The Erotics of History challenges long-standing notions of sexuality as stable and context-free—as something that individuals discover about themselves.
Die Identitätsbildung des heutigen Belgiens ist durch ein komplexes Zusammenspiel von Regionen,
The 2013 edition of Social Panorama of Latin America presents ECLAC official measurements for the analysis of income poverty and seeks fresh approaches to poverty and well-being, placing special emphasis on multidimensional approaches. These approaches are exploratory and therefore not comprehensive. They have nevertheless been tackled in this year’s edition of Social Panorama because one thi…
Erinnerung und Identität gelten als zentrale Themen der Kurzgeschichten und Romane von Doeschka Meijsing (1947-2012) - doch deren literarische Inszenierungen wurden bislang kaum untersucht.
To cast new light on social inequality, the 2012 edition of Social Panorama of Latin America is devoted mainly to aspects of caregiving on which systematized information for the region has not been available hitherto: paid employment in care-related activities, household expenditure on care, and the situation and care needs of persons with disabilities. This edition aims, in fact, to generate k…
For Social Panorama of Latin America, the main challenge is to foster a more in-depth examination of social gaps and the mechanisms that reproduce or decrease them. The previous edition of Social Panorama homed in on inequality gaps and their intergenerational reproduction and paid particular attention to the formative years of individuals, their transition to adult life and the role of social …
In 2010 the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) proposed a comprehensive development strategy entitled Time for equality: closing gaps, opening trails (ECLAC, 2010). From a rights-based perspective, development is treated as an indivisible, rights-based process in which synergies are created between a macroeconomy that pushes back the frontiers of growth as an engine…
The word 'heritage' is nowadays mainly used in the term pair 'cultural heritage'.
The 2009 edition of Social Panorama of Latin America links trends in poverty and income distribution with social protection systems, placing special emphasis on how these systems have responded to the social impacts of the current crisis and on medium- and long-term projections. It focuses in particular on the impact of public transfers, trends in social spending, the mechanisms by which social…
MANUEL PASTOR is Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California,