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This article is about the concept of the contemporary city - the influence that technology has when one thinks about, plans and lives in a city. The conjunction of technology and city reformulates customs and social practices; it can even determine the way one constitutes one's own identity. One can see how close the relation is between technology (specifically, TICS) and the structures of the city in a wide variety of situations: in social interactions on the street, in transport, and in ways of buying, of working and entertainment. '@City' is a concept that very well reflects the emergent properties of a current city, that is, the coexistence of a physical and a virtual urban space. The '22@Barcelona' project attempts to bring together different types of spaces. By combining the physical with the virtual, 22@Barcelona, as a neighborhood of @City, creates an uncertain and blurred border between both spaces. The article also examines the impact that these spaces have on the psycho-social processes involved in the daily life of a traditionally working-class neighborhood, now strongly limited by technological boundaries.

This work offers a comparative review of presidential offices in Mexico & the US during the last decades, with a special focus on the Vicente Fox administration. The author puts forward two main arguments: first, the nature of the presidential staff is highly dependent on contingent factors, structural & particular; second, the task of governing demands taking into account the advice that "the president needs help" (Lowi). Based on these notions, size & power differences between presidential staffs of both countries up to the end of the 1990s are demonstrated, & these differences are explained on account of the nature of each political system. Finally, the author examines Vicente Fox's presidential staff & from this analysis stems an explanation based on specific contingent aspects. References. Adapted from the source document.

After more than 20 years of a gradual but cumulative dismantling of the resources that the State had available to channel & promote development, the author of this text intends to compare the perspective that Mexican & Korean elites have on this issue, as the latter's contribution has been without doubt more successful, & also to contrast both elites' strategies in face of the withdrawal of the State. In particular, the author asks: Why is it that Korean & Mexican large firms, while having so much in common ?at least until the 1980s?, had such a different impact on their respective economies? Why do Mexican groups grow at spectacular rates in the context of a virtual economic stagnation? Why wealth concentration does not represent an unbeatable obstacle for growth in Korea, whereas it constitutes a structural hindrance in Mexico? Tables. Adapted from the source document.

The author complains about how surveys analyzing her professional activities seldom ask questions about her real professional concerns. Moreover, answers often do not fit the possibilities given in the surveys, thus, surveys often may result in biased or inaccurate information. Adapted from the source document.

This article criticizes the article by Ludvig Beckman (2006/3) about Herbert Tingsten, named "the father of the criticism of ideas." The author states that unclear and unfair quotations put Tingsten in an unfavorable light. Also, his different public roles were not considered separately. References. Adapted from the source document.

This paper examines & critiques the allegedly incompatibility between the universal defense of fundamental rights & multicultural claims. In this way, the author proposes the harmonious coexistence of both positions, in considering fundamental rights as formally universalistic & granted for the whole citizenry. This universalistic feature is preserved even the actual recognition this rights can achieve. Adapted from the source document.

This paper examines the legal & political justification for imposing restrictions to freedom of speech, just for the cause of protect communitarian religious belief. Through examination of some paradigmatic examples, the author makes the defense of a radical liberalism that entails the claim of a complete secular State. In this very, religious freedom must be seen as a negative liberty. Adapted from the source document.

This paper deals with the recovery that Hannah Arendt made, almost literally, of the ancient Greek idea of citizenship. She stressed the equality as a key value in the solution of the contemporary dilemmas that we face in philosophical & political terms. In this way, the author revisits some of the main concepts in Arendt s work, such as power, freedom & equality. Adapted from the source document.

This paper examines Charles Taylor s communitarian view about recognition. This view was shaped as a critique of what Taylor considers the liberal failures in conceptualizing collective cultural identities. In addition, the author critiques Taylor position as an aporetical attempt of reshape the liberal ideal of universal equality among individuals, a feature that is fundamental in the liberal conception of politics. Adapted from the source document.

This paper proposes that Secularity is not only a political model that prescribes a separa-tion between the State & the Churches, but a model that entails a complete scheme of thought, a very intellectual project, which must be considered in contrast & opposition with other doctrines. In this way, the author offers a definition of the minimal content of a Secular project. Adapted from the source document.

In this paper, the author vindicates the idea of a secular Ethics, proudly stressed as an independent domain facing the religious claims. This idea is shaped in a positive way & finds its foundation in the concept of human dignity. To achieve this goal, the paper analyses the idea of human dignity in its relationship with the concept of autonomy, following both of them since Picco della Mirandola's work to Immanuel Kant's philosophy. Adapted from the source document.

This article is based on notes that the author took during the seminar series that Rhoda Unger gave as part of the Social Psychology Doctoral Program at the UAB. She gave five talks on the history of feminist psychology, and of psychology in general, in the USA. She gave an overview of the current state of play, and speculated on likely future developments. This article provides a resource for those interested in the work of a feminist within our discipline.

The author explores the relationship between the involvement in peacekeeping operations & the civil control of armed forces. The analysis of the experiences of Argentina & Uruguay reveals that this kind of involvement yields different outcomes: While the former strengthened civil control, that was not the case for the latter. The nature of transition & the weight of internal & external factors account for these differences. While involvement in peacekeeping operations in Argentina strengthened civil control, there was a disparate result in Uruguay, that is, the institutional autonomy of armed forces became thereby stronger. Adapted from the source document.

This paper considers the emergence of objects as something economic, in terms of their exchange value, & investigates the processes that have made this economization of society possible. The author draws on the thinking of Michel Foucault (1978) to consider the apprehension, anxiety, & tension that have accompanied this economization as a part of the process of the constitution of the (post)modern society. With the adoption of economics as the driving force of life, the lives of people have suffered. Work is valued only for its remuneration. True quality of life has been replaced by economic enhancement & the acquisition of objects.

International Politics has been characterized as an American social science. This article traces the early development of the discipline in Sweden in the shadow of US hegemony. The advantages & disadvantages of the Swedish decision to keep International Relations (IR) within the broader discipline of Political Science are discussed. Recalling the early tensions between International Politics & Peace & Conflict Research, the author identifies some prominent traits in the development of Swedish IR in recent decades. Finally, broader developments in IR research generally are outlined in terms of consecutive debates, continuously broadening research themes, fashions, reaction to dramatic events in the world, & dialectics between paradigms emphasizing anarchy or order. References. Adapted from the source document.