The practices of participation and engagement are characterised by complexities and contradictions. All celebratory examples of uses of social media, e.g. in the Arab spring, the Occupy movement or in recent LGBTQ protests, are deeply rooted in human practices. Because of this connection, every case of mediated participation should be perceived as highly contextual and cannot be attributed to one (social) specific media logic, necessitating detailed empirical studies to investigate the different contexts of political and civic engagement. In this volume, the theoretical chapters discuss analytical frameworks that can enrich our understanding of current contexts and practices of mediated participation. The empirical studies explore the implications of the new digital conditions for the ways in which digitally mediated social interactions, practices and environments shape everyday participation, engagement or protest and their subjective as well societal meaning.

The practices of participation and engagement are characterised by complexities and contradictions. All celebratory examples of uses of social media, e.g. in the Arab spring, the Occupy movement or in recent LGBTQ protests, are deeply rooted in human practices. Because of this connection, every case of mediated participation should be perceived as highly contextual and cannot be attributed to one (social) specific media logic, necessitating detailed empirical studies to investigate the different contexts of political and civic engagement. In this volume, the theoretical chapters discuss analytical frameworks that can enrich our understanding of current contexts and practices of mediated participation. The empirical studies explore the implications of the new digital conditions for the ways in which digitally mediated social interactions, practices and environments shape everyday participation, engagement or protest and their subjective as well societal meaning.

En este estudio se establecen las estrategias y acciones necesarias a traves de un plan estrategico para llevar a cabo el proceso de integracion inicial que de lugar a la instrumentacion y desarrollo de Clusters especificos, en localidades identificadas con aglutinaciones productivas viables. En el cual se describe el marco conceptual, politicas, lineamientos, procesos y estrategias de operacion para su integracion. La localidad identificada para realizar el analisis de competitividad es el municipio de San Miguel de Horcasitas, ubicado en el centro del estado de Sonora, Mexico. Es una microregion con vocacion ganadera y agricola, dedicada a la produccion, comercializacion de carne, leche de bovino a nivel local y exportacion de hortalizas. Sin embargo, sus cadenas productivas son poco calificadas, debido a la baja calidad en sus procesos y escasa tecnificacion, el analisis se realizo para aprovechar las ventajas competitivas de la region que permitan la integracion de un Cluster como estrategia de desarrollo economico, justificado por un deficit de produccion y desabasto a nivel local y nacional y al dinamismo en la creacion de Clusters observado en los ultimos anos."

This study provides a wide-ranging critique of contemporary anti-humanist postcolonial theory. By charting a genealogy of the complicity of humanism and oppression in the New World, this analysis highlights the process of consolidation of a racialised, autonomous and rational modern subject as well as the existence of a fractured modernity. Situating contemporary Derridean critiques of humanism within the Hegelian tradition, this work demonstrates that post-modern anti-essentialism does not succeed in escaping totalisation. Furthermore, it contextualises the fractured modernity of the Western humanist tradition in relation to the works of key twentieth-century thinkers such as Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas, arguing that these authors problematise the common reduction of humanism to a totalising outlook, due to their revelation of the gaps and fissures prevalent in the modern. Combining insights drawn from Fanon's emphasis on lived experience, Arendt's enlarged mentality and Levinas's non-ontological transcendence, this study aims to deconstruct the complicity between humanism and colonialism.