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"The book Global Nexus: Political Economies, Interconnectivity, and the Social Sciences brings out the contradictions and conflicts within the globalisation exercise; that while it provides opportunities for the poor and unemployed to improve their livelihoods, it encapsulates them in the phenomena of 'agencing', which become entrapments in long-term dependency and indebtedness. Global wealth-generating institutions and global poverty-generating institutions exist together in complex sets of relationships, strategies, and alliances. The Trump factor in globalisation is inherently contradictory since it assumes an isolationist role for the United States vis-?-vis deployment of industrial investments in the developing world or the Trans-Pacific Partnership while simultaneously reinforcing armament contracts, political alliances, and extra-territorial militarisms which reinforce conflicts in Asia and the Middle East. Global Nexus: Political Economies, Interconnectivity, and the Social Sciences suggests that inter-disciplinary social sciences in an age of globalisation are best understood through a nexus of transactional activities which generate their own political economies, thereby framing social realities in their own parameters of thought and action, providing a better understanding of the subject-matter, and its changing sphere of influence."

Audition publique en Commission des affaires sociales de la Chambre des Représentants, Bruxelles, 11 mai 2016

This article explores the way the 'native' ethnographer's location within the nation, and the nation's location within the global level, affects the production of knowledge. The production of knowledge emanates from the interplay of subjectivities and the author takes this up in this article. Representation is a situated political act which is manifest in the choice of theories, methodologies and linguistic codes made by researchers. Exogenously trained 'indigenous' researchers tend to appropriate and in so doing adapt 'western' enunciative codes to help them in their attempt to define a situated identity. The issue that is raised in this essay is whether this helps transform scientific conceptualizations and/or just helps to consolidate the power of one type knowledge over other forms of knowledge/s. ; peer-reviewed

Solving the Kosovo-Metohija issue is a long-term problem that is of great scientific and social importance, both for the immediate participants in the dialogue and for the Balkans. The paper discusses the potential of education as an aspect of soft power, which can serve as a tool for establishing a "new climate" between political officials in Belgrade and Pristina. The main hypothesis of the paper is that education, as one of the aspects of soft power, has broad potential in solving the Kosovo-Metohija issue. The scientific methods of content analysis - historical and quantitative method will be used in the paper. The main objective of the paper is to improve relations and communication between Belgrade and Pristina in relation to this issue, through educational cooperation. Recommendations for the execution and development of educational cooperation, which can contribute to the improvement of the situation and the achievement of positive outcomes acceptable to all participants in the Kosovo-Metohija dialogue have been presented. Soft power is imposed as an effective solution for achieving harmonized interests, peace and stability.

Onder invloed van een aantal factoren van politiek-institutionele en van sociaal-culturele aard vloeien vele voordelen van het sociaal beleid, verhoudingsgewijze en tendentieel, meer naar de hogere sociale categorieën dan naar de lagere (Matteüseffect). Dit wordt empirisch aangetoond voor België (1976 en 1979) enerzijds voor de vervangingsuitkeringen van de sociale zekerheid, anderzijds voor de onderwijsuitgaven, kinderbijslagen, gezondheidszorgen, huisvesting en culturele infrastructuur. In het raam van de verzorgingsstaat is het volume sociale overheidsuitgaven enorm toegenomen, maar dit moet veeleer opgevat worden als een anders gestructureerde verdeling van de toegenomen welvaart dan als een herverdeling. De moderne armoede is het problematisch aspect van de ongelijke inkomensverdeling alsmede van de ongelijke deelname aan sociale goederen en diensten.

La IAM : productividad y producción de primer mundo; moralidad económica y relaciones laborales de tercero / Alex Covarrubias Valdenebro -- El debate sobre innovación y el progreso sociolaboral : el sector automotriz en México / Jorge Carrillo Viveros, Graciela Bensusán Areous -- La gente de Ford Hermosillo : trabajadores con filiación cooperativa de grupo e identidad limitada / Sergio A. Sandoval Godoy, Martha Estela Díaz Muro -- Crónica del proceso para realizar un monitoreo de género : la aperatura de Volkswagen Puebla / Inés González Nicolás -- Ciudadanía fabril en la VW de México : avances y retrocesos 2000-2012 / José Antonio Espinal Betanzo -- Los factores psicosociales en la industria automotriz en México / Martha Estela Díaz Muro, Francisco Octavio López Millán, Enrique Javier de la Vega Bustillos -- La formación de una nueva cultura organizacional en la industria automotriz de la ciudad de Chihuahua / Enrique Soto Aguirre -- El cambio en la organización del trabajo y nuevas estrategias de poder sindical / Arnulfo Arteaga García, Rigoberto Reyes Sánchez -- Relaciones laborales y salariales en la IAM : ¿vendrá el cambio de fuera? / Graciela Bensusán Areous, Alex Covarrubias Valdenebro

Social Work and Animals represents a pioneering contribution to the literature of social work ethics and moral philosophy. It advances cogent and detailed arguments for the inclusion of animals within social work''s moral framework, arguments that have profound theoretical and practical implications for the discipline and its practitioners