Search results for "Social transformation"
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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…
An Easy Game? Experiences of ‘Homecoming’ in the Post-Socialist Context of Croatia and the Czech Republic
2016
The obstacles that often accompany remigration, planned and imagined as a ‘homecoming’, are seldom the topic of investigation in migration studies. Returning is not always an ‘easy game’. To explore this aspect of remigration, this chapter intends to focus on narratives of return produced mainly by so-called co-ethnic migrants who moved back to Croatia and the Czech Republic during the past two decades of post-socialist transformation. The empirical base of the chapter draws on the experiences and struggles accompanying remigration, and of arrival and acceptance in the respective society as described by returnees in biographical interviews. Attention is given to everyday social interaction …
Art-based social and educational action in Barcelona
2018
Des de fa uns anys, a Barcelona hi ha tot un moviment d’acció educativa que neix des de les arts i que fomenta la participació ciutadana en base a la cohesió social. Les noves propostes de l’educació artística tenen una forta component social, ja que impulsen la participació, tot redefinint els conceptes tradicionals de l’educació en arts. Hem entrevistat alguns dels promotors d’aquestes iniciatives per indagar en els models d’activitats i en les formes d’organització que representen. Hem descobert les problemàtiques que afecten a aquest model organitzatiu (precarietat, dependència institucional, canvis constants, atenció a tot tipus de públics), però també hem descobert els avantatges de g…
Blocos/batucadas en los barrios obreros de Madrid. La percusión colectiva como cultura de clase
2019
Influenciados por los blocos afro y los movimientos antisistema europeos, los primeros blocos de tambores brasileños (batucadas) comienzan a formarse en Madrid en los inicios del milenio. Su continua presencia en las calles durante los años de la crisis y posteriormente en el 15M los ha convertido en un fenómeno cultural imprescindible en cualquier reivindicación popular progresista. Algunos de ellos, ubicados y vinculados a los movimientos vecinales y/o anticapitalistas de los barrios obreros de la capital, forman parte de la vida cotidiana de su entorno a través de su participación en sus reivindicaciones y fiestas. Con su música, entendida como herramienta de transformación social, contr…
Innovation: transforming hierarchies in South Asia
2014
This special issue examines innovation as social change in South Asia. From an anthropological micro perspective, innovation is moulded by social systems of value and hierarchy and simultaneously potentially transforms them. The articles in this special issue examine a number of innovations in South Asian contexts: the printing press's changing technology and its intersections with communal and language ideologies in India (Peterson); mobile telephony, gender, and kinship in West Bengal (Tenhunen); microcredit and its relationship with social capital in Bangladesh (Uddin); imbalanced sex ratios and the future of marriage payments in north-western India (Jeffery); and how alternative dispute…
Civil society organizations and social innovation. How and to what extent are they influencing social and political change?
2017
This study aims to understand how civil society organizations (CSOs) perform and influence public arenas. The focus of this paper is the transformative scope of social innovation initiatives promoted by CSOsin two public arenas in Brazil: the fight against electoral corruption and the protection of children and adolescents’ rights. The research consisted of three stages: 1) controversy mapping to understand the configuration ofthese public arenas and compare the trajectories of the public problems studied; 2) observation of the “field of experience” of some CSOs that perform in these arenas; and 3) analysis of “political grammars” produced in public arenas, connecting them to the performanc…
Lost People : How National AI-Strategies Paying Attention to Users
2021
Abstract. This paper focuses on how major national strategies call attention to the human dimensions of artificial intelligence (AI). All intelligent technologies using AI are constructed for people as either active users or as relatively passive target persons. Thus, human properties and human research should have an important role in developing future AI systems. In these development strategies, it is interesting to pay attention to the underlying intuitive assumptions and tacit commitments. This issue is especially interesting when we think about what governmental working groups say about people and their changing lives in their strategies. The traditional stances adopted in writing nati…
Towards a Hostessing Society? Mobile Arrangements of Gender and Labour
2008
This article theorizes the forms and interrelations of mobilized work and arrangements of gender in the context of “new work”: an ideology of the flexible labour market of the new economy from the perspective of the workers. The notion of new work is further complicated by the thesis of the feminization of work, whereby, on the one hand, temporary employment is increasingly common also among men and, on the other, attributes and conditions formerly connected to women and understood as feminine virtues or domestic skills are now required from both women and men. Meanwhile, women migrate and are trafficked from poor countries to wealthy ones to perform a range of “old work” for women. Here, t…
Foro de educación
2014
Dada la riqueza y la diversidad social, cultural y educativa de América Latina, esta región geográfica se presenta como un escenario privilegiado para el aprendizaje y el desarrollo humanos de educadores de todo tipo, muy especialmente para los educadores sociales. De ahí que distintas universidades españolas hayan firmado convenios de cooperación con universidades latinoamericanas y establecido acuerdos de colaboración con organizaciones locales para que estudiantes de ambos lados del Atlántico puedan realizar prácticas. Este artículo se centra en el Programa Específico de Movilidad Internacional de la Facultat de Filosofía i Ciències de l’Educació de la Universitat de Vàlencia, describien…
Constitucionalismo democrático e innovación constitucional en Ecuador
2021
Desde la activación del poder constituyente en la Constitución colombiana de 1991, diversas constituciones democráticas han supuesto cambios estructurales importantes en varios países latinoamericanos, tanto en la organización de los poderes públicos como en la legitimidad democrática del poder y la regeneración constitucional de los derechos. De entre estos nuevos textos constitucionales latinoamericanos destaca, por su originalidad y avances teóricos, la Constitución ecuatoriana de 2009: el primer caso de constitucionalismo de transición en el nuevo constitucionalismo latinoamericano. Estas constituciones, no obstante, se encuentran ante un problema de aplicación que dificulta su funcio…