En torno a Alfonso Ortí: La sociología crítica como sociohistoria

En torno a Alfonso Ortí: La sociología crítica como sociohistoria
Author: DUQUE RODRÍGUEZ DE ARELLANO Ignacio
Publisher: Editorial UNED
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2020-11-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 843627654X

Este libro es un claro testimonio de la existencia de una fraternidad «en torno» a Alfonso Ortí, maestro y referencia intelectual y personal de tantos sociólogos e historiadores. Los autores son una pequeña, pero significativa muestra de esa fraternidad, de ese variado y complejo tejido de reconocimiento y de deudas que su generosidad ha trenzado; tejido basado en experiencias colectivas muy relevantes (cursos, seminarios, charlas, paseos) y en una praxis propia de investigadores sociales y de estudiantes. Este libro es también un reconocimiento de una parte de la memoria colectiva sobre la investigación social e histórica de nuestro país, particularmente orillada en el pensamiento social y académico convencional, intentando dejar constancia de una reflexión crítica sobre la compleja sociedad española contemporánea, sobre nuestra historia reciente y sobre la metodología del análisis concreto de nuestros problemas y dilemas. Los trabajos aquí reunidos abordan los principales campos de investigación de Alfonso Ortí: el consumo de los diferentes grupos y los estudios de mercado; la historia social y política de la España contemporánea; la historia rural y agraria; la agricultura y el campesinado; las ideologías y el pensamiento social; la docencia y la praxis de la sociología; la teoría sociológica. Y sus temas principales: Joaquín Costa, el Regeneracionismo; la Restauración, el populismo, el patrimonialismo, el campesinado y la agricultura familiar; el movimiento jornalero; el pensamiento social agrario; las viejas y nuevas clases medias; la Transición democrática en España y el Juan Carlismo; los grupos de discusión y la metodología cualitativa; el análisis del discurso; la sanidad y el trabajo; así como sus ubicuos, complejos y deslumbrantes esquemas. Una variedad de campos y temas conforman un centón de cuestiones en las que el historiador y sociólogo Alfonso Ortí muestra su coherencia y sistematicidad teórica.

En torno a Alfonso Ortí

En torno a Alfonso Ortí
Author: Ignacio Duque
Publisher:
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2020
Genre:
ISBN: 9788436276312

"Este libro es un claro testimonio de la existencia de una fraternidad "en torno" a Alfonso Ortí, maestro y referencia intelectual y personal de tantos sociólogos e historiadores. Los autores son una pequeña pero significativa muestra de esa fraternidad, de ese variado y complejo tejido de reconocimiento y de deudas que su generosidad ha trenzado; tejido basado en experiencias colectivas muy relevantes (cursos, seminarios, charlas, paseos) y en una praxis propia de investigadores sociales y de estudiantes. Este libro es también un reconocimiento de una parte de la memoria colectiva sobre la investigación social e histórica de nuestro país, particularmente orillada en el pensamiento social y académico convencional, intentando dejar constancia de una reflexión crítica sobre la compleja sociedad española contemporánea, sobre nuestra historia reciente y sobre la metodología del análisis concreto de nuestros problemas y dilemas."_ Contracubierta

Cultural Organizations, Networks and Mediators in Contemporary Ibero-America

Cultural Organizations, Networks and Mediators in Contemporary Ibero-America
Author: Diana Roig-Sanz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2020-01-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000769038

This book proposes an innovative conceptual framework to explore cultural organizations at a multilateral level and cultural mediators as key figures in cultural and institutionalization processes. Specifically, it analyzes the role of Ibero-American mediators in the institutionalization of Hispanic and Lusophone cultures in the first half of the 20th century by means of two institutional networks: PEN (the non-governmental writer’s association) and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (predecessor to UNESCO). Attempting to combine cultural and global history, sociology, and literary studies, the book uses an analytical focus on intercultural networks and cultural transfer to investigate the multiple activities and roles that these mediators and cultural organizations set in motion. Literature has traditionally studied major figures and important centers of cultural production, but other regions and localities also played a crucial role in the development of intellectual cooperation. This book reappraises the place of Ibero-America in international cultural relations and retrieves the lost history of key secondary actors. The book will appeal to scholars from international relations, global and cultural history, sociology, postcolonial Studies, world and comparative literature, and New Hispanisms. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429299407, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Tattoo Histories

Tattoo Histories
Author: Sinah Theres Kloß
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2019-11-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000707989

Tattoo Histories is an edited volume which analyses and discusses the relevance of tattooing in the socio-cultural construction of bodies, boundaries, and identities, among both individuals and groups. Its interdisciplinary approach facilitates historical as well as contemporary perspectives. Rather than presenting a universal, essentialized history of tattooing, the volume’s objective is to focus on the entangled and transcultural histories, narratives, and practices related to tattoos. Contributions stem from various fields, including Archaeology, Art History, Classics, History, Linguistics, Media and Literary Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, and Sociology. They advance the current endeavour on the part of tattoo scholars to challenge Eurocentric and North American biases prevalent in much of tattoo research, by including various analyses based in locations such as Malaysia, Israel, East Africa, and India. The thematic focus is on the transformative capacity of tattoos and tattooing, with regard to the social construction of bodies and subjectivity; the (re-)creation of social relationships through the definition of (non-)tattooed others; the formation and consolidation of group identities, traditions, and authenticity; and the conceptualization of art and its relevance to tattoo artist–tattooee relations.

Latin America’s Cold War

Latin America’s Cold War
Author: Hal Brands
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2012-03-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674055284

For Latin America, the Cold War was anything but cold. Nor was it the so-called “long peace” afforded the world’s superpowers by their nuclear standoff. In this book, the first to take an international perspective on the postwar decades in the region, Hal Brands sets out to explain what exactly happened in Latin America during the Cold War, and why it was so traumatic. Tracing the tumultuous course of regional affairs from the late 1940s through the early 1990s, Latin America’s Cold War delves into the myriad crises and turning points of the period—the Cuban revolution and its aftermath; the recurring cycles of insurgency and counter-insurgency; the emergence of currents like the National Security Doctrine, liberation theology, and dependency theory; the rise and demise of a hemispheric diplomatic challenge to U.S. hegemony in the 1970s; the conflagration that engulfed Central America from the Nicaraguan revolution onward; and the democratic and economic reforms of the 1980s. Most important, the book chronicles these events in a way that is both multinational and multilayered, weaving the experiences of a diverse cast of characters into an understanding of how global, regional, and local influences interacted to shape Cold War crises in Latin America. Ultimately, Brands exposes Latin America’s Cold War as not a single conflict, but rather a series of overlapping political, social, geostrategic, and ideological struggles whose repercussions can be felt to this day.

Mexico's Cold War

Mexico's Cold War
Author: Renata Keller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2015-07-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107079586

This book examines Mexico's unique foreign relations with the US and Cuba during the Cold War.

A Century of Revolution

A Century of Revolution
Author: Gilbert M. Joseph
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2010-10-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822392852

Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the 1970s and 1980s. In his introduction to A Century of Revolution, Greg Grandin argues that the dynamics of political violence and terror in Latin America are so recognizable in their enforcement of domination, their generation and maintenance of social exclusion, and their propulsion of historical change, that historians have tended to take them for granted, leaving unexamined important questions regarding their form and meaning. The essays in this groundbreaking collection take up these questions, providing a sociologically and historically nuanced view of the ideological hardening and accelerated polarization that marked Latin America’s twentieth century. Attentive to the interplay among overlapping local, regional, national, and international fields of power, the contributors focus on the dialectical relations between revolutionary and counterrevolutionary processes and their unfolding in the context of U.S. hemispheric and global hegemony. Through their fine-grained analyses of events in Chile, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru, they suggest a framework for interpreting the experiential nature of political violence while also analyzing its historical causes and consequences. In so doing, they set a new agenda for the study of revolutionary change and political violence in twentieth-century Latin America. Contributors Michelle Chase Jeffrey L. Gould Greg Grandin Lillian Guerra Forrest Hylton Gilbert M. Joseph Friedrich Katz Thomas Miller Klubock Neil Larsen Arno J. Mayer Carlota McAllister Jocelyn Olcott Gerardo Rénique Corey Robin Peter Winn

Musical Culture and the Spirit of Irish Nationalism, 1848–1972

Musical Culture and the Spirit of Irish Nationalism, 1848–1972
Author: Richard Parfitt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2019-08-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000517632

Musical Culture and the Spirit of Irish Nationalism is the first comprehensive history of music’s relationship with Irish nationalist politics. Addressing rebel songs, traditional music and dance, national anthems and protest song, the book draws upon an unprecedented volume of material to explore music’s role in cultural and political nationalism in modern Ireland. From the nineteenth-century Young Irelanders, the Fenians, the Home Rule movement, Sinn Féin and the Anglo-Irish War to establishment politics in independent Ireland and civil rights protests in Northern Ireland, this wide-ranging survey considers music’s importance and its limitations across a variety of political movements.

Post-Soviet Nostalgia

Post-Soviet Nostalgia
Author: Otto Boele
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2019-07-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000507297

Bringing together scholars from Russia, the United States and Europe, this collection of essays is the first to explore the slippery phenomenon of post-Soviet nostalgia by studying it as a discursive practice serving a wide variety of ideological agendas. The authors demonstrate how feelings of loss and displacement in post-Soviet Russia are turned into effective tools of state building and national mobilization, as well as into weapons for local resistance and the assertion of individual autonomy. Drawing on novels, memoirs, documentaries, photographs and Soviet commodities, Post-Soviet Nostalgia is an invaluable resource for historians, literary scholars and anthropologists interested in how Russia comes to terms with its Soviet past.

Drug War Capitalism

Drug War Capitalism
Author: Dawn Paley
Publisher: AK Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2014-11-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1849351880

Though pillage, profit, and plunder have been a mainstay of war since pre-colonial times, there is little contemporary focus on the role of finance and economics in today's "Drug Wars"—despite the fact that they boost US banks and fill our prisons with poor people. They feed political campaigns, increase the arms trade, and function as long-term fixes to capitalism's woes, cracking open new territories to privatization and foreign direct investment. Combining on-the-ground reporting with extensive research, Dawn Paley moves beyond the usual horror stories, beyond journalistic rubbernecking and hand-wringing, to follow the thread of the Drug War story throughout the entire region of Latin America and all the way back to US boardrooms and political offices. This unprecedented book chronicles how terror is used against the population at large in cities and rural areas, generating panic and facilitating policy changes that benefit the international private sector, particularly extractive industries like petroleum and mining. This is what is really going on. This is drug war capitalism. Dawn Paley is a freelance journalist who has been reporting from South America, Central America, and Mexico for over ten years. Her writing has been published in the Nation, the Guardian, Vancouver Sun, Globe and Mail, Ms. magazine, the Tyee, Georgia Straight, and NACLA, among others.