Inguruak. Revista Vasca de Sociología y Ciencia Política

Turistificación en las ciudades vascas: la nueva amenaza urbana

Iraide Fernández Aragón — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0200

Neologisms in political science. Analysing the challenger party concept

Unai Ahedo Rodríguez — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0200

Parties are complex and changing political actors that have been adapting their organizational structures and strategies depending on the context in which they operate. Due to the need to understand the evolution of parties in recent decades, new analytical categories such as «challenger party» have emerged. In this article we focus on the review and reconstruction of the concept of «challenger party». Following the methodology set out by Giovanni Sartori, first of all, we will examine the problems that have arisen due to use. Secondly, we will try to investigate the etymological roots and the context in which the term arises. Thirdly, we will logically order the conceptualizations proposed to date, trying to find the common and central defining elements of the phenomenon. Something that will lead us to formulate a renewed conception of the concept.

Received: February 25, 2024; Final version: May 28, 2024.

Territoriality and sovereignty at the basis of the environmental movement. Example of Bizi!: links of environmentalism to Basque nationalism

Iñaki Zaldua-Calleja — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0200

We examine the nation as a social and dynamic structure. Therefore, the elements of the discourses that surround the nation are developed based on the discourses of the members of the imagined community that integrates it under its umbrella. Consequently, the umbrella forces the community to represent discourses within a concrete framework. The community, however, will structure the own and subjective elements of its nation’s discourse based on the sociological context. We consider the territory as the nation’s own space for action. By dividing the physical world through invented boundaries, these boundaries lead the «insiders» to structure different identities compared to the «outsiders». The territory, at least in the case of Euskal Herria, due to its sociological diversity, develops different discourses depending on its context and situation. Finally, environmentalism, taking into account its different variants, allows the community a change of model. To protect the world from collapse, it conceives the human being as an ecosystem that is located within nature and in which both live in interdependence. Consequently, taking into account the fears and hopes of the 21st century, we believe that environmentalism can become a means to become, today, nationalist.

Received: March 25, 2024; Final version: June 03, 2024.

Labor reforms in Spain from the perspective of the opposition of interests between Capital and Labor

Peio Salazar Martínez de Iturrate — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0200

Since the approval of the Workers’ Statute in 1980, Spanish labor legislation has undergone several reforms, at least one by each Government. This article analyzes how the different reforms have affected the two actors that make up the labor relationship: Capital (as the employer actor) and Labor (as the employed actor). Throughout these more than four decades of reforms it can be seen how almost all of them have followed the same direction: the adaptation of Spanish labor legislation to the needs of the neoliberal model, which has resulted in a degradation of the rights and guarantees corresponding to workers.

Received: April 11, 2024; Final version: May 26, 2024.

Leire Escajedo San Epifanio, Julen Zabalo Bilbao eta Igor Filibi Lopez (ed.). Demokrazian sakontzea eta parte hartzea, hainbat eskalatan (2023) Leioa: UPV/EHU

Jon Fernández Iriondo — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0200