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Abstracts Alterity and Development. Notes about a Socio-history Relation. Olver Quijano Valencia This article intends from a global vision, an approach to the explanation of the otherness in so much notion, construction, relation and historical tension not natural, that is to say, a mobile relation in the measure in which its meaning and configuration represent changes, not only in a space-temporary horizon, but in the middle of the installation and development of a huge Europe as center, hegemonic company , which is extended and remains until nowadays. (Article in Spanish)
Reception of "Darwinian Scientific Fantasy" in Argentine of XIX
Century (The Evolucionism in Literary and Parlamentary Speeches) The goal of this work is to demonstrate, through two studies of cases, the reception -reductionist and with influence of Spencer's version- of the Darwinism, in cultivated circuits of the Argentina of XIX century. In the book of fiction of the doctor and naturalistic, Eduardo Holmberg, Dos partidos en lucha (1875), their introduction is interpreted exclusively as a politic dispute that pervert the same Theory of the Evolution -applicable only to the biological organism, according Darwin -; likewise, with the tension created in the society, traditionalist and catholic, due to the progressive loss of power and representativeness, arise a virulent reaction, of anti-evolutionists characteristics, remarkable through the parliamentary debates of the Law 1420 (1884), in those which the defenders of the status quo and, in observance of Quanta Cura Encyclic and Syllabus's prescriptions, its complementary, they claim to proscribe "the horrible tempest loosened by so many perverse doctrines." (Article in Spanish)
Toward a Sustainable Urbanism What seems to organize analytically the discourse of "urban sustainability" is its division into two fields: on the one hand privileging a technical representation of cities by combining the notion of urban sustainability with the "modes of management of the flows of energy and materials associated with urban growth"; on the other hand defining the unsustainability of cities by the drop in productivity of urban investments, that is, by the "incapacity of the latter to keep up with the rate of growth of social demands", which consequently places urban space in jeopardy as a political territory. The idea of sustainability recalls the logic of practice, where practical effects viewed as desirable are made to happen, rather than the field of scientific knowledge, where concepts are constructed to explain reality. When applied to urban space, the idea of sustainability has generated different representations and perspectives for managing cities, from the administration of risks and uncertainties to the increase of "resilience" –the adaptive capacity– of urban structures. (Article in Spanish)
From Agribusines without farmers to a new agrarian culture: hollow in the
debate on GMOs This article analyzes the current agricultural production
system adopted in Argentina, linking it to the silent and extensive spread of GMOs and
some of the most outrageous social and environmental consequences, including the massive
exodus of farmers, labour exploitation and growing hunger in the
Property, Patents, or People: ’What part of NO don’t
you understand? Maori and other indigenous people have always respected the sanctity and reciprocity of
life. Patenting has no respect for life or the dignity for all life forms. There is no
negotiation. In fact, there is a global
The geo-politics of Genetic Modified Organisms The dismantling of national sovereignty and social integrity,
the deliberate and systematic violation of any and all boundaries, and the systematic
violation of the integrity of organisms are the hallmarks of
Reflections About the Changes on the Agriculture
of Pampeana Region According
to the análisis of secondary sources and interviews to qualified people, the working of
investment funds which finance "sowing" mainly in the Pampas region in
Argentina, has been studied. These funds enable the incorporation of foreign investors and
additional farmers as new stars or figures in the Pampas fields and have as their main
predecessors the "Pool of sowing". Both ways of management have had their
influences on the wear of the Pampas soil. This worsening could be all in all the only and
last efficient limit to the capital growing.
Argentinean Events: Brief Account of the Neoliberal Capitalist Process and its
Crisis and fo the Embryonic People´s Rebellion Undoubtedly, Argentina is one of the major " neoliberal peripherical experiments" planned by the International Monetary Fund" ( IMF) and executed by the national and multinational corporations being assisted by traditional political parties. Considering the large profits of big capital sent abroad and the constantly increasing growth of poverty and social exclusion, the model has been a success. The lack of a radical movement that will integrate all the different protests into a comprehensive political program involving a clear alternative to the present political and economic institutions has created a huge power vacuum in Argentina. Therefore, although the events of the last few months represent a real transformation of politics and of Argentinean society , the final outcome is still open as the economic crisis is so deep that even the big international corporations do not have a clear idea of what way to follow to continue accumulating billions of profits. The strength and action needed to produce a drastic social change towards fairness, equality and solidarity that would eradicate the neoliberal market economy in Argentina is still to be developed. (Article in Spanish)
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