The Politics of Privacy

In 'Privacy and Politics', Kieron O'Hara discusses the relation of the political philosophy of privacy to technical aspects in Web development. Despite a vigorous debate, the concept remains ambiguous, and a series of types of privacy is defined: epistemological, spatial, ideological, decisional and economic. Each of these has a different meaning in the online environment, and will be defended by different measures. The question of whether privacy is a right is raised, and generational differences in attitude discussed, alongside the issue of whether privacy should be protected in advance, via a consent model, or retrospectively via increased transparency and accountability. Finally, reasons both theoretical and practical for ranking privacy below other values (such as security, efficiency or benefits for the wider community) are discussed.

���Deficient in love-interest���: the sexual politics of the office in Canadian fiction (1890-1920)

Con base en las preocupaciones de la ��poca sobre la susceptibilidad al romance y acoso sexual de la trabajadora de oficina, este art��culo propone explorar la representaci��n de secretarias y taqu��grafas en TheType-Writer Girl (1897), de Grant Allan, y en North of Fifty-Three (1914), de Bertrand Sinclair. Se mirar�� la presi��n para adquirir la independencia econ��mica y autonom��a personal a trav��s del trabajo en oficina. Tambi��n, la necesidad de ajustarse a ideolog��as presentes en la sociedad, que abogaban un destino predeterminado de matrimonio e hijos para la mujer. Se pregunta si el g��nero de literatura workinggirl de esos tiempos abogaba la imagende la mujer independiente, trabajadora y emocionalmente realizada, o si el trabajo de oficina era interpretado como un paso natural hacia una evoluci��n de ni��as a madres. Este art��culo tambi��n cuestiona si la oficina ficcional fue presentada como una ubicaci��n de autonom��a y potencial femeninos, o si fue vista como un espacio hostil y peligroso del que deber��a escapar lo m��s pronto posible para mantener la seguridad del hogar.

Latino Urbanism, the Politics of Planning, Policy and Redevelopment. Editado por David R. Diaz y Rodolfo D. Torres. Nueva York, New York University Press, 2012

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Al ��� Qaeda and the international politics: a teorical Reflection

Through the study of the relationship between non-state actors and states, is pretended to analyze the role of Al-Qaeda in international politics. It is argued that Al-Qaeda tries or has the ability to promote or accelerate changes in the power ��structure, where stands the American hegemony and the pursuit of balance by ��various actors, implementing asymmetric strategies as counter-hegemonic responses.

The Demobilization Process of Paramilitaries in Colombia: Between Politics and Justice

The phenomenon of paramilitarism in Colombia has received an ambiguous treatment, balancing between political and criminal issues; an oscillation that has been intimately linked to the evolution of the Colombian internal conflict. This contribution analyzes the recent negotiations held with paramilitary groups by the administration of Alvaro Uribe V��lez (2002-2010). After a brief account of the dependency path that has determined this historical episode, I propose an assessment of the use of judicial categories by the various actors of the negotiations. The main argument is that those categories ���war criminal, political criminal, drug smuggler, etc.��� do not depend on the intrinsic nature of an armed actor, but are socially constructed by a conflictive process of material and symbolic struggles. The capacity to categorize private violence, as legitimate or illegitimate, political or criminal, appears as one of the basic manifestations of the state���s action, as well as one of the main conflicts presiding at the rocess of state formation.

The politics of resource booms

This paper develops a simple model to investigate how resource-driven economic booms shape the equilibrium political institutions of resource-rich societies and influence the likelihood of experiencing civil war. In our model a strong government apparatus favors property rights protection but also makes the state more powerful and hence may induce predatory autocratic regimes over democracy. We characterize the parameter space of each political outcome in terms of the type of the available natural resources. Economic booms based on resources that are privately exploited empower the citizens and tend to ease democratic transitions. In contrast, booms based on resources exploited by the state tend to favor more dictatorial regimes. Finally, economic booms based on resources that can be exploited either by the state or by private citizens incite preemptive actions by both parties that may result in civil war. We discuss the predictions of the model using historical and contemporary examples.

AS and A level government and politics through diagrams.

Recurso dise��ado para la obtenci��n del t��tulo de General Certificate of Education Advanced Subsidiary (GCE), en los niveles AS y A2 para las especificaciones AQA, Edexcel y OCR, de 2008. Su contenido se divide cinco secciones: introducci��n a la pol��tica; los ciudadanos, la pol��tica y la participaci��n en el Reino Unido; el gobierno de UK; los ciudadanos, la pol��tica y la participaci��n en USA; el gobierno de Estados Unidos.

UK Government & Politics.

Este libro est�� dise��ado para satisfacer las necesidades de los estudiantes de gobierno y pol��tica en el Reino Unido. Este libro proporciona una cobertura actualizada del curso AS para ense��anza secundaria. Contiene once cap��tulos con ilustraciones que tratan de democracia y participaci��n, elecciones y votos, estructura de los partidos pol��ticos, pol��ticas e ideas de los partidos pol��ticos, grupos de presi��n, la constituci��n, el parlamento, el primer ministro y los principales ejecutivos, los juicios y libertades civiles, el gobierno local, y la Uni��n Europea (desarrollo, instituciones, sistema pol��tico).

Government and Politics for AS.

Este libro ofrece los hechos e ideas y focos de discusi��n m��s espec��ficos y accesibles que son necesarios para tener ��xito en la asignatura denominada Pol��tica de AS ense��anza secundaria. La raz��n para publicar una tercera edici��n de este libro fue, originalmente, la necesidad de reflejar los recientes cambios que han sido realizados en Edexcel en Gobierno y Pol��tica. El libro consta de dos unidades, la primera refleja un cambio de actitud en la naturaleza de la democracia en Gran Breta��a a trav��s de los partidos pol��ticos e ideas, el sistema electoral brit��nico en las elecciones generales, se trata la naturaleza y funciones de los grupos de presi��n. La segunda unidad explica como es el gobierno del Reino Unido, la constituci��n, el parlamento, el primer ministro y el gabinete, el poder judicial y las libertades civiles.

Casual politics : del cliktivismo a los movimientos emergentes y el reconocimiento de patrones

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��A majority of one already�� : two notes on imagination and politics

This review considers two books on political philosophy not published in English language, Diogo Pires Aur��lio's Imagina����o e Poder (Imagination and Power, referred as IP) and Viriato Soromenho Marques' A Revolu����o Federal (The Federal Revolution, RF). All quotations of the books result from translations of my own initiative.

Castes, Social Mobility and Politics in Goa

While the colonial policies and the missionary activities dented the caste system by playing upon the caste rivalries to divide and rule, the post-independence Indian democracy transformed the traditional castes into valuable vote-banks that have permitted non-brahmin castes to achieve political leadership in several States, particularly following the politics of reservation recommended by the Mandal Commission in 1980s.

The audible and the inaudible : Bob Kaufman and the politics of silence

O poeta americano Bob Kaufman fez um voto de sil��ncio nas d��cadas de sessenta e setenta do s��culo passado. Durante quase dez anos, n��o falou nem escreveu. ���The Audible and the Inaudible: Bob Kaufman and the Politics of Silence��� (���O Aud��vel e o Inaud��vel: Bob Kaufman e a Pol��tica do Sil��ncio���) �� uma tentativa de ver o sil��ncio de Kaufman como uma esp��cie de discurso pol��tico em nome das massas an��nimas, dos marginais, dos que n��o conseguem fazer-se ouvir. O ensaio baseia-se, em parte, na obra recente de Jacques Ranci��re sobre discurso e pol��tica. Para Ranci��re, a pol��tica s�� pode ser exercida atrav��s do discurso, atrav��s da participa����o dos que n��o s��o vistos como parte activa. No entanto, o sil��ncio de Kaufman �� uma recusa do discurso e da participa����o; assim sendo, o ensaio procura explorar o sil��ncio como um discurso pol��tico que se mant��m socialmente isolado e inaud��vel, mas procura, ainda assim, reconhecer todos aqueles que continuam a n��o ter voz nas nossas institui����es democr��ticas.