Social Policies and Emotions

Social Policies and Emotions
Author: Angélica De Sena
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2019-12-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030347397

This book analyzes the connections between social policies and politics of sensibilities. The authors show how social policies build sociabilities, experiences and sensibilities, producing processes of conflict avoidance and consecration of the given. After discussing violence against women as a case study in order to understand the current state of social policies, the authors then describe how the “place” and “value” of education have become central features to social policies in order to disband conflict. Finally, they explain the emergence of a social phenomenon in the last sixteen years in Latin America and particularly Argentina: the compensatory consumption system and the resulting emergence of the “assisted citizen.”

Desafíos del multilateralismo y de la paz

Desafíos del multilateralismo y de la paz
Author: Eric Tremolada Álvarez
Publisher: U. Externado de Colombia
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2018-02-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9587727908

El número V de la colección Ius Cogens, titulado Desafíos del multilateralismo y de la paz, recoge 17 contribuciones arbitradas y que, según su temática, componen las cuatro secciones de este volumen. La primera dedicada a los debates inacabados del derecho internacional. La segunda se ocupa de las discusiones sobre el multilateralismo. La tercera está dedicada a la regionalización e integración. La cuarta, y última sección, trata de experiencias que desafían la guerra.

Latin America

Latin America
Author: Manuel Riesco
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2007-03-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230625258

The 21st century Latin American developmental welfare state model is based on a new public-private alliance, where state-led developmental social policy relies for its implementation mainly on proactive, emerging regional entrepreneurs and a growing middle class. This volume illustrates where innovative development strategy may be in the making.

Socioeconomic Environmental Policies and Evaluations in Regional Science

Socioeconomic Environmental Policies and Evaluations in Regional Science
Author: Hiroyuki Shibusawa
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 722
Release: 2016-09-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811000999

This book is a volume of essays celebrating the life and work of Yoshiro Higano, professor of Environmental Policy, Doctoral Program in Sustainable Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan. Prof. Higano’s research strongly focuses on the comprehensive evaluation of resources and research content for decision science and engineering, including simulation modeling for environmental quality control, the evaluation of environmental remediation technologies, integrated river (lake) basin management, and synthesized environmental policy. Yoshiro Higano is the past president of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and the current president of the Japan Section of the RSAI (JSRSAI). He also served as executive secretary for the Pacific Regional Science Conference Organizations (PRSCO). This edited volume covers a wide range of regional science approaches, theory, policy, evaluation, modeling, simulation, and practice. It is a valuable reference work for researchers, scholars, policy makers, and students in the field of regional science. The volume celebrates Prof. Higano’s contributions to the JSRSAI, PRSCO, and RSAI. Essay contributors include his former students and a wide array of regional scientists, each with a personal connection to Prof. Higano.

Political Networks and Social Movements

Political Networks and Social Movements
Author: Soledad Valdivia Rivera
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2019-05-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1789202205

After a landslide electoral victory in 2006, Evo Morales became the first indigenous President of Bolivia. Morales’s stunning ascent was mirrored by the rising fortunes of his political party, the leftist Movimiento al Socialismo, which today continues to challenge the status quo in Bolivian politics and implement ambitious social reforms. This study examines how the state and social movements have impacted democratization in Bolivia, along with other sectors such as NGOs and the media. Soledad Valdivia Rivera’s analysis helps us to understand how the movement's relationships have come to transform the Bolivian political process as we know it.

Social Development in Latin America

Social Development in Latin America
Author: Joseph S. Tulchin
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781555878436

This volume provides a wide-ranging analysis of social welfare reform in Latin America, examining in particular the politics involved in implementing difficult and controversial social policies that often pit the middle strata of society, represented by powerful stakeholders, against the poor.

Populism and Postcolonialism

Populism and Postcolonialism
Author: Adrián Scribano
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2019-10-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0429602197

This book investigates the interconnections between populism and neoliberalism through the lens of postcolonialism. Its primary focus is to build a distinct understanding of the concept of populism as a political movement in the twenty-first century, interwoven with the lasting effects of colonialism. This volume particularly aims to fill the gap in the current literature by establishing a clear-cut connection between populism and postcolonialism. It sees populism as a contemporary and collective political response to the international crisis of the nation-state’s limited capacity to deal with the burst of global capitalism into everyday life. Writings on Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Italy, France and Argentina offer regional perspectives which, in turn, provide the reader with a deepened global view of the main features of the multiple and complex relations between postcoloniality and populism. This book will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists as well as postgraduate students who are interested in the problem of populism in the days of postcolonialism.

Differentiating Development

Differentiating Development
Author: Soumhya Venkatesan
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012-04-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857453041

Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of ‘development’ as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used to consolidate inequality and perpetuate poverty. This volume constitutes a timely intervention in anthropological debates about development, moving beyond the critical stance to focus on development as a mode of engagement that, like anthropology, attempts to understand, represent and work within a complex world. By setting out to elucidate both the similarities and differences between these epistemological endeavors, the book demonstrates how the ethnographic study of development challenges anthropology to rethink its own assumptions and methods. In particular, contributors focus on the important but often overlooked relationship between acting and understanding, in ways that speak to debates about the role of anthropologists and academics in the wider world. The case studies presented are from a diverse range of geographical and ethnographic contexts, from Melanesia to Africa and Latin America, and ethnographic research is combined with commentary and reflection from the foremost scholars in the field.

Public and Private Social Policy

Public and Private Social Policy
Author: D. Béland
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2008-11-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230228771

Exploring the increasing involvement of the private sector in social policy, this collection examines the complex relationship between the public and private sectors from an international perspective, focusing on health and pension policies.

Contextualizing Health and Aging in the Americas

Contextualizing Health and Aging in the Americas
Author: William A. Vega
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2018-09-22
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 3030005844

This book presents new insights into the consequences of the impending growth in and impact of the older segment of Latino aging adults across distinctive regions of the Americas. It uses a comparative research framework to further understanding of current issues in health and aging in the transnational context of the health and migratory experiences of the U.S.- Mexican population. It provides an important contribution to the interdisciplinary investigation of chronic diseases and functional impairments, social care and medical services, care-giving and intervention development, and neighborhood factors supporting optimal aging, using new conceptual and methodological approaches (inter-group comparisons). Specifically, the chapters employ different methodologies that investigate trends in aging health and services related to immigration processes, family and household structure, macroeconomic changes in the quality of community life, and focus on the new realities of aging in Latino families in local communities. The book focuses on measurement, data-quality issues, new conceptual modeling techniques, and longitudinal survey capabilities, and suggests needed areas of new research. As such it is of interest to researchers and policy makers in a wide range of disciplines from social and behavioral sciences to economics, gerontology, geriatrics, and public health.