Ethnic Concentration and Nonprofit Organizations: The Political and Urban Geography of Immigrant Services in Boston, Massachusetts

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 730-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethnic Concentration ◽  
Immigrant Services

scholarly journals Away from Politics? Trajectories of Italian Third Sector after the 2008 Crisis

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandro Busso
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Management Models ◽  
Managerial Strategies ◽  
The Relationship

In modern democracies, nonprofit organizations and social enterprises have a relevant political role that may be threatened by the entry into the market of services. This risk increases in time of economic crisis, when the competition grows stronger and the economic needs become more urgent. Starting from this assumption, the article analyzes the relationship between the managerial strategies and the political role of the Italian third sector, focusing on the implications of the management models put in place in order to “survive” the 2008 economic crisis. Two ideal-typical strategies will be outlined, labelled respectively “entrepreneurial turn” and “hyper-embeddedness”, which seem to have effects both in terms of the manner in which the political role is realized, and in terms of the degree of politicization of the organizations. Since such strategies can both increase or decrease nonprofits’ political ambitions, it is not possible to give an interpretation in terms of a tout court distancing from politics. However, it will be argued that a trait common to all the trajectories is the withdrawal from what Mouffe defines “the political”, referring specifically to the dimension of conflict and antagonism.

scholarly journals From the global network of megalopolises to the political partitioning of the world: The guest-editor's introductory statement

2003 ◽  
Vol 70 (420/421) ◽  
pp. 134-136
Author(s):  
Calogero Muscarà
Keyword(s):  
Guest Editor ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Global Network ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Volume ◽  
Introductory Statement ◽  
The World ◽  
University Of Rome ◽  
The University

The author, guest-editor for the three double issues of this special volume of Ekistics, is Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Rome La Sapienza. He has been a member of the Commission Permanente de Géographie Politique chaired by Professor Jean Gottmann. He chaired the Working Group on Geography of Transport of the International Geographical Union from 1980-1988. Professor Muscarà's scientific interests have always focused on the epistemology of geography. He has researched issues on the geography of development and on regionalization, especially regarding its relationships to the dynamics of urbanization. Of his numerous publications, his latest book is on the paradox of federalism in Italy. He is a member of the World Society for Ekistics.

The Profitable World of Nonprofits

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Formisano
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Cash Flow ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Class ◽  
The One ◽  
Corporate Model

Wealthy nonprofits now emulate the corporate model of excess compensation combined with lax oversight. Increasingly, executives of nonprofit organizations with healthy cash flow interact with and become embedded in the political class and adopt the lifestyle of the one percent.

scholarly journals Contra Spem Spero: The Third Sector’s Resilience in the Face of Political Turbulence and Legislative Change in Ukraine

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svitlana Krasynska
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Shadow Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Government ◽  
Legislative Changes ◽  
Ukrainian Society ◽  
People Today

AbstractThe iconic Ukrainian poem, “Contra Spem Spero,” with its theme of resilience in the face of enduring hardships, appears as salient for the Ukrainian people today as when it was composed more than a hundred years ago. Political instability and a far from favorable legislative system have affected Ukraine’s society in a variety of ways since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. How have Ukraine’s nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) been shaped by these conditions? A review of academic and applied literature, as well as governmental reports and legislative texts, reveals that the political and legislative environment in Ukraine is highly unstable and, at times, antagonistic to NGOs. However, indicators of sector activity and interviews with Ukrainian nonprofits suggest that the sector, overall, has not changed significantly during the last decade of substantial political and legislative changes. This paper suggests that Ukrainian nonprofits (much like Ukrainian society in general) appear to exist in a parallel universe with the governmental and legislative world. Ukrainian nonprofits are generally not supported by and are largely independent from the government. The concept of a shadow economy in Ukraine is discussed as a way of understanding how nonprofit organizations continue to function in what is often an adverse policy environment. “Contra Spem Spero” (1890), translated from Latin as “Against all Hope I Hope,” is the title of a poem by one of Ukraine’s most revered poets, Lesya Ukraїnka.

scholarly journals From the global network of megalopolises to the political partitioning of the world: The guest-editor's introductory statement

2003 ◽  
Vol 70 (422/423) ◽  
pp. 262-264
Author(s):  
Calogero Muscarà
Keyword(s):  
Guest Editor ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Global Network ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Volume ◽  
Introductory Statement ◽  
The World ◽  
University Of Rome ◽  
The University

The author, guest-editor for the three double issues of this special volume of Ekistics, is Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Rome La Sapienza. He has been a member of the Commission Permanente de Géographie Politique chaired by Professor Jean Gottmann. He chaired the Working Group on Geography of Transport of the International Geographical Union from 1980-1988. Professor Muscarà's scientific interests have always focused on the epistemology of geography. He has researched issues on the geography of development and on regionalization, especially regarding its relationships to the dynamics of urbanization. Of his numerous publications, his latest book is on the paradox of federalism in Italy. He is a member of the World Society for Ekistics.

scholarly journals From megalopolis to global city-region? The political-geographical context of urban development

2003 ◽  
Vol 70 (418/419) ◽  
pp. 19-22
Author(s):  
John Agnew
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
Global City ◽  
The Political ◽  
City Region ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

The author is Professor of Geography at the University of California at Los Angeles. His main research and teaching interests are political geography and the urban geography of Europe. His recent books include: Rome (Wiley, 1995); Mastering Space (Routledge, 1995); Geopolitics (Routledge, 1998); Place and Politics in Modern Italy (University of Chicago Press, 2002); and Making Political Geography (OxfordUniversity Press, 2002). In 2000 he gave the Hettner Lectures at the University of Heidelberg on Reinventing Geopolitics: Geographies of Modern Statehood (Institute of geography, University of Heidelberg, 2001).

scholarly journals Advocacy in Nonprofit Organizations: A Leadership Perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dyana P. Mason
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Advocacy Strategies ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Nonprofit Leaders

AbstractThe influence of nonprofit leaders in organizational advocacy strategies and outcomes has not been fully explored in the literature, despite the recognition that political or policy entrepreneurs are crucial to the American policy process. These leaders are placed squarely in the political arena with other political elites, including elected officials, and this study uses a common agency framework to describe the ways in which leaders should be expected to leverage their own personal preferences in guiding their organization’s behavior. Using data from a unique survey of nonprofit leaders in California, I measure the ways that a leader’s personal values and characteristics – specifically their political ideology on a left-right spectrum – have an effect on the organization’s advocacy efforts. Results indicate that political ideology is related to whether or not a leader identifies their group as one that engages in political or policy issues, and what types of tactics they use.

Where crises converge: the affective register of displacement in Mexico City’s post-earthquake gentrification

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-300
Author(s):  
Jess Linz
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Business As Usual

Affect theory suggests that imagining different futures for cities begins by feeling the present differently. This article considers the political potential of the affective register in the context of gentrifying Mexico City, where the 2017 earthquake, as a crisis-event, burst onto the ongoing crisis-ordinary of gentrification-based displacement. I argue that this convergence of crises opened an affective impasse, or a time and space lived in excess of predictability. This affective impasse both interrupted business-as-usual gentrification and channeled historical affects across 32 years from the 1985 earthquake, and in turn generated new political energies. Informed by affect theory and trauma studies, I use qualitative data to invite the reader into the impasse and observe its affective dynamics. The empirical sections describe the entry points to the impasse, the affective activities that subjects engage in there, and the role of historical trauma in reshaping the atmospheres that emerge from this space. The resulting research investigates how affective ways of navigating an impasse offer the potential to reshape ongoing struggles against displacement. This builds on recent work in urban geography that uses psychoanalysis and affect theory to understand gentrification’s complexities, contradictions, and ambivalences.

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