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Author : Charles T. Goodsell
Publisher : Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Social Meaning of Civic Space written by Charles T. Goodsell and published by Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1988 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9789264682696
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (826 download)
Download or read book Civic Space Scan of Finland written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the global level, civic space is narrowing and thus efforts to protect and promote it are more important than ever. The OECD defines Civic Space as the set of legal, policy, institutional, and practical conditions necessary for non-governmental actors to access information, express themselves, associate, organise, and participate in public life. This document presents the Civic Space Scan of Finland, which was undertaken at the request of the Finnish government and is the first OECD report of its kind. OECD Civic Space Scans in particular assess how governments protect and promote civic space in each national context and propose ways to strengthen existing frameworks and practices. The Scan assesses four key dimensions of civic space: civic freedoms and rights, media freedoms and digital rights, the enabling environment for civil society organisations, and civic participation in policy and decision making. Each respective chapter of the report contains actionable recommendations for the Government of Finland. As part of the scan process, a citizens' panel - also overseen by the OECD - was held in February 2021 and generated a wide range of recommendations for the government from a representative microcosm of Finnish society.
Author : Arundhati Virmani
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040254098
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Social Scientists in the Civic Space written by Arundhati Virmani and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the stakes for the social sciences around four central problems: the challenges of context; modes of intervention; involvement; and the ethical dilemmas for the scholar in a democratic space. The first, challenges of the context, examines the variety of situations confronted by scholars since the beginning of the 20th century. These include their interventions in key judicial affairs, the impact of technological developments like the introduction of big data, or even the positionality of the scholar. Second, the book investigates the modalities according to which social scientists may intervene in the civic space: in particular as specialists, as experts, or in the media. A third problem brings together some cases illustrative of researchers’ involvement in critical issues, such as food policies, major social reforms, or gender-related questions. Finally, the book concludes with a reflection on the modes of exercising critique or dissent in democratic societies and on the ethical dimensions of involvement in the civic space. A searing examination of the role of social scientists, as they are called upon to address the multiple critical issues faced by contemporary societies, from pandemics to climatic change, sustainable development, migration, ethnicity, or the place of religion. This volume will be of great interest not just to scholars, students, and researchers of the social sciences but to the general reader as a concerned citizen.
Author : Amrita Daniere
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134040210
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Civic Space in Asia written by Amrita Daniere and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how and why civic spaces are used by different communities in Asia and what role urban governance and public participation play in the support or demise of communities. Using case studies of contemporary city life throughout, the contributors provide insights into the importance and value of civic space, arguing that civic spaces provide not only the physical sites for civil society to function autonomously; but also provide a sense of place in the form of identity, meaning, memory, history and linkages with the wider world. Each chapter focuses on the production of and access to civic spaces in a particular Asian city, as well as examples of successes and failures that can inform urban policy regarding inclusive, tolerant and socially vibrant city life through focused attention on the provision and continuity of civic space. This book is designed to provide information to policymakers, researchers and students of the developing world regarding the importance and value of civic space in terms of creating and supporting urban communities. As such, The Politics of Civic Space in Asia will be an invaluable resource for those interested in urban planning, urban design, public policy and political science, as well as Asian studies more generally.
Author : Erik Trump
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666908215
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)
Download or read book The Architecture of Survival written by Erik Trump and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Architecture of Survival: Setting and Politics in Apocalypse Films offers a compelling exploration of how popular films and TV series from the past two decades use architectural spaces to comment on socio-political issues. The authors harness varied theoretical perspectives to demonstrate how, through set design, these works suggest that certain kinds of architecture support human development, community, and freedom, while other kinds separate us from our fellow humans and make democratic politics impossible. The clean lines of modernist design serve in films such as Contagion and Ex Machina as a metaphor for the sanitized, sterile politics that drive disaster. In The Walking Dead apocalypse survivors favor traditional architectural styles when rebuilding society, a choice that symbolically affirms their democratic principles. The massive walls and super-gentrification as seen in Elysium and Army of the Dead divide humanity, with those on one side wielding illegitimate power. Empty streetscapes intensify loneliness, alienation, and the destruction of civil norms. "Smart cities," offering a blend of high-tech surveillance and big data, erode social capital and community in Her and Transcendence. The book concludes with a somewhat hopeful glimpse into architecture’s potential to mitigate the catastrophic adverse effects of climate change, as seen in films like Zootopia.
Author : Richard Youngs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190931728
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Civic Activism Unleashed written by Richard Youngs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the signal events in global politics in the last decade has been the transformation of political and civic activism. Not only is the new activism qualitatively different in character from what it was in 2000; its intensity and frequency have dramatically increased. Activists are developing a new type of civic movement, applying innovative forms of direct action against governments and often operating without leaders or even any well-defined set of aims. In Civic Activism Unleashed, Carnegie scholar Richard Youngs examines the changing shape of contemporary civic activism. He shows how the emerging civic activism has important implications for the whole concept of civil society-and for the relationship between citizens, political institutions, and states. Youngs contends that the rise and spread of these new forms of direct-action civic activism, and the way the trend has driven the dramatic events in global politics in recent years, requires us to update our understanding of what civil society actually is and which types of organizations are in its vanguard. He further looks at the global impact of recent civic activism and offers a set of variables to help explain cases of success and failure. Youngs' larger aim is to explore in depth the new forms of civic activism that are emerging around the world and assess how they differ from more established practices of civil society activity. Theoretically ambitious and global in scope, Civic Activism Unleashed forces us to reconsider the nature of contemporary social and civic activism and how it is reshaping contentious politics in countries across the world.
Author : Spoma Jovanovic
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793630941
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Expression in Contested Public Spaces written by Spoma Jovanovic and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expression in Contested Public Spaces: Free Speech and Civic Engagement addresses how people express themselves and their differences, in ways that amplify the many voices central to the mission of democracy. This book investigates in what ways and in what discursive forms people interrupt the status quo or unjust practices to advance positive social change. The chapters feature research activity, engaged scholarship, and creative expression to boldly frame the issues of free speech—amid attempts to chill and silence expressions of dissent—in order to demonstrate how community organizers, activists, and scholars use their voices to advance peace and justice befitting the human condition. Scholars and students of communication and the social sciences will find this book particularly interesting.
Author : Jeremy Till
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262012537
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Architecture Depends written by Jeremy Till and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architects, however, tend to deny this, fearing contingency and preferring to pursue perfection.
Author : Lawrence Vale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134729286
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Architecture, Power and National Identity written by Lawrence Vale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to this, it explains the role that architecture and planning play in the forceful assertion of state power. The book is truly international in scope, looking at capital cities in the United States, India, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Bangladesh, and Papua New Guinea.
Author : Erwin H. Zube
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468458140
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (684 download)
Download or read book Advances in Environment, Behavior, and Design written by Erwin H. Zube and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume in Advances in Environment, Behavior, and Design fol lows the conceptual framework adopted in the previous two volumes (see the Preface to Volume 1, 1987). It is organized into five sections advances in theory, advances in place, user group, and sociobehavioral research, and advances in research utilization. The authors of this volume represent a wide spectrum of the multi disciplinary environment-behavior and design field including architec ture, environmental psychology, facility management, geography, human factors, sociology, and urban design. The volume offers interna tional perspectives from North America (Carole Despres from Canada, several authors from the U.S.), Europe (Martin Krampen from Germany, Martin Symes from England), and New Zealand (David Kernohan). More so than any of the previous volumes, they are drawn from both academia and professional practice. While there continues to be a continuity in format in the series, we are actively exploring new directions that are on the cutting edges of the field and bode well for a more integrated future. This volume will fur ther develop the themes of design and professional practice to comple ment the earlier emphases on theory, research, and methods.
Author : Vickie L. Suggs
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1623964598
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Historically Black College Leadership & Social Transformation written by Vickie L. Suggs and published by IAP. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically Black College Leadership & Social Transformation Little research has been conducted to identify aspects of effective social transformation leadership in American college and university leadership. The authors of this book argue that while much less has been done at predominantly White institutions to practically apply the processes of social transformation as a leadership model, HBCUs have historically relied upon strategies of social transformation as they sought to build and sustain the distinct mission of their institutions that enhance college access, inclusion, and choice. This publication is intended to serve as a departure from the examination of the typology of transformation leadership in the private sector and, instead, view this leadership model through the lens of higher education. The authors’ intent is to focus on institutional leadership at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and provide a deeper understanding of the Social Change Model and how it can be successfully situated as a conduit for realizing and sustaining the mission of Black colleges from perspectives of the past, present, and future.
Author : M. Baer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137035293
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890 written by M. Baer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890 explores a critical chapter in the story of Britain's transition to democracy. Utilising the remarkably rich documentation generated by Westminster elections, Baer reveals how the most radical political space in the age of oligarchy became the most conservative and tranquil in an age of democracy.
Author : Nikolas Coupland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316684024
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Sociolinguistics written by Nikolas Coupland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociolinguistics is a dynamic field of research that explains the role and function of language in social life. This book offers the most substantial account available of the core contemporary ideas and arguments in sociolinguistics, with an emphasis on innovation and change. Bringing together original writing by more than twenty of the field's most influential international thinkers and researchers, this is an indispensable guide to the newest and most searching ideas about language in society. For researchers and advanced students it gives access to the field's most pressing issues and debates, as well as providing a platform for new initiatives in sociolinguistic research.
Author : Kim Dovey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134688970
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Framing Places written by Kim Dovey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Framing Places investigates how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power. It is an account of how our lives are "framed" within the clusters of rooms, streets and cities we inhabit.
Author : Mike Douglass
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134151861
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia written by Mike Douglass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-29 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia presents a detailed examination of the underlying issues of urban life in the Far East. Leading authorities on globalization and politics in the region cover key themes of continuity and change: relationships between civil society and the production of urban spaces. Chapters focus on various types of ‘civic spaces’ that provide spaces for life that are autonomous from state and capital ten case studies explore a wide variety of contexts ranging from spaces where lower classes congregated in ancient Chinese cities to cyberspaces of the contemporary internet the history and role of civil society in social and political philosophies of societies in the Pacific Asia region tendencies and issues related to specific types of civic spaces in a given city. Several studies find that great stress has been placed on long-standing community and civic spaces common themes, patterns and issues as well as singularities of each particular context. In this way it can contribute to the broader (mostly Western) literature on society and space the future of cities in Pacific Asia from the perspective of civic space. Can civic spaces be routinely created rather than appropriated through civil society-state-economy struggles? Most research on globalization and civil society has focused on the West, this unique book brings together a tight analysis and a series of ten case studies on Pacific Asian countries. It also theorizes and empirically explores the relationships between civil society and the production of urban spaces.
Author : Paul Du Gay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199275459
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Values of Bureaucracy written by Paul Du Gay and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and analyzes the impact of contemporary programmes of organizational reform in the public and private sectors on bureaucratic structures.
Author : Katie Barclay
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152613294X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Men on trial written by Katie Barclay and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men on Trial provides the first history of masculinity and the law in early nineteenth-century Ireland. It combines cutting-edge theories from the history of emotion, performativity and gender studies to argue for gender as a creative and productive force in determining legal and social power relationships.
