Time beyond clock: time use-surveys revisited

Time use surveys -despite having represented a turning point in the study of inequalities between women and men- continue hiding care times and subtracting relevance to the qualitative dimensions of time. This due both, to the ideological conception that lies behind this type of studies that consider more relevant market process as to surveys methodology. This article analyzes the theoretical model that lies behind time use surveys and, consequently, the study of the conceptual aspects, the methodology and the potential of these surveys as an analytical instrument. The aim is to unraveling the limitations presented by the surveys to take in account the subjective dimensions of time related to the wellbeing of  people.

La Ley de semillas en Argentina: la disputa por el control y el futuro de la agricultura

Desde la llegada de la revolución bioteconológica en la agricultura mundial, las corporaciones semilleras-agroquímicas han avanzado en el control del mercado internacional de alimentos, a partir de diversos mecanismos, entre ellos el de la legislación de derechos de propiedad intelectual. En América Latina, distintos gobiernos han procurado adecuar la legislación nacional a estas tendencias internacionales, con resultado dispar, ya que se ha generado una fuerte resistencia desde organizaciones populares. Argentina, un país de temprana inserción en el mercado internacional de alimentos y de rápida adopción de los derechos de obtentor, está atravesado hoy por una nueva fase de esta disputa, ante la posible sanción de una nueva Ley de Semillas, en la que empresa estadounidense Monsanto está involucrada. Este trabajo hace un repaso del panorama actual desde un punto de vista geográfico, prestando especial atención a las estrategias de las organizaciones que se oponen a la nueva legislación.

Perspectives on gender, migration and transnational work: joint work of social reproduction and care in Southern Europe

This paper presents the "state of the art" and some of the main issues discussed in relation to the topic of transnational migration and reproductive work in southern Europe. We start doing a genealogy of the complex theoretical development leading to the consolidation of the research program, linking consideration of gender with transnational migration and transformation of work and ways of survival, thus making the production aspects as reproductive, in a context of globalization. The analysis of the process of multiscale reconfiguration of social reproduction and care, with particular attention to its present global dimension is presented, pointing to the turning point of this line of research that would have taken place with the beginning of this century, with the rise notions such as "global care chains" (Hochschild, 2001), or "care drain" (Ehrenreich and Hochschild, 2013). Also, the role of this new agency, now composed in many cases women who migrate to other countries or continents, precisely to address these reproductive activities, is recognized. Finally, reference is made to some of the new conceptual and theoretical developments in this area.

David Harvey e Friedrich Nietzsche: Pós modernidade ou extemporaneidade

O artigo contrapõe a distinção entre uma eternidade imanente e uma eternidade transcendente ao conceito de compressão tempo-espaço de David Harvey, procurando mostrar que esse autor, a partir de uma análise nietzschiana de suas considerações acerca da condição pós-moderna, utiliza um aparato conceptual da tradição para avaliar essa condição. Situamos, assim, o conceito de compressão tempo-espaço harveyano em uma eternidade transcendente, consoante com a tradição, conforme a interpretação que seguimos a partir de Nietzsche.

LAS GRIETAS DE LA CIUDAD CAPITALISTA Entrevista con David Harvey

David Harvey es uno de los investigadores de la ciudad capitalista más renombrados de la actualidad. Geógrafo de formación, Harvey ha desarrollado el grueso de su carrera profesional en Estados Unidos, donde actualmente enseña Geografía y Estudios Urbanos en City University of New York tras haber sido durante más de treinta años profesor en la Johns Hopkins University de Baltimore. El principal e indiscutido mérito de la obra de Harvey reside en su fructífera fusión de geografía y marxismo con la que ha logrado ampliar, profundizar y enriquecer al mismo tiempo ambas disciplinas. En los últimos tiempos su atención se ha centrado en el estudio espacial de las nuevas formas de imperialismo.

A PRESENÇA DA SOCIOBIOLOGIA EM ESPAÇO DE ESPERANÇA, DE DAVID HARVEY

Este presente trabalho pretende estabelecer uma crítica as apropriações que o geógrafo inglês David Harvey faz da sociobiologia. Para tanto, opta-se por uma análise comparativa entre as propostas apresentadas pelo geógrafo e as resoluções apontadas por Marx sobre as especificidades do ser social. Em seu livro Espaço de Esperança (2004), Harvey expressa a importância de produção de uma base epistemológica que concilie o físico com o social, recorrendo a sociobiologia, de Edward Wilson, como modelo, muito controverso, para conceber uma “ciência única”. Para balizar os fundamentos e pressupostos de sua análise, Harvey estabelece um dialogo entre Wilson e Marx com a finalidade de demonstrar certos traços de evolucionismo no filosofo alemão. Nesse intuito, Harvey recai numa certa naturalização de relações, especificamente, sociais, obnubilando o salto ontológico entre o ser orgânico, da natureza, e o ser social. O geógrafo aposta, portanto, no caminho reverso do de Marx, que pretende demonstrar, ao longo de toda sua extensa obra, as especificidades do humano e do modo de produção e reprodução capitalista.

A PRESENÇA DA SOCIOBIOLOGIA EM ESPAÇO DE ESPERANÇA, DE DAVID HARVEY

Este presente trabalho pretende estabelecer uma crítica as apropriações que o geógrafo inglês David Harvey faz da sociobiologia. Para tanto, opta-se por uma análise comparativa entre as propostas apresentadas pelo geógrafo e as resoluções apontadas por Marx sobre as especificidades do ser social. Em seu livro Espaço de Esperança (2004), Harvey expressa a importância de produção de uma base epistemológica que concilie o físico com o social, recorrendo a sociobiologia, de Edward Wilson, como modelo, muito controverso, para conceber uma “ciência única”. Para balizar os fundamentos e pressupostos de sua análise, Harvey estabelece um dialogo entre Wilson e Marx com a finalidade de demonstrar certos traços de evolucionismo no filosofo alemão. Nesse intuito, Harvey recai numa certa naturalização de relações, especificamente, sociais, obnubilando o salto ontológico entre o ser orgânico, da natureza, e o ser social. O geógrafo aposta, portanto, no caminho reverso do de Marx, que pretende demonstrar, ao longo de toda sua extensa obra, as especificidades do humano e do modo de produção e reprodução capitalista.

Theorising geo-identity and David Harvey’s space: school choices of the geographically bound middle-class

This paper draws on David Harvey’s theories of absolute and relational space in order to critique geographically bound school choices of the gentrified middle-class in the City of Melbourne, Australia. The paper relies on interviews with inner-city school choosers as generated by a longitudinal ethnographic school choice study. I argue that the participants construct their class-identity in relation to their geographical (or residential) positioning and this influences their schooling choices. In the light of this argument, I theorise geo-identity in thinking about how geographies inform and instruct identity and choice. This paper contributes by offering a focused analysis of Harvey’s spatial theories and class-identity in processes of choice.

The politics of literacy in David Almond and Dave McKean’s "The Savage" (2008)

Competency in language and literacy are central to contemporary debates about education in Anglophone nations around the world. This paper suggests that such debates are informing not just educational policy but children’s literature itself as can be seen in Almond and McKean’s The Savage. This hybrid text combines prose and graphic narrative and narration in order to tell the story of Blue, a young British boy negotiating his identity in the aftermath of his father's death. While foregrounding a narrative of ideal masculinity, The Savage enacts and privileges a formal and thematic ideal of literacy as index of individual agency and development. Almond and McKean produce a politicised understanding of language and literacy that simultaneously positions The Savage in a textual tradition of socio-culturally disenfranchised youth, and intervenes in that tradition to (perhaps ironically) affirm the very conditions previously critiqued by that very tradition. Where earlier authors such as Barry Hines sought to challenge normative accounts of language and literacy in order to indict educational policy and praxes, Almond and McKean work to naturalise the very logics of education and agency by which their protagonist has been disenfranchised. In doing so, The Savage exemplifies current approaches to education which claim to value social and cultural diversity while imposing national standardised testing predicated on assumptions about the legitimacy of uniform standards and definitions of literacy.

David Hicks and Cathie Holden (eds.) (2007). Teaching The Global Dimension. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 212 pages.

Teaching The Global Dimension (2007) is intended for primary and secondary teachers, pre-service teachers and educators interested in fostering global concerns in the education system. It aims at linking theory and practice and is structured as follows. Part 1, the global dimension, proposes an educational framework for understanding global concerns. Individual chapters in this section deal with some educational responses to global issues and the ways in which young people might become, in Hick’s terms, more “world-minded”. In the first two chapters, Hicks presents first, some educational responses to global issues that have emerged in recent decades, and second, an outline of the evolution of global education as a specific field. As with all the chapters in this book, most of the examples are drawn from the United Kingdom. Young people’s concerns, student teachers’ views and the teaching of controversial issues, comprise the other chapters in this section. Taken collectively, the chapters in Part 2 articulate the conceptual framework for developing, teaching and evaluating a global dimension across the curriculum. Individual chapters in this section, written by a range of authors, explore eight key concepts considered necessary to underpin appropriate learning experiences in the classroom. These are conflict, social justice, values and perceptions, sustainability, interdependence, human rights, diversity and citizenship. These chapters are engaging and well structured. Their common format consists of a succinct introduction, reference to positive action for change, and examples of recent effective classroom practice. Two chapters comprise the final section of this book and suggest different ways in which the global dimension can be achieved in the primary and the secondary classroom.

An interview with Professor David Held : exploring the concepts of cosmopolitanism and democracy

David Held is the Graham Wallace Chair in Political Science, and co-director of LSE Global Governance, at the London School of Economics. He is the author of many works, such as Cosmopolitanism: Ideals and Realities (2010); The Cosmopolitanism Reader (2010), with Garrett Brown; Globalisation/AntiGlobalisation (2007), Models of Democracy (2006), Global Covenant (2004) and Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture (1999). Professor Held is also the co-founder, alongside Lord Professor Anthony Giddens, of Polity Press. Professor Held is widely known for his work concerning cosmopolitan theory, democracy, and social, political and economic global improvement. His Global Policy Journal endeavours to marry academic developments with practitioner realities, and contributes to the understanding and improvement of our governing systems.

David F. Treagust : congenial soul, science educator, and international research leader

For almost a half century David F. Treafust has been an exemplary science educator who has contributed through his dedication and commitments to students, curriculum development and collaboration with teachers, and cutting edge research in science education that has impacted the field globally, nationally and locally. A hallmark of his outstanding career is his collaborative style that inspires others to produce their best work.

'In the hands of the Receivers': The Politics of Literacy in The Savage by David Almond and Dave McKean

David Almond and Dave McKean's The Savage is a hybrid prose and graphic novel which tells the story of one young man’s maturation through literacy. The protagonist learns to deal with the death of his father and his own 'savage' self by writing a graphic novel. This article reads The Savage in the context of earlier, 'Northern' literacy narrative - particularly Tony Harrison's poem "Them & [uz]" and Barry Hines' Kes — through the discourse of neoliberalism and the notion of the reluctant boy reader. It is suggested that Almond and McKean are influenced by currently dominant ideologies of gender and literacy.

Sympathy for the devil [Book reviewed : "Tasmanian Devil: A Unique and Threatened Animal" by David Owen and David Pemberton]

Two representations have dominated public perceptions of the largest living marsupial carnivore, the Tasmanian devil. One is the voracious, hurricane-like innocent savage Taz of Looney Tunes cartoon fame. The other, familiar in nineteenth- and twentieth-century rural Tasmania, is the ferocious predator and scavenger that wantonly kills livestock — and perhaps even people, should they become immobilized in the wilderness at night. Devils can take prey nearly three times their size and eat more than a third of their body weight in a sitting. Even so, it is hard to imagine how this species, being only slightly larger than a fox terrier, could be so maligned in name and image...