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Conceptualising Violence in Close Relationships : Discrepancies Between Police Conceptions and the Letter of the Law in Finland
2020
AbstractThe focus in this Finland-based study is on violence in close relationships—a term that partly overlaps with the more commonly used ‘domestic violence’, ‘family violence’ and ‘intimate partner violence’. We demonstrate how police officers’ conceptualisations of such violence differ from how it is defined in relevant legal documents. The data consists of the Government Bill and legal text on the subject issued as part of a legal reform enacted in 2010, and of a qualitative sample of freelist responses from 79 police officers. We examined both sets of data using theory-driven directed content analysis and deriving from prevailing theoretical frameworks reflecting the family- and gende…
Autonomy and Cooperation in Federalizing Models of Cultural Policy. Comparative Analysis of the Cases of Germany, USA, Canada, Switzerland, United Ki…
2018
Desde los años ochenta diversas investigaciones han profundizado en la comparación de los diversos modelos de las políticas culturales nacionales. Asimismo, el interés por la descentralización cultural y el reconocimiento de la diversidad cultural y nacional ha crecido en paralelo a la importancia de la acción cultural pública de las regiones y las municipalidades. Sin embargo, no se han desarrollado estudios que permitan comparar de forma sistemática la relación entre los modelos de federalismo y los modelos de política cultural de un Estado. Este trabajo persigue cubrir este vacío realizando una comparativa de seis países federales o casi federales que han destacado en su desarrollo de po…
Learning and maintaining languages in the workplace: migrant NGO practitioners in Finland
2017
This article reports on a linguistic ethnographic study exploring migrant NGO practitioners’ language learning and maintenance at work. The findings suggest that the migrants learnt not only the language of the receiving society, in this case Finnish, but also English as an additional language through work. The narratives also show that the workplace supported migrants in maintaining both their home language and additional languages. Overall, the study highlights the importance of language learning and maintenance, which promote the linguistic integration and social inclusion of migrant NGO practitioners in the workplace. L’article rend compte d’une étude ethnographique sur l’apprentissage …
Exploring the Shift from Output Measures to Outcome Measures of Service Delivery: Insights from Municipal Research
2021
Prior research shows that reporting on outcome measures increases the probability that local officials will use perform- ance data to inform their decisions. What has been over- looked in the literature is the question of why some local governments continue to focus more on outputs than on out- comes of service delivery, thereby limiting their ability to use performance data for decision-making. The purpose of this art- icle is to identify organizational, individual, and support factors that could increase the probability that local officials in the Apulia Region of Italy when measuring performance, will move beyond the basic measures of output to the more advanced measures of outcome. Base…
Spatial Differences in the Expenses Incurred by Units of Local Governments on Physical Culture in Poland in 2017
2018
Units of local governments in Poland are responsible for running actions in the sphere of physical culture. The growing number of people practicing sports, as well as social and rearing aspects related to sports exert an influence on the activity of sports clubs and social organizations which promote physical culture. While only some sports organizations are selfsufficient economically, most of them must rely on public support. In Poland, like in the majority of European countries, one of the main sources of financing are subventions from public means. In this paper, using the background of characteristics related to legal aspects of financing physical culture by local government, which is …
NGDO brand logos. Sense and evolution
2015
La hipótesis inicial de este artículo es que, desde mediados de los años noventa, la lógica de marca se ha extendido al ámbito de la cooperación y de la ayuda humanitaria. Que en las últimas décadas las grandes ONGD han devenido marcas postmodernas. A manera de ejemplo, hemos estudiado los logos aparecidos en los anuncios de televisión de cinco de estas organizaciones: Intermón Oxfam, Médicos Sin Fronteras, Anesvad, Ayuda en Acción y África Directo. Sin duda, el logo es el primer elemento a considerar para establecer un posicionamiento de marca porque en un logo, además de la identidad visual, se anticipan metonímicamente los relatos y los valores que sustenten la marca, bien sea una marca …
The formation of local territorial administration in Poland in the years 1945–1952
2021
Kształtowanie się systemu administracji lokalnej w Polsce w latach 1945–1952 jest jednym z najciekawszych zagadnień w powojennej historii Polski. Z jednej strony formalnie funkcjonował system samorządu terytorialnego, ale z drugiej strony pojawia się nieznany wcześniej w Polsce sowiecki model administracyjny rad narodowych. Połączenie systemów samorządu terytorialnego i rad narodowych skomplikował sytuację administracyjną w Polsce. Hierarchiczny układ rad, czyli podporządkowanie rad niższego szczebla radom wyższego szczebla, oznaczało odejście od jednej z podstawowych cech samorządu terytorialnego, czyli niezależności danego szczebla struktury administracyjnej w stosunku do poziomu znajdują…
Un dialogo sul "governo dei giudici"
2023
Si tratta di una notizia relativa a un seminario sul ruolo della magistratura in Italia It is a note about the role of judiciary in Italy
Mobilising Consumers for Food Waste Reduction in Finnish Media Discourse
2019
Raippalinna explores how consumers are mobilised for food waste reduction in media discourse. Food waste reduction initiatives are often criticised for putting the responsibility on individual consumers, but little research exists on the mobilisation of consumers in actual contexts. Through critical discourse analysis of media texts, Raippalinna investigates how the food waste problem and consumers are constructed in relation to each other in Finlands leading newspaper Helsingin Sanomat 2010–2017. The analysis demonstrates that the discourses of consumer mobilisation appear mostly as consumer education where the consumer’s role is to manage individual consumption and household practices. Th…
The renaissance of tramways and urban redevelopment in France
2017
Abstract Tramways have made a remarkable comeback in France since the 1980s. An organization of public transport based on the decentralized administration system set up in the early 1980s has allowed local urban authorities to make their own choices to develop public transport networks in the context of automobile domination. As in many other countries, worries about fossil fuel dependency and demands concerning sustainable urban development appear as strong elements in favour of urban light rail. However, in France, tramways are not just technical solutions for traffic congestion, they have also become a symbol of a cultural mutation in urban development planning. Coupled with a national p…