Tag: social perception
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Understanding Public Perceptions of a New Pit Lake in As Pontes, Spain
The introduction of coal mining in the 1940’s transformed the landscape and economy of As Pontes, Spain. Industrialisation created successive waves of economic and population booms, but when the mining slowed in the 1990s, the region experienced economic depression. Real and perceived social divisions and environmental abuses on the part of the mining company remained…
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Percepción social y poder
“En los momentos crÃticos la tripulación nunca espera de ti que tengas razón, sino que tengas seguridad” source, yo matizarÃa, no que la tengas sino que aparentes tenerla.
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China’s losers [Diaosi]
Amid spreading prosperity, a generation of self-styled also-rans emerges Apr 19th 2014 | SHANGHAI | ZHU GUANG, a 25-year-old product tester, projects casual cool in his red Adidas jacket and canvas shoes. He sports the shadowy wisps of a moustache and goatee, as if he has the ambition to grow a beard but not the…
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“Local Social perception of a mining artificial lake in Spain” my abstract for the next European Sociological Association conference in Prague
The construction of a large scale power plant in the town of As Pontes in the late seventies and the associated influx of new workers would definitely change a place that by that time was not far from many others villages that form the most genuine rural Galicia. The closure of the adjacent opencast coalmine…