Professional Practices

Building on several international professional meetings of architects organized in Romania or abroad, this article details how various modernist principles, traditionally subsumed to Western European culture, were gradually reinterpreted as an object of policy and professional knowledge on urban space in the second and third world countries. The article analyses the dialogue between Romanian architects and their foreign colleagues. It highlights how these conversations adjusted the hierarchies and power relations between states and hegemonic centres of knowledge production. In this sense, it contributes to the recent research on the means by which the "trans- nationalization of expertise" "transformed various (semi)peripheral states into new centres of knowledge and thus outlines a new analytical space where domestic actions of the Romanian state in the area of urban policies are to be analysed not as isolated practices of a totalitarian regime, but as expressions of the entanglements between industrialization models, knowledge flows and models of territoriality that were not only globally relevant, but they also often received specific regional, national and local forms.

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News

10.1093/oso/9780190889760.003.0004 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

José van

Keyword(s):

Big Five ◽

Data Driven ◽

Professional Practices ◽

Public Values ◽

Social Foundations ◽

Online Platforms ◽

News Organizations ◽

Production And Distribution ◽

News Industry

This chapter examines how the advent of data-driven publishers, such as BuzzFeed and the Huffington Post, as well as the rise of the Big Five platforms, have shaken the news sector’s economic, technical, and social foundations. The proliferation of online audience metrics and algorithmic filtering, promoting the personalization of news and advertisements, has fundamentally transformed how news is produced, circulated, and monetized. The triangular content–audiences–advertising configuration that constituted the legacy news industry is unbundled and rebundled through online platforms. As a consequence, the professional practices and institutional standards once set by legacy news organizations are seriously challenged. Key public values, such as journalistic independence and the trustworthiness of news, have come under scrutiny as new online players in this sector reconfigure the conditions of production and distribution.

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When Ideologies Bounce Back: The Problematic Translation of Post-Multicultural Ideologies and Policies into Professional Practices

Policy, People, and the New Professional ◽

10.1017/9789048504251.005 ◽

2006 ◽

pp. 64-78

Author(s):

Jan Willem Duyvendak ◽

Justus Uitermark

Keyword(s):

Professional Practices ◽

Bounce Back

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The Management of Elderly Prisoners in France

The Prison Journal ◽

10.1177/0032885519875029 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 99 (5) ◽

pp. 559-571

Author(s):

Nicolas Combalbert ◽

Cecile Rambourg

Keyword(s):

Mental Disorders ◽

Social Workers ◽

Defense Mechanisms ◽

Probation Officers ◽

Professional Practices ◽

Prison Staff ◽

Age Related

Very few studies have examined the mental disorders of elderly prisoners and the difficulties related to their management. For this study, 40 prison workers were interviewed (custodial staff, social workers, and probation officers) to assess staff professional practices and approaches in managing elderly inmates. Findings showed highly ambivalent attitudes to the age-related vulnerabilities of elderly incarcerees, at both emotional and professional levels. Staff attempts to make the incarcerated elderly conform to some four traditional images of the prisoner roles (enemy/citizen/threat/user) may lead some prison staff to use emotional defense mechanisms.

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