Summer School IGOP 2013. Return
OSCAR REBOLLO. The truth is that we are very pleased with how everything went. The closing ceremony has had a significant impact, important, but what happened from Monday until Thursday was cool too. In all these days, with a group of about 50/60 people, we shared a good afternoon of presentations ...
The new local politics or the Government proposes to recover Max Weber and Franz Kafka
QUIM BRUGUÉ. The intensity of the crisis is proof that many actions, at other times, would have been much discussed. Using financial constraints as an excuse privatized utilities, modify the conditions of public employees and weaken democratic institutions. I will not now discuss whether these initiatives are reluctantly ...
Gaps Plan: urban policies by 'while'?
MARC MARTÍ. If until now the tools for city planning are based on more or less, the ability to generate economic gains, extract an experiment aimed at social gains must be received, at least, amb optimisme. The most innovative urban recycling happens, rehabilitation, the reparation, reconstruction and reappropriation of that ...
A School for Cooperation
OSCAR REBOLLO. We are in a process of profound and rapid changes in society, both economically and politically, and many others (forms of coexistence and relationship, family structures, forms and media, etc.). There are many voices, in different areas of social life, try to find explanations summarize everything into ...
Self-management in response to the crisis. From “In representen ens” to the “Can Juntes”.
ERNESTO MORALES. Self-organization and cooperation are possible and are growing, to respond to personal concerns that go beyond the mere earning a salary. Solidarity economy projects, allotments, exchange networks, Shared education projects and free education, cooperatives consum, support groups and so are multiplying in our cities ....
Saskia Sassen: A Look smart cities of globalization
MARGARITA LEON. Saskia Sassen has been awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences. It is the third woman to receive the award more than thirty editions and is the only academic on the list of the ten most cited social scientists internationally as ranked ISI. Thankfully the jury, both of ...
The transition toward sustainability will not be televised
JOSEP LL. ESPLUGA. While the formal political system is paralyzed waiting for a hypothetical economic growth to re-implement the wheel of production and consumption, numerous initiatives attempt to move toward energy reduction and growth, constituting a silent revolution towards a more sustainable society, respectful and just ....
If you do not exist PAH
ISMAEL BLANCO / MARGARITA LEON. Three and a half million jobs lost since the beginning of the crisis. Two million households without any source of income. Growth of almost 30% the difference between high income and low. An unprecedented increase in the rates of poverty and exclusion ...
The future of Haiti is played in their cities
RAMON CANAL. The contemporary Haiti was born in the eighteenth century as a slave-based agrarian colony monoculture sugar. Once removed this production system, Haitian field has maintained a minor proportion engaged in the export crops (sugar, cacau, coffee…), in an underdeveloped agricultural sector and mainly focused on the domestic market ....
