Solidarity Reasoning and Citizenship Agendas: From Socialist Yugoslavia to Neoliberal Serbia

2020 ◽  
pp. 088832542092302
Author(s):  
Jelena Vasiljević
Keyword(s):  
Functional Role ◽  
Full Inclusion ◽  
Citizen Activism ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complex Manner

Solidarity and citizenship are intertwined in a very complex manner, where the former usually operates as the “social glue” for the latter, holding together its formal components such as rights, duties, and membership criteria. The “we” that sets the parameters for membership and equality is not only legally defined but also discursively produced and maintained. Here, the rhetoric of solidarity plays an important yet ambiguous role, as it can advocate for interdependence and full inclusion while at the same time solidifying the exclusionary “we.” The aim of this article is to show how solidarity reasoning—the question of with whom we should be solidary and why—plays a functional role in maintaining citizenship agendas, and how this reasoning changes to support and enable shifts in these agendas. The dominant solidarity narratives that have supported prevailing citizenship agendas in Serbia (and across the post-Yugoslav space) over the last couple of decades will be discussed, as will counter-narratives that have served to destabilize hegemonic agendas by envisioning citizenship communities differently. Today, the ambiguous role solidarity can play within a citizenship agenda becomes especially obvious in neoliberal regimes, where, as I will show in the case of contemporary Serbia, calls for solidarity can be deployed to foster very distinct, arguably mutually opposing, kinds of political subjectivities and citizen activism.

scholarly journals O edukacji włączającej – z uwzględnieniem problemu bezpieczeństwa uczniów w kontekście formalnoprawnym

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-139
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Jadach
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Full Inclusion ◽  
Specific Approach ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Security Guarantees

The key issue of this article is inclusive education in connection with the formal and legal aspects of students’ safety when they are staying in educational institutions. In the first part, author describes the basic assumptions of the social model of education and it’s international conditions, also referring to solutions that have been recently implemented in the Polish education system. The second part indicates the problems that may be met by educational institutions and teachers trying to achieve a state of full inclusion. They relate to the school’s caring function in terms of security guarantees. The diversity of student population, especially wide range of educational needs may make it impossible for teachers to develop specific approach to individual pupil. It’s caused by formal items, largely determined by the financial situation of particular local government units.

Life and Sport — Analysis on the Influence of Sports Architecture on Urban Development

2014 ◽  
Vol 584-586 ◽  
pp. 559-563
Author(s):  
Yang Zhao ◽  
Xu Bai
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Functional Role ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

Sports will bring interests for the urban development, which is the starting point of the paper, then the relationship between urban development, urban landscape environment, urban culture and the sports building is analyzed to reflect on the design demands and the transformation of functional role, moreover the diversified development trend of sports building in the social, economic and cultural development as well as their commensal and harmonious design are proposed.

scholarly journals Working With Embroideries and Counter-Maps: Engaging Memory and Imagination Within Decolonizing Frameworks

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 342-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Puleng Segalo ◽  
Einat Manoff ◽  
Michelle Fine
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Historical Material ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Dominant Narratives

As people around the world continue to have their voices, desires, and movements restricted, and their pasts and futures told on their behalf, we are interested in the critical project of decolonizing, which involves contesting dominant narratives and hegemonic representations. Ignacio Martín-Baró called these the “collective lies” told about people and politics. This essay reflects within and across two sites of injustice, located in Israel/Palestine and in South Africa, to excavate the circuits of structural violence, internalized colonization and possible reworking of those toward resistance that can be revealed within the stubborn particulars of place, history, and culture. The projects presented here are locally rooted, site-specific inquiries into contexts that bear the brunt of colonialism, dispossession, and occupation. Using visual research methodologies such as embroideries that produce counter-narratives and counter-maps that divulge the complexity of land-struggles, we search for fitting research practices that amplify unheard voices and excavate the social psychological soil that grows critical analysis and resistance. We discuss here the practices and dilemmas of doing decolonial research and highlight the need for research that excavates the specifics of a historical material context and produces evidence of previously silenced narratives.

scholarly journals Health care of deaf persons during coronavirus pandemics

2022 ◽  
Vol 75 (suppl 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luana Paula de Figueiredo Correia ◽  
Márcia de Assunção Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Deaf People ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
Full Inclusion ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Deaf Persons

ABSTRACT Objective: To reflect about the barriers experienced by the deaf population during the COVID-19 pandemic, the proposals to overcome communication barriers in health care and the role of public policies in effecting the social inclusion of deaf people. Methods: Reflection based on studies on health care for deaf people, the COVID-19 pandemic and public accessibility policies. Results: The global crisis of COVID-19 has deepened pre-existing inequalities in the world, in addition to highlighting the vulnerability of people with disabilities, including deaf. Government, institutional and social initiatives to mitigate difficulties in communicating to deaf people have been made, but they are still insufficient to guarantee protection for them in this pandemic and full inclusion in health care. Final considerations: Social inclusion, supported by law, and the linguistic accessibility of deaf people still need to generate broad and concrete actions so that deaf people can enjoy their rights as citizens.

FUNCTIONAL ROLE OF THE SOCIAL COMPONENT OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE MINING AND METALLURGICAL CLUSTER IN BELGOROD REGION

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 69-74
Author(s):  
S. I. DVOEGLAZOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Role ◽  
Economic Variables ◽  
Social Component ◽  
The Social ◽  
Basic Functions

The article substantiates the need to take into account and analyze non-economic variables in the development of mining and metallurgical cluster entities. The object of the study were the subjects of mining and metallurgical cluster in Belgorod region, subject of study – non-economic variables of development such subjects. Paid attention to the functional role of the social component of development, it identified the four basic functions.

Battling for the Story

Reckoning ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 51-79
Author(s):  
Candis Callison ◽  
Mary Lynn Young
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
White Men ◽  
Venture Capitalist ◽  
Indigenous Youth ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Central Canada ◽  
Refusal To Participate ◽  
Civil Trial

Social media has shifted the terrain for journalism, and offers platforms for counter-narratives, alternative views, and broader expertise. In Chapter 2, we focus on the social media response in three specific cases: (1) two separate trials for the murders of two Indigenous youth, Colten Boushie and Tina Fontaine, in central Canada, in which the two white men accused in their homicides were acquitted within a month of each other in early 2018; (2) the 2015 civil trial and discrimination case brought by Ellen Pao, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, who was forced out of her job; (3) a 2016 #MeToo related moment in which writer Kelly Oxford asked women to share their stories through #notokay. In all three cases, we find a “battle for the story” that plays out in a range of ways from a refusal to participate, to talking back and resisting journalism’s habit of “hoarding the mic.”

#RIPINSTAGRAM: Examining user’s counter-narratives opposing the introduction of algorithmic personalization on Instagram

First Monday ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Mahnke Skrubbeltrang ◽  
Josefine Grunnet ◽  
Nicolai Traasdahl Tarp
Keyword(s):  
Technological Advancement ◽  
User Resistance ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Twitter Data ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Organizational Narrative ◽  
Heated Debate

When Instagram announced the implementation of algorithmic personalization on their platform a heated debate arose. Several users expressed instantly their strong discontent under the hashtag #RIPINSTAGRAM. In this paper, we examine how users commented on the announcement of Instagram implementing algorithmic personalization. Drawing on the conceptual starting point of framing user comments as “counter-narratives” (Andrews, 2004), which oppose Instagram’s organizational narrative of improving the user experience, the study explores the main concerns users bring forth in greater detail. The two-step analysis draws on altogether 8,645 comments collected from Twitter and Instagram. The collected Twitter data were used to develop preliminary inductive categories describing users’ counter-narratives. Thereafter, we coded all Instagram data extracted from Instagram systematically in order to enhance, adjust and revise the preliminary categories. This inductive coding approach (Mayring, 2000) combined with an in-depth qualitative analysis resulted in the identification of the following four counter-narratives brought forth by users: 1) algorithmic hegemony; 2) violation of user autonomy; 3) prevalence of commercial interests; and 4) deification of mainstream. All of these counter-narratives are related to ongoing public debates regarding the social implications of algorithmic personalization. In conclusion, the paper suggests that the identified counter-narratives tell a story of resistance. While technological advancement is generally welcomed and celebrated, the findings of this study point towards a growing user resistance to algorithmic personalization.

scholarly journals Counter narratives and controversial crimes: The Wikipedia article for the ‘Murder of Meredith Kercher’

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Page
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
National Context ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Open Versus ◽  
A Site ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
Single Versus ◽  
Over Time

Narrative theorists have long recognised that narrative is a selective mode of representation. There is always more than one way to tell a story, which may alter according to its teller, audience and the social or historical context in which the story is told. But multiple versions of the ‘same’ events are not always valued in the same way: some versions may become established as dominant accounts, whilst others may be marginalised or resist hegemony as counter narratives (Bamberg and Andrews, 2004). This essay explores the potential of Wikipedia as a site for positioning counter and dominant narratives. Through the analysis of linearity and tellership (Ochs and Capps, 2001) as exemplified through revisions of a particular article (‘Murder of Meredith Kercher’), I show how structural choices (open versus closed sequences) and tellership (single versus multiple narrators) function as mechanisms to prioritise different dominant narratives over time and across different cultural contexts. The case study points to the dynamic and relative nature of dominant and counter narratives. In the ‘Murder of Meredith Kercher’ article the counter narratives of the suspects’ guilt or innocence and their position as villains or victims depended on national context, and changed over time. The changes in the macro-social narratives are charted in the micro-linguistic analysis of structure, citations and quoted speech in four selected versions of the article, taken from the English and Italian Wikipedias.

A Friendships and Dating Program for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Formative Evaluation

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen M. Ward ◽  
Julie P. Atkinson ◽  
Curtis A. Smith ◽  
Richard Windsor
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Formative Evaluation ◽  
Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Full Inclusion ◽  
Community Agencies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Meaningful Relationships

Abstract Meaningful relationships with others are often elusive for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, but no less desired for their full inclusion and participation in society. It is well documented that people with disabilities are victims of interpersonal violence at higher rates than peers without disabilities. This article presents a formative evaluation of the Friendships and Dating Program (FDP). The FDP was designed to teach the social skills needed to develop healthy, meaningful relationships and to prevent violence in dating and partnered relationships. Thirty-one adults were recruited by 5 community agencies in Alaska to participate. The results showed the size of the participants' social networks increased and the number of incidents of interpersonal violence was reduced for participants who completed the FDP, and outcomes were maintained 10 weeks later.

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