Can We Change Processes in Our Cities? Reflections on the Role of Urban Mobility in Strengthening Sustainable Green Infrastructures

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Smaniotto Costa
Keyword(s):  
Change Processes ◽  
Urban Mobility

Retóricas, metáforas y su papel en el cambio organizacional

Oikos ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (33) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Luis Muñoz Medina ◽  
Rafael Pizarro Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Organisational Change ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Emotional Burden ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Change Concept

The Role of Rhetoric and Metaphors in Organisational Change  RESUMEN El presente artículo es una recopilación de literatura científica que demuestra la relevancia de comprender nuevas formas de construir el concepto de cambio organizacional a través del lenguaje, en especial a través de claves lingüísticas como la retórica y metáfora. Esta construcción ayuda a generar procesos de cambio organizacional que presenten una menor intensidad y carga emocional negativa para los individuos, así como una mejor comprensión del mismo cambio para los empleados. Palabras clave: cambio, organización, retórica, metáfora. ABSTRACT This article is a compilation of scientific literature about the importance of understanding new approaches to the construction of the organisational change concept through language, especially through linguistic devices such as rhetorical and metaphorical ones. This construction helps the creation of organisational change processes with lower levels of impact and a lower negative emotional burden for individuals as well as a better understanding of such changesKeywords: changes; organisation; rhetoric; metaphor. 

Diffusion of Innovations

2021 ◽  
pp. 610-638
Author(s):  
James W. Dearing
Keyword(s):  
External Validity ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovations ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Dissemination And Implementation ◽  
Rapid Rise ◽  
Diffusion Study ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Dissemination And Implementation Science ◽  
Implementation Of Innovations

The main concepts of the diffusion of innovations represent a hybrid change research and practice paradigm that blends ideas that can now be found in life cycle, evolutionary, and teleological theories of social change. This chapter discusses why the paradigm developed in the ways that it did, including the shortcomings of this approach, especially for studying the role of organizations in change processes. The chapter also examines the rapid rise of dissemination and implementation science as conducted by health services and public health researchers and how those new literatures are related to diffusion. This paradigmatic evolution from descriptive and explanatory studies to intervention research utilizing diffusion concepts is a theme of this chapter, with emphases on organizational implementation of innovations, inter-organizational diffusion, external validity of innovations and how a recognition of the agency of adopters can reshape diffusion study.

scholarly journals Topical collection on the role of planning towards sustainable urban mobility

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hana Brůhová Foltýnová ◽  
Maria Attard ◽  
Sandra Melo
Keyword(s):  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Sustainable Urban Mobility

Urban Mobility and Politics in Mexico City

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Sosa López
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
The State ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Toll Road ◽  
The City

Study of the struggle of a social movement, the Frente Amplio contra la Supervía, to stop the construction of an urban toll road in the southwestern end of Mexico City reveals that investments in transportation assumed to benefit the larger public are in fact creating new landscapes of infrastructural and democratic exclusion. Examination of the forms of citizen mobilization, alliances among diverse actors, and the role of accountability institutions as spaces for democratic experimentation suggests that struggles against large infrastructure projects allow citizens and the state to redraw the limits of authoritarianism and the meaning of sustainability and democracy in the city. El movimiento social Frente Amplio contra la Supervía se organizó para detener la construcción de una autopista de peaje urbana en el extremo suroeste de la Ciudad de México. El análisis de las luchas del Frente revela que las inversiones en la transportación que se suponía que beneficiarían a un público amplio en realidad están creando nuevos espacios de exclusión infraestructural y democrática. El análisis de las formas de movilización ciudadana, de las alianzas entre diferentes actores y del rol de las instituciones de rendición de cuentas como espacios de experimentación democrática sugiere que las luchas contra los grandes proyectos de infraestructura les permiten a los ciudadanos y al estado volver a trazar los límites del autoritarismo y el significado de la sostenibilidad y la democracia en la ciudad.

scholarly journals Emerging Urban Mobility Technologies through the Lens of Everyday Urban Aesthetics

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miloš N. Mladenović ◽  
Sanna Lehtinen ◽  
Emily Soh ◽  
Karel Martens ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Responsible Innovation ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Aesthetic Understanding ◽  
Urban Aesthetics ◽  
Innovation Processes ◽  
Shed Light

The goal of this article is to deepen the concept of emerging urban mobility technology. Drawing on philosophical everyday and urban aesthetics, as well as the postphenomenological strand in the philosophy of technology, we explicate the relation between everyday aesthetic experience and urban mobility commoning. Thus, we shed light on the central role of aesthetics for providing depth to the important experiential and value-driven meaning of contemporary urban mobility. We use the example of self-driving vehicle (SDV), as potentially mundane, public, dynamic, and social urban robots, for expanding the range of perspectives relevant for our relations to urban mobility technology. We present the range of existing SDV conceptualizations and contrast them with experiential and aesthetic understanding of urban mobility. In conclusion, we reflect on the potential undesired consequences from the depolitization of technological development, and potential new pathways for speculative thinking concerning urban mobility futures in responsible innovation processes.

The communicative constitution of institutional change in expression games

2020 ◽  
pp. 147612702095925
Author(s):  
Marc Krautzberger ◽  
Emamdeen Fohim ◽  
François Cooren ◽  
Thomas Schumacher
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Early Phase ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Collective Actors ◽  
Communicative Constitution ◽  
First Moment ◽  
Over Time

Neo-institutional theory has recently advanced our understanding of the early phase of institutional change but presupposes contexts in which verbally and nonverbally expressing the intended institutional change within a group is already possible. We develop a process model that explains how change agents conceal and reveal their intentional work on institutional change over time to avoid painful sanctions and counteractions. The model describes how change agents proceed from the first moment of forming the intention to promote institutional change until change is sedimented through diffused taken-for-granted behavior. It advances the understanding of how individual and collective actors communicatively influence the macro-pathways of institutional change. The model offers new insights into the very first moments of institutional change processes, the ability to change institutions, the role of ambiguity in change processes, and how change agents slowly and fundamentally change institutions.

Counselling Psychology and Under-Represented Groups: A Vision for Advocacy as Mutual Transformation

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 678-684
Author(s):  
Janelle L. Kwee
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Mutual Transformation ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Effective Advocacy ◽  
Counselling Psychology

The discipline of counselling psychology in Canada has aligned consistently with social justice principles. Consistent with this, a working group at the 2018 Canadian Counselling Psychology Conference was assigned to consider the role of Canadian counselling psychology in advocating for the needs of members of under-represented groups. This brief report captures insights from the working group and focuses on two primary themes: a critical reformulation of advocacy as mutual transformation for personal and social change and a need to engage with change processes at multiple levels. The group conceptualized effective advocacy as recentring historically marginalized perspectives while decentring “expert” roles and traditionally dominant perspectives.

scholarly journals The role of city public transport in creating the mobility of its residents

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 393-397
Author(s):  
Henryk Komsta ◽  
Paweł Droździel ◽  
Marek Opielak
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Small Extent ◽  
Urban Mobility

The article discusses the place and role of public transport in creating the mobility of city dwellers. Attention has been paid to the fact of underestimating the role of public transport in many rankings in the urban mobility. Indicators used in the rankings to a small extent related to the assessment of the quality of operation of public transport from the passenger-user position. There is no such as availability and location of the stops or degree of facilitation of travel by the elderly or the limited efficiency.

scholarly journals Disruptive technologies transforming urban mobility? The role of the ecobee urban maglev system in the seoul traffic vision 2030, South Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3 suppl. 1) ◽  
pp. 115-123
Author(s):  
Martina Hekler ◽  
Johannes Klühspies
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
Mobility Strategies ◽  
Adverse Impacts ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
Innovation Processes

The dynamics and extent of disruptive technologies have been very well developed in Asian cities by the beginning of the 21st century, and are becoming particularly future-oriented. It also appears that urban mobility strategies in Asia are hardly slowed by resistance such as seen in the European context, where holding on to existing systems is the norm. The effects of accelerated mobility strategies in Asia are already apparent compared to what may be expected in Europe. So one could ask, which innovation processes will allow mobility to further develop? How will urban transport systems likely change in the future to minimize adverse impacts of current forms of mobility? In looking forward, any implementation of innovative mobility strategies heavily depends on spatial structures, transport networks and technologies as well as a political planning and decision-making. In Asia, concepts of transport and innovative transportation concepts (such as Rotem’s Ecobee Urban Maglev) are developing with considerable promise, which, if successful, can turn into trendsetters with considerable future relevance on a global scale.

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