Search results for " empowerment"

How to Empower Gypsies? An Ethnographic Study

2010

The work focuses on the case of the nomad camp of Palermo, in southern Italy, where three groups of “Gypsies” have been living for twenty-five years, in ghetto-like conditions. This camp represents a world outside the city, or rather a confined microcosm, with, except for volunteer workers, sporadic contact with the people of the city or the public administration. . This means that there is no inter-relationship between the camp and the outside world. On the contrary, for the so-called host society, the three different groups represent a sort of generic and nebulous whole, cut off in a green area, surrounded by a high wall. Not seeing them means not caring about them, their living condition…

Empowering Gypsies and Applied Anthropology

2011

Abstract This work focuses on the case study of the nomad camp of Palermo, in southern Italy, where Roma Cergara and Roma Xoraxane have been living for twenty-five years, in ghetto-like conditions. This camp represents a world outside the city, or rather a confined microcosm, without any interrelationship with the outside world. Moving ethnic minority groups from poverty to social inclusion represents a very difficult challenge. Moreover, since these communities are used to arrange themselves through an economy that is borderline between an underground economy and a subsistence economy, sometimes helped with assistance attitudes of external social actors, the way towards community action is…

Community Development and Social Participation

2011

The paper presents the reslt of the action research project issued in Palermo (Southern Italy), in disadvantaged urban suburbs, methodologically based on Kurt Lewin's field theory - that is a three-step spiral process of planning which involves recoinnaissance; talking actions; and fact-finding about the results of the action - in order to develop the social participation and the social change. The principal aim of the project was the empowerment of participants, obtaining their collaboration through participation, giving them acquisition of knowledge for a real social change.

Media/Digital Competence. The European and Italian Definition

2016

In 2007, the European Union Commission issued a Communication titled A European approach to media literacy in the digital environment where media literacy is clearly defined as “the ability to access the media, to understand and to critically evaluate different aspects of the media and media contents and to create communications in a variety of contexts” (European Commission, 2007: 3). This paper discusses this definition and present the Italian way to it.

Gamepaddle. Videogiochi, empowerment e cittadinanza in contesti svantaggiati.

2013

Kansalaisverkot ja digitaalinen toimijuus

2006

Digitaalisten kuilujen eli uuden teknologian käyttöön liittyvien eriarvoisuuksien lisäksi on syytä puhua myös ihmisten eriarvoisesta toimijuudesta tietoyhteiskunnassa. Teknologia sinänsä ei tee ihmisistä syrjäytyneitä tai mukana olevia, vaan sen soveltaminen toimijuutta ja osallisuutta edistävässä tarkoituksessa. Voidaan paremminkin puhua osattomuuden kuiluista ja tietoyhteiskunnan syrjäytyneistä, joille informaatioteknologia voisi tuoda selkeää hyötyä yhteiskunnan jäseninä toimimisen sekä oman hyvinvoinnin kannalta, mutta jotka eivät voi tai osaa sitä hyödyntää. peerReviewed

Il lavoro di cura con le famiglie migranti nell’ottica dell’empowerment

2011

La disabilità e l'empowerment bi-professionale di assistente sociale e counselor in una prospettiva di Social Innovation

2013

Il saggio pone agli estremi della riflessione il soggetto diversamente abile da un lato e la Social Innovation come modello emergente del fare politica sociale. Analizza i due nuclei concettuali attraverso gli sviluppi procedurali che potrebbero determinarsi nell’integrazione professionale delle competenze proprie dell’assistente sociale e del counselor. La ricerca condotta attraverso le interviste semistrutturate a testimoni significativi che svolgono l’una o l’altra delle professioni esaminate presso associazioni di Terzo settore della Sicilia occidentale, si sforza di individuare gli elementi di criticità a quelli che potenzierebbero le reciproche competenze dei professioni sti in questi…

Localizing Global Solidarity: Humanitarian Aid in Lesvos

2021

The so-called “refugee crisis” in Lesvos, Greece provides a poignant example of situated, local suffering that has called for the coordination of global resources to provide relief. Some of the first to respond were local and international Citizen Initiatives for Global Solidarity (CIGS). While a growing role for CIGS has been interpreted as a call for more global involvement, arguments for the increased localization of relief efforts suggest the need for aid agents to maintain a reflexive awareness of the potential for an influx of outside assistance to disempower those most affected. We argue that barriers to implementing the localization of humanitarian aid can be better understood by po…

THE IMPORTANCE OF ESTABLISHING CUSTOMER EXPERIENCES

2012

Recently, companies have apprehended the fact that customers want more than merely products or services and have proceeded in providing value creation through customer experiences. Experience marketing has emphasized the need to stimulate, entertain and affect consumers at an emotional level in order to create the premises for an experience in consumption. The repercussions for the experience marketing approach can range from brand advocacy, word-of-mouth, to loyalty and motivation to buy such an experience. Therefore, companies need to manage these experiences and pay attention to the moments of truth the customer has with the organization in question.