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Including an environmental quality index in a demographic model
2016
This paper presents a new well-being index which allows environmental quality to be measured through CO2 emissions, renewable energies and nuclear power. Its formula derives from a geometric mean used to calculate which things in the human production system warm the planet and which do not. This index has been introduced into a gender-defined stochastic population dynamic mathematical model which measures well-being in a country. The main variables in this model are rates of death, birth, emigration and immigration, as well as three UN indices: Human Development Index, Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment Index. This model has been extended with variables that allow an environmen…
La dynamique des scolarités des filles : le double handicap questionné
2001
Marie Duru-Bellat, Annick Kieffer, Catherine Marry : Die Dynamik der Schullaufbahn der Mädchen : die Befragung des Doppelhindernisses. Dieser Aufsatz zeichnet die Entwicklung der geschlechtlichen und sozialen Unterschiede in der Schule seit Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts auf, im Lichte des schulischen und wirtschaftlichen Felds. Er stützt sich auf die Daten der Untersuchungen Formation-Qualification Professionnelle des statistischen Amts INSEE. Die Geschichte der Schullaufbahnen der Jungen und Mädchen ist die der Aufholung durch die Mädchen, und schliesslich der Umkehr zu ihren Gunsten der Ungleichheiten zum Eintritt in die verschiedenen Stufen des ersten und zweiten Zyklus des höheren Schulwe…
Hegemonic representations of the past and digital agency: Giving meaning to “The Soviet Story” on social networking sites
2015
In 2008, Edvīns Šnore, the Latvian film director, released a shocking and provocative documentary, “The Soviet Story,” which explored some terrible episodes from the Soviet past as well as the collaboration between the Soviet and Nazi regimes. Scholars have argued that The Soviet Story is an effective Latvian response to Russian propaganda, but it also exemplifies the broader problems of post-communist memory politics. This article takes a step further in the discussion of The Soviet Story. It focuses on the idea of how memory work triggered by the documentary got started on social networking sites. In particular, the article deals with the video-sharing website YouTube and the Internet en…
Traditional festivities, political domination and social reproduction: Case analysis of Valencia’s Fallas
2020
The traditional festivities have been usually analysed in social sciences as a mode of generating sociability and social cohesion, not only in traditional societies but also in modern ones. However...
The Moral Calculus of Vocational Passion in Digital Gaming
2019
The desire to “do what you love” energizes employment and engagement in creative industries such as digital gaming yet drains hobbyists and aspirants by normalizing expectations to sacrifice job security for passionate work. This article investigates how individuals regulate their aspirations through taken-for-granted trade-offs between vocational compromise and compensation. Multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork with players at fan conventions and recruitment events in North America suggests a moral calculus of corruption and sublimation between passion and profit, which can be traced back to industrialization’s cleavage of labor from recreation and its institution of hobbies as productive le…
Defending the Nordic model: Understanding the moral universe of the Norwegian working class
2021
In recent years, much attention has been paid to the white working class’ concern with their declining position in the neoliberal era. The hypothesis that social and economic insecurity provoke anger and xenophobia are unable to account for the Norwegian case. The Nordic model still acts as a buffer against neoliberal capitalism, making the white Norwegian working class less vulnerable than in comparable countries. This paper will argue that the Norwegian working class has defended the Nordic model by utilising a range of moral values. I use 56 qualitative interviews to examine the morality of the white Norwegian working class. The study is theoretically and methodologically inspired by Bol…
Epistemic governance in local policy debates : The case of entitlement to early childhood education and care in Finland
2019
In Finland, children below school age have enjoyed the right to attend subsidised full-time early childhood education and care (ECEC). However, the attendance rate in Finland is low in comparison to other Nordic countries. Furthermore, the entitlement was restricted to 20 h per week in 2016 unless the child’s parents work or study full-time or unless it is believed that the child will benefit from full-time ECEC. The debates concerning restrictions in ECEC entitlement in three municipal councils serve as the data for this study. By using the framework of epistemic governance, we identify three differing constructions of the ECEC’s societal functions in the municipal policy debates. The simi…
La durée du travail, la norme et ses usages en 1848
2011
Le decret du 2 mars 1848, qui reduit la duree du travail d’une heure, introduit une rupture majeure en instaurant pour la premiere fois une norme nationale fixant une duree maximale pour le travail des adultes. Cette decision souvent citee mais rarement etudiee suscita de multiples debats dans des arenes diverses, au Parlement, dans la presse comme dans les ateliers. L’objectif de cet article est de montrer comment cette decision prise dans le contexte d’effervescence revolutionnaire crea les conditions d’une irreversibilite de l’intervention de l’Etat dans le champ social.
Asociaciones de inmigrantes, Estados y desarrollo entre España y Colombia. ¿Un nuevo campo social transnacional?
2017
A pesar de la distancia geografica, las asociaciones de inmigrantes colombianos en Espana han tenido una creciente incidencia en los asuntos locales de su pais de origen, y sus acciones han ido adquiriendo una progresiva dimension transnacional. Entre otras practicas, las asociaciones han implementado numerosos proyectos de desarrollo en Colombia que han implicado la movilizacion de redes verticales y horizontales, tanto en el pais de origen como en el de destino, en paralelo con el renovado interes de los Estados colombiano y espanol por dar soporte a esas acciones. En este articulo nos preguntamos en que medida estas dinamicas, inducidas por la migracion, podrian haber contribuido a la co…
The “corporealization” of the nation: notions of the unclean and viscosity in the nationalist discourse of Spanish fascism
2017
ABSTRACTThe present article focuses on the particular case of the nationalist discourse of Spanish fascism during the Spanish Civil War and the immediate postwar period (1936–1941), in order to explore one specific aspect of it: the characterization of the enemy Republican nation that was to be fought against as unclean and viscous or sticky. The aim here is to analyse what meanings these references possessed and what they can tell us about the general processes of construction of discourses of identity. For this purpose, use is made of certain propositions developed by sociology and anthropology, as a basis upon which to develop the hypothesis that the use of the aforementioned references …