scholarly journals What the City Has to Offer: Urbanization and Women's Empowerment in Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kursat Cinar ◽  
Meral Ugur-Cinar
Keyword(s):  
Urban Women ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Survey Analysis ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Original Survey ◽  
Impact Of Urbanization ◽  
Turkish Case ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

AbstractThis article examines the relationship between urbanization and women's empowerment through the Turkish case. The article first tests statistically the overall impact of urbanization on women's empowerment by tapping into educational, economic, and political indicators at the province level. The results yield a positive relationship between urbanization and women's empowerment. We argue that these empowerment indicators demonstrate the necessary conditions of women's empowerment, yet whether these are sufficient for women to feel empowered needs to be further tested. To do so, the article utilizes an extensive original survey of 334 well-educated urban women in 43 out of 81 provinces of Turkey to examine the extent to which the results found in the quantitative section are paralleled by the actual experiences of women. The survey analysis reveals prospects and obstacles that well-educated women face in old and new urban centers. This nonrandom, purposive sample of seemingly empowered urban women shows that the barriers faced by these women would easily multiply when lower strata of society are reached. The Turkish case demonstrates that societal transformations such as urbanization have an imprint on the fates of women, yet further women's empowerment needs collective action at the political, legal, and societal levels.

Feminism and Firearms: Gun Ownership, Gun Carrying, and Women’s Empowerment

2021 ◽  
pp. 073112142110286
Author(s):  
Margaret S. Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Feminist Identity ◽  
Gun Ownership ◽  
American Life ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Gun Carrying ◽  
Gun Culture ◽  
The Relationship

In this article, I use the 2018 Guns in American Life Survey (GALS) to investigate the relationship between feminist identity, gun ownership, gun carrying, and women’s empowerment. Notably, while identifying as a feminist lessens the likelihood that a woman will own a gun, of women who own handguns, feminists are more likely to carry their guns all or most of the time. Past victimization is associated with ownership and carrying, confirming genuine concern by women about their safety. Finally, findings reveal that women are more empowered by guns than are men and the relationship is moderated by age. Results are discussed in light of the current American gun culture focused on self-defense and a carry mindset that some women develop as feminist culture in action.

scholarly journals Implementasi Program Perlindungan Anak Terpadu Berbasis Masyarakat di Kota Palangka Raya

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-56
Author(s):  
Mita Sari ◽  
Wahyu Wahyu ◽  
Bachruddin Ali Achmad
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
City Government ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The People ◽  
Planning Office ◽  
The City

The purpose of this study was to find out, explain how the implementation of an integrated community-based child protection program, as well as the factors that support and inhibit integrated community-based child protection programs. This research was conducted at the Department of Population Control and Family Planning, Women's Empowerment, Child Protection in Palangka Raya City using qualitative methods. The results of this study indicate that the Implementation of the Community Based Integrated Child Protection Program (PATBM) in the Department of Population Control and Family Planning, Women's Empowerment, Child Protection in Palangka Raya City includes the integrated community-based child protection program that has been running and on target, a community-based integrated child protection program is useful and accepted in the City of Palangka Raya, during the implementation of an integrated community-based child protection program there has been a decrease in the number of violence, Resources Implementation of integrated community-based child protection programs both in terms of human resources and budget is still lacking and inadequate, integrated community-based child protection program received a good response from the people of Palangka Raya City, and strategy undertaken by the Population Control and Family Planning Office, Women's Empowerment, Child Protection in Palangka Raya City in implementing a community-based integrated child protection program is to carry out socialization and training activities for activists or cadres of Integrated Community Based Child Protection in the City Government Palangka Raya.

scholarly journals Urbanization and Tourism Development in Bogor City

Society ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 393-409
Author(s):  
Agustina Multi Purnomo
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Development ◽  
City Tourism ◽  
Indicator Data ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Impact Of Urbanization ◽  
City Relations ◽  
Tourism Services ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This study examines the impact of urbanization on tourism development in Bogor City as part of the Jakarta Metropolitan Area (JMA). Previous studies examined the impact of urbanization based on an analysis of urbanization indicators. Inter-city relations in JMA lead to capital and population flows in the form of inter-city migration, development of residential and industrial areas. This study examines the impact of urbanization on tourism development in cities around Jakarta. The argument put forward, urbanization can build a form of city tourism. The study was conducted in Bogor City, a part of JMA, which has experienced urbanization since the royal era and has a variety of tourism services. In contrast to previous research, this study examines urbanization indicator data and the relationship between urbanization history and urbanization indicator data with the development of tourism facilities. The study found that urbanization encourages the development of hotel and restaurant tourism facilities in Bogor City. This is not related to the historical urbanization of the city, other tourism developments, and the relative position of Bogor City among JMA cities. Urbanization encourages the development of tourism facilities through inter-city tourist activity. The research proposes to study the development of tourism facilities as a new perspective on urbanization studies at JMA.

Comment on Brush and Miller’s “Trouble in Paradigm: ‘Gender Transformative Programming’ in Violence Prevention”

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (14) ◽  
pp. 1682-1688 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn A. Hollander ◽  
C. J. Pascoe
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Brush and Miller have provided an astute critique of “gender-transformative” antiviolence programming, encouraging us to take more seriously the effects of history, gender, and social structure. In this commentary, we extend their analysis in four directions by highlighting the everydayness of gendered violence, the relationship between masculinity and social legibility, the seductive rewards of masculine conformity, and the way norms are enforced through nets of accountability. We elaborate on the model provided by women’s empowerment self-defense training to suggest a potential way forward for these programs.

scholarly journals Women’s Empowerment and the Well-being of Children in Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-154
Author(s):  
Priniti Panday
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Strong Positive Relationship ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between women’s empowerment and child well-being in Nepal. Various indicators of women’s empowerment and child well-being are presented and compared across the seven provinces in the country. A strong positive relationship between the two is established. In fact, women’s empowerment appears to have a stronger relationship to children’s well-being than wealth indicators.

scholarly journals Acceso a la vivienda en contextos de gentrificación y turistificación urbana

2019 ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Mario Arroyo Alba
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Global City ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Housing Inequality ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Las principales ciudades de nuestro entorno se están viendo afectadas en la actualidad por tendencias urbanas globales que marcan el ritmo de su desarrollo. Procesos de transformación como la turistificación y la gentrificación están atravesando diferentes territorios, principalmente en los centros urbanos, e incidiendo de forma específica en la forma en que construimos nuestras ciudades. La relación entre problemas sociales como las dificultades en el acceso a la vivienda, la desigualdad y la segregación en el medio urbano y este tipo de transformaciones está siendo ampliamente estudiada por distintas disciplinas y cobrando relevancia en el ámbito académico. El presente artículo recoge los principales resultados y conclusiones de una investigación llevada a cabo con el objetivo de aproximarse al problema del acceso a la vivienda en este tipo de contextos, concretamente en el barrio madrileño de Lavapiés. De esta forma, se ha intentado analizar de forma crítica los procesos de transformación urbana y sus consecuencias en forma de problemas sociales.Major cities in Spain are being affected by global city trends that define the pace of their development. Processes of transformation like touristification and gentrification are crossing different territories, mainly in urban centers, and specifically affecting the way we build our cities. The relationship between social issues, like difficulties accessing housing, inequality, and the segregation of the city, and this type of transformation is being widely studied by a variety of disciplines and gaining more and more relevance in academia. This article presents the main results and conclusions of research carried out on the problem of access to housing in these kinds of contexts, specifically in the Lavapiés neighborhood of Madrid. In this way, the processes transforming the city and their consequences as social problems were analyzed from a critical perspective.

scholarly journals PERAN PEREMPUAN DALAM MENGEMBANGKAN PROGRAM PEMBERDAYAAN PEREMPUAN MELALUI MULTIMEDIA

PERSPEKTIF ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilia Ramadhani
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Women Academics ◽  
Region I ◽  
The Media ◽  
The City ◽  
Empowerment Program

This study aims to unify ideas or thoughts that will be developed in the movement of Indonesian women academics to women's empowerment program, particularly through the media.The approach will be used in this study is to model the quantitative and qualitative approach in social policy research. The population in this study were all female academics in the city of Medan with the characteristics of women who are actively teaching professor at the PTN and PTS in the shade Kopertis region I. The results showed that women academics agreed to unify their thoughts or ideas through the movement of women academics in an effort to empower women. Also it is known that during this activity was limited to female academics in the field activities with NGOs and for the contribution of ideas or thoughts are said to be less or very low. Then the media deemed appropriate to be used as a vessel to channel the ideas and thoughts about women are in the form of a multimedia website, in this case made gap-indonesia.org domain.

scholarly journals Social determinants and their interference in homicide rates in a city in northeastern Brazil

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (suppl 2) ◽  
pp. 194-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geziel dos Santos de Sousa ◽  
Francismeire Brasileiro Magalhães ◽  
Isabelle da Silva Gama ◽  
Maria Vilma Neves de Lima ◽  
Rosa Lívia Freitas de Almeida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Regression Model ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Ecological Study ◽  
Multiple Regression Model ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Outcome Variable ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Household Heads ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

OBJECTIVE: This paper aims to analyze the possible relationship between social determinants and homicide mortality in Fortaleza (CE), Brazil. METHOD: To investigate whether the rate of mortality by homicides is related to social determinants, an ecological study with emphasis on spatial analysis was conducted in the city of Fortaleza. Social, economic, demographic and sanitation data, as well as information regarding years of potential life lost, and Human Development Index were collected. The dependent variable was the rate of homicides in the period 2004 to 2006. In order to verify the relationship between the outcome variable and the predictor variables, we performed a multivariate linear regression model. RESULTS: We found associations between social determinants and the rate of mortality by homicides. Variables related to income and education were proven determinants for mortality. The multiple regression model showed that 51% of homicides in Fortaleza neighborhoods are explained by years of potential life lost, proportion of households with poor housing, average years of schooling, per capita income and percentage of household heads with 15 or more years of study. The coefficients for years of potential life lost and households with poor housing were positive. CONCLUSION: The findings indicate that the mortality by homicide is associated with high levels of poverty and uncontrolled urbanization, which migrates to the peripheries of urban centers.

scholarly journals Variações Termo-Higrométricas e Estudo de Ilha de Calor Urbana na Cidade de Bragança-PA e Circunvizinhança (Thermo-Hygrometric Variations and Study of Urban Heat Island in the City of Bragança-PA and Surrounding Region)

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 571
Author(s):  
Abnoã Da Costa Costa ◽  
Hernani Rodrigues ◽  
Jefferson Costa ◽  
Paulo Souza ◽  
Joao Silva Junior ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Temperature ◽  
Meteorological Parameters ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Heat Islands ◽  
Urban Heat ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Estudou-se algumas variáveis e parâmetros meteorológicos no período de 17 a 21 de novembro de 2014, na cidade de Bragança-PA e circunvizinhança, com a finalidade de entender como elas interferem no microclima da cidade e com isso fazer um estudo com a finalidade de obter uma breve característica do microclima na região. Os resultados mostraram que houveram diferenças de temperaturas entre os pontos, ou seja, algumas características de cada local influenciaram no aumento ou diminuição da temperatura do ar. A relação dos dados com as características de uso e ocupação do solo demonstrou uma influência significativa onde havia vegetação, devido a diminuição da temperatura do ar noturna e, consequentemente, minimização das ilhas de calor. Foi verificado também que as áreas com maior ocupação com construções e com maior pavimentação perderam menos calor, levando à formação de pequenas ilhas de calor noturnas mais intensas. Assim percebeu-se que na cidade, bem como aquelas que passaram por processos de urbanização, segundo literatura, possuem ilha de calor, que consiste em temperaturas mais elevadas durante a noite, causando assim o desconforto humano. Com isso, as alterações microclimáticas na cidade de Bragança-PA, assim como em outros centros urbanos, em geral são causadas pela ação antrópica e que interferem na qualidade de vida da população. Este trabalho é importante para a publicação nesta revista devida a sua contribuição cientifica para a sociedade.     A B S T R A C T We studied some variables and meteorological parameters in the period from 17 to 21 November 2014 in the city of Bragança-PA and surrounding region, in order to understand how they impact on the city's microclimate and thus make a study for the purpose of get a brief characteristic of the microclimate in the region. The results showed that there were differences in temperature between the points, that is, some features of each local influence on the increase or decrease of air temperature. The relationship of the data with the characteristics of use and land cover showed a significant influence where there was vegetation, because influenced the decrease in the night air temperature and thus minimize heat islands. It was also found that the areas with higher occupancy with buildings and more paving lost less heat, leading to the formation of smaller more intense nocturnal heat islands. So it was noticed that in the city, as well as those who have gone through processes of urbanization, according to literature, have heat island, consisting of higher temperatures during the night, thus causing certain human discomfort. With that, the microclimate changes in the city of Bragança-PA, as well as other urban centers in general are caused by human activities that interfere with people's quality of life. This work is important for publication in the magazine due to their scientific contribution to society Keywords: Bragança-PA, heat island, air temperature.   

scholarly journals The Tabooed City

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Pritam Dey ◽  
Paridhi Kedia
Keyword(s):  
Political Stability ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Slum Dwellers ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The year 2009 shall remain a milestone year in the century as the year which witnessed the major shift of diaspora in urban centers of India for the first time in human history. In this context, it is essential to understand the socio-spatial negotiations happening and may happen ahead between the physically growing city and the everyday life, work-live relationship of these invisible communities within the city. Does the growing city with an economic disparity and tremendous polarization of amenities consider their criticality and social aspects which are deeply rooted within these communities, thriving in the vast and continually changing physical fabric?The planning framework of the cities are manifestations of a bigger play of byelaws and demonstration of power often blurs out the existence of inculcating the ‘excluded’ quarters of the city within a holistic whole. As a result, these quarters grow sporadically within the city creating a sense of anarchy. This paper tries to seek the relationship of state and political hegemony with these “excluded zones” where profit, political stability, and a constant saga of the failure of proposals to regenerate a highly diverse settlement within the financial capital of India. The Dharavi slum in Mumbai is a sprawling 525‐acre area with shanty roofs and deleterious sanitation conditions, housing over one million residents diversified in terms of its religious and ethnic matrix along with a wide gamut of informal occupations which makes it unique. Dharavi’s residents like most slum dwellers around the world, live in illegal housing units lacking basic amenities and suffer from social exclusion.The paper would critically investigate the failure of community engagement and mobilization attempts forming cooperatives, formation of the several schemes across three decades and failures of almost all policies raising questions of redevelopment, how costing and finance schemes were mostly inefficient at large.The paper would also try to understand the scale and scalability of various neo-liberal redevelopment processes initiated by political will, largely vested in the interest of capitalistic gains and focusing less on addressing the complexities and issues of the existing socio-economic conditions.

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