Dignity and Daily Practice

Dignity and Daily Practice
Author: Monica Budowski
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2005
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9783825880729

In recent debates over poverty and development, notions of worth, dignity, and human rights have come to the forefront. This publication addresses the link between the theoretical notion of dignity as a social primary good and its material expressions in daily life from comparative social anthropological and historical perspectives. The empirical analysis is based on over one hundred in-depth interviews with lone mothers living in different cultural settings in Costa Rica. In addition, a unique and innovative national social policy measure aimed at promoting dignity and self-worth as a means to exit poverty and secure sustainable development is assessed.

Through the Eyes of Women

Through the Eyes of Women
Author: Cecilia Menjívar
Publisher: de Sitter Publications
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN:

This volume examines the effects of neoliberal reforms on daily life in Latin America and the Caribbean, as seen through the eyes of women. The authors situate women in their sociocultural milieus, so that women's perceptions and assessments are examined through a lens that includes the lives of other women, men, and other members of the women's families, work settings, communities, and political and religious organizations. Although women in this book are presented as social actors pursuing diverse personal goals, their experiences, views, and objectives are embedded within broader forces in the economy, polity, culture, and legal systems that organize their lives. Cecilia Menjívar, a sociologist, is Associate Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Arizona State University. She has written on the social processes of migration-social networks, gender relations, family dynamics, transnational spaces, and religious communities-among Central Americans in the United States, including the book "Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America" (UC Press 2000). She is co-editing a book (with Nestor Rodriquez) on state terror in Latin America and writing a monograph that examines comparatively the social networks of indigenous and ladina women in Guatemala.

Exclusion and Engagement

Exclusion and Engagement
Author: Christopher Abel
Publisher: Institute of Latin American Studies
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

The authors place contemporary social policy in historical perspective, study the connection between growth and welfare, and consider the efficacy of the state in the social sphere from both macro and micro perspectives. Underpinning the collection are issues relating to the question of the social contract between state and citizen and how the exercise of citizenship connects society and state.

Latin American Research Review

Latin American Research Review
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 884
Release: 2001
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

An interdisciplinary journal that publishes original research and surveys of current research on Latin America and the Caribbean.