Tag: social movements

  • Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability: an overview and conceptual framework

    Abstract Can ecological distribution conflicts turn into forces for sustainability? This overview paper addresses in a systematic conceptual manner the question of why, through whom, how, and when conflicts over the use of the environment may take an active role in shaping transitions toward sustainability. It presents a conceptual framework that schematically maps out the…

  • No hay relación de poder sin resistencia

    No hay relaciones de poder sin resistencias, que estas son más reales y eficaces en cuanto se forman en el lugar exacto en que se ejercen las relaciones de poder.Foucault, Michel: “El sujeto y el poder”, en Revista Mexicana de Sociología, No. 3, 1988.

  • Sociology of Development Journal

    I find this journal very interesting to publish some of my work. Coming March 2015! Sociology of Development is an international journal addressing issues of development, broadly considered. With basic as well as policy-oriented research, topics explored include economic development and well-being, gender, health, inequality, poverty, environment and sustainability, political economy, conflict, social movements, and…

  • O15 M e os eslavóns perdidos

    É posible que esteamos ás portas de profundos cambios sociais, pero quizais “atopámonos demasiado próximos ao proceso para percibilo con claridade” (Robert Putnam) Da mesma maneira que os procesos de industrialización supuxeron a desaparición de modelos de sociabilidade como a existente nos pobos e nas aldeas, e trouxeron consigo outros como os sindicatos e os…