Sociedad civil y teoría política

Our world is changing faster and faster. How are we reacting to it? Some celebrate the digital future with terrifying naivete, waiting for changes like weather events. Politicians don't seem to take this radical change serious. Others warn of the dictatorship of the Silicon Valley digital corporations, while others would prefer to hide their heads and return to the past. For his part, Richard David Precht outlines the image of a desirable future in the digital age. Is the end of meritocracy as we know it really a loss? For the German philosopher, the digital society offers the possibility...

The book focuses on and tracks the relationship and the quality of discourse that evolve between interviewer and interviewee within a series of interview situations. It presents theoretical arguments and empirical findings based on twenty-five face-to-face conversations with a freshwater fish wholesaler in the northeastern Peruvian rainforest town of Iquitos. Supplemented by the interview transcripts in Spanish, it is a valuable methodological source for sociologists, anthropologists, linguists, economists and historians who are interested in interdisciplinary qualitative research. (Series:...

QUÉ HACEMOS frente a los graves problemas creados POR LA especulación inmobiliaria y para proponer una política alternativa de VIVIENDA. La vivienda se ha convertido en el epicentro de la crisis económica y social española, la mayor en mucho tiempo. Lo es para la economía, pues el boom inmobiliario de los años anteriores estalló llevándose por delante la banca, la economía productiva, las cuentas públicas y el empleo. Y lo es para la sociedad, porque los ciudadanos sufrimos las consecuencias del estallido en forma de desahucios, asfixia hipotecaria y dificultad para acceder a un...

This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life. For Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, the remaining Indian communities, the "de-Indianized" rural mestizo communities, and vast sectors of the poor urban population constitute the México profundo. Their lives and ways of understanding the world continue to be rooted in Mesoamerican civilization. An ancient agricultural complex provides their food supply, and work is understood as a way of maintaining a harmonious relationship with the natural ...