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What is happening when we mistake one thing for another? Disorientations and double takes are a key part of the lived experience of modern capitalism. But the corollary of this is an existential anxiety which motivates a perpetual search for reassurances of our individual and collective identities.
How do we escape self-estrangement and alienation on any level of existence? The experiential gaps in formal bureaucratic and marketised 'life' present...
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La diferencia parece obvia, pero en ocasiones se confunden las experiencias del envejecimiento y de la vejez; y aunque están estrechamente ligadas, comprender por qué no son lo mismo es fundamental para llevar una vida de calidad, independientemente de los años que se tengan. Este libro aborda las comprensiones y representaciones que tienen las mismas personas viejas, desde una perspectiva teórica, interdisciplinaria y fenomenológica, sobre la...
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El propósito de El páramo reformista es entender qué nos hace resistentes al cambio. Si asumimos esta dificultad, quizás comprendamos por qué toda reforma debe ser sostenida y evaluada de manera permanente. Antes de creer en una transformación súbita y radical o pensar que solo se trata de reemplazar a quienes gobiernan, el autor busca convencernos de que este proceso es un camino cuesta arriba, en el cual es mucho más fácil fracasar que...
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Para algunos el ser humano es una especie más entre tantas otras. Reducido a la condición de animal, evolucionado cuando no máximamente dañino, sólo sería otro eslabón en el proceso evolutivo, sin trascendencia. Defender su superioridad sería caer en especismo, un modo insidioso de creerse superior. La moral, la dignidad, solo serían superestructuras culturales, ficciones.
Para otros lo despreciable es justamente la condición biológica....
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Este libro reúne textos gestados en el ámbito del Seminario Permanente de Investigación del grupo Sociedad, Historia y Cultura del CIDSE (Universidad del Valle) que, quincenalmente, reúne a los docentes con los estudiantes del Doctorado en Sociología adscritos al grupo. El objetivo es poner en consideración de los lectores algunas reflexiones de orden teórico y metodológico alimentadas por experiencias de investigación, mostrar las vicisitudes...
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From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking investigation into antisemitism that connects the dots between the tropes and hatred of the past to our current complicated moment. For Emmanuel Acho and Noa Tishby no question about Jews is off-limits. They go there. They cover Jews and money. Jews and power. Jews and privilege. Jews and white privilege. The Black and Jewish struggle. Emmanuel asks, Did...
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Violent Accounts presents a compelling study of how ordinary people commit extraordinary acts of violence and how perpetrators and victims manage in the aftermath. Grounded in extensive, qualitative analysis of perpetrator testimony, the volume reveals the individual experiences of perpetrators as well as general patterns of influence that lead to collective violence.
Drawing on public testimony from the amnesty hearings of the South African Truth...
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The Top 10 Main Ideas in this Book1 based on years of research studying the timeless elements of the human condition, this authoritative book illuminates why we employ the strategies we do as we all play the power game of our lives2 how to strategically employ the five grandest institutions -- the church, the economy, the state, the academy, and the family -- to win the power game3 humanity's discovery that we die gave birth to civilization and rapid...
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Dans la salle des urgences, considérée comme l'un des rares espaces universels au sein d'une société fragmentée, les équipes cliniques rencontrent une multitude de patients aux valeurs et aux croyances diverses. Malgré les contraintes matérielles et temporelles dans un contexte souvent difficile, les soignants doivent s'engager dans un dialogue éthique, à la recherche du bien-être de chacun.
Cet ouvrage relate l'enquête ethnographique...
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En este libro, Juan Iván Martínez presenta un amplio bagaje teórico de los temas sobre la política, lo político. El abordaje interseccional que utiliza le posibilita identificar diferentes marcadores sociales de las mujeres políticas que, al ser analizados a la luz de la teoría sustantiva de género, le permite llegar a conclusiones válidas y altamente sugerentes. Su recurso metodológico clave consiste en tomar y analizar el dato para interpretar...
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Advance Praise for Savage Park:
"In this unusually refreshing meditation (which reads like a novel), we are given a tour of the space around and within us. With poetic efficiency Amy Fusselman reveals what makes us savage or not; why secret, wild spaces are essential; and, why playing should be taken seriously. I should add, she frightened me with: It is still illegal to climb a tree in Central Park!"
-Philippe Petit, High Wire Artist -
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Throughout their careers, social scientists must come up with compelling research topics, decide when and where to publish, and revise their manuscripts for publication. Despite the importance of these skills, they are seldom if ever addressed in the course of graduate training. Heavy emphasis is placed on conducting research, and other core activities such as teaching also receive attention, yet fundamental academic practices are left almost entirely...
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At home, on the job, in a personal relationship, it's often not what you say but how you say it that counts.
Deborah Tannen revolutionized our thinking about relationships between women and men in her #1 bestseller You Just Don't Understand. In That's Not What I Meant!, the internationally renowned sociolinguist and expert on communication demonstrates how our conversational signals-voice level, pitch and intonation, rhythm and timing, even the simple...
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In American politics, medical innovation is often considered the domain of the private sector. Yet some of the most significant scientific and health breakthroughs of the past century have emerged from government research institutes. The U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) is tasked with both understanding and eradicating cancer-and its researchers have developed a surprising expertise in virus research and vaccine development.
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Julia Kristeva examines melancholia across art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, and psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit and a nearly unattainable goal and explains how the love of a lost identity of attachment lies at the very core of depression's dark heart. Kristeva analyzes Holbein's controversial 1522 painting The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb...
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America is no longer a country but a multimillion-dollar brand, says Kalle Lasn and his fellow "culture jammers". The founder of Adbusters magazine, Lasn aims to stop the branding of America by changing the way information flows; the way institutions wield power; the way television stations are run; and the way the food, fashion, automobile, sports, music, and culture industries set agendas. With a courageous and compelling voice, Lasn deconstructs...
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"Requiem pour César" propose une réflexion percutante sur les enjeux environnementaux. Dans un style direct et incisif, Yves Urvoy-Roslin fait une analyse des questions existentielles en s'appuyant sur des penseurs réalistes tels que René Girard et Philippe Muray. Leurs voix dénoncent l'idéalisme naïf et l'inaction de l'Église de France, des structures administratives et de certains intellectuels face aux dérives de la société moderne,...
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Aboveground, Manhattan's Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, disused for decades, where over the years unhoused people have taken shelter. The sociologist Terry Williams ventured into the tunnel residents' world, seeking to understand life on the margins and out of sight. He visited the tunnels between West Seventy-Second and West Ninety-Sixth Streets hundreds of times...
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Communities around the world are entering a new era of community building. Whether improving economic conditions and reducing poverty, re-energizing citizens and social programs, reducing crime, or revitalizing a troubled neighborhood, they are engaging people from all sectors as never before to work together as equals to improve their quality of life. At the heart of this engagement are community conversations, in which common goals are embraced...
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