Criticism of Moral Policing in Russia

2020 ◽  
pp. 107-128
Author(s):  
Gilles Favarel-Garrigues

Favarel-Garrigues’ chapter considers how the Russian group Lev Protiv asserts a social order in public spaces, and in turn becomes subject to public scrutiny and controversy. While patrolling and confronting those consuming drugs or alcohol in public spaces, Lev Protiv members bring these offences to a wider public. As such, conventional vigilantism is positioned “in front of a permanent audience”, that enhances the scope of the group but also appears to generate a critical backlash. Such controversies appear to fuel the group’s prominence, a striking development even within the post-Soviet context.

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Ball

The empirical focus of the research reported in this paper is the recent rapid growth in public surveillance systems. It is now commonplace in Britain for certain “public” spaces to have video surveillance and for some stretches of public highways to have “Gatso” speed cameras located on them. The visual availability of items of material culture such as surveillance systems is introduced as an analytical organising principal for delineating the study of objects within the “seen” world. It is argued that we inhabit a palpable material environment of objects which has consequences for and impinges upon aspects of our practical decision making.


2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jekaterina Lavrinec

Reconstructing the mutation of a ‘blind walker’ into the figure of reflexive urban activist, who proposes creative solutions to the problems of de-activated public spaces, urban art interventions are comprehended as a tool for re-inventing and revitalising urban settings while initiating intensive interaction and cooperation between citizens. The idea to arrange ‘emotionally moving situations’ so as to activate reflexive attitude of the citizens toward everyday urban settings was proposed by situationists. By disturbing usual everyday rhythms and trajectories, urban art interventions, flash mobs and urban games establish a reflexive distance from the usual, routine ‘choreography’ of the place and propose alternative scenarios of behaviour in public space. Therefore urban art interventions can be considered as a tool for creative reconceptualization of spatial structures and social order, embedded in urban space. Santrauka Remiantis M. de Certeau pasiūlyta miestelėno „aklumo” metafora, kuri nurodo į nerefleksyvų santykį su kasdiene aplinka, straipsnyje rekonstruojama šios miestelėno figūros transformacija į miesto aktyvistą („miesto kuratorių”), kuris reaguoja į miesto problemas ir ieško kūrybinių šių problemų sprendimų. Aktyvaus santykio su miesto aplinka modelis buvo plėtojamas dar situacionistų (I. Chtcheglovas, G. Debord‘as, A. Kotányi ir kt.), kurie ieškojo kasdienio miesto patyrimo suspendavimo technikų (pavyzdžiui, dreifavimas) ir siūlė reorganizuoti miesto erdves, kad jos imtų produkuoti „emocionaliai paveikias situacijas”. šios paieškos paskatino situacionistus plėtoti „unitarinio urbanizmo” koncepciją. Šiuolaikiniams miestams susiduriant su deaktyvuotų viešųjų erdvių problema, „emocionaliai paveikių situacijų” kūrimo idėja atgimsta nauju pavidalu. Meninės intervencijos į viešąsias erdves, flash-mobai ir miesto žaidimai ardo įprastus elgesio scenarijus, steigia refleksyvųatstumą su rutininiu miesto patyrimu, o taip pat skatina naujųmiesto ritualų atsiradimą bei formuoja emocinį miesto reljefą. Intervencijos į viešąsias erdves gali būti analizuojamos ir kaip refleksijos forma, ir kaip aktualių miesto problemų(viešųjų erdviųdeaktyvavimo) sprendimo būdas.


2013 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Vosne Martins

Este artigo trata do processo de feminilização das ações de socorro, proteção e assistência aos pobres e a outras categorias de pessoas em situação de fragilidade, desamparo e abandono. A organização dos cuidados com os chamados desafortunados tem sido historicamente uma ação dispensada pelos poderosos, associada à sua capacidade de prover e de socorrer aqueles que batiam às suas portas pedindo abrigo temporário, víveres ou remédios para seus males, ou então aos religiosos, de quem se esperava a caridade para com os sofredores de toda espécie. Numa visão de mundo profundamente marcada pela religião cristã, o gênero não hierarquizava nem a dádiva, nem a caridade, associadas ao poder e ao prestígio das famílias e da religião, operando e adquirindo sentido no interior de uma lógica simbólica do sangue, das famílias e da esfera do sagrado. A bondade, portanto, adquiria sentido e significado numa ordem hierárquica mais estável e intimamente relacionada às capacidades distributivas do poder patriarcal e religioso. O gênero passou a desempenhar um papel importante nesta economia da dádiva quando os cuidados e o conjunto de ações e de significados a eles associados foram ressignificados por novos discursos na modernidade, fundados numa reorganização dos espaços, dos sujeitos, das práticas sociais e dos valores e comportamentos. Desde meados do século XVIII e especialmente a partir do século XIX, observa-se a configuração de espaços, de práticas e de sentimentos definidores de subjetividades consideradas femininas, associadas ao amplo terreno moral dos cuidados. Tal processo de generificação dos cuidados se articula ao afastamento e posterior exclusão das mulheres dos espaços públicos, processo este que se configura nas sociedades ocidentais modernas. As mulheres das elites e das classes médias passaram a ser associadas às virtudes regeneradoras da ordem moral e social e a uma concepção natural de bondade, altruísmo e dedicação aos necessitados, valores presentes tanto nas ações de motivação caritativa quanto na organização racionalizada da filantropia, na definição e implementação das políticas assistenciais e na organização das profissões femininas criadas a partir da experiência heterogênea dos cuidados.This article deals with the process of feminization of relief, protection and assistance actions to the poor and to other categories of people in situations of fragility, helplessness and abandonment. The organization of the care of the so called unfortunate has historically been an action given by the powerful, associated with their ability to provide and to assist those knocking at their doors asking for temporary shelter, food or medicines for their ailments, or by religious, from whom charity for sufferers of all kinds was expected. In a deeply marked by the Christian religion worldview, the gender did not prioritize gift nor charity, associated with the power and prestige of the families and religion, operating and acquiring sense within a symbolic logic of the blood, of the families and the sacred sphere. The goodness therefore acquired sense and meaning in a hierarchical order more stable and closely related to the distributive capabilities of patriarchal and religious power. The gender went on to play an important role in this economy of the gift when the care and the set of actions and of meanings associated with them were redefined by new discourses in modernity, founded on a reorganization of the spaces, subjects, social practices and values and behaviors. Since the mid-18th century and especially from the 19th century on there is a configuration of spaces, practices and subjectivities defining feelings considered feminine, associated with the broad moral field of care. Such gendering process of care articulates the removal and subsequent exclusion of women from public spaces, this process represented in modern Western societies. The elite and middle class women began to be associated with the regenerative virtues of moral and social order and with a natural conception of goodness, unselfishness and dedication to those in need, values present in the charitable motivation actions, in rationalized organization of philanthropy, in the definition and implementation of assistance policies and in the organization of professions for women created from the heterogeneous care experience.


Author(s):  
Yulita Titik Sunarimahingsih ◽  
Yustina Trihoni Nalesti Dewi ◽  
Heribertus Hermawan Pancasiwi

Beside having significant values that would enrich the Indonesian nation, tribal, cultural, and religious diversity brought seeds of conflicts that could potentially disrupt social order and threaten national unity. The conflicts that occurred in Ambon from 1999 to 2004 were conflict examples that were caused by religious plurality that had appeared many societal problems that could not be fully resolved until today. The trust among Ambon's plural communities had not returned well and it was even worsened by settlement segregation separating Muslim and Christian communities that factually brought potential for further conflicts. In the present life of Ambon’s segregated societ today public spaces inspired by brotherhood and “unity in diversity” spirits thatt could be meeting and socializing means of the communities and to reduce the social polarization were to be absolutely necessary. Unfortunately, the existing public spaces in Ambon for the time being served only as stages of activities and they did not connect with the communities’ social spectrums so that the public spaces remained meaningless. A public space here served just as a witness, not as a means of socializing in accordance with the communities’ cultures and characters. This paper would discuss how to integrate the communities’ cultures and characters into a public space design that had significant meaning in overcoming the polarization of Ambon’s segregated communities. The public space would be designed by taking into account a location choice where two segregated communities could easily meet. In the public space a macro space concept where the sea as the front page of Ambon communities should be applied and even forwarded since such a concept tended to be forgotten. Beside the spatial format, the public space should also be designed by facilitating various cultural-based activities so that the communities’ characteristics that were integrated in the urban culture and daily activities would appear in the public spaces.


2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Schwartz

This study exposes ‘gringo Spanish’ as a discursive site for the reproduction of privilege, racism and social order in White public spaces. I begin my arguments by exploring Whiteness, doing so by unpacking what I term ‘Gringoism’, which involves the active celebration of a White, monolingual (un)consciousness through particular linguistic and cultural performance. Brief analysis of one particular educational text (Harvey 1990/2003) supports greater discussions of indexicality, intersubjectivity, the elevation of Whiteness and discourses of ‘making sense’ of Spanish-speaking Others. The study closes with implications for the field of Mexican American studies, which in turn offers considerations for scholars studying Spanish within greater educational, anthropological and socio-cultural contexts.


2020 ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Barbara Konecka-Szydłowska

Public space of the Morasko Campus in Poznań in the opinion of students Public spaces are an important part of urban space. The paper presents the results of the research on the assessment of the public space of the Morasko Campus situated in the northern part of Poznan. The analysis covers the years 2006 and 2017 and uses the semantic differential method worked out by Osgood, Succi and Tannenbaum in 1957. The study of public space was conducted in terms of five basic categories of spatial order: (1) town-planning – architectural order, (2) functional order, (3) aesthetic order, (4) social order and (5) ecological order. The obtained results show that, in the opinion of students, the Morasko space obtained a higher assessment in all the categories over the study period (an increase in the average assessment from 3.9 to 4.8). In 2017, ecological order was the category assessed highest , and functional order the one assessed lowest,. In the studied years the Campus space was assessed lowest by the students of the Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, which was caused by its peripheral location. Due to the great importance of the natural values of the Campus, their detailed description is presented at the end of the study. Zarys treści: Ważną częścią przestrzeni miejskiej są przestrzenie publiczne. W opracowaniu zaprezentowano wyniki badań na temat oceny przestrzeni Kampusu Morasko, położonego w północnej części Poznania. Zakres czasowy analizy obejmuje zasadniczo lata 2006 i 2017. W opracowaniu posłużono się metodą dyferencjału semantycznego opracowaną przez Osgooda, Succiego i Tannenbauma w 1957 r. Badanie przestrzeni publicznej przeprowadzono w odniesieniu do pięciu podstawowych kategorii ładu przestrzennego: 1) ładu urbanistyczno-architektonicznego, 2) ładu funkcjonalnego, 3) ładu estetycznego, 4) ładu społecznego oraz 5) ładu ekologicznego. Uzyskane wyniki pozwalają stwierdzić, że zdaniem studentów w badanym okresie nastąpił wzrost oceny przestrzeni Kampusu Morasko we wszystkich kategoriach (wzrost średniej oceny syntetycznej z 3,9 do 4,8). W 2017 r. zdecydowanie najwyżej ocenianą kategorią był ład ekologiczny, a najniżej ład funkcjonalny. W badanych latach najgorzej przestrzeń Kampusu oceniali studenci Wydziału Nauk Geograficznych i Geologicznych, co spowodowane było peryferyjną lokalizacją tego wydziału. Ze względu na duże znaczenie walorów przyrodniczych Kampusu w końcowej części pracy przeprowadzono ich pogłębioną charakterystykę.


Jurnal Common ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Justito Adiprasetio ◽  
Sandi Jaya Saputra

Since the beginning of revitalization, Taman Alun-alun Bandung is expected to be a public space where people can interact with each other and build a healthy social order. Public space when viewing on the concept of Juergen Habermas, is a space within which there is participation and plural public consolidation and across classes and social structures with an emancipatory agenda. This research is by ethnography method which seeks to examine how so far Taman Alun-alun Bandung carry out its function as a public space of Bandung city residents. This research uses two big concepts namely Public Space from Juergen Habermas and Production of Social Space from Henrik Lafebvre, seeks to describe how social production space and nuance of publicity in the Park Taman Alun-alun Bandung. In the praxis level Taman Alun-alun Bandung can not be said to successfully perform its function as a representational spaces for community participatory activities. Created public spaces become pseudo, considering the imprisonment it makes imagined publicity can fill Taman Alun-alun Bandung not achieved. Sejak awal revitalisasi, Taman Alun-alun Bandung diharapkan dapat menjadi ruang publik tempat di mana masyarakat dapat saling berinteraksi dan membangun tatanan sosial yang sehat. Ruang publik apabila menilik pada konsep Juergen Habermas, adalah ruang yang didalamnya terdapat partisipasi dan konsolidasi publik yang plural dan melintasi kelas serta struktur sosial dengan agenda emansipasi. Penelitian ini mengunakan metode etnografi, yang berupaya memeriksa bagaimana sejauh ini Taman Alun-alun Bandung menjalankan fungsinya sebagai ruang publik warga kota Bandung. Penelitian ini menggunakan dua konsep besar yaitu Ruang Publik dari Juergen Habermas dan Produksi Ruang Sosial dari Henrik Lefebvre, berupaya mendeskripsikan bagaimana ruang produksi sosial dan nuansa kepublikan di Taman Alun-alun Bandung. Dalam tataran praksis Taman Alun-alun Bandung tidak dapat dikatakan berhasil menjalankan fungsinya sebagai representational spaces bagi aktivitas partisipatif masyarakat. Ruang publik yang tercipta menjadi semu, mengingat keberjarakan tersebut membuat kepublikan yang dibayangkan dapat mengisi Taman Alun-alun Bandung tidak tercapai.


Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1327
Author(s):  
Wioletta Kamińska ◽  
Mirosław Mularczyk

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the attractiveness of centrally located public spaces (main squares) in select new small towns in Poland. The evaluation was conducted from the spatial order perspective. Spatial order is composed of five elements: architectural and urban planning, functional, aesthetic, social, and “green” orders. The new small towns included in this analysis are settlement units, which in 2020 were populated by up to 20,000 inhabitants and received municipal rights in the 21st century. We used the point bonitation method in our research based on the source material collected during a field study. A total of 286 inventory cards of buildings and nine cards of town squares were compiled. The analysis demonstrated that the main squares in the towns studied are characterised by low or average levels of attractiveness from the spatial order perspective. The architectural–urban planning order in the towns in question was related to the number of inhabitants as well as the period over which a given settlement unit had municipal rights. A larger number of inhabitants had a positive influence on the functional diversification of the central squares and their development, whereas a small number limited both the functional diversification and the number of small architectural elements found at the square. The social order in the given towns was not connected to the number of inhabitants. The elements of social order were assessed favourably, both in larger towns that revitalised their central squares and in smaller settlements. The aesthetic and green orders were strongly related to the revitalisation of public space.


1958 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 158-160
Author(s):  
LAWRENCE SCHLESINGER

1946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgene H. Seward
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