Kategorie: Globale Zivilgesellschaft
Abstract [en] Information policy is considered an essential part of a truly democratic culture. The factions of the Federal German Parliament and the Federal German Government provide substantial financial means for the purpose of informing its citizens about political concepts. While governmental information policy found itself in the center of media attention, a change seems rather probable: parliamentary factions may...
Abstract [en]: How much homogeneity is needed for living up to pluralist heterogeneity? Talking about globally lived heterogeneity, the concept of one global civil society comes into view. It includes different views and people or stakeholder. Global civil society is a concept serving as a threshold to seemingly increasing global polarization. Not much has been discussed, however, on the need...
Abstract [en]: The aim of the following work is to discuss the impact of recent city planning politics on neighbourhoods in Rio de Janeiro. Starting with the question of the role that neighbourhood can play as a resource for its inhabitants, it discusses the case of the communidade Vila Autódromo and its resistance against the construction works for the olympic...
Abstract [en]: Heterogeneity is a lived reality – but not all is judged the same way. Looking at social inequality in Mexico and the USA it can be seen how on the one side sexism and racism keep on existing in plural heterogen societies, but on the other side there are always countermovements. Going further from this it can be...
