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The topic of this master thesis is leverage in international mediation and it focuses on the empirical study of the faith-based mediation by the Catholic Lay NGO called the Community of Sant'Egidio. The religious aspects shaping their mediation approach are studied through three empirical case studies in the context of peace processes in Mozambique, Liberia, and Casamance in Senegal to find out the particular resources they can draw on when conducting mediation, and the challenges that follow from their mediation approach. In the traditional view of theory on leverage The Community of Sant'Egidio is not viewed as leveraged mediator capable of influencing the mediation process. Nevertheless the theory of capability and credibility leverage as well as theory on faith-based mediation shows that there are more ways of being an influential and capable mediator than just material power. The religious aspects are a source of motivation for Sant'Egidio to conduct mediation. Through their religious identity they can also get unique moral and spiritual leverage and to connect with people through their Communities worldwide helping them to get involved indirectly to peace processes establishing personal relationships with local religious, and political actors as well as civil society. Furthermore other particular resources, which they can draw on when conducting mediation are their reputation as credible, legitimate, and honest broker as well as their financial support and donations, which enable them to stay engaged in mediation. Their identity as a neutral and disinterest mediator is challenged because of their increased capability and credibility leverage.

En este espacio se propone revisar el impacto que la Administración del presidente Clinton en sus primeras semanas de gobierno, ha tenido en la actividad económica en nuestro país. Concretamente se enfoca al efecto que hasta ahora ha causado la negociación del Tratado de Libre Comercio y las expectativas que ha generado la gestión actual del presidente de Estados Unidos. En este sentido, se puede estimar el significado que adquiere el avance en las negociaciones de la firma del TLC. En esta óptica varios aspectos relevantes; uno, es precisamente el de los avances concretos en las negociaciones que posibiliten mantener expectativas positivas en el actual proyecto económico de México, el otro aspecto es el del efecto político que puede tener el avance o retroceso de la firma del TLC. ; This space is proposed to review the impact of the administration of President Clinton in his first weeks in office, he has had on economic activity in our country. Specifically, it focuses on the effect which has so far caused the negotiation of the Free Trade and the expectations generated by the current administration of US President. In this regard, the important it is to advance in the negotiations of the FTA can be estimated. With this in mind several important aspects; one is precisely to concrete progress in the negotiations that enable maintain positive expectations in the current economic project in Mexico, the other aspect is the political effect it can have the advance and retreat of the FTA.

Geschlechterwissen wird in und zwischen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen generiert - als Kritik an akademischer Wissensproduktion und mit dem Ziel der Transformation. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes untersuchen die Bedingungen und Möglichkeiten für intervenierendes Wissen von Geschlecht und dessen Bedeutungen für die Disziplinen Informatik, Naturwissenschaften/Biologie und Kunstwissenschaft in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland seit den 1970er Jahren. Sie fragen danach, inwiefern Teilhabe notwendige aber prekäre Voraussetzung für Veränderungen ist und welche dissidenten Praktiken entwickelt wurden. Im Zentrum der Analysen stehen Infragestellungen akademischer Strukturen und disziplinärer Grundlagen, Prozesse der Institutionalisierung und Debatten um Interdisziplinarität.

In the 1980s, after a period of peaceful co-existence, a bitter conflict arose between National Health Service psychiatrists and private doctors treating drug addiction. Continuing into the twenty-first century, the battle ended with most private addiction doctors being struck from the medical register. This book examines how the conflict played out and what weapons were used by each side. The contrasting organizational structures of the private and public doctors and the changing policy context help to explain why one side triumphed and the other succumbed to extensive medical discipline. Personalities also played an important part: senior civil servants took a major role in shaping British policy to their own privately held beliefs and turnover in these posts significantly affected attempts to regulate private doctors. Based on 55 oral history interviews with key players and private prescribers as well as previously undisclosed documents, The Politics of Addiction gives a detached, historical analysis of this polarised debate.

En guise d'introduction. Marxisme et féminisme : histoire et concepts -- Le Capital et le genre -- Omnia sunt communia -- Le capital et la gauche -- L'invention de la ménagère -- Origines et développement du travail sexuel aux États-Unis et en Grande-Bretagne.

Preface: The false promise of digital activism -- Introduction: Public unions, patriots, and the battle for the internet -- The great class wedge and the internet's hidden costs -- Bureaucracy's revenge and the organization of digital activism -- The right's digital evangelism and its boots on the ground -- The left's radical fairness and its muted online bullhorn -- Conclusion: The digital activism gap's threat to democracy.

Inhalt; Wahrnehmung und Steuerung von Strukturwandel und Lebenschancen -- Einleitung; I. Rahmenbedingungen; "Zwischen Steuerungsbedarf und ordnungspolitischem Sündenfall"; Strukturpolitik als Industriepolitik; Regionale Disparitäten, Raumordnung und das Ideal der Chancengerechtigkeit in Westdeutschland; II. Regionale und sektorale Problemfelder und Lösungsstrategien; Tief im Westen ist es besser, als man glaubt?; Unternehmerisches Handeln, Standortbedingungen und regionalpolitische Reaktionen; "Passive Sanierung"; Industrielle Kerne in Ostdeutschland

"The era of official color-blindness in Latin America has come to an end. For the first time in decades, nearly every state in Latin America now asks their citizens to identify their race or ethnicity on the national census. Most observers approvingly highlight the historic novelty of these reforms, but National Colors shows that official racial classification of citizens has a long history in Latin America. Through a comprehensive analysis of the politics and practice of official ethnoracial classification in the censuses of nineteen Latin American states across nearly two centuries, this book explains why most Latin American states classified their citizens by race on early national censuses, why they stopped the practice of official racial classification around mid-twentieth century, and why they reintroduced ethnoracial classification on national censuses at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Beyond domestic political struggles, the analysis reveals that the ways that Latin American states classified their populations from the mid-nineteenth century onward responded to changes in international criteria for how to construct a modern nation and promote national development. As prevailing international understandings of what made a political and cultural community a modern nation changed, so too did the ways that Latin American census officials depicted diversity within national populations. The way census officials described populations in official statistics, in turn, shaped how policymakers viewed national populations and informed their prescriptions for national development--with consequences that still reverberate in contemporary political struggles for recognition, rights, and redress for ethnoracially marginalized populations in today's Latin America. "While Loveman is not the only scholar paying attention to governmental census taking, this book stands out for its theoretical depth, the remarkable mastery of historical context and agency, and its long-term historical breath. Loveman shows that rather than reflecting domestic politics or specific demographic configurations, Latin American states collected data on the kind of racial or ethnic categories that they thought would help document, to a global audience of other states, their efforts and achievements in becoming modern nations."--Andreas Wimmer, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Sociology, Princeton University"--

"Investigates how different approaches to religious interpretation influence Indonesian women's engagement with global Islam and feminism. It also explores the consequences of a more public Islam for women's participation in the public sphere. The book is based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork between 2002 and 2010 with four different groups of women activists in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital. The groups include a secular feminist NGO (Solidaritas Perempuan), a Muslim women's rights NGO (Rahima), the women's group of one of the country's largest Muslim organizations (Fatayat N.U.), and women in a conservative Muslim political party (the Prosperous Justice Party). The women in these have all been deeply influenced by the ongoing Islamic revival. In addition, they are part of the urban middle class. The women of Rahima and Fatayat N.U. are influenced by global feminism and Islamic discourses. They use Islam to express feminist and liberal ideals of equality and rights, and they strive to integrate these frameworks in their own lives. In contrast, women in the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) reject feminism as Western and secular and are more influenced by global Islamic discourses. Although some scholars argue that pious Islam and liberal ideals are incompatible, these activists embrace modernity and sometimes speak in terms of individual agency, empowerment, and rights. The women of Solidaritas Perempuan maintain a balance between their secular activism and personal religiosity. The overall conclusion of Mobilizing Piety is that the Islamic revival has not stymied but has in fact helped to empower many Indonesian women, especially by allowing them to participate in national debates about moral and religious issues"--

For this book, the authors studied thousands of historical photographs of people with disabilities. Their work shows how people with disabilities have been presented - but in a much wider range than seen previously.

Improvisieren ist menschlich. Weil das Leben zum Umgang mit dem Unvorhersehbaren herausfordert, ist das Improvisieren eine Kompetenz, die nicht nur in der Kunst, sondern auch im Alltag eine wichtige Rolle spielt. Jedes menschliche Handeln enthält ein Improvisationspotenzial. Wenn diese Annahme richtig ist, dann müsste der Begriff Improvisation ein Kernbegriff kulturwissenschaftlichen Denkens sein - allein: Er ist es nicht, jedenfalls noch nicht. Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Buches nähern sich dem Phänomen des Improvisierens aus sozial- und musikwissenschaftlicher Sicht. In fachübergreifender Perspektive fragen sie nach der Bedeutung des Improvisierens in den Bereichen Musik, Tanz und Theater, nach den sozialen Bedingungen und kulturellen Kontexten improvisatorischen Handelns und nach dem Sinn, den Mitglieder anderer Kulturen mit dem Phänomen des Improvisierens verbinden. Mit Beiträgen von Ulrich Bielefeld, Silvana K. Figueroa-Dreher, Oliver Kozlarek, Ronald Kurt, Klaus Näumann, Stefan Orgass, Constanze Rora und Markus Schmidt.

International audience ; Tandis que l'approche sociologique des médias interroge principalement les aspects extra-discursifs des pratiques journalistiques et délaissent les formes mêmes de l'écriture de presse, les études consacrées aux spécificités langagières des produits médiatiques appréhendent parfois les discours comme des faits sociaux, soumis à une certaine régularité, codifiés dans les espaces d'enseignement du métier, conditionnés par différentes dynamiques historiques. Cependant, en n'engageant pas d'études « de terrain » à côté de l'étude des textes, la plupart de ces recherches ne permettent pas d'expliquer les rhétoriques ainsi mises à jour. Le risque d'une telle décontextualisation des discours est alors d'en déduire des fonctions sociales qui ne correspondent ni aux objectifs des journalistes ni aux appropriations des publics. Cet article vise à se demander comment réconcilier ces deux approches et articuler leurs atouts respectifs. Par sa souplesse, le concept de rôle apparaît comme une focale pertinente pour appréhender la dimension sociale des productions journalistiques et ainsi agencer, dans une même problématique, description et explication de leurs régularités discursives. L'une des ressources offertes par ce concept est sa polysémie : en effet, les rôles peuvent être envisagés à la fois en tant que positions occupées par les journalistes dans les processus de communication publique et en tant que postures que matérialisent les registres et les genres privilégiés. Une autre vertu de la notion est de ne pas figer les discours journalistiques dans une quelconque essence ahistorique : conditionnés par des structures sociales elles-mêmes évolutives, les rôles se transforment au gré de l'ajustement des acteurs à ces structures et aux situations qu'elles génèrent. Pour illustrer ces réflexions méthodologiques et ainsi justifier de l'intérêt d'une telle perspective, cet article réinterroge les résultats d'une recherche doctorale consacrée aux métamorphoses des pages Politique de la presse écrite française entre 1945 et 2000. Après avoir présenté les objectifs et les principales conclusions de cette enquête, on s'efforcera de revenir sur certains des outils conceptuels mobilisés pour mettre à jour la dimension sociale et historique des normes d'écriture journalistique. Il conviendra alors de préciser l'intérêt d'analyser ces discours à l'aune d'une sociologie des rôles.