Between a rock and a hard place: State-led territorial stigmatization, informal care practices and the interstitiality of local community workers in Denmark

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasmus H Birk ◽  
Mia Arp Fallov
Keyword(s):  
Informal Care ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Interstitial Position ◽  
Community Work ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Hard Place

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to explore the relation between territorial stigmatization and community work in Denmark. In the paper, we firstly explore territorial stigmatization, relating it to the Danish context. We show how territorial stigmatization in Denmark happens via a complex amalgamation of bureaucratic practices which identify particular areas as problematic ‘ghettos’, and how this leads to top–down interventions upon many local residential areas, including local community work. Following this, we draw on participant observations in practices of local community work, and interviews with local community workers, to explore how they practically negotiate these particular political constructions of their work. We argue that local community workers come to take on interstitial roles—that is, they come to be in-between the state and authorities and the local communities themselves. This complex double role is what we call an interstitial position, meant to signify how Danish local community workers are both part of territorial stigmatization and simultaneously trying to escape from and undo this very role.

Making responsible residents: On ‘responsibilization’ within local community work in marginalized residential areas in Denmark

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 608-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasmus Hoffmann Birk
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Community Work ◽  
Community Projects ◽  
The Welfare State

This article explores how the local community projects in marginalized residential areas in Denmark attempt to make ‘responsible’ residents. It has commonly been argued that contemporary governance is inflected with responsibilization, often understood as the ambition to make citizens self-responsible and independent from the welfare state. However, much less attention has been paid to how such responsibilization is accomplished in practice. The article draws on interviews with local community workers and participant observation in local community projects, to explore the process of ‘responsibilization’ in practice. The article shows how local community workers use narrative accounts to assess residents and their (failed) responsibilities, as well as their own responsibilities towards residents. Building on this, it is shown how attempts to make residents independent from the welfare state become entangled with practices of care, through which local community workers assume responsibilities for residents, rather than making them independent as such. Lastly, the article shows how responsibilization is a fragile process, and how it is entangled with ongoing makings of accounts that demonstrate responsibilities, both for local community workers and residents.

scholarly journals Pravni ukrepi občin v času razglašene epidemije covida-19 z vidika varnosti v lokalnih skupnostih

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bojan Tičar ◽  
◽  
Iztok Rakar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Way

New virus SARS-CoV-2 (hereinafter COVID-19) has reached the Republic of Slovenia in February 2020. On March 12th, 2020, the state has announced the epidemic. In this context, the Government of the Republic of Slovenia began to adopt different measures to protect the population and stop spreading the virus COVID-19. All local communities had to act according to the government’s decisions. In this contribution, we present an analysis of some cases and praxis in local communities. We have analysed some actions of local authorities (mayors and local councils) in the context of fighting against the spread of the virus COVID-19 among the local population. The analysis also includes an overview of local legal regulations and activities of local security authorities (local-community wardens and local community inspectorates) in the fight against the spreading of the COVID-19 virus. The minority of Slovenian communities have adopted some »special lock-down measures«. The way that these activities were legally processed is shown in the last part of this contribution.

Muslim-Christian Dialogue: The Gap Between Theologians and Communities

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 460-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Prideaux
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
The Real ◽  
Diverse Communities ◽  
The Way

AbstractInter-faith dialogue is increasingly seen by the state as important in the development of cohesive communities. Yet many of the traditional theological texts of inter-faith dialogue which inform religious leaders neither address the needs of local communities, nor hear from their experiences. Based on fieldwork in Leeds this article explores the lived reality of a predominantly Muslim and Christian neighbourhood where there is a taken-for-granted response to theology that sees it as irrelevant to the real needs and issues of a local community. This article offers a reflection on the way in which the distance between Christians and Muslims is perhaps not as great as the distance between inter-faith theology and religiously diverse communities.

scholarly journals Political Economy and the Australian Government’s CCTV Programme: An Exploration of State-Sponsored Street Cameras and the Cultivation of Consent and Business in Local Communities

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Anthony Carr
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Local Council ◽  
Security Technologies ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Commercial Opportunity

This article explores the political economy of Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) in Australia, providing new insights into the relationship between government policy and its economic implications. I have rationalised state-sponsored street cameras as a component in the cultivation of consent between the state and local communities; a mechanism for government to facilitate the flow of public funds to business through arrangements that are virtually unchecked and non-evidence based; a mechanism for government to facilitate profitable opportunities in and beyond the security technologies industry; and, a mechanism to normalise hegemonic social and political relations at the level of discourse. This article explores how government has assisted growth in the security industry in Australia. I draw on a case study about Kiama Municipal Council’s decision in 2014 to accept funding from the Abbott Government to install CCTV cameras through the Safer Streets Programme. This is despite historically low crime rates in Kiama and an inability to demonstrate broad support for the programme in the local community. This study reveals how politicians have cultivated support for CCTV at the local level and pressured councils to install these systems despite a lack of evidence they reduce, deter or prevent crime. Examined is how the footage captured on local council CCTV has been distributed and its meanings mediated by political and commercial groups. I argue that the politics of CCTV dissemination in Australia is entwined with the imperatives of electoral success and commercial opportunity—a coalescent relationship evident in the Safer Streets Programme. Furthermore, the efficacy of CCTV as an electoral tool in Australia is explained via the proposition that street cameras perform a central role in the discourses and political economy of the state.

scholarly journals Local Community Detection in Complex Networks Based on Maximum Cliques Extension

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Fanrong ◽  
Zhu Mu ◽  
Zhou Yong ◽  
Zhou Ranran
Keyword(s):  
Complex Networks ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Empirical Evaluation ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Source Node ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Maximum Cliques ◽  
Local Community Detection

Detecting local community structure in complex networks is an appealing problem that has attracted increasing attention in various domains. However, most of the current local community detection algorithms, on one hand, are influenced by the state of the source node and, on the other hand, cannot effectively identify the multiple communities linked with the overlapping nodes. We proposed a novel local community detection algorithm based on maximum clique extension called LCD-MC. The proposed method firstly finds the set of all the maximum cliques containing the source node and initializes them as the starting local communities; then, it extends each unclassified local community by greedy optimization until a certain objective is satisfied; finally, the expected local communities will be obtained until all maximum cliques are assigned into a community. An empirical evaluation using both synthetic and real datasets demonstrates that our algorithm has a superior performance to some of the state-of-the-art approaches.

scholarly journals Law environment: post-classical interpretation

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 81-88
Author(s):  
A V Skorobogatov ◽  
A V Krasnov
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Classical Method ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Individual

Article is devoted to research of law environment as one of components of law reality. On the basis of post-classical method- ology the conclusion is drawn that the law environment, representing the complete complex of the law phenomena, actions and events, interrelations and relations caused by objective regularities of humanity development, conscious and constantly designed (recreated) by individuals, local communities and society in general which can be used for achievement of definite purposes, satisfaction of re- quirements and interests or realization of claims, characterizes the extent of aspirations, creative energy and real law actions of the subject (the individual, local community, society in general, the state) in a certain existential continuum and defines borders of life of the individual in law reality.

COMMUNITY TOURISM - PROMOTING CULTURAL STRENGTH, STABILIZING LIFE

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nhat Anh
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Tourism ◽  
Cultural Strength

Community tourism is now an attractive type, thriving globally and bringing many benefits to the local community, contributing to poverty reduction. In Vietnam, community tourism is also expected to be one of the advantages to bring tourism into the spearhead economy. Therefore, the Tourist Law of 2017 has reserved 1 Article (Article 19) on community-based tourism in which The State will facilitate the participation of local communities intourism development. This will be conditions for the development of community-based tourism, not only promote the strength of local culture, but also contribute to stabilize people’s lives.

Infrastructuring the social: Local community work, urban policy and marginalized residential areas in Denmark

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 767-783 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasmus H Birk
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Residential Area ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Community Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Welfare State

This article develops the concept of infrastructuring the social by analyzing the uses of local community work in Danish marginalized residential areas. Infrastructuring the social is a concept to describe how spaces are designated as problematic and marginalized and then remade through the creation and materialization of normative and instrumental relations. The article empirically demonstrates how infrastructuring the social works through enacting relations between residents, local community workers and professionals from municipalities, relations which are used to move people along normative trajectories. These trajectories are meant to transport people out of problematic areas, and into closer contact with “regular society,” such as Danish institutions, education, and the labor market. Infrastructuring the social is thus enacted from the outside in, imbued with the normative imperatives of the welfare state, seeking to rework the agency of residents and improve the marginalized residential area. The concept of infrastructuring the social nuances the trope of the “network” by highlighting the normative imperatives embedded in making relations, and goes beyond frameworks of governmentality by highlighting the practical messiness and on-going work of everyday governance.

Integrated Regional Planning as an Agent of the State Vis-à-Vis the Local Community and the ‘Patria Chica’ (Homeland): A Summary of Central American Experiences

1985 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Sandner
Keyword(s):  
Regional Planning ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Local Community ◽  
The State ◽  
Central American ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Point Of Departure

This paper is a critical analysis of the local community as an instrument in the integration of development policies. It is a tentative analysis, providing a critical reconsideration of some of the main options comparing ‘from the top down’ policies with ‘from the bottom up’ policies. This involves an awareness of a competing perspective (‘from below’) and of the questions ‘for whom?’ and ‘development to what extent?’. According to this perspective, the point of departure is the conflict existing in the local community, and the conflict between the local community and the state.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES ON THE BASIS OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTTOM STATIONS IN DIFFERENT ZONES OF THE NORTH-CASPIAN SHELF

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-30
Author(s):  
Vladimir B. Ushivtsev ◽  
Sergey V. Vostokov ◽  
Nikita B. Vodovsky ◽  
Maya L. Galaktionova ◽  
Gulnara А. Akhmedova
Keyword(s):  
Marine Environment ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Shelf Zone ◽  
Total Biomass ◽  
Functional Characteristics ◽  
The North ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Environment Control

Aim.On the basis of four experimental bottom stations installed at various depths of the North Caspian shelf, the local communities of marine organisms were formed, on various constructions and in close proximity to them were investigated. The aim of the work is to study the features of community development on the basis of bottom biological stations, to measure their quantitative characteristics, to assess the informative character of the structural and functional characteristics of local communities for analyzing the state of the marine environment. Methods. Experimental bottom stations were installed in various regions of the North Caspian shelf using diving equipment to study their impact on the environment. Control over the development of associated fauna was carried out with the help of traps and the method of direct accounting for the materials of photo-video surveys. Sampling of fouling was carried out by the method of registration sites. Based on the number of species of flora and fauna of local communities, a ballroom information system has been suggested, that can be used for monitoring. Results. Research materials indicate a significant difference in the species composition, biomass and the structure of communities of local cenoses formed at the bottom stations with the same design and ecological capacity at various depths of the North Caspian shelf. In the shallow shelf zone at depths of 6-8 m in the local community of the bottom station, the vegetation component is dominant. At great depths, the total biomass increases in local cenoses and animal communities, including filter-feeders, make significant contribution to the self-purification of the marine environment. Conclusions. The results indicate the possibility of using complex observations of the structure and functional characteristics of local communities formed on the base of bottom stations, as well as the development of species of indicators and objects of accumulation of toxicants for assessing the state of the marine environment. The development of this approach involves the experiments with different station costructioons and materials and use of biotechnology implantation of test organisms on the design of bottom stations.

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