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Is culture-led redevelopment relevant for rural planners? The risk of adopting urban theories in rural settings
2016
In the paper, the author argues that cultural strategies and theories about urban planning may be irrelevant or even counterproductive outside urban and suburban contexts. In many rural settings the problem is not the destruction of the cultural heritage or how to counterbalance the influence from corporate interests, but rather the absence of such interests in the first place. From a study of two rural municipalities in southern Norway, the author demonstrates that culture-led strategies may be more of a distraction than an instrument for creating economic growth. Measured by the common goals for rural development in Norway, the cultural strategy has only been a success in one of the cases…
Workers’ and volunteers’ ideas about the benefits of young people’s cultural participation : a critical capital-based approach
2020
This article deals with non-profit sector and voluntary workers’ understandings of the benefits of young people’s participation in cultural and leisure projects in Central Finland. Active participation is highlighted on a policy level as a solution to social inequality, exclusion, and marginalisation among young people. The article focuses on the cultural, social, economic, and political dimensions of participation by exploring the advantages that cultural projects bring to young people. The article theorises these dimensions by drawing on Bourdieu’s concept of capital to provide a more critical account of the participation paradigm. Fifteen workers and volunteers on cultural projects were …
Economic development and the creative industries: a tale of causality
2014
Cultural and creative industries are thought to be a driver for economic growth. During the last decade, research has tried to link higher intensity of these industries with the region's welfare. However, this is a controversial relationship that still needs to be proved. In this article, we build a conceptual framework to help us test the possible causality between regional income generation and employment in the cultural and creative sectors. Using regional European data for 1999–2008, our results show that there is a significant feedback (bidirectional causality) between the per capita GDP and employment intensity in the cultural and creative industries, allowing us to conclude that ther…
Analysing social networks in rural development: a gender approach
2016
Gender issues are of growing importance in the European and Spanish rural areas. The literature reflects that women have traditionally been linked to marginal positions in economic life, social activities and even political representation at the local level. Local development programs that have been implemented in Europe’s rural areas have had among its objectives the improvement of the articulation of local communities. To reach them, it has been fostered, among others, a gender perspective, promoting both productive activities led by women and their participation as stakeholders in the management and decision-making structures of such programmes. In this paper, we addressed this latter is…
Faith-based development of World Vision Tanzania
2018
This article examines how faith is intertwined in conceptions of development in the work of World Vision Tanzania, a faith-based organisation focusing on child welfare. Issues that are explored include the question how an apparently common faith setting constitutes and provides a source of social meanings and values for the assessment of human development as well as secular development concepts such as human agency and empowerment. The analysis shows how World Vision staff assign different values to Christian and non-Christian development when assessing the potential and achievements of the beneficiaries in terms of secular concepts. It is argued that a faith-based worldview in this context…
Farmers' participation in civic agriculture: The effect of social embeddedness
2014
This work investigates how farmers??? attitudes influence their decision to participate in some particular forms of civic agriculture, namely farmers' markets (conventional or organic), solidarity purchase groups, direct selling and box schemes. It also explores whether social embeddedness-related attitudes occur with different intensities within the various types of civic agriculture. To this end, a survey was carried out among farmers participating in civic agriculture in Sicily (Italy). Empirical results confirm the role of social embeddedness whereby personal relations between farmers and consumers are emphasised: a greater presence of community relations fosters a greater role of socia…
Editorial: Crises and Recoveries
2018
La contribución de la ciencia a la cultura ciudadana
2004
El propósito de este trabajo es analizar las contribuciones de la ciencia a la cultura ciudadana, con objeto de fundamentar las propuestas de alfabetización científica como una componente esencial de la educación, susceptible de favorecer la participación ciudadana en la toma de decisiones acerca de los problemas relacionados con el desarrollo tecnocientífico, contribuir a la formación de un espíritu crítico y transmitir la emoción de los apasionantes desafíos a los que se ha enfrentado la comunidad científica. Se pretende responder así a las críticas de algunos autores, que se han referido a la alfabetización científica del conjunto de ciudadanos y ciudadanas como un mito irrealizable.
Relaciones familiares, rechazo entre iguales y violencia escolar
2006
ResumenEl objetivo principal del presente estudio es analizar las diferencias en las relaciones familiares (apoyo parental, comunicacion familiar y violencia parental) entre adolescentes rechazados por su grupo de iguales que se implican en conductas violentas en la escuela (rechazados agresivos), adolescentes rechazados que no participan en comportamientos violentos en la escuela (rechazados no-agresivos) y adolescentes no-rechazados y no-agresivos (grupo control). Los participantes del estudio fueron 843 adolescentes de entre 11 y 16 anos (edad media: 13,7), de los cuales el 47% son chicos y el 53% chicas, escolarizados en cuatro centros de la Comunidad Valenciana. Los instrumentos utiliz…
Lukács entre política e ética
2020
O ensaio analisa o último período do pensamento do Lukács e, em particular, a sua reflexão sobre os problemas da política e da ética. Lukács sempre esteve interessado nas questões da política e da ética no curso de toda a sua produção intelectual. Depois da morte do Stalin, este interesse se revelou abertamente e sem limites. A crítica a Stalin e aos seus epígonos é a constante da sua reflexão política e ética. O velho Lukács desenvolve o conceito de democratização buscando estimular o início de um proceso de reestruturação política nos países do socialismo realizado. O ensaio analisa também a última entrevista de Lukács, conhecida como o seu Testamento político.