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Is no One Left Behind? Inclusive Citizenship in Practices of Self-help Groups in Rural Tanzania
2023
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are based on the Agenda 2030 according to which ‘no one is left behind’, highlighting the need for inclusive citizenship at all levels. This article examines self-help groups in rural Tanzania as potential arenas for inclusive citizenship, which is defined as bottom-up practices of membership, participation, and livelihood enhancement. However, inclusive citizenship is also characterised by exclusions. Therefore, while acknowledging the important contribution of self-help groups for development, this article scrutinises the question of patterns of exclusion, first, in practices of self-help groups, and second, in the relationships bet…
How educators commit to enhancing children’s participation in early childhood education pedagogical plans
2022
Background: This is a descriptive study of children’s participation plans in early childhood education (ECE) settings in Finland. The study adopted a multidimensional approach to find out how practices of children’s participation were conceived in pedagogical plans made by ECE staff, representing a focus that is rare in the existing body of research. Aim: Aim of the study was to investigate educators’ commitments to enhancing children’s participation in pedagogical practices in their ECE settings. Setting: Ten centre-based plans for children’s participation composed by ECE staff at ECE centres were selected for the document data in this study. Methods: This study employs the categorisation …
QUALITATIVE GIS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE URBAN MANAGEMENT
2015
Multiculturalism and multi-ethnicity are increasingly transforming European cities: in this complexity, making right policies to guarantee the social justice and the quality of life is really difficult. More generally it’s an ethical problem. Society isn’t uniform, and to safeguard the multiplicity, giving all the citizens (women, children, strangers, young or old people) the same rights, we must change the way of making knowledge. Planners should adopt mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) to analyse the urban context, and also representations should include all the citizens’ points of view, through new mapping systems. Traditional maps could be integrated with new typologies of dra…
Il ruolo dei processi partecipativi nella formazione dei pianificatori: l'esperienza di Palermo
2019
Il presente lavoro lega tre temi ampiamente dibattuti negli studi urbani ma raramente posti in connessione: la diffusione di pratiche partecipative e di cooperazione tra soggetti pubblici e privati, la ricerca-azione partecipativa (Participatory Action Research) e la formazione scientifica e professionale da impartire alle nuove generazioni di urbanisti. Gli autori sostengono, infatti, che preparare gli studenti dei corsi di studi in discipline connesse alla città (Pianificazione, Urbanistica, Geografia, ecc.) alla gestione di pratiche partecipative sia un’esigenza ineludibile nell’odierno contesto italiano e internazionale. Il caso che si intende porre all’attenzione riguarda la cooperazio…
Nuove strategie per il bene collettivo: crowdfunding civico al Parco Uditore di Palermo
2015
Il tema del crowdfunding civico riguarda la partecipazione pubblica alla gestione del territorio. In particolare, la possibilità di attuare meccanismi di finanziamento autonomi e autogestiti per la realizzazione di opere pubbliche (seppure di limitata entità) costringe gli amministratori e i tecnici a confrontarsi con l’avvenuta conquista, da parte della cittadinanza, di una parte del potere decisionale. Quanto è opportuno che gli esiti della consultazione pubblica abbiano un canale di finanziamento specifico? Quali garanzie del processo partecipativo sono necessarie perché le richieste dei cittadini siano coerenti con le linee generali della pianificazione locale e sovralocale, e si possan…
Corresponsabilità educativa nei servizi 0-6. La percezione di genitori e insegnanti.
2021
The 0-6 years integrated education service has opened new perspectives on parental participation and the forms in which it can be developed and put into practice. This paper intends to offer a theoretical framework relating to the role of families and the participation in the context of education services, based on a dialogue between family and education services. Through a survey conducted in the city of Palermo, some indications are proposed with respect to ways of improving the school-family co-education synergy, suggesting some good practices for a constructive and mutually responsible alliance.
Participatory Budget as an Instrument of Social Participation in the Sports Sector
2021
From the perspective of local government, social participation means the participation of citizens in making decisions about the performance of public tasks. Allocation of participatory budget funds is executed by indicating the types of tasks that should be financed under this budget. Projects submitted within this budget are treated as indicators of the needs and expectations of the residents. Undertaking and organising activities popularising widely understood physical fitness and sports activities is an important sphere of life. Therefore, the paper refers to whether the participatory budget is used as an instrument of social participation in the sphere of physical fitness and sports, a…
Verso una geografia per la partecipazione
2018
This article introduces the contributions collected in the special issue no. 1/2018 of “geotema” and presented at the 4th Study Day on Territorial Identities (Rome, September 22nd, 2017), promoted by the homonymous research group of the A.Ge.I. (Associations of Italian Geographers). The paper aims at discussing some basic questions on participatory processes, in order to pursue four objectives: 1) to recall some of the main issues that revolve around the topic of citizen participation in territorial decision-making processes; 2) to specify the ties between territorial identity (as intended by the research group) and participatory processes; 3) to highlight the questions raised by the contri…
Beyond Representative Democracy: Real Democracy and Social Movements in the Spanish State
2017
Los procesos participativos son un elemento central en los debates teóricos sobre la calidad de la democracia y sus actuales procesos de transformación. Si en los análisis teóricos se problematiza el objetivo de la participación, las dificultades aumentan al analizar experiencias concretas que buscan articular las dinámicas de la participación con la profundización de la democracia. Reflexionamos sobre la cuestión a partir de Jesús Ibáñez. En primer lugar, se aborda el tema de la crisis de la democracia liberal y los problemas que ésta acarrea para legitimar una democracia incapaz de contrarrestar la hegemonía de los mercados. A continuación, analizamos el resurgimiento de un tipo de democr…