La extraordinaria historia de cómo 1.000 millones de africanos están superando la caridad, a los déspotas y a los yihadistas para, finalmente, obtener su libertad. Desde hace mucho, los extranjeros han comprendido mal Africa y han abusado de ella. Alex Perry ha viajado por el continente durante mas de una decada, entrevistandose con empresarios, señores de la guerra, profesores, narcotraficantes, presidentes y yihadistas, entre otros. Con el Gran Valle del Rift (la grieta geologica que un dia acabara partiendo Africa en dos) como metafora central, Perry explora la division entre un Africa que resurge y un mundo que no sabe como reaccionar ante ello. ¿Como esta cambiando Africa? ¿Como desafia esta nueva Africa su antigua elite dirigente? Perry, que abre el libro con una devastadora investigacion sobre un crimen de guerra, en gran parte ignorado, que tuvo lugar en Somalia en 2011, halla un Africa inmersa en un momento de furiosa afirmacion. Es un continente rehecho, que se levanta desafiante sobre siglos de opresion para convertirse en un titan economico y politico. Un lugar en el que el dinero efectivo es cosa del pasado, en el que los astronomos estan desentrañando los origenes de la vida y en el que, veinticinco años despues de los conciertos de Live Aid, los primeros yuppies de Etiopia comercian en una bolsa electronica de alimentos. Y sin embargo, mientras Africa obtiene la substancia de su libertad, ha de enfrentarse a tres ultimos falsos profetas que la quieren mantener encadenada: los islamistas, los dictadores y la cooperacion internacional. Bellamente escrita, narrada con un tono cercano y argumentada con pasion, La gran grieta es una mirada vivida y provocativa a como el mundo no comprende Africa, y como un Africa que resurge nos obliga a pensarla otra vez.

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"This book examines current theories of institutional change. The chapters highlight the limitations of these theories. Instead a model emerges of contemporary political economies developing in incremental but cumulatively transformative processes"--Provided by publisher.

Estas son las páginas en las que estaba trabajando Zygmunt Bauman justo antes de su muerte. Se trata de una conversa - ción con Thomas Leoncini, un joven periodista italiano. Por primera vez, Bauman aborda el universo de las generaciones nacidas a mediados de los ochenta, los nativos de una sociedad liquida que cambia a velocidad vertiginosa. Bauman y Leoncini hablan de tatuajes, cirugias plasticas, hipsteres, del acoso escolar, de las redes sociales y de las transformaciones en el amor y la sexualidad en esta era del comercio electronico.

This volume sets out to give a philosophical "applied" account of violence, engaged with both empirical and theoretical debates in other disciplines such as cognitive science, sociology, psychiatry, anthropology, political theory, evolutionary biology, and theology. The book's primary thesis is that violence is inescapably intertwined with morality and typically enacted for "moral" reasons. To show this, the book compellingly demonstrates how morality operates to trigger and justify violence and how people, in their violent behaviors, can engage and disengage with discrete moralities. The author's fundamental account of language, and in particular its normative aspects, is particularly insightful as regards extending the range of what is to be understood as violence beyond the domain of physical harm. By employing concepts such as "coalition enforcement", "moral bubbles", "cognitive niches", "overmoralization", "military intelligence" and so on, the book aims to spell out how perpetrators and victims of violence systematically disagree about the very nature of violence. The author's original claim is that disagreement can be understood naturalistically, described by an account of morality informed by evolutionary perspectives as well. This book might help us come to terms with the fact that we are intrinsically "violent beings". To acknowledge this condition, and our stupefying capacity to inflict harm, is a responsibility we must face up to: such understanding could ultimately be of help in order to achieve a safer ownership of our destinies, by individuating and reinforcing those cognitive firewalls that would prevent violence from always escalating and overflowing.

This book elucidates what it means to transition to alternative sources of energy and discusses the potential for this energy transition to be a more democratic process The book dynamically describes a recent sociotechnical study of a number of energy transitions occurring in several countries France Germany and Tunisia and involving different energy technologies including solar on off shore wind smart grids biomass low energy buildings and carbon capture and storage Drawing on a pragmatist tradition of social inquiry the authors examine the consequences of energy transition processes for the actors and entities that are affected by them as well as the spaces for political participation they offer This critical inquiry is organised according to foundational categories that have defined the energy transition renewable energy resources markets economic instruments technological demonstration spatiality scale and temporality horizon s Using a set of select case studies this book systematically investigates the role these categories play in the current developments in energy transitions

«Cuando yo mataba no sentía nada. sabía que alguien tenía que hacerlo. Para mí era un trabajo común, como el de un militar o un policía. Yo sabía que, si alguien tenía que matar a alguien, se tenía q

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

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

En México, por desgracia, ¡la violencia y la pobreza son demasiado comunes! Supongamos que, tras el colapso del orden democrático mundial, un dictador autocrático se empeña en crear una nueva y magnífica civilizacion reconquistando todos los territorios que fueron mexicanos en el pasado: desde California y Nuevo Mexico en el norte, hasta Guatemala en el sur. Esta situacion propicia una guerra, especificamente contra California y Texas, y la Ciudad de Mexico termina sitiada. Entonces el protagonista y su familia deben huir.

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

Social Determinants of Health 2nd Edition gives an authoritative overview of the social and economic factors which are known to be the most powerful determinants of population health in modern societies Written by acknowledged experts in each field it provides accessible summaries of the scientific justification for isolating different aspects of social and economic life as the primary determinants of a population s health The new edition takes account of the most recent research and also includes additional chapters on ethnicity and health sexual behaviours the elderly housing and neighbourhoods Recognition of the power of socioeconomic factors as determinants of health came initially from research on health inequalities This has led to a view of health as not simply about individual behaviour or exposure to risk but how the socially and economically structured way of life of a population shapes its health Thus exercise and accidents are as much about a society s transport system as about individual decisions and the nation s diet involves agriculture food manufacture retailing and personal incomes as much as individual choice But a major new element in the picture we have developed is the importance of the social or psycho social environment to hea

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

La obra que tienes en tus manos proporciona un marco desde el que reflexionar y dialogar sobre los desafíos que se están planteando al Trabajo Social tanto en su vertiente formativa como profesional y politica. ¿Cual es la trabajadora o trabajador social que la sociedad actual necesita? ¿Como estamos respondiendo desde el Trabajo Social a las transformaciones socioeconomicas, tecnologicas y politicas a las que estamos asistiendo en el mundo actual?¿Como estamos afrontando los efectos que estan teniendo sobre las personas, familias y poblaciones con las que trabajamos dia a dia y que sufren los efectos de la discriminacion, la desigualdad, la opresion o la violacion de los derechos humanos? ¿Como contribuye el Trabajo Social a defender, en la practica, la libertad, la justicia social y la igualdad? Cabe esperar, por tanto, que esta obra, fruto del analisis de docentes, investigadores y profesionales de diferentes paises reunidos bajo el lema: El Trabajo Social en un mundo en transformacion, ¿distintas realidades o nuevos relatos para la intervencion?, se convierta en referencia obligada para estudiantes, profesorado y profesionales de la disciplina.

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

There is broad consensus on the need to shift to a new paradigm of lifestyles and economic development given the un sustainability of current patterns Given this research on consumer behavior is to play a crucial role in shedding light on the motives underpinning the adoption of responsible behaviors Stemming from a thorough discussion of existing approaches this book argues that the perspective of analysis has to be modified First acknowledging that a profile of the responsible consumer does not exist since all of us can be more or less sustainable and environment friendly the sustainability of an individual should not be considered as given being something dynamic that changes according to both subjective and contextual factors Moreover the book hypothesises that integrating dimensions and perspectives that have been so far overlooked by mainstream research will help deconstruct responsible behaviors adopting a flexible and holistic approach Relevant policy implications are discussed and empirical research on responsible behaviors is illustrated This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of consumer behavior sustainable consumption environmental psychology and environmental studies in general