Les idées en mouvement

Les idées en mouvement
Author: Michel Ducharme
Publisher: Presses Université Laval
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9782763780542

Land, Law and Politics in Africa

Land, Law and Politics in Africa
Author: Jan Abbink
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2011-11-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 900421738X

This book offers a series of new studies on the dynamics of political and legal culture as well as of conflict management in contemporary Africa, taking inspiration from and honoring the scholarly contributions and impact of Prof. Gerti Hesseling (1946-2009) in African Studies.

Désentraver l'alphabétisation

Désentraver l'alphabétisation
Author: Marc Laurent Hazoumê
Publisher: Institut de l'UNESCO pour l'Education
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This book sets out the problem of literacy in Africa. It underlines its inherent properties, examines the various orientations put forward by the many Conferences on adult education that have taken place since 1949, reviews the implementation of the recommendations that came out, and underlines the political dimensions of the challenges to be met. It finally questions the possible solutions as well as the role of structures, both institutional and those resulting from civil society. It emphasizes the importance of the role of local languages in the development of adult education and insists upon the necessity of adapting them to the world of modern knowledge.

Under Development: Gender

Under Development: Gender
Author: C. Verschuur
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137356820

Despite various decades of research and claim-making by feminist scholars and movements, gender remains an overlooked area in development studies. Looking at key issues in development studies through the prisms of gender and feminism, the authors demonstrate that gender is an indispensable tool for social change.

Philosophy in a Time of Terror

Philosophy in a Time of Terror
Author: Giovanna Borradori
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2013-05-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226066657

The idea for Philosophy in a Time of Terror was born hours after the attacks on 9/11 and was realized just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida in New York City, in separate interviews, to evaluate the significance of the most destructive terrorist act ever perpetrated. This book marks an unprecedented encounter between two of the most influential thinkers of our age as here, for the first time, Habermas and Derrida overcome their mutual antagonism and agree to appear side by side. As the two philosophers disassemble and reassemble what we think we know about terrorism, they break from the familiar social and political rhetoric increasingly polarized between good and evil. In this process, we watch two of the greatest intellects of the century at work.

Catharine Beecher

Catharine Beecher
Author: Kathryn Kish Sklar
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1976
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393008128

“A thoughtful, ingenious, speculative book, a pleasure to read and to reread. No one interested in the history of women and the family, and in Victorian civilization as a whole, can afford to miss it.” —Journal of American History

Héritages Francophones

Héritages Francophones
Author: Jean-Claude Redonnet
Publisher:
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2010
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

An innovative program of cultural readings designed for college French classes at the upper-intermediate level and beyond, Héritages francophones is an introduction to several living Francophone cultures in the United States. The communities that are introduced include the descendants of the Acadians in the St. John Valley of Maine; the Haitian community of Miami; and immigrant peoples from Africa, Asia, and Europe. The focus then widens to the countries or areas of origin of these various groups. This emphasis on the diversity of interrelated Francophone issues shows students that French is indeed an international language, with relevance to their own world. Héritages francophones was granted the official patronage of the Académie française in 2007.

Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics

Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics
Author: Barbara Hobson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781781950340

This text challenges mainstream thinking on welfare states, citizenship, family, work and social policy. It analyses the corresponding shifts in political discourse, and the changes in socio-political configurations that mirror changing gender relations.

The Road to Social Europe

The Road to Social Europe
Author: Jean-Claude Barbier
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2013
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0415688884

In the wake of the Greek and Irish crises, and at a moment when solidarity between states is hotly debated on a daily basis at EU level, it is important to understand how 'solidarity' can happen at all. The Road to Social Europe reviews the development of political cultural processes since the nineteenth century, showing how social protection and social justice have gradually become interwoven with systems of social protection, or welfare states. Grounded on extensive empirical research conducted in many EU countries and in the European Commission's administration over twenty years, the book provides a cultural analysis of welfare systems in Europe. It also presents an original enquiry into the importance of languages for politics in Europe, for the politics of welfare, and for sociological research. It shows how sociological and ethnographic analysis can help in understanding the current and future challenges of European integration that rely unilaterally on functional economics. This in-depth sociological analysis of European diversity will appeal to a wide audience of students and scholars of sociology, political science, political economy and European studies.

Care Ethics and Political Theory

Care Ethics and Political Theory
Author: Daniel Engster
Publisher:
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2015
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0198716346

Care Ethics and Political Theory brings together new chapters on the nature of care ethics and its implications for politics from some of the most important philosophers working in the field today. Chapters take up long-standing questions about the relationship between care and justice and develop guidelines for the development of a care-based justice theory. Care ethics is further applied to issues such as security, privacy, law, and health care where little work has been previously done. By bringing care ethics into conversation with non-Western and subaltern cultures, the contributing authors further show how care ethics can guide and learn from other traditions. A final set of chapters uses care ethics to challenge dominant moral and political paradigms and offer an alternative foundation for future moral and political theory. The book as a whole makes the case for care ethics as an equal or superior approach to morality and politics compared with liberalism, luck egalitarianism, libertarianism, the capabilities approach, communitarianism, and other political theories. The volume includes many of the leading care scholars in the world today engaging in both theoretical and applied discussions of this burgeoning field of study. Ultimately, Care Ethics and Political Theory endeavors to find realistic methods and ways of thinking to create a more caring world.