scholarly journals Governance and Governmentality in Community Participation: The Shifting Sands of Power, Responsibility and Risk

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 579-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Rolfe
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
The State ◽  
Local State ◽  
Complex Problems ◽  
Detailed Case

Community participation has become an essential element of government policy around the globe in recent decades. This move towards ‘government through community’ has been presented as an opportunity for citizens to gain power and as a necessary part of the shift from government to governance, enabling states and communities to tackle complex problems in tandem. However, it has also been critiqued as an attempt to shift responsibility from the state onto communities. Using evidence from detailed case studies, this article examines the implementation of Localism in England and Community Empowerment in Scotland. The findings suggest a need for a more nuanced analysis of community participation policy, incorporating risk alongside responsibility and power, as well as considering the agency of communities and the local state. Furthermore, understanding the constraints on community participation is key, particularly in terms of the enveloping impacts of austerity and state retrenchment.

Organising around ideas: Why we need to take the battle of ideas in education more seriously

FORUM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-160
Author(s):  
Chloe Tomlinson ◽  
Howard Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
The State ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Rational Argument ◽  
Movement Building

In this article we develop the notion of 'organising around ideas'. We highlight the ways in which education debate in England has narrowed as traditional spaces for discussion and debate have been closed down. The state now has extraordinary power to shape discourses and frame narratives about the purposes of schooling. Here we argue that we must find new ways to engage in the battle of ideas, not simply as an exercise in rational argument, but as an essential element of organising and movement building. The article provides three short case studies of 'organising around ideas' in action to illustrate what this work can look like. The cases are not templates, but illustrate the flexible, grassroots-based activity that is central to building a movement from the bottom up.

Grasses tame and wild: Imperial entanglements in settler colonial cereal breeding and botany

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-560
Author(s):  
PG Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Wild Rice ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Local State ◽  
Cereal Breeding ◽  
Game Birds ◽  
Political Economic

This article argues that imperial and local state-supported science played a key role in the discursive and material changes – including political, economic, and ecological – in Canadian settler colonialism. I advance this argument through two case studies from Canada's Experimental Farm Service: the breeding of Marquis wheat and attempts to domesticate wild rice as ornamental feed for game birds. Marquis wheat has been celebrated for its role in expanding the wheat growing regions of Canada's Prairies, whereas wild rice's role was transferred from food to ornamental. The movements of these plants through the scientific milieu of the Experimental Farm Service demonstrate how the state used science to lift up settler communities while holding down Indigenous communities.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Kebijakan Pemerintah dan Peran Serta Masyarakat terhadap Kualitas Lingkungan Pesisir Di Kawasan Benoa Badung Bali dalam Persespektif Pembangungan Berkelanjutan

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-187
Author(s):  
Anih Sri Suryani
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Condition Index ◽  
Coastal Environment ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Land Condition

Management of coastal and coastline is very important in Indonesia, an archipelago country with the longest coastline in the world. Moreover, conditions in some coastal areas in Indonesia have decreased the environment quality for example in the Benoa Region of Bali. This paper aims to quantify the influence of government policies and community participation on the quality of the coastal environment in Benoa Badung Bali Region in the perspective of sustainable development. The quantitative method with the questionnaire instrument was carried out in this study. The results showed that the size of the index for government policy in the Benoa Region was 67.45 (sufficient), the community participation index 78.06 (good), the water condition index 72.78 (good) and the land condition index 74.62 (good). Statistical analysis shows that there is a significant relationship between government policy and community participation in the quality of the coastal and coastal environment (r=0,541). Government policies and community participation have  positive effect on the condition of the quality of the coastal and coastal environment. Various community empowerment activities and programs and government policies in the Benoa Region, for example the Yasa Segara Pokmaswas group, the development of conservation tourism in Badung, fisheries business development have fulfilled the principles of sustainable development in terms of economic, social/community participation and the environment.AbtrakPengelolaan pesisir dan pantai sangat penting di Indonesia yang merupakan daerah kepulauan dengan garis pantai terpanjang di dunia. Terlebih kondisi di sebagian pesisir di Indonesia kualitas lingkungannya menurun seperti di Kawasan Benoa Badung Bali. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menghitung pengaruh kebijakan pemerintah dan peran serta masyarakat terhadap kualitas lingkungan pesisir di Kawasan Benoa Badung Bali. Metode kuantitatif dengan instrumen kuesioner dilakukan dalam penelitian ini. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa besaran indeks untuk kebijakan pemerintah di Kawasan Benoa adalah 67,45 (cukup), indeks peran serta masyarakat 78,06 (baik), indeks kondisi perairan 72,78 (baik) dan indeks kondisi daratan 74,62 (baik). Analisis statistik menunjukkan bahwa terdapat hubungan yang signifikan antara kebijakan pemerintah dan peran serta masyarakat terhadap kualitas lingkungan pesisir dan pantai (r=0,541). Kebijakan pemerintah dan peran serta masyarakat berpengaruh positif terhadap kondisi kualitas lingkungan pesisir dan pantai. Berbagai kegiatan dan program pemberdayaan masyarakat dan kebijakan pemerintah di Kawasan Benoa misalnya adanya kelompok Pokmaswas Yasa Segara, pengembangan wisata konservasi di Badung, pengembangan usaha perikanan telah memenuhi prinsip-prinsip pembangunan pesisir secara terpadu dan berkelanjutan.

Administrasi Hubungan Sekolah dan Masyarakat

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fisma Janusuri
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Learning Achievement ◽  
Quality Of Learning ◽  
Good Schools ◽  
Education Process

Community empowerment in education is needed especially to support the implementation of good schools. The level of community participation in the education process in this school seems to have a major influence on the progress of the school, the quality of learning services in schools which will ultimately affect the progress and learning achievement of children in school.

Explanation Beyond Causation

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Philosophical Study ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Causal Information ◽  
Causal Explanations ◽  
Turn On ◽  
Detailed Case ◽  
Wide Range

Explanations are very important to us in many contexts: in science, mathematics, philosophy, and also in everyday and juridical contexts. But what is an explanation? In the philosophical study of explanation, there is long-standing, influential tradition that links explanation intimately to causation: we often explain by providing accurate information about the causes of the phenomenon to be explained. Such causal accounts have been the received view of the nature of explanation, particularly in philosophy of science, since the 1980s. However, philosophers have recently begun to break with this causal tradition by shifting their focus to kinds of explanation that do not turn on causal information. The increasing recognition of the importance of such non-causal explanations in the sciences and elsewhere raises pressing questions for philosophers of explanation. What is the nature of non-causal explanations—and which theory best captures it? How do non-causal explanations relate to causal ones? How are non-causal explanations in the sciences related to those in mathematics and metaphysics? This volume of new essays explores answers to these and other questions at the heart of contemporary philosophy of explanation. The essays address these questions from a variety of perspectives, including general accounts of non-causal and causal explanations, as well as a wide range of detailed case studies of non-causal explanations from the sciences, mathematics and metaphysics.

scholarly journals Implicational generalizations in morphological syncretism: The role of communicative biases

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-41
Author(s):  
BENJAMIN STORME
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Probability Distributions ◽  
Detailed Case

Cross-linguistic generalizations about grammatical contexts favoring syncretism often have an implicational form. This paper shows that this is expected if (i) morphological paradigms are required to be both as small and as unambiguous as possible, (ii) languages may prioritize these requirements differently, and (iii) probability distributions for grammatical features interacting in syncretic patterns are fixed across languages. More specifically, this approach predicts that grammatical contexts that are less probable or more informative about a target grammatical feature $ T $ should favor syncretism of $ T $ cross-linguistically. The paper provides evidence for these predictions based on four detailed case studies involving well-known patterns of contextual syncretism (gender syncretism based on number, gender syncretism based on person, aspect syncretism based on tense, and case syncretism based on animacy).

scholarly journals (Lack of) government policy for indigenous (Sámi) sport: A chain of legitimating and de-legitimating acts

2021 ◽  
pp. 101269022098865
Author(s):  
Eivind Å Skille ◽  
Josef Fahlén ◽  
Cecilia Stenling ◽  
Anna-Maria Strittmatter
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Policy Goal ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Sport Policy ◽  
A Chain ◽  
State Organization ◽  
Existing Data

While colonization as policy is formally a historic phenomenon in Norway and elsewhere, many former structures of state organization – including their relationship to sport – remain under post-colonial conditions. This paper is concerned with how the Norwegian government contributes to creating a situation, which includes the Norwegian sports confederation (NIF) but excludes the indigenous people Sámi’s sports organisation. Based on existing data and literature, we analyse how the state favours NIF through a chain of legitimating acts. Thus, sport is a preserve of colonization, where a one-sided legitimation parallels a de-legitimation of the overarching sport policy goal of sport-for-all. However, there are signs of change whereby actors are challenging NIF’s monopoly and ‘older’ state-sport regimes.

Practitioners' Views of International Negotiation

1979 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert R. Winham
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
International Negotiation ◽  
Complex Problems ◽  
Theoretical Literature ◽  
Large Complex ◽  
Study Session ◽  
Increasing Trend

A Checklist for Negotiators, produced during a study session on negotiation in the State Department's Senior Seminar on Foreign Policy, highlights certain changes that are occurring in the diplomatic function. First, practitioners make a distinction between the internal (or domestic) and external aspects of negotiation, which reflects a growing politicization of the diplomatic function and an increasing trend toward a mediatorial model of diplomacy. Second, practitioners emphasize managerial rather than strategic concerns, which is consistent with the large, complex problems that foreign offices are increasingly facing. Third, practitioners attach more importance to issues and substantive information than to personality or sociological variables. This is a reflection of the increasing scope, and resulting anonymity, of international diplomatic processes. These three points introduce new concerns into the theoretical literature on international negotiation.

A Study of Sustainable Design Based on Unconscious Behavior

2012 ◽  
Vol 490-495 ◽  
pp. 1920-1924 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Tao Hu
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
The State ◽  
Daily Behavior ◽  
Saving Behavior

Nowadays, a lot of people engage in unsustainable daily behavior unconsciously, although most of them worry about the state of our natural environment. Designers can find ideas in people’s unconscious saving behavior and wasting behavior, and then realize these ideas into design. Based upon the case studies, the paper gives hints how to realize ideas derived from unconscious behavior into sustainable design.

EVALUATION OF THE ABSOLUTE RESULTS OF THE LEADING COMPANIES OF THE OIL AND GAS COMPLEX: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 6-12
Author(s):  
Lyudmila V. Goloshchapova ◽  
◽  
Elena V. Maltseva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
The State ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Complex Problems ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Statistical Indicators

The study is devoted to the analysis of the balance sheet profit of the leading companies in the oil and gas industry. The types of profits were considered, as well as the dynamics of the changes in indicators affecting their formation were analyzed. In addition, the article considers the composition and struc-ture of the balance sheet profit, factors affecting its size. Based on the financial statements of the companies, an idea of the state of profit in the companies «Rosneft», «Lukoil», «Gazprom» and «Tatneft» has been com-piled. The paper analyzes quantitative statistical indicators that reflect the results achieved from 2016–2020.

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