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Dissenting voices in a consenting village: lessons from implementation of free, prior and informed consent at a REDD+ pilot in Tanzania
2020
Free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) is a key institutional tool in meeting social safeguards. Its implementation ensures respect of the local people's rights in an intervention. This paper presents a case of FPIC implementation at a REDD+ pilot site. Data were obtained through key informant interviews and focus group discussions with proponents and village members of the Lindi REDD+ project. Findings indicate that the inclusive approach to FPIC by taking the consultations to the hamlet level did not deliver a flawless process. The consent decision was reached by a majority vote, not consensus. There was some dissent, prompting the early establishment of project implementation committees…
Ecovillages in Spain: Searching an emancipatory social transformation?
2018
Today the second most important country after the United States, in the number of ecovillages, and by far, the most prominent in Europe, is Spain. The question to be addressed here is whether this revival or boom of ecovillages in Spain is an incipient social transformation and cultural change, following Erik Olin Wright theory of emancipatory social transformation. This work is divided into five main sections. The first one introduces three different approaches that remark the importance of ecovillages for radical cultural and social studies. The second part explains the methodology performed for the study of 29 ecovillages in Spain, using six critical variables on material interests and i…
Digital competence in teacher education: comparing national policies in Norway, Ireland and Spain
2021
This paper explores the development of policies dealing with teachers' digital competence in Norway, Ireland and Spain. Using a documentary research approach, the study analysed relevant policy documents from each country over a thirty-year period to the present day. Analysis of the documents highlights historical differences and similarities in how technology in education policies developed during that period and differences in how teacher education was addressed. Despite these differences, the analysis indicates a convergence in recent years towards a common understanding and the importance of teachers' digital competence influenced by supranational frameworks. The paper discusses the pot…
Franco’s dictatorship in recent school textbooks: A critical review
2018
Este artículo analiza de forma panorámica el tratamiento de la dictadura franquista en los manuales escolares españoles de educación primaria, secundaria y bachillerato de los últimos veinte años. Se parte de la siguiente premisa: el tratamiento educativo de un pasado conflictivo y “candente” como el del franquismo debe preocupar de forma especial a la comunidad de investigadores y profesores de Historia, en tanto en cuanto tiene profundas repercusiones potenciales en la construcción de las identidades sociopolíticas de las nuevas generaciones. En este sentido, el artículo, aunque no niega los avances producidos, focaliza su atención en las carencias metodológicas, epistemológicas e interpr…
Invisibilization and Silencing as an Ethical and Sociological Challenge
2017
AbstractExcluded and/or marginalized social groups frequently face problems involving representation in the public sphere. Moreover, the very notion of exclusion typically refers to communicatively or discursively produced mechanisms of being considered irrelevant in public processes of communication. Exclusion and marginalization, understood as processes of silencing or invisibilizing social groups, are particularly serious in cases involving social suffering, i.e. socially produced suffering and/or suffering that can be eliminated or alleviated socially. Making silence heard, giving voice to the silenced and bringing the invisibilized back into the public domain are therefore fundamental …
New modes of policy legitimation in education: (Mis)using comparative data to effectuate assessment reform
2017
Identifying three modes of policy legitimation in education, illustrated by shifts in Swedish educational assessment and grading policies over the past decades, the paper demonstrates significant trends with regard to national governments’ policymaking and borrowing. We observe a shift away from collaboracy – defined as policy legitimation located in partnerships and networks of stakeholders, researchers and other experts – towards more use of supranational agencies (called agency), such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the European Union and associated networks, as well as the use of individual consultants and private enterprises (called consultancy) to legiti…
Biopolíticas de cierre de centros educativos desde una perspectiva de género: los casos de España y Suecia.
2021
Una de las medidas politicas para hacer frente a la pandemia Covid-19 de especial interes por su amplio alcance global y por sus implicaciones en la desigualdad de genero es el cierre de centros educativos. Partiendo desde una perspectiva de genero, este trabajo analiza las politicas de cierre de centros educativos como estrategias politicas de respuesta y prevencion a la pandemia Covid-19 en Espana y Suecia. Teniendo como base del marco teorico la concepcion de biopolitica de Didier Fassin articulada con el concepto performativo de genero de Judith Butler, se analizan: estadisticas nacionales, informes gubernamentales y politicas educativas durante el periodo marzo-noviembre de 2020 en amb…
Migrant family visits and the life course: interrelationships between age, capacity and desire
2017
Comunicación política y discursos sobre el poder
2017
Se analizan los principales enfoques teoricos vinculados con el estudio de la comunicacion politica, entendida como la interaccion entre partidos politicos, medios de comunicacion y ciudadanos. Se resumen en dos grandes corrientes: por un lado, los estudios que ponen el enfasis en la mediatizacion de la politica, esto es, la adecuacion de los mensajes politicos al discurso, estrategias, intereses y logica de los medios de comunicacion. Por otro, las escuelas y enfoques que advierten de la dependencia de los medios de comunicacion respecto de actores externos, asi como de su perdida de influencia y peso especifico en los ultimos anos.
“Minding the gap” in the research on human trafficking for sexual purposes
2017
Since the signature of the United Nations Trafficking Protocol in December 2000 that human trafficking has been labelled as a transnational, complex criminal phenomenon. However, despite the implementation of international soft law instruments to tackle the phenomenon, human trafficking is constantly evolving by the frequent changes of strategies, routes, types of exploitation and methodologies applied by the criminal networks. This flexibility of the phenomenon does not only difficult the implementation of effective tackling measures, but it also demonstrates to be an obstacle to produce accurate information on the subject (Cusick et al, 2009). Furthermore, due to the hidden nature of the …