The third volume in this comprehensive study of social security in the Balkan states.Social security is presented from a broad perspective as a mechanism that addresses human needs, provides protection against social risks, reduces social tensions and secures peace. Various sectors of social policy, pension systems, health care systems, disability insurance, labor policy as well as social risks, such as poverty and unemployment, have been analyzed from historical, economic, political, sociological and security perspective. This book offers recommendations for improving the level of social security in the region.This volume focuses on the Republic of North Macedonia and the Republic of Montenegro.Contributors are: Dritero Arifi, Ngadhnjim Brovina, Pëllumb Çollaku, Dorota Domalewska, Besnik Fetahu, Remzije Istrefi, Maja Jandri¿, Gordana Matkovi¿, Ruzhdi Morina, Artan Mustafa, Katarina Stani¿, and Marzena ¿akowska.
This thorough and timely book collects essays on the political economy of Brazil, focusing on the federal administrations led by the Workers' Party (PT), under Presidents Lula and Dilma Rousseff. The essays examine the economic, political, and social aspects of these governments, and a whole spectrum of policies implemented - or not - between 2003 and 2016, with implications for the subsequent period up to, and including, the administration led by Jair Bolsonaro. What emerges from this examination is the inescapable recognition that those left leaning governments were neoliberal, but in different ways when compared with other administrations in Brazil's history. Their similarities and differences are examined in detail. Contributors are: Adalmir Antonio Marquetti, Alessandro Miebach, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Ana Paula Colombi, Andre Singer, Andreia Galvao, Armando Boito Jr, Barbara Fritz, Cecilia Hoff, Celio Hiratuka, Claudio Castelo Branco Puty, Cristhiane Falchetti, Daniela Magalhaes Prates, Denise Gentil, Eduardo Fagnani, Fabiano Santos, Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos, Glaison Augusto Guerrero, Guilherme Mello, Gustavo Codas Friedmann, Humberto Martins, Jose Dari Krein, Lena Lavinas, Lucas Salvador, Andrietta, Luiz Fernando de Paula, Luiz Filgueiras, Marcelo Arend, Patricia Rocha Lemos, Paula Marcelino, Pedro Cezar Dutra Fonseca, Pedro Mendes Loureiro, Pedro Paulo Zuluth Bastos, Pedro Rossi, Rafael Moura, Ruy Braga, and Soraia Aparecida Cardozo.
This book examines the Brazilian political process in the period of 2003-2020: the governments led by the Workers' Party and their reformist policies, the deep political crisis that led to the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff and the rise of Bolsonaro neofascism. The author maintains that the Party and ideological conflicts present in the Brazilian politics are linked to the class distributive conflicts present in the Brazilian society. Defeated for the fourth consecutive time in the presidential election, the political parties representing the international capital and segments of the bourgeoisie and of the middle class, abandoned the rules of the democratic game to end the Workers' Party government cycle. They paved the way for the rise of neofascism.
COVID provoked a multi-dimensional crisis that overwhelmed existing concepts of social resilience that focus on a singular crisis. This volume proposes an alternative. In The Coronavirus Crisis and Its Teachings: Steps towards Multi-Resilience Roland Benedikter and Karim Fathi first describe the pluri-dimensional characteristics of the Coronavirus crisis. Then they draw the pillars for a more "multi-resilient" Post-Corona world including socio-political recommendations on how to generate it. The Coronavirus crisis has proven to be a bundle crisis consisting of multiple, interconnected crisis dimensions. Before Corona, most concepts of a "resilient society" implied a rather isolated focus on only one crisis at a time. Future preparedness in the 21st century will require a multi- and transdisciplinary risk-management concept that the authors call "multi-resilience". "Multi-resilience" means to systematically enhance the universal resilience competencies of societies, such as collective intelligence or overall responsiveness, making them appliable to pluri-dimensional crisis contexts. If the Coronavirus crisis in retrospect will have contributed to implementing multi-resilience, then it will ultimately have contributed to progress. This volume includes a Foreword by Jan Nederveen Pieterse and an Afterword by Manfred B. Steger.
The second of three volumes in this comprehensive study of social security in the Balkan states.Social security is presented from a broad perspective as a mechanism that addresses human needs, provides protection against social risks, reduces social tensions and secures peace. Various sectors of social policy, pension systems, health care systems, disability insurance, labor policy as well as social risks, such as poverty and unemployment, have been analyzed from historical, economic, political, sociological and security perspective. This book offers recommendations for improving the level of social security in the region.This volume focuses on the Republic of North Macedonia and the Republic of Montenegro.Contributors are: Maja Bacovi¿, Agata Domachowska, Dorota Domalewska, Tomasz Ferfecki, Afet Mamuti, Katerina Mitevska Petrusheva, Natalija Periši¿, Kire Sharlamanov, Katerina Veljanovska Blazhevska, and Marzena ¿akowska.
With reproductive freedom under unprecedented attack, Choice Words, edited by poet Annie Finch, takes back the cultural conversation on abortion.
A BreakBeat Poets anthology of writings by Muslims who are women, queer, genderqueer, nonbinary, or trans.
The inside story of the protest that has given birth to America's most important progressive movement in a half century.
A sweeping intervention into the field of Critical International Relations
The culmination of a decade of collective research, this important volume offers an essential analysis of Brazilian economic thought.
This important study of the Argentinian co-operative movement asks what leads workers without bosses to conflict?
This systematic, carefully argued analysis of Ghana's neoliberal economic policies reveals the abject failures of financialization to alleviate suffering.
Against the growing consensus that workers no longer matter, Antunes offers a brilliant rebuttal showing their continued centrality in the global economy
An important intervention into the thinking around development and dependency in Africa.
With clarity, wit, and precision, Andy Bluden offers a trailblazing attempt to unite Soviet Activity Theory and Hegalian Marxism
In The Making of Modern Japan, Myles Carroll offers a sweeping account of post-war Japanese political economy.
An innovative examination of the relationship between Neoliberal Islam, gender, and the social order in contemporary Turkey.
A comprehensive overview of social security in the Balkan states.
A much-needed, Marxist economic account of service and retail work, as well as the political alternatives.
This collection looks to move beyond the myth of the model minority by theorizing the Asian-Canadian experience.
This important anthropological study offers a critical new look at African-Australian marriage migration in all of its contradictions.
A timely, insightful historical account of the growing power of Google, Facebook, and other platforms shaping our lives
A timely, and incisive analysis of the policies that created Flint's drinking water crises, and will do the same elsewhere.
The third volume of HM's Bogdanov Library, covering Alexander Bogdanov's writings related to the revolution of 1905
Lewis offers an insightful rearticulation and defense of Althusserian critical theory.
O'Regan's analysis compares the politics and aesthetics of Blake and Brecht to offer dazzling insights into the work of both
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