956 research outputs found
Moderation through expertise:Functional elites and the politics of moderation in western Europe’s mid-twentieth century
No full textCamilo erlichman explores the rise of experts in politics during the ‘long 1940s’ in western europe and its relation to the emergence of a politics of moderation in the immediate post-war era. He demonstrates how the collapse of effective central state authority and the breakdown of mass parliamentary politics allowed for the emergence of a range of influential expert groups operating beneath the level of the formal political process, creating a top-down reconfiguration of politics structured around experts who advanced discourses and practices of political moderation that were integral to the post-war model of democracy
Always walk alone? Historians and Collaborations
No full textWhy do historians like to write alone? In this blog article, Camilo Erlichman reflects on the reluctance of historians to engage in collaborative forms of writing, tracing the reasons to the development of the discipline in the 19th century. In doing so, he argues that while mono-authorship will remain a key pillar of the discipline, historians need to embrace more emphatically collective forms of writing: not to succumb to the logics of marketisation, but to diversify their sources and widen their intellectual horizons
Social Justice:A Historical Introduction
No full textSocial justice has returned to the heart of political debate in Europe. While the phenomenon has received significant attention from several academic disciplines, social justice has rarely been explored as a historical subject in its own right. This chapter explores why this should have been so. It argues that the elusiveness of social justice as a historical subject can be explained by the way in which conceptions of social justice were located at the confluence of other historical narratives that have shaped the historiography of twentieth-century Europe. The chapter provides an extensive survey of these influential narratives, which include the rise of state power, the development of cultures of social improvement, the changing popular expectations of government, and the domain of citizenship. The chapter then presents an innovative approach for the historical study of ‘social justice in context’. Focusing on the ways in which conceptions of social justice grew out of the intricate interplay between rulers and ruled, it develops a research agenda that concentrates on the analysis of three distinctive dimensions, including the temporalities, the spatiality, and the actors and agencies of conceptions of social justice.</p
Always walk alone? Historians and Collaborations
No full textWhy do historians like to write alone? In this blog article, Camilo Erlichman reflects on the reluctance of historians to engage in collaborative forms of writing, tracing the reasons to the development of the discipline in the 19th century. In doing so, he argues that while mono-authorship will remain a key pillar of the discipline, historians need to embrace more emphatically collective forms of writing: not to succumb to the logics of marketisation, but to diversify their sources and widen their intellectual horizons
Moderation through expertise: Functional elites and the politics of moderation in western Europe’s mid-twentieth century
No full textCamilo erlichman explores the rise of experts in politics during the ‘long 1940s’ in western europe and its relation to the emergence of a politics of moderation in the immediate post-war era. He demonstrates how the collapse of effective central state authority and the breakdown of mass parliamentary politics allowed for the emergence of a range of influential expert groups operating beneath the level of the formal political process, creating a top-down reconfiguration of politics structured around experts who advanced discourses and practices of political moderation that were integral to the post-war model of democracy
Podcast: Social Justice in Twentieth-Century Europe:Martin Conway and Camilo Erlichman on the Malleability and Ideological Promiscuity of a Crucial Aspiration
No full textA critical assessment of the theology of Camilo Torres in the light of Latin American theology : a theological paradigm for peace with justice for Colombia
No full textThe thesis aims to provide a critical assessment of Camilo Torres’ concept of efficacious love in the light of a hermeneutics and ethics of liberation, to contribute theoretically to theological reflection upon the mission of the Protestant and Roman Catholic churches in Colombia, and generally in Latin America. It proposes the thesis that the theology of Camilo Torres, viewed from the perspective of a hermeneutics and an ethics of liberation, can be foundational for seeking, constructing, and sustaining peace with justice in a context of oppression and violence.
Based on the theological analysis, the academic and spiritual motivation should respond to two fundamental questions in our academic inquiry: what foundation exists in Camilo Torres’ theology for the construction of a just, peaceful, liberative society and to enable proximity to the excluded, victimized, and poor population in Colombia to be achieved? And how can we as Christians respond to the grace of God in living efficaciously the values of the Kingdom of God, in order to bring structural changes in Colombia? The implications of the answers to those questions would result in the possibility to execute an integrating theological proposal for peace with justice for the church in Colombia.
In an interpretative mode, we consider critically the multidisciplinary interaction of some of the theological foundations of liberation theology. Our task consists in clarifying and constructing theological presuppositions for a dialectical examination of the historical and current situation in Colombia, viewed in the light of the internal problems and realities. Thus, it is our intention in order to attempt a significant interdisciplinary juncture, to examine and interpret such relevant concepts as efficacious love, faith with works, kenosis, hypostatic union, hermeneutics and ethics of liberation, social justice, personal and collective socio-political conversion, and a praxis of faith as the church’s mission in response to the Colombian context of poverty and violence
Social Justice after the 20th Century. Edited by Martin Conway and Camilo Erlichman
No full textThe history of present-day Europe is often written as a story of decline. For many, it is the collapse of the certitudes of the post-war era that most obviously characterizes the European societies of the present. The erosion of mass political parties, the electoral triumph of new populist movements, the return of armed conflict to the continent and above all the extent to which politics has simply ceased to be predictable are trends which have encouraged historians to contrast the stability of the post-war era with the fragility and volatility of the present. Present-day Europe, to draw on the influential phraseology used by Carl Schorske about the 1890s, has entered a distinctively new key, and its internal logics no longer seem to follow the norms of the 20th century. The perceived resurgence in social inequality is central to this understanding of the recent history of Europe. Since the economic shocks of the 1970s, the associated increase in unemployment in western European societies and the capitalist transformation of the states of east-central Europe after 1989/90, the history of recent decades appears to have been dominated by a retreat of the ambition to achieve socially just societies, leading to a continuous exacerbation of material inequality. Consequently, contemporary historians have in recent years spent much ink exploring the ways in which market-fundamentalist ideas have reconfigured European societies since the late 1970s. The 1990s play an important role in these narratives, as the moment when the welfare states that had been built incrementally in Europe over previous decades came under serious attack and were partly dismantled by governments seeking to curb spending. In this interpretation, the story of social justice since the collapse of state socialism in 1989/90 can be told in a rather straightforward manner as one of decay in the face of a neoliberal onslaught. There is much to commend an approach that emphasizes how the last decades of the 20th century disrupted the centrality of social justice in the history of European societies. The purpose of our recent collective book Social Justice in 20th-Century Europe was to show how different versions of social justice had developed across the century, demonstrating the extent to which very different political groups and regimes had competed for ownership of the meaning of social justice. As we argued in that book, there was much plurality and change; but at the same time, these divergent conceptions of social justice were rooted in the more durable confessional and ideological worlds of Europe. Above all, during the 20th century, social justice became a central source of political legitimacy that those in power ignored at their peril.Peer Reviewe
Camilo Pardo Umaña, special for El Tiempo
No full textLa imagen contiene una noticia acerca de un personaje singular en la historia de Colombia: Judas Tadeo Landínez. A través de una pluma crítica, el autor, Camilo Pardo Umaña, nos pinta un retrato detallado de este hombre de negocios, describiéndolo como un astuto y ambicioso personaje que supo aprovechar las oportunidades de su época para amasar una gran fortuna. Narra cómo Landínez, junto a su socio José María Plata, crea una especie de bolsa de valores llamada "La Ballena". Esta entidad financiera permitía a los inversores dejar su dinero a cambio de pagarés respaldados por las firmas de ambos socios. Sin embargo, esta actividad pronto se convierte en un foco de especulación y riesgo.
Noticia publicada en El Tiempo. Bogotá ( 13222). P. 18 col 3-4-5-6-7-8.The image contains news about a unique character in the history of Colombia: Judas Tadeo Landínez. Through a critical pen, the author, Camilo Pardo Umaña, paints a detailed portrait of this businessman, describing him as an astute and ambitious character who knew how to take advantage of the opportunities of his time to amass a great fortune. It tells how Landínez, together with his partner José María Plata, creates a kind of stock exchange called "La Ballena". This financial institution allowed investors to leave their money in exchange for promissory notes backed by the signatures of both partners. However, this activity soon becomes a focus of speculation and risk.
News published in El Tiempo. Bogotá (13222). P. 18 col 3-4-5-6-7-8
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