The purpose of the present study is to examine the feasibility of Turkey’s accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in response to the EU's procrastination in Turkey’s membership in the European Union. In recent decades, Turkey has done a great deal of work for joining European countries. The formal request of Turkey to join the European Community was presented on April 24, 1987. Turkey's accession to the European Union, on account of some contradictions and conflicts has created special complexities for the parties. A number of analysts consider its specific social and cultural structure as the fundamental barrier for accession Turkey to the European Union and with Turkey's membership, the European Union will not succeed in its identical harmonization process, and it will increase the diversity, variety and differences in the EU. The lack of necessary dynamics in Turkey's political system and society prevents it from acting as a bridge between the East and the West. Therefore, this opposition will exist as long as current variables dominate the political, cultural and social life of the two sides. Shanghai Cooperation organization as a regional organization was established in 2001. The organization, with Russia and China present, is the largest non-Western organization in the Eurasia region. The role of this organization has increased since the beginning of the third millennium in the context of regional and global developments and various analyses have been presented by experts and politicians about its goals, performance and future. Copenhagen's political criterion call for democracy, the full implementation of the rule of law, human rights, labor rights, minority rights, gender equality, participation and pluralism in Turkey. Erdogan not only distanced himself from democratic principles, but also stated that he has shared values with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Abstract The purpose of the present study is to examine the feasibility of Turkey’s accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in response to the EU's procrastination [...]
Given the profound changes in the world of work and the increasing restrictions manifested by conditional transfer programs to overcome the intergenerational transmission of poverty, a new analytical approach to take charge of the contradictions and structural limitations of the human capital theory, but above all the recognition of a new human right, is proposed: the Universal Citizen Income (uci ) and a set of fiscal and social policies that make it viable adopting a strategy of progressiveness. It is sustained that the establishment in Mexico of the uci constitutes a lever of social transformation that would not only overcome income poverty definitively and improve income distribution substantially, but the uci also has a powerful component of emancipation for expanding freedoms and the construction of the autonomy and independence of people
Abstract Given the profound changes in the world of work and the increasing restrictions manifested by conditional transfer programs to overcome the intergenerational transmission [...]
In this article I discuss both conceptually and empirically the existence of a social norm about what is considered necessary in the field of food, and I analyze the capacity of households in Mexico City to access it. To this end, I revise the arguments that highlight the importance of food not only as a good that satisfies biological needs but also psychological and social ones, and I present some of the most relevant aspects of the theoretical debates on necessity and deprivation. The empirical analysis is based on the epasb 2009. The document concludes with some considerations on the possible social and moral implications that deprivation of goods considered necessary could have on peoples life experience.
Abstract In this article I discuss both conceptually and empirically the existence of a social norm about what is considered necessary in the field of food, and I analyze the capacity [...]
With the purpose of thinking revolutionary change, we expose certain notions oriented towards accounting for the crisis of the classical subject of the revolution and the emergence of a new way of thinking class struggle. Thus, the author begins with some concepts developed by Benjamin in his thesis on the concept of history, particularly those which allow us to see the concept of class struggle with an anti-progressive lens and to think the revolutionary subject not as part of the historical continuum, but as part of its fracture. Furthermore, he draws on Adorno’s Negative Dialectics, according to which the “system” is the negation of human liberty, hence the impossibility of thinking a society emancipated from domination when there are categories within her which are identified with the system. The developed concepts are finally articulated with the idea introduced by the Zapatista movement of an anti-capitalist subject of polymorphic and plural character, constituted by multiple struggles and subjects, for which collective dialogue is a method which allows him to establish horizontal agreements.
Abstract With the purpose of thinking revolutionary change, we expose certain notions oriented towards accounting for the crisis of the classical subject of the revolution and the [...]
The present article has as objective to establish an analysis of the problem of the reflexivity of the technological forms of life exposed by Scott Lash, through the identification of its central approaches with respect to the concept of reflection exposed in his theory of the doubles of reflective modernity. This is locate the main theses of the author on the diagnosis of the modern society in the terms of the reflexivity as one of its constituent elements, in order to characterize some of the “new forms of life” developed in the global culture of information that, among other things, are constituted by the deployment of the technological systems of computing base. This is intended to provide a typology enlarged about the technological forms of life that Lash presents only in descriptive terms, with the idea of contributing to a major sociological comprehension of certain dynamics of contemporary interaction, taking as a guiding axis two concepts linked to the work of the author: reflexivity and information structures. We review some points in common in discussions between Anthony Giddens, Ulrich Beck and Lash itself on the theory of reflexive modernization, in order to identify the starting point of the author in the description of the concept of technological lifestyles and an extension of the proposed word.
Abstract The present article has as objective to establish an analysis of the problem of the reflexivity of the technological forms of life exposed by Scott Lash, through the identification [...]
The practices of the security forces, and more specifically, the deep violent matrix that crosses, have become a privileged object in the field of knowledge production in postdictatorship Argentina. This article analyzes an edge of these modes of construction of “police violence” as an object of knowledge in the social sciences. From a theoretical and methodological coordinates that use the contributions of Michel Foucault, the article studies what is the subject-game function that unfolds in academic statements that are organized around the “police violence”, showing that while it is possible to notice enunciative dispersions, however, it is possible to find a regularity –at the same time– linked to the fact that in all of them emerge one and the same subject position: the expert on “police violence”. Finally, the article deals with potential reviews and inherent risks of a form of knowledge production that has in its core the expert figure.
Abstract The practices of the security forces, and more specifically, the deep violent matrix that crosses, have become a privileged object in the field of knowledge production in [...]
For the last two decades, the expansion of Internet access as well as the new developments of the Information Technologies (it ), have transformed the forms of management, transmission and impact of protests and political activism. The appropriation of the technical instruments by extensive publics has contributed to the appearance of horizontal networks in which frameworks of shared meanings, actions and reflections for social protests are webbed. In this article the activist network is characterized as a new type of collective actor who does not fit in the traditional definitions of social movement and who has a marked communicative dimension. Furthermore, we present a genealogy of the appropriation of the it for social causes, from the beginnings of the Internet until we reach the web 2.0 and the global action cycle which bursts in 2011 with the Arab spring, the Indignants in Spain and Occupy Wall Street in the United States, amongst others.
Abstract For the last two decades, the expansion of Internet access as well as the new developments of the Information Technologies (it ), have transformed the forms of management, [...]
As part of a comprehensive study about violence against women (VaW) and media, we used a method of content analysis of newspapers, television and radio news in Mexico in two time periods in 2011 to determine the treatment of VaW in the news. 8, 610 press news sources, 4, 719 TV news sources and 3, 855 radio news sources were classified and analyzed from a national coverage media selection. The results show that visibility in the news does not contribute to present VaW as a social problem of public interest, related to the inequality between women and men. Instead, information about individual cases prevails, without mention or analysis of the social or structural problem. Also, different treatment and degrees of importance and visibility have been identified for each media. Television is the media that least mentions the responsibilities of the State and society in the fight for eliminating violence against women.
Abstract As part of a comprehensive study about violence against women (VaW) and media, we used a method of content analysis of newspapers, television and radio news in Mexico in two [...]
In the measurement of poverty, the role of wages in the formation of household income has not been taken into account explicitly. The minimum wage arises in capitalist economies as a guarantee of a minimum level of well-being. The minimum wage established in the Mexican Constitution is linked to the satisfaction of basic needs, could well serve as threshold for poverty measurement. This article uses as income threshold for multidimensional poverty measurement the equivalent of the minimum constitutional wage. A new method for measuring multidimensional poverty is developed here: The Socio-Economic Well-being Method (swm ). Its procedures and results are contrasted with the lpmm and coneval s method. The swm identifies a very similar proportion of poor people as the lpmm . It highlights coneval s underestimation of poverty as well as the key role that the definition of thresholds and the procedures to combine dimensions play in measuring poverty.
Abstract In the measurement of poverty, the role of wages in the formation of household income has not been taken into account explicitly. The minimum wage arises in capitalist economies [...]
The levels of violence and insecurity in Mexico have grown significantly since 2006, while female deaths with presumption of homicide rose alarmingly. In this paper we will describe some contextual elements on gender-based violence against women of our diagnosis of the Northeastern region of the country (Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and Zacatecas). We will offer some indicators of the position that women occupy in relations of power and production within the framework of the male hegemony. We will address the phenomenon of social violence in the context of the growth of criminality, public insecurity and the military presence in some of the estates of the region as a result of the declaration of the war on drugs. The evidence we present will allow us to define the context as that “specific set of cultural, economic and political situations and conditions in which it is socially possible and rationally understandable the presentation and the development of a phenomenon”.1
Abstract The levels of violence and insecurity in Mexico have grown significantly since 2006, while female deaths with presumption of homicide rose alarmingly. In this paper we will [...]
This article aims to show the main proposals of Ulrich Beck about how the technological risks function in the context of the so-called second modernity, in order to expose their implications in terms of new forms of reflexivity in complex societies. We analyze the relationship between reflexivity, scientific knowledge and epistemological pluralism to understand how technological risks, posed with an increasing force, question the authority of science, therefore leading to new areas of organization, conducive to claim various groups excluded from public discussions on scientific and technological matters. In this paper, we try to provide some important elements for analysis of current problems regarding the risks and dangers technologically produced, allowing us to locate different forms of reflexivity in contemporary social environments. Therefore, we want to show the validity of the main tenets offered on the sociology of risk and the theory of reflexive modernity in relation to notions proposed by CTS studies in philosophy of science, specifically based on the approach of post-normal science raised by Silvio Functowicz and Jerome Ravetz, who problematize, like Beck, reflective political dimension of technological risks, however, he does it with a more epistemological emphasis which appears to an interdisciplinary and dialogical horizon concerning knowledge of the risk. Making this junction between both perspectives, allow us in our view, to understand the relevance of the contributions of the sociology of risk and expand their thoughtful routes in relation to other social philosophical fields
Abstract This article aims to show the main proposals of Ulrich Beck about how the technological risks function in the context of the so-called second modernity, in order to expose [...]
The armed conflict faced by Colombian population from this last half century has produced more than five million displaced people in recent decades (near to 10% of the national population). Women and their children are an important part of this group. This paper focuses on women heads of households –which are authorities in the home and are responsible for its protection – that have been victims of forced displacement and have arrived in the city of Medellin. In particular, it focuses on the life strategies implemented by them over the years to deal with situations of violations of their rights and violence. Because of their rural origins, their low education, their numerous descendants, they must face new threats in the big city and are exposed to situations of uprooting, violence, poverty and social exclusion.
Abstract The armed conflict faced by Colombian population from this last half century has produced more than five million displaced people in recent decades (near to 10% of the national [...]
This paper discusses biopolitics, production and reproduction of the labor force, based on the interpretation of interviews carried out during 2010 with agribusiness workers, the majority of whom were women of the vi and vii regions in Chile. Beyond a diagnose of the deployment of domination technologies tatooing the bodies and subjectivities involved in food production, both industrial and domestic, we foreground sexual and gender protagonisms in the profound social, economic and political transformations implied by market economies. Chile is a country where the State was fundamentally reduced to “politics of death” during the Pinochet Dictatorship, and selectively so during the Post Dictatorial period.
Abstract This paper discusses biopolitics, production and reproduction of the labor force, based on the interpretation of interviews carried out during 2010 with agribusiness workers, [...]
The main objective of this article is to recover the notion of prefigurative politics as a potential “measuring unit” which allows for the analysis of the scopes and limitations of the innovative modes of organization and struggle put forward by the Latin-American social movements, with the purpose of confronting it with some of the concrete experiences that exist in Latin America. After defining prefigurative politics as a set of practices and social relations that, in the present moment, “anticipate” the germs of a future society, it is fundamented why this category might constitute a pertinent notion to approach this new processes, in which social movements emerge as a weighty collective actor by installing in the public agenda certain claims and demands, and influencing state institutions, but without their integration or subsumption to their government structures.
Abstract The main objective of this article is to recover the notion of prefigurative politics as a potential “measuring unit” which allows for the analysis of the scopes and limitations [...]
The intention with this article is to shed light on the different characteristics in the consumption of addictive substances considering gender, in order to provide the tools and instruments which are essential to the design of programs and treatments that incorporate that perspective in their daily practice. The final aim is that these treatments are of greater efficiency, both in access/joining these women with addictions, and the outcome of rehabilitation. It is, thus, to acquire more knowledge to better use of resources and services that are operated reintegration of addicts both private and public partnerships. Differences socially assigned to each gender inequalities produced an impairment affecting the health, development and welfare of women relative to men. Through qualitative methods (interviews and focus groups), it has been evident from the analysis of discourse, how women consume, what kind of substances are more associations, social charges in addition to being a woman addicted (multiple discrimination) and difficulties show themselves when accessing drug treatment.
Abstract The intention with this article is to shed light on the different characteristics in the consumption of addictive substances considering gender, in order to provide the tools [...]
In this paper we present some of the main ideas developed by Carlos Pereyra around the subjects of politics, the State and civil society. We review his reflections on this notions, placing them in the context of the reception of the intellectual legacy of Antonio Gramsci. Also, we expose the main ideas of Pereyra in the context of the Mexican State during the political conjuncture of the seveties. Our purpose is to locate the thread of continuity between Pereyras thought and Marxist political theory.
Abstract In this paper we present some of the main ideas developed by Carlos Pereyra around the subjects of politics, the State and civil society. We review his reflections on this [...]
The aim of this paper is to discuss two normative versions of Social Epistemology (se ), whose initial approaches raised 25 years ago gave place to a new tradition. Revisiting the origin of each account one can find that their interest in normativity, despite their differences, tries to draw the attention of philosophical and social studies of science with the aim of analyzing their connections and provide them with a frame to take in their own inquiries of knowledge production the classical missions of epistemology. Yet, se as a broader interdisciplinary project raises the question of the role of epistemology in our time. The paper is divided in three parts. In the first, we give an account of the emergence of these visions, after that, we review each one of them in more detail and, finally, we end up with a brief comment.
Abstract The aim of this paper is to discuss two normative versions of Social Epistemology (se ), whose initial approaches raised 25 years ago gave place to a new tradition. Revisiting [...]
This paper summarizes the most important results from a research project on violence against women in Western Mexico that forms part of the National Study on the Sources, Origins and Factors that Produce and Reproduce Violence against Women, coordinated by Florinda Riquer and Roberto Castro. In assuming a perspective that links violence with structural and symbolic components of the social order, it elicits the difficulties that social conservatism and criminal violence interpose in the pursuit of facing violence against women. Likewise, the paper analyzes the contesting role that authorities and institutions display in legislating and prosecuting violence against women in academic enviroments and the workplace. In so doing, it discovers an additional violence that women suffer: institutional violence.
Abstract This paper summarizes the most important results from a research project on violence against women in Western Mexico that forms part of the National Study on the Sources, [...]
The purpose of this article is to analyze some subjective issues for understanding why the killing of workers in the School Domingo Santa María de Iquique, is one of the milestones that inaugurates a new era on the nature of pain and horror in contemporary Chile. Owners of an Enlightenment vision about life, present and future, the cognitive distance that Chilean workers woven in relation to the death in the early twentieth century didn’t allow them to anticipate the complex and contradictory social universe that the modernization involved. Characterized by violent death, severe pain and moral injustice, the slaughter perpetrated in 1907 turned this educational institution in historic cleaving to the advent of contemporary political massacres and in a symbol of the contradictions that constitute modernity and modernization processes in the twentieth century.
Abstract The purpose of this article is to analyze some subjective issues for understanding why the killing of workers in the School Domingo Santa María de Iquique, is one of the [...]
The present article tries to point out the search and creation of Memory Theater in Chile through a scenic journey between 1973 and 1990. The reading of such a process is assumed in the light of theatrical discourse of resistance, the political and poetic conception of memory as praxis historicity of the present. key to puttings in scene the construction of contemporary Chilean theater in the context of the Pinochet regime.
Abstract The present article tries to point out the search and creation of Memory Theater in Chile through a scenic journey between 1973 and 1990. The reading of such a process is [...]
Contemporary societies face tensions related with the unequal distribution of knowledge and simultaneous demands for democratic equality that are central to Social Epistemology´s inquiry. This article describes how the defenders of deliberative democracy explain their characteristics and epistemological virtues, the objections placed by their critics related to public igno- rance, and describes issues related to deliberative inequalities and epistemic injustices. It finally proposes that tackling democracy´s epistemic obstacles does not entail that all citizens should have equal influence in deliberations and decisions.
Abstract Contemporary societies face tensions related with the unequal distribution of knowledge and simultaneous demands for democratic equality that are central to Social Epistemology´s [...]
This essay poses the question of the spaces in which the social subject in the capitalist modernity can recover its self-determination capacity, spaces of widening of the political field –and of redefinition of politics– which have been closed, expropriated or not yet experimented, but potential within modernity. The hypothesis of this work is that in the contemporary era, social movements are the places of the prefiguration of “another politic”. Their intervention through practical and discursive action, impact the terrain of social imaginaries, questioning founding certainties of the civilizing order in force. They, in so far as movement, experience uncalculated transformation beforehand, where the voids of the existing modernity are most clearly revealed. We are inspired on the critique of modern culture and the distinction between politics and the political made by Bolívar Echeverría.
Abstract This essay poses the question of the spaces in which the social subject in the capitalist modernity can recover its self-determination capacity, spaces of widening of the [...]
During the years 1955-1965 the Argentinian writer Leopoldo Marechal wrote several works that showed a deep concern for the contemporary technique and science. Marechal thought that science and technique of Modern Age are the product of one particular rationality, known as “calculating reason”. This paper aims to analyze main characters of Marechals critique to this kind of rationality.
Abstract During the years 1955-1965 the Argentinian writer Leopoldo Marechal wrote several works that showed a deep concern for the contemporary technique and science. Marechal thought [...]
This article proposes to recover an aspect of the work of Auguste Comte that we consider has not been given enough importance. Based on the principles of his sociology of knowledge, we will reconstruct what still is a recurrent issue in contemporary sociological theory, of which Comte appears as its first exponent: the auto– justification of sociology belonging to the “canon” of scientific knowledge through strictly sociological arguments. Following some Comtes postulations in the first lessons of the Course on Positive Philosophy and in the ones dedicated to “Social Physics”, we will emphasize on the strictly sociological character, and therefore circular, of the reasons that he turns to legitimize a science of society. This circularity, in the case of Comte, becomes even clearer as he argues that sociology will allow the consecration of the positive state through the development of an organic doctrine that reorganizes society, based, precisely, in the sociological auto– comprehension of the social. Thus, a “cursed legacy” is formed, since these arguments reappear in any theory of weight as a persistent problem, but also as a need to strengthen the discipline legitimizing arguments.
Abstract This article proposes to recover an aspect of the work of Auguste Comte that we consider has not been given enough importance. Based on the principles of his sociology of [...]
This article points out the main social positions of the social structure of the Commu- nication Sciences’ community college, part of the Faculty of Social and Politica Sciences (FCPyS) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Our purpose is to make observable social divisions that highlight students within their particu- lar social context. This is accomplished by analyzing the statistics of the UNAM and some groups and individual narratives. The article concludes that there are three social positions: 1) the aspirational position, 2) the defensive position and 3) the reactive position.
Abstract This article points out the main social positions of the social structure of the Commu- nication Sciences’ community college, part of the Faculty of Social and Politica [...]
Facing the critical and conflictive socio-environmental scenery in our country, we expose an analytical approach to social antagonism and the processes of political subjectivation of the socio-environmental struggles. We seek to analyze the modes in which impulses of political self-determination and social self-regulation are activated for the defense and management of the communal natural assets. We are talking about the emergence, strengthening and update of a communitarian politic which prefigures an alternative to the dominant order. We deal with a fundamental debate for the human survival in view of the crisis of civilization faced by the living world.
Abstract Facing the critical and conflictive socio-environmental scenery in our country, we expose an analytical approach to social antagonism and the processes of political subjectivation [...]
From the heterodox economic theory, it seeks to describe the actual condition of the mexican labor market from 2007 to 2012 (flexible or rigid) and the characteristics of the workforce that accesses it through a methodology that is necessary analyze variables such as written contracts, union life and rigidity of wages on the rise for the market study, while in the labor force will consider the years spent at any school, work experience and hours worked per week, differentiating in two groups, one under nine years of schooling and another above that figure (8.6 years is the average education in Mexico according to the Census of Population and Housing, 2010). Both groups will be studied by the method of Ordinary Least Squares, which will lead us to draw conclusions about the differences between one group and another and the role of the condition of the labor market in them.
Abstract From the heterodox economic theory, it seeks to describe the actual condition of the mexican labor market from 2007 to 2012 (flexible or rigid) and the characteristics of [...]
Classical sociology was built upon three constitutive beliefs, rarely discussed. The first defined the space of sociology, the second defined the time and the third the position of the observer and the type of discourse. All three defined the subject matter of sociological investigation and the way to address it. This paper attempts to do three things: 1) identify these three beliefs, 2) make them explicit and discuss them, 3) ultimately transcend tem, go beyond them profiting from three evidences: globalization, post-modernity and reflexivity. It is thus an exercise in sociology of sociology, understood as a general epistemological reflection that makes explicit (as singular subject) social reflexivity, understood, not as a self-analysis of the soci- ologist, but as a reflexivity of society upon itself.
Abstract Classical sociology was built upon three constitutive beliefs, rarely discussed. The first defined the space of sociology, the second defined the time and the third the position [...]
Throughout this essay a balance on Jürgen Habermas’ theoretical itinerary is exposed. We review his deeper motivations and questions to see how they anticipated to his mature reflections. It is highlighted the prevailing trends in social science to limit the reflection about the theoretical basis of this author and their possible connection with the subject of reason. After that, we present a summary of Frankfurt School main proposals, as well as a balance of the evolution perceived by critical theory about society and its key problem areas. It is emphasized the intent of this School to build an alternative paradigm face to the emergence of new forms of intelligibility, scientificity and rationality in social science. Finally, we present some ideas whose aim is to open a discussion about the theoretical and political importance found in entire Habermas work.
Abstract Throughout this essay a balance on Jürgen Habermas’ theoretical itinerary is exposed. We review his deeper motivations and questions to see how they anticipated to his [...]
The paper presents a counterpoint between the works of Ezequiel Martínez Estrada (Argentina, 1895-1964) and Leopoldo Zea (México, 1912-2004), focusing on two basic dimensions: (a) their conception of the nature of the links between the intellectual and politics, and (b) the ways they frame the relationship between the realms of the given, the imminent and the desirable. It sets up the following hypothetical framework: 1) in both cases we are witnessing a critical appraisal of the given that, in terms of self-perception, gravitates toward an identification with the figures of the preacher and the therapist, 2) with respect to outlining the desirable, in both works there is a clear movement, on the one hand, to combine an undeniable urge towards modernity with an undeniable fascination with Gemeinschaft -type realities and logic, and on the other, to preserve a certain tension related to the transcendental plane, and 3) in each case the movement unfolds in its own way, resulting in different types of association with symbolic motifs and also, very notably, practical implications.
Abstract The paper presents a counterpoint between the works of Ezequiel Martínez Estrada (Argentina, 1895-1964) and Leopoldo Zea (México, 1912-2004), focusing on two basic dimensions: [...]
The article seeks to make a contribution to the sociology of anti-imperialist intellec- tuals through the study of the itinerary and work of Carlos Pereyra Gómez (Saltillo, Mexico, 1871 - Madrid, Spain, 1942). Specifically, three sets of issues are addressed: 1) aspects related to the location of Carlos Pereyra in the Mexican and Ibero Ameri- can ideological and cultural scene, drawing attention to his tragic political runout, as well as to the contexts of development and circulation of his works, 2) the way in which Pereyras anti-American and anti-imperialist sensitivity was conformed, and 3) dimensions of the Pereyra essays –considering mostly his book El mito de Monroe – from the perspective implied in the clause that titles this article –the labyrinths of contempt– or, in other words, from a sociological perspective attentive to the marks left in the texts by the perceptions about the place occupied, or believed to occupy, in the social space. The main hypothesis is that the manners in which Pereyra conceptualized the field of international relations can be thought of as counterparts to how he experienced the relations and differences between social classes.
Abstract The article seeks to make a contribution to the sociology of anti-imperialist intellec- tuals through the study of the itinerary and work of Carlos Pereyra Gómez (Saltillo, [...]
There are schools of thought that study and measure subjective well-being and propose it as a substitute for objective well-being measurements. We should value and utilize the advantages and disadvantages of both versions of well-being, which requires, first of all, to rigorously explore their conceptual and empirical relationship. I argue that in the literature on the subject no strong association between objective and subjective well-being has been found due to the non-robust objective measures of well-being used. I test statistically this statement, analyzing the empirical relationship between objective and subjective well-being in Mexico, using a robust indicator of objective well-being: The Integrated Poverty Measurement Method, and find an important empirical association between both types of well-being, which should lead to reassess the importance of objective well-being in its subjective perception.
Abstract There are schools of thought that study and measure subjective well-being and propose it as a substitute for objective well-being measurements. We should value and utilize [...]
Argentinan Association for Cultural Freedom (AALC) and its global reference, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, were product of the Cultural Cold War. This organization had an original articulation with local politics. It was created in 1955, after the coup d’etat that overthrew Peron, when the liberal elite had a wide hegemony in the field of culture, amalgamated by the antiperonism and cultural liberalism. This organization was widespread over the intelligentsia s networks of antifascism created in the 30s, by the progressive “Grupo Sur ” and socialist intellectuals. The AALC grouped recognized names from the left wing, worked over an extensive network of editorial and magazines, promoted public important meetings and expressed solidarity with various international causes (even Cuban Revolution). Under the notion of “cultural freedom” and Totalitarism, foundation of its theory, the AALC played in a confrontation with the communist intellectuals in a field where the antinomy of peronism/anti-peronism was decisive. The Cuban Revolution and the commitment of the new left generation increasingly distant from the liberal political-cultural values will cause the beginning of the end of the hegemony of the old intelligentsia and as a result the disappearance of the Association.
Abstract Argentinan Association for Cultural Freedom (AALC) and its global reference, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, were product of the Cultural Cold War. This organization had [...]
The article addresses the need to hold a critical stance towards official and reductionist measurements of poverty, arguing for the development of multidimensional, integrated, critical and morally founded methodologies. It places critical research on poverty as a cornerstone of a broader Critical Research, adopting Erik Olin Wrights (eow ) methodological basis for the construction of an Emancipatory Social Science (ess ), and proposes its collective development incorporating contributions from the Frankfurt and Budapest Schools Analytical Marxism, and especially Marxs paradigm of production and theory of transformation. Some considerations on the relationship between measurement and emancipation follow, trying to show that human transformation and self-realization may be enhanced by developing critical thought, that includes among its axis, addressing seriously the measurement of poverty and inequality, which will help creating solutions that may bring us closer to human flourishing.
Abstract The article addresses the need to hold a critical stance towards official and reductionist measurements of poverty, arguing for the development of multidimensional, integrated, [...]
This paper attempts to problematize the ways that have been built interpretations over the dictatorial past in Chile and Argentina, privileging the study of aesthetic productions. It aims to build a research track, through the explanation about the conflict between institutional policies of memory and the critical re-appropriations of recent history. The study of aesthetic dimension, as particular form of historical reconstruction, has two reasons: 1) because they have not been enough studied from a historiographical critic and, 2) because they contain an epistemological potential to make reflections over the possibilities of understanding a complex historical period. The focus of analysis is the tension between institutionalized policies and live history and the ways in which each uses the aesthetic dimension to produce explanations about the past.
Abstract This paper attempts to problematize the ways that have been built interpretations over the dictatorial past in Chile and Argentina, privileging the study of aesthetic productions. [...]
This paper performs an evaluation of the redistributive effect achieved through the tax-benefit system in Mexico, including the tax burden and conditional cash transfers for the poor and households in 2014. We answer the following question: What will the impact of the Mexican tax-benefit system be for the poor as well as its households? i.e, of pro-poor type? We conceive this analysis with an approach where the World Bank agrees, the pro-poor approach. In order to recognize if taxes and benefits can really compensate the poor and induce a reduction on relative and absolute poverty, we proceed with this novel measurement. Pre-fiscal income is built by comparing the tax burden and the distribution of benefits applied in both databases, the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares –enigh – and data from Método Integrado de la Medición de la Pobreza –mmip –. According to the equivalence scale of coneval as well as that from the mmip with their corresponding poverty lines, we proceed to develop a core set of recommendations for improving the tax system and its effect on the poor.
Abstract This paper performs an evaluation of the redistributive effect achieved through the tax-benefit system in Mexico, including the tax burden and conditional cash transfers for [...]
From critical theory, there is a proposal to think social struggles from the deployment of their contradictions and the instability they produce in the existing order. For its comprehension, the author proposes a methodological tool which implies the systematic analysis, on one side, of their interior horizons, namely, their political aspirations, and on the other, of their practical scope, that is, of the fully recordable features during the deployment of the struggles. Thus, the systematic record of the visible practical scopes during the deployment of the struggle, allows us to become aware of the interior horizon which sustains them and from which they themselves open their own perspectives, reinventing them permanently and outlining horizons of possible political transformation.
Abstract From critical theory, there is a proposal to think social struggles from the deployment of their contradictions and the instability they produce in the existing order. For [...]
The goal of this paper compares the notion of social dimension of knowledge in two recently projects of Social Epistemology developed by A. Goldman and S. Fuller. The work in divide in four sections. In the first, expose the context and antecedents of Social Epistemology. With this background in the next two sections, I note in a brief way Goldman’s and Fuller’s explanations about why they consider in their own perspective the feasibility and necessity to develop normative judgements about social dimension of knowledge. Finally, in the last section I conclude talking about the need of still looking for meeting points between the normative and the descriptive perspectives of knowledge, to be able to build correct and multidimentional images of normativity from social epistemology and sociology.
Abstract The goal of this paper compares the notion of social dimension of knowledge in two recently projects of Social Epistemology developed by A. Goldman and S. Fuller. The work [...]
The main objective of the paper is to show how love in society can be connected to certain sociological problems like social bonding. When love is analyzed through its connections to disciplinary problems, some differences appear in relation to society and sociology itself. The paper ends with some reflections on these differences and an agenda for future research.
Abstract The main objective of the paper is to show how love in society can be connected to certain sociological problems like social bonding. When love is analyzed through its connections [...]
This paper proposes an epistemological conception for sociology, based in a (self)reflexive movement that put in question the questioning point of view itself. For this we study the perspective of two authors with different but not incompatible theories, we refer to Th. W. Adorno and P. Bourdieu. Both of them give a central place to that reflexive movement, since it is a key instance of the effort to catch how impacts the social entwining in the practice of sociology, in its modus operandi . Over this base we discuss with the epistemological substratum (not always explicit) of two predominant perspectives in presents days sociology (especially in cultural one). On the one hand the culturalism, and on the other hand the post-structuralism. This shows the currently and potentiality of this discussion about the epistemological contributions of reflexivity for contemporary sociology. Since it gives us a way through which ask ourselves about the blind points that our practice of sociology contains, to maximize its potentialities within these limits. This discussion is an instance of the more general proposal of a reflexive critical theory of the society.
Abstract This paper proposes an epistemological conception for sociology, based in a (self)reflexive movement that put in question the questioning point of view itself. For this we [...]
This articles main goal is to introduce the reader to the fundamental aspects of the sociology of Erving Goffman. More than a mere summary of his works, the article interweaves concepts coined by the author throughout his career, in order to present a general characterization of his sociology. The common thread of this presentation is the concept of interaction order as a sui generis reality.
Abstract This articles main goal is to introduce the reader to the fundamental aspects of the sociology of Erving Goffman. More than a mere summary of his works, the article interweaves [...]
Undoubtedly, the concept of risk is one of the main theoretical tools available to contemporary sociology to account for the dynamics of modern society. Among the authors devoted to think of risk from a theoretical point of view, Ulrich Beck and Niklas Luhmann stand out. This paper presents, analyzes and compares the reflec- tions on the subject of risk made by these authors. The article concludes by outli- ning the possibility of complementing the ideas of both authors.
Abstract Undoubtedly, the concept of risk is one of the main theoretical tools available to contemporary sociology to account for the dynamics of modern society. Among the authors [...]
The concept of reflexivity is key within the body of work of Anthony Giddens because it links basic topics such as agency, routines and institutions. A bibliographic analysis examines reflexivitys different uses and limitations. According to the problem about the link between the micro and the macro in sociology, the first part identifies the role of reflexivity within the theory of structuration. Then the analysis shifts to the role of Reflexivity in the production, reproduction, and change of modern institutions. Finally, as means to increase the analytic usefulness of the concept, a proposal for three uses of the term reflexivity is discussed. The proposal also highlights the perspective of observation and the subject of reflexivity. The proposed distinctions are put into play in order to argue against the apparent contradiction between reflexivity and routines. The conclusion highlights on several of the limitations in Giddens’ work and show a few ways to advance with the study of Reflexivity.
Abstract The concept of reflexivity is key within the body of work of Anthony Giddens because it links basic topics such as agency, routines and institutions. A bibliographic analysis [...]
This paper present evidence of some of the multiple expressions of violence against Mexican women. The lack of analyses tha use representative samples about violence against women hinders its visualization and jeopardizes women’s right to live a life without violence. By using recent surveys, this paper summarizes data about the prevalence of violence against women and children across their lifespan –childhood, adolescence, and adulthood– in family settings: forced marriage, selling of women, and violence perpetrated by women’s relatives. In school and work settings data about sexual harassment and bullying, as well as the prevalence of pregnancy screenings are presented. Regarding women’s experiences of institutional violence, their experiences upon seeking formal help for partner violence or rape in public institutions are examined. It is argued that social construction of gender inequalities support these expressions of violence. However, their analyses need to be studied as the result of the intersection of gender, race, class and sexuality systems.
Abstract This paper present evidence of some of the multiple expressions of violence against Mexican women. The lack of analyses tha use representative samples about violence against [...]
In this article, I provide a historical reconstruction of five moments of reflexivity. The first moment is Cartesian-self (western science). The second moment is social-self (sociology). The third moment is objective self-self (sociology of knowledge). The fourth moment is subjective self-self (sociology of science and scientific reflexivity). The fifth moment is complain-self (war of sciences). This historical reconstruction is one of the innumerable roads that lead to a new scientific narrative which is based in complexity, transdiciplinarity, transculturality, and democratization of science.
Abstract In this article, I provide a historical reconstruction of five moments of reflexivity. The first moment is Cartesian-self (western science). The second moment is social-self [...]
After discussing the concepts of hunger, undernutrition, food insecurity and food poverty, we propose a methodology to measure food poverty which integrates two innovations which were developed separately: 1) construction and cost estimate of the Normative Food Basket (nfb ) for the concrete composition of each household in Mexico City, carried out by Evalúa DF, 2) The comparison between the cost of the nfb and households’ food expenditure, instead of comparing it with income, as usually done. This integration allows a rigorous diagnosis of the food condition in Mexico City. Lastly, results of applying both innovations are contrasted with the results derived from comparing the costs of inegi -cepal s nfb and coneval s Minimum Welfare Line with households’ income.
Abstract After discussing the concepts of hunger, undernutrition, food insecurity and food poverty, we propose a methodology to measure food poverty which integrates two innovations [...]
The article problematizes the self-positioning of Laclaus theory of hegemony in the “post-Marxist” field and in socialist traditions, from the analysis of the positions and debates with the intellectual thinkers who questioned him from Marxist and leftist traditions. Based on the analysis of their convergences, theoretical tensions and onto-epistemological ruptures with/ against Marxist and socialist traditions, it seeks to contribute to evaluate the validity of the criticism and, at the same time, promote a greater dialogism and debate with these theoretical, social and political conceptions.
Abstract The article problematizes the self-positioning of Laclaus theory of hegemony in the “post-Marxist” field and in socialist traditions, from the analysis of the positions [...]
In Mexico, crime has increased and diversified over the last 20 years, but we have few theoretical, empirically verified, explanations. Here I explore a way of explaining violent crime in municipalities with more than 100, 000 inhabitants, taking intentional homicide in 2011 as the observable variable. I start from explanations of crime based on poverty and inequality. To this end, I problematize this type of explanations and run regression models testing the hypotheses of poverty or inequality as the explanatory variable. At the end I discuss the results obtained and propose a new research design that overcomes the limitations of the one carried out and the dilemma posed in the title.
Abstract In Mexico, crime has increased and diversified over the last 20 years, but we have few theoretical, empirically verified, explanations. Here I explore a way of explaining [...]
After discussing the role of pension systems in capitalism as instruments of redistribution of income between capital and labor and, therefore, of the class struggle, it is recounted how, in a context of a fragmented and inconclusive Welfare State, pension systems emerged in Mexico, and recent reforms to pension systems are analyzed, showing their impact in the reduction of benefits. Lastly, the poverty of the population of retirement age is analyzed in relation to their access to contributory and noncontributory pensions.
Abstract After discussing the role of pension systems in capitalism as instruments of redistribution of income between capital and labor and, therefore, of the class struggle, it is [...]
We present two poems from Yakov Glatshtein. A central question is asked: was there or was there not, a political and philosophical consciousness about the enormity of the calamity that developed during the Second World war?. The pre-war poem, concludes that an unnamed calamity –a Holocaust– against the Jews is about to erupt, destroying the minority that had about 1000 years of tense coexistence in the region. The second poem, intents to digest the disaster once it has happened, and deals with the fact that there is no future to be imagined for the group or its culture. The importance of the poets’ arguments stem from his early recognition of the missing intellectual barriers within the discourse of the time, these needed to question the lack of ethical grounding within the political arrangements, but they were nowhere to be found. Today, 70 years from the Holocaust, conflicting interrelations among groups continue to linger unexplored, hiding the insidious roots of the problem. The absence of reformulations for the linkage of the ethical and the political, remain a most urgent task to be upheld if we hope to be able to distance ourselves of that political legacy of the war.
Abstract We present two poems from Yakov Glatshtein. A central question is asked: was there or was there not, a political and philosophical consciousness about the enormity of the [...]
This essay emphasizes some true conceivable links existing between three historical phenomena. At first, the remarkable german influence on Chile’s institutions and public life since the xix century. Secondly, the concrete phenomena of local Nazism in the 30’s and 40’s decades of the xx century. On third place, the annihilation practices of the dictatorial apparatus, committed between 1973 and 1988. Particularly, the essay asks about the basis upon which these three events are interlocked, having as a tragic culmination the crimes on “Colonia Dignidad” (“Dignity” settlement) during the dictatorship period. On this german enclave in south Chile aberrant practices took place in previous periods. In the 70’s and 80’s decades, this place openly served as an annihilation center for political adversaries of the military regime.
Abstract This essay emphasizes some true conceivable links existing between three historical phenomena. At first, the remarkable german influence on Chile’s institutions and public [...]
This work focuses on the intellectual production of Portantiero linked to the work of Antonio Gramsci. To do this, he reviews some moments of his work taking care of the sociopolitical and the different configurations of the intellectual field context. The main objective of this article is to attend the meeting Portantiero with Gramscis work deciphering the modulations that acquires reception in his work, considering the way it operated as a breaking point at times of political and intellectual trajectory and how at the same time it made sense to occupy a prominent place in the intellectual field.
Abstract This work focuses on the intellectual production of Portantiero linked to the work of Antonio Gramsci. To do this, he reviews some moments of his work taking care of the sociopolitical [...]
Currently, the high and alarming youth unemployment rate in Spain invites to reflect on how this situation was on the previous and early stages of current economic and social crisis. In this article we analyze and reflect upon whether the predominant explanation, based on blaming young people for youth unemployment, eludes other interesting aspects to consider. Our analysis is based on research that combines statistical and documentary review, participant observation and interview (semi-structured and structured), aimed at young people (16-19 years), professionals in the field of formal training and occupation, and responsibles for local administration. The main contribution is firstly, the identification, from empirical analysis, of some reflections about elements that question the blame-discourse to the young and, secondly, the presentation of exogenous elements (alien to young people), which are interesting to be incorporated in the analysis of youth and employment.
Abstract Currently, the high and alarming youth unemployment rate in Spain invites to reflect on how this situation was on the previous and early stages of current economic and social [...]
Any measurement of poverty must specify a threshold and what this represents. Is it possible to avoid arbitrariness in the determination of these thresholds? Or are they totally subjective and depend on the observers values, prejudices and preferences? Or is poverty a real condition that causes suffering and exclusion from full participation in social life? This article argues that the meaning of adequate satisfaction of human needs is determined by social norms reflecting what society considers the minimum wellbeing to which all members should access. It proposes a methodology to identify these norms and emphasizes the process of their social structuring.
Abstract Any measurement of poverty must specify a threshold and what this represents. Is it possible to avoid arbitrariness in the determination of these thresholds? Or are they totally [...]
Sociological analysis and political analysis have an epistemological support that determines the conceptualization of society and the position or placement of who analyzes it. This is the representation available that is provided for a contemporary developing society or one more developed. It is about theory or theories of society as social constructions. Even though they are based on the accumulated knowledge, they don’t eliminate values, beliefs, desires or fears. Thus, social theory is a symbolic system that not only interprets reality but also tries to give it meaning and sense, so it is also ideology. In this concept of social theory, it is possible to hypothesize the occurrence of what I call hiperliberalism and its effect in the absence or presence of social conflictuality. Conflictuality overshadowed and thus, more absent than present in the last 20 or 30 years in Chile, where economic liberalism-turned-hiperliberalism causes conflictuality subsumption of contestation, especially in an order materially impoverishing. His re-emergence will be verified by means of the student movement that will engage the whole society.
Abstract Sociological analysis and political analysis have an epistemological support that determines the conceptualization of society and the position or placement of who analyzes [...]
coneval s official methodology for measuring multidimensional poverty (ommmp ) is critically evaluated, which underestimates poverty, and is contrasted with the lpmm . It is shown that in Mexico: 1) incidence of poverty (h ) in 2014 is higher than in 1977, 2) the number of poor (q) between 1992 and 2014 grew both in the lpmm as in the dimensions of income and ubn (Unsatisfied Basic Needs), 3) by removing ommmp s word play act to separate ‘vulnerable’ from ‘poor’, the deprived population is similar in both methods, 4) there is a big contrast between stagnation of q with one or more social deprivations in ommmp and the significant growth of q (ubn ) in the lpmm, 5) between 2006-2014 not only H, but the intensity (I) of poverty, the equivalent incidence (hi ) increased, 6) there were strong changes in the social pyramid:dropsin the proportions of non-poor and of moderately poor populations, and rise in the proportion of extreme poverty, 7) there are strong inequalities between states and between rural, urban and metropolitan settlements.
Abstract coneval s official methodology for measuring multidimensional poverty (ommmp ) is critically evaluated, which underestimates poverty, and is contrasted with the lpmm . It [...]
This paper examines the existing regulatory framework for addressing violence against women in Mexico, both nationally and at the level of the four states that make up the geographic area where the research was conducted. We present some of the manifestations of violence: communal, in the workplace and feminicide. Emphasis is placed on how these are overlapped and harnessed by institutional violence, for which we take up the ideas of experts on the subject of violence. The results reveal how institutional practices re-victimize and violate their rights. In spite of the advances in legal matters, we do not yet have the sociocultural conditions to ensure that women can exercise their rights and lead a life free of violence.
Abstract This paper examines the existing regulatory framework for addressing violence against women in Mexico, both nationally and at the level of the four states that make up the [...]
The project of an epistemology of anthropological sustenance similar ideas akin to those who have expressed solidarity between epistemology and social theory. In the present case, the theory of knowledge is symbolized by an idea in the political epistemology, understood as political epistemology and a theory of human scale represented society, understood as anthropology. This article will visit the elements of this relationship conceptual and epistemological issues in some authors founders of anthropology and anthropological critics of the twentieth century epistemology, anthropology of technoscience and the proposal of a possible epistemology supported by the main dimensions matrix conceptual epistemological anthropology.
Abstract The project of an epistemology of anthropological sustenance similar ideas akin to those who have expressed solidarity between epistemology and social theory. In the present [...]
The purpose of this scholarly monograph is to introduce students of sociology and other social sciences to the theoretical postulates of Anthony Giddens about reflexivity and its relation to the radicalized modernity. For this purpose –attending space limitations–, I first layout the background that underlies his analysis of the transformations of contemporary society with reference to the theory of structuration. Secondly, I address the analysis of modernity made by the author, its reflexive condition and his thesis on the radicalization of the social process. Thirdly, I present some of the main themes that give continuity to his research program. In order to enrich this monograph I have included a selected bibliography of related issues and theoretical debates on the Giddens’ concepts and approaches.
Abstract The purpose of this scholarly monograph is to introduce students of sociology and other social sciences to the theoretical postulates of Anthony Giddens about reflexivity [...]
This text deals with the analysis of the policy of the rights of the government of Mexico City which took place during the last three administrations. This government is considered as an institution identified with the political left of the country since it bases its government strategy on two core pillars: the democratization of the government and the design of new redistributive policies, mainly the social policy. With these referents, an analysis is made with the most important political guidelines, which characterized this policy since 1997. Thus a process of continuity is identified in the three administrations in which consecutively the political, social, civil and “collective” rights were introduced. It is analyzed in each case the specific policies which made valid these rights and it is emphasized the different limitations related to those policies. Finally, we highlight the difficulties and contradictions that these governments have faced due to the fact that it is a policy put into practice in the framework of an urban development deep inside neoliberal policies and the global economy rules.
Abstract This text deals with the analysis of the policy of the rights of the government of Mexico City which took place during the last three administrations. This government is considered [...]
This paper intends to deploy a reflection on some of the general features of taylorism and fordism, two work organization and surplus generating devices that have marked the history of capitalist modernity and have established a production pace unprecedented in the history of economic life. By relating such devices to the capitals immanent tendency to increase himself –to look for its own self-expansion–, the text is inspired by the thought rooted in Marxs and Foucaults works in order to inquire into the sense of those strategies of subsumption of labour under capital which try to generate subjects of obedience and productive bodies.
Abstract This paper intends to deploy a reflection on some of the general features of taylorism and fordism, two work organization and surplus generating devices that have marked the [...]
The socio-economic and financial crisis, which is affecting Europe since 2008, is spreading its influence to all European Union member countries. However, as the welfare models are different, the consequences could also be different. Therefore, in this paper we try to make an assessment of this diversity with the following aims: to analyze the weakening of European Welfare States, using as models the Central European (represented by German, Spain and Sweden); and to make a comparison between these three countries, belonging to disparate socioeconomic models. For this we have used a methodological triangulation from the analysis of three elements: semi-structured in-depth interviews (29) to experts in the three contexts under study; Analysis of official data from secondary sources; documentary review of paper related to the topic. The results, which show disparities between countries, have been grouped into four categories: (1) the lack of effective social policies; (2) adaptation strategies; (3) prominent factors in the three contexts -focusing on employment/unemployment-; and (4) the protective ability -changes in the swedish system-.
Abstract The socio-economic and financial crisis, which is affecting Europe since 2008, is spreading its influence to all European Union member countries. However, as the welfare models [...]
‘Going nowhere fast’ is the paradox that seems to arise from our temporal trajectories in late modernity, according to some theories of social acceleration and specially the analysis of Hartmut Rosa. This thesis confront us with a dual diagnosis of modernity, showing two-faced Janus: on the one hand, the acceleration of time seems a historical constant since the mid eighteenth century, while on the other, this same increase speed has led to a kind of ‘immobility’ in which we find ourselves caught between urgency and lack of horizons of our present, detached from both the authority of the past (pre-modern) and confidence in the future (of the first modernity). Are we seeing the two faces of the same phenomenon? Could the uncontrolled acceleration drive us to a loss of hierarchy which prevents the emancipatory project of modernity?
Abstract ‘Going nowhere fast’ is the paradox that seems to arise from our temporal trajectories in late modernity, according to some theories of social acceleration and [...]
The outbreak of World War I compelled writers, artists and scientists to make a stand. Most of these intellectuals followed, with a plethora of nuances, the patriotism surrounding the beginning of the conflict. This article discusses the work of two writers, Thomas Mann and Romain Rolland. Even though their paths diverged, the work produced by them impacted greatly and transcended as the foundation of significant intellectual and political trends. Mann, a vehement germanophile, in 1914 exerted considerable influence on the German “conservative revolution” that ultimately led to the national-socialism victory, in spite of the distancing that his 1922 “democratic turn” meant. Rolland, in turn, with his utter rejection of war was at the heart of the humanist spirit that afterwards nourished the antifascist struggle. I outline a polemic discussion that has not yet been recovered by intellectual history. The debate has been overshadowed by the dispute between the two Mann brothers but Rolland was the third and crucial party in this feud. Such controversial exchanges in the context of the ideological struggle on World War I anticipates the figure of the “engaged intellectual” that has had a long lasting significance (also in Latin America) since the second postwar period.
Abstract The outbreak of World War I compelled writers, artists and scientists to make a stand. Most of these intellectuals followed, with a plethora of nuances, the patriotism surrounding [...]
The changes in the temporal structure of modern society are usually considered from a macro-perspective, which neglects the crucial role of articulation and negotiation, between spatio-temporal regimes (structural level) and spatio-temporal arrangements (agency level). The following paper seeks to show that the spatio-temporal regimes, understood as our ordinary way of relationship with time and space, it is never a condition globally extended. Along with this, it is intended to open the discussion about how the acceleration of social change and the increasing contingence could be both interpreted, successfully, from the perspective of multiple spatio-temporalities. The uses of the notion of spatio-temporal retraction and expansion, as well as, spatio-temporal synchronization and desynchronization, allow us for the account of the multilevel character of the spatio-temporal structures in the late modernity. Thereby, it is intended to obtain a more realistic picture of the spaces of inconsistence inside the social acceleration, which until have been considered only as side effects, favoring what Hartmut Rosa has called a “phenomenology of social acceleration”, moving the explanation to the notions of “spatio-temporal selective restructuration”.
Abstract The changes in the temporal structure of modern society are usually considered from a macro-perspective, which neglects the crucial role of articulation and negotiation, between [...]