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The World That Latin America Created
How a group of intellectuals and policymakers transformed development economics and gave Latin America a new position in the world. After the Second World War demolished the old order, a group of economists and policymakers from across Latin America imagined a new global economy and launched an intellectual movement that would eventually capture the world. They charged that the systems of trade and finance that bound the worldÕs nations together were frustrating the economic prospects of Latin America and other regions of the world. Through the UN Economic Commission for Latin America, or CEPAL, the Spanish and Portuguese acronym, cepalinos challenged the orthodoxies of development theory a...
Everyday Life in the Old City of Jerusalem
Everyday Life in the Old City of Jerusalem: Historical Transformations and Biographical Emplacements offers an intimate, ground-level exploration of everyday life in one of the world’s most contested and symbolically charged urban spaces. Moving beyond the dominant focus on Jerusalem’s political and religious significance, this book examines how individuals and communities navigate the complex realities of emplacement within the Old City’s dense and shifting environment. Through a unique combination of biographical narratives and spatial sociology, the chapters investigate how personal life stories intersect with urban space, family ties, political occupation, religious identity, and s...
An Invitation to Non-Hegemonic World Sociology
Although sociology is present as a discipline or as a social practice in most countries in the world, its future as a not-only Western social science has hardly been addressed before. In this book, a team of interdisciplinary scholars have been working together not so much to offer one single response to the question than to raise important issues at stake for the future of sociology. Is it universal? Can it be indigenous? How is it possible – and is it even desirable – to write its history differently so as to know better about its early world diffusion and gradual Westernization? Do we need to expand or change its canon? This collection brings together essays that are all engaged in in...
Dependency Theories in Latin America
This book offers a discussion of the origins of Latin American dependency theories and their implications for contemporary social theory. The book explores the conditions of emergence of this intellectual movement, the trajectories of some of its main formulators, as well as the circulation of their ideas, their reception in other contexts, and their influence on other theoretical formulations and problems of the present. The book is aimed at social scientists interested in broadening the scope of social theory towards the Global South, in processes of knowledge circulation between central and semi-peripheral regions, as well as in understanding the problems of dependency, modernisation, and development processes in Latin America. The book can be used both as an introduction to these themes and to delve deeper into specific issues.
The Critical Humanism of the Frankfurt School as Social Critique
This book aims to extract a kind of Critical Humanism from the works of prominent members of the Frankfurt School. Oliver Kozlarek argues that what is compelling about this kind of restitution of humanism is the fact that it sought to be understood not as a conceptual-theoretical construction, but as a practice of critical social and cultural research. This means that it does not orient itself to an ideal image of the human being, but to making inhuman conditions of our current societies visible. It is above all in this sense that humanism is no longer understood in a Humboldtian, educational sense. Rather, it is about using critical social research as a political practice.
Global Critical Theories
Today, Critical Theory is no longer tied to a specific place in the world. Rather, genuine developments of Critical Theories can be observed in many academic contexts around the world. The contributions collected in this book show that the various projects of Critical Theory have not always and not exclusively emerged from the reception of the so-called Frankfurt School, but that the successful global expansion of capitalist modernity has triggered developments of Critical Theories in many parts of the world as an appropriate academic and intellectual endeavor of critique. Whether or not the tradition of the Frankfurt School is followed, Critical Theories are always about an undogmatic reading of Marxist theory, the critique of global capitalist modernity, the question of how this critique should be normatively grounded and how different academic disciplines should complement each other in a common endeavor of critical social and cultural research. The book provides an overview of debates and variants of critical theories in selected countries.
Reforma y revolución
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Eventos del deseo
"Este libro propone una mirada crítica a las culturas/literaturas peninsulares e hispanoamericanas bajo la influencia del activismo LGBTIQ al final del siglo XX, cuando los códigos binarios se disuelven de forma masiva para dar paso a nuevas reinterpretaciones de las genealogías queer/gay y al descubrimiento del potencial subversivo y del vigor performativo de los "eventos del deseo". A la vez, son los años de la globalización neoliberal que empieza a imponerse, una época caracterizada por sus fráxitos, término que Brad Epps propone en su introducción al volumen para apuntar a la tensión aparente entre los éxitos (emancipadores, estéticos, etc.) y los fracasos (socio-políticos y...
