scholarly journals Girls and activism in a neoliberal time: How teen girls from Toronto negotiate care, activism, and extraordinary girlhood

2021 ◽  
pp. 204361062110273
Author(s):  
Tina Belinda Benigno
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Youth Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Teenage Girls ◽  
The World

Recently, a number of prominent teen girl activist leaders have been gaining the world’s attention, but how do girls not in the public eye and with less social power think about activism? Moreover, how do girls who may not exclusively define themselves as activists, negotiate their own desire to contribute to social change with challenges they identify as holding them back from doing so? Through qualitative research with eight teenage girls in Toronto, I explore the ways these teen girls define the “activist,” their role in activism, and the challenges holding them back from being more active. My methodology is congruent, reflecting my feminist and youth studies commitment to girls leading research, and my findings indicate that such an approach is crucial in order to truly understand how girls with less social power and public visibility experience the world and their roles within it. Doing so also challenge pre-conceived notions and standards of extraordinary girlhood. The findings coincide with what Catherine Rottenberg refers to as neoliberal feminism. The extraordinariness implicit in visible activism framed the girls from my study’s views on what it would take to be a true activist themselves, which was both intimidating and also at times is in contention with their monumental care and concern for loved ones.

scholarly journals Progressive Social Movements and the Internet

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah J. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Power ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
The Public Sphere

Because of the field’s foundational concerns with both social power and media, communication scholars have long been at the center of scholarly thought at the intersection of social change and technology. Early critical scholarship in communication named media technologies as central in the creation and maintenance of dominant political ideologies and as a balm against dissent among the masses. This work detailed the marginalization of groups who faced restricted access to mass media creation and exclusion from representational discourse and images, alongside the connections of mass media institutions to political and cultural elites. Yet scholars also highlighted the ways collectives use media technologies for resistance inside their communities and as interventions in the public sphere. Following the advent of the World Wide Web in the late 1980s, and the granting of public access to the Internet in 1991, communication scholars faced a medium that seemed to buck the one-way and gatekeeping norms of others. There was much optimism about the democratic potentials of this new technology. With the integration of Internet technology into everyday life, and its central role in shaping politics and culture in the 21st century, scholars face new questions about its role in dissent and collective efforts for social change. The Internet requires us to reconsider definitions of the public sphere and civil society, document the potentials and limitations of access to and creation of resistant and revolutionary media, and observe and predict the rapidly changing infrastructures and corresponding uses of technology—including the temporality of online messaging alongside the increasingly transnational reach of social movement organizing. Optimism remains, but it has been tempered by the realities of the Internet’s limitations as an activist tool and warnings of the Internet-enabled evolution of state suppression and surveillance of social movements. Across the body of critical work on these topics particular characteristics of the Internet, including its rapidly evolving infrastructures and individualized nature, have led scholars to explore new conceptualizations of collective action and power in a digital media landscape.

scholarly journals Transforming the World in Which We Live: Laureate's Transnational Civic Learning Project

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
William M. Plater
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Civic Learning ◽  
The Public ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The World

<p>Higher education serves as an agent of social change that plays a significant role in the development of socially conscious and engaged students. The duty higher education has toward society, the role for-profit educational institutions play in enhancing the public good, and the prospect of making social change an element of these providers’ missions are discussed. Laureate’s Global Citizenship Project is introduced, highlighting the development of the project’s civic engagement rubric and the challenges of assessing civic engagement.</p>

Application of Butler’s (1980) Tourist Area Life Cycle to Saly (Senegal)

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mouhamadou Bamba LY
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
The World ◽  
A Site

Richard W. Butler publishes in 1980 a model of evolution of tourist destinations known as TALC -Tourism Area Life Cycle- which stipulates that a site exploited for tourism and leisure knows 6 phases in its evolution: exploration, involvement, development, consolidation, stagnation, decline or rejuvenation. Several experiments of the model will be carried out around the world, however the tourist destinations located in the developing countries constitute a residual category of these applications. This article proposes an exploration of the TALC at the first station developed by the public authorities in West Africa, Saly located on the small coast in Senegal. For this purpose, we used a qualitative research method based on semi-directive interviews with actors at the level of the student site completed by official statistics. Our results show that Saly is in a so-called stagnation phase and that it is important to re-qualify the typology of tourist space in this city, which is experiencing a significant change in relation to its location.

Constructing the Fundamental Principles of Taxation through Triangulation

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-45
Author(s):  
Hanneke du Preez
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
The Public ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Effective Administration ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The World ◽  
Single Question ◽  
Different Levels

ABSTRACT Taxation principles were applied as early as 4000 BC in Sumer. The formulation of recognized taxation principles commenced formally with Adam Smith in 1776. He called them the four maxims of taxation. The principles formulated by Smith were grounded in his observations and personal experiences of the world. After Smith, several individuals, committees, and reviews added their ideas to the principles of taxation. The question discussed in this paper is whether these principles formulated through the years are scientifically grounded. In order to ground the principles scientifically, three qualitative research methods were conducted. Method 1 is a thematic analysis of taxation history. Method 2 applies a qualitative research design called an Interactive Qualitative Analysis. Finally, Method 3 uses a single question in writing, sent to taxation experts from various countries. The question asked in Methods 2 and 3 is: What are the fundamental principles of taxation that are essential to taxation internationally as a discipline? The findings of the three research methods were triangulated in order to propose a set of six fundamental principles of taxation. The six proposed principles are: efficient and effective administration and communication; certain, neutral, understandable legislation; equity influencing different levels of society; taxpayers' duty to contribute to society versus the government's duty to strike a balance between taking too little and taking too much; benefits to the public through taxation; and change unwanted social behavior. JEL Classifications: H2; H3.

scholarly journals Penggunaan Instagram Sebagai Media Informasi Bimbingan dan Konseling di Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lutfiani Dwi Oktavia
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Media ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Guidance And Counseling ◽  
Qualitative Research Method ◽  
The Public ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
The World ◽  
School Police

Social media is no longer a taboo for Indonesian people, young and old all using social media, for example, Instagram. Instagram users have reached 56 millions and become the fourth largest country in the world beat Russia, Turkey, Japan, and United Kingdom (according to cuponation.co.id april 2019 sources). The writing of this article aims to describe the form of utilization from the Instagram account @ruang_bimbingan_konseling. The research method used was descriptive qualitative research method with uses data in the form of words and produces descriptions in the form of words. The results of this study show Instagram can be a medium for informing all information about guidance and counseling in the form of photos and videos. Instagram can be a solution in overcoming the lack of information about guidance and counseling, which raises the stigma to the public about guidance and counseling is the school police or just dealing with bad boys.

scholarly journals THE BIOGRAPHY OF PUANG MASSER AND HIS PAPERS

Al-Qalam ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 319
Author(s):  
Idham Idham
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
Short Biography ◽  
The World ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Written Sources

<p><em>Since long time ago, Indonesia contributes to one of the largest Muslim scholar graduates in the world, these scholars are not only recognized in their countries, but are recognized throughout the world. They are Nuruddin Ar Raniri (Aceh), Sheikh Nawawi al Bantani (Banten), Khalil Bangkalan (Madura), Sheikh Muhammad Arsyad al Banjari (South Kalimantan), Sheikh Yusuf al Makassari (South Sulawesi), Sheikh Ahmad Khatib al Minangkabawi and Muhammad Jamil Jambek (West Sumatra), Sheikh Mahfudz Tremas (Java), following Hadhratus Sheikh KH. Hasyim Asy'ari (founder of  Nahdatul  Ulama),  KH. Ahmad  Dahlan (founder of  Muhammadiyah),  Prof.  Dr.  Hasbi  ash- Shidiqqey (initiator of Indonesian jurisprudence), Prof. Buya Hamka, and so on. The number of scholars in Indonesia will never be exhausted to be studied, because scholars always grow and develop in the community. Some of the scholars have written their biographies, but many of them have not yet been written. The absence of written sources (reading) about the scholar makes the public not familiar with it. So the purpose of writing this short biography is to find out a short biography of one of the scholars, namely Dr. Muhammad Nawawi Yahya Abudrrazak Al Majene, from Mandar, West Sulawesi. Nawawi Yahya is known by the local people by the name of Puang Masser, because most of his life was spent in Egypt in the context of studying. From the undergraduate program until the doctoral program was completed in Egypt. Nawawi Yahya or Puang Masser managed to write a dissertation entitled "Az Zakah wa an Nadzum al Ijtima'iyah al Mu'ashirah", Zakat  and  the  Order of the  Contemporary Society. What's interesting  about the dissertation is its thickness reaches 3,593 pages, which is divided into six chapters. The work has now been published by the Research Center for Literature and the Religious Khazanah of the Indonesian Ministry of Religion's Research and Development Agency. This study used interviews, observations, and documentation in collecting data as well as qualitative research in general.</em></p><p> </p>

The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Robbins
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
The World ◽  
Theoretical Significance ◽  
Global Movements

The phenomenal growth of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism around the world in recent decades has forced us to rethink what it means to be religious and what it means to be global. The success of these religious movements has revealed tensions and resonances between the public and the private, the religious and the cultural, and the local and the global. This volume provides an interesting perspective on what has become a truly global religious trend, one that is challenging conventional analytical categories within the social sciences. This book considers the character of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism not only as they have spread across the globe, but also as they have become global movements. Adopting a broadly anthropological approach, the chapters synthesize the existing literature on Pentecostalism and evangelicalism even as they offer new analyses and critiques. They show how the study of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism provides a fresh way to approach classic anthropological themes; they contest the frequent characterization of these movements as conservative religious, social, and political forces; and they argue that Pentecostalism and evangelicalism are significant not least because they encourage us to reflect on the intersections of politics, materiality, morality, and law. Ultimately, the volume leaves us with a clear sense of the cultural and social power, as well as the theoretical significance, of forms of Christianity that we can no longer afford to ignore.

scholarly journals Synergy of Tourism Services Based on Local Wisdom in South Sulawesi

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melan Angriani Asnawi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Tourism Management ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
Community Tourism ◽  
The World ◽  
Tourism Potential ◽  
Tourism Services ◽  
Research Type

Qualitative research type through phenomenological approach where the instrument is the researcher himself Tourism management still needs the attention and support of the community, tourism potential with a number of activities that are still natural both in terms of place, society and customs culture is an interesting thing, but not widely known by the public at large both national and international scale, to require cooperation from all elements of the private sector, society ,government, the world of education to jointly build the excellence of tourism.

scholarly journals Stakeholder collaboration to build peace through public interest relations (PIR) (Study on the commemoration of Suran Agung conflict in Madiun)

INFORMASI ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-152
Author(s):  
Rediaz Rakhman Johan ◽  
Sri Hastjarjo ◽  
Ignatius Agung Satyawan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Martial Arts ◽  
Mass Mobilization ◽  
Stakeholder Collaboration ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
History Of ◽  
District Government

Madiun Regency is one area that has a lot of active silat colleges, there are 14 (fourteen) silat colleges, mostly based in Madiun. In the dynamics of Madiun pencak silat development, there is Suran Agung tradition as a form of local wisdom in every pencak silat college at the suro month. The activity involved mass mobilization, the escalation of conflict between members of the martial arts college and communities also increased. The history of the conflict began when there was fanaticism of teachings from the Ki Ngabei Soerodiwiryo students. Conflicts that occurred in the Suran Agung involved between groups of fighters and community which often caused material losses such as throwing stones, destruction of public facilities also lead to violence resulting in casualties. Qualitative research here to analyze the efforts of the District Government of Madiun in preventing conflict that is an issue for the public, the Public Interest Relations (PIR) approach to the practice of Suran Agung in Madiun focuses on stakeholder collaboration in peace efforts. The result of PIR practice is the emergence of a new identity for Kampung Pesilat Indonesia as a milestone for peace in social change to realize the vision and mission of regional head.

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