Search results for "Community"

Heteroglossic and multimodal resources in use : participation across spaces of identification in a Christian lifestyle sports community

2017

This dissertation examines how members of one particular youth community, Christian lifestyle sports enthusiasts in Finland, use language and other semiotic resources to construct participation in their community of practice (CoP). The CoP is organized around the late-modern activity culture of lifestyle sports. The participants also share the Christian faith and in their snowboarding camps organize Bible study sessions and engage in prayer and worship. The theoretical and methodological framework incorporates sociolinguistics, social semiotics, discourse studies and connective ethnography, including the exploration of both the digital and physical spaces of the community. The dissertation …

When is money not a currency? Developments from Finland of proto-community currencies

2020

The article is a case study of several digitally based schemes recently operating in Finland where some functions and properties of money are evident. While working effectively as designed, they do not fully meet the criteria of a well-functioning community currency. The schemes include: sysmä, a digitally based hyperlocal system of account introduced by the rural Sysmä municipality; Pisteet kotiin®, a housing association points system in the city of Tampere, copied from a working Dutch model; BookMooch, a global book-swapping site that has extended its operations throughout Finland. Explored in the article are the institutional enabling and inhibitory factors and implications for and from …

LE MIGRAZIONI COME NELLA RAPPRESENTAZIONE DI UN GIANO BIFRONTE. LE STRADE SICURE E LEGALI D’INGRESSO DEI MIGRANTI PROFUGHI IN ITALIA.

2019

L’ingresso e la presenza in Italia di persone migranti è, fin da sempre, un tema di confronto fra coloro che ritengono che sia giusto favorire un’adeguata accoglienza e coloro che sostengono il contrario. Il presente contributo intende illustrare le forme possibili di ingresso legale di migranti profughi nei paesi dell’Unione Europea, con particolare attenzione all’ingresso legale in Italia. A partire dal 2014, il governo italiano ha manifestato l’intenzione di sviluppare un programma di reinsediamento al fine di dare ai migranti profughi una adeguata protezione. Attualmente, attraverso la rete dei Corridoi Umanitari, sotto il coordinamento del Dipartimento per le Libertà Civili e Immigrazi…

Transform Farming With the Help of Social Media A Pioneering Chinese Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Farm and Its Micro Blog USA

2016

SIC et Intelligence Territoriale : Relations pragmatiques et disciplinaires

2009

SIC and the Territorial Intelligence maintain multiple relations today. The method of territorial observation Catalyse, carried by the European Network of the Territorial Intelligence, proposes a modelling under the shape of what Jean-Jacques Girardot calls a community system of territorial intelligence (SCIT) (Girardot 2008). It is by the organization of the structuralization of the information, and by the conception of the process of communication that this type of system takes life.

Community visioning

2006

Comunità e spazio pubblico. Come generare la dimensione spaziale della democrazia

2021

The contribution addresses the issue of the spatial dimension of democracy in the neo-cosmopolitan city, also as an expression of the communities living in it. By highlighting the inequalities still present, which translate into marginality of communities and urban spaces, the contribution claims the importance of public space in the relations between community and city and proposes operational methods through project examples in the city of Palermo.

The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing Synergies: Protocol for a prospective observational study to measure the Impact of a…

2016

Aim of this paper is to describe the protocol of the study "Impact of a Community-based Program on Prevention and Mitigation of Frailty in community-dwelling older adults" developed in the framework of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing. This proposal has been developed by the Partnership Action groups on frailty, fall prevention and polypharmacy in older. The proposal wants to assess the impact of community-based programs aimed to counteract three main outcomes related to frailty: hospitalization, institutionalization and death. Bringing together researchers from seven European countries, the proposal aims to achieve the critical mass and the geographical exte…

How research projects can contribute to the development of efficient community-led projects?

2016

Trade of fish and fisheries products, including fish meal products, are influenced by both traditional trade policies, like tariffs, and non-tariff measures (NTMs). NTMs comprise several categories of measures such as sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) , technical barriers to trade (TBT) as well as non-technical measures. UNCTAD (2013) provides an international classification of NTMs; see Table 1 below. NTMs are governmental measures that determine the conditions under which trade takes place. They have become increasingly important as governments reacted to consumers’ concerns about catching and production practises. Consumers are for example concerned about the application of feed and drugs…

El proceso de independencia de cataluña: su visión desde la comunidad valenciana

2016

Este trabajo aborda el proceso independentista de Cataluña desde la perspectiva de la Comunidad Valenciana; analizando, por un lado, la respuesta que se ha ofrecido institucionalmente a la Declaración del Parlamento de Cataluña que inicia el «proceso de desconexión de España». Por otro, estudia la incidencia de dicho proceso en el marco de una Comunidad dual, que no ha manifestado ni política ni sociológicamente ningún conflicto entre su autonomismo —con su identidad propia— y su pertenencia al Estado.This paper examines the Catalan movement towards independence from the perspective of the Valencian Community and analyses the institutional response to the Declaration of the Catalan parliame…