scholarly journals Janus in governance: Interpellations around an educational policy of community intervention in Portugal

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Fátima Antunes ◽  
Rosanna Barros
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Community Intervention ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
The Social ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Alternative Spaces

This article intends to empirically document the ambiguity, even ambivalence, of governance practices[1], through the study of a public policy in Portugal, the Programme InovAction, that stimulates intervention projects in ‘local state of emergency’ territories. In this way, we search to contribute to the debate around the reform of the State and public policies, apprehended through metamorphoses in the coordination of collective action in education. Education, State and governance are viewed as social relationships and sites of social practices; governance is understood as a field in which policies, discourses and practices manifest themselves in neo-liberal hegemonic versions or according to contradictory achievements. The data we mobilize were built on documental analysis and on information obtained through semi-structured interviews (to national, regional and local projects Coordinators, technicians and young people). The unfolding discussion illuminates tensions and contradictions in governance practices of Programme InovAction: the strengthening of collective action may occur simultaneously with the construction of routes and alternative spaces of social exclusion; the reduction of the social responsibility of the school with regards to certain audiences challenges approaches to the construction of a public space of education; the privilege given to known interests has gone side by side with practices to broaden  the local governance circle.

scholarly journals THE FALL OF THE 'PURIFIED' COMMUNITY: CRISIS, TRANSFORMATION & COLLECTIVE ACTION IN GREECE

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yannis Kallianos
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Economic Collapse

The article explores the recent social and political transformations in Greece through events of collective action in the public space of Athens. Drawing on Richard Sennet’s notion of the ‘myth of the purified community’ it is argued that these events demonstrate a gradual disintegration of the social imaginary of the idea of community in various scales (national, local, etc). This argument builds on the indistinction between public and private as reflected in these events in Athens. By providing ethnographic examples from both before and after the economic collapse, the article explains crisis as a long process of contesting the sovereignty of the state and institutions in Greece and how these previously downplayed contestations were rendered visible in the Greek public sphere. This visibility shakes the foundations of the notion of a homogeneous community as it is established by the ‘social contract’.

scholarly journals O comentário elogiativo nas redes sociais: estratégias de cortesia valorizadora

2017 ◽  
pp. 311-332
Author(s):  
Isabel Roboredo Seara ◽  
Ana Lúcia Tinoco Cabral
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Verbal Interactions ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Collaborative Spaces ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Networking Website

In recent years, the social networking website Facebook has become a referential online area for the development and strengthening of social bonds, of pre-existing social relationships from offline daily life (LAMOE et al 2006). Assuming that social networks are collective and collaborative spaces of communication and information exchange, which have changed the way thousands of people communicate to each other, and being Facebook the most widespread networking website (KREUTZ 2009), it becomes a fruitful field to the research of verbal interactions. However, there is a new epistemological positioning which endorses the necessity to rethink the description of the Facebook network, not only as a platform of communication, but also as a complex discursive environment, in which notions of identity, intimacy and social-affective bonds are important issues to be discussed (EMERIT-BIBIÉ L., 2015). Grounded on the dialogical design of language (BAKHTIN, 2003) and being engaged on verbal interactions researches, the article highlights the dialogical dimension which underlies the sociability - especially built via “comments” mode - a discursive, social and public space which allows the construction and management of someone’s own identity and alterity. Through a pragmatic approach, we reflect upon meaningful speech acts - particularly the ones related to congratulations, compliments and other laudatory acts - as an expression of support and encouragement, in which interlocutors resort to discursive strategies that value the positive and cordial face of others. The theoretical framework favors studies related to the verbal politeness,namely the ones of Brown & Levinson (1987); Kerbrat-Orecchioni (2001 e 2004), Araújo Carreira (1997) and Vivas Márquez (2014).

scholarly journals The Transformative Potential of Active Citizenship: Understanding Changes in Local Governance Practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5781 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J.M. Mattijssen ◽  
Arjen A.E. Buijs ◽  
Birgit H.M. Elands ◽  
Bas J.M. Arts ◽  
Rosalie I. van Dam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Green Space ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Social Connectivity ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
The Social ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Path Dependent Process

This paper focuses on understanding the transformative potential of active citizenship in green space governance. Through an in-depth case study, we show how citizens promoted the redevelopment of a brownfield into a green space, but eventually also contributed towards a broader co-creative shift in local governance. In this process, we highlight how a shift in citizens’ activities from contestation towards collaboration led to the uptake of citizen-driven discourses and activities in spatial planning. The social connectivity between governance practices is of key importance in this transformation—successful governance practices that involve active citizens can inspire others. Even so, transformation is often a slow and path-dependent process which also depends on an enabling policy environment. Cooperating with authorities provides citizens with power, but also requires alignment with official rules. Creating and maintaining effective partnerships will remain a challenge for citizens and policymakers that strive for societal transformations.

scholarly journals Neighbouring the different: Social interaction in a Warsaw subarea

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (39) ◽  
pp. 53-63
Author(s):  
Ewa Korcelli-Olejniczak ◽  
Filip Piotrowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Governance Arrangement ◽  
The Social

AbstractIn the paper patterns of social interaction are examined, as shaped by an inflow of new residents to an inner-city subarea characterized by a low socio-economic status and featuring ethnic homogeneity. The empirical material is derived from a set of semi-structured interviews conducted by the authors with the area’s inhabitants, and with representatives of local governance arrangement and initiatives. The analysis is based on the concepts of social hyper-diversity, social networks, the concept of place and the research on gentrification. Sub-categories of residents are distinguished by referring to both functional and emotional types of social relations they enter into. The findings point at the formation of networks of integrative nature, mostly such that are supported by the use of common urban space, across the social categories identified, but also to limits and obstacles to social integration, both general and those specific to the case study area.

scholarly journals Public space in the Soviet city: A spatial perspective on mass protests in Minsk

Nordlit ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arve Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Spatial Perspective ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
The Social ◽  
Physical Elements

In many capitals, the central public square is the place where people go en masse when they wish to voice their discontent. The squares used for such collective actions are diverse. Each square has its unique combination of symbols and history; they are used in different ways by the public; and they often have distinct physical characteristics. Yet, in social sciences, when determining what makes collective actions successful, space is often overlooked.In this article, I present an approach for analysing public space in relation to mass protests. I then apply this approach to the Belarusian capital Minsk, where virtually no protests have been successful during the post-Soviet period. In what ways are mass protests in Minsk affected by the perceived (symbolic), social and physical elements of the city’s public spaces? I examine the centre of Minsk in general, and analyse two central squares in particular. The article is based mainly on qualitative, semi-structured interviews with protesters, observers and opposition leaders; research literature; and on my own fieldwork and experiences from living in Minsk.I conclude that space is contributing to the difficulties facing the Belarusian opposition in several ways. 1) The perceived elements of Minsk and the two main squares do not have a preferable symbolic value to the opposition. 2) The social elements of the city show that the political centre is avoided by the public, thus making protests less noticeable. 3) This latter point is important, given that the physical elements of the squares makes policing particularly easy and swift. The physical elements of the squares also limit the protesters’ communication, movement and flexibility. I argue that a spatial perspective should be included in research on collective actions.

scholarly journals Revealing the manifestations of neoliberalism in academia: Academic collective action in Turkey

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 401-418
Author(s):  
Canan Coşkan ◽  
Yasemin Gülsüm Acar ◽  
Aydın Bayad
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Contextual Factor ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
Psychological Concepts

Academic Collective Action (ACA) stands as a small-scale collective action for social change toward liberation, independence and equity in academia. Academic collectives in Turkey, as an example of ACA, prefigure building academia outside the university by emphasizing the extent to which neoliberal academia has already prepared the groundwork for more recent waves of oppression. In this research, we aim to reveal the manifestations of neoliberalism in ACA as captured with prominent social/political psychological concepts of collective action. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 21 dismissed academics to understand the social and political psychological processes in academic collectives. The narrations of ACA were accompanied by manifestations of neoliberalism as experienced by dismissed academics. We found that, as follows from the existing conceptual tools of collective action, neoliberalism serves as an embedded contextual factor in the process of ACA. This becomes mostly visible for grievances but also for collective identifications, politicization, motivations, finding/allocating resources and sustaining academic collectives. We provide a preliminary basis to understand the role of neoliberalism in organization, mobilization and empowerment dynamics of collective action.

Social integration of migrant physicians in inpatient rehabilitation

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
E Jansen ◽  
P Haenel
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Inpatient Rehabilitation ◽  
Work Team ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Rehabilitation Facilities

Abstract Purpose In Germany, numerous inpatient rehabilitation facilities employ migrant physicians. Yet the remote location of many such institutions makes it difficult for migrant physicians to establish social relationships and networks near their place of employment. This lack of social resources has implications for employee retention, quality of life, and quality of care. In this light, our study examines the following questions: what social relationships do migrant doctors have access to? What challenges and opportunities do these relationships represent? Our aim is to provide concrete recommendations for stakeholders to improve the social integration of migrant physicians. Methodology Semi-structured interviews with 58 migrant physicians and their colleagues. Braun & Clarke thematic analysis. Results Migrant physicians' social relationships fall into four broad categories: friends and acquaintances in general, family, community of origin, and working team. Migrant physicians in our sample face difficulties in each of these four categories. Implications Establishing social relationships in rural and semi-urban areas is more difficult for migrants in general, and migrant physicians in particular. We propose a number of recommendations to overcome these challenges on several levels: individual, work team, institution, regional, and trans-regional. Key messages The integration of migrant physicians in inpatient rehabilitation facilities is challenging. Specific measures can help the retention of migrant physicians.

scholarly journals Public health emergency: social representations among managers of a university hospital

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 998-1004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirciara Barañano Souza ◽  
Clarice Maria Dall'Agnol
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Influenza A ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
University Hospitals ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Influenza A H1n1

AIM: to comprehend the social representations of public health emergencies among managers who experienced the Influenza A (H1N1) Pandemic of 2009. METHOD: a qualitative case study, with its theoretical and methodological framework based on the Theory of Social Representations. The data was obtained through the techniques of free association and semi-structured interviews, applied individually to managers who worked in different positions of the hierarchical management structure of the institution during the pandemic emergency, a total of 30 participants. RESULTS: thematic content analysis resulted in the following categories: vulnerability, health protection, neglect - gray areas of the public sphere, and integrality. The social representations of public health emergencies attest to continuities that transit the overvalorization of negative discourses linked to the health/education public space, naturalization of the substantial character of the epidemic, and normative managerial action. However, the defense of ongoing education as a necessity associated with emergency management revealed possibilities for change in the technical-scientific perception of the management. CONCLUSIONS: to understand healthcare/nursing workers as political beings, assuming responsibilities in the areas of the macro and micro policies of the State, the university hospitals and the work teams, is a pathway that is emerging for the management of emergencies.

The perspectives of Singapore secondary school students with vision impairments towards their inclusion in mainstream education

2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
John West ◽  
Stephen Houghton ◽  
Myra Taylor ◽  
Phua Kia Ling
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Emotional Needs ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
School Students ◽  
Students With Special Needs ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
School Settings ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Learning

Students with vision impairments in Singapore are educated in segregated settings from an early age. On completing primary school these students continue their education in mainstream secondary school settings. This transition requires considerable adjustment on the part of students with vision impairments. The present research explored the social and emotional needs of students with vision impairments in mainstream secondary schools in Singapore. Data were gathered from nine students through semi‐structured interviews and casual observations. Individuals were also asked to record their experiences using a diary. Four propositions were developed. One, students with vision impairments express a need to have their feelings and abilitiesacknowledgedby significant others. Two, the initial experience of students with vision impairments is such that they have to make majoradjustmentsto adjust to their new learning environment. Three, students with vision impairments state they benefit from receivingsupport and assistancefrom their peers. Four, students with vision impairments state they benefit from theassistanceof teachers who act as a “bridge” in their social relationships with peers. The findings of this research have implications for the inclusion of students with special needs in Singapore.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Identity Construction in Interactional Narratives by Women with Turner Syndrome

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-420
Author(s):  
Kamila Ciepiela
Keyword(s):  
Turner Syndrome ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Genetic Disorder ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
Small Story ◽  
Genetically Determined

The study aims to uncover and explore the social identities of women suffering from a genetic disorder called Turner syndrome (TS), and whose main symptoms are a short stature and gonadal dysgenesis. Such a genetically-determined physical appearance is argued to influence the positioning of TS women in the web of social relationships and identities. This linguistic analysis of narratives delivered by Polish women with TS in semi-structured interviews aims to explicate the extent to which they are actors or recipients in creating their own identities. The analysis draws on the assumptions of the ‘small story’ paradigm developed by Michael Bamberg (1997, 2005) who claims that in interaction, narrative is not only used to convey meaning, but also to construct the identities of the interlocutors. Thus, narrative is treated in a functional way, in which its formal structure and content are integrally associated with its use and any deviations are relativized as a consequence of a user’s deliberate activity.

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