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“Nature needs you”: discursive constructions of legitimacy and identification in environmental charity appeals

2022

Abstract This study traces how discursive constructions of legitimacy and identification are enacted textually and visually with respect to environment-oriented causes, such as landscape or species restoration. Such conservation projects actually clash with human economic priorities typical of the Anthropocene. Drawing on models of social trust and assuming the discursive nature of legitimacy and identification, we explore how environmental charity organizations represent their conservation efforts, reproduce sustainability discourses and advocate self-regulatory practices. We use a sample of mission statements and donation appeals by six prominent environmental charities from the UK. Throu…

Linguistics and LanguagePhilosophyrhetoricCommunicationcritical multimodal discourse analysisidentificationcharity communicationenvironmentmission statementsmobilizationLanguage and LinguisticslegitimizationText & Talk
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Cultural institutions as agents of urban and community regeneration in the (post-)pandemic city. The case of the «Laboratorio Zen Insieme» in Palermo

2022

Although all cities in the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, its impacts on the territories, yet to be understood, are unevenly distributed, revealing extremely varied imbalances depending on the places. However, it is clear that the virus and its variants have aggravated pre-existing socio-spatial inequalities, creating new ones and bringing attention back to those implications between space, planning, public health and citizenship that are at the origins of contemporary urbanism. In a reference framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized social contexts and g…

Olsen 2018Settore ICAR/21 - UrbanisticaSettore M-GGR/01 - GeografiaSacco and Blessi 2009). In the current (post-) pandemic context and through the lens of a southern European perspective the purpose of this article is to critically reflect about the role of culture as possible vehicle of urban and community regeneration. In particular we will focus on the activities of the no profit organization «Laboratorio Zen Insieme» in ZEN2 one of the last large popular and peripheral neighborhoods built in Palermo at the end of 80s in order to explore and understand how cultural practices work as agent of urban and social transformation capable of addressing emerging issues especially in the pandemic scenario we are experiencing. Thecasestudy has been conducted through analysis of documents participative observations (Honer and Hitzler 2015) and qualitative in-depth interviews with key actors involved in the conception organization and management of the activities carried out by Laboratorio Zen Insieme with representatives of local institutions and non-formal conversations with participants of the workshops heldin the neighborhood. The experience we narrate finds that cultural practices have re-conceptualized their design and functions as strategies of urban and community regeneration and at the same time have contributed to answer to emergent issues in developing proximity and local based strategies facing up to problems inherent civil rights educationalpoverty socio-spatial justice and have changed the image and identity of urban places they inhabit.In this sense the research provides a framework for development of strategies and legitimization for cultural practices and a point of discussionabouttheirrolein urban development.Although all cities in the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic its impacts on the territories yet to be understood are unevenly distributed revealing extremely varied imbalances depending on the places. However it is clear that the virus and its variants have aggravated pre-existing socio-spatial inequalities creating new ones and bringing attention back to those implications between space planning public health and citizenship that are at the origins of contemporary urbanism. In a reference framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized social contexts and groups a response to the new social and individual needs has been offered by cultural institutions that play a role of territorial agency often independently or in the absence of political institutions. Far from the idea of entertainment and divertissement it is in fact increasingly clear how the practices of cultural innovation experimenting with various forms of action and participation can in some cases play a fundamental role in the processes of social cohesion and community building representing an antidote to the worsening of the phenomena of marginalization and socio-spatial inequalities within cities and territories (Colantonio and Dixon 2011
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Trzy modele reform administracji publicznej a legitymizacja służby publicznej

2017

Administracja publiczna podlega permanentnym reformom, dostosowując swoją organizację, zadania i sposób działania do potrzeb oraz idei współczesnego świata. Jednocześnie szuka elementów i form legitymizujących jej funkcjonowanie. Wprowadzane reformy zmieniają rolę i pozycję służby publicznej, oddziałując na jej legitymizację. Menadżerskie zarządzanie z modelu NPM wpływa na zakres świadczeń publicznych, a tym samym (nie wprost) na akceptację nowego modelu służby publicznej. Z kolei model NPG wzmacnia pozycję obywatela w procesie wyznaczania celu publicznego, zmusza służbę publiczną do negocjacji i działań konsensualnych w czasie definiowania interesu publicznego. W ten sposób obywatel, decyd…

new public governance; new public management; neo-Weberian state; legitimization; civil servicenew public governance; new public management; państwo neoweberowskie; legitymizacja; służba publicznaAnnales Universitate Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, sectio G
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Legitimizing sex and empowerment : an interpretation of narratives on sex trade in Thailand

2015

This research investigates how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working against human trafficking in Thailand and male tourists travelling to Thailand for sex legitimize their actions and perspectives on their websites. The research material is constituted by two websites for each of both categories. Plot analysis was used as a main method, based on Northrop Frye’s mythoi and Kenneth Burke’s dramatistic hexad. Subsequently, plots were deconstructed by pointing out omissions, inconsistencies, and dualities. From the analysis, it derived that all parties produce a form of knowledge that legitimizes their power, which in turn is necessary in order to produce knowledge. They sample the pop…

sex tourismplot analysislaillisuusThaimaaseksiturismiThailandnon-governmental organizationsbiopoliticslegitimizationkansalaisjärjestöt
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"Demokracja jacksonowska" a zmiana postawy legitymizacji władzy sądowniczej w USA

2021

The article discusses the issue of changes of the bases of legitimization for the state judiciary in the US during the so-called “Jacksonian Democracy”, i.e., the period from 1829 (the beginning of the presidency of Andrew Jackson) until the outbreak of the Civil War. During this period on the wave of the democratization process of public institutions in the US, popular elections were introduced to select judges at the state level. The reason for the introduced institution was the willingness of legal environments to make judges independent from the world of politics, as well as strengthening their social authority and a political position in a political system. The result of popular electi…

władza sądowniczadyskurs prawny: Jacksonian Democracylegal discoursedemokracja jacksonowskalegitymizacjajudicial reviewlegitimizationjudicial powerWrocławsko-Lwowskie Zeszyty Prawnicze
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