Makers of Democracy

Makers of Democracy
Author: A. Ricardo López-Pedreros
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2019-03-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1478003294

In Makers of Democracy A. Ricardo López-Pedreros traces the ways in which a thriving middle class was understood to be a foundational marker of democracy in Colombia during the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide array of sources ranging from training manuals and oral histories to school and business archives, López-Pedreros shows how the Colombian middle class created a model of democracy based on free-market ideologies, private property rights, material inequality, and an emphasis on a masculine work culture. This model, which naturalized class and gender hierarchies, provided the groundwork for Colombia's later adoption of neoliberalism and inspired the emergence of alternate models of democracy and social hierarchies in the 1960s and 1970s that helped foment political radicalization. By highlighting the contested relationships between class, gender, economics, and politics, López-Pedreros theorizes democracy as a historically unstable practice that exacerbated multiple forms of domination, thereby prompting a rethinking of the formation of democracies throughout the Americas.

Eudised

Eudised
Author: Jean Viet
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-12-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110865807

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Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
Total Pages: 610
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Publisher: Soffer Publishing
Total Pages: 110
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ISBN: 6635327444

Asumiendo Diferencias

Asumiendo Diferencias
Author: Environmental Design Research Association. Conference
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0939922347

Quality of Life in Communities of Latin Countries

Quality of Life in Communities of Latin Countries
Author: Graciela Tonon
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2017-03-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319531832

This book presents a reconfiguration of the concepts of community in Latin countries as well as the community quality of life and well-being of different groups: children, young people, older adults, migrants. The traditional concept of community has changed together with the way people participate in community spaces. Community nowadays is more than a geographic concentration; it is related to social support, inter-subjectivity, participation, consensus, common beliefs, joint effort aiming at a major objective, and intense and extensive relationships. This volume presents unique experiences about culture, social development, health, water, armed conflicts, the digital media, and sports within communities, written by authors from Latin countries. This volume is a valuable resource for researchers, students, and policy makers in quality of life studies.

Affordable Housing in the Urban Global South

Affordable Housing in the Urban Global South
Author: Jan Bredenoord
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2014-06-05
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 131791015X

The global increase in the number of slums calls for policies which improve the conditions of the urban poor, sustainably. This volume provides an extensive overview of current housing policies in Asia, Africa and Latin America and presents the facts and trends of recent housing policies. The chapters provide ideas and tools for pro-poor interventions with respect to the provision of land for housing, building materials, labour, participation and finance. The book looks at the role of the various stakeholders involved in such interventions, including national and local governments, private sector organisations, NGOs and Community-based Organisations.

Making & Doing

Making & Doing
Author: Gary Downey
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2021-08-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0262361868

How ten making & doing projects expand STS scholarship through a focus on knowledge expression and knowledge travel in addition to knowledge production. Making & doing projects expand STS scholarship to include the trajectories of STS knowledge flow beyond the boundaries of the field by actively interweaving knowledge expression and travel with knowledge production. In this edited volume, contributors from around the world present and critically assess ten empirical making & doing projects. They recount how their projects advance STS, and describe how they themselves learn from their interlocutors and the settings in which they do and share their STS work. A coda explains how the infrastructures of STS scholarship are broadening to include practices of making & doing. The contributors examine and reflect upon their dilemmas, frustrations, and failures, especially when these generate new practices that might not have occurred had their work not taken the form of making and doing scholarship. While each project raises a distinct set of scholarly issues, all of the projects include practices that express STS knowledge through “STS sensibilities” and attach those sensibilities to practices in empirical fields. The ten projects include one each in Argentina, Taiwan, Canada, and Denmark; two in the US; one in Austria, the UK, and multiple countries in Africa and Asia; one in the US and Latin America; one in the Netherlands and Australia; and one in an international network that includes members from Europe, the Americas, and Australia.