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La Responsabilidad Social de la Educación Superior como Bien Común. Concepto y desafíos
2018
Este artículo atiende al planteamiento de la Unesco de considerar como bien común a la Educación Superior, en un momento en que las Instituciones de Educación Superior están inmersas en procesos caracterizados por una progresiva mercantilización del conocimiento que condiciona el acceso a la financiación por posicionamiento en rankings internacionales, poniendo en riesgo el objeto de contribuir a un desarrollo sostenible en sus contextos. Mediante un particular análisis de aspectos relacionados con la Responsabilidad Social y la relación con los grupos de interés, se realiza una contribución a la reflexión teórica y a los desafíos para conceptualizar la Educación Superior como un bien común.
Normes et formes de l'intérêt et du désintéressement à l'heure de la marchandisation du lien communautaire
2016
Market exchanges would be evolving into a more horizontal and collaborative model. We can notice the strength of this movement within 2.0 merchant platforms. Then, we propose to explore the tension between giving and commodification through the concepts of interest and empowerment. Our main hypothesis is about a reconfiguration of online giving in a form of "disinterested interest". We will bring this issue through an exploratory study on Airbnb.
La cultura ci salverà? Processi di touristification a base culturale nel centro storico di Palermo
2023
Negli ultimi tre decenni la cultura ha avuto un ruolo chiave nella costruzione delle politiche urbane, divenendo uno strumento decisivo nella definizione delle strategie di sviluppo economico e nell’accesso alla competizione globale che caratterizzano l’attuale regime di neoliberismo urbano (Miles e Paddison 2005). Anche nel sud Europa la cosiddetta rigenerazione a base culturale ha rappresentato e continua ancora oggi a rappresentare una vera e propria ortodossia urbana, che trova nel turismo tanto una ragione di esistenza quanto un campo di attuazione. In particolare, negli ultimi anni i centri storici di molte città sudeuropee sono stati oggetto di trasformazioni profonde in cui pratiche…
Local culture in the context of international tourism : Japanese tourists' perceptions of the culture of Saariselkä and the views of Japanese travel …
2012
In tourism, cultures are often used as resources to attract tourists. This is because tourism is generated by difference. So that the culture of a tourist destination can be consumed by tourists the culture needs to go through commodification, a process through which part of the culture turns into a product or a service. Knowing how a culture is used for tourism practice is important from the viewpoint of the cultural sustainability of tourism. The present study primarily aims at examining how the local culture is dealt with by the Japanese in Saariselkä through tourism. The study concentrates on how Japanese tourists perceive the local culture during their stay and how the Japanese travel …
Commodification of higher education? : an analysis of Education and Training Sector Improvement Programme (ETSIP) phase 1 (2006 to 2011) document of …
2017
The conceptualization of education is an essential term which generally tends to be understood in different ways, this is especially in terms of how it is supposed to function in the society. For Namibia, the notion of education in Namibia is emphasised as an important sector to enable the country to achieve developmental goals. This is partly because of the education perspective(s) that has shaped how the concept of education is theoretically and practically understood from legislative framework to policy discourse. Additionally, the Higher Education (HE) sector plays contributes immensely on the development that the country strives to achieve yet the sector has been faced with various pro…
Towards an Economy of Encounters? : A critical study of affectual assemblages in coworking
2017
Abstract Coworking spaces have been established in great numbers around the globe over the past 10 years. Previous studies on coworking spaces argue that these spaces are designed to enable serendipitous encounters. Here we introduce the concept of an economy of encounters, arguing that both intended and unintended encounters have become a form of production in the knowledge-based new economy. This paper draws upon the critical analysis of three case studies of different coworking settings − two open coworking spaces and a corporate coworking office. Following Deleuze and Guattari, we see coworking spaces as affectual assemblages that create affects that push knowledge workers in flow and m…
The Market as Statecraft: A Polanyian Reading
2019
How can markets help the state boost its sovereign power? The answer we derive from Polanyi’s account of change is that markets have the ability to undermine the cooperative relations underpinning communal life by making various subgroups compete against each other. As such, markets represent a soft-power alternative to military and repressive force.