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In January 2008, held in Seville, the International Conference The Living City with the aim of reflecting on the recovery of the city on the basis of the demands of sustainability and participation characteristics of a society before the needs of the TWENTY-first century. Luis Castro Nogueira was a guest speaker on the Table in […]

Metaphors we think. On science, democracy and other powerful fictions Emmánuel Lizcano Fernandez Editions Under Zero/Traficantes de Sueños. Madrid, 2006 under a free license Creative Commons 2.1 Review Brilliant and provocative Emmánuel Lizcano returns with this text to your territory: the imaginary and metaphors. And it does, again, of a brilliant and thought provoking. In […]

Methodology of social research. Innovative techniques and their applications is a book coordinated by Millán Arroyo Menéndez and Igor Sádaba Rodríguez1 and published in Editorial Synthesis. This is an advanced manual on methodology and applications, carefully selected for their character emerging, innovative, or by frequency of use in empirical research. The work takes particular account […]

Second, Revised Edition Our dilemmas methodological define us: “God –point to Charles Lave and James March– has decided to leave the easy problems to the physicists”.1 What the authors want to say with this provocative comment is not that it is easy to practice the physical, but the results in this area immediately recognized. The […]

Burawoy argues that, at the global level, the university seems to have “ceased to be a public good to becoming a private good that should be financed to himself,” so that it loses legitimacy. Valued as “unique in the world” to the public system in argentina. ————- Interview with Michael Burawoy, President, ISA (International Sociological […]

Thanks to the translation of Irene Wolf and Doclécticos we can see with subtitles in Spanish of this great documentary on Michel Foucalut. Michel Foucault by itself is a documentary that offers a glimpse of some of the main themes on which he reflected Michel Foucault throughout his life. This panorama is constructed from the […]

Via CEMAV, Center of Design and Production of Audiovisual Media, of the UNED. . The program Migrations: A planet in movement has as a starting point the exhibition with the same title, organized by La Casa Encendida and Le Monde Diplomatique. It provides a historical overview of the population displacement that causes economic, ecological, political […]

NEW EDITION This book aims to reveal the cultural processes that are born of the importance of death in our existential condition and based on it the different forms of social organization of human life. Mortality and immortality, past through the sieve of the culture, they become life strategies endorsed and practiced by human societies, […]

Source: INE . Among the periodical publications for free offered by the INE (National Statistics Institute), we can find Women and men in Spain, in collaboration with the Women’s Institute and other agencies. The purpose of this publication is to offer, from a gender perspective, a selection of the most relevant indicators at the current […]