Beschreibung:
Víctor Manuel Figueroa Sepúlveda, Ph.D. (1980), North East London Polytechnic-University of Sussex, is senior professor and researcher in Political Science at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico. His published works include Reinterpretando el subdesarrollo (Siglo XXI, 1986) and Industrial Colonialism in Latin America: The Third Stage (Haymarket Books, 2014).
Development and Democracy: Relations in Conflict examines the conflicting relations between technological development and democracy as they unfold in a new and ever more challenging environment.
AcknowledgmentsList of Tables and FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction1 A Critique of the Origin and Foundations of the New Inequality among MankindAlexandre M. Quaresma2 Unemployment, Inequality and Technological DevelopmentVíctor Manuel Figueroa Sepúlveda3 Technology and Subsumption by CapitalJesús Becerra Villegas4 The State and Freedom of Public Network SpaceSergio Octavio Contreras5 Grey Areas in China’s Growth: A Questionable DevelopmentSilvana Andrea Figueroa Delgado6 Economic Growth, Democracy and the Construction of Citizenship in South KoreaCristina Recéndez Guerrero7 Latin American Democracy as an Alternative Work in ProgressXimena de la Barra and R.A. Dello Buono8 Acquiring Technology in the Mexican Private Sector: A Disarticulated ‘Linkage’ of the Triple HelixMiguel Omar Muñoz Domínguez9 Proliferation of the Corporate Agro-Industrial Model in Latin AmericaIrma Lorena Acosta Reveles10 Well-Being and Happiness: Conditions for a New Conception of Development?Ernesto Menchaca Arredondo and Leonel Álvarez Yáñez11 The Challenges of Democracy in MexicoHéctor de la Fuente LimónReferencesIndex