Political and Social Inclusion and Local Democracy in Indian Cities: Case Studies of Delhi and Bengaluru

2020 ◽  
pp. 185-208
Author(s):  
Debolina Kundu
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Indian Cities

scholarly journals Sporting memories & the social inclusion of older people experiencing mental health problems

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 202-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Clark ◽  
Charlie Murphy ◽  
Tony Jameson-Allen ◽  
Chris Wilkins
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Older People ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mental Well Being

Purpose – Social exclusion and isolation of older people and their mental health are likely to be more significant, interlinked issues for society as countries experience an ageing demographic profile. The authors urgently need to identify effective ways of addressing these challenges that can be easily mobilised to meet diverse needs in different settings. The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of sporting memories (SM) work as one approach to help meet this need. This SM work entails the use of sports-based reminiscence to engage with older people experiencing mental health problems. To date this has especially focused on people living with dementia in institutional and in community settings. Design/methodology/approach – The paper sets out the SM idea and discusses lessons learnt from case studies of its application to meet the inclusion and mental health needs of different older people in institutional and community settings. Findings – The evidence from the application of SM work to date is that it is an effective and flexible means of engaging people to improve their social inclusion and mental well-being. It can be readily deployed in various care and community settings. Research limitations/implications – The evidence to date is of case studies of the use of SM work, and, although these are now extensive case studies, further research is needed on the costs and impacts of SM work. Practical implications – SM work is a flexible and readily adoptable intervention to engage older people and help improve their social inclusion and mental well-being. Social implications – SM work can be an important part of meeting some of the challenges society faces with an ageing population profile. Originality/value – This is the first paper to set out the SM work.

Linking Traditional ‘Organic’ and ‘Induced’ Public Participation with Deliberative Democracy: Experiments in Pune, India

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-214
Author(s):  
Sanskriti Menon ◽  
Janette Hartz-Karp
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Collaborative Dialogue ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
Sustainability Challenges ◽  
Indian Cities

Resolving urban challenges or ‘wicked problems’ is a dilemma for most governments, especially in developing countries, and India is a case in point. Collaborative, dialogue-based approaches have been posited as critical to addressing wicked problems. This would require a reform of Indian cities’ governance systems to enable citizens to be embedded in decision-making about complex issues. This article contends that while India’s traditional forms of civic participation can provide a strong foundation for reform, new forms of representative deliberative, influential public participation, that is, deliberative democracy, will be important. Traditional organic and induced participation examples in India are overviewed in terms of their strengths and gaps. Two deliberative democracy case studies in Pune, India, are described, and their potential for reform is assessed. Traditional, together with innovative, induced and organic participation in governance, will be needed to overcome significant pitfalls in governance if Indian cities are to become more capable of addressing urban sustainability challenges.

To Participation and Beyond?

2014 ◽  
pp. 215-228
Author(s):  
Paul Burton ◽  
Stephen Hilton
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
City Council ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Local Program ◽  
The Times ◽  
The City

This chapter provides a case study of local developments in e-democracy in the city of Bristol, UK. Although some of these developments relate to periodic local elections, most are concerned with supporting new forms of engagement between local citizens and local government institutions and processes in the times between these. Starting with the coordination of its own consultation activities, then encouraging greater participation in council-run activities, and finally supporting grass roots engagement activities, Bristol City Council embarked on a local program of e-democracy activities from 2000 onwards. This grew into a national pilot scheme that enabled a number of valuable comparative evaluations of e-democracy in practice. The chapter draws on the results of a number of evaluations of these local and national developments and highlights the more widespread and enduring challenges of trying to broaden the scope and the effectiveness of local democracy and improve the practices of social inclusion.

scholarly journals Villkorat partnerskap: Demokrati och social inkludering i relationer mellan bildningsförbund och föreningar bildade på etnisk grund

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 75-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magnus Dahlstedt ◽  
Aleksandra Ålund ◽  
Anna Ålund
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Volunteer Organizations ◽  
Institutional System ◽  
Empirical Case Studies

Artikeln belyser samverkan mellan sammanslutningar bildade på etnisk grund och folkbildningens studieförbund i Sverige. Engagemang för social inkludering har fått en ökad betydelse för ”invandrarföreningar”. Samtidigt är dessa föreningar inte sällan utsatta för stigmatisering och försatta i en underordnad position. Med utgångspunkt i fältarbete i det mångetniska Stockholm pekar författarna på hur ”invandrarföreningar” har blivit till institutionaliserade samverkansaktörer i nya former av partnerskap (mellan till exempel stat och kommun, frivilligorganisationer och näringsliv) där de har tagit över en rad servicefunktioner i och med välfärdsstatens pågående omvandling. Exemplet samverkan kring folkbildning visar på ett starkt ojämlikt partnerskap mellan ”invandrarföreningar” och studieförbund. Några av de omständigheter som lyfts fram som problematiska är brist på dialog, kulturellt definierade hierarkier mellan ”svenskar” och ”invandrare” och en allt starkare anpassning i förhållande till marknadens krav och förväntningar. Sökord: Folkbildning, invandrarföreningar, partnerskap, inkludering, exkludering. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Magnus Dahlstedt, Aleksandra Ålund, and Anna Ålund: Conditional Partnership: Democracy and Social Inclusion in Relations Between Institutions of Adult Education and Immigrant Associations The authors discuss the cooperation between immigrant associations and public institutions for adult education in Sweden. They emphasize the growing importance of activism for social inclusion among immigrant associations and the stigmatization and subordinate position of these same organizations. Based on empirical case studies from metropolitan Stockholm, the authors argue that these associations have become more or less institutionalized in terms of new partnerships (between state, municipality and volunteer organizations) and have taken over a number of service functions from the retreating welfare state. The authors argue that the partnership in the area of adult education is unequal. They examine problems of this partnership both in terms of lack of dialogue and culturally defi ned hierarchy and in terms of adjustment to market exigency. They do this on the backdrop of the changing institutional system of adult education and its role in the social inclusion of migrants. Key words: Adult education, immigrant organisations, partnership, inclusion, exclusion.

scholarly journals Migrant Capital as a Resource for Migrant Communities

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 164-170
Author(s):  
Sanna Saksela-Bergholm ◽  
Mari Toivanen ◽  
Östen Wahlbeck
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
Transnational Migrants

This thematic issue explores the processes and dynamics involved in how different forms of migrant capital are employed and how these relate to processes of social inclusion. Leaning on a Bourdieusian approach, we wish to move beyond existing descriptive studies and theorise the role migration plays in the accumulation, conversion and utilisation of various forms of capital by migrant communities and their members. The articles demonstrate how migrant capital can function as a resource created by migrants during the migration process, or as an outcome of it, and are potentially available to their family members. The articles illustrate via case studies from different national contexts how transnational migrants or members of migrant communities create, accumulate and employ diverse forms of capital in their efforts to achieve inclusion in destination and sending societies.

scholarly journals Interventions and intersections: institutional environment and local level autonomy in LEADER. A comparative study

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 104-131
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Brooks ◽  
Katalin Kovács
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
Autonomous Operation ◽  
Theoretical Approaches

In 2010, when hope emerged that the new conservative government would improve the governance of the LEADER Programme, the Naturama Alliance, a co-operative network of seven Hungarian LAGs, issued a Declaration that summarised procedural issues to be addressed by a revision[1]. After introducing the alliance, the first chapter was entitled “Decentralisation and Autonomy”, indicating the direction of the desired shift towards a more autonomous operation. The LEADER Programme is scrutinised in this article from the point of view of autonomy and local democracy, exploring to what extent these are linked with or distinct from higher level governance transformations towards decentralisation or recentralisation. Theoretical approaches derived from rural and government studies are interpreted in the first sections of the paper, exploring the debate regarding the correlation of autonomy and local democracy and the way it is manifested in LEADER. Most authors regard LEADER as a promoter of local democracy and identify a positive correlation between democracy and an enhanced local autonomy. However, a consensus among scholars also seems to be unfolding from these studies suggesting that the scope of ‘LEADER democracy’ is mostly narrow, restricting participation to more resourceful social groups due both to the ‘thematic filters’ of the Local Development Strategy and to ‘procedural filters’, such as capacities allocated to the staff for animation and assistance to overcome difficulties of application. The empirical research background of this article is provided by two case studies, which were conducted in 2018-2019, one in England (Northumberland Uplands) and one in Hungary (Balaton Uplands), two states with complex recent histories and trajectories in terms of devolution of governance to lower levels and local autonomy. The secondary interpretation of these case studies focuses on the degree of participation and autonomy of LAGs. The analysis reveals that the degree of autonomy (and to some extent of participation) declined in both countries in the last iteration compared to the 2007-13 programming cycle. It has also been uncovered that rather than the ‘post transition’, recentralised Hungarian context, it was the British institutional system and governance tradition that permitted more top-down intervention and less autonomy for the LAGs.     [1] A NATURAMA Szövetség Akciócsoportjainak javaslatai az UMVP III. IV. tengelye intézkedéseinek hatékonyabb megvalósítása érdekében. [Suggestions of the NATURAMA Alliance for the more effective implementation of III-IV axes of the RDP], 2010. http://leadercontact.com/images/stories/https___leaderkontakt.pdf

scholarly journals Towards inclusion and diversity in the light of Universal Design: three administrative buildings in Aswan city as case studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. Khalil ◽  
N. A. Mohamed ◽  
E. A. Morghany
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Universal Design ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Human Diversity ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Inclusive Society ◽  
And Task

AbstractSocial inclusion aims to achieve an inclusive society that entails respect for human diversity and upholds principles of equality and equity, allowing all groups to take part in the society. Universal Design (UD) promotes inclusiveness by supporting access for all and easy use of the built environment, thus eliminating any form of exclusion and discrimination.This study examines the UD application in Aswan’s administrative buildings. The study relied on the descriptive, analytical, and inductive approach, through the identification of deficiencies in the selected administrative buildings’ design, and the clarification of development strategies to make these buildings for all. The case study method has two processes (approaches) in evaluating the case study buildings; the first was by the researchers according to UD requirements using the study’s checklist; the second was by users according to UD principles using interviews and task sheets.This research aims at emphasizing the positive effects of UD application on the selected buildings. In addition, it also aims at determining the compatibility of those buildings with the UD concept.The study result showed that the case study buildings are not compatible considerably with the requirements of the UD and its principles. The research concluded that architects should consider UD requirements and principles when designing administrative buildings and when rehabilitating and developing the existing ones.Thus, the study’s outputs could be used as a guidance tool by architects and construction managers in introducing universally designed buildings to all users.

To Participation and Beyond?

2015 ◽  
pp. 1662-1675
Author(s):  
Paul Burton ◽  
Stephen Hilton
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
City Council ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Local Program ◽  
The Times ◽  
The City

This chapter provides a case study of local developments in e-democracy in the city of Bristol, UK. Although some of these developments relate to periodic local elections, most are concerned with supporting new forms of engagement between local citizens and local government institutions and processes in the times between these. Starting with the coordination of its own consultation activities, then encouraging greater participation in council-run activities, and finally supporting grass roots engagement activities, Bristol City Council embarked on a local program of e-democracy activities from 2000 onwards. This grew into a national pilot scheme that enabled a number of valuable comparative evaluations of e-democracy in practice. The chapter draws on the results of a number of evaluations of these local and national developments and highlights the more widespread and enduring challenges of trying to broaden the scope and the effectiveness of local democracy and improve the practices of social inclusion.

Framing the mobilization of migrants in Sweden

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-287
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Ålund ◽  
Nedžad Mešić ◽  
Lisa Kings ◽  
Magnus Dahlstedt
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Opportunity Structures ◽  
Organized Interests ◽  
Public Voice

The paper examines agency for social inclusion among Swedish Associations Founded on Ethnic Ground (AFEGs). It focuses on the access of AFEGs to ‘public voice’ (Solomos 2003) and the opportunity structures for cooperation between AFEGs, public institutions, and other organized interests in the area of social integration in Sweden. Focusing on discursive opportunities, availability of supporters, and public legitimization, we can conclude from three case studies discussed in this paper that there are obvious inequalities present in partnerships between AFEGs and migrant-supporting organizations. In particular, two of the case studies (one and three, highlighting the relationships between AFEGs, the Equality Ombudsman, and adult education associations), illustrate serious obstacles for their activities.

scholarly journals Improving sustainability and encouraging innovation in traditional craft sectors: the case of the Sri Lankan handloom industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-130
Author(s):  
Thushari Wanniarachchi ◽  
Kanchana Dissanayake ◽  
Carolyn Downs
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Content Type

Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess sustainability across the handloom industry in Sri Lanka and identify opportunities for sustainable innovations supporting new markets, development of small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs) and growth in the Sri Lankan craft sector. Design/methodology/approach Using a multiple case studies methodology, 10 case studies and 37 semi-structured interviews were analysed along with the triple-layered business model canvas. Findings The study reveals the handloom industry to be fundamentally sustainable but with structural barriers that hinder both innovation and growth. The environmentally conscious production process and social inclusion within weaving communities are the key driving forces of sustainability in the sector; however, the structure of the industry and lack of access to markets and information act as barriers to both innovation and growth. The incorporation of design interventions, closed-loop manufacturing strategies and the encouragement of community-based entrepreneurship would support sustainability-orientated business innovation in the handloom industry. Originality/value The rapidly increasing market share for high-quality, hand-made goods indicates the potential of the creative industries to accelerate socio-economic growth. Handloom textiles is attracting growing interest in fashion markets because of increasing concern about exploitation in production, thus encouraging interest in the economic benefits of fairly traded, high quality materials and the potential contribution of handloom to sustainability in the fashion industry. The results of this study will support the handloom industry and policy-makers in developing support for sustainable innovation in the handloom industry.

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