidé pour une perpétuité d'environ quatre décennies, alors que l'Espagne franquiste détenait la clef de son élucidation dans le cadre du recouvrement par le Maroc de son intégrité territoriale. Internationalisé donc, le différend saharien sillonnera les cieux de l'Organisation des Nations Unies (ONU) et en épuisera un agglomérat de résolutions sans aboutir à un dénouement consensuel et définitif. La complexité du différend saharien a été révélée, au grand jour, par les formules équivoques adoptées dans l'Avis consultatif de la Cour Internationale de Justice, avant de se cristalliser dans les difficultés inhérentes à la mise en oeuvre du Plan de règlement. Mais depuis l'an 2007, l'insolubilité du différend saharien est moins certaine, si tant est que l'Initiative d'autonomie présentée par le Maroc a été favorablement accueillie par les instances onusiennes. Cette nouvelle phase dans le traitement du dossier saharien par l'ONU conforte la pratique internationale en matière...

Madres que trabajan

Autor: Constanza Tobío

Número de Páginas: 308

Se indaga el problema de la conciliación de la vida familiar y la laboral. Se estudian las estrategias utilizadas por las madres para compatibilizar la doble presencia en el ámbito doméstico y en el laboral.

Histoire de célibats

Autor: Juliette Eyméoud , Claire-lise Gaillard

Número de Páginas: 130

Ce livre propose dix portraits de célibataires sur le temps long de l’histoire, du Moyen Âge au XXe siècle. Il part du constat d’une invisibilité des célibataires dans les recherches historiques en France : le célibat y a rarement été perçu comme une variable significative de la vie des individus, ou bien il n’est abordé qu’en négatif du mariage. Sans prétendre à la synthèse, l’ouvrage veut présenter différentes « vies de célibat », historiquement et socialement situées. Penser des individus par leur célibat permet à la fois de comprendre ce qu’être célibataire veut dire selon les époques, quelles pratiques sociales et quelles représentations collectives recoupe cette notion. Cette galerie de portraits incarne donc, par des trajectoires de vies, la progressive formalisation et stigmatisation du célibat face à la norme du mariage.

Introduction to Gender

Autor: Jennifer Marchbank , Gayle Letherby

Número de Páginas: 455

Thoroughly updated in this second edition, Introduction to Gender offers an interdisciplinary approach to the main themes and debates in gender studies. This comprehensive and contemporary text explores the idea of gender from the perspectives of history, sociology, social policy, anthropology, psychology, politics, pedagogy and geography and considers issues such as health and illness, work, family, crime and violence, and culture and media. Throughout the text, studies on masculinity are highlighted alongside essential feminist work, producing an integrated investigation of the field. Key features: A thematic structure provides a clear exploration of each debate without losing sight of the interconnections between disciplines. World in focus boxes and international case studies offer a broad global perspective on gender studies. In-text features and student exercises, including Controversy, A critical look and Stop and think boxes, allow the reader to engage in the debates and revise the material covered. Hotlinks throughout the text make connections between chapters, allowing the reader to follow the path of particular issues and debates between topics and disciplines. New to...

Ibss: Anthropology: 1998

Autor: Compiled By The British Library Of Political And Economic Science

Número de Páginas: 520

IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.

Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces

Autor: Maria C. Difrancesco , Debra J. Ochoa

Número de Páginas: 408

This edited collection examines the synergistic relationship between gender and urban space in post-millennium Spain. Despite the social progress Spain has made extending equal rights to all citizens, particularly in the wake of the Franco regime and radically liberating Transición, the fact remains that not all subjects—particularly, women, immigrants, and queers—possess equal autonomy. The book exposes visible shifts in power dynamics within the nation’s largest urban capitals—Madrid and Barcelona—and takes a hard look at more peripheral bedroom communities as all of these spaces reflect the discontent of a post-nationalistic, economically unstable Spain. As the contributors problematize notions of public and private space and disrupt gender binaries related with these, they aspire to engender discussion around civic status, the administration of space and the place of all citizens in a global world.

Winters of Discontent

Autor: Russell Field

Número de Páginas: 314

Every four years, the Winter Olympics become a focal point for activism and resistance. But in the modern era, mere bids to host the Games have sparked fierce opposition from groups motivated by local or global concerns. Russell Field edits a collection that charts the evolution of protest around the Winter Games and illuminates the issues at the heart of anti-Olympic activism. The essays collectively explore the shifting dynamics and power relations between the civic coalitions that pursue the Winter Olympics and the social movements that oppose their efforts. The contributors look at specific Games impacted by dissent and probe the issues that swirled around failed and withdrawn bids. In addition, contributions on the contemporary Olympics describe current or future bids while delving into the campaigns demanding host nations pay attention to economic, social, humanitarian, and environmental concerns. A first-of-its-kind collection, Winters of Discontent profiles the wide range of activists and social movements that have organized against the Winter Olympics.

The Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics

Autor: Jorge M. Fernandes , Pedro C. Magalhães , António Costa Pinto

Número de Páginas: 817

The Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics brings together the best scholars in the field offering an unrivalled coverage of the politics (broadly defined) of the country over the past 50 years. The Handbook includes eight sections. First, it looks at the past and present by making an overview of Portuguese political developments since democratization in the 1970s. Second, it looks at political institutions as the building blocks of Portuguese democracy. The third section examines mass politics and voters, that is, a thorough analysis of the demand-side of mass politics. The fourth section turns to the supply side of mass-politics by looking at parties and the party system. The fifth section looks at the Portuguese society by unpacking a plethora of societal aspects with direct implications for politics. The sixth section examines governance and public policies, with a view to understanding how a constellation of public policies has an impact on the quality of governance and in fostering well-being. The seventh section looks at Portugal and the European Union. The eighth and final section unpacks Portuguese foreign policy and defence.

Alternative Takes to the City

Autor: Irini Micha , Dina Vaiou

Número de Páginas: 180

Alternative Takes to the City presents the mosaic of relations and socio-spatial conditions which compose the plurality of contemporary everyday space(s) in cities, offering "a view from below". It proposes a multidisciplinary and gendered approach to the (relational) spatialities and temporalities of the everyday, of new mobilities and of global and local networks which constitute urban life in contemporary cities. The book raises an empirically informed theoretical proposition which springs from the multiplicity of everyday experiences, as a laboratory for understanding recent socio-spatial, political and ideological transformations. Each chapter takes forward the theoretical argument based on one or more examples of concrete cities, in order to unveil the complexity and diversity of the urban condition in changing conjunctures, in which local practices connect and collide with global developments.

The Changing World Religion Map

Autor: Stanley D. Brunn

Número de Páginas: 3858

This extensive work explores the changing world of religions, faiths and practices. It discusses a broad range of issues and phenomena that are related to religion, including nature, ethics, secularization, gender and identity. Broadening the context, it studies the interrelation between religion and other fields, including education, business, economics and law. The book presents a vast array of examples to illustrate the changes that have taken place and have led to a new world map of religions. Beginning with an introduction of the concept of the “changing world religion map”, the book first focuses on nature, ethics and the environment. It examines humankind’s eternal search for the sacred, and discusses the emergence of “green” religion as a theme that cuts across many faiths. Next, the book turns to the theme of the pilgrimage, illustrated by many examples from all parts of the world. In its discussion of the interrelation between religion and education, it looks at the role of missionary movements. It explains the relationship between religion, business, economics and law by means of a discussion of legal and moral frameworks, and the financial and business issues ...

Women and Migration in Rural Europe

Autor: Karin Wiest

Número de Páginas: 271

Fundamental societal changes in the globalising European countryside impact women's migration decisions. The chapters in this volume represent diverse attempts to explain women's movements from rural areas, taking prevailing labour market conditions as well as gender relations into account. Utilising empirical findings from countries including Austria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Spain, this collection particularly aims to build bridges between research following the 'cultural turn' and functionalist explanations which refer to material and practiced ruralities. The international range of contributors to Women and Migration in Rural Europe focus on societal constructions of gender and rurality, and in doing so, address various female perspectives on rural life. The analysis of the different working and living conditions in different parts of rural Europe reveals distinct obstacles but also prospects for young women. Importantly, the book includes policy implications withrespect to the challenges of demographic change, questions of gender equality and women's contribution to rural development.