Urban social movements (USMs), here broadly defined as to include established protest organisations, neighbourhoods movements and new solidarity initiatives, have become increasingly hybrid and fragmented over time. However, the consequences of fragmentation have been debated, with some arguing that it has weakened the anti-capitalistic meaning of ...
Contribution: This review offers a descriptive and explanatory study on the colonisation of the US West, under the hermeneutical turn from heterodox economic approaches, to deal with some current contradictions and anachronism in the mainstream view. Also, there is a systematisation of the American utopias, divided into religious and ideological ex...
The contemporary crisis prefigures the transition to a new model, triggering discussions about alternatives of social organization and relaunching the discussion of the concept of “economic democracy.”. What is meant by the latter and how does it fit into the matrix of political economy? Being a little discussed concept, it has defined edges that e...
Si les Lettres persanes sont bien, selon les mots des « Quelques réflexions », « une espèce de roman », de quelle espèce de roman s’agit-il au juste ? L’ouvrage de Montesquieu appartient à celle que les contemporains désignent sous l’appellation générique de « roman politique ». Il entretient des rapports avec ses deux principaux sous-genres, le ro...
Several facets are covered in Franz Hinkelammert's intellectual itinerary, in order to highlight his place in Latin American thought, two early contributions are highlighted, from his work in Chile, to indicate how these approaches are recovered and developed in depth in the later work , in particular, the connection is established between his stud...
Si les Lettres persanes sont bien, selonles mots des « Quelques réflexions », « une espècede roman », de quelle espèce de roman s’agit-ilau juste ? L’ouvrage de Montesquieu appartientà celle que les contemporains désignent sousl’appellation générique de « roman politique ». Ilentretient des rapports avec ses deux principauxsous-genres, le roman uto...
Carnet de recherche : Handicap, histoire et politique au XXe siècle
In this text I analyze the contemporary practice of urban professional midwives in a midwifery house. I am interested in showing how the parties build their profession and workplace in dialogue with local, national and global processes. My reflection emerges through ethnographic work with the team of La casa de Iemanjá, a house of midwifery located...
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This work is a collection of articles written by representatives of various social sciences whose filed of interest lies within such categories as: collective representations, collective memory, collective identity, myths and stereotypes. Politics should be seen as the common denominator for this broad spectrum of issues raised in this publication ...
