Security and the city. In search of a new model of urban resilience on violent non-state actors (VNSAs)

Fabio Armao (2021)

This paper aims to offer a contribution to the debate on urban security starting from the assumption – developed in the Introduction – that the fall of the communist regimes, the end of the Cold War, and the ongoing globalization processes produced a rescaling of authorities, bringing cities back to the centre of the political universe, and to the fore in the competition for the control of coercive resources. In other terms, cities return to be the privileged spaces of mediation between actors that are main players both at the local level and in the globalization processes; and, as a consequence, inside cities, violence turns out to be a fundamental mediator. This evolution is offering violent non-state actors (VNSAs) unprecedented opportunities to compete for the control of the territory, dictating to social sciences a redefinition of the very concept of urban security. The first section of the paper draws on the “foam theory” to outline a model of analysis of the urban spaces; the second section debates the securitization strategies conceived in the past decades, starting from the USA; the third section is intended to attune foam theory with the concept of urban resilience to violence. Finally, the Conclusion adumbrates the advent of a campus architecture, capable of planning spaces suitable for new and alternative forms of urban sociality

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Urban security urban resilience gated communities geography globalization organized crime violent non-state actors Seguridad urbana resiliencia urbana barrios cerrados (comunidades cerradas) geografía globalización crimen organizado actores violentos no estatales CIENCIAS SOCIALES CIENCIAS SOCIALES

In pursuit of a better world: crop improvement and the CGIAR

Elizabeth Arnaud Joshua Cobb David Connor Mark Cooper Peter Craufurd Graeme Hammer Carlos Jara Carlos Messina Eng Hwa Ng Steven Prager MICHAEL GOMEZ SELVARAJ Francois Tardieu Philip Thornton Jacob van Etten Peter Wenzl Yunbi Xu (2021)

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Breeders Multi-Disciplinary CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA AGRICULTURAL POLICIES CROP IMPROVEMENT VARIETIES FOOD SECURITY PRODUCTION CGIAR

Food security programs for the construction of citizenship in Mexico

Jorge Guadalupe Arzate Salgado Dídimo Castillo Fernández (2021)

The objective was to describe the food security programs implemented by the government of the State of Mexico, for the construction of citizenship during the period 2006-2011. In relation to food security programs, the contributions of Urquía, (2014), Torres, Herrera, Vizcarra and Lutz, (2015) among others were used. The term construction of citizenship was based on the premises of Foucault (2000), Bovero (2002), O`Donnell (2010) and Damián (2019). The research was descriptive, with a field design. The conclusions revolve around a weak generation of active citizenship relationships as a result of these programs.

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Research Subject Categories Food security programs construction of citizenship CIENCIAS SOCIALES