scholarly journals Stedlige perspektiver på skoleliv og yrkesfag

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Kaja Reegård ◽  
Jon Rogstad ◽  
Kristinn Hegna
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Educational Choices ◽  
Educational Inequalities ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Place And Space ◽  
Opportunity Structures ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Geographical Distances ◽  
Vocational Aspirations

The articles featured in this special issue aim to investigate the importance of places and social space for the understanding of young people's educational choices, vocational aspirations, and educational results in Norway. In a country priding itself of its comprehensive educational system across social class and large geographical distances, a comparative perspective on education in different local contexts, allow to open the "black box" of spatial educational inequalities. A long overdue emphasis on vocational education in structurally differentiated contexts, that is, Oslo, Telemark, Hordaland, Rogaland, Trøndelag, Troms and Finnmark, contributes to this aim. The articles are organised in two sections: firstly, perspectives of place and space as opportunity structures leading to differences and inequality, secondly, contributions to understand place and space as a subjective frame of reference. We hope that the discussions presented will offer valuable insights while stimulating further debate, both on the study of young people’s spatialised school lives, and on the broader societal questions that they highlight.

Indigenous Media Practice

2013 ◽  
Vol 149 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry McCallum ◽  
Lisa Waller
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
International Research ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Third ◽  
Indigenous Media ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Aims And Scope ◽  
Media Systems ◽  
Global And Local

This article introduces the Indigenous Media Practice special issue through a discussion of the aims and scope of the edition. It identifies three major currents in contemporary international research on media and indigeneity, which are reflected in the suite of scholarship presented here. The first is the importance of continuing to critically analyse media systems, institutions and policies that enable and constrain the production and dissemination of information for, by and about Indigenous populations. The second emphasises media-related practices in specific media production and social policy contexts, and the third underlines the importance of interrogating underlying and pervasive societal discourses in understanding Indigenous media practice. The contributions to this themed issue highlight that there is a vibrant body of research among a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, typically working in teams in the pursuit of better understanding the relationships between media and indigeneity in both global and local contexts.

Introduction to Special Issue - Children’s Understandings of Well-Being: Global and Local Contexts

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobia Fattore ◽  
Susann Fegter ◽  
Christine Hunner-Kreisel
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Global And Local

Preferences and Biases in Educational Choices and Labour Market Expectations: Shrinking the Black Box of Gender

2017 ◽  
Vol 127 (604) ◽  
pp. 2153-2186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernesto Reuben ◽  
Matthew Wiswall ◽  
Basit Zafar
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Educational Choices ◽  
Market Expectations

scholarly journals The Changing Landscapes of Cross-Faith Places and Practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 1-272
Author(s):  
Manfred Sing
Keyword(s):  
European History ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
Main Interest ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Place And Space ◽  
Faith Practices ◽  
Worldwide Phenomenon

The present special issue of Entangled Religions has emerged from a conference about “Shared Sacred Places and Multi-Religious Space” that took place at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz in September 2016. As the title of the conference indicates, a main interest was to re-think the relation between place and space and between different religions. The conference took place in the framework of the IEG focus topic “Europe from the Margins,” which also included a lecture series on processes of marginalization and exclusion with regard to social and religious minorities within and beyond Europe. This background explains the range of topics in this special issue to a certain degree, because the conference had the aim to de-centre established notions of Europe and religion and understand them in their multi-dimensionality. While cross-faith practices are a worldwide phenomenon, the main geographical focus of the following articles is on southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean with their spatial extensions to Asia. Proceeding from here, the contributions in this volume understand multi-faith practices as embedded in local arrangements as well as in larger multi-religious landscapes, thus taking account of the interconnection between the local and the global and paying attention to the micro and macro levels of analysis.

scholarly journals Citizenship, marginality and urban (in)security in contemporary Africa: introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 9s11 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Kieran Mitton ◽  
Ibrahim Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Mobile Phone Technology ◽  
Basic Services

We introduce four contributions to this special issue exploring insecurity in contemporary African cities, drawing on case studies from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Somalia, and South Africa. We problematise alarmist and decontextualised discourses surrounding Africa�s rapid urbanisation, identifying common findings across empirically rich contributions ranging from gangs and vigilantes to migration, mobile phone technology, and community (dis)connections to basic services. We show that marginal residents traverse blurred boundaries between formal/informal, legal/illegal, and acceptable/subversive in their quotidian struggle for survival, arguing that by reifying rather than reducing structural inequalities, Africa�s growing cities force many into �insurgent� forms of citizenship. Importantly, this is rarely entirely oppositional or supportive of the state and status quo: it occupies ambiguous social space as both resistance and collusion. The complicity of some state elements in producing transgressive or informal modes of urban governance and services underlines our key conclusion: addressing Africa�s urban insecurity requires political change: technological and infrastructural progress alone is insufficient.

scholarly journals What Does Collaborative Event Ethnography Tell Us About Global Environmental Governance?

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosaleen Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Epistemic Communities ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Insight Into

This forum places CEE at COP10 in the context of wider theoretical debates about global environmental governance. This special issue enhances our understanding of governance by examining how ideas travel and develop at meetings before they become the official documents and announcements that are the more common foci of such papers. The articles in this issue of GEP open up the ‘black box’ of decision-making and allow us to gain a better understanding of global environmental governance, in theory and in practice. These articles are firmly in line with International Political Economy approaches, allowing us to reflect on how regulations can mirror and deepen existing global inequalities, revealing the continuing power of epistemic communities, and demonstrating the important role of ideas. The special issue allows us insight into how global conventions work, how alliances are formed, how particular ideas emerge, and crucially, how alternatives are rendered silent and invisible.

scholarly journals The Rio dos Sinos watershed: an economic and social space and its interface with environmental status

2010 ◽  
Vol 70 (4 suppl) ◽  
pp. 1131-1136 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAS. Figueiredo ◽  
E. Drumm ◽  
MAS. Rodrigues ◽  
FR Spilki
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Quality Of Water ◽  
Footwear Industry ◽  
Environmental Status ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Brazilian Journal

The Rio dos Sinos watershed is located in the eastern region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul and includes 32municipalities. These municipalities develop several different economic activities such as farming and livestock along the 190 km length of the Rio dos Sinos, one of the rivers with the worst quality of water in Brazil. The region is also characterised by growing urbanisation and heavy industrialisation. The main economic activity is the leather and footwear industry. This diversified land use puts the Rio dos Sinos watershed at risk of a wide range of potential environmental impacts. The aim of the present article is to discuss the socioeconomic process currently implemented in the Rio dos Sinos watershed and the effect of these human actions on the environmental quality described throughout this special issue of the Brazilian Journal of Biology.

scholarly journals Mapping the Social Space of Opinion: Public Sociology and the Op-Ed in Canada

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 697-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Kowalchuk ◽  
Neil McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Public Sociology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Going Public ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
The U.S

This special issue of CJS illustrates the international spread of an empassioned debate among sociologists about the future direction of their discipline ignited by Michael Burawoy’s call to elevate the presence and status of public sociology. Burawoy’s program entails a greater engagement by sociologists with civil society (non-governmental organizations, communities, movements) in the development of their research agenda, and the production of research outputs that are more accessible, relevant, and useful to non-academic audiences. Burawoy and his supporters see the emphasis on public sociology as a way to revitalize the discipline, in particular, to solve several inter-related problems that it faces, at least in the U.S: a lack of internal coherence, declining public legitimacy, public misapprehension of what sociologists do, and minimal influence on policy-making (Burawoy 2004a, Turner 2006, Boyns and Fletcher 2005). Skeptics and critics within the discipline, conversely, argue that “going public” will only hurt sociology’s public legitimacy, insofar as it constitutes a kind of left-liberal moralizing that is out of sync with majority currents of opinion.

Socio-Technical Affordances for Large-Scale Collaborations: Introduction to a Virtual Special Issue

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arvind Malhotra ◽  
Ann Majchrzak ◽  
Kalle Lyytinen
Keyword(s):  
Technology Use ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Knowledge Dissemination ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Organization Science ◽  
Geographically Distributed ◽  
Complex Architecture ◽  
Dissemination Efficiency

In this special issue, we review 14 articles published in Organization Science over the past 25 years examining large-scale collaborations (LSCs) tasked with knowledge dissemination and innovation. LSCs involve sizeable pools of participants carrying out a common mission such as developing open-source software, detector technologies, complex architecture, encyclopedias, medical cures, or responses to climate change. LSCs depend on technologies because they are often geographically distributed, incorporate multiple and diverse epistemic perspectives. How such technologies need to be structured and appropriated for effective LSC collaborations has been researched in piecemeal fashion by examining a single technology used in a single collaboration context with little opportunity for generalization. Studies have tended to black box technology use even though they acknowledge such uses to be critical to the LSC operation. We unveil the black box surrounding LSC collaboration technologies by identifying three challenges that LSCs face when they pursue an LSC effort: (1) knowledge exchange challenges, (2) knowledge deliberation challenges, and (3) knowledge combination challenges. We examine how technology was used in responding to these challenges, synthesizing their use into three socio-technical affordances to improve knowledge dissemination efficiency and innovation effectiveness: knowledge collaging, purposeful deliberating, and knowledge interlacing. We demonstrate the intellectual benefit of incorporating socio-technical affordances in studies of LSCs including what small group collaboration research can learn from LSCs.

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