Dinamismo y diversidad en la ciencia política latinoamericana VII Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Ciencia Política

Dinamismo y diversidad en la ciencia política latinoamericana VII Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Ciencia Política
Author: Felipe Botero
Publisher: Universidad de los Andes
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9587743105

La ciencia política en América Latina ha evolucionado de forma sorprendente. Hace tan solo diez años la reconocida Revista de Ciencia Política publicó un balance en el que se clasificaban los países de la región de acuerdo con el grado de desarrollo de la disciplina. El balance proponía tres grupos de países: los "grandes", aquellos con "claras señales de mejoría", y por último aquellos para los cuales "el camino es todavía más largo". El camino es largo, pero el progreso es notorio. Hace diez años la Asociación Latinoamericana de Ciencia Política (Alacip) acababa de realizar su segundo congreso, al que asistieron a lo sumo dos centenares de participantes. Para el 2016 se han realizado seis más. Una asociación y su congreso pueden no impresionar como evidencia de mucho. Sin embargo, hay que entender lo que está detrás de estos esfuerzos para ver cómo la realización constante del congreso demuestra el afianzamiento de la disciplina. Dinamismo y diversidad en la ciencia política latinoamericana recoge un conjunto de las mejores ponencias que se presentaron en el vii Congreso de Alacip; su objetivo es mostrar la diversidad y el dinamismo de la producción académica en la disciplina. El VII Congreso tuvo lugar en septiembre del 2013 en la Universidad de los Andes en Bogotá; a él asistieron más de 1700 participantes. La tendencia creciente en la afluencia de público a los congresos es evidencia del proceso de institucionalización de la disciplina. La Asociación misma ha entendido los retos que implica ser una organización que cobija su desarrollo en el continente y se ha mantenido activa y relevante. Igualmente, el congreso se ha ido posicionando como uno de los principales foros internacionales de discusión disciplinar y por lo tanto a él concurren copiosamente estudiantes, académicos, investigadores, practicantes e interesados en la ciencia política.

Dinamismo y diversidad en la ciencia política latinoamericana

Dinamismo y diversidad en la ciencia política latinoamericana
Author: Associação Latino-Americana de Ciência Política. Congresso
Publisher:
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2016
Genre: Elections
ISBN: 9789587743098

"La Ciencia Política en América Latina ha evolucionado de forma sorprendente. Hace tan solo diez años la reconocida Revista de Ciencia Política publicó un balance en la que se clasificaban los países de la región de acuerdo con el grado de desarrollo de la disciplina. El balance proponía tres grupos de países: los "grandes", aquellos con "claras señales de mojoría" y por último aquellos para los cuales "el camino es todavía más largo". El camino es largo, pero el progreso es notorio. Hace diez años la ALACIP acababa de realizar su segundo congreso, al que asistieron a lo sumo dos centenares de participantes. Para el 2016 se han realizado seis más. Una asociación y su congreso pueden no impresionar como evidencia de mucho. Sin embargo, hay que entender lo que está por detrás de estos esfuerzos para cómo la realización constante del congreso demuestra el afiazamiento de la disciplina. "Dinamismo y Diversidad en la Ciencia Política Latinoamericana" recoje un conjunto de las mejores ponencias que se presentaron en el VII Congreso de Alacip; so objetivo es mostrar la diversidad y el dinamismo de la producción académica en la disciplina. El VII Congreso tuvo lugar en septiembre de 2013 en la Universidad de los Andes en Bogotá; a él asistieron más de 1700 participantes. La tendencia creciente en la afluencia de público a los congresos es evidencia del proceso de institucionalización de la disciplina. La Asociación misma ha entendido los retos que implica ser una asociación que cobija su desarrollo en el continente y se ha mantenido activa y relevante."--

Fragile Governance and Local Economic Development

Fragile Governance and Local Economic Development
Author: Sergio Montero
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2018-08-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351589431

Much of our understanding of local economic development is based on large urban agglomerations as nodes of innovation and competitive advantage, connecting territories to global value chains. However, this framework cannot so easily be applied to peripheral regions and secondary cities in either the Global South or the North. This book proposes an alternative way of looking at local economic development based on the idea of fragile governance and three variables: associations and networks; learning processes; and leadership and conflict management in six Latin American peripheral regions. The case studies illustrate the challenges of governance in small and intermediate cities in Latin America, and showcase strategies that are being used to achieve a more resilient and territorial vision of local economic development. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of local economic development, urban and regional studies, and political economy in Latin America as well as to policy-makers and practitioners interested in local and regional economic development policy.

Governing the Metropolis

Governing the Metropolis
Author: Eduardo Rojas
Publisher: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This book explores key metropolitan management issues, presents practical principles of good governance as they apply to the metropolis, and unfolds cases of institutional and programmatic arrangements to tackle such issues.

The Colonial System Unveiled

The Colonial System Unveiled
Author: Baron de Vastey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2016-01-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1781383049

The first translation into English of 'Le Système colonial dévoilé', the first systematic critique of colonialism ever written from the perspective of a colonized subject.

The Research System in Transition

The Research System in Transition
Author: Susan E. Cozzens
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9400920911

On a mountainside in sunny Tuscany, in October 1989, 96 people from 23 countries on five continents gathered to learn and teach about the problems of managing contemporary science. The diversity of economic and political systems represented in the group was matched by our occupations, which stretched from science policy practitioners, through research scientists and engineers, through academic observers of science and science policy. It was this diversity, along with the opportunities for infonnal discussion provided by long meals and remote location, that made the conference a special learning experience. Except at lecture time, it was impossible to distinguish the "students" at this event from the "teachers," and even the most senior members of the teaching staff went away with a sense that they had learned more from this group than from many a standard conference on science policy they had attended. The flavor of the conference experience cannot be captured adequately in a proceedings volume, and so we have not tried to create a historical record in this book. Instead, we have attempted to illustrate the core problems the panicipants at the conference shared, discussed, and debated, using both lectures delivered by the fonnal teaching staff and summaries of panel discussions, which extended to other panicipants and therefore increased the range of experiences reponed.

International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management

International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2018-09-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9251091870

The understanding that some pesticides are more hazardous than others is well established. Recognition of this is reflected by the World Health Organization (WHO) Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard, which was first published in 1975. The document classifies pesticides in one of five hazard classes according to their acute toxicity. In 2002, the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) was introduced, which in addition to acute toxicity also provides classification of chemicals according to their chronic health hazards and environmental hazards.

A Conservation Assessment of the Terrestrial Ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean

A Conservation Assessment of the Terrestrial Ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Eric Dinerstein
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1995
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

Approach; Major ecosystem types, major habitat types, and ecoregions of LAC; Conservation status of terretrial ecoregions of LAC; Biological distinctiveness of territorial ecoregions of LAC at different biogeographic scales results; Integrating biological distinctiveness and conservation status; Conservation assessment of mangrove ecosystems.

Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism

Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism
Author: Marlene L. Daut
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2017-10-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137470674

Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian political writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), in this book Marlene L. Daut examines the legacy of Vastey’s extensive writings as a form of what she calls black Atlantic humanism, a discourse devoted to attacking the enlightenment foundations of colonialism. Daut argues that Vastey, the most important secretary of Haiti’s King Henry Christophe, was a pioneer in a tradition of deconstructing colonial racism and colonial slavery that is much more closely associated with twentieth-century writers like W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, and Aimé Césaire. By expertly forging exciting new historical and theoretical connections among Vastey and these later twentieth-century writers, as well as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century black Atlantic authors, such as Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs, Daut proves that any understanding of the genesis of Afro-diasporic thought must include Haiti’s Baron de Vastey.

I the Supreme

I the Supreme
Author: Augusto Roa Bastos
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2019-02-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0525564691

I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the wall of a cathedral, purportedly written by Dr. Francia himself and ordering the execution of all of his servants upon his death. This sign is quickly revealed to be a forgery, which takes leader and secretary into a larger discussion about the nature of truth: “In the light of what Your Eminence says, even the truth appears to be a lie.” Their conversation broadens into an epic journey of the mind, stretching across the colonial history of their nation, filled with surrealist imagery, labyrinthine turns, and footnotes supplied by a mysterious “compiler.” A towering achievement from a foundational author of modern Latin American literature, I the Supreme is a darkly comic, deeply moving meditation on power and its abuse—and on the role of language in making and unmaking whole worlds.