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Cybersecurity Governance in Latin America discusses how the massification of the Internet has exposed emerging democracies' high-tech vulnerabilities to cyber-attacks and questions why states have decided to introduce policies and legislation facilitating the militarization of cyberspace. Carlos Solar offers a comparative analysis using the cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela to help navigate the changing security landscape...
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For close to two hundred years, the ideas of Shakespeare have inspired incredible work in the literature, fiction, theater, and cinema of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. From the novels of Lao She and Lin Shu to Lu Xun's search for a Chinese "Shakespeare," and from Feng Xiaogang's martial arts films to labor camp memoirs, Soviet-Chinese theater, Chinese opera in Europe, and silent film, Shakespeare has been put to work in unexpected places, yielding...
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#1 Raisuddin worked at a mini-mart in Dallas, selling Americans three tamales for a dollar. The economy around the store was desolate, and it wasn't the economy of the legendary firms where third-world boys like him fantasized about working.
#2 Raisuddin grew up with America on his television screen, and thought of the place as a land of opportunity. But when he first...
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This first volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was initially published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society on a scale not attempted since Talcott Parsons. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the accordingly high improbability of successful communication, Luhmann analyzes a range of communicative...
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Luc Boltanski is Professor at L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is the author of Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics, Le Nouvel Esprit du Capitalisme, and (with Laurent Thévenot) Les Économies de la Grandeur. Laurent Thévenot is Professor at L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He is the author of L'action au pluriel: Sociologie des régimes d'engagement, coauthor of Les Économies de la Grandeur,...
66) Sistema Territorial en la Materialidad de la Desaparición Forzada. Departamento de Antioquia-Colombi
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La investigación que aquí se presenta se suscribe en el departamento de Antioquia, espacio que trasciende su formalidad física al develarse su dimensionalidad geográfica desde el análisis de la materialidad que expone la desaparición forzada y su sentido violento en los territorios. De igual manera, se ubica en una temporalidad, que más allá de definirse desde el planteamiento metodológico inicial, fue dictada por los casos de personas desaparecidas...
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Siguiendo la estela de una honorable tradición literaria, la de los grandes libelos inseparables de la lucha por el progreso y la igualdad, Eduardo Sartelli combina virtuosamente la gris teoría con el verde de la vida para regalarnos un magnífico "viaje marxista a través del capitalismo" en el que la sociedad capitalista no sale nada bien librada. Concebido como un viaje a la manera del Drácula de Bram Stoker, entraremos al mundo del capital,...
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Sunday evening, October 9th, 1216. King John is facing continued civil war and a devastating French invasion; treacherous times. We discover him crossing the tidal marshes of the Fenlands of East Anglia. He is about to lose Englands crown jewels, his gem collection, and sackfuls of silver coins with his image on them: a treasure trove.
What happened? What was he doing in that remote and windswept place? Why did he take the crown jewels with him?...
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#1 White Southerners, who were largely poor and working class, were considered undesirable by 21 percent of those surveyed in Detroit in 1951, and by 13 percent of those surveyed in Chicago in 1948.
#2 Many have tried to explain regional and racial differences by invoking slavery. But this explanation falls flat when one considers the existence of this same subculture...
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The world economic order has been upended by the rise of the BRIC nations and the attendant decline of the United States' international influence. In Breaking the WTO, Kristen Hopewell provides a groundbreaking analysis of how these power shifts have played out in one of the most important theaters of global governance: the World Trade Organization. Hopewell argues that the collapse of the Doha Round negotiations in 2008 signals a crisis in the American-led...
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At a time when an emphasis on productivity in higher education threatens to undermine well-crafted research, these highly reflexive essays capture the sometimes profound intellectual effects that may accompany disrupted scholarship. They reveal that over long periods of time relationships with people studied invariably change, sometimes in dramatic ways. They illustrate how world events such as 9/11 and economic cycles impact individual biographies.
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#1 The world of the super-rich is different from the world of the rich. To be considered super-rich, you must have a net worth of more than $30 million. The majority of people who have this amount of wealth do not spend their days shopping at the Mall of Life without ever looking at a price tag.
#2 The line between being poor and being super-rich is somewhat relative....
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Los 12 trabajos expuestos en este volumen evidencian tres aspectos en el estudio de la vejez: (a) la diversidad temática que se vincula al estudio de esta etapa de vida, (b) las posibilidades metodológicas disponibles para estudiar esta etapa y proceso de vida, y (c) el desafío tanto académico como social que enfrentamos para dar respuesta a las demandas que impone dignificar al envejecimiento y a la vejez.
Para comprender el mundo, para entender...
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Critically analyzing Israeli-Jewish migration to German, A Double Burden combines complementary approaches from the social sciences-quantitative, qualitative, and ethnographic research-to track migrants' reasons for moving, their families' reactions, their settlement in the new country, and their social and economic integration, construction of identity, and perceptions of old and new antisemitism in Germany. Each chapter is placed within a relevant...
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In Housing the New Russia, Jane R. Zavisca examines Russia's attempts to transition from a socialist vision of housing, in which the government promised a separate, state-owned apartment for every family, to a market-based and mortgage-dependent model of home ownership. In 1992, the post-Soviet Russian government signed an agreement with the United States to create the Russian housing market. The vision of an American-style market guided housing policy...
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En s'intéressant à certaines populations socialement disqualifiées, soit les personnes ayant des problèmes de santé mentale et les résidents en habitation à loyer modique, les auteurs étudient le logement non seulement comme l'un des déterminants de la santé et du bien-être mais également comme un lieu d'intervention majeur dans le domaine des services sociaux.
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En este ensayo Pasado y presente en Merced: ¿cuál es su futuro? se aborda la complejidad social de un espacio sui generis en la ciudad, en donde formas recientes de marginación y pobreza, se sobreponen espacial y temporalmente, sobre un muestrario agudo de miseria, dolor y pérdida de identidad, en contraste con su centralidad, la mezcla de usos combinada con plazas antiguas y en medio de una diversidad de comercio y negocios. El estudio se basó...
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In 2004, the U.S. State Department declared Filipina hostesses in Japan the largest group of sex trafficked persons in the world. Since receiving this global attention, the number of hostesses entering Japan has dropped by nearly 90 percent-from more than 80,000 in 2004 to just over 8,000 today. To some, this might suggest a victory for the global anti-trafficking campaign, but Rhacel Parreñas counters that this drastic decline-which stripped thousands...
79) Georg Simmel
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Georg Simmel nimmt in Bezug auf die Wissenssoziologie den Status eines »Wegbereiters« ein. Er formulierte soziologische, erkenntnistheoretische und kulturphilosophische Problemstellungen, die (posthum) in die sich formierende Wissenssoziologie hineinwirkten.
Die wissenssoziologischen Pionierleistungen Simmels sind vielfältig. So stehen im Zentrum seiner relationistischen Sozialtheorie die Wechselwirkungen zwischen den Individuen und der dynamische...
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La Cátedra realizada por el autor del primer semestre de 2008 dedicada a Bases biológicas del comportamiento animal y humano fue un espacio académico para la reflexión y el debate sobre la concepción del hombre como organismo biológico. Buscó responder interrogantes como: ¿existe diferencia en el control de los instintos humanos con respecto a otros animales? ¿Tienen raíces las sociedades humanas en la biología o solo son culturales? ¿La...