Seguridad Ciudadana El Aporte De Las Metodologias Implicativas

El presente artículo revisa el concepto de seguridad ciudadana, proponiéndose que esta debe ser entendida en el contexto de los actuales procesos de exclusión social. Se expone que la gestión de la seguridad ciudadana que se realiza desde el ámbito público tiene a la base ciertas concepciones de esta, las que definen estilos de hacer que pueden orientarse hacia el cumplimiento de la normas y la vigilancia o tener a la base la valoración de participación de la ciudadanía. En sintonía con este segundo estilo de abordar los problemas de seguridad ciudadana, se propone que esta debe concebirse desde una perspectiva amplia, fundamentada el ideario normativo del Desarrollo Humano y los derechos ciudadanos y que, por tanto, considere que las acciones emprendidas deben articularse integralmente, para que permitan superar condiciones de exclusión social. Para hacer viable lo anterior, es necesario que las diversas iniciativas de seguridad ciudadana operen desde el nivel local, con énfasis en el territorio y tendiendo a la base de las acciones emprendidas el uso de metodologías implicativas o participativas Finalmente, se hace referencia a experiencias desarrolladas en España y en Chile, vinculadas a la seguridad ciudadana sobre la base de metodologías participativas. Además, se presentan reflexiones sobre el aporte de las metodologías implicativas para promover la ciudadanía y el desarrollo sustentable de las ciudades.

Este Cuaderno Metodológico ofrece un novedoso y exhaustivo compendio de definiciones operativas, medidas y estrategias de análisis de la victimización, el miedo al delito, la confianza en la justicia y las actitudes hacia el castigo penal. Las experiencias y posicionamientos de la ciudadanía hacia la delincuencia y la acción del aparato de justicia penal constituyen hoy día asuntos de enorme importancia tanto científico-social como política. En buena parte de los países de nuestro entorno se realizan periódicamente encuestas que permiten disponer de información rigurosa y calibrar con ello el debate público en torno a las leyes penales o las políticas de seguridad. Este trabajo viene a proporcionar las bases conceptuales y metodológicas que hagan plenamente asumibles tanto la obtención rigurosa de datos sobre seguridad ciudadana como su estudio y análisis por parte de la comunidad investigadora.

How do liberal democracies produce citizens who are capable of governing themselves? In considering this question, Barbara Cruikshank rethinks central topics in political theory, including the relationship between welfare and citizenship, democracy and despotism, and subjectivity and subjection. Drawing on theories of power and the creation of subjects, Cruikshank argues that individuals in a democracy are made into self-governing citizens through the small-scale and everyday practices of voluntary associations, reform movements, and social service programs. She argues that our empowerment is a measure of our subjection rather than of our autonomy from power. Through a close examination of several contemporary American "technologies of citizenship"—from welfare rights struggles to philanthropic self-help schemes to the organized promotion of self-esteem awareness—she demonstrates how social mobilization reshapes the political in ways largely unrecognized in democratic theory. Although the impact of a given reform movement may be minor, the techniques it develops for creating citizens far extend the reach of govermental authority. Combining a detailed knowledge of social policy and practice with insights from poststructural and feminist theory, The Will to Empower shows how democratic citizens and the political are continually recreated.

Color coded terror alerts, invasion, drone war, rampant surveillance: all manifestations of the type of new power Brian Massumi theorizes in Ontopower. Through an in-depth examination of the War on Terror and the culture of crisis, Massumi identifies the emergence of preemption, which he characterizes as the operative logic of our time. Security threats, regardless of the existence of credible intelligence, are now felt into reality. Whereas nations once waited for a clear and present danger to emerge before using force, a threat's felt reality now demands launching a preemptive strike. Power refocuses on what may emerge, as that potential presents itself to feeling. This affective logic of potential washes back from the war front to become the dominant mode of power on the home front as well. This is ontopower—the mode of power embodying the logic of preemption across the full spectrum of force, from the “hard” (military intervention) to the "soft" (surveillance). With Ontopower, Massumi provides an original theory of power that explains not only current practices of war but the culture of insecurity permeating our contemporary neoliberal condition.

Taking its inspiration from Michel Foucault, this volume of essays integrates the analysis of security into the study of modern political and cultural theory. Explaining how both politics and security are differently problematised by changing accounts of time, the work shows how, during the course of the 17th century, the problematisation of government and rule became newly enframed by a novel account of time and human finitude, which it calls ‘factical finitude’. The correlate of factical finitude is the infinite, and the book explains how the problematisation of politics and security became that of securing the infinite government of finite things. It then explains how concrete political form was given to factical finitude by a combination of geopolitics and biopolitics. Modern sovereignty required the services of biopolitics from the very beginning. The essays explain how these politics of security arose at the same time, changed together, and have remained closely allied ever since. In particular, the book explains how biopolitics of security changed in response to the molecularisation and digitalisation of Life, and demonstrates how this has given rise to the dangers and contradictions of 21st century security politics. This book will be of much interest to students of political and cultural theory, critical security studies and International Relations.

This book is the first to provide students with critical understandings of the environment using a range of theoretical perspectives inspired from Michel Foucault.

Book on dynamics of popular culture.

A unique collection of references, stories, and practical advice for storytelling from this unique part of the world.

This 9th volume of International Development Policy looks at recent paradigmatic innovations and related development trajectories in Latin America, with a particular focus on the Andean region. It examines the diverse development narratives and experiences in countries such as Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru during a period of high commodity prices associated with robust growth, poverty alleviation and inequality reduction. Highlighting propositions such as buen vivir, this thematic volume questions whether competing ideologies and discourses have translated into different outcomes, be it with regard to environmental sustainability, social progress, primary commodity dependence, or the rights of indigenous peoples. This collection of articles aims to enrich our understanding of recent development debates and processes in Latin America, and what the rest of the world can learn from them. Contributors include: Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Alberto Acosta, Ana Elizabeth Bastida, Luis Bustos, Humberto Campodónico, Gilles Carbonnier, Ana Patricia Cubillo-Guevara, Fernando Eguren, Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, Eduardo García, Javier Herrera, Antonio Luis Hidalgo-Capitán, Robert Muggah, Gianandrea Nelli Feroci, José Antonio Ocampo, Camilo Andrés Peña Galeano, Guillermo Perry, Darío Indalecio Restrepo Botero, Sergio Tezanos Vázquez, and Frédérique Weyer.

During the Cold War, stories of espionage became popular on both sides of the Iron Curtain, capturing the imagination of readers and filmgoers alike as secret police quietly engaged in surveillance under the shroud of impenetrable secrecy. And curiously, in the post-Cold War period there are no signs of this enthusiasm diminishing. The opening of secret police archives in many Eastern European countries has provided the opportunity to excavate and narrate for the first time forgotten spy stories. Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe brings together a wide range of accounts compiled from the East German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate, and the Ukrainian KGB files. The stories are a complex amalgam of fact and fiction, history and imagination, past and present. These stories of collusion and complicity, betrayal and treason, right and wrong, and good and evil cast surprising new light on the question of Cold War certainties and divides.