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Explores how elites restrict access to public beaches around the globeBeaches are a beloved form of public space Yet there has been an alarming global trend of restricting access to public sections of beaches to ensure that waterfront property owners can enjoy the shoreline exclusively or develop the land for commercial use Beach Politics examines how over the past forty years privatization of public space has accelerated with the help of both local governments and national corporations On a local level this can entail a group of wealthy neighbors purposely blocking off public beach access in their neighborhood hiring security guards building fences or putting up No Trespassing signs to turn away members of the public who have every right to be there On a state or national level it can manifest as gated communities owned by private corporations sectioning off huge swaths of land limiting access or governments promoting private rather than public development along the shoreline Whenever disputes about land use arise the powers that be often side with private interests and the wealthy over those with fewer resources and frequently people of color Focused on beaches access to public space and social justice this book brings together powerful contri

Explores how elites restrict access to public beaches around the globeBeaches are a beloved form of public space Yet there has been an alarming global trend of restricting access to public sections of beaches to ensure that waterfront property owners can enjoy the shoreline exclusively or develop the land for commercial use Beach Politics examines how over the past forty years privatization of public space has accelerated with the help of both local governments and national corporations On a local level this can entail a group of wealthy neighbors purposely blocking off public beach access in their neighborhood hiring security guards building fences or putting up No Trespassing signs to turn away members of the public who have every right to be there On a state or national level it can manifest as gated communities owned by private corporations sectioning off huge swaths of land limiting access or governments promoting private rather than public development along the shoreline Whenever disputes about land use arise the powers that be often side with private interests and the wealthy over those with fewer resources and frequently people of color Focused on beaches access to public space and social justice this book brings together powerful contri

This textbook presents a clear and accessible argument for sustainable planning and development The book discusses multiple environmental issues and examines how potential solutions can and should be addressed in the context of space and place The book also offers an invaluable discussion on the need for a framework for system based thinking where various disciplines should work together to find innovative solutions Students are provided with an appreciation of the need for an interdisciplinary approach to these issues combined with an underlying sense of space an appreciation of cultural diversity and differences as well as associated insights into human relationships These core attributes put space at the heart of environmental and natural resources management in terms of policy planning and on the ground initiatives This book will be an invaluable reference for advanced undergraduate graduate students and researchers working in the field looking for an accessible overview of this interdisciplinary approach to the topic

El Estado-nación y la sociedad actual enfrentan un doble problema: el de la globalización y el de la biodiversidad; ambas minan las fronteras que la modernidad había considerado sólidas e infranqueables. Las instituciones politicas, confinadas territorialmente, son incapaces de hacer frente a la extraterritorialidad y al libre flujo de las finanzas, el capital y el comercio. Frente a esto, la sociologia debe modificar los marcos conceptuales que dieron cuenta de la modernidad para elaborar modelos que expliquen las nuevas experiencias humanas.

After decades of debate about global warming the fact of the climate crisis is finally widely accepted People at all scales from the household to the global market are attempting to govern climate to deal with its causes and impacts Although the stakes are different now governing climate is centuries old In this book Zeke Baker develops a genealogy of climate science that traces the relationship between those who have created knowledge of the climate and those who have attempted to gain power and govern society right up to the present historic moment Baker draws together over two centuries of science politics and environmental change to demonstrate the co production of climate knowledge and power seeking activity with a focus on the United States This book provides a fresh account of contemporary issues transecting science and climate politics specifically the rise of climate security and examines how climate science can either facilitate or reconcile the unequal distribution of power and resources

In surrealist artist Paul Klee s The Twittering Machine the bird song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation Leading political writer and broadcaster Richard Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor for our relationship with social media Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction machine We are users waiting for our next hit as we like comment and share We write to the machine as individuals but it responds by aggregating our fantasies desires and frailties into data and returning them to us as a commodity experience Through journalism psychoanalytic reflection and insights from users developers security experts and others Seymour probes the human side of the machine asking what we re getting out of it and what we re getting into

After decades of debate about global warming the fact of the climate crisis is finally widely accepted People at all scales from the household to the global market are attempting to govern climate to deal with its causes and impacts Although the stakes are different now governing climate is centuries old In this book Zeke Baker develops a genealogy of climate science that traces the relationship between those who have created knowledge of the climate and those who have attempted to gain power and govern society right up to the present historic moment Baker draws together over two centuries of science politics and environmental change to demonstrate the co production of climate knowledge and power seeking activity with a focus on the United States This book provides a fresh account of contemporary issues transecting science and climate politics specifically the rise of climate security and examines how climate science can either facilitate or reconcile the unequal distribution of power and resources

¿Coleccionabas tazos de las bolsas de patatas cuando eras pequeño? ¿Recuerdas la primera vez que usaste un ordenador? ¿Solías estar pegado a la televisión durante los partidos históricos del FC Barcelona y el Real Madrid? ¿Y de que grupos musicales compraste tu primer album? Mis Primeros 18 Años es la serie de libros que devuelve la infancia a todos. Cada libro se centra en los momentos mas importantes, como los exitos deportivos, las noticias nacionales e internacionales y el entretenimiento. Ademas, Mis Primeros 18 Años se detiene en tendencias, modas y objetos antiguos que son tan reconocibles, pero que pueden haberse olvidado un poco con el paso de los años. Cada libro contiene 18 capitulos que describen los primeros 18 años de nuestra vida. Al final de cada capitulo, encontraras un resumen de los diez mejores exitos musicales de ese año. Puedes descargarlos y escucharlos facilmente a traves de Spotify. En total, el libro ofrece 180 hits deslumbrantes, todos los cuales probablemente te traeran recuerdos de tu infancia. La serie consta de decenas de libros. Tu eliges el que coincida con tu año de nacimiento. Por ejemplo, el libro Mis Primeros 18 Años (1957) es especificamente para cualquiera nacido en 1957. El libro describe todas las cosas importantes de cada año hasta 1974. Mis Primeros 18 Años es un regalo ideal, incluso para cumpleaños, Reyes y Dia del Padre y Dia de la Madre.

En este libro excepcionalmente lúcido y potente, el ensayista francés expone sin ambages el filo más amargo de la realidad contemporánea.

In a world increasingly run by algorithms and artificial intelligence Hatim Rahman traces how organizations are using algorithms to control workers in an invisible cage Inside the Invisible Cage uses unique longitudinal data to investigate how digital labor platforms use algorithms to dictate the actions of high skilled workers by determining accepted behaviors work opportunities and even success As Hatim Rahman explains employers can use algorithms to shift rules and guidelines without notice explanation or recourse for workers The invisible cage signals a profound shift in the way markets and organizations categorize and ultimately control people Unlike previous forms of labor control the invisible cage is ubiquitous yet it is also opaque and shifting which makes breaking free from it difficult for workers This book traces how the invisible cage was developed over time and the implications it has for the spread of new technology such as generative artificial intelligence Inside the Invisible Cage also provides organizations workers and policymakers with insights on how to ensure the future of work has truly equitable mutually beneficial outcomes

Machine learning algorithms are widely presumed to herald a world in which the crippling burdens of anxiety can be left behind The digital revolution promises a brave new world where individuals communities and organizations can at last take control of the future anticipating designing and commanding the future possibly even with mathematical exactitude Yet paradoxically algorithms have unleashed widespread fears and forebodings about the impact of digital technologies Whether it s worries about unemployment distress about social media s harmful effects on teenagers or the fear of intrusive digital surveillance we live in an age of turbo charged anxiety where the prophecies of algorithms are increasingly enmeshed with fundamental disruption and anxieties about the future In this book Anthony Elliott examines how machine learning algorithms are not only transforming global institutions but also rewriting our personal lives He tells this story through a wide ranging analysis which takes in ChatGPT Amazon the Metaverse Martin Ford Netflix Uber Bernard Stiegler Squid Game Kate Crawford LaMDA Byung Chul Han autonomous drones Jean Baudrillard and the automation of warfare Questioning why people often assume that they need to adopt new technologie

Machine learning algorithms are widely presumed to herald a world in which the crippling burdens of anxiety can be left behind The digital revolution promises a brave new world where individuals communities and organizations can at last take control of the future anticipating designing and commanding the future possibly even with mathematical exactitude Yet paradoxically algorithms have unleashed widespread fears and forebodings about the impact of digital technologies Whether it s worries about unemployment distress about social media s harmful effects on teenagers or the fear of intrusive digital surveillance we live in an age of turbo charged anxiety where the prophecies of algorithms are increasingly enmeshed with fundamental disruption and anxieties about the future In this book Anthony Elliott examines how machine learning algorithms are not only transforming global institutions but also rewriting our personal lives He tells this story through a wide ranging analysis which takes in ChatGPT Amazon the Metaverse Martin Ford Netflix Uber Bernard Stiegler Squid Game Kate Crawford LaMDA Byung Chul Han autonomous drones Jean Baudrillard and the automation of warfare Questioning why people often assume that they need to adopt new technologie

En esta segunda edición, los autores presentan una obra nueva, en la que siguen sintetizando el estado actual de la estratificación social con sus implicaciones, pero a la luz de los acontecimientos de los que hemos sido testigos en los ultimos diez años, los transcurridos desde que se publicara su primera edicion.

Karl Mannheim (1893-1947) es uno de los grandes fundadores de la sociología contemporánea. Consideraba que la sociología no puede tener un interés especulativo, sino que debe servir para comprender y explicar el orden social y contribuir a mejorar sus fundamentos y el buen funcionamiento de una sociedad democratica. Y esa concepcion le condujo a evitar el dogmatismo tanto en su sociologia del conocimiento (de la cual fue el gran fundador como disciplina) como respecto a su sociologia de la planificacion democratica para la libertad y a su sociologia de la cultura. Por ello mismo nos continua interpelando en relacion a los grandes interrogantes de la modernidad que presiden nuestra actual coyuntura historica. Una coyuntura en la que se plantean los limites del reformismo y la posibilidad de realizar una revolucion democratica desde los textos del constitucionalismo democratico social con Estado Social de Derecho, es decir, una revolucion pacifica y tambien juridica llevada a cabo por los cauces de la democracia constitucional.La planificacion democratica para la libertad no puede sino hacerse acompañar de formas de democracia economica participativa en las estructuras de decision tanto a nivel central como a niveles descentralizados y de las empresas. La democracia economica debe tambien realizarse sobre la base de un hombre nuevo plenamente socializado, es decir, una ciudadania activa formada y participe de valores comunes (democraticamente formulados en los textos constitucionales e internacionales de valor constitucional) y capaz de intervenir criticamente (reflexivamente) en los debates de la esfera publica. Y para alcanzar este objetivo es indispensable establecer un sistema educativo democratico, que instruya a los ciudadanos acerca de los valores superiores que la constitucion de la sociedad se ha dado a si misma. El Estado tendria, pues, un papel central, pero tambien la opinion publica forjada sobre la base de una potente sociedad civil educada y activa. Ese enfoque encajaba perfectamente con el ideario propio del que se denominaria socialismo liberal o socialismo democratico que se pondria en practica, efectivamente, en varios paises europeos a partir de la segunda postguerra mundial: extender la democracia con la finalidad de alcanzar mas igualdad formal y sustancial en libertad.

Os lastres que dende hai séculos teiman en mistificar o oficio poético afástano unha e outra vez da consideración de traballo. A mesma profesionalización que incrementa valor a un músico ou a unha artista plastica pode producir descredito nunha poeta. E as mans que escriben versos chegan a ser glorificadas no mesmo movemento co que se lles nega unha xusta remuneracion. O risco de deixar a arte en mans de quen se pode permitir facela a cambio de nada remata por precipitarse nunha fenda de clase capaz de deixar fora as voces das precarias, das excluidas, das incomodas. Tras trinta anos de traxectoria e unha carreira internacional, unha das poucas figuras que experimenta o que e vivir deste xenero tira conclusions ao fio do vivido, e abre debate no que e o seu primeiro volume de ensaio. Unha reflexion que tamen convida a unha ollada complice dende calquera oficio creativo ou cultural.

En este relato, género paseante, mezcla de memorias, ensoñaciones, ensayos divulgativos, reflexiones de caminante, observaciones al hilo de otras aportaciones y diálogos con autoras con las que comparte o bien intereses literarios, o ensayisticos, pero si

This book focuses on the relationship between Artificial Intelligence AI and the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs Some topics examined in the book include country achievement of the SDGs the relationship between human trafficking and the SDGs climate change and global problems mentioned above

The climate crisis is humanmade Its main cause is the burning of fossil fuels To combat climate change we have to understand how we arrived at where we are This book explores the reasons why human societies have embarked on the trajectory of ever increasing use of fossil fuels Population growth desire for freedom from want and profit seeking all played major roles in shaping human history but there has been no inevitable drive towards heating up the atmosphere in the pursuit of social objectives To sustain a growing population more natural resources are required but their use does not need to generate climate change No logic of modernity links freedom with a kind of material abundance that requires the burning of fossil fuels No logic of capital necessarily ties the search for profit to the extraction of fossil resources Examining the critical junctures in human history when resource regimes changed this book identifies the social problems that were meant to be solved by burning fossil fuels and the power hierarchies that shaped the decisions to use them Wagner argues that the key choices that led to the climate emergency were made relatively recently during the second half of the 20th century they are close enough in time for us to undo the prevailing

The climate crisis is humanmade Its main cause is the burning of fossil fuels To combat climate change we have to understand how we arrived at where we are This book explores the reasons why human societies have embarked on the trajectory of ever increasing use of fossil fuels Population growth desire for freedom from want and profit seeking all played major roles in shaping human history but there has been no inevitable drive towards heating up the atmosphere in the pursuit of social objectives To sustain a growing population more natural resources are required but their use does not need to generate climate change No logic of modernity links freedom with a kind of material abundance that requires the burning of fossil fuels No logic of capital necessarily ties the search for profit to the extraction of fossil resources Examining the critical junctures in human history when resource regimes changed this book identifies the social problems that were meant to be solved by burning fossil fuels and the power hierarchies that shaped the decisions to use them Wagner argues that the key choices that led to the climate emergency were made relatively recently during the second half of the 20th century they are close enough in time for us to undo the prevailing

¿Existe la italianidad? ¿De modo científicamente razonable? ¿Una sola italianidad? ¿Nacer italiano, ser italiano, hacerse italiano, vivir en Italia o amar la cultura italiana determinan que se posea en mayor o menor medida dicha supuesta italianidad? ¿Por obra y gracia del clima y de la geografia italianas? ¿Por el arte italiano, incluida naturalmente su literatura? ¿Es una fantasia identitaria, un deseo basado en mitos? ¿Resulta pacificamente compatible con otras identidades, individuales o colectivas? ¿Consiste en una construccion de sentido que marca eficazmente mas alla de la pura mercadotecnia empresarial o nacional? ¿Como se ha ido elaborando, como ha sido, como es, como podria ser lo que podemos llamar italianidad?