Las desigualdades mediterráneas, reto del siglo XXI

De entre la totalidad de las aspiraciones humanas, una resulta común a todas las sociedades: la igualdad o su inexistencia en la mayoría de las ocasiones. La Ilustración situó la igualdad entre sus grandes principios, las religiones monoteístas la promulgaron frente a un dios y ...

La cuestión de las nacionalidades y la socialdemocracia

La cuestión de las nacionalidades y la socialdemocracia, publicado por Otto Bauer (1881-1938) en 1907, está considerado como uno de los estudios más brillantes y lúcidos del marxismo acerca del problema nacional, cuyos planteamientos sorprenden por su validez y persistencia. Como señala Ramón Máiz, en ...

Curso de Sociología general I

Conceptos fundamentales (Cursos del Collège de France, 1981-1983)

El pensamiento de Pierre Bourdieu no es una foto o una película de la realidad. Al contrario, busca descubrir cosas invisibles, las relaciones que no se dejan fotografiar, las estructuras ocultas, incorporadas al punto de presentarse como naturales. En este Curso de Sociología General I ...

The Age of surveillance capitalism

the fight for a human future at the new frontier of power

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. Shoshana Zuboff's interdisciplinary breadth and depth enable her to come ...

Anti-pluralism

the populist threat to Liberal democracy

The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens. Whether today’s populism represents a corrective ...

Election meltdown

dirty tricks, distrust, and the threat to American democracy

From noted election law expert Rick Hasen, comes a stark warning on the threats to American democracy in a time of foreign election interference and the coronavirus pandemic As the 2020 presidential campaign begins to take shape, there is widespread distrust of the fairness and ...

Campaigns and elections

what everyone needs to know

Frequent and fair elections, open to all, are fundamental elements of a democracy. The United States, through its local, state, and national contests, holds more elections, more often, than any other democracy in the world. But in recent years, there have been troubling signs that ...

Utopías y ucronías

Hemos asistido a menudo al velatorio del pensamiento utópico, pero no podemos desahuciarlo al constituir un elemento inembargable de nuestro imaginario. Su etimología señala las balizas que inicialmente lo orientan: ou-topia significa “no lugar” y eu-topia “buen lugar”, y se vuelve una suerte de crisol ...

Defender la democracia

estudios sobre la calidad democrática, el buen gobierno y la lucha contra la corrupción

En la actualidad, la escena política cuenta con numerosos fenómenos que ponen en jaque la perdurabilidad de algunos parámetros clásicos de la democracia como son la representación de la ciudadanía, la separación e independencia de los poderes públicos y la responsabilidad de los gobernantes frente ...

The Force of Nonviolence

The Ethical in the Political

Towards a form of aggressive nonviolence. Judith Butler’s new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates from a calm ...

Marx

Towards the Centre of Possibility

Classic study of Marx by Japan’s leading critical theorist Originally published in 1974, Kojin Karatani’s Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility has been among his most enduring and pioneering works in critical theory. Written at a time when the political sequences of the ...

The Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory

International Political Theory (IPT) focuses on the point where two fields of study meet - International Relations and Political Theory. It takes from the former a central concern with the 'international' broadly defined; from the latter it takes a broadly normative identity. IPT studies the 'ought ...

The End of Love

A Sociology of Negative Relations

Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people's lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us; the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs our spine at ...

The wolf at the door

the menace of economic insecurity and how to fight it

The acclaimed authors of Death by a Thousand Cuts argue that Americans care less about inequality than about their own insecurity. Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro propose realistic policies and strategies to make lives and communities more secure. This is an age of crisis. That ...

Democracy without journalism?

confronting the misinformation society

As local media institutions collapse and news deserts sprout up across the country, the US is facing a profound journalism crisis. Meanwhile, continuous revelations about the role that major media outlets-from Facebook to Fox News-play in the spread of misinformation have exposed deep pathologies in ...

La democracia como forma política y como forma de vida

Hoy en día se habla mucho de democracia. De un lado los totalitarismos están convencidos de que su orden político, su Estado, es la democracia “verdadera”, “legítima”, e incluso la llaman con preferencia democracia popular. Con ello quieren expresar seguramente que se trata de una ...

How social movements can save democracy

Leading political sociologist della Porta rehabilitates the role social movements have long played in fostering democracy. Bridging social movement studies and democratic theory, she investigates contemporary innovations of the progressive Left in times of crisis and reflects on the potential and limits of such alternative ...

Electoral shocks

the volatile voter in a turbulent world

Electoral Shocks: The Volatile Voter in a Turbulent World offers a novel perspective on British elections, focusing on the role of electoral shocks in the context of increasing electoral volatility. It demonstrates and explains the long-term trend in volatility, how shocks have contributed to the ...

The Oxford Handbook of spanish politics

The Oxford Handbook of Spanish Politics provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the Spanish political system through the lens of political science. It aims to move away from a complacent analysis of Spanish democracy and provide a nuanced view of some of its strengths ...

How social movements can save democracy

Leading political sociologist della Porta rehabilitates the role social movements have long played in fostering democracy. Bridging social movement studies and democratic theory, she investigates contemporary innovations of the progressive Left in times of crisis and reflects on the potential and limits of such alternative ...