Responding to structural and symbolic violence: a comparative case study

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Seal ◽  
Pete Harris
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Youth Work

In the chapter, the authors identify how workers in London are struggling to combat dominant modes of structural violence and then details a street-based youth work project in Graz, Austria that specifically targets symbolic and structural violence directed at young people in public space, through the use of symbolic acts of resistance.

scholarly journals Organisational Strategies to Bridge the Theological Language Gap

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24
Author(s):  
Stephie The-Mertens
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Youth Ministry ◽  
Youth Work ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Ministry Practice ◽  
Theological Language ◽  
Gospel Message

(Theological) language is an important theme in youth ministry. Conveying the Gospel message entails making it accessible and understandable to young people. Thus, it is important to bridge the theological language gap that can exist between organisers and young people in New Ecclesial Movements (nems), movements associated with religious orders, and general youth ministry practice. By describing aspects of nems and Catholic youth ministry in the Netherlands, introducing the theological language gap and presenting early findings of a Franciscan Youth Work case study, this article proposes four organisational strategies to bridge the gap.

scholarly journals Youth Access to Public Space during COVID-19 Pandemic in Hanoi, Vietnam. A descriptive study

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-146
Author(s):  
Phạm Quỳnh Hương ◽  
Phan Song Thuong ◽  
Luong Thuy Duong ◽  
Nguyen Xuan An
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Depth Interviews

Vietnam is considered to overcome COVID-19 pandemic rather successfully by applying strict measures to prevent transmission, including quarantine and social distancing. It has created impacts on youth access to public space. This is a case study on young people in Hanoi, Vietnam based on the combination of an online survey with 325 respondents and 15 in-depth interviews. The study focuses on reviewing the relations between knowledge of COVID-19 with attitudes toward pandemic control and access to public spaces among youth in order to learn about factors that may influence social distancing and their accessibility to public space.

scholarly journals Public Space at the “Palm of a Hand”: Perceptions of Urban Projects Through Digital Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 242-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byron Ioannou ◽  
Gregoris Kalnis ◽  
Lora Nicolaou
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
The Way

This article examines the interactions between digital and social media as the contemporary incubators of place perceptions and the critical debate of environmental quality. Digital and social media may change the way people live but not the way they use physical spaces. This indirect reading of place acts in terms of perceptual understanding in a number of ways, but, most importantly, it becomes fundamental in the “construction” of the sense of place. This is because it impacts on the way information is associated with reality or a contract of the reality which is generated through its “interference” with our intellectual and emotive understanding of place. At the same time, the politics of a new “sociality” contains participations and exclusions. The article adopts comparative case study research as the methodological approach for investigating notions of how urban space is perceived through the case study of Eleftheria Square in Nicosia, a controversial urban regeneration project that generated an extensive debate through digital and social media in Cyprus during the last two decades. It is an attempt of a parallel decoding of (i) a more formal or directive view through digital newspapers’ survey and (ii) an informal view through a Facebook group content analysis. Through the case study, the inefficiencies and potentialities of the new media tools in informing the wider public are clear by providing at the same time evidence of their priorities, preferences, and fears. The article comes to two basic conclusions: (i) the perceptions of urban projects through digital media are not static but fluent and constantly updated, usually turning positive as projects are completed and experienced; and (ii) the interactive and synchronous nature of social media provides a more accurate and updated picture of the society’s changing perceptions of public space.

scholarly journals Emergent Cultures of Activism: Young People and the Building of Alliances Between Unions and Other Social Movements

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Mijin Cha ◽  
Jane Holgate ◽  
Karel Yon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Young People ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
The United Kingdom

This article considers emergent cultures of activism among young people in the labor movement. The authors question whether unions should reconsider creating different forms of organization to make themselves relevant to new generations of workers. Our comparative case study research from the United States, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom—where young people are engaged in “alter-activism” and unions have successfully recruited and included young workers—shows that there is potential for building alliances between trade unions and other social movements. The authors suggest that emerging cultures of activism provide unions with a way of appealing to wider and more diverse constituencies.

Responding at the structural (S) level

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Seal ◽  
Pete Harris
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Youth Workers ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Violent Relationship ◽  
The Eu

This chapter uses critical theory to explore how youth workers need to consciously seek to avoid collusion with structural violence. The authors’ data suggests that many young people across the EU feel they are, in effect, situated within a violent relationship with the state and the police. There is strong evidence that large numbers of young people are being caught up in anti-crime measures that penalise them in terms of their freedom to gather in public spaces, irrespective of their involvement in crime or violence. The authors show how this is resulting in a deepening of young people’s sense of exclusion from the rest of society. The authors argue that youth workers should be facilitated within managerial structures to challenge this structural and symbolic violence, and they provide some theoretical concepts, such as sousveillance, to equip youth workers with some tools to do so.

scholarly journals Multi-Attribute Analysis of Contemporary Cultural Buildings in the Historic Urban Fabric as Sustainable Spaces—Krakow Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6126
Author(s):  
Ernestyna Szpakowska-Loranc
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Site Analysis ◽  
Attribute Analysis ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Historic City

This study concerns contemporary cultural buildings in the historic city centre of Krakow, Poland, and their assessment in terms of sustainability. The paper aims to bridge a research gap in previous studies on pluralistic values and the impact of cultural heritage on sustainability. The comparative case study conducted in Krakow aims to evaluate the functioning and potential of the space towards achieving the following five goals: accessibility, conservation, mix of functions, aesthetics, comfort and sociability. The perception of these buildings and the public space around them by the city residents, as well as their operation during unexpected circumstances, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, were also evaluated. The author combined an on-site analysis, behavioural mapping and a survey. The results correlate the liveability and aesthetics of public spaces along with the amount and quality of greenery found there with the comfort of users and the popularity of particular places. This paper highlights how important it is to create cultural spaces in a historic city to develop a range of their activities linked to the surrounding public spaces and green areas. Activating cultural spaces and connecting them to sustainability goals is especially important when faced with declining tourism.

Public space in the old derelict city area – a case study of Mong Kok, Hong Kong

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlie Q L Xue ◽  
Kevin K Manuel ◽  
Rex H Y Chung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Space ◽  
City Area
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