The Spanish presentation of the book “UNCOMFORTABLY OFF. Why the Top 10% of Earners Should Care about Inequality.”
Room 68 of VKII will be the meeting point for the presentation in Spanish of the book “UNCOMFORTABLY OFF. Why the Top 10% of Earners Should Care about Inequality.”written by researchers Marcos Gonzalez and Gerry Mitchell and published by Bristol University Press. The book offers a detailed qualitative work that expands the focus of research on inequality beyond the analysis of the top 1% of society to the top 10% and looks at their social and political perceptions. In charge of the presentation will be Marco Gonzalez, academic and researcher at UCL Social Research Institute, Universidad Diego Portales and COES. Registration link here.
Next Thursday, July 13, there will be the Spanish presentation of the book “The Color of Asylum. The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil” will be presented in Spanish.
Next Thursday, July 13, at 5:00 p.m., the presentation in Spanish of the book “El libro “The Color of Asylum. The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil (“The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Refuge in Brazil”) published by the University of Chicago Press and written by Professor Katherine Jensen, who will discuss the main details. Registration link here. The work elaborates an ethnography of the difficult experiences of refugees in Brazil. In 2013, when the millions of Syrian citizens were desperately fleeing a brutal war, the Latin American country took the step of instituting an open-door policy for all those refugees. In the book, Jensen offers an ethnographic look at the asylum-seeking process in Brazil, documenting in detail the various forms of treatment of asylum seekers, and evidencing its underlying racial logic. The analysis focuses on Syrian and Congolese refugees, two of the largest and most successful groups in asylum processing. Although both groups have more or less equivalent rates of obtaining asylum, the transition to asylum status could not be more different: both at the moment of entry into the country and in the subsequent stages, Brazilian officials impose significantly greater difficulties on Congolese refugees. Meanwhile, Syrian refugees are subject to better treatment given their recognition as white migrants by the Brazilian state, in a nation that has historically privileged white immigration. And yet, regardless of their country of origin, both groups of migrants, including those who manage to obtain asylum status, find their lives remain extremely difficult, marked by struggle and discrimination. Jensen is an assistant professor of Sociology and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She earned her PhD in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2018, with a minor in African and African Diaspora Studies. Prior to joining the University of Wisconsin, he completed postdoctoral fellowships at Tulane University’s Center for Inter-American Policy and Research. She was also a Fullbright scholar in Brazil. As an ethnographer, her research interests include race/racism, refugees and immigration, political sociology and forced migration in the Americas, with a focus on Brazil and the Southern Cone. His work has been published in various academic journals such as “Ethnic and Racial Studies”, “Qualitative Sociology”, “American Behavioral Scientist”, “Social Currents”, “City & Community”, and “Contexts”, as well as in book chapters from various university publishers. The activity is convened by the Faculty of Economics, Government and Communications and organized by the Max-Planck – UCentral Group in Economics and Society, and will be held in the Vicente Kovacevic II building, Santa Isabel 1278, in room 68. Registration link here.
International Workshop: “Understanding the Trap: Broken promises, neoliberal resilience and social fatigue in market societies”.
With the aim of exploring how the relationship between unfulfilled promises of neoliberalism and its mechanisms of resistance to change produce a situation of anomie and social fatigue, the first international workshop of the Max Planck-UCEN Group for Research in Economics and Society will be held on April 20 and 21. The event will bring together ESOC academics with four researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany, as well as prominent Chilean researchers. Information: April 20 and 21 (9:00 am). Santa Isabel 1278, Building VKII, Room 67. Limited registration, here. Check the program here: Kick-off workshop Santiago 2023
Presentation of the book “Identity Investments. Middle-class Responses to Precarious Privilege in Neoliberal Chile” (Stanford University Press).
The Max Planck Research Group in Economics and Society UCEN, of the Faculty of Economics, Government and Communications of the Universidad Central de Chile, is pleased to invite you to the presentation of the book “Identity Investments. Middle-class Responses to Precarious Privilege in Neoliberal Chile”. (Stanford University Press), by Joel Stillerman. Information: Thursday, April 20, 5:00 p.m., Auditorium 2, Campus Vicente Kovacevic II, Santa Isabel 1278. Registration here. Language: Spanish
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