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Martynyuk, Slava V. "Social Partnership in Action." Bibliotekovedenie [Library and Information Science (Russia)], no. 5 (November 7, 2013): 84–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/0869-608x-2013-0-5-84-86.
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On cooperation with the UN Information Centre and on discussion of the UN Report “Millennium Development Goals 2013” in the Center of Documents of International Organizations of the Department of Official and Normative Editions of the Russian State Library
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Agostino, Deborah, and Yulia Sidorova. "How social media reshapes action on distant customers: some empirical evidence." Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 30, no. 4 (May 15, 2017): 777–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aaaj-07-2015-2136.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how centres of calculation, now emerging in connection with social media, impact on the process of acting on distant customers. Specifically, the authors are interested in exploring how the distance between the organization and its customer is affected and how knowledge is accumulated within this centre. Design/methodology/approach A case study in an Italian telecommunication company was conducted over a time horizon of two years, analysing data sources in the form of interviews, documents and reports, corporate website, social media platforms and participants’ observations. With the adoption of social media, the company configured a new centre of calculation, called monitoring room, in the attempt to accumulate knowledge about its customers. The authors unpacked the activity of the centre of calculation discussing its ability to perform action upon a distant periphery and the process of knowledge accumulation inside the centre itself. Findings The results highlight the implication of social media for “action at a distance”. On the one hand, social media blurs the distinction between the centre and a periphery giving rise to a de-centring, and stimulating a joint control activity between the customer and the organization. On the other hand, social media was found vulnerable in providing a unique knowledge about customers: accumulation cycles that exploit social media data can be replicated by users with skills in data analytics and the knowledge they provide might conflict with knowledge provided by traditional data. Originality/value The authors contribute to an emergent stream of literature that is investigating accounting implications derived from social media, by underlying the controversial effects connected with centres of calculation enacted by social media data. The authors suggest that, while social media data provide the organization with huge amount of information real time, at the same time, it contributes to de-centring allowing customers and external actors to act upon the organization, rather than improving knowledge inside the centre.
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Thevananth, Thevanayagam. "தேசம் மக்களால் ஆனது கோட்பாட்டை வலியுறுத்திய மண்சுமந்த மேனியர் நாடகம்." Shanlax International Journal of Tamil Research 5, no. 1 (July 1, 2020): 67–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/tamil.v5i1.3333.
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Is in play. The play is made up of everyday life activities. The place where the action takes place is defined as the stage. Drama is the best of human language that uses verbal and physical devices to reflect life.The stage is seen as a process and is used as a tool to achieve human development goals. The stage is a way to understand the nature of aggression. This is a collaborative effort of many. It invites people there to engage in creative processes. Creativity is defined as a process by which innovation can be achieved.The platform of the oppressed emerges from the belief that the role of society in changing oppression and achieving liberation from oppression can be critically explained. But drama for social change and liberation from oppression; has been used for years. This study explores the potential dynamics of drama to achieve an ideal goal based on theatrical literature.Theatrical font intended for content analysis methodology. The forum has helped people in Jaffna, Sri Lanka to develop their problem-solving skills to eliminate oppression, empower and strategize. It used theatrical methods to break down internal and external oppression into everyday life and future challenges.This study looks at how the Mansumanthamaniyar play, produced by Jaffna University students in the mid-1980s, which saw the intensification of the Tamil liberation struggle in Sri Lanka, motivated the youth and the people towards liberation and emphasized the principle of ‘the nation became the people’.
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Kemal, A. R. "Social Policy and Development Centre. Social Development in Pakistan: Annual Review 1999. Karachi. Social Policy and Development Centre and Oxford University Press. 1999. Pakistan Rs 395/(Pb). 166 pages." Pakistan Development Review 38, no. 1 (March 1, 1999): 123–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v38i1pp.123-127.
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This Report on Social Development in Pakistan is a welcome addition to the economic literature on Pakistan; it reviews the development and policies during the past year (1999) in the perspective of long-run trends. The 1999 issue has been enriched by an analysis of the impact of economic sanctions on Pakistan's economy. The five chapters of the Report discuss crises in the economy focussing on short- and long-run problems, the impact of the economic sanctions, the IMF package, and, alternative strategies of economic and social development, the future outlook for social development in Pakistan, the Social Action Programme and Social Safety "Nets. Data and important social events during the year are presented in the annexures.
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Kruzynski, Anna. "L’autonomie collective en action." Nouvelles pratiques sociales 29, no. 1-2 (February 19, 2018): 139–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1043397ar.
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Des mouvements sociaux partout sur la planète se révoltent contre la démocratie libérale et le capitalisme tout en expérimentant des manières d’être, de penser et de faire basées sur l’autonomie, le respect de la diversité et l’aide mutuelle. Dans cet article, les pratiques politiques, culturelles et économiques du Centre social autogéré de Pointe-Saint-Charles déployées durant la lutte pour l’appropriation collective du Bâtiment 7 sont examinées à l’aune du concept d’autonomie collective. En rendant visibles ces pratiques subversives, l’analyse permet de saisir la portée révolutionnaire de cette initiative libertaire située en marge de l’économie sociale au Québec.
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Liu, James H., and Allan B. I. Bernardo. "Social Psychology for Social Change: Foundations for and Introduction to a Program of Action-Oriented Research." Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology 8, no. 2 (December 2014): 29–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/prp.2014.4.
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The Special Issues series on social psychology of social change will provide a forum for research on the science and practice of interventions for social change that benefit individuals, organisations and society. This effort takes up Lewin's call for scientific research aimed towards solving social problems and generating new knowledge, but with a theory and practice of culture and cultural change at its centre. The effort elevates the dominant research approach in developing countries in Asia where there is more concern about opportunities for training and engaging in and publishing more applied work. The emphasis both on research excellence and on a holistic concern for society as central components for theorising about effective modes of realising social change in Asia and the Pacific is a long-term project that begins with the seven diverse articles in the special issue, which span different stages in the project — from clarifying its Asian philosophical basis, to empirical analysis of the problem and levers of change, to evaluation of the outcomes of action research.
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Hill, Helen, and Roslyn Stevens. "Early Identification and Intervention: Primary Health Care in the Nineties." Australian Journal of Primary Health 2, no. 1 (1996): 118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py96015.
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Sunbury Community Health Centre's Early Identification and Intervention Program is comprehensive. The Centre has a broad range of identification initiatives which assess for early physical changes in an individual's health, as well as recognising the social and emotional causes of ill health. The Centre has undertaken early identification activities for groups in the community at risk of health problems, has identified environmental hazards and, where possible, taken appropriate action. The Centre has made links with other community agencies which participate in and support the comprehensive Early Identification and Intervention Program.
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Brajković, Andrea. "Action research as a method for initial implementation of a new pharmacy-led care delivery model at the Health Centre Zagreb - Centre." International Journal of Integrated Care 21, S1 (September 1, 2021): 165. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/ijic.icic20332.
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Potts, Gareth. "Conference Report." Industry and Higher Education 9, no. 5 (October 1995): 319–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095042229500900509.
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‘University—Enterprise Partnerships in Action: Knowledge and Technology Transfer — Economic and Social Development’, organized by CAPITTAL (COMMETT University—Enterprise Training Partnership for London, based at the University of North London Economic Development Unit and Innovation Centre), London, 22–23 June 1995
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McGrath, Brian. "Environmentalism and Property Rights: The Mullaghmore Interpretive Centre Dispute." Irish Journal of Sociology 6, no. 1 (May 1996): 25–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/079160359600600102.
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This article applies recent work on the relations between property rights and public policy to the recent dispute about Mullaghmore in Co. Clare. In this dispute, State policy attempted to define the Burren landscape primarily in terms of its potential to generate revenue. The protesters of the Burren Action Group, however, succeeded in redefining the issue to lake account of a more complex intersection of social, political, economic and environmental issues. The article analyses the complexities involved in this protracted process, connecting them with contemporary theories of property and its uses. Seeing the heritage industry as resources-led, it argues for a more holistic approach to the plight of rural areas.
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Vlăduţescu, Ştefan, and Mirela Teodorescu. "Communicative Action, Deliberative and Restorative Justice - A Review." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 43 (November 2014): 167–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.43.167.
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“Communicative Action, Deliberative and Restorative Justice – Socio-juridical perspective on mediational averment” by Antonio Sandu and Elena Unguru, published by TRITONIC in 2014, is a high level transdisciplinary lesson about transactional justice, restorative justice and deliberative alternative to classical (retributive and distributive). Antonio Sandu is Professor at the University "Ştefan cel Mare" from Suceava, and researcher at the Centre for Socio-Human Research Lumen in Iasi (Romania). The main interest of the author include ethics, bioethics, social assistance, social philosophy. He is the author of five books in Social Philosophy and Applied Ethics, more than 8 articles in scientific journals indexed by Thomson Reuters and over 20 other scientific articles. Elena Unguru is researcher in the fields of law, social work, sociology, communication, appreciative inquiry in Socio-Human Research Center Lumen from Iasi-Romania. We are led, naturally and professionally, on the sinuously road from conflict to communication also denoted by the establishment of the public sphere as social reality born of meeting and acceptance of the otherness, of individuality asserting in public space, postulating the universality of human nature as human rights. Starting from the Habermas’ idea of communication power as a form of expression in contemporary society, the author believes that communicative action codes a power strategy based on consensus. Power is soft, seductive, and inter-mediate linguistic and cultural relations. The chosen theme by the authors analyze the communication mediation model based on the values of social justice, equity and charity, assuming an exercise of the integration of the otherness, of perceiving the other as partner.
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Ianeva, Maria, Jacqueline Vacherand-Revel, and Christian Licoppe. "Accounting for activity development through perspectives in an inbound call centre." Journal of Workplace Learning 29, no. 6 (August 14, 2017): 428–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jwl-08-2016-0077.
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Purpose This paper aims to address the methodological and conceptual challenges arising from the use of activity theory as a theoretical framework in empirical studies of work. Design/methodology/approach To grasp the relationship between situated action and activity development, the authors build upon the concept of perspective and suggest that perspectives are grounded on salient configurations, which are both emergent in situ and collectively elaborated cultural resources. Empirical evidence for these theoretical considerations is provided through a two-year ethnographic study of the organizational change and collective activity at an inbound call centre for a number of mutual health insurance companies. This research used several data collection techniques such as ethnographic observation, video recordings and interviews. Findings The presented results highlight that seemingly unskilled routine practices such as opening and sorting the mail rely upon a complex set of informational resources that only have “value” and meaning in a broader relational context, that of the activity. Originality/value The originality of this paper is the use of salient configurations as a basis for the operationalization of the notion of perspective and open new avenues of thought (and action) on situated work practices as embedded within activities.
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Chapman, Mark D., and James W. Watson. "Common Actions: Participatory Action Research as a Practice for Promoting Positive Social Action among and between New Canadian Church Planters and Denominational Leaders." Ecclesial Practices 4, no. 1 (May 17, 2017): 63–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22144471-00401003.
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The Greater Toronto Area remains the major immigrant destination centre in Canada. New Canadians are welcomed but not necessarily well integrated into the lives of churches. Our experience and research has shown that this lack of integration can extend to new Canadians who start churches yet are not integrated with denominations or church planting organizations. The New Canadian Church Planter project is an ongoing participatory action research project that brings together new Canadian church planters and denominational leaders as equals. It engages these groups in conversation to identify issues of concern, facilitate shared learning, and promote positive social action. This paper uses data from that project to explore the effectiveness of participatory action research in facilitating those objectives. The project was effective at breaking down isolation, encouraging limited collaboration, developing localized resource sharing, and in disseminating learning but not at developing positive social action external to the meetings themselves.
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Reicher, Stephen. "Mass action and mundane reality: an argument for putting crowd analysis at the centre of the social sciences." Contemporary Social Science 6, no. 3 (November 2011): 433–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2011.619347.
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Beatty, Andrew. "Kala defanged: Managing power in Java away from the centre." Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 168, no. 2-3 (2012): 173–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134379-90003558.
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If discussions of power in Indonesia have been too Java-centric, power talk about Java has been equally overcentralized. This article presents an alternative view to the top-down, hierarchical, exemplary-centre approach of Anderson, Geertz and others: the view from Banyuwangi in East Java. Through an analysis of local rituals, popular theatre and political action it proposes a different model based on consensus, relativism, and ritual containment.
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Sidorov, V. N., and E. V. Sidorova. "UNITED NATIONS ACTION IN THE FIELD OF TRADE FACILITATION." Courier of Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)), no. 12 (March 14, 2021): 95–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.17803/2311-5998.2020.76.12.095-110.
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Trade is defined as one of the key enabler of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 2030. Trade facilitation is important trend of trade in sustainable development, as expected will promote of growth acceleration and international trade and also will enhance economic, ecological and social aspects of sustainable development. In article is offered to consider the main activities of the United Nations in the trade facilitation. In the article it is offered to consider the main activities of the UN in the sphere simplification of procedures of trade The article considers the work of the United Nations in the of trade facilitation field, in particular the work of the United Nations, sustainable development, trade facilitation, International law, United Nations Commission on International Trade law, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Network of Experts for Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific.
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Zajda, Katarzyna, and Elżbieta Psyk-Piotrowska. "Oddziaływanie programu LEADER na kapitał społeczny mieszkanek wsi." Zeszyty Naukowe SGGW - Ekonomika i Organizacja Gospodarki Żywnościowej, no. 108 (December 20, 2014): 55–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.22630/eiogz.2014.108.39.
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In the article there is an analysis of the impact of the LEADER approach on the social capital of rural women involved in the local action groups. The aim of the article is to characterize the features of this capital taking into consideration the capital belonging to men involved in these organizations. The question is whether the role of local action groups as far as the social capital is concerned equally applies to women and men associated in these structures. On the basis of the research carried out in 2011–2013 (on a sample of 238 women and 327 men) within the framework of the project entitled: “Structure and determinants of social capital of local action groups” (National Science Centre grant) women social capital analysis was made (with its definition by R. Putnam). In the social survey distributed surveys technique was used. The result of the analysis is a statement that women social capital differs from men social capital mainly in the area of trust component and network component.
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Su, Yuling, Rong-Ji Pan, and Kun-Hu Chen. "Encountering Selves and Others: Finding Meaning in Life Through Action and Reflection on a Social Service Learning Program." Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology 8, no. 2 (December 2014): 43–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/prp.2014.6.
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This article describes how a college social service learning centre at a Catholic university created an opportunity for researchers, college students and elementary school teachers to learn about meaning in life together, through a social service learning program in Taiwan. The participants’ involvement benefitted their learning, indicating that the meaning in life perceived by the younger generation has changed in response to the context of an evolving Chinese culture, and that participants constrained their callings by developing realistic plans consisting of goals emphasised in traditional Chinese culture. Challenges were identified: specifically, the participants’ callings did not directly reflect the lessons that they learned through involvement in the program, and implementing the service program as a one-time activity limited its effect on the participants’ ability to find meaning in life. Future development of the service program was discussed, based on the lessons learned through this action research.
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Neary, Mike, and Joss Winn. "There is an alternative: A report on an action research project to develop a framework for co-operative higher education." Learning and Teaching 10, no. 1 (March 1, 2017): 87–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2017.100106.
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This report provides an interim account of a participatory action research project undertaken during 2015–16. The research brought together scholars, students and expert members of the co-operative movement to design a theoretically informed and practically grounded framework for co-operative higher education that activists, educators and the co-operative movement could take forward into implementation. Our dual roles in the research were as founding members of the Social Science Centre, Lincoln, an autonomous co-operative for higher education constituted in 2011 (Social Science Centre 2013), and as professional researchers working at the University of Lincoln. The immediate context for the research was, and remains, the ‘assault’ on universities in the U.K. (Bailey and Freedman 2011), the ‘gamble’ being taken with the future of higher education (McGettigan 2013), and the ‘pedagogy of debt’ (Williams 2006) that has been imposed through the removal of public funding of teaching and the concurrent tripling of tuition fees (Sutton Trust 2016).
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Yashchuk, Sergiy. "Educational Management in the Regional Institute of Social Work Aquitaine." Comparative Professional Pedagogy 9, no. 3 (September 1, 2019): 61–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rpp-2019-0030.
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Abstract The article analyzes the organization of the educational process in the Regional Institute of Social Work Aquitaine. It is found that the following departments of the Institute are responsible for organizing the educational process: the department of initial professional training in social work; the department of constant social formations; the department of management training; the research department; the centre for social action learning; the department of internal educational operations; the department of the educational process and symposia; the department of international activities; the centre for evaluation of skills in social professions; the centre for validation of acquired experience in social work. It is revealed that the Regional Institute of Social Work Aquitaine will be merged into the University of Bordeaux between 2019 and 2020 and become part of the National Union of Training and Research in the field of social intervention, which integrates all types of training in social work. The Regional Institute of Social Work Aquitaine is also under the direction of the Regional Association of Social Work. It must be noted that the Regional Institute of Social Work Aquitaine provides the protocol for certification and testing of the Level 3 Modules (ASS / ES / EJE / ETS / CESF). After all, the general conditions of this protocol ensure the support of candidates for such certification and testing. These conditions include the location of certification and testing; instructions and criteria: an invitation to certification and testing, the organization of certification and testing, the organization of module certification, the information about certification and testing committee, the submission of results from certification and testing (results of certification and testing, absence of candidates during certification and testing, module testing, violations and protection means).
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Kavada, Anastasia. "Social Movements and Political Agency in the Digital Age: A Communication Approach." Media and Communication 4, no. 4 (August 11, 2016): 8–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v4i4.691.
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Digital media pose a dual challenge to conventional understandings of political agency. First, digital media destabilize long-held assumptions about the nature of collective action, about social movements and their capacity to effect change. This is because digital media are thought to facilitate more decentralized, dispersed, temporary and individualized forms of political action that subvert the notion of the collective as singular, unified, homogeneous, coherent, and mass. One way of resolving this challenge is to view the collective in looser terms, as a process rather than as a finished product, a conceptualization that can be influence our understanding not only of social movements, but also of other political actors and of society as a whole. Second, digital media highlight the need to take communication seriously in how we conceptualize both collective action and political agency. Placing communication at the centre allows us to develop this looser and more processual understanding of the collective by studying it as a process that is constituted in and through communication. Inspired by organizational communication and particularly the work of Taylor and van Every (2000), this essay proposes a conception of collective action as emerging in conversations and solidified in texts. This conceptualization allows for a more multiplex and variegated view of political agency that takes into account the specific context where agency is exercised and the power that different actors can exert in a communicative process of negotiation, persuasion and claim-making.
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Gibbons, Pat, Dualta Roughneen, Ronan McDermott, and Sulagna Maitra. "Putting affected people at the centre of humanitarian action: an argument for the principle of humanitarian subsidiarity." Disasters 44, no. 3 (January 22, 2020): 499–517. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12386.
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Ulfseth, Lena A., Staffan Josephsson, and Sissel Alsaker. "Homeward bound." Narrative Inquiry 26, no. 1 (December 5, 2016): 22–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.26.1.02ulf.
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With a focus on enacted narratives, this ethnographic study addresses how people with mental illness communicate returning home after a treatment stay at a psychiatric centre. Data were analysed based on Ricoeur’s theory of narrative and action. Our analysis consisted of three analytic layers: the significant issue of discharge, identifying three stories of how being on the way home is enacted, and a further interpretation and discussion. The narrative analysis shows how significant issues of returning home are enacted among persons in everyday activities at one centre, and how an inherent ambiguity raised some challenges within the field of mental health. This study shows how conducting everyday activities enable people use the available narrative resources to negotiate the self; hence they reflect and create thoughts about the return home that are shared among persons at the centre.
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Liu, James H. "Commentary on Furnham's Culture Shock, Berry's Acculturation Theory, and Marsella and Yamada's Indigenous Psychopathology: Being a Call to Action for Pacific Rim Psychology." Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology 5, no. 2 (December 2011): 75–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s183449090000060x.
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The three articles in this special edition of the Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology encompass a range of approaches within cross-cultural psychology. Adrian Furnham's (2011) culture shock shows how academic psychology can be applied to, and helps to inform a popular concept. John Berry's (2011) acculturation theory demonstrates how focused theory and empirical data can align with a national agenda. Anthony J. Marsella and Ann Marie Yamada's (2011) socioconstructionist critique of mainstream clinical psychology and psychiatric practices illustrate how epistemology and indigenous psychology can challenge institutional practices. They are united in rejecting a culture-blind psychology of the mainstream. They differ by referencing largely separate but nonetheless complementary literatures on cultures of relevance to the Pacific Rim region. Taken together, these three articles combine meaningfully to illustrate how Pacific Rim psychology might benefit from having (1) a definition of itself with Hawaii and the Pacific Island Nations as the centre and hub for the broader Pacific Rim that includes East Asia and the Western American seaboard; (2) a focus on action, particularly action research and its cyclical communication process of planning, action, evaluation and feedback; and (3) an interdisciplinary orientation where interconnectedness with such institutions as mass media, government, and clinical and psychiatric practices, as well as within psychology itself, underpin and inform research practice and policy.
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Smith, Rebecca. "Building capacity: Science in the developing world." Biochemist 32, no. 4 (August 1, 2010): 44–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bio03204044.
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On 15 June 2010 Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto was launched at the Royal Society in London. This manifesto was written by the Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS) Centre. The STEPS Centre is based in both the Institute of Development Studies and the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex. The new manifesto, as its name suggests, builds on the work of an ‘old’ manifesto known as the Sussex Manifesto. Commissioned by the United Nations as part of its Plan of Action for Science and Development for the ‘Second UN Development Decade’, i.e. the 1970s, the Sussex Manifesto was published in 1969.
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Morris, Marika. "Inuit involvement in developing a participatory action research project on youth, violence prevention, and health promotion." Études/Inuit/Studies 40, no. 1 (June 14, 2017): 105–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1040147ar.
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This article describes the process of developing an academic and community participatory action research partnership on Inuit youth and violence prevention through social media. Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada chose the topic, defined the research goals, co-developed the first draft of the project and its methodology, established and chaired an Inuit advisory committee, spearheaded consultations with other Inuit organizations to refine the methodology, and co-facilitated a focus group. The “action” part of the project involved using the research results to develop with Inuit youth an outreach strategy to prevent violence and promote health via social media. The article discusses the research process, which was guided by Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (traditional values) and which used a methodology redesigned by Inuit, including youth and elders. The result was a violence prevention focus group for Inuit aged 18 to 25, co-led by the Mamisarvik Healing Centre, and an online survey of social media use among Inuit aged 18 to 25. This participatory action research process is presented as a potential model for academic-community partnerships.
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Liddell, Max, and Chris Goddard. "Protecting children or political priorities?: The role of governments at Woomera." Children Australia 27, no. 3 (2002): 26–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200005174.
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In March 2002 the authors notified all the children living in the Woomera Detention Centre to South Australia's child protection system, in an effort to ensure that the well-being of those children was protected. An investigation was conducted; serious problems at Woomera were identified; and the relevant South Australian Minister asked the Federal Minister for Immigration for ‘new guidelines’ for the centre. Then silence descended.In this article, the authors detail the reasons for their notifications and outline the events which followed. The Federal Government criticised the report of the investigation by SA child protection workers, and there is no indication of any action taken on it. In explaining the ensuing silence the authors refer to their understanding of the contents of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Federal and South Australian Governments. This memorandum, it is believed, ensures no further information about Woomera will be revealed. Further, the memorandum appears to leave the Federal Government with total responsibility for follow-up action. The South Australian Government seems to have surrendered its responsibility in this regard. Given the lack of action, the authors question whether both levels of government could be in breach of South Australia's Children's Protection Act 1993.
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Sosa, Claudio. "Motivating through the brain reward system." ITF Coaching & Sport Science Review 24, no. 70 (December 31, 2016): 25–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.52383/itfcoaching.v24i70.216.
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To motivate learners, from beginners to top performance levels, is one of the toughest tasks for teachers and coaches who find it very hard, particularly when working with the young generations. This is due to the distracting elements like electronic games, social media and internet. With the help of recent research, neurosciences have discovered how to activate the brain reward centre that moves people to action.
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Callén, Blanca, Daniel López, Miquel Doménech, and Francisco Tirado. "Not Just Software." International Journal of Technoethics 1, no. 2 (April 2010): 27–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jte.2010040104.
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The practice of developing and creating Free Software has been the centre of attention for studies related to economics, knowledge production, laws and the intellectual property framework. However, the practice that constitutes the initiative of Free Software also means a call to rethink current forms of political action and the in-depth meaning of what is understood as “political”. This constitutes the field which has been called techno-activism. Along these lines, the authors propose a particular reading of the political challenge that is Free Software from the standpoint of Hardt and Negri’s (2000) theoretical work. The authors put forward various contributions -regarding the organization, the agents and the form of political action- that they consider to pose a crisis for traditional proposals and urge society to renew its way of relating to information, the raw material upon which the current exercise of government and practices of techno-activist resistance rest.
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Vukcevic, Nemanja. "Eventual integration or delayed transit: Interaction of residents in reception centres with their new environment in Serbia." Stanovnistvo 58, no. 1 (2020): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/stnv191017003v.
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The purpose of our study was an analysis of reception centre residents? attitudes in the Republic of Serbia toward the state and the local population. Using a questionnaire, we tried to identify the differences in respondents? attitudes toward their new environment depending on their various socio-demographic characteristics. The survey was conducted in the spring of 2019 on a sample of 173 residents of centres using the PAPI method, face-to-face, and voluntary response sampling. The data obtained are the result of descriptive and inferential analysis and were processed by the SPSS statistical data processing program. Our statistical analysis showed that attitudes of reception centre residents toward their new environment may not correlate strongly with their mother tongue, knowledge of foreign languages, marital status, number of family members, number of minor children in the family, work status, or religion. Instead, it is more likely to depend on their level of education, age, nationality, and gender. Such results show us where we need to improve inter-action, especially among women, young people, and people with a low level of education. We can also suggest that, under favourable conditions, these three categories of reception centre residents will be the first to leave the Republic of Serbia, which they probably see exclusively as a transit country. At the same time, older people and people with a high level of education (most likely men) are more likely to integrate into their new environment in the Republic of Serbia. The more interaction they have with local people and institutions and the higher the quality of that interaction, the more likely they are to integrate.
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Abdul Kadir, Syazwani. "The Use of Social Media in Millennials’ Teaching and Learning Activities in Design-Related Course." Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal 5, no. 13 (March 23, 2020): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v5i13.2087.
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This paper discusses an action research on the use of social media in millennials’ teaching and learning activities in a design-related course. The objective is to investigate students’ feedback on their experience of utilizing social media as a platform to submit and present an assignment. The method employed is a questionnaire survey on students’ experience of utilizing such method in their study. Many respondents also provided additional comments regarding this unconventional approach. The findings of this study show that most respondents favor the use of social networking apps in their learning activities, especially for courses related to design and creativity.Keywords: Social media; Millennials; Teaching and learning; Action researcheISSN: 2398-4287 © 2020. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v5i13.2087
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Fele, Giolo. "The use of video to document tacit participation in an emergency operations centre." Qualitative Research 12, no. 3 (June 2012): 280–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794111436140.
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This article explores the use of video in qualitative research. In particular, it focuses on the ways video recordings can be used to document cooperative work and tacit participation in a work setting. The article first presents previous research on participation framework, cooperation and multimodal interaction, then examines a single episode of interaction in a medical emergency call and dispatch centre. The article discusses aspects of coordination and collaboration emerging from the interaction between two people; a call taker and a dispatcher, working side by side during the managing of an emergency call. It explores the way in which social interaction can be studied even when there is no apparent correlation between different courses of action and how video can be used in order to reveal such subtle interaction work. The article finally examines the way in which video can document back stage practices that are central to much work practice but that are hidden from official documents.
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Sumsion, Jennifer. "From Whitlam to Economic Rationalism and Beyond: A Conceptual Framework for Political Activism in Children's Services." Australasian Journal of Early Childhood 31, no. 1 (March 2006): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/183693910603100102.
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Thirty years after the dismissal of the Whitlam Government, the Australian political, economic and social landscape is dominated by discourses of economic rationalism. The reification of market forces presents challenges for early childhood professionals seeking to establish a viable future trajectory for children's services that includes universal access to affordable, high-quality centre-based long day care services. This article argues that political activism, grounded in critical imagination, critical literacy and critical action, can assist in addressing this challenge.
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Ambrose, Aleta, and Patricia Short. "Integrating health planning and social planning: a case study in community-based partnerships for better health." Australian Journal of Primary Health 15, no. 4 (2009): 294. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py09010.
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This paper reports the findings of a study that investigated the processes through which health planning and social planning were integrated in practice, at the community level, through the active engagement of childcare centres in health promotion and community capacity building. A small-scale, retrospective study of Healthy Bodies Healthy Minds, a community-based health promotion project for early childhood environments, was conducted. Focusing on links between health and social planning, the study revealed crucial factors that led to integrated planning and action at the community level: opportunities for professional development, the strengthening of partnerships through interpersonal networks, reduced isolation of childcare staff in community contexts, and genuine engagement of childcare centre staff in a planning process. It also demonstrated how momentum for planning and action at the community level was created, and how a shift towards integrated health and social planning, stemming from an attitudinal shift by childcare staff towards planning and partnerships, emerged. Insights are gained on ways to build upon the social component of health promotion programs, so as to establish sustainable partnerships for integrating health and social planning in communities.
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Remesar, Antoni. "Twenty Years Working with Neighbours. Citizen Participation, Is It Possible? What We Have Learned in 20 Years." Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Philosophica. Ethica-Aesthetica-Practica, no. 33 (June 30, 2019): 11–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/0208-6107.33.02.
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In 1999, the Governing Council of the Universitat de Barcelona approved the creation of the POLIS Research Center. Later, in 2016, the Center was ratified after passing an assessment of the Catalan Accreditation Agency (AGAUR). The Centre has an interdisciplinary vocation and brings together researchers from different research groups at the University of Barcelona and cooperates with nine European and Ibero-American universities in the fields of Arts, Architecture and Human and Social Sciences. Academically, the Centre has promoted the doctoral program Public Space and Urban Regeneration (1998–2017) and the Master’s Degree in Urban Design: Art, City, Society (since 2007) and the publication of the journal On the w@terfront. The research object of the Centre is the city and its public space and, more specifically, the role of citizens in the production of Public Art and Urban Design. For this reason, the work of the Centre covers the topics related to Urban Regeneration, Sustainability, Urban Governance, Civic Remembrance, Heritage. Throughout its twenty-year history, the Centre has developed a series of projects for citizen participation in various areas of the periphery of Barcelona: River Besòs (municipality of Sant Adrià de Besòs) La Mina neighbourhood (municipality of Sant Adrià de Besòs) and the Barcelona’s neighbourhoods of Baró de Viver and Bon Pastor. A characteristic of the work of the centre has been, and is, the endorsement of citizen participation, through an innovative approach based on enabling the creative empowerment of the neighbours within the framework of Participatory Action Research. This approach is based on a project methodology, as it is understood in various project disciplines from Art to Architecture, from Design to Engineering. This article, associated with the itinerant exhibition “20 years working with neighbours,” reviews the founding project carried out by the Centre, “Social Uses of the River Besòs” (1997–1999), analysing the lessons learned, with the aim of clarifying the research criteria that the Centre follows for the development of citizen participation projects.
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Van de Sande, Adje, Tara McWhinney, Katherine Occhiuto, Jennifer Colpitts, Ismail Hagi-Aden, Ahmed Hussein, and Zoey Feder. "Identifying Barriers faced by Ottawa Somali Youth in Accessing Post-secondary and Vocational Opportunities: An Example of Community-Based Participatory Research." Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning 5, no. 1 (February 19, 2019): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.15402/esj.v5i1.67846.
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In 2016, with funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation’s Seed Grant program, the Somali Centre for Family Services of Ottawa (SCFS) invited the Centre for Studies on Poverty and Social Citizenship (CSPSC) at Carleton University to carry out a needs assessment focusing on the barriers faced by Somali youth in accessing post-secondary education and employment training opportunities. The main objective of the needs assessment was to address social and economic exclusion locally by inviting Somali youth (ages 19-30) from the Ottawa area to participate in focus groups to discuss the barriers they have faced in accessing post-secondary education and employment training programs, and to invite their views on the supports needed to address these barriers. The CSPSC and the SCFS agreed that the research would involve a participatory action research approach where members of the Somali and Muslim Community would participate on an advisory committee, and where youth from the Somali Community would be directly involved in all phases of the research. Five themes were identified during the analysis: Barriers to accessing post-secondary education; Barriers to accessing job placements and training programs; Barriers to securing employment; A need for a Somali-focused employment resource centre; A need for Somali youth mentors.
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Alderson, Joanne, Donna Kenny, and Rick Fisher. "Working with others: An investigation of early childhood education and care centre relationships with external organisations." Early Childhood Folio 25, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 26–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.18296/ecf.0092.
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This article reports on research conducted in New Zealand that deals with early childhood education (ECE) centre working relationships with external organisations, including agencies, social services, and other education providers. The goal of the research was to identify the types of current collaboration, the nature of these relationships, and benefits that are being derived from them. A total of 79 online surveys, supplemented by follow-up interviews, confirmed that ECE centres presently work collaboratively with several external organisations. They include educational providers, social service agencies, health services, and cultural support organisations. However, the nature of these relationships is largely compartmentalised and ad hoc, resulting in the potential for incomplete information sharing, and a lack of consistent, integrated decision making. Truly transformative partnering relationships remain a largely aspirational goal in ECE education. Key impediments include time for relationship building, and insufficient funding. Recommendations for improvement are offered, which are likely to be consistent with the goals of the Ministry of Education’s Early Learning Action Plan 2019–2029.
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Johnston, Lynda. "Gender and sexuality II." Progress in Human Geography 41, no. 5 (July 20, 2016): 648–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132516659569.
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This report considers genders and sexualities within and across spaces of activism. Geographers concerned with social belonging, equity, human rights, civic duties, and gendered and sexed identities often engage in activism through participatory research and/or direct action. This report brings together geographical scholarship on feminist and queer (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer) – LGBTIQ – activism to examine the construction of transformative geographical knowledges. Feminist and queer activist geographers can be powerful forces for positive social change and challenge heteronormativity. They may also, however, reinforce normalizations and hierarchies within and beyond activist spaces. I bring together references that position geographers at the centre of activism, genders, sexualities and place.
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Hurrion, Paul. "A Biomechanical Investigation into Weight Distribution and Kinematic Parameters during the Putting Stroke." International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching 4, no. 1_suppl (September 2009): 89–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1260/174795409789577489.
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This study examined the set-up position of 30 elite PGA professional golfers (2007 Season), in comparison with 30 amateur golfers (Handicap +3 to 9) while attempting the same putt of 25ft on a flat surface with a stimpmeter reading of 12. Video analysis at 50 frames per second was used to record kinematic parameters of the golfers' set-up and posture. All golfers performed their typical putting action while standing on an RSscan International 1.0 m × 0.4 m pressure platform. The RSscan Footscan® and Quintic Biomechanics 9.03 v14 software were synchronised to enable key positions of the putting stroke to be identified. Each golfer used their own personal putter. The main difference between the amateur and professional golfers was in set-up. This was found to be significant with amateurs' weight distribution 59.60% Right and 40.40% Left while the Professional Group was 48.34% Left and 51.66% Right, much closer to a balanced set-up. Students' t-test was used to compare the group means for each parameter with a level of significance set at p < 0.05. There is a trend to suggest that the wider the stance, the smaller the centre of pressure movement during the putting stroke. Although there was no significant difference in stance width, there was a significant difference in the total amount of centre of pressure movement (p < 0.05) between the two groups of golfers.
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Frere, Jean Paul, Baudoin Piret, André Van der Beken, Christian Van Uffel, and Paule Werts. "Quand la pratique se « mêle » de savoir..." La recherche-action : enjeux et pratiques, no. 5 (January 29, 2016): 141–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1034888ar.
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Dans le cadre d’une école de formation en service social, des groupes d’enseignants et d’élèves tentent de créer de nouveaux rapports entre la théorie et la pratique. Après quelques années de travail pluridisciplinaire, la formation s’oriente vers un modèle expérimental d’autogestion pédagogique et de recherche-action qui permet la production de nouveaux outils pédagogiques. L’expérience montre que l’apprentissage de la pratique d’animation sociale doit permettre l’acquisition de connaissances mais que la pratique elle-même peut demeurer le centre autour duquel s’organise la production du savoir nécessaire à la formation.
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Lisowska, Kinga, and Majka Łojko. "Professional work and personal life of a social worker during the time of pandemic." Praca Socjalna 36, no. 3 (June 30, 2021): 55–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.0733.
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In March 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic took the entire world by surprise. In an incredibly short period of time the effects of the pandemic affected practically all aspects of personal and professional life. The situation of the epidemic has been a challenge for social workers in their professional and personal life. It makes social workers face the need to apply new methods and forms of action and imposes a number of additional professional responsibilities and psychological burdens on them. Changing the organization of work in a pandemic is often a direct threat to a social worker’s physical health, as well as it enters and violates the area of their non-professional life. The goal of this article is to show the problem of keeping balance between professional work and personal life of a social worker during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The empirical material was collected basing on the experience of an employee of the Municipal Social Welfare Centre in Olsztyn.
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Simonsen, K. "Towards an Understanding of the Contextuality of Mode of Life." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 9, no. 4 (December 1991): 417–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d090417.
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This paper should be seen as a step towards reestablishing the individual, or the subject, in urban and regional studies. It is argued that to overcome the problems of ecological as well as structural determinism it is necessary to return to basic ontological questions. The questions raised are of the nature of human action and of existing and acting in a context, and they are discussed in their philosophical groundings and in relation to recent social theory. At the centre of the discussion are the concepts of temporality and spatiality which are broken up into their different, but related, dimensions. In the final section of the paper an analytical method to study mode of life which uses the dimensions of time and space as crucial categories in the mediation between structure and action is outlined.
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Webber, Jeffery R. "Resurrection of the Dead, Exaltation of the New Struggles." Historical Materialism 27, no. 1 (March 29, 2019): 5–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1569206x-00001815.
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Abstract This ‘editorial perspective’ offers reflection on Marxist theory in the narrow domain of social movements and social-movement studies. It offers a brief survey of international class struggles over the last few decades to situate the discussion. It then focuses on the problem of capitalism for social-movement studies, and the particular issue of capitalist totality. It argues that an expansive, processual, historical and temporal conception of class struggle needs to be at the centre of any adequate Marxist approach to social movements, and shows why and how this is so by delving into some contemporary debates over dominant forms of collective action – strike and riot. It also highlights the dialectical relations between production, reproduction and social reproduction, and how the latest revivals of Marxist feminism might guide us through the morass. Finally, it suggests that struggles across these interrelated domains can be linked through an ‘infrastructure of dissent’.
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Pinazo-Calatayud, Daniel, Eloisa Nos-Aldas, and Sonia Agut-Nieto. "Positive or negative communication in social activism." Comunicar 28, no. 62 (January 1, 2020): 69–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c62-2020-06.
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This study analyses the role of communication in social activism from models that surpass the mere emotional reaction, prior belief reinforcement or brand identification. This paper tests the hypothesis that a message focused on the cause (and its results) will motivate a previously sensitized audience depending on their interactions with source favorability. The methodology is based on the design of a bifactor experimental action result study 2 (failure versus success) x 2 valences (favorable versus unfavorable source) with the participation of 297 people who are pro-avoidance of evictions. The results allow us to infer that the messages from sources hostile to the cause that report negative results have the potential to emotionally and behaviorally motivate activists to a greater extent than messages with more positive results from favorable sources. The conclusions point to the dialogue between social injustice frames and pro-cause action emotions as a way to increase social mobilization. The theoretical and empirical implications of these findings are discussed in the present-day context of social media prevalence. Esta investigación analiza el papel de la comunicación en el activismo social desde modelos que superen la mera reacción emocional, el refuerzo de creencias previas o la identificación con la marca. Este estudio pone a prueba la hipótesis de que un mensaje que centre la atención en la causa (en sus resultados) motivará a una audiencia previamente sensibilizada en favor de dicha causa cuando interactúe con la favorabilidad de la fuente. Se ha diseñado un estudio experimental bifactorial 2 resultado de la acción (fracaso versus éxito) x 2 valencia (fuente favorable versus fuente desfavorable) con la participación de 297 personas pro-evitación de desahucios. Los resultados permiten deducir que los mensajes emitidos por fuentes hostiles para la causa que informen de resultados negativos tienen el potencial de motivar afectiva y conductualmente a los activistas en mayor medida que mensajes con resultados más positivos en fuentes favorables. Las conclusiones finales señalan al diálogo entre marcos discursivos de injusticia social y emociones de acción pro-causa como vía para incrementar la movilización social. Se discuten las implicaciones teórico-prácticas de estos resultados en el contexto actual de predominio de redes sociales.
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Santos, Manuel, and Kevin Morgan. "Developing creative team games players: From jazz to sport coaching." International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching 14, no. 2 (April 2019): 117–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1747954119834397.
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Traditional coaching methods position coaches at the centre of the learning process and do not encourage players to think creatively. This study challenged this assertion, through the application of pedagogical principles reported in jazz-related literature, which argue that creativity is best developed through collaboration. As such, the study aimed to develop players’ creativity, through the application of pedagogical principles reported in jazz-related literature. An action research design was implemented, during a 14-weeks period, with a youth volleyball squad. Results demonstrated an impact upon match play; players showed their enhanced appreciation of the game’s complexity, by experimenting, collaborating, and generating creative solutions to challenges emerging within matches. In addition, the implementation of collaborative practices positively impacted upon the players’ communication habits, which were both more frequent and effective. Although players demonstrated a similar modus operandi to jazz musicians, this study represents the first step in what coaches can learn from jazz creativity, and therefore further research is required to corroborate or challenge the results attained.
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Sonn, Christopher C., Caterina Arcidiacono, Urmitapa Dutta, Peace Kiguwa, Bret Kloos, and Nelson Maldonado Torres. "Beyond disciplinary boundaries: speaking back to critical knowledges, liberation, and community." South African Journal of Psychology 47, no. 4 (December 2017): 448–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0081246317737930.
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This article explores critical directions for forging new disciplinary traditions within community psychology, as discussed by a panel at the conclusion of the 6th International Conference on Community Psychology (ICCP 2016). The conference itself was constructed as an enactment of a decolonizing approach, looking at the entire globalized system from the African continent and centring knowledges produced by Africans and the diaspora. Several panellists were invited to offer their reflections on the emerging discussions, and absences or silences they observed at the conference, as well as how community research and action can develop a research and teaching programme that is liberatory. Panellists’ comments pointed to the importance of the decolonization project globally and the implications of decoloniality for community research and action. The challenge for community research and action is to build alliances and networks across space and time, and with various social movements. The discipline needs to centre and draw out the voices of those who have been excluded, to retrieve and reclaim ways of knowing, being, and doing because these are key to tackling the coloniality of power and to forging new ways of doing ethical and just community research and action.
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Mańko, Rafał. "The Centre–Periphery Antagonism in Adjudication: A Case Study on the Spatial Dimension of the Political." Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Iuridica 94 (March 30, 2021): 121–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/0208-6069.94.07.
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One of the key elements of the critical theory of adjudication is the identification of an objective antagonism that is at stake behind a given court case. The identification of the antagonism allows to develop an axis, along which interpretive possibilities can be spread and arranged from those most favourable to social group A (e.g. workers) to that most favourable to social group B (e.g. businesses). The paper discusses the famous Laval–Viking case-law which was concerned with the fundamental rights of workers (right to strike and undertake collective action) and their relation to the economic freedoms of businesses, seeking to escape the high standards of worker protection in their own country either by changing the flag of a ship to a flag of convenience (Viking) or by importing cheap labour force from abroad, without guaranteeing the workers equal rights (Laval). Whereas the vast majority of scholars have interpreted the Viking–Laval jurisprudence as relating to the fundamental socio-economic antagonism opposing workers and businesses, the Slovenian scholar Damjan Kukovec has proposed an alternative reading. According to him, the real antagonism is ultimately between workers from the periphery (Central Europe, in casu Baltic countries) and workers from the centre (Western Europe, in casu Scandinavian countries). By introducing the spatial dimension to the political, Kukovec entirely changes the formulation of the underlying antagonism. The paper engages critically with Kukovec’s analysis and argues that the objective interest of Central European workers lies not in selling their labour at dumping prices, but gaining the same guarantees of social protection as existing in the West.
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Krauss, Gerhard. "The Creation of a Second Centre Pompidou in Metz: Social Embedding of a New Regional Cultural Facility and Formation of a Strategic Action Field." European Planning Studies 23, no. 8 (August 8, 2013): 1494–510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2013.817542.
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Rezaei, Mahdi, and Mohsen Azarmi. "DeepSOCIAL: Social Distancing Monitoring and Infection Risk Assessment in COVID-19 Pandemic." Applied Sciences 10, no. 21 (October 26, 2020): 7514. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app10217514.
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Social distancing is a recommended solution by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to minimise the spread of COVID-19 in public places. The majority of governments and national health authorities have set the 2-m physical distancing as a mandatory safety measure in shopping centres, schools and other covered areas. In this research, we develop a hybrid Computer Vision and YOLOv4-based Deep Neural Network (DNN) model for automated people detection in the crowd in indoor and outdoor environments using common CCTV security cameras. The proposed DNN model in combination with an adapted inverse perspective mapping (IPM) technique and SORT tracking algorithm leads to a robust people detection and social distancing monitoring. The model has been trained against two most comprehensive datasets by the time of the research—the Microsoft Common Objects in Context (MS COCO) and Google Open Image datasets. The system has been evaluated against the Oxford Town Centre dataset (including 150,000 instances of people detection) with superior performance compared to three state-of-the-art methods. The evaluation has been conducted in challenging conditions, including occlusion, partial visibility, and under lighting variations with the mean average precision of 99.8% and the real-time speed of 24.1 fps. We also provide an online infection risk assessment scheme by statistical analysis of the spatio-temporal data from people’s moving trajectories and the rate of social distancing violations. We identify high-risk zones with the highest possibility of virus spread and infection. This may help authorities to redesign the layout of a public place or to take precaution actions to mitigate high-risk zones. The developed model is a generic and accurate people detection and tracking solution that can be applied in many other fields such as autonomous vehicles, human action recognition, anomaly detection, sports, crowd analysis, or any other research areas where the human detection is in the centre of attention.
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Silwadi, Najwa, and Peter Mayo. "Pedagogy under Siege in Palestine: Insights from Paulo Freire." Holy Land Studies 13, no. 1 (May 2014): 71–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/hls.2014.0078.
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This paper analyses the relevance of Paulo Freire's pedagogical and philosophical ideas within the context of occupied Palestine. It specifically focuses on the work in continuing community action and education carried out by a particular centre established at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem, and at the heart of the ‘old city’, for this purpose. The major focus here is on community theatre foregrounding issues related to women in Palestinian society. Major themes broached include the politics of education, social mobilisation, women and the Intifada, the collective dimensions of knowledge, learning and praxis, purging oneself of the ‘oppressor within’ to break the cycle of violence, education for liberation.