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Digital Islamophobia: The Swedish woman as a figure of pure and dangerous whiteness
2016
This article addresses the digital culture of Islamophobic bloggers, focusing on the online circulation of a forensic photograph of a Swedish woman who was assaulted. The analysis shows how through appropriating this image, the bloggers created a unifying, imagined whiteness in the transnational Islamophobic network. The empirical analysis clarifies how this one image migrated and transformed in the blogosphere and legitimated the recurrent discursive trope of “Muslim rape.” This image became a subcultural “memory freeze frame” crystallizing the contemporary Islamophobic ideologies articulated in connection to race, ethnicity, nation, gender, and sexuality. The viral circulation of this im…
Phantom/liminal fat and feminist theories of the body
2017
This article brings together two concepts, ‘phantom fat’ and ‘liminal fat’, which both aim to grasp how fat in contemporary culture becomes a kind of material immateriality, corporeality in suspension. Comparing the spheres of representation and experience, we examine the challenges and usefulness of these concepts, and feminist fat studies perspectives more broadly, to feminist scholarship on the body. We ask what connects and disconnects fat corporeality and fat studies from ways of theorising other embodied differences, like gender, ‘race’, disability, class and sexuality, especially when thinking through their perceived mutability or removability, and assumptions about their relevance …
Strengthening Institutional Isomorphism in Development NGOs? Program Mechanisms in an Organizational Intervention
2017
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in international development struggle between being actors in the mainstream or representatives of alternatives to it. However, many NGOs all over the world align with the mainstream and are increasingly similar to each other. This homogenization results from institutional isomorphism, which is affected by their aspirations to be legitimate vis-á-vis the international field. Consultancies are among the main practices to promote normative isomorphism, but little is known about their micro-level dynamics. Drawing on the notion of program mechanisms in realistic evaluation, we scrutinize how external facilitators in organizational development processes enab…
Mesure de la performance des agences bancaires par une approche DEA
2005
Using a DEA framework (Data Envelopment Analysis), we develop new performance indicators for integrated retail networks. A methodological discussion leads us to propose a productivity indicator which respects the criteria of controllability and transversal coherence. We then formalise the relationship between a performance indicator of a network's headquarters and the productivity of its various retailers. Finally, we combine these new indicators in crafting a management tool amenable to a system of balanced scorecards.
Hiihtosuunnistuksen lajianalyysi ja valmennuksen ohjelmointi
2014
Johdanto. Hiihtosuunnistuksella on jo vuosikymmenten perinteet. Ensimmäinen suomenmestaruuskilpailu järjestettiin vuonna 1966. Laji on muuttunut paljon etenkin kahden viime vuosikymmenen aikana vapaan hiihtotavan tultua perinteisen tilalle ja välineiden kehittymisen myötä. Tämän työn tavoitteena on kertoa hiihtosuunnistuksesta lajina sekä selvittää hiihtosuunnistuksen lajivaatimuksia. Tavoitteena on myös kertoa lajin nykytilasta sekä tuoda esille hiihtosuunnistuksen harjoittelua valmennuksen ohjelmoinnissa esimerkkiurheilijan viikkoesimerkein. Kestävyys ja voima. Hiihtosuunnistus on ennen kaikkea kestävyyslaji. Peruskestävyys luo pohjan vauhti- ja maksimikestävyyden harjoittamiselle. Hiihto…
Riconfigurare i territori metroplitani. Forme di urbanizzazione e fenomeni di pressione insediativa sui sistemi di interesse naturale in Sicilia
2018
The consumption of the soil due to urbanization it is a phenomena already for many years under observations, but of which only the scientific environment has noticed the elevated environmental impact progress. From a disciplinary point of view, is possible to identify a line of research focusing on the analysis and identification of new morphologies of urbanization and on the interaction among different settlement patterns coexisting in a specific context. This reading complements with the scientific production about the forms of settlement pressure on environmental systems, producing change and deterioration on natural ecosystems and loss of biodiversity. A necessary reference for this lin…
Konkurssin jälkeen uudelleen yrittäjäksi : yrittäjäuran jatkumiseen vaikuttavat yrittäjään liittyvät tekijät
2010
Tässä tutkimuksessa selvitettiin yrittäjään liittyviä tekijöitä, jotka vaikuttavat yrittäjäuran jatkumiseen konkurssin jälkeen. Ensisijaisena kiinnostuksena oli ymmärtää yrittäjän suhtautumista, ajattelutapaa ja asennoitumista sekä näiden vaikutusta jatkamispäätökseen. Taustan ilmiön tutkimiselle muodosti ymmärrys yrittäjyydestä epävarmuustekijöitä sisältävänä ja tilannetekijöistä riippuvana prosessina (mm. Bygrave 1994; Timmons & Spinelli 2004) sekä kokemukseen perustuvana elämänmittaisena oppimisprosessina (mm. Ronstadt 1988; Politis 2005 ja Ucbasaran ym.2006). Teoreettinen viitekehys muodostui tapayrittäjyyttä (mm. Huovinen 2007), yrittäjän toimintaa ohjaavia yksilöllisiä ominaisuuksia j…
Le dimensioni della tariffa del servizio idrico integrato
2019
L’articolo esamina le caratteristiche principali del sistema tariffario idrico, prendendo in considerazione l’evoluzione delle competenze tariffarie e illustrando le diverse funzioni delle tariffe idriche. Si sofferma l’attenzione sulle componenti tariffarie destinate a garantire la sostenibilità economico-finanziaria del servizio idrico, dando conto dei mutamenti normativi intervenuti in materia e analizzando le delibere dell’Autorità di settore. Si descrivono, inoltre, i profili di inclusione sociale compresi nei modelli tariffari, attraverso la disamina delle più recenti regolamentazioni amministrative riguardanti il bonus sociale idrico e la disciplina in tema di morosità degli utenti. …
Talous feministisen kritiikin keskiössä
2020
Johanna Kantola, Paula Koskinen Sandberg & Hanna Ylöstalo (toim.): Tasa-arvopolitiikan suunnanmuutoksia: talouskriisistä tasa-arvon kriiseihin. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 2020, 328 s. I S B N : 978-952-345-056-1
Spazio pubblico, usi temporanei e tattiche di city-making
2014
Progetti a breve termine basati sulle comunità, iniziative temporanee e bottom-up in cui i fruitori generano lo spazio pubblico, si moltiplicano nelle città di tutto il mondo e si affiancano a più tradizionali azioni di pianificazione a lungo termine. L'Urbanistica si trova, inaspettatamente, a prendere in considerazione la forza e la possibilità di soluzioni piccole e lente, domandandosi su come "abilitare" le sperimentazioni dei nuovi city-making integrandole nel tradizionale processo lineare decisionale, stimolando nuove politiche urbane che possano sostenere la creatività dei processi, proporre nuovi modi di decisione e di azione, utilizzando forme di coordinamento e di collaborazione, …