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agency

Spanish translation: capacidad de acción

15:39 Dec 6, 2009
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
English term or phrase: agency
Gracias de antemano por su ayuda.

Gain and maintain a social licence to operate
xxx aims to adequately consider the perspectives of local communities, minorities and marginalised groups, and develop a social licence to operate. However, there are groups of women from around the world
who continue to highlight the
fact that mining often fails to take account of women’s perspectives.
Women are using their ***agency***
and being supported by powerful actors such as the World Bank Group through its Gender Action Plan and International Finance Corporation programmes that target women in the extractive industry. International NGOs such as Oxfam Australia have also supported initiatives such as the International Women in Mining Network. Women are increasingly challenging the industry’s social licence to operate and calling for more attention to the gendered impacts of mining.
Lida Garcia
Peru
Local time: 23:25
Spanish translation:capacidad de acción
Explanation:
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http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=67755
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Analia Cassano
Argentina
Local time: 01:25
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gracias a todos
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2están usando / están apelando/ recurriendo a / haciendo uso de / su poder / influencia
Rafael Molina Pulgar
5agentividad
Laura Tamayo
3 +1están abogando (como grupo) por sus derechos
David Russi
4capacidad de acción
Analia Cassano
4situación, posición,
Leonardo Lamarche
Summary of reference entries provided
Websters
David Russi

Discussion entries: 5





  

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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
están abogando (como grupo) por sus derechos


Explanation:
Con el apoyo de... las mujeres están abogando (como grupo) por sus derechos

David Russi
United States
Local time: 22:25
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 83

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agree  Rocio Gonzalez-Medland
3 hrs
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capacidad de acción


Explanation:
see link

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=67755

Analia Cassano
Argentina
Local time: 01:25
Works in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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gracias a todos
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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
están usando / están apelando/ recurriendo a / haciendo uso de / su poder / influencia


Explanation:
suerte.

Rafael Molina Pulgar
Mexico
Local time: 22:25
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 48

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  imcven
2 hrs
  -> Gracias, Iván.
agree  Wendy Petzall
10 hrs
  -> Gracias, colega.
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situación, posición,


Explanation:
Pienso que "agency" puede ser sustituída por "status" en el contexto indicado.

Leonardo Lamarche
Venezuela
Local time: 00:25
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
agentividad


Explanation:
"Entendemos por agentividad a la relación entre subjetividad, iniciativa y poder en un marco temporoespacial
dado."

"La agentividad se entiende en la realización de acciones que producen cambios en la realidad o que provocan transformaciones visibles y concretas."

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Note added at 1 hr (2009-12-06 17:20:18 GMT)
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This use is common in social sciences.

Example sentence(s):
  • Mientras la psicología generalmente destaca la agentividad, la sociología pone normalmente de relieve la estructura.
  • Gergen (1999) pasa revista a los principios que guían el humanismo como son la experiencia subjetiva, la agentividad humana, la libertad invididual y la responsabilidad moral.

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Laura Tamayo
United States
Local time: 23:25
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
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Reference comments


3 mins
Reference: Websters

Reference information:
agency

2 : a person or thing through which power is exerted or an end is achieved : INSTRUMENTALITY, MEANS *through the agency of Benjamin Rush he renewed relations with Jefferson— W.C.Ford* *example is still T the greatest agency by which men help each other— G.F.Kennan*

David Russi
United States
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
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