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Segall, Shlomi. "Cultivating social solidarity." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.397458.
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Wachsmann, Emily Brook. "Social Movements, Subjectivity, and Solidarity: Witnessing Rhetoric of the International Solidarity Movement." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12211/.
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This study engaged in pushing the current political limitations created by the political impasse of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, by imagining new possibilities for radical political change, agency, and subjectivity for both the international activists volunteering with the International Solidarity Movement as well as Palestinians enduring the brutality of life under occupation. The role of the witness and testimony is brought to bear on activism and rhetoric the social movement ISM in Palestine. Approaches the past studies of the rhetoric of social movements arguing that rhetorical studies often disassociated 'social' from social movements, rendering invisible questions of the social and subjectivity from their frames for evaluation. Using the testimonies of these witnesses, Palestinians and activists, as the rhetorical production of the social movement, this study provides an effort to put the social body back into rhetorical studies of social movements. The relationships of subjectivity and desubjectification, as well as, possession of subjects by agency and the role of the witness with each of these is discussed in terms of Palestinian and activist potential for subjectification and desubjectifiation.
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Wachsmann, Emily Brook Lain Brian. "Social movements, subjectivity, and solidarity witnessing rhetoric of the international solidarity movement /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12211.
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Gunson, Darryl L. "Human genetic enhancement : solidarity, social justice and rationality." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.516296.
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Jakobsen, Joan Pauli Dahl. "A Precarious Solidarity : Between Christian Democratic and Social Democratic Understandings of Solidarity Concerning Reallocation of Refugees." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-346398.
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The challenge of immigration has divided EU member states, political parties, media and academia as well as the electorate of EU countries, leaving political decision makers under tremendous pressure on both national and EU level. To alleviate the situation for highly burdened member states, the Commission has suggested a permanent relocation mechanism for refugees, but so far, many member states have been reluctant to accept higher shares of refugees. Some observers have labelled the situation a crisis of solidarity, challenging the idea of European integration, but also questioning the Union’s capacity to demonstrate solidarity between member states, and consequently its capacity to show solidarity with arriving refugees. By looking at European Parliament debates, this paper examines the main differences between the European Christian Democratic and Social Democratic understandings of solidarity and how these differences become visible in relation to relocation of refugees and asylum seekers between EU member states. The findings suggest that while there is some convergence, Christian Democrats are more inclined to consider refugees as a threat and to advocate the need of securing external borders than their Social Democratic counterparts. Social Democrats also to a larger extent favour the idea of making relocation mandatory, while many Christian Democrats emphasize the importance of subsidiarity. The findings can be associated with the foundational values of both party groups and their political understandings of solidarity. Most interestingly, however, this paper finds that the national level variance within these two party groups is frequently bigger, than between them – indicating that MEP’s understandings of solidarity are perhaps more strongly mediated by nationality than political affiliation.
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Potter, Mark W. "Solidarity as spiritual exercise: a contribution to the development of solidarity in the Catholic social tradition." Thesis, Boston College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/738.
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Thesis advisor: David HollenbachSolidarity as spiritual exercise: a contribution to the development of solidarity in the Catholic social tradition By Mark William Potter Director: David Hollenbach, S.J. ABSTRACT The encyclicals and speeches of Pope John Paul II placed solidarity at the very center of the Catholic social tradition and contemporary Christian ethics. This dissertation analyzes the historical development of solidarity in the Church's encyclical tradition, and then offers an examination and comparison of the unique contributions of John Paul II and the Jesuit theologian Jon Sobrino to contemporary understandings of solidarity. Ultimately, I argue that understanding solidarity as spiritual exercise integrates the wisdom of John Paul II's conception of solidarity as the virtue for an interdependent world with Sobrino's insights on the ethical implications of Christian spirituality, orthopraxis, and a commitment to communal liberation. The dissertation probes the relationship between spirituality and ethics in general, and Ignatian spirituality and Catholic social teaching, in particular. My analysis of solidarity in the encyclical tradition (Chapter 1) provides an historical overview of the incremental development of solidarity in the writings of successive popes and ecclesial councils from Pius XII through Paul VI. In considering the unique contributions of John Paul II, I turn first to the theological and philosophical formation of Karol Wojtyla and the sociopolitical context of Poland (Ch. 2). My analysis then turns to a consideration of Pope John Paul II's social encyclicals (Ch. 3), with the goal of offering a definition of solidarity that integrates his intellectual formation and social context with the development of solidarity in the official social tradition. Next, I examine the development of solidarity in the writings of Jon Sobrino, first through an analysis of his intellectual and spiritual formation in the revolutionary context of El Salvador (Ch. 4), and then through an analysis of his unique theological contributions to the topic (Ch. 5). Based on Sobrino, I offer an articulation of solidarity as spiritual exercise as an original contribution to the development of solidarity in the Catholic social tradition (Ch. 6)
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
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Hope, Kofi N. "In search of solidarity : international solidarity work between Canada and South Africa 1975-2010." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:94fc88ca-de19-4e97-b66f-97cd9f5d4595.
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This thesis provides an account of the work of Canadian organizations that took part in the global anti-apartheid movement and then continued political advocacy work in South Africa post-1994. My central research question is: What explains the rise and fall of international solidarity movements? I answer this question by exploring the factors that allowed the Canadian anti-apartheid network to grow into an international solidarity movement and explaining how a change in these factors sent the network into a period of decline post-1994. I use two organizations, the United Church of Canada and CUSO, as case studies for my analysis. I argue that four factors were behind the growth of the Canadian solidarity network: the presence of large CSOs in Canada willing to become involved in solidarity work, the presence of radical spaces in these organizations from which activists could advocate for and carry out solidarity work, the frame resonance of the apartheid issue in Canada and the political incentives the apartheid state provided for South African activists to encourage Northern support. Post-1994 all of these factors shifted in ways that restricted the continuation of international solidarity work with South Africa. Accordingly I argue that the decline of the Canadian network was driven in part by specific South African factors, but was also connected to a more general stifling of the activist work of progressive Canadian CSOs over the 1990s. This reduction of capacity was driven by the ascent of neo-liberal policy in Canada and worldwide. Using examples from a wide swath of cases I outline this process and explain how all four factors drove the growth and decline of Canadian solidarity work towards South Africa.
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Hosai, Qasmi. "Building Solidarity and Social Cohesion through Participatory Communication in Afghanistan: A Case of the National Solidarity Program." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26130.
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Although different studies have been conducted on various aspects of the National Solidarity Program (NSP) in Afghanistan, research on strengthening solidarity and social cohesion through its participatory approach has received little attention. This research used development communication as a theoretical framework to understand the role of participatory communication in strengthening solidarity and social cohesion in Afghanistan. The study employed a qualitative case study. To this end, the study used semi-structured interviews via email and telephone with 10 participants. Thematic analysis was used to code and categorize the data. The study findings show that the NSP appears to promote participation and increase collectiveness among the Afghan people, which, in turn, seem to strengthen solidarity and social cohesion. Finally, future research areas are discussed in the light of these findings.
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Pecorelli, Valeria. "Practising constructive resistance through autonomy and solidarity : the case of Ya Basta and solidarity trade in Milan." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2012. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/10400.
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The thesis explores how European social movements have actively contested that there is no alternative to capitalism by constructing alternative trading practices in solidarity with marginalized peoples in the global South. The study adopts the example of the European Zapatista solidarity network (Redprozapa) to examine the nature of organizations involved in radical political practices. One organization Ya Basta-Milano is focused on to examine in detail the operation of, and challenges faced by, an autonomous political group that engages in solidarity trade. Solidarity and autonomy are the key conceptual themes, which the investigation revolves around. The research dwells upon the potential importance as well as the limitations of solidarity trade as an emerging form of constructive resistance. It concentrates upon the subject of autonomous spaces that embodies the physical and political context in which autonomous social movements promote their practices. It questions the contradictions met in this environment despite the romanticized idea promoted by some academic literature. Finally, it provides methodological insights about solidarity action research and personal implications of working with radical groups as an activist academic.
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Dillon, Patricia. "Solidarity, power and conflict in the reign of God." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
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ABDELBAGI, OSMAN MOHAMED MAWA. "Solidarity in Time of Armed Conflict. Women’s patterns of solidarity in Internally Displaced Person (IDPs) camps in Darfur, Western Sudan." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/382046.
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This study is an interdisciplinary study it brings together three rather unrelated traditions of social scientific thinking concerning social bonds: (1) sociological theory on solidarity, (2) anthropological theory on the cultural and social meanings of exchange, and (3) social psychology theory of emotions (based on conditions and circumstances that promote solidarity). The study also builds a framework to explore social solidarity in the context of armed conflict. Therefore, our research design comprises two studies, a qualitative study and a quantitative one, with a sample of 505 married, widows, divorced, and separated women (50 for the qualitative investigation) coming from different ethnic groups. We also interviewed the camp leader, government institutions, and NGOs. And to gain a better understanding of the practices of solidarity at the everyday level, we did participant observation. Moreover, the mixed methodology adopted in this study has allowed us to approach and explore the phenomena in two different ways, reaching a more comprehensive understanding
Through qualitative exploration, we have been able to explain how the community mange to build social fabric with the help of the NGOs and the camp leaders. Also, it shows how political and economic situations can impact social bonds. Also, it explains how Darfurian women have shown themselves to be highly competent and active who draw on personal, social, and external resources to enhance their social solidarity so they can cope with the hard-living condition. Women’s solidarity has emerged as particularly multidimensional, revealing the importance of moving across individual, family, community, and societal levels when examining life in war-torn contexts. The conceptual model built from our data highlights the crucial interconnection between women’s coping strategies and practices of solidarity. Furthermore, the results show how women’s agency as a bottom-up approach to peacebuilding can contribute to states’ long-term peacebuilding efforts and, thus, can complement the existing top-down efforts if given support and recognition.
Through quantitative exploration, we have been able to see with whom women exchange gifts and who they trust and ask for help (ingroup and outgroup). In the quantitative study, we used logistic regression to examine the impact of armed conflict on social bonds. The study uses trust and associational participation measures as proxies for social capital. The empirical results show a renewed interest in associations. They also give support to the eroding trust between women. The loss of trust poses a true challenge in the concept of peacebuilding and rebuilding social cohesion.
Our findings challenge the picture mentioned above of women as helpless victims, portraying women living in the shadow of violence as strong mobilizing resources both within themselves and within their social and political world. By filling gaps in the available knowledge about women’s social solidarity in the context of armed conflict, this research suggests possible directions to follow in order to design better policies and interventions. Yet, Further research is needed to understand all social impacts of the Darfur conflict.This study is an interdisciplinary study it brings together three rather unrelated traditions of social scientific thinking concerning social bonds: (1) sociological theory on solidarity, (2) anthropological theory on the cultural and social meanings of exchange, and (3) social psychology theory of emotions (based on conditions and circumstances that promote solidarity). The study also builds a framework to explore social solidarity in the context of armed conflict. Therefore, our research design comprises two studies, a qualitative study and a quantitative one, with a sample of 505 married, widows, divorced, and separated women (50 for the qualitative investigation) coming from different ethnic groups. We also interviewed the camp leader, government institutions, and NGOs. And to gain a better understanding of the practices of solidarity at the everyday level, we did participant observation. Moreover, the mixed methodology adopted in this study has allowed us to approach and explore the phenomena in two different ways, reaching a more comprehensive understanding Through qualitative exploration, we have been able to explain how the community mange to build social fabric with the help of the NGOs and the camp leaders. Also, it shows how political and economic situations can impact social bonds. Also, it explains how Darfurian women have shown themselves to be highly competent and active who draw on personal, social, and external resources to enhance their social solidarity so they can cope with the hard-living condition. Women’s solidarity has emerged as particularly multidimensional, revealing the importance of moving across individual, family, community, and societal levels when examining life in war-torn contexts. The conceptual model built from our data highlights the crucial interconnection between women’s coping strategies and practices of solidarity. Furthermore, the results show how women’s agency as a bottom-up approach to peacebuilding can contribute to states’ long-term peacebuilding efforts and, thus, can complement the existing top-down efforts if given support and recognition. Through quantitative exploration, we have been able to see with whom women exchange gifts and who they trust and ask for help (ingroup and outgroup). In the quantitative study, we used logistic regression to examine the impact of armed conflict on social bonds. The study uses trust and associational participation measures as proxies for social capital. The empirical results show a renewed interest in associations. They also give support to the eroding trust between women. The loss of trust poses a true challenge in the concept of peacebuilding and rebuilding social cohesion. Our findings challenge the picture mentioned above of women as helpless victims, portraying women living in the shadow of violence as strong mobilizing resources both within themselves and within their social and political world. By filling gaps in the available knowledge about women’s social solidarity in the context of armed conflict, this research suggests possible directions to follow in order to design better policies and interventions. Yet, Further research is needed to understand all social impacts of the Darfur conflict.
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Prosper, Mamyrah. ""New" Social Movements: Alternative Modernities, (Trans)local Nationalisms, and Solidarity Economies." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1849.
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My dissertation is the first project on the Haitian Platform for Advocacy for an Alternative Development- PAPDA, a nation-building coalition founded by activists from varying sectors to coordinate one comprehensive nationalist movement against what they are calling an Occupation. My work not only provides information on this under-theorized popular movement but also situates it within the broader literature on the postcolonial nation-state as well as Latin American and Caribbean social movements. The dissertation analyzes the contentious relationship between local and global discourses and practices of citizenship. Furthermore, the research draws on transnational feminist theory to underline the scattered hegemonies that intersect to produce varied spaces and practices of sovereignty within the Haitian postcolonial nation-state. The dissertation highlights how race and class, gender and sexuality, education and language, and religion have been imagined and co-constituted by Haitian social movements in constructing ‘new’ collective identities that collapse the private and the public, the rural and the urban, the traditional and the modern. My project complements the scholarship on social movements and the postcolonial nation-state and pushes it forward by emphasizing its spatial dimensions. Moreover, the dissertation de-centers the state to underline the movement of capital, goods, resources, and populations that shape the postcolonial experience. I re-define the postcolonial nation-state as a network of local, regional, international, and transnational arrangements between different political agents, including social movement actors. To conduct this interdisciplinary research project, I employed ethnographic methods, discourse and textual analysis, as well as basic mapping and statistical descriptions in order to present a historically-rooted interpretation of individual and organizational negotiations for community-based autonomy and regional development.
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Lamb, Michele. "Loyalty and solidarity : human rights and social change in divided societies." Thesis, University of Essex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504882.
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The potential of human rights to herald a new dawn of cosmopolitan solidarity has been a defining feature of the twenty-first century. However the limitations of this project are increasingly clear as the requirements of recognition and identity politics, embodied in ever more divided communities are a major and increasingly salient feature of the world picture. This thesis explores the relationship between normative cultural and social frameworks and changes in social action by examining the impact of human rights principles, practices and legislation in post-Good Friday Agreeme:nt Northern Ireland. This is approached through in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations with community activists and human rights advocates between 1998 and 2008. The thesis argues that loyalty to community is a prime motivator for social action in Northern Ireland and demonstrates both the challenge and opportunity that loyalty poses for human rights advocacy in post-conflict societies. It also demonstrates the way in which human rights advocacy in Northern Ireland seeks to address both the promotion and protection of human rights as social justice, and as a means to foster reconciliation between the 'two communities' through the development of new forms of human rights-based solidarity that can transcend the competition and conflict that is a feature of their relationships. It argues that human rights practices are aimed at generoating new forms of social action in two ways; firstly through fostering interaction between the two communities, and secondly through fostering cooperation with the 'other community'. As community activists take part in human rights-based activities that are both participative and performative towards the realisation of social and economic rights, they generate new relationships of social solidarity that can transcend associations grounded in membership of the immediate cultural 'community of loyalty'. The thesis then demonstrates how different forms of participation promote qualitatively distinct types of solidarity. 'Thick solidarity' arises through emphasising forms of performative participation that promote ownership and empowerment through which the competitiveness that can arise from strong equality claims between communities can be diffused. 'Thin solidarity' arises from a focus on values such as toleration and respect for difference through inclusive participatory practices by which diverse actors, even those holding views antithetical to human rights as broadly conceived, are embraced. The thesis argues that these two features provide a foundation for new forms of social action in societies divided by violent conflict.
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SILVA, LUCIANA POLI. "SOCIAL CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY, SOLIDARITY AND GIFT: THE CASE OF PETROBRAS S.A." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2004. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=5772@1.
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A responsabilidade social corporativa no Brasil tem se
tornado um tema de estudo recorrente no campo da
Administração. Entretanto, um aspecto crítico relacionado
ao assunto deve ser analisado com maior profundidade: no
que se baseia o modelo de gestão social das empresas no
Brasil? Acreditamos que o aporte de concepções de outras
disciplinas, como a Sociologia e a Antropologia, pode
contribuir para o entendimento mais amplo da questão.
Trouxemos para a pesquisa teórica os estudos do etnógrafo
Marcel Mauss sobre o dom, ou paradigma da dádiva, e a sua
releitura por modernos teóricos, bem como diferentes
abordagens relacionadas à solidariedade. Este trabalho
objetiva analisar até que ponto a gestão da
responsabilidade social corporativa no Brasil pode ser
associada aos princípios da dádiva e da solidariedade. Para
cumprir tal objetivo, além da pesquisa teórica, foi
realizado um estudo de caso de uma organização de economia
mista que atua em projetos sociais em diversos estados do
país, a Petrobras S.A. De acordo com o paradigma da dádiva,
as relações sociais se compõem pelos pólos do interesse, da
obrigação, do prazer e da espontaneidade. Na presente
pesquisa, observamos que os quatro pólos do dom estão
presentes na gestão da responsabilidade social corporativa
da empresa estudada, em graus que variam de acordo com a
especificidade de cada projeto social. Notamos também que a
concepção de solidariedade, intrinsicamente relacionada à
interdependência, está no cerne da gestão da
responsabilidade social corporativa, ainda que os atores
sociais envolvidos, em sua maioria, a associem a uma
prática assistencialista.The social responsibility of business has become an usual theme of study in Brazil in the Business Administration area. However, a critical aspect related to the subject should be analyzed in deep: what is the basis of the model of corporate social management in Brazil? We believe that conceptions of other disciplines, such as Sociology and Anthropology, may contribute to a wider understanding of the subject. Therefore, we used in the theoretical research the studies of the ethnographer Marcel Mauss about the gift, and its modern interpretation, as well as a variety of conceptions related to solidarity. The main objective of this research is to analyze if the management of corporate social responsibility can be related to the principles of the gift and solidarity. To achieve this goal, in addition to the theoretical research, a case study of an organization that develops social programs throughout the country was made. The company studied is Petrobras S.A. According to the gift, the social relations are formed by the poles of interest, obligation, pleasure and spontaneity. In this study, we observed that the four poles of the gift exist in the management of the corporate social responsibility of the company analyzed, in degrees that vary according to the specificity of each project. We also noted that the conception of solidarity, intrinsically related to mutual-dependency, is central in the management of corporate social responsibility, despite the fact that the social actors involved, in majority, associate it to a philanthropic practice.
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Nguyen, Trieu M. "Social sin and solidarity: A case study of abortion in Vietnam." Thesis, Boston College, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108877.
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Thesis advisor: Andrea ViciniThesis advisor: Kristin E. Heyer
Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2020
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
Discipline: Sacred Theology
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Sutton-Day, Jonathan. "Endorsing Solidarity: Root Causes of Riots & Viable Solutions." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/475.
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This article is about the causes of riots and collective social violence. The root causes are explored within context to the theoretical framework of social identity theory. The root causes were attributed to being caused by socioeconomic, ethnic and racial differences among individuals, especially immigrants and racial minorities. Also, the mass media and neglectful governments were partly to blame. We also propose a few viable solutions with regards to achieving better social cohesion through improved government interaction, the role of multinational corporations and the fostering of social tolerance.
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CAMBONI, FRANCESCO. "A Sociability-based Theory of Solidarity." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Genova, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11567/1057605.
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Notwithstanding the increasing interest that solidarity recently attracted in social, political, and moral philosophers, the foundations of a philosophical research field on solidarity have still to be laid. This thesis pursues the broad aim to contribute to this foundational work and is organized and structured accordingly. The substantive goal of the whole research project that unfolds henceforth is to reach a definition of the concept of solidarity, which is not intended to overcome or dismiss our everyday intuitions and commonsensical understandings of solidarity, but rather to make sense of what is underpinned by them. The dissertation is divided into four chapters.
In Chapter 1, I take the steps from Durkheim, who is by broad acknowledgment regarded as the pioneering theorist developing a systematic account of solidarity. The potentially original contribution of Chapter 1 is a conclusive focus on some questions that can be formulated out of Durkheim’s framework and have been quite neglected by the commentators of his works. One of such open questions, that is, the extent to which anthropological assumptions on human nature ̶ and especially sociability ̶ may influence any theorization of solidarity, prepares the terrain for the subsequent development of the dissertation.
Chapter 2 aims at shedding light on this intuition, which is elaborated in terms of an updated nomological reappraisal of human nature and a genuinely original concept that I propose, that is, the «anthropological load». By this concept, I mean a scalar property of social, ethical, and political concepts which indicates the extent to which the conceptual space for theorizing each of them is determined by anthropological assumptions. Following Durkheim’s suggestion, I consider sociability as the most salient anthropological assumption for theorizing solidarity. Accordingly, at the end of Chapter 2, I present a possible strategy to frame the structure of the concept of sociability, that is, that of a dispositional and open cluster concept.
Chapter 3 is intended to unpack some core features that compose the cluster of sociability, that is, capacity of self-categorization, the capacity of empathy, and capacity of being moved by prosocial motivation. For each of these features, it is proposed to adopt a definition borrowed from the pertinent scientific literature which will be selectively presented and discussed.
To conclude, Chapter 4 takes the final and crucial step of the whole research project, that is, the definition of solidarity. The structure of this chapter is twofold. Firstly, I still present seven cases that are, at least intuitively, solidarity-evoking. In so doing, a phenomenological catalog of solidarity will be provided, wide enough to give a flavor of the pervasiveness of the phenomenon; the remainder of the chapter will be devoted to the question of whether all of these cases can be covered by a concept of solidarity, to be defined. The subsequent endeavor of defining solidarity, to be attempted in the second section, shall stick to the methodological guidance offered by Chapter 2. Thus, the definition of solidarity will be developed accordingly, that is, based on the sociability-related properties unpacked in Chapter 3.
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Mäkelä, Fanny. "Broken Solidarity: The Refugees Welcome Movement in Sweden 2015-2020." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23449.
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This qualitative inquiry explores and describes the Refugees Welcome movement in Sweden from 2015 to 2020 by exploring how people became volunteers, their motivation and experience while at the same time describing events, sceneries, and context with the help of their stories. The empirical material consists of 25 interviews with 20 interviewees, the theoretical perspectives come from the fields of volunteering, civil society, and social movements. A thematic analysis is the method used and the results are presented as part 1 Refugees Welcome to Malmö during the refugee crisis in the fall of 2015, and part 2 with the post-2015 Refugees Welcome initiatives separated by the establishment of checkpoints. The volunteers paint a picture of civil society handling an international issue in a globalized world, and what happens when that globalized world closes. The conclusion is that when the states of Europe introduced checkpoints it drastically changed the context of the opportunities to help refugees, cutting off networks of solidarity from the Mediterranean Sea to Malmö Central Station, and when the local authorities took over the responsibility for the refugee reception they cut off civil society and killing the engagement of the volunteers.
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Niyonsaba, Emmanuel. "Vieillissements pluriels : Expériences des "parents" âgés Sénégalais en cours de fragilisation." Thesis, Normandie, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NORMLH27.
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Cette thèse s’inscrit dans une analyse des dynamiques contemporaines du vieillissement dans les sociétés africaines, particulièrement au Sénégal. Elle propose d’explorer les expériences des « parents » âgés en cours de fragilisation à travers le prisme de la solidarité face au changement social, de saisir les ambivalences relatives, d’une part à leur place au sein de la sphère familiale et sociale, et d’autre part dans les représentations de la vieillesse. Cette recherche déconstruit tout d’abord les représentations de la vieillesse en montrant que les « parents » âgés ne sont pas de « simples assistés », mais des acteurs au sein du réseau familial de solidarité et que « leurs vieillissements » sont pluriels, dynamiques et riches d’inventivité. Ensuite, à partir des enquêtes qualitatives réalisées au Sénégal et de façon complémentaire auprès de migrants sénégalais en France (le Havre), la recherche met en lumière les limites des solidarités familiales dans l’accompagnement social des « parents » âgés et appelle à l’imagination de solutions variées envers les personnes vieillissantes. Enfin, les transformations dans les modalités d’exercice des solidarités familiales envers les personnes âgées invitent à un retournement de regard, sinon de paradigme dominant, dans la façon de penser la vieillesse. Cette thèse est une contribution à la connaissance des expériences multiples du vieillissementThis thesis is part of an analysis of the contemporary dynamics of aging in African societies, particularly in Senegal. It proposes to explore the experiences of elderly "parents" in the process of becoming fragile through the prism of solidarity in a context of social change, to grasp the relative ambivalences, on the one hand in their place within the family and social sphere, and on the other hand in the representations of aging. This research deconstructs first of all the representation of aging by showing that the elderly parents are not the "simple assisted", but actors within the family solidarity and that "their ageing" are plural, dynamic and rich of inventiveness. Then, from the qualitative surveys carried out in Senegal and in a complementary way with Senegalese migrants living in France (Le Havre), the research highlights the limits of family solidarities in the social accompaniment of elderly "parents" and calls for imagining of varied solutions to ageing people. Finally, the transformations in the family modalities of exercising of solidarities towards the elderly invite to a reversal of glance, if not dominant paradigm, in the way of thinking old age. This thesis is a contribution to the knowledge of the multiple experiences of aging
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Maciejewski, S. "Solidarity between generations in public pension systems." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2015. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/41646.
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Solidarity between generations in the public pension schemes for the present analysis is related to the force in the PAYG pension systems contract between generations. It is extremely important and relevant issue since financing of benefits in the majority of pension schemes is based on the solidarity between generations. Of special significance is the fact, that the current pension benefits are financed from the current pension fund. Therefore, the solidarity between generations is one of the most important instruments of the state policy.
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Biyanwila, Janaka. "Trade unions in Sri Lanka under globalisation : reinventing worker solidarity." University of Western Australia. Faculty of Economics and Commerce, 2004. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2004.0045.
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This study examines trade union resistance to the post 1977 Export Oriented Industrialisation (EOI) strategies in Sri Lanka, and the possibilities of developing new strategic options. In contrast to perspectives that narrow unions to political economic dimensions, this study emphasises the cultural and the movement dimensions of unions. The purpose of the study is to understand the ways unions can regain their role as civil society actors on the basis of building worker solidarity. The study is divided into two main parts. The first part focuses on the features and tendencies of social movement unionism as advancing new possibilities towards revitalising unions. Under globalisation, unions are faced with an increasingly casualised labour force with more women absorbed as wage workers. The promotion of labour market deregulation and privatisation, endorsed by neo-liberal ideologies of competitive individualism, illustrates the narrowing of unions to the workplace while undermining worker solidarity. The first part of this research describes the impact of :neo-liberal globalisation on trade unions; conceptualisation of and resistance to globalisation; the essence of trade unions; social movement unionism and labour internationalism. According to social movement unionism perspectives, party independent union strategies, based on elements of internal democracy and structured alliances open the possibility of emphasising the movement dimension of unions. The second part explains the context of unions in Sri Lanka, focusing on three unions - the Nurses, Tea Plantation workers, and Free Trade Zone workers. In terms of the structural context, Sri Lankan unions faced a multi-faceted weakening under the post-1977 EOI policies. The assertion of an authoritarian state, promoting interests of capital, enhanced the fragmentation of unions along party differences that were further compounded by divisions along ethnic identity politics. Moreover, the increasing militarisation of the state, which maintains a protracted ethnic war, reinforced coercive state strategies restraining union resistance and shrinking the realm of civil society. In confronting state strategies of labour market deregulation and privatisation, the enduring party subordinated unions are increasingly inadequate. In contrast, the three unions in this study express forms of party-independent union strategies. By analysing their modes of resistance related to the articulation of worker interests, their organisational modes, and their engagement in representative and movement politics the study explores the possibility of developing a social movement unionism orientation in order to regain their role as civil society actors
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Carrillo, Cabrera Ulises. "Ethnic fragmentation and social expenditure : notions of social solidarity and membership and the challenges of ethnic diversity." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:57f7e643-e4ae-4e3f-82e0-26a24255db4a.
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Does ethnic fragmentation negatively affect social expenditure? In this thesis, I examine why this research question, only partially tackled by the political economy literature, is also central for the social policy field. Using a sample of 156 countries, and controlling for variables that social policy theory postulate as essential to explain welfare provision, I offer evidence that higher levels of ethnic fragmentation lead to lower levels of social expenditure. On that basis, I present a theoretical framework that explores how this relationship can be explained. Ethnic fragmentation is presented as a variable that complicates the development of social solidarity and the notions of shared identity, and shifts social mobilisation from issues of economic redistribution towards ethno-cultural recognition. I also conduct a second series of statistical analysis that show that there is evidence to support the previous propositions. Additionally, using a different confirmatory test, I explore the correspondence between the levels of de-commodification that 18 welfare states provide, and the principles of blood descent (jus sanguinis) or civic ties (jus solis) that their respective national laws favour. The findings show that the welfare regimes with the most de-commodifying provision tend to favour ethno-cultural principles. Finally, I emphasize that the probable effects of ethnic fragmentation in an increasingly multicultural world, with its tendencies to put social integration and differentiation issues back on the agenda, are not a prediction of erosion of the welfare state, but an important element to take into account in the creation and robustness of shared identities and notions of common belonging when designing social policy.
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Kanyongolo, Ngeyi Ruth. "Social security and women in Malawi : a legal discourse on solidarity of care." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2007. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1152/.
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Increasing levels of poverty and social exclusion in Africa, and Malawi in particular, have heightened interest in social security with varying proposals for refonn. Feminist scholarship highlights how women experience social security differently. However, debates on refonn have not fully engaged with how social security can reflect the needs of women in a context of plural and competing legal discourses, nonns and values. This thesis investigates the interplay between nonns and values and the lived realities of women in social security from a feminist and radical legal pluralist perspective. It uses predominantly qualitative data from a case study of women in Zomba, Malawi, based on grounded theory complemented by discourse analysis and appreciative inquiry. This study found that women's specific risks and the disproportionately adverse impact of general risks on women are in the majority of cases marginalised due to struggles for resources and power. Plural social responses at family, community, market and state levels reflect this marginalisation. Dominant legal discourses in these institutions devalue non - material disruptions of life mainly related to care practices. This weakens solidarity and results in social insecurity for the majority of women. The marginalisation is further reinforced by dominant conceptions of umunthu and human rights which obscure the disparities in solidarity and care. At the same time, there is practical resistance to the dominant discourse using idioms of jenda and substantive complementarity being generated within the same or modified regulatory institutions. These practices are creating a gap which IS precipitating the changes aspired by women. The changes include increased access to both material and non-material resources and sharing of care within and between the family, community, market and the state. This reflects solidarity of care. The thesis argues that, social security systems should be underpinned by a legal discourse of solidarity of care in order to improve women's social security.
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Siegel, Joel. "Community cooperation and social solidarity : a case study of community initiated strategic planning." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7479/.
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This research explored the process of creating a shared future and the evolution of cooperative collective endeavours in a regional rural community through a bottom-up planning process that involved professionals, public leadership and residents of a rural region in Israel. Using the MT rural region in Israel as a case study, the research was an interpretive exploration of how this community changed the way it collectively functions to achieve individual and shared aspirations. It examined how the community restructured its patterns of interaction, changing the social dynamics – which people interacted with each other, how they interacted with each other, and who felt committed to whom. The motivation for this inquiry stemmed from my desire as a practitioner to better understand the processes by which communities learn to function cooperatively. What are the elements that contributed to enabling a community to create the conditions for collectively utilizing and sustaining common resources rather than dividing them up for private consumption and exploitative narrow interests? What type of cooperative mechanisms enabled people to accomplish together what they cannot accomplish alone? Specifically, there are three research questions: how the change process was initiated in MT, what was significant in the nature of participation in the planning process, and how the mechanisms for regional community cooperation evolved. It was a case study of the planning and development process that I facilitated in MT from 1994-1999 (prior to my intention to undertake research) and is based mainly upon recent interviews of the participants (in that process), their recollections, and retrospective interpretations of that experience. The case has been explored from the theoretical perspective of viewing society in general, and community life in particular, as processes of constructing shared social realities that produce certain collective behaviours of cooperation or non-cooperation (Berger and Luckmann, 1967). This research was about understanding the process of making social rules that incorporate shared meanings and sanctions (Giddens, 1986) for undertaking joint endeavours (Ostrom, 1990, 1992, Wenger, 1998). Specifically two primary insights have come out of this case analysis: 1. In the MT case there was a mutually reinforcing three-way interplay between the strengthening of commitments to mutual care on the regional level, the instrumental benefits from cooperative/joint endeavours, and the envisioning of a shared future. 2. The community development process was owned by the community (not by outside agencies) and they (the community members) set the rules for community involvement. They structured the social interactions which formed the basis for creating shared understandings as a collective to achieve their common future. These insights shed light on how a community's structuring of its interactions and development interventions influenced its ability to act in a collectively optimal manner. By looking at the interrelation between trust as a function of social esteem (Honneth, 1995) and risk taking linked to instrumental benefits of cooperation (Lewis, 2002; Taylor, 1976; White, 2003) we can better understand what contributes to the way some communities continue to miss opportunities (Ostrom 1992), while others are able to promote their collective development and mutual wellbeing. By examining the process of designing (not only the design itself) community development programmes (Block, 2009) and by observing participation not as technique but as an inherent part of the way a community begins structuring its social interactions with their tacit (Polanyi, 1966) and explicit meanings, we can better understand the role of practitioners. And finally, perhaps the elements of chance and opportunity that bring certain combinations of people together in a given time and space may need to be given more weight in what remains a very unpredictable non-linear field of professional practice.
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Mettler, Matthew Michael. "Social science and solidarity: psychology, organizational reform, and democracy in Walter Reuther's UAW." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6615.
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This dissertation examines how the United Auto Workers (UAW) incorporated the applied social sciences behind the emerging postwar field of human relations to navigate the postwar terrain of labor relations and manage its membership. Like his counterparts in management, union president Walter Reuther was drawn to human relations' scientific approach to solving the human conflicts that beset large bureaucratic organizations. It traces the history and politics surrounding this psychological research, which includes the areas of group dynamics, counseling, opinion polling, personality profiling, motivational research, and attitude formation, and shows how these concepts were at the heart of the union's most ambitious reforms that overhauled membership education and leadership training programs, staff and organizer training, as well as its political action and public relations initiatives.
The UAW's use of social science framed how the union met a range of large-scale challenges, from labor relations, to the Cold War and threat of automation. On the one hand, the union's use of applied psychology illustrates a unique willingness to innovate and modernize to address new problems and recapture the union's dynamism of the 1930s. While these innovative reforms did not always succeed, such experimentation with organizational science was unique among a labor movement that was largely isolated from these trends. On the other hand, however, the top-down nature of these reforms exerted social control that clashed with the union's democratic traditions. Applied psychology played a key role in Reuther's rise to political power and was subsequently at the center of Reuther's efforts to control and repress union democracy. These science-based reforms were rarely introduced without political controversy.
The methods of applied psychology could be used to promote and repress union democracy and this dissertation shows how Walter Reuther used applied psychology towards both ends. Moreover, this dissertation examines the cultural context that prompted union leaders to pioneer organized labor's use of the applied social science as an organizational tool. Walter Reuther's willingness to embrace the newest scientific methods stemmed from his technocratic faith in society's ability to engineer pathways to material prosperity and socially-engineer ways to democratize that prosperity. Reuther was part of liberal reform community that included a number of progressive social psychologists who believed that the tools of applied social science were essential to maintaining a stable and rational, albeit highly managed, democratic society that could fend off the forces of reaction and fascism.
Applied psychology emerged as a tool for many in the postwar era looking to effectively manage the complexity of communication in vast bureaucratic organizations. But for leaders of democratic organizations like Walter Reuther, this tool had to be handled with care so as not to erode the core values that first gave the union strength and legitimacy. The history of how the UAW balanced this task provides a revealing glimpse into how a grassroots organization weighed its democratic values against its desire to effectively participate among the powerbrokers that increasingly shaped America's political and economic future. Moreover, it highlights the class politics that framed postwar scientific research and illustrates the complex ways that applied social science influenced power relations and democracy in postwar American society.
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Gómez, Camilo Tamayo. "Memory, recognition and solidarity : the victims of eastern Antioquia as communicative citizens." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2015. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/27006/.
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This doctoral research focuses on the relationship between civil society, collective action and the victims’ social movements of the Colombian armed conflict. It analyses the communicative and expressive dimensions of victims’ collective action as a mechanism to restore a sense of citizenship. It shows how collective belonging is constructed through processes of memory, recognition and solidarity in the midst of armed conflicts. It introduces the concept of communicative citizenship field in which emotions and affection act as a catalyst to generate collective actions for counterpublic groups in armed conflict societies transforming their victim status into an active citizenship condition. The case study of this research is Eastern Antioquia in Colombia, particularly the victims’ social movement of this Colombian region, and through a participative action research approach and developing a set of qualitative strategies, this research explores (together with the studied groups) the communicative and expressive resources they can access to obtain symbolic, cultural and political power and to act effectively within fragile public spheres. A key objective here is to understand what kind of citizen processes these collective communicative actions and strategies can open up within contexts of armed conflict and how these practices have been affecting the structure and shape of the regional and local public spheres of Eastern Antioquia in the last seventeen years. Furthermore, this doctoral research aims to present non-official narratives about the Colombian armed conflict, using the victims’ perspective to understand the dynamics of contestation in the construction of memory, recognition and solidarity during the conflict, as well as in the claiming of public and conflict‐related spaces and the construction of victims’ collective identity as civilians before the cessation of violence. This study finally argues that the communicative citizenship field is part of a new research agenda to better understand, analyse and describe contemporary processes of collective action of victims’ social movements in armed conflicts and post-armed conflict societies.
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Silva, Gracia C. "Solidarity Networks: Trajectories of Nicaraguan Political Refugees in Costa Rica." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1595846041204465.
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Hao, Feng. "SOCIAL CAPITAL, SOLIDARITY, AND COHORT EFFECT —AN ANALYSIS OF THE PRODUCTION OF SOCIAL CAPITAL AMONG UNION MINERS IN HARLAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY." UKnowledge, 2011. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_theses/117.
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The coal industry exercises a pervasive influence on mining communities in Appalachia, even though it exerts enormous damages on the environment and makes limited contributions to employment and the advancement of the communities. One explanation for this paradox offered by Bell is a depletion of social capital among coalfield residents in Central Appalachia (2009). Her data suggests that the “ripping away” of the region’s strong union identity lead to a resocialization, “from a ‘we’ mentality to an ‘I’ mentality, thus demising the store of social capital” (2009:655). My research aims to interpret how social capital resources among union miners was translated to solidarity in the mining community, and how the union generated social capital and fostered solidarity among miners and their families. This research finds that the union was both a creator and a preserver of social capital. The coalfield residents demonstrated a high degree of social capital and solidarity in terms of a sense of reliability, dedication to collective activities, and intimate extended networks. Furthermore, the union’s strategies of holding regular meetings, organizing large-scale strikes, promoting collective identity, securing public benefits, and electing charismatic leaders were of great significance for the production of both social capital and solidarity.
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Njoku, Uzochukwu J. "SOLIDARITY AND COLLABORATION WITHOUT BOUNDARIES SHIFTS IN THE SOCIAL TEACHINGS OF JOHN PAUL II." Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology, 2005. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/bet,2724.
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Kelly, Clare. "Literacy as social and cultural practice in an urban community : self solidarity and status." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.498354.
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Clark, Meghan Julia. "Participation and the Human Person: Integrating Solidarity and Human Rights in Catholic Social Teaching." Thesis, Boston College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3752.
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Thesis advisor: David HollenbachWhat is the relationship between solidarity and human rights? In answering this question, this dissertation argues that human rights and solidarity are mutually dependent upon one another; and second, that the virtue of solidarity is habituated and cultivated through the practicing respect for human rights. In order to make this argument, this dissertation follows in three main parts. First, it examines recent Catholic social teachings (John XXIII to John Paul II) on the themes of human rights and solidarity. The purpose is to detail the development of teaching on human rights and solidarity and begin to examine the relationship between the two. Second, it seeks to provide a normative argument for a clearer relationship between solidarity and human rights through a deeper investigation of the human person as participatory in philosophical and theological anthropology. To accomplish this, I use the philosophical anthropology of Charles Taylor and a theological anthropology grounded in the imago dei, contemporary Trinitarian theologies and covenantal theology. Finally, it shows that understanding human rights and solidarity as foundational for the person has implications for ethical policy concerning human rights, through engagement with developmental economist and human rights theorist Amartya Sen. From this, I argue that human rights and solidarity are mutually dependent. It is my assertion that human rights cannot be realized without solidarity, and vice versa. Furthermore, one cannot acquire the virtue of solidarity, as a second nature, except through the praxis of respect for human rights. In this relationship between human rights and solidarity, I contend that Catholic social thought can offer an important contribution to the philosophical and political debates about moral obligations for human rights and the emerging responsibility to protect doctrine
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Bianchi, F. "THE SOCIAL FROM THE ECONOMIC: THE EMERGENCE OF SOLIDARITY WITHIN NETWORKS OF ECONOMIC EXCHANGE." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/491473.
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In this dissertation, we attempted to contribute to the discussion about the link between the economic and the social. More specifically, we addressed the debate on the consequences of economically-oriented interaction on social relations. Sociological studies have mostly focused on understanding the opposite direction, i.e., the effect of social relations on economic outcomes. Conversely, our work was motivated by the idea that the consequences of the economic on the social is crucial for social sciences and society in general. First, we reviewed the literature on solidarity and exchange relations in sociology and the behavioural sciences. The chapter aimed to elaborate a theoretical framework and working hypotheses for the following chapters. We proposed a definition of solidarity at the behavioural level and various empirical contributions have been examined. Next, we conducted an empirical study on the link between professional collaboration and social support relations. In this work, certain hypotheses were tested on a group of independent professionals sharing a ’coworking’ space. Here, we found that solidarity can emerge as a by-product of economic exchange among strangers if they are allowed to select each other for collaboration and develop trust relations. The following chapter presents an extensive literature review of the use of Agent-Based Models (ABM) for sociological research. Given the key role of this methodology in this dissertation, the chapter aims to provide a comprehensive account of the contributions to sociology given by applications of ABM computer simulations. Moreover, a classification of these contributions is proposed according to the various methodological approaches to ABM in social research. The aim of the chapter is to review ABM as a possible means to overcome some limitations of the study presented before. Then, the final study applies computer simulation to analyze cohesion and integration of a social support network from economic exchange. In this chapter, an ABM of the mechanisms observed in the previous empirical study is presented. The model is used to simulate the effect of competition and resource distribution on social support networks. The aim of this work is to explore the effects of different environmental conditions and overcome the context-specific properties of empirical data. We argue that competition over most attractive collaborators can undermine the emergence of a cohesive social support network. Yet, this detrimental effect can be avoided if we assume that poor-resource actors are more eager to ask others for support, therefore generating a cohesive and more integrated social support network. Finally, we drew some conclusions in the last chapter.
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Aitcheson, Lindsey Reed. "Community Solidarity and Well-Being after the Virginia Tech Shootings." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32537.
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In the aftermath of the rampage at Virginia Tech, the community experienced a surge of social solidarity. Using a longitudinal study of 478 students, this thesis examines the impact of attitudinal solidarity on well-being nine months after the shootings. In particular, this study focuses on the interaction effects of sex and solidarity on later well-being, providing a theoretical and empirical basis for understanding the connections between these factors. Quantitative analysis, conducted using linear regression with interaction variables, found that social solidarity four months after the shootings positively and significantly predicted well-being nine months after the shootings. The predictive power, however, was stratified by sex; women experienced diminished benefits of solidarity relative to their male counterparts. The literature suggests that this disparity may be attributed to additional social burdens placed on women after traumatic stressors. Other negative predictors of well-being include knowing victims and conversations with the media in the week after the attacks, This research has the potential to shed light on effective methods of responding to community-level trauma and may provide guidance to future policy-makers in when faced with these challenging situations.Master of Science
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Al-Zubi, Ali. "Tribal solidarity as reflected in the election of the Kuwaiti parliament." Virtual Press, 1995. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/941732.
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Tribal solidarity is an important feature in the national election for Kuwaiti parliament as tribes practice it as a concrete reality through their competition with each other or with other Kuwaiti groups. By utilizing participant observation and applying the theory of interpretive anthropology, this study interprets how and why tribal members demonstrate such solidarity. In this sense, the thesis concentrates on interpreting the meanings of social actions and thoughts of these tribal members toward their collectivities and, then, on what kinds of benefits these tribal collectivities may provide. The study also indicates the interrelationships between tribal solidarity and other sociocultural systems (political, economic, psychological, social systems, etc.), which together show how tribal people modify and justify their actions and thoughts to benefit from their solidarity in the national election for parliament and other social contexts. In conclusion, Tribal solidarity is a part of large symbolic system, the Bedouin culture, which exemplifies a historical and social attachment between one and his tribe. It also reflects such political and economic benefits for members of a tribe in their daily cooperation with one another.Department of Anthropology
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Borges, Carolina Tavares Oliveira. "Estratégias sociais de resistência aos processos desterritorializantes : redes de solidariedade - o caso da rede industrial de confecção solidária (RICS)." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/14877.
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Esta dissertação objetivou levantar alguns pontos para a discussão e reflexão do que entendemos como algumas estratégias sociais de resistência aos processos desterritorializantes entendidos, também como socioeconomicamente excludentes. Com aporte teórico, subsidiamos nossa pesquisa, desenvolvendo uma metodologia que envolveu, outrossim, levantamento bibliográfico, entrevistas e observações. Analisamos, especificamente, o caso da Rede Industrial de Confecção Solidária (RICS) e sua contribuição para a geração de trabalho, renda, que, neste caso, vai além de mera sobrevivência, pois se configura na participação efetiva dos envolvidos em todas as etapas do projeto, contribuindo para o desenvolvimento da qualidade de vida e fortalecendo valores como a dignidade dos indivíduos, que visam o benefício coletivo do grupo. Buscamos apreender de que forma o Estado, em suas esferas federal, estadual e municipal, favorece a criação e fomenta a reprodução das redes de solidariedade, para, posteriormente, abordar como o município de Porto Alegre comporta-se diante deste cenário. Assim, apesar de incipiente, tanto na prática e principalmente na teoria, a Economia Solidária vai trilhando o seu caminho, com o trabalho e da criatividade de quem a faz na esperança de sobreviver numa sociedade cada vez mais competitiva e excludente.This dissertation objectified to raise some points for the quarrel and reflection of what we understand as some social strategies of resistance to the understood desterritorializantes processes, as also social and economically exculpatory. With it arrives in port theoretical, we subsidize our research, developing a methodology that involved, also, empirical survey of data. We analyze, specifically, the case of the Industrial Net of Solidary Confection (RICS) and its contribution for the work generation, income, that, in this in case that, goes beyond mere survival, therefore is configured in the participation accomplishes of involved in all the stages of the project, contributing for the development of the quality of life and fortifying values as the dignity of the individuals, that aim at the collective benefit of the group. We search to apprehend of that it forms the State, in its spheres federal, state and municipal, it favors the creation and it foments the reproduction of the solidarity nets, for, later, approaching as the city of Porto Alegre behaves ahead of this scene. Thus, although incipient, as much in the practical one and mainly in the theory, the Solidary Economy goes treading its way, with the work and of the creativity of which it makes it in the hope to survive in a society each more competitive and exculpatory time.
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Staňková, Markéta. "Solidarita a ekvivalence v důchodovém systému ČR." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-75339.
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My diploma thesis deals with problems of pension insurance, which is characterized by strong income redistribution and low pension equivalence. The aim of my thesis is complex analysis of contemporary state of Czech pension system from the point of view of solidarity and equivalence principle application and to propose solution reinforcing equivalence principle. In the theoretical part of the theses I first define terms solidarity and equivalence, then introduce types of pension plans, possibilities of their financing and describe current pension system. Analytical part points to excessive solidarity of Czech pension system. Analysis covers both mandatory basic pension insurance (reduction limits, non-contributory periods), and additional pension insurance with state contributions. Analysis contains comparison with selected states. Thesis conclusion leads in proposal of adequate problem solution. Study employs methods of systemic analysis, comparison, and synthesis.
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Nation, Patricia Ann Campo. "Reported Impact of a Correctional Facility's Presence on Community Solidarity: Huntsville, Texas." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5253/.
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The problem examined is community solidarity in a well-established prison town. The primary question addressed in this study is "what is the reported impact of a correctional facility's presence on community solidarity?" This study is concerned with the community's perception about the problems, as well as the benefits involved in the housing of a prison and in particular the solidarity of the community. The relevant literature dates from 1929 to 2004 and examines a wide range of concepts associated with community studies and prison studies. Based on themes found in the review of prison literature; work issues, safety, concern about children, stress, community image, benefits, community identity, and community cohesion, seven research questions were constructed. A semi-structured interview was conducted of 81 residents of Walker County in Huntsville, Texas. Huntsville houses 9 prisons. The prison system is the primary employer in the county. A qualitative data analysis using Altius/tr as a tool for content analysis was used. Throughout the data, community residents consistently indicated solidarity. Emerging from the data were seven themes associated with community solidarity:(a) unqualified community pride, (b) normalization, (c) defensiveness against the media, (d) qualified community pride, (e) denial, (f) community and myths, (g) economics.
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Arhinful, Daniel Kojo. "The solidarity of self-interest social and cultural feasibility of rural health insurance in Ghana /." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2003. http://dare.uva.nl/document/71020.
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VOLPE, ALESSANDRO. "Solidarietà come libertà sociale. Teoria e critica di un concetto in prospettiva europea." Doctoral thesis, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11768/122275.
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Questo lavoro intende svolgere un’analisi critica del dibattito filosofico sul problema della solidarietà
La prima parte del lavoro è dedicata all’analisi storico-concettuale della solidarietà. Il primo capitolo è una ricostruzione storico-genealogica del concetto, con particolare attenzione all’eredità dell’idea di fraternità, al ruolo della prima teoria sociale e delle principali tradizioni etico-politiche “solidaristiche”. A questa ricostruzione fa seguito, nel secondo capitolo, un tentativo di analisi concettuale che prende le mosse da una ricognizione delle principali forme e funzioni della solidarietà e da una ricostruzione razionale che la distingue da altre pratiche affini: carità, cura, lealtà. La prospettiva proposta interpreta la solidarietà come una relazione simmetrica di mutuo supporto e condivisione del rischio basata sul riconoscimento di una causa comune.
La seconda parte si concentra sul problema della normatività della nozione di solidarietà e, nello specifico, sul tipo di rapporto che essa intrattiene con l’idea di giustizia. Nel terzo capitolo si presenta una rassegna delle principali tesi, critiche o costruttive, utili a comprendere questo complesso rapporto. L’analisi proposta ha anche uno scopo critico e uno modestamente propositivo: nel quarto capitolo si intende offrire un’interpretazione della tesi habermasiana della solidarietà come “controparte” della giustizia e dei suoi sviluppi teorici, integrandola con il concetto di libertà sociale di Axel Honneth.
La terza parte è dedicata al contesto istituzionale, politico e culturale della realtà europea. In primo luogo, nel quinto capitolo, a partire proprio da questo ambito “applicato”, si discute del rapporto tra il carattere spontaneo e aspetto istituzionale-giuridico della solidarietà, difendendo una concezione bilanciata e multilivello della pratica solidale, come interpersonale, collettiva, istituzionale. Infine, nel sesto capitolo, si ripercorre la lunga e complessa elaborazione habermasiana della solidarietà europea, sottolineandone i diversi impieghi semantici e leggendo criticamente il relativo cambio di prospettiva sul fondamento della solidarietà negli scritti più recenti sulla crisi europea.
Nelle conclusioni, si discute in maniera non esaustiva della natura globale della solidarietà, confrontando alcune prospettive teoriche e presentando infine anche una rapida rassegna di alcune principali sfide pratiche future. I presupposti e le potenzialità dello studio “applicato” di questo concetto possono gettare le basi di una teoria critica dei rapporti di solidarietà.This thesis aims to carry out a critical analysis of the philosophical debate on the problem of solidarity. The first section of the thesis is dedicated to the historical-conceptual analysis of the concept of solidarity. The first chapter develops a genealogical reconstruction of the concept, focusing on the crucial shift from the idea of fraternité to solidarité; on the role of the first social theory and the main “solidaristic” ethical-political traditions. In the second chapter, the genealogy is followed by a conceptual analysis, starting from solidarity’s main forms and functions and a rational reconstruction that distinguishes it from other related practices: charity, care, and loyalty. The analysis interprets solidarity as a symmetrical relationship of mutual support and risk sharing based on the recognition of a common cause. The second section focuses on the problem of normativity of solidarity and its relationship with the idea of justice. Given the difference between the two spheres and their apparent incompatibility, the third chapter explores a wide range of theories that may exemplify possible standpoints on this complex relation. In the fourth chapter, this literature review also leads a critical interpretation that aims at integrating Jürgen Habermas’ compatibilist thesis of solidarity as the “reverse side of justice” with Axel Honneth’s concept of social freedom. The third section is devoted to the institutional, political and cultural context of the European reality. The fifth chapter discusses the relationship between the spontaneous character and the institutional-legal aspect of solidarity in the European Union, with particular attention to the reasons for its institutionalisation. However, the chapter also defends a balanced and multilevel conception of solidarity: interpersonal, collective, institutional. Finally, the aim of the sixth chapter is twofold: first, it highlights the role of solidarity in his writings on Europe, from the ’90s to the coronavirus pandemic, and emphasizes its different semantic employments; second, it critically reads the recent Habermasian partial revision of the basis of solidarity. The concluding remarks include a quick overview of some theoretical perspectives on the global nature of solidarity and present some main practical challenges that the philosophical debate on the topic will face in the future. The normative premises and potentialities of an “applied” study can lay the foundations of a critical theory of solidaristic relations.
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Morreira, Shannon. "Seeking solidarity : categorisation and the politics of alienism in the migration of Zimbabweans to South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8943.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 125-137).This ethnographic study is concerned with the process of movement of Zimbabwean nationals to Cape Town, South Africa, that results in their categorisation by the South African state as "illegal immigrants." Based on fieldwork carried out in Harare and Cape Town in 2006 and 2007, it explores the effects of state-based categorisation of people within Zimbabwe on migration. The study argues that migrants had often been multiply displaced in Zimbabwe as a result of the political situation before crossing the border to South Africa. It explores the factors, both political and economic, that affected migrants’ decisions to move over great distances, and to move multiple times. Drawing on informants’ experiences both in Zimbabwe and South Africa, the study is further concerned with informants’ expectations of South Africa and the differing realities they encountered upon arrival. It considers informants’ experiences of crossing the border, exploring the anthropology of the borderlands to investigate the political economy of movement from Zimbabwe to South Africa. The study further argues that Zimbabwean migrants to South Africa draw upon localised discourses of human rights, based upon ideas of morality, in their expectations of welcome by the South African state. These expectations are found to be erroneous in that undocumented migrants’ notions of violation differ to those employed by the South African state. Whilst migrants assert that conditions of structural violence in Zimbabwe are serious enough to warrant asylum, the South African state considers these reasons to be less valid than those of physical political violence. Within the South African discourses around the Zimbabwean crisis, there are thus forms of suffering that are considered more valid than others.
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Ng, David. "Seeking solidarities: a feminist analysis of the discourses on solidarity between activists interested in transforming masculinities." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3620.
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Includes bibliographical referencesThe interests of this thesis lie in the way in which solidarities are imagined within the South African feminist movement, one which is deeply conscious of the intersectional nature of gender and of the politics of sexuality as part and parcel of any analysis of social justice concerns. Theoretically informed by the work of Castells, Hassim, and other theorists exploring the dynamics of ‘movement building,’ the thesis focuses upon the discourses of solidarity used within one particular feminist organisation as it imagines new alliances. The organisation (Sonke Gender Justice Network) concentrates on the work of transforming violent hegemonic masculinities and plans to develop programmes working with new partners whose work focuses on justice and the lives of transgendered, lesbian, gay, and intersex people and communities (‘LGBTI’). The research draws on qualitative data drawn from interviews with Sonke staff and on the researcher’s own experience as an intern within the organisation, and analyses the material in order to explore the shape and implications of discourses on new alliances. The conclusions of the thesis speak to the complexities of imagining solidarity across differences of theory, identity, and experience.
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Thompson, Judith A. "Solidarity from the heart of Jesus to the heart of the world /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2006. http://www.tren.com.
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Gadelha, Priscila Maria Barbosa. "Management of solid waste organizations from the perspective of social economy." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2015. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=15800.
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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel SuperiorGrande parte dos resÃduos sÃlidos, gerados pelos centros urbanos, que sÃo destinados a aterros sanitÃrios e lixÃes, ainda apresenta potencial de recuperaÃÃo seja para produÃÃo de novos produtos ou como fonte geradora de energia. Neste contexto, a reciclagem emerge como uma alternativa para destinaÃÃo sustentÃvel do resÃduo, destacando-se tambÃm pelo seu carÃter social, atravÃs da geraÃÃo de renda para os catadores de materiais reciclÃveis. Tais atores representam um elo importante na gestÃo do resÃduo sÃlido urbano, no entanto, a informalidade de sua atividade confere fragilidade à sua ocupaÃÃo. Como uma alternativa a esta realidade, os catadores passaram a compor organizaÃÃes com o objetivo de gerar renda e melhorar as condiÃÃes de trabalho. O objetivo do presente estudo à investigar como se processa a gestÃo de resÃduos sÃlidos nos diferentes tipos de organizaÃÃes constituÃdas por catadores de matÃrias reciclÃveis em Fortaleza e RegiÃo Metropolitana sob a Ãtica da Economia SolidÃria. A metodologia empregada na dissertaÃÃo utiliza aspectos exploratÃrios e descritivos, aplicados com abordagem qualitativa. Quanto ao meio, a pesquisa se caracteriza como um estudo de multicaso. O trabalho desenvolvido foi estruturado segundo caracterÃsticas observadas na literatura sobre Economia SolidÃria. Desta forma, foi realizada a caracterizaÃÃo do perfil socioeconÃmico dos membros das organizaÃÃes estudadas, foram relacionados aspectos relativos à autogestÃo, cooperaÃÃo, dimensÃo econÃmica e solidariedade. A anÃlise destes fatores em nove organizaÃÃes composta por catadores de materiais reciclÃveis de Fortaleza e RegiÃo Metropolitana permitiu um estudo comparativo dos diferentes tipos de organizaÃÃes. Por fim, a pesquisa concluiu que para melhor desempenho das organizaÃÃes era importante seu aperfeiÃoamento sob alguns aspectos, como capacitaÃÃo dos membros, maior articulaÃÃo entre os diferentes tipos de organizaÃÃes, reduÃÃo do nÃmero de atravessadores na comercializaÃÃo do material reciclÃvel e adoÃÃo de polÃticas pÃblicas que incentivem maior participaÃÃo de tais organizaÃÃes na limpeza pÃblica.
Great amount of solid residues, produced by urban centers are destined to landfill sites and big dumps, although still represent some potential to generate new products or as an energy resource. In this perspective, recycling turns out as a sustainable alternative to disposal of this waste, which can be seen as a social matter for the capability in create an income to the recyclable waste collectorsâ. Such characters represents an relevant link in the urban management of solid waste, although the non-formal aspect of this activity becomes an fragile element due their job occupation. As an another way to this fact, the collectors of this content had become an organization in which their main goal are improve the income generation and work conditions. The Primary objective to this study is to investigate how the process of urban waste management works in all different association composed by the waste collectors in Fortaleza and the metropolitan surroundings under the logic of economics of solidarity. The methodology used in this dissertation applies exploited and descriptive aspects employed as a qualitative approach. In concern to the qualification, the research may be described as a multi-scenario study. The research was developed and structured observing aspects in the literature about solidarity economy. Due to this requirement, it was done a socio-economic profile of all composed members in each organization studied, it was related aspects concerning: Self-management, Cooperation, Economic dimension and Solidarity. Analyzing all these matters in nine organization composed by all waste collectors helped out stablishing a comparative study of all existing different types. At the end, the research concludes that to enhance performance of all organizations were relevant the improvement of some aspects such as: Qualified members in the net, Better joint in the net of associations. Reduce the number of all brokers to the final sale and Adopting public policies to induce such organizations in public cleaning and recycle.
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Callan, Brian. "Transnational dissent : feeling, thinking, judging and the sociality of Palestinian solidarity activism." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/18042.
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This thesis examines the role emotions play in the practice and sociality of Palestinian solidarity activism in Israel and Palestine. It finds that emotion is a subtle and sophisticated, and often ambiguous, form of knowledge and perception which is implicit in forming, appraising and adjusting the relationships participants have with intimates, fellow dissenters and public discourses on identity and the regional conflict. Fieldwork was based in and around Jerusalem and carried out over twelve months in 2011-12. This is a highly diverse transnational field where Palestinians, Israelis and Internationalists come together at specific times and places to practice various forms of dissent, largely but not exclusively against the socio-political conditions of the Palestinians vis-à-vis Israeli State policy. I present three separate propositions on Weirdness, Wrongness and Love, which relate to three different affective dimensions; perception, morality and loyalty. Each proposition also develops upon what Hannah Arendt defined the innate political faculties or activities of the human condition; thinking, action and judging. The perceptive quality of finding something Weird is found to produce doubt in the subjective mind, the purpose for which Arendt believed thinking to be a political act. The moral appraisal that something is Wrong, underwrites concerted political action in the public realm. Finally judging, as the attempt to understand the world from the perspective of another, is facilitated by the discourse of Love in the long-term loving relations activists have with friend and family, who are antagonistic to the aims of solidarity activism. Taken together these feelings are found to flow through and inform one another, constituting a nuanced affective understanding and appraisal of our world, one that is producing and maintaining a politically engaged transnational community of dissent. This community has been fostered to a large degree by the insistence and perseverance of a small number of Palestinians in villages across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, who call upon peoples of all creeds, colours and places to witness and experience the repression of non-violent resistance. If as researchers we are to understand the complexities of human life and practices, I believe we must carefully attend to this sophisticated form of emotional reasoning and begin to think not just about feelings, but also with feelings.
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González-Palacios, Carlos. "Le processus de construction des droits sociaux en France et au Pérou : sources et influences européennes en Amérique andine." Thesis, Paris 10, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA100050.
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Les droits sociaux se construisent en plusieurs temps à partir d’évolutions du système juridico-politique qui sont la conséquence de phénomènes sociaux encouragés par des courants philosophiques, religieux, idéologiques ou de mouvements sociaux. En ce sens, bien que les droits sociaux soient récents, les idées qui constituent leur socle fondamental sont assez anciennes. Dans le cas de l’Europe occidentale elles datent de l’Ancien régime ; dans le cas de l’Amérique andine, elles ont une origine précoloniale. D’ailleurs certains de ces principes précoloniaux semblent se manifester encore de nos jours, comme c’est le cas au Pérou ; et ont été mis en avant avec le nouveau constitutionnalisme latino-américain du début du XXIème siècle. Cela signifierait donc que la source idéologique des droits sociaux n’est pas forcément républicaine ni occidentale, même si l’époque de son développement le plus important surgit durant des périodes républicaines. Il est donc intéressant d’observer comment depuis l’indépendance des États andins, les idées européennes ont eu une influence prépondérante dans la construction (organique et axiologique) des systèmes juridiques de ces nouveaux États ; mais qu’il subsiste, sinon un modèle social originel, du moins quelques piliers d’un système juridique inhérent à la culture andineSocial rights are constructed in several stages from changes in the legal-political system that are the consequence of social phenomena encouraged by philosophical, religious, ideological or social movements. In this sense, although social rights are recent, the ideas that constitute their basic foundation are quite old. In the case of Western Europe, they date from the Old Regime; in the case of Andean America, they have a pre-colonial origin. Moreover, some of these precolonial principles seem to be still present today, as is the case in Peru; and have been put forward with the new Latin American constitutionalism of the early twenty-first century. This would mean that the ideological source of social rights is not necessarily republican or western, even if the time of its most important development arises during republican periods. It is therefore interesting to observe how, since the independence of the Andean States, European ideas have had a preponderant influence in the construction (organic and axiological) of the legal systems of these new States; but that there remains, if not an original social model, at least some pillars of a legal system inherent to the Andean culture
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Palacios, Carolina. "Social movements as learning communities : Chilean exiles and knowledge production in and beyond the solidarity movement." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37956.
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The atrocities committed by the military in Chile after the armed forces seized power in
1973 horrified Chileans and people around the world who had been following events in Chile for
years prior to the coup. Together with the resistance in Chile, the transnational solidarity
movement integrated by Chilean exiles and non-Chileans across the globe played a major role in
ending the dictatorship. Since in-depth empirical studies of social movement learning are sparse
this study addresses this gap as well as the ones in the existent research on the Chilean solidarity
movement in Canada and elsewhere, the political activities of Chilean exiles in Canada and the
Chilean solidarity movement specifically from a learning perspective.
The purposes of this research, therefore, were to document and understand collective
learning processes among solidarity movement participants and to contribute to the empirical
and theoretical social movement learning scholarship. This study employed qualitative historical
research methods, including oral history interviews and reviewing formal and informal archives.
The conceptual tools used to understand solidarity movement learning and knowledge
production drew broadly on new social movement thought and in particular on Freire, Gramsci
and Habermas, which enabled an analysis of wider social forces, the specific pedagogies of the
solidarity movement and the connections between the two.
The findings speak to the value of a varied repertoire of action which merges the political
with the cultural and which blends the intellectual with the emotional and the sensory. They also
point to the power of artistic forms of expression for articulating and communicating social
movement messages and for expressing identities. In addition, the findings show the local,
experiential knowledge generated in social movements is vital to achieving movement aims, to
critical learning and transformation, and to constructing individual and collective social
movement identities. The study concludes that understanding social movements as learning communities is essential because it foregrounds the value and legitimacy of movement
knowledge and the centrality of learning and knowledge production to movement aims and to the
significance of movements for movement members, their allies and the public.
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Cassanos, Sam. "Political Environment and Transnational Agency: a Comparative Analysis of the Solidarity Movement For Palestine." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1273954268.
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Gámez, Pérez José Miguel. "Método de interacción social en comunicación (MISCOM): desarrollo solidario desde la comunidad marroquina en Catalunya." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/665673.
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La presente tesis doctoral pretende extrapolar el Método de Interacción Social en Comunicación (MisCom) como experiencia de investigación socio comunitaria nacida en contextos indígenas, rurales y urbanos de Venezuela; para aplicarlo en colectivos vulnerados y vulnerables europeos, específicamente en la comunidad catalano-marroquí, demostrando así su replicabilidad y evolución teórica y metodológica desde el enfoque decolonial. Se pretende validar y adaptar las técnicas e instrumentos metodológicos decoloniales en comunicación, como propuesta mixta entre la comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social, el enfoque crítico de Derechos Humanos, la perspectiva de género e interseccionalidad.
La población extranjera residente en toda España ha aumentado por primera vez desde 2011, debido al efecto combinado de recuperación económica, bajada de la emigración y adquisición de la nacionalidad española, haciendo que Catalunya alcance una población del 13,8% de habitantes del total de la población española, compuesta en gran medida por población marroquí como la principal nacionalidad de los migrantes extranjeros en Catalunya, con un 19,9% del total de población extranjera. En general, existen diferentes características que componen y describen la multiculturalidad en la Comunidad Autónoma de Catalunya -origen de migrantes, lenguas habladas, condiciones de legalidad, religiones, género, etc.-, las cuales contextualizan y definen este fenómeno poblacional, haciéndolo interesante para estudios de este tipo. No obstante, la convivencia se ve afectada por la reproducción de la representación negativa -estereotipos ligados a religión, delincuencia y terrorismo- producto de la visión hegemónica en los medios de comunicación.
Esta investigación de carácter cuantitativa y cualitativa, responde mediante tres tipos metodologías: un análisis documental de datos estadísticos de diversas fuentes, nacionales e internacionales; un análisis de la prensa escrita catalana -versión papel y digital-, con 118 unidades de análisis que abarca el mes de junio de 2015 y el mismo periodo de 2016, de los 6 diarios más importantes de las provincias catalanas: La Vanguardia, El Periódico de Catalunya, Diari de Terrassa, Diari de Tarragona, El Segre, Diari de Girona; y un análisis estructural de contenido de tres historias de vida, partiendo de la extracción de las palabras claves en contexto o KWIC, para al final hacer un hacer un mapeo general de estos procesos vivenciales en su conjunto, de acuerdo a las dimensiones sociales de los ejes de identidad del ser humano -social, política cultural, espiritual, legal, económico, comunicacional y tecnológico-.
La aplicación del MisCom y el Quipus de privilegios en el colectivo catalano-marroquí aporta, por una aparte, las estrategias de supervivencia de los sujetos subalternizados por el sistema mundo colonial; por otra, la organización como procesos de autoidentificación que facilitan tanto el reconocimiento de derechos y privilegios, así como de procesos de comunicación formales e informales que pueden derribar los rumores y estigmas mediáticos y sociales; además de construir participativamente propuestas interesantes desde visiones alternativas y críticas que concreten la posibilidad de un mundo -planteadas desde el desarrollo solidario- más cercano a la igualdad y real protección de los derechos humanos.The present doctoral thesis intends to extrapolate the Method of Social Interaction in Communication (MisCom) as a community social research experience born in indigenous, rural and urban contexts of Venezuela. With the aim of applying it invulnerable and vulnerable European collectives, specifically in the Catalan-Moroccan community, thus demonstrating its replicability and theoretical and methodological evolution from the decolonial approach. The aim is to validate and adapt different decolonial methodological tools and communication techniques by mixing proposals of communication for development and social change, the critical approach of Human Rights, the gender perspective and intersectionality. The foreign population resident throughout Spain have increased for the first time since 2011, due to the combined effect of economic recovery, low emigration and the possibility of acquiring the Spanish nationality. In Catalonia this segment has reached the 13,8 % of the total population, which is largely composed of the Moroccans population, as the main nationality with 19,9 % of foreign migrants in Catalonia. In general, multiculturalism in the Autonomous Community of Catalonia is composed by different features -like the origin of migrants, spoken languages, legal conditions, religion, gender, etc. - which contextualize and define this population phenomenon, making it interesting for studies of this nature. However, coexistence is affected by the reproduction of negative representation -stereotypes linked to religion, crime and terrorism- product of the hegemonic vision in the media. This quantitative and qualitative research is composed by three types of methodologies: a documentary analysis, an analysis of the press. The sample is compsed by statistical data from various sources, national and international. An analysis of the Catalan written press -paper and digital version- with 118 analysis units covering the month of June 2015 and the same period of 2016, of the six most important newspapers in the Catalan provinces: La Vanguardia, El Periódico de Catalunya, Diari de Terrassa, Diari de Tarragona, El Segre, Diari de Girona. And a structural analysis of the content of three life stories, based on the extraction of keywords in context or KWIC, in order to make a general mapping of these experiential processes as a whole, according to the social dimensions of the axes of identity of the human being -social, cultural, spiritual, legal, economic, communicational and technological politics-. The application of the MisCom and the Quipus-test of privileges in the Catalan-Moroccan collective contributes, on the one hand, the survival strategies of the subjects subalternized by the colonial world system; on the other hand, the organization as processes of self-identification that facilitate both the recognition of rights and privileges, as well as formal and informal communication processes that can tear down media and social rumors and stigmas. It constructs interesting proposals from alternative and critical perspectives, that concretize the possibility of a world closer to equality and real protection of human rights, raised from supportive development.
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Esgaio, Ana Cláudia Gaspar. "A responsabilidade social e a redescoberta da solidariedade perceções de dirigentes e de profissionais de Serviço Social no contexto da economia social e solidária." Doctoral thesis, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/17353.
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Tese de Doutoramento em Ciências Sociais, Especialidade de Serviço SocialO conceito de responsabilidade social é geralmente associado aos contextos empresariais. Neste trabalho, consideramos que estas preocupações são extensíveis a outros contextos, nomeadamente o das organizações da economia social e solidária. Procurámos analisar as perceções de responsabilidade social de dirigentes e de profissionais de Serviço Social nestas organizações, que se constituem como das mais relevantes entidades empregadoras de profissionais de Serviço Social em Portugal. Foi desenvolvido um estudo de natureza predominantemente qualitativa, tendo sido delimitado territorialmente ao Município da Amadora. Após uma abordagem exploratória e a aplicação de um inquérito por questionário, recorreu-se a entrevistas centradas a dirigentes e a profissionais no sentido de aprofundar os dados obtidos. A análise e discussão dos dados permitiram verificar a falta de reflexão acerca da responsabilidade social no âmbito do Serviço Social, bem como a emergência de um conjunto de tensões na atuação dos profissionais. Destaca-se, à escala macro, a frágil participação numa dimensão sociopolítica da intervenção, que parece não ser suficiente para apoiar a concretização do princípio de responsabilidade coletiva inscrito na agenda internacional do Serviço Social. Desta forma, a redescoberta da solidariedade surge como fundamento de uma prática socialmente responsável que permita retomar o projeto sociopolítico do Serviço Social.
Social responsibility concept is generally associated with business contexts. We consider that these concerns can be extended to others, namely social and solidarity economy organizations. We have tried to analyse the perceptions of social responsibility of managers and social workers in these organizations, which are one of the most important employers of social workers in Portugal. A study with a predominantly qualitative nature was developed, in the Municipality of Amadora. After an exploratory approach and of a questionnaire survey, interviews with managers and social workers were used to have more detailed analysis about their perceptions. The analysis and discussion of the data showed the lack of reflexivity about the social responsibility in the scope of Social Work, as well as the rise of a set of tensions in the work of the professionals. At the macro level, the fragile participation in a sociopolitical dimension of intervention is emphasised, which may not be able to support the implementation of the collective responsibility principle included in the international agenda of Social Work. Thus, the rediscovery of solidarity emerges as the foundation of a socially responsible practice that helps to restore the socio-political project of Social Work.
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Benson, Karen M. "Role Importance, Affectional Solidarity, and Depression Among Familial Caregivers for Older Adults." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700104/.
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In the United States, familial caregivers provide approximately 80% of the long term elderly care and are at risk for mental health problems. As family members provide care, relationships shift from mutual support to increasing dependency on the caregivers, who in turn often experience a shift in self-concept from their prior relational role to include identification as caregiver for the care recipient. Affectional solidarity, or emotional relationship quality, can influence how caregivers experience their shifting role in relationship to a loved one. The study examined whether role importance is associated with caregiver depression over time, and tested the moderating role of affectional solidarity in this association. A subset of caregivers (N = 57) from the Longitudinal Study of Generations constituted the sample from which role importance, affectional solidarity, and Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression reports were analyzed using longitudinal hierarchical regression. Findings did not support hypotheses. Results suggested that affectional solidarity may be important to consider among familial caregivers as a potential protective factor for depression. Implications for future research and practitioners are discussed.