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Why doesn't the world work? Why, despite all the power, technology, money and knowledge that humanity has accumulated, are we are still unable to defeat global challenges like climate change, war, poverty, migration, extremism, and inequality?
Simon Anholt has spent decades helping countries from Austria to Zambia to improve their international standing. Using colorful descriptions of his experiences--dining with Vladimir Putin at his country home,...
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Deutschland ist ein Land mit zunehmender sozialer Ungleichheit. Hunger und Ernährungsarmut aber gelten in der öffentlichen und wissenschaftlichen Wahrnehmung kaum als Phänomen bundesdeutscher Wirklichkeit. Dieser Beitrag widerspricht dieser Sichtweise und zeigt anhand empirischer Annäherungen: Es gibt Hunger und Ernährungsarmut mitten in unserer vermeintlichen Überflussgesellschaft. Es finden sich kaum Studien, die das mit harten Daten belegen,...
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The Kanwar is India's largest annual religious pilgrimage. Millions of participants gather sacred water from the Ganga and carry it across hundreds of miles to dispense as offerings in Śiva shrines. These devotees-called bhola, gullible or fools, and seen as miscreants by many Indians-are mostly young, destitute men, who have been left behind in the globalizing economy. But for these young men, the ordeal of the pilgrimage is no foolish pursuit,...
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The truth about one of Britain's most infamous race murders has never been, revealed. At around midnight on May 17 1959, a white gang ambushed 32-year-old Antiguan carpenter Kelso Cochrane on a Notting Hill slum street. After a brief scuffle, one of them plunged a knife into his heart. The impact was as profound as the aftershock of Stephen Lawrence's murder more than forty years later. The previous summer Notting Hill had been, convulsed by race...
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In this era where dollar value signals moral worth, Daniel Fridman paints a vivid portrait of Americans and Argentinians seeking to transform themselves into people worthy of millions. Following groups who practice the advice from financial success bestsellers, Fridman illustrates how the neoliberal emphasis on responsibility, individualism, and entrepreneurship binds people together with the ropes of aspiration. Freedom from Work delves into a world...
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Why is it getting harder to secure a job that matches our qualifications, buy a home of our own and achieve financial stability? Underprivileged people have always faced barriers, but people from middle-income families are increasingly more likely to slide down the social scale than climb up. Duncan Exley, former Director of the Equality Trust, draws on expert research and real life experiences – including from an actor, a politician, a billionaire...
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Social mobility needs a re-boot. The narrow, economistic way of measuring it favored by politicians and academics is unsustainable and is contributing to rising inequality. This timely book provides an alternative, original vision of social mobility and a route-map to achieving it. It examines how the term 'social mobility' structures what success means and the impact that has on society. Providing a new holistic approach that encompasses education,...
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In 1963, President Kennedy proposed making permanent a small pilot project called the Food Stamp Program (FSP). By 2013, the program's fiftieth year, more than one in seven Americans received benefits at a cost of nearly $80 billion. Renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in 2008, it currently faces sharp political pressure, but the social science research necessary to guide policy is still nascent. In SNAP Matters, Judith Bartfeld,...
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Hay momentos en que es posible y quizá necesario reunir textos que han sido escritos recientemente, junto a otros publicados y comentados, en algunos casos, con generosa opinión por lectores y amigos. Este es el caso de estos ensayos y crónicas. En la primera parte, "La comunidad abusada", reuní varios ensayos, especialmente uno sobre el "abuso", que inicia y ordena el conjunto del libro, otro sobre la "memoria", seguido de recuerdos personales...
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Estructurado como una composición musical, con un preludio y seis "movimientos", este libro es un esfuerzo por entretejer voces críticas en torno al concepto y las realidades del "desarrollo", tal y como es entendido por la cultura posindustrial occidental contemporánea, e intenta comprender las tensiones que se revelan entre aquel, las ciudades, la tierra, la naturaleza y la vida.
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Discussions of class make many Americans uncomfortable. This accessible book makes class visible in everyday life. Solely identifying political and economic inequalities between classes offers an incomplete picture of class dynamics in America, and may not connect with people's lived experiences. In Reading Classes, Barbara Jensen explores the anguish caused by class in our society, identifying classism-or anti–working class prejudice-as a central...
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Existe un fenómeno en las principales ciudades mexicanas cuya eclosión se extiende desde las últimas dos décadas y que impone cierta consternación sobre las formas para explicar la vida en las ciudades. Desde la década de 1990, se ha revelado una forma de producir y habitar la metrópoli que rompe con los moldes tradicionales de vida urbana e incluso suburbana. Fruto de ciertas políticas neoliberales de gestión del territorio, tendentes a...
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Domestic servitude blurs the divide between family and work, affection and duty, the home and the world. In Cultures of Servitude, Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum offer an ethnographic account of domestic life and servitude in contemporary Kolkata, India, with a concluding comparison with New York City. Focused on employers as well as servants, men as well as women, across multiple generations, they examine the practices and meaning of servitude around...
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A partir de octubre de 2019, los dos años que siguieron en Chile fueron una montaña rusa, un movimiento de tierra importante incluso en este país acostumbrado a que se nos mueva el piso. Estallido social, pandemia, un acuerdo político histórico, la peor crisis económica y social en una generación, un gobierno ausente, decenas de miles de muertes por Covid, la rearticulación de un tejido social dormido y una ciudadanía que, "contra todo, votó...
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Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism is for those who want to understand the underlying connections among today's social justice movements.
Bringing forth the basic operations of capitalist economies, it reveals what is driving many of today's most urgent and vexing problems: the common origins of the inequalities of income, wealth, and power; environmental devastation; militarism; racism and white supremacy;...
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Snobbery is a more serious matter than some may think: the arguments around Brexit and Trump show that accusations of snobbery have become part of political discourse and public sentiment, building social divisions and reflecting deeper issues of class inequality. Social class is not simply about wealth, health and life-chances but also about everyday social experience, such as being included or excluded. As social inequality grows, snobbery is becoming...
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The Divide by Matt Taibbi approaches the complicated topic of the unequal treatment of defendants in the United States criminal justice system based on wealth, through individual stories and rarely heard cases revealed in court proceedings.
In the US, bankers and financial officials whose unethical and illegal behavior contributed to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent economic scandals rarely faced prosecution for their activities. Instead either...
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Most people think of class as a ranking systemthe more you have, the higher your class status. In contrast to this view, in this new study author Gus Bagakis demonstrates that class is a tool that explains how the capitalist system works and why the class struggle is invisible. Capitalism was and is a developing system in which the working class is turned into a commodity, selling its labor power to the capitalist class that owns the factories, businesses,...
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El proyecto liberal argentino dotó a la escuela de un papel igualador e integrador, y el siglo XX la hizo garante de un ideal de comunidad y de movilidad social. Esa convicción democrática y plebeya puso a las clases altas ante un desafío: cómo preservar su espacio de distinción. Este libro despliega un relato atrapante acerca de las trayectorias educativas de tres generaciones pertenecientes a "familias tradicionales" y sus estrategias para...
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