The Social Impact of a Middleman Minority in a Divided Host Society: The Case of the Portuguese in Early Seventeenth-Century Buenos Aires

1985 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo R. Saguier
2017 ◽  
pp. 283-316
Author(s):  
Yurany Alexandra Pérez Lugo ◽  
Lenin Gabriel Díaz Escandón

La represa Salvajina, una de las grandes hidroeléctricas de Colombia, ubicada en el noroccidente del Cauca, en los municipios de Suárez, Morales y Buenos Aires, ha sido una construcción controversial por los impactos sociales y ambientales que ha generado durante la administración de diferentes multinacionales y empresas privadas. La gobernanza se involucra en la administración de esta, pues es permanente la articulación entre Estado sociedad civil y actores privados, donde supone el reto de efectuar la gobernabilidad en el margen legal. La administración de la represa, sus repercusiones socioambientales y la gobernabilidad son tres factores que confluyen para determinar el impacto general de este proyecto frente a la población aledaña. A partir de lo anterior, este escrito intenta ver cómo dicho impacto ha sido remediado, o, en su defecto, cuáles son las tentativas para lograrlo, pues desde una perspectiva críticoanalítica, el manejo y regulación del Estado frente a los actores privados permite que las dinámicas sociales se vean impactadas negativa o positivamente, en la culturalización de nuevas formas de vida relacionadas con la construcción de la represa. En suma, el artículo apunta a que el reto del Estado, en el marco de la gobernanza, y dentro de una armonía teórica horizontal, es suscitar la gobernabilidad entre los actores que buscan beneficio de distinta índole en la represa Salvajina.Palabras clave: megaproyectos, desarrollo, impacto social, impacto ambiental, actores privados, sociedad civil, acción estatal, gobernanza, gobernabilidad. Abstract:Salvajina Dam: far from development, close to oblivion Salvajina dam, one of the greatest hydroelectric of Colombia, located in the Northwest of Cauca, in the municipalities of Suárez, Morales and Buenos Aires has been controversial for the social and environmental impacts generated, within the administration of different multinationals and private companies. Governance is involved in the administration of this, because joint is permanent between State, civil society and private actors, where the challenge of governance in the legal margin. The management of the dam, its social and environmental impacts; and it governance are three factors that converge in determine an impact general to the population surrounding and how these have been remediated, or in its defect them attempts of achieving it. As a perspective critical analytical, management and regulation of the State to private players allows that the social dynamics will be impacted positively or negative on the culturalisation of new forms of life because of the construction of the dam. Raise governance is the challenge of the State within the framework of governance, within a horizontal theoretical harmony between players seeking benefits of different kind in the Salvajina dam.Keywords: Megaprojects, development, social impact, environmental impact, private actors, civil society, state action, governance, governability.


Author(s):  
Paolo Riva ◽  
James H. Wirth ◽  
Kipling D. Williams

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Alice Vianello

This article examines different forms of Ukrainian migrant women’s social remittances, articulating some results of two ethnographic studies: one focused on the migration of Ukrainian women to Italy, and the other on the social impact of emigration in Ukraine. First, the paper illustrates the patterns of monetary remittance management, which will be defined as a specific form of social remittance, since they are practices shaped by systems of norms challenged by migration. In the second part, the article moves on to discuss other types of social remittances transferred by migrant women to their families left behind: the right of self-care and self-realisation; the recognition of alternative and more women-friendly life-course patterns; consumption styles and ideas on economic education. Therefore, I will explore the contents of social remittances, but also the gender and intergenerational conflicts that characterise these flows of cultural resources. 


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 59-68
Author(s):  
Peter Takáč

AbstractLookism is a term used to describe discrimination based on the physical appearance of a person. We suppose that the social impact of lookism is a philosophical issue, because, from this perspective, attractive people have an advantage over others. The first line of our argumentation involves the issue of lookism as a global ethical and aesthetical phenomenon. A person’s attractiveness has a significant impact on the social and public status of this individual. The common view in society is that it is good to be more attractive and healthier. This concept generates several ethical questions about human aesthetical identity, health, authenticity, and integrity in society. It seems that this unequal treatment causes discrimination, diminishes self-confidence, and lowers the chance of a job or social enforcement for many human beings. Currently, aesthetic improvements are being made through plastic surgery. There is no place on the human body that we cannot improve with plastic surgery or aesthetic medicine. We should not forget that it may result in the problem of elitism, in dividing people into primary and secondary categories. The second line of our argumentation involves a particular case of lookism: Melanie Gaydos. A woman that is considered to be a model with a unique look.


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