De la sociedad de las naciones a la globalización: Visiones desde América y Europa

De la sociedad de las naciones a la globalización: Visiones desde América y Europa
Author: Andrés Medina (editor)
Publisher: Ediciones UCSC
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2021-06-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9566068190

El contenido de este texto dice relación directa con las investigaciones que presentaron diferentes académicos nacionales y extranjeros en el V Congreso Chile España, que se desarrolló en la Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción durante el año 2018. Las temáticas que se consideraron en dicha actividad, tuvieron directa relación con la Historia de las Relaciones Internacionales y se iniciaron con el origen y rol de la Sociedad de Naciones el año 1919, culminando con la iniciativa americana en este campo, representada por UNASUR y su actual condición.

Challenges for Human Rights

Challenges for Human Rights
Author: Fernando Falcón y Tella
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2007-06-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9047420411

Nowadays we are fortunate enough to be experiencing a boom in human rights - an enormous increase of their importance in the international sphere at all levels (political, economic, social, legal and moral). For the first time the condition of the individual as “citizen,” and not just as “subject,” has gained importance. Individuals, and not only states, have now become the subjects of international law, as a result of the boom in humanitarian law and international criminal law. However, although there have been many battles won and goals met concerning human rights, the war against injustice continues and the fight has not ended. It is necessary to stay alert and to avoid a potentially paralyzing self-complacency. This collection focusses on topics that are particularly relevant for the present era. It examines issues such as multiculturalism, globalization, international criminal justice (specifically third and fourth generation rights) and, within this thematic framework, the problems that have come about as a result of the expanding reach of the Internet and of new biomedical advances. In addition, it explores the increasingly urgent challenge of how to respond to international terrorism, in view of worldwide events since September 11, 2001, and its resulting aftermath. Originally published in Spanish, this thought-provoking collection will be of interest to human rights scholars and practitioners alike.

GLOBALIZATION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21st CENTURY

GLOBALIZATION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21st CENTURY
Author: José María Franquet Bernis
Publisher: José María Franquet Bernis
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2021-04-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 8409305062

Globalization, as the dominant force that it is, in the last decade of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st has shaped a new era in the interaction between nations, economies and peoples. But it has also fragmented production processes, labor markets, political entities and societies. At the supranational level, there is no political and regulatory counterweight to monitor this process and correct, in a fair and equitable way, the dangerous abuses that may derive from it. The logic of the global economy is deeply contradictory. It is based on the bases of speed, risk, creativity, but also on impunity in the international order, since there are no mechanisms to regulate and control the collective interests of humanity. But, above all, this logic is installed on the principle of the insecurity of people, particularly those in poor countries and sectors. Production is transferred from high-wage countries to those with low wages without entailing benefits for those countries, speculation is carried out in the financial market without considering the dangerous consequences, except for capital itself, cultural and consumption patterns are disrupted, and irreversible damage occurs to the ecological base of the planet, without concern for future generations.

Idol and Grace

Idol and Grace
Author: Orlando E. Espin
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2013-12-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1608334309

Proposes a theology that draws out the subversive hope of the gospels and the role of the marginalized in passing along the Christian message.

Post-Global Aesthetics

Post-Global Aesthetics
Author: Gesine Müller
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2022-10-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110762218

Phenomena such as the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, or the surge of political populism show that the current phase of accelerated globalization is over. New concepts are needed in order to respond to this exhaustion of the global project: the volume scrutinizes these responses in the aesthetic realm and under a "post-global" banner, while incorporating alternative, non-Western epistemologies and literatures of the post-colonial Global South.

Grace and Humanness

Grace and Humanness
Author: Orlando O. Esp’in
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2007
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1608331598

These essays, by one of the foremost U.S. Latino theologians, offer far-ranging insights on the relation between theology and culture. Orlando O. Espin addresses the challenge of culture and insightfully attempts to construct Christian theology from perspectives that are neither culturally, historically, nor ethically naive. These essays open new theological ground and ask theologians to acknowledge and name their cultural perspectives and locations in the construction of their theologies.

Localismo y globalización

Localismo y globalización
Author: Mariano Ben Plotkin
Publisher: Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9788400079055

Retórica de lo universal, retórica de lo particular. Intelectuales, política y estado: un recorrido histórico. Democracia y globalización: paradojas y nuevas perspectivas.

Past and Power: Public Policies on Memory. Debates, from Global to Local

Past and Power: Public Policies on Memory. Debates, from Global to Local
Author: Jordi Guixé
Publisher: Edicions Universitat Barcelona
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2016-05-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 8447539938

The public authorities have not successfully resolved the management of the traumatic memory of the wars, dictatorships and massacres to which the European project was always intended to be a counterpoint. The conflict of memories and the public discourses about the past are latent on ideological, political and cultural levels. However, if in the past the conflict concerning memories tended to develop inside the borders of countries, it has now leapt into the European arena. This has also led to the confrontation and questioning of the great narratives established in the common memory, especially with countries of the East joining the European Union. Each community, group or nation maintains common memories that do not always fit in or converge with a general overall account. The origins of the UB Solidarity Foundation’s European Observatory on Memories lie in these debates, and through this book — which includes the contributions of specialists in multiple disciplines and the speeches that were given at the first international symposium, “Memory and Power: A Transnational Perspective” — it hopes to present some of the key challenges that this conflict of memories has in store for us in the present and in the future.

Creativity and Time: A Sociological Exploration

Creativity and Time: A Sociological Exploration
Author: Juan A. Roche Cárcel
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2021-10-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030848388

This book defends that the pursuit of originality constitutes one of the most important characteristics of creativity, but that originality refers, etymologically, to both origin and originary. Hence, the book is structured into two parts, dedicated, respectively, to the creative categories of origin and the creative categories of originary. Within the former are creation myths, games – the origin of all cultural activity, the dialectic chaos-order, axial civilizations – the germ of our time, and the struggle between generations – a factor of social transformation, and, within the second, creative capitalism, creative work in the context of the global economy of risk and uncertainty, and representative democracy. However, these two concepts are not isolated, but deeply interrelated, in a way that explains how creative originality builds a temporal narrative. It has been dislocated in late modernity and, with it, creativity has been broken.

Social Work in the Frame of a Professional Competencies Approach

Social Work in the Frame of a Professional Competencies Approach
Author: Ana Opačić
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2022-10-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031135288

This book serves as an introductory reader for understanding a professional competencies framework for social work through a new approach. It not only discusses what professional competencies are and why they are significant, but it also shows how to develop a professional competencies approach, measure and research competencies, and learn how to use them to empower professional identity and career development. There has been growing interest to define the social work profession within a professional competencies framework. Professional competencies are considered in their complexity as a triangle of knowledge, skills and values. They are not solely a tool for education and practice, but they are also important for professional socialization and identity in social work. A professional competencies approach has been used to define standards and expectations for social workers-practitioners; it is an evaluation tool for formal education and lifelong learning programs, provides guidance for field practice and placements for social work students, and could be a frame for distinguishing levels of professional expertise. The volume provides an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of a professional competencies approach in social work with 10 chapters organized in four sections: Part I: Understanding a Professional Competencies Approach, including Criticisms of the Competency-Based Education Approach Part II: Major Areas of Professional Competencies, including Leadership and Professional Socialisation Part III: Measuring Professional Competencies and Education Outcomes, including How to Conceptualise, Operationalise and Measure Professional Competencies in Social Work Part IV: Professional Competencies and Professional Development, including A Model of Holistic Competence in Social Work and the unique Professional Capabilities Framework Social Work in the Frame of a Professional Competencies Approach is essential reading for social work instructors, academics and national professional associations interested in developing or reviewing their professional competencies framework. It is an invaluable resource for experts in statutory bodies that set up a legislative framework of social work practice or work in the accreditation of social work education programs. The book is useful for social work students interested in understanding the theoretical background of social work, as well as for field practitioners who wish to use professional competencies for their self-reflection, self-evaluation and professional identity.