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Quality of life ranking of Spanish cities: A non-compensatory approach
2021
Abstract Urban areas are hubs of economic activity, but also consumption centers where a high quality of life may attract human capital and increase prospects of economic growth and well-being. We rank 73 Spanish cities on the basis of 35 individual indicators covering three basic facets of quality of life: socio-economic performance, general livability conditions, and residents' health status. We reject the conventional approach of compensability among different quality of life dimensions in favor of a Condorcet-inspired non-compensability approach. We obtain three partial composite indicators, one for each of the aforementioned dimensions, and a global indicator that synthesizes the three…
Communicating with home, coping without home – Trusting to the mediating capacity of blogging
2021
Abstract In the early 21st century, blogs exploded onto the digital media scene and soon became a popular means of travel writing. However, rather than considering blogs as a straightforward tool to simply share stories and experiences, in this article, we set out to explore the role of blogs as a mediating technology (Verbeek, 2005a), especially during difficult times abroad. By analysing the blogs of expatriate Australians who were volunteers in Bangladesh in 2014/2015 as well as interviews with the bloggers, we are able to show how the blogs' affordances inform the coping process, highlighted, in particular, in an active and highly reflective engagement with the blog's unique situatednes…
Troubling encounters: Exclusion, racism and responses of male African students in Poland
2016
This paper examines the experiences of a group of *African students in Poland, with the aim of understanding the affective and practical coping tactics they employ in response to social exclusion and racism. The analysis of coping strategies follows an in-depth overview of experiences of racialisation, othering and racial discrimination in both institutional and ordinary, day-to-day encounters. A significant body of literature and research highlights ways in which racism functions through material practices as well as overt and veiled dynamics of exclusion and territorialism. The study sheds light on the bodily nature of racism, highlighting the recurrent practices, contexts and interaction…
Evaluación Docente y Mejora Profesional. Descubrir el Encanto de su Complicidad
2021
Actualmente, nos encontramos en un momento óptimo y crucial, lleno de complejidad y con unas grandes necesidades de progresar y mejorar tras los meses de pandemia vividos tras el COVID-19. Aunque España, es uno de los países en los que apenas se ha abordado la evaluación docente, ésta debería de ir caminando hacia una corriente vinculada con el desarrollo docente, a través de procesos autoevaluativos. La razón de ser de este articulo radica, a través de los comentarios que vamos a presentar, en tratar de despertar la complicidad entre la evaluación docente y su incidencia en la mejora y desarrollo tanto profesional como personal. Si el profesorado descubriera el encanto que conlleva hacer u…
National level paths to the mining industry’s Social Licence to Operate (SLO) in Northern Europe: The case of Finland
2020
Abstract Research on the social licence to operate (SLO) has traditionally focused on local communities directly affected by mining operations. There has been a lack of systematic research exploring attitudes to mining among the public at large. Based on a national survey (N = 1091) of Finns’ attitudes towards mining conducted in 2016, we test a theoretical model using path analysis to examine the factors affecting the social licence to operate (SLO) of mining in Finland. The aim is to shed light on the factors affecting SLO at national level in Finland and to add to the growing body of research seeking to understand the mining industry’s SLO at national level in diverse social, economic an…
The costs of putting Valencia on the map: the hidden side of regional entrepreneurialism, ‘creative city’ and strategic projects
2018
Strategic projects based on culture and sports have been one of the vectors of regional development since the 1990s. Accordingly, local and regional governments have drawn up entrepreneurial strate...
Urban Development and Cultural Policy “White Elephants”: Barcelona and Valencia
2015
AbstractThe importance of culture in defining new models of local development has been increasingly emphasized. However, less attention has been paid to the influence of local development models on local cultural policy. This article will focus on analysing two cities that have used culture as a central element in their economic and urban development. In both cases, they have followed different strategies but the two have finally finished generating two “white elephants”: the Universal Forum of Cultures in the case of Barcelona and the City of Arts and Sciences in the case of Valencia. From a comparison of the two cases, the paper analyses the causes of this urban phenomenon, which combines…
Reivindicaciones culturales y feminismos disidentes, una mirada nada normalizadora
2020
espanolLas reivindicaciones de las culturas se desajustan del modelo ilustrado, en ese aspecto, el proposito de este ensayo es dilucidar de manera sucinta, las diferentes deconstrucciones y exclusiones culturales que nos encontramos en distintos paradigmas teoricos. La diferencia monopoliza el debate en un escenario multietnico y globalizador. Los feminismos, diferentes entre si, abogan por seguir reconceptualizando terminos, y desmontando argumentos universalizadores, en base a la hibridacion humana, en cambio, no diferencia las imbricaciones a lo largo de la humanidad. No obstante, las culturas son constantes creaciones, recreaciones y negociaciones de fronteras entre nosotros/as y el/la/…
Comparing colonial differences: Baltic literary cultures as agencies of Europe’s internal others
2016
ABSTRACTThe article discusses the Baltic colonial experience in historical and comparative perspective. It sketches the ways in which Baltic societies are best linked to theoretical discussions on postcolonial issues, and whether they might be looked upon in a more global context. The main question posed by the article is in what ways Baltic identity has been determined by processes of foreign settlement, occupation and colonization of the territory of each respective country and whether we can see Baltic societies as potential agencies of Europe’s internal others.
Latvian CDI: Methodology, developmental trends and cross-linguistic comparison
2019
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the Journal of Baltci Studies on 21 March 2019, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01629778.2019.1590433. In this article, we report the results of a large-scale population study based on the Latvian adaptation of Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) – a parental report tool aimed at mapping the lexical and grammatical development of children under the age of three. Two CDI forms are discussed: CDI I: ‘Words and Gestures’ (8–16 months), and CDI II: ‘Words and Sentences’ (17–36 months). This article discusses the Internet-based methodology used for the data collection, reports the…