Le XVIIIe siècle et les décrets de Nueva Planta : accommodement et dissidence by Joaquim Albareda Salvadó

“…After the Catalan defeat of 1714, as time went by and thanks to the economic growth and increasing involvement in the Spanish and Latin American markets, the Catalans adapted to the Bourbon regime. …”
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Action Research and Transformation: Lessons from Three Decades of Practice by Katherine Gibson

“… In this paper I look back over three decades of doing participatory action research and extract some lessons that bear upon the pressing issues of our time—namely, how to act in the face of unsustainable socio-economic growth trajectories and cascading environmental degradation. …”
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Revisión de índices e indicadores de desarrollo: aportes para la medición del buen vivir (sumak kawsay) (Review of indexes and indicators of development: contributions to the measu... by Mauricio Phélan C.

“…Strengths and weaknesses for each of them are analyzed, considering the GDP as an indicator of the economic growth, as well as other alternative proposals such as the human scale development, human development, among others. …”
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Masculinité et décolonisation dans Des hommes de Laurent Mauvignier by Timo Obergöker

“…Feu-de-Bois can be considered as emblematic for a whole generation of mal Frenchmen born in the early 1940's, suffering from the war and from the end of the economic growth in the 1940's–1970's. The text therefore is also a text about a shift in the perception of masculinity in rural France.…”
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Sumak Kawsay y Suma Qamaña, el reto de aprender del sur: reflexiones en torno al buen vivir (Sumak Kawsay and Suma Qamaña, the challenge of learning from the South: reflections on... by Hernández Sánchez, Maribel

“…Aprendiendo del Sur', organizado por el Instituto de Desarrollo Social y Paz de la Universidad de Alicante, precisamente con el fin de establecer espacios de discusión y análisis sobre el alcance de estas propuestas.Abstract: The current situation of global systemic crisis has highlighted the infeasibility of the traditional development model, which is based on economic growth and capital accumulation as an end in itself. …”
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