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The backlash against globalization and the rise of cultural anxiety has led to considerable re-thinking among social scientists. This book provides multiple theoretical, historical, and methodological orientations to examine these issues. While addressing the rise of populism worldwide, the volume provides explanations that cover periods of both cultural turbulence and stability. Issues addressed include populism and cultural anxiety, class, religion,...
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Este libro ilustra cómo se ha implementado la política pública de los Planes de Salvaguardas en la etnia kággaba. En el Caribe colombiano, los kággaba, al igual que otros pueblos serranos, fueron identificados por la Corte Constitucional de Colombia en alto riesgo de extinción física y cultural a causa del conflicto armado y otras expresiones de violencia. La política pública está destinada a garantizar la atención, protección y salvaguarda...
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Political commentator and public policy analyst Gilles Paquet examines the benefits and drawbacks of Canada's multiculturalism policy. He rejects the current policy which perpetuates difference and articulates a model for Canadian transculturalism, a more fluid understanding of multiculturalism based on the philosophy of cosmopolitanism which would strengthen moral contracts and encourage the social engagement of all Canadians.
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While deeply meaningful and utterly essential, social justice work can be confounding, raising many complex questions. Why do we take one-step forward and then two steps back, on racial justice, the environment, immigration, gun control? What can we do to bridge the divides in our increasingly polarized country, beginning with the very language we use? How can nonprofits and public agencies best serve constituents in need, balancing mission with necessities...
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Los escritos que agrupa La comunidad futura forman un arco que se abre con el brevísimo auge y la dilatada decadencia de un hotel en Villa Ventana, con gusto a metáfora sobre el país y que parece darle la razón a Lévi-Strauss en eso de que en América se desconoce lo antiguo, porque se pasa de lo lozano a lo decrépito sin transición, un tremendo matiz que acerca el asunto de esta historia a la del hotel de El resplandor de Stephen King y Kubrick,...
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The dismantling of "Understanding Canada"-an international program eliminated by Canada's Conservative government in 2012-posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writers continue to be celebrated globally by popular and academic audiences alike. Twenty scholars speak to the government's diplomatic and economic about-face and its implications for representations of Canadian writing within and outside Canada's borders. The...
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El siglo XXI se caracteriza por un movimiento internacional masivo de personas, sea de turistas y migrantes o de refugiados, por causas políticas o desastres naturales. Esto ha llevado a que se agudicen diferentes problemas de índole cultural, dado que muchas naciones aún privilegian el modelo basado en la existencia de una cultura hegemónica y homogénea o no encuentran un modelo de intercambio y contacto cultural apropiado. Más allá de que...
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Australia, Canada, and Ireland are all engaged in questions of multiculturalism and in the politics of recognition and reconciliation, the opportunities and pressures of geographic regionalism, shifts in political agendas associated with the impact of neo-liberalism, and moves to frame political agendas less at the macro-level of state intervention and more at the level of community partnership and empowerment. In related but distinct ways, each state...
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A case study of one of the most important global institutions of cultural policy formation, UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary demonstrates the relationship between such policymaking and transformations in the economy. Focusing on UNESCO's use of books, Sarah Brouillette identifies three phases in the agency's history and explores the literary and cultural programming of each. In the immediate postwar period, healthy economies made possible the funding...
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Análisis de la influencia de la opinión pública para la toma de decisiones en temas de la política exterior.
En El Perú, las Américas y el mundo 2014-2015 se demuestra que la opinión pública, en tanto fuente de legitimidad, ayuda a establecer alternativas y puede ser de gran utilidad para la toma de decisiones en temas internacionales.
A través de la comparación de encuestas realizadas en los últimos siete años en el Perú se confirma...
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Exploring the life and political career of Governor Richard D. Lamm, The Governor's Chessboard, is an intimate look at a prominent politician, including many of his successes, challenges, and defeats. Politics in America is not a place for boat-rockers, but Governor Lamm successfully made a name for himself by going against the tide of popular opinion. He violated most of the conventional rules of American politics, chiefly by taking on a number of...
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Richard Clément est actuellement membre de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales et professeur à l'École de psychologie de l'Université d'Ottawa. Clément est un membre fondateur du Centre canadien d'études et de recherches sur le bilinguisme et l'aménagement linguistique (CCERBAL). Il a été directeur de l'Institut des langues officielles et du bilinguisme de 2007 à 2017 et doyen associé de la...
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La globalización y los avances tecnocientíficos requieren innovaciones radicales tanto en la producción y la gestión del saber como en las políticas educativas y la producción cultural. Las tecnologías de la información son generalmente consideradas herramientas democráticas y eficientes para las nuevas exigencias de la sociedad, cuando, en realidad, son más el problema que la solución. Esta contradicción se radicaliza también porque...
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Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems appears at a timely moment, given widespread current discussion about equity in healthy care and the role of the state in healthcare planning. In response to the World Bank recommendation that the principle of cost recovery be included in healthcare financing strategies, African countries embraced the principle of public-private partnerships in healthcare. It was argued then, and still now, that a way...
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Diversity was supposed to offer us respect and understanding. Yet somehow, we ended up with so much resentment and confusion, so much division and discord, that for many, the project is ruined. The well of diversity has been, poisoned. With a bit of effort and introspection, however, there is still great hope to pull, off the impossible and unpoison, the well and let diversity do the wonderful things it was supposed to do in the first place. Unpoisoning...
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The political scene is changing rapidly in America. The religious right is on the defensive, acceptance of gay rights is at an all-time high, social conservatives are struggling for relevance, and more Americans than ever identify as nonreligious. What does this mean for the country and the future? With these demographic shifts, can truly progressive, reason-based public policy finally gain traction? Or, will America continue to carry a reputation...
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Sans tomber dans un scepticisme stérile, Démocratie.com critique les discours techno-utopiques des penseurs des nouveaux médias et des militants pour le libre accès. Astra Taylor rappelle que la démocratie n'est pas une émanation directe des technologies et que pour faire d'internet une véritable plateforme populaire, il faut créer les conditions d'une culture démocratique durable.
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Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional rationales for state intervention no longer apply.
The concept of cultural citizenship is a relative newcomer to the cultural policy landscape, and offers a potentially compelling alternative rationale for government intervention...
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How can people of diverse religious, historical, ethnic, and linguistic allegiances and identities live together without committing violence, inflicting suffering, or oppressing each other? Western civilization has long understood this dilemma as a question of toleration, yet the logic of toleration and the logic of multicultural rights entrenchment are two very different things. In this volume, contributors suggest we also think beyond toleration...
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