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Review Of Immigration And Integration In Urban Communities: Renegotiating The City, Ed. Lisa Hanley, Blair Ruble, And Allison Garland, Clara Irazabal

Clara Irazabal

This book challenges the prevailing, counterpoising paradigms of immigration studies and integration strategies -- multiculturalism and assimilationism -- by noting that host communities are not as static and migrants are constantly evolving, reacting and adapting to each other.

The Scheherazade Syndrome: Fiction And Fact In Dubai’S Quest To Become A Global City, Clara Irazabal, Alamira Hashim, Greta Byrum

Clara Irazabal

No abstract provided.

Promised Land? Immigration, Religiosity, And Space In Southern California, Clara Irazabal, Grace Dyrness

Clara Irazabal

This article looks at how immigrants and their supporters appropriate and use religious space and other public spaces for religious and socio-political purposes in Southern California. While the everyday living conditions of many immigrants, particularly the unauthorized Latino immigrants, force unto them an embodied disciplinarity that maintains spatialities of restricted citizenship, the public appropriations of space for and through religious practices allow for them –even if only momentarily –to express an embodied transgression. This practice in public space helps realize spaces of freedom and hope, however ephemerally. Potentially, these rehearsing exercises can help revert internalized disempowering subjectivities and create social …

Reflections On The Venezuelan Transition From A Capitalist Representative To A Socialist Participatory Democracy: What Are Planners To Do?, Clara Irazabal

Clara Irazabal

Venezuela is experiencing a transitional political process in which the government and the majority of Venezuelans want to move from a capitalist representative democracy to a more socialist participatory democracy. This transition is enmeshed in complexities, contradictions, and political opposition. Reflection on the experience of accompanying neighborhood groups in local decision making in Caracas from 2002 to 2006 suggests that planning practitioners and scholars can be allies in the grassroots processes of empowerment and self-determination of local communities and advocates and active agents in the "trickling-up" of greater planning participation to upper levels of government.

Postnationalist Democratization, Cillian Mcbride

Cillian McBride

No abstract provided.

Ngos And Political Participation In Weak Democracies: Sub National Evidence On Protest And Voter Turnout From Bolivia., Carew E. Boulding

Carew E Boulding

How do NGOs affect political participation in weakly democratic settings? We know that NGOs can be an important part of moderate civil society by building trust, facilitating collective action, and encouraging voter turnout. This paper explores these relationships in weakly democratic settings. NGOs stimulate political participation by providing resources and opportunities for association. Where voting is seen as ineffective, new participation can take the form of political protests and demonstrations. This paper presents results from an original local level dataset from Bolivia on NGO activity, voter turnout, and political protest, showing a strong relationship between NGO activity and political protest …

The S-Word: Discourse, Stereotypes, And The American Indian Woman, Debra Merskin

Debra Merskin

No abstract provided.

Author Guidelines For Reporting Scale Development And Validation Results In The Journal Of The Society For Social Work And Research, Peter Cabrera-Nguyen

Elián P. Cabrera-Nguyen

In this invited article, Cabrera-Nguyen provides guidelines for reporting scale development and validation results. Authors' attention to these guidelines will help ensure the research reported in JSSWR is rigorous and of high quality. This article provides guidance for those using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). In addition, the article provides helpful links to resources addressing structural equation modeling, multiple imputation for missing data, and a general resource for quantitative data analysis.

The Present Position And Prospects Of Social And Political Theory, Dietrich Rueschemeyer

Dietrich Rueschemeyer

No abstract provided.

Monopolistic Screening Under Learning By Doing, Dennis L. Gärtner

Dennis L Gärtner

This article investigates the design of incentives in a dynamic adverse selection framework where agents’ production technologies display learning effects and agents’ learning rates are private knowledge. In a simple two-period model with full commitment available to the principal, we show that whether learning effects are over- or underexploited crucially depends on whether more efficient agents also learn faster (so costs diverge through learning effects) or whether it is the less efficient agents who learn faster (so costs converge). We further show that an overexploitation of learning effects can occur also if the full-commitment assumption is relaxed.

Field Notes From A Protest: Toronto, Ontario, June 26, 2010, G20 Summit Protests, Denice J. Szafran

Denice J Szafran, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac: Creatures Of Regulatory Privilege, David J. Reiss

David J Reiss

This book chapter addresses the appropriate role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-chartered, privately owned mortgage finance companies, in the United States housing finance sector. The federal government recently placed Fannie and Freddie in conservatorship. These two massive companies are profit-driven, but as government-sponsored enterprises they also have a government-mandated mission to provide liquidity and stability to the United States mortgage market and to achieve certain affordable housing goals. How the two companies should exit their conservatorship has implications that reach throughout the global financial markets and are of key importance to the future of American housing finance …

Minitipsheet4-2010, Lynn Shaw Dr.

Lynn Shaw

No abstract provided.

Work Transition Tips 2-2010 Support Groups And Health Professsionals Working Together, Lynn Shaw Dr.

Lynn Shaw

No abstract provided.

Book Review: The Archaeology Of Alcohol And Drinking, Douglas Ross

Douglas Ross

No abstract provided.

La Inclusión Es El Principal Reto, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

La recuperación de los centros históricos de América Latina “es menos un problema y más una solución”, señala el presidente de la Organización Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Centros Históricos (Olacchi). Entrevista realizada por Alonso Flores para el Boletín Km.cero N 18, de la Ciudad de México

La Diplomacia Del Fútbol, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

En el Reino Unido y en los inicios del fútbol moderno hubo un cambio histórico muy fuerte, cuando este juego rompe su anclaje local: los partidos que se realizaban al interior de cada una de las comunidades locales -que venían de culturas diferentes- dan un salto en las confrontaciones para empezar a competir internacionalmente. Se considera el primer partido internacional al jugado entre Escocia e Inglaterra el 5 de marzo de 1870 y tiene al menos las siguientes implicaciones: primero, es el inicio de los partidos de local y de visita; segundo, es la construcción internacional del fútbol, tercero, el …

La Sombra De Hitler Visita Al Futbol, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

En la década de los años treinta del siglo pasado, el deporte fue políticamente instrumentado por el fascismo, existiendo dos hitos centrales: el primero, en 1934 con la copa mundial de fútbol organizada por Italia, donde Benito Mussolini fue el director de orquesta para que Italia obtenga el título mundial y para que el árbitro de la final fuera expulsado de la FIFA. El segundo, en 1936 con la realización de las olimpiadas en Berlín, donde Adolfo Hitler buscó exaltar la raza aria, cosa que el atleta afro descendiente Jesse Owens se la estropeó.

Hitler odiaba el fútbol, pero sabía …

Ritmos, Melodías Y Goles, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

La música estuvo desde siempre vinculada al fútbol, porque en sus orígenes la fiesta de las comunidades locales unió de manera indisoluble al arte con el deporte. De allí en adelante se ha fortalecido esta relación bajo distintas formas, al extremo de que hoy en día los grandes conciertos se desarrollan en los estadios; los cantantes cantan a los jugadores, los jugadores cantan melodías y los cantantes juegan fútbol; las hinchadas apoyan a sus equipos con canticos e himnos; y el fútbol y la música, mutuamente relacionados, son expresión y producto de las sociedades. Tan es así que los estilos …

El Lenguaje Del Fútbol, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

La relación entre literatura y fútbol nació hace mucho tiempo, porque el fútbol requiere de una narrativa que le de racionalidad discursiva; en eso el lenguaje metafórico es central. La dimensión narrativa viene de la lógica del fútbol como deporte y de un lenguaje propio que conjuga conceptos importados de otras áreas del quehacer intelectual, como son la geometría, la guerra, la religión, el inglés y la fauna. La geometría aporta con el “punto” penal, la “línea” media”, el “ángulo” o el “rectángulo”. El “arco” es la meta que se arma con “horizontales” y “verticales”; como el fútbol puede ser …