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Ecuador --- Ecuador --- (Produktform)Electronic book text --- Geographie --- Ethnographie --- Ecuador --- political change --- (VLB-WN)9662

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Educational institutions play an instrumental role in social and political change, and are responsible for the environmental and social ethics of their institutional practices. The essays in this volume critically examine scholarly research practices in the age of the Anthropocene, and ask what accountability educators and researchers have in ‘righting’ their relationship to the environment. The volume further calls attention to the geographical, financial, legal and political barriers that might limit scholarly dialogue by excluding researchers from participating in traditional modes of scholarly conversation. As such, Right Research is a bold invitation to the academic community to rigorous self-reflection on what their research looks like, how it is conducted, and how it might be developed so as to increase accessibility and sustainability, and decrease carbon footprint. The volume follows a three-part structure that bridges conceptual and practical concerns: the first section challenges our assumptions about how sustainability is defined, measured and practiced; the second section showcases artist-researchers whose work engages with the impact of humans on our environment; while the third section investigates how academic spaces can model eco-conscious behaviour. This timely volume responds to an increased demand for environmentally sustainable research, and is outstanding not only in its interdisciplinarity, but its embrace of non-traditional formats, spanning academic articles, creative acts, personal reflections and dialogues. Right Research will be a valuable resource for educators and researchers interested in developing and hybridizing their scholarly communication formats in the face of the current climate crisis.

Education --- age of the Anthropocene --- Educational institutions --- institutional practices --- political change --- relationship to the environment --- scholarly research practices

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Das Valle del Mezquital in Zentralmexiko wird häufig als unterentwickelt und alten politischen Strukturen verhaftet angesehen. Auf Grundlage intensiver ethnographischer Feldforschung zeigt Gilberto Rescher jedoch, wie hier auf subtile Weise ein politischer Wandel ausgehandelt wird, der Perspektiven für Demokratisierung im Sinne wachsender Möglichkeiten zur Teilhabe eröffnet. Seine Studie geht dem Zusammenspiel der indigenen Akteure mit einer spezifischen Form der Organisation in Dorfgemeinschaften, der starken Präsenz transnationaler Migrationsprozesse und der sich verändernden gesellschaftlichen Positionierung bestimmter sozialer Gruppen - etwa von Frauen oder Jugendlichen - nach. »Ausführliche Zitate aus den Forschungsnotizen machen die Analysen auch für LeserInnen, die nicht vom Fach sind, anschaulich und geben Einblick in die ethnologische Arbeitsweise.« Eva Kalny, lateinamerika anders, 1 (2019)

Entwicklung; Migration; Transnationalisierung; Transnationalität; Translokalität; Demokratisierung; Politischer Wandel; Qualitative Methoden; Mexiko; Valle Del Mezquital; Zivilgesellschaft; Politik; Demokratie; Globalisierung; Entwicklungsoziologie; Politikwissenschaft; Development; Transnationalization; Transnationality; Translocality; Democratization; Political Change; Qualitative Methods; Mexico; Civil Society; Politics; Democracy; Globalization; Political Science; --- Civil Society. --- Democracy. --- Democratization. --- Globalization. --- Mexico. --- Migration. --- Political Change. --- Political Science. --- Politics. --- Qualitative Methods. --- Translocality. --- Transnationality. --- Transnationalization. --- Valle Del Mezquital.

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This book re-visits and re-thinks some recent defining events in Irish society. Some of these are high profile and occupy a prominent place in public consciousness, such as the announcement of the banking guarantee and the publication of the Ryan report into clerical child abuse, while others are 'fringe' events which attracted less attention, such as the launch of Indymedia.ie, or were widely discussed in popular culture, like the publication of Donal {acute}Og Cusack's autobiography or the opening of Dundrum Town Centre. The book critically explores issues of equality, belonging and rights as they impact on diverse communities in Ireland, be they older people, migrants or LGBT people. As focal points for each chapter, all of the events covered in the book provide rich insights into the dynamics of Irish society in the twenty-first century. All expose underlying and complex issues of identity, power and resistance that animate public debate. In so doing, the book ultimately encourages readers to question the sources of, limits and obstacles to change in contemporary Ireland. This book brings together in a single volume the experience, research and analysis of critical commentators from a diverse range of disciplines across the social sciences, and provides an important contribution to discourse about social, economic and cultural issues in today's Ireland. This makes for an original, timely and genuinely inter-disciplinary text.

Ireland --- Irish Free State --- History --- Irish identity. --- Irish society. --- capital accumulation. --- citizenship. --- cultural values. --- early twenty-first century. --- economic values. --- marriage. --- political change. --- resistance. --- same-sex couple. --- social actors. --- social movements. --- social structure. --- structural power.

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In the 1950s–80s, Brazil built one of the most advanced industrial networks among the "developing" countries, initially concentrated in the state of São Paulo. But from the 1980s, decentralization of industry spread to other states reducing São Paulo's relative importance in the country's industrial product. This volume draws on social, economic, and demographic data to document the accelerated industrialization of the state and its subsequent shift to a service economy amidst worsening social and economic inequality. Through its cultural institutions, universities, banking, and corporate sectors, the municipality of São Paulo would become a world metropolis. At the same time, given its rapid growth from 2 million to 12 million residents in this period, São Paulo dealt with problems of distribution, housing, and governance. This significant volume elucidates these and other trends during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and will be an invaluable reference for scholars of history, policy, and the economy in Latin America.

Industries --- Service industries --- Social change --- History. --- São Paulo (Brazil : State) --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- Agriculture. --- Auto Industry. --- Brazil. --- Class. --- Demographic Transition. --- Economic Development. --- Favelas. --- Industrialization. Services. --- Metropolitan Regions. --- Political Change. --- Race. --- Social Mobility. --- São Paulo.