Publications & Reports
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Geography
Neighborhood as Refuge
Author: Isabelle Anguelovski is Marie Curie Fellow and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) at the UAB. She is a social scientist trained in urban and environmental planning (PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011) and international development (Université de Paris I-Sorbonne, 2001), whose research is situated at the intersection of urban planning and policy, social inequality, and development studies.
Summary: In Neighborhood as Refuge. Community Reconstruction, Place Remaking, and Environmental Justice in the City, Isabelle Anguelovski presents a new holistic framework for understanding environmental justice action in cities, with the right to a healthy community environment at its core. She investigates and compares three minority, low-income neighborhoods that organized to improve environmental quality and livability: Casc Antic, in Barcelona; Dudley, in the Roxbury section of Boston; and Cayo Hueso, in Havana. Despite the differing histories and political contexts of these three communities, Anguelovski finds similar patterns of activism. She shows that behind successful revitalization efforts is what she calls “bottom to bottom” networking, and describes how, over time, environmental projects provide psychological benefits, serving as a way to heal a marginalized and environmentally traumatized urban neighborhood.
Publisher: The MIT Press Year of issue: 2014
Philosophy
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
Author: Thomas Sturm, one of the authors of this book of collective writing, is a Ramón y Cajal researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the UAB. With a PhD in Philosophy, Sturm has studied the work of philosophers such as Kant and Kuhn, and in recent years has focused mainly on research into the history of science and how it can help us understand some of the epistemological relationship between philosophy and psychology.
Summary: In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences—psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, among others—and its participants enlisted in an intellectual campaign to figure out what rationality should mean and how it could be deployed.
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mindbrings to life the people and places that played a key role in putting forth a “Cold War rationality.” Decision makers harnessed this picture of rationality—optimizing, formal, algorithmic, and mechanical—in their quest to understand phenomena as diverse as economic transactions, biological evolution, political elections, international relations, and military strategy. The authors chronicle and illuminate what it meant to be rational in the age of nuclear brinkmanship.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press Year of issue: 2013
Translation and Interpretation
Los contratos traducidos [...]
Author: Carme Bestué is lecturer at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting and coordinator of the graduate programme in Legal Translation at the UAB. She has worked as a specialist in issues of civil, commercial and criminal law and as a translator and interpreter for courts and law enforcement authorities. She is currently involved in a research project in the field of localisation of technology law.
Summary: Los contratos traducidos. La traducción de los contratos de licencia de uso de programas de ordenador is the result of research into the border area among the disciplines of translation, localization and law, and also reflects on the translation and implementation in our legal system and institutions of the models created in the Anglo-Saxon legal culture. Translation today creates new contractual forms in the target culture, which is not new, but this translation is now done almost automatically and the translator adds very little in this knowledge transfer. This work offers cultural knowledge which aims to help the translator to make autonomous and reflected decisions beyond the well-known path of translation memories.
License agreements for use of computer software represent a large volume of work within the processes of localisation and legal translation. The proposals and the examples shown in this book can be used in the translation of many other types of contracts.
Publisher: Tirant lo Blanch Year of issue: 2013
Economics
Los intereses del futuro. Economía en un cambio de época
Author: Joan Cals Güell is professor of the Department of Applied Economics at the UAB and has a deep and broad knowledge of politics, sociology and law. His three main specialities include tourism, finance and economic policy. He began his teaching job in 1970 at the CETT School of Tourism of Barcelona and three years later he began working at the UAB.
Summary: The recent economic and financial catastrophe which we live in has been the starting point for a series of transformations that bring us into a new era of capitalism, which are also causing changes in important aspects of economic thought. Aimed at readers seeking guidance on the economy and economic thought in light of the recent crisis, this book provides an essential overview of economic analysis and trends, with the necessary support of leading texts on the matter, discussed by contemporary economists.
Publisher: RBA Year of issue: 2013
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