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Don't Fence Me In: Barricade Sociality and Political Struggles in Mexico and Latvia
2019
AbstractIn 1991, barricades in the streets of Rīga, Latvia, shielded important landmarks from Soviet military units looking to prevent the dissolution of the USSR; in 2006, barricades in the streets of Oaxaca, Mexico, defended members of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca from paramilitary incursions. We employ these two cases to compare the historically specific public socialities and politics formed through spatial and material practices in moments of crisis and in their aftermath. We show how the barricades continue to animate social and political formations and imaginaries, providing a sense of both past solidarity and future possibilities against which the present, including…
Poder local y evolución social en el País Valenciano del siglo XIX
2019
This paper offers the achievements and lacks of the studies on local power in the ancient Kingdom of Valencia during the XIXth century. The breakdown of the Ancien Regime by the liberal revolution is the point of departure. The process of social change started whith the revolution continued ever after the failure of the democratic experience thet begun at 1868. To discuss these topics (not always shared by spanish historians), it would be proposed the analysis of local cases during long-termed periods and a social approach to politics, specially referred to attitudes and action of lower social groups.
Regenerar la sociedad, construir el patriotismo o la ciudadanía: Educación y socialización política en la España del siglo XX
2008
The article provides an historical review of the different features that characterized the discurses of civic education during the twentieth century. The different ideas and initiatives examined here are representative of positions taken by the “regeneracionismo”, whether liberal or Catholic, by movements related to the working class, by those sustaining authoritarian positions, or by groups that were committed to the establishment and consolidation of democracy in Spanish society. The analysis situates the different objectives, meanings and modalities of the formative process, as well as the different civic values advocated for future citizens, which went from conformity, integration, disc…
“Luchadoras por la verdad y la justicia”. Asociacionismo femenino, derechos y educación en el Sexenio Democrático = “Fighters for truth and justice”.…
2020
Resumen : Este articulo se propone analizar las primeras manifestaciones del asociacionismo femenino vinculado al republicanismo y al movimiento obrero durante el Sexenio Democratico. Un asociacionismo que reivindicaba basicamente la educacion de las mujeres y su redencion de la explotacion laboral. Estas “luchadoras por la verdad y la justicia”, como las denominaba en algun caso la prensa republicana de la epoca, mediante sus escritos y accion colectiva, subiendo a las tribunas y tomando las calles con sus protestas, reformularon timidamente las atribuciones de la feminidad domestica y abrieron alguna brecha en la invariable division de esferas. Palabras clave : Educacion de las mujeres, r…
Robert D. Putnam in Zusammenarbeit mit Robert Leonardi und Raffaella Y. Nanetti, Making Democracy Work. Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, Princeton 1…
2008
Robert D. Putnam (geb. 1941) ist Professor fur Public Policy an der Harvard University. Im Jahr 1970 hat die italienische Regierung im Zuge einer Verfassungsanderung Regionalregierungen eingerichtet und diese mit Gesetzgebungskompetenzen fur eine Vielzahl von Politikbereichen (Landwirtschaft, Wohnungsbau, Gesundheitswesen, berufliche Bildung, Stadtentwicklung, okonomische Entwicklung) ausgestattet. Diese Reform bot die einmalige Gelegenheit, in der Form eines Quasi-Experiments systematisch die Entwicklung und Anpassungsfahigkeit dieser neuen Institutionen an ihre soziale Umgebung zu studieren. Putnam und seine Kollegen Robert Leonardi und Raffaela Nanetti haben diese Gelegenheit ergriffen u…
The fragility of Finnish parliamentary democracy at the moment when Prussianism fell
2019
The Finnish case is in many ways illustrative of the complexities of democratisation after World War I. Finland found itself at the nexus of a Swedish constitutional tradition, legalism and ideological controversies adopted from Imperial Germany, the radicalised Russian Revolution, and Western parliamentary democracy. After having been a model for reformers demanding women’s suffrage, for instance, the country found itself in autumn 1918 going in the opposite direction to almost all other European countries. This article analyses the fragility of Finnish parliamentary democracy then, contrasting it with longer-term trends supportive of democratisation. ‘Democracy’ had been the goal for mos…
The concept of the Royal Prerogative in parliamentary debates on the deployment of military in the British House of Commons, 1982–2003
2014
The article will discuss how one political key concept, the Royal Prerogative, was discussed in the British House of Commons in relation to the right to deploy and use armed troops abroad during the period 1982-2003, a time when the role of the British Parliament in decisions to deploy and commit troops to an armed conflict abroad was under extensive discussion in Parliament. This discussion began increasingly to address the state of the constitutional arrangements, more specifically the redefinition of the Royal Prerogative rights, the residual powers of the executive, as outdated in the understanding of modern representative democracy. The use of the concept was studied to reveal the atti…
‘The Iraq War Momentum’ in the Struggle on the Powers of the US Congress
2019
How parliaments and legislatures participate in war-making has raised interest among researchers from different disciplines, including constitutional law and political science. While war powers are usually considered to be included in the field of the executive branch, parliaments have played an increasingly relevant role as more democratic decision-making in both normal and exceptional times has gained prominence. The comparative aspect to examine war powers between parliaments or between the branches of government is often adopted to describe the authority and legitimacy of these powers. The US Congress is considered to have strong war powers on paper compared to parliaments in other libe…
To Rule the City. Valencia City Council from Dictatorship to Democracy. A case study (1969-1979)
2013
To contribute to the debate on the process of transition to democracy, this research aims at the analysis of the City Counciland Transit tardofranquismo since the death of dictator Francisco Franco until the first democratic elections. Franco Municipalities strongly marked by the figure of the mayor, president of the corporation and visible head of the power of the dictatorship in the municipality, have been little studied by historians, partly because of the transitional political model prevailing until recent years. This requires rebuild historiographical vacuum, first, a state of affairs that we analyzed but also indicated gaps. Second, we draw the overall picture of the two largest muni…
Una realidad social escindida: Las memorias de las peras y las manzanas en el Chile reciente
2014
Forty years after the military coup that bloodied Chile during the years of military dictatorship, the country is still splitted with a society which is still in a traumatic situation. In this paper we have worked with audio-visual sources, which we call Video Format Documents (VFD), produced from the sixties onwards. This article is based on sources that allow us a deeper understanding of the society in which they were produced; a society −as it is said by a character of one of the most successful films in Chile−, divided into pears and apples.