Cambio climático, cambio civilizatorio: aproximaciones teóricas

Cambio climático, cambio civilizatorio: aproximaciones teóricas
Author: Guzmán Hennessey, Manuel
Publisher: Editorial Universidad del Rosario
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2012-12-10
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9587383001

La amenaza del cambio climático nos obliga a poner los ojos en la sociedad y en la vida, a reflexionar en colectivo sobre la necesidad de construir una nueva sociedad cimentada sobre valores centrados en la primacía de la vida sobre los bienes materiales. Empezar a pensar en nuevos modelos económicos del desarrollo que reduzcan gradualmente la presión sobre los ecosistemas y postulen alternativas más humanas, capaces de neutralizar las axiologías inhumanas de los mercados, es el propósito de esta publicación. A ella hemos invitado a muchos pensadores de España y de América Latina que están trabajando sobre este nuevo desafío del conocimiento. La serie que bajo el título 'Cambio Climático Nueva Sociedad' ha tenido a bien apoyar la Universidad del Rosario, y que está bajo la coordinación académica de la red KLN, también persigue crear una comunidad intelectual que colaborativamente trabaje en la tarea de diseñar enfoques teóricos y metodológicos para ayudar a la humanidad a enfrentar el cambio climático, mediante una adaptación cultural de la especie que posibilite el surgimiento de una civilización (forma de vivir) en paz consigo misma y en armonía con la naturaleza, como lo resumió el científico social Antonio Elizalde, inspirador de esta publicación.A ella hemos invitado a muchos pensadores de España y de América Latina que están trabajando sobre este nuevo desafío del conocimiento. La serie que bajo el título 'Cambio Climático Nueva Sociedad' ha tenido a bien apoyar la Universidad del Rosario, y que está bajo la coordinación académica de la red KLN, también persigue crear una comunidad intelectual que colaborativamente trabaje en la tarea de diseñar enfoques teóricos y metodológicos para ayudar a la humanidad a enfrentar el cambio climático, mediante una adaptación cultural de la especie que posibilite el surgimiento de una civilización (forma de vivir) en paz consigo misma y en armonía con la naturaleza, como lo resumió el científico social Antonio Elizalde, inspirador de esta publicación.La serie que bajo el título 'Cambio Climático Nueva Sociedad' ha tenido a bien apoyar la Universidad del Rosario, y que está bajo la coordinación académica de la red KLN, también persigue crear una comunidad intelectual que colaborativamente trabaje en la tarea de diseñar enfoques teóricos y metodológicos para ayudar a la humanidad a enfrentar el cambio climático, mediante una adaptación cultural de la especie que posibilite el surgimiento de una civilización (forma de vivir) en paz consigo misma y en armonía con la naturaleza, como lo resumió el científico social Antonio Elizalde, inspirador de esta publicación.

The Politics of Political Science

The Politics of Political Science
Author: Paulo Ravecca
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2019-02-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351110535

In this thought-provoking book, Paulo Ravecca presents a series of interlocking studies on the politics of political science in the Americas. Focusing mainly on the cases of Chile and Uruguay, Ravecca employs different strands of critical theory to challenge the mainstream narrative about the development of the discipline in the region, emphasizing its ideological aspects and demonstrating how the discipline itself has been shaped by power relations. Ravecca metaphorically charts the (non-linear) transit from “cold” to “warm” to “hot” intellectual temperatures to illustrate his—alternative—narrative. Beginning with a detailed quantitative study of three regional academic journals, moving to the analysis of the role of subjectivity (and political trauma) in academia and its discourse in relation to the dictatorships in Chile and Uruguay, and arriving finally at an intimate meditation on the experience of being a queer scholar in the Latin American academy of the 21st century, Ravecca guides his readers through differing explorations, languages, and methods. The Politics of Political Science: Re-Writing Latin American Experiences offers an essential reflection on both the relationship between knowledges and politics and the political and ethical role of the scholar today, demonstrating how the study of the politics of knowledge deepens our understanding of the politics of our times.

The Future of the Past: Paths towards Participatory Governance for Cultural Heritage

The Future of the Past: Paths towards Participatory Governance for Cultural Heritage
Author: Gabriela García
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2021-05-30
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1000401278

The Future of the Past is a biennial conference generally carried out during the commemoration date of the incorporation of Santa Ana de Los Ríos de Cuenca Ecuador as a World Heritage Site (WHS). It initiated in 2014, organized by the City Preservation Management research project (CPM) of the University of Cuenca, to create a space for dialoguing among interested actors in the cultural heritage field. Since then, this space has served to exchange initiatives and to promote coordinated actions based on shared responsibility, in the local context. The third edition of this conference took place in the context of the 20th anniversary of being listed as WHS and a decade of CPM as the Southern host of the PRECOM3OS UNESCO Chair (Preventive Conservation, Maintenance and Monitoring of Monuments and Sites). For the very first time, and thanks to the collaboration with the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation of the University of Leuven (Belgium), the conference expanded its local scope. On this occasion, contributions reflected round a worldwide challenge in the cultural field: revealing the paths towards participatory governance of cultural heritage. Participatory governance is understood as institutional decision-making structures supported by shared responsibilities and rights among diverse actors.

Animate Earth

Animate Earth
Author: Stephan Harding
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2009-03-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 190744825X

An exciting exploration into how Gaian science can help us to develop a sense of connectedness with the 'more-than-human' world. Written by ecologist Stephan Harding, Animate Earth argues that we need to establish the right relationship with the planet as a living entity in which we are indissolubly embedded - and to which we are all accountable. Now in its second edition, this fascinating book includes a new chapter on fungi, contemplative exercises and an update on the global climate situation. Stephan's work is based on careful integration of rational scientific analysis with our intuition, sensing and feeling - a vitally important task at this time of severe ecological and climate crisis. He replaces the cold, objectifying language of science with a way of speaking of our planet as a sentient, living being rather than as a dead, inert mechanism. Chemical reactions, for instance, are described using human metaphors, such as marriage, to bring personality back into the world of rocks, atmosphere, water and living things. In this sense, the book is a contemporary attempt to rediscover anima mundi (the soul of the world) through Gaian science, whilst assuming no prior knowledge of science. Discover what it means to live as harmoniously as possible within a sentient creature of planetary proportions with this inspiring read.

Gender, Care and Economics

Gender, Care and Economics
Author: Jean Gardiner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This book offers a radical critique of mainstream, Marxist and feminist economic theories, ranging from the classical liberal economics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the feminist debates about domestic labour and patriarchy in the late twentieth century. It explores the increasing importance of household care relations, especially childcare, in shaping the domestic labour process. Trends in household gender relations and working patterns in Britain are explored in the context of political ideas and policies regarding the state, the economy, gender and care.

Engaging People in Sustainability

Engaging People in Sustainability
Author: Daniella Tilbury
Publisher: IUCN
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9782831708232

The book is based on the exchange of professional experiences which featured in an IUCN CEC workshop in August 2002. Practitioners from around the world shared their models of good practice and explored the challenges involved in engaging people in sustainability. The difficulties facing practitioners vary between country and context but some challenges are universal: A lack of clarity in communicating what is meant by sustainable development; An ambition to educate everyone to bring about a global citizenship; Social, organisational or institutional factors constrain change to sustainable development, yet there is an emphasis on formal education, and community educators do not receive the same support; A lack of balance in addressing the integration of environmental, social and economic dimensions leading to an interpretation that ESD is mainly about environment and conservation issues; New learning (rather than teaching) approaches are called for to promote more debate in society. Yet, few are trained or experienced in these new approaches. Practitioners need support to explore new ways of promoting learning. [Foreword, ed].

Sociology of the Future

Sociology of the Future
Author: Wendell Bell
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Total Pages: 486
Release: 1971-10-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1610440390

Concerns itself with the future of sociology, and of all social science. The thirteen authors—among them Wendell Bell, Kai T. Erikson, Scott Greer, Robert Boguslaw, James Mau, and Ivar Oxaal—are oriented toward a redefinition of the role of the social scientist as advisor to policymakers and administrators in all major areas of social concern, for the purpose of studying and shaping the future. This book contains research strategies for such "futurologistic" study, theories on its merits and dangers, as well as an annotated bibliography of social science studies of the future.

Marxism and Literary Criticism

Marxism and Literary Criticism
Author: Terry Eagleton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1976-08-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780520032439

"Far and away the best short introduction to Marxist criticism (both history and problems) which I have seen."--Fredric R. Jameson "Terry Eagleton is that rare bird among literary critics--a real writer."--Colin McCabe, The Guardian

Future Matters

Future Matters
Author: Barbara Adam
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2007-09-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9047422597

Future Matters concerns contemporary approaches to the future – how the future is known, created and minded. In a social world whose pace continues to accelerate the future becomes an increasingly difficult terrain. While the focus of social life is narrowing down to the present, the futures we create on a daily basis cast ever longer shadows. Future Matters addresses this paradox and its deep ethical implications. It locates contemporary approaches to the future in a wider sociological and historical framework of practices, traces differences and continuities, and shows how contemporary practices of futures-construction make taking responsibility for futures all but impossible.

Indigenizing the Academy

Indigenizing the Academy
Author: Devon Abbott Mihesuah
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780803232297

Native American scholars reflect on issues related to academic study by students drawn from the indigenous peoples of America. Topics range from problems of racism and ethnic fraud in academic hiring to how indigenous values and perspectives can be integrated into research methodologies and interpretive theories.