scholarly journals Douala as a “hybrid space”: Comparing online and offline representations of a sub-Saharan city

Semiotica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (223) ◽  
pp. 219-250
Author(s):  
Marta Pucciarelli ◽  
Sara Vannini
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Intermediate Stage ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Local Ownership ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The City

Abstract This study investigates the complex relationship between the physical and digital spaces of the city of Douala, Cameroon by comparing its online representation with the social representations emerging orally by locals. Using the results of two existing studies reporting on the online image of the city, we investigate the social representations foreigners and locally relevant people have of Douala and uncover similarities and discrepancies of the two resulting representations. Outcomes from the analysis permit reflection on the implications of these and show an unripe, intermediate stage of the “hybrid Douala,” where the virtual space seems still not to be affecting the way the physical space is experienced, as well as where the gaps in the digital divide are perpetuated. At the same time, strong local ownership of certain digital activities suggests how the online image of the city is in the process of being constructed and developed locally. As the spaces of the city start appearing online, the process of hybridization between physical and digital Douala is slowly taking place and offline and online narratives, now rather separated, will possibly communicate a different image of the city to global online narratives.

scholarly journals Poetic Examination of Spatial Experience: Suprematist Composition No. 1, Black on Grey by Kristina Leko

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-176
Author(s):  
Katarina Rukavina
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Spatial Experience ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
Art Intervention ◽  
The City

The paper analyses the concept of space in contemporary art on the example of Suprematist Composition No. 1, Black on Grey by Kristina Leko from 2008. Referring to Malevich’s suprematism, in December 2008 Leko initiated a project of art intervention in Ban Jelačić Square in Zagreb, where she intended to cover in black all commercials, advertisements, signs and names of various companies. This poetic intervention, as the artist calls it, was intended to prompt people to relativise material goods in the pre-Christmas period. However, despite the authorisation obtained from the city authorities, the companies concerned refused to remove their respective advertisements, be it for only for 24 hours, so this project has never been realised. The project, however, does exist in the virtual space, which is also public, and continues to act in the form of documentation. The non-feasibility of the intervention, or rather its invisibility on Jelačić Square, makes visible or directly indicates the ordering of the powers and the constellation of values in the social sphere, thus raising new questions. Indeed, in this way it actually enters the public space, sensitising and expanding it at the same time.

Hanseníase: formas sociais da doença no Brasil e na Índia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Parente Costa
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
Field Work ◽  
World Health ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Leprosy Patients ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The City

The research proposes a study of the social representations of leprosy, we seek three times to understand the sense of every society and their dynamics in relation to disease. The first in the city of Sobral/CE, where we carry out research in the years 2008 and 2009; the second moment in the city of Mogi das Cruzes/SP, with a man who has gone through several periods of hospitalization and overcame the stigma through work aimed at manufacture of prosthetic patients amputees; and the third time in New Delhi in India, where we find the largest number of leprosy patients. The places chosen for the field work were selected after repeated bibliographical research, readings of scholarly articles, medical texts and physicians about the disease and mainly with the data of the World Health Organization (WHO) and of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). We investigate the sociocultural reality of people afflicted by illness and how these could be with the disease.

scholarly journals Social representation of domestic violence against women among Nursing Technicians and Community Agents

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camila Daiane Silva ◽  
Vera Lúcia de Oliveira Gomes ◽  
Denize Cristina de Oliveira ◽  
Sergio Corrêa Marques ◽  
Adriana Dora da Fonseca ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Central Nucleus ◽  
Context Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Domestic Violence Against Women ◽  
The City ◽  
Structured Representation

OBJECTIVE To analyze the social representations of the Nursing Technicians and Community Health Agents about domestic violence against women. METHOD A qualitative study carried out in the city of Rio Grande, RS, in which evocations and interviews were collected between July and November 2013. For the treatment of data were used the EVOC 2005 software and the context analysis. RESULT It is a structured representation, in which the central nucleus contains conceptual, imaging and attitudinal elements, namely: abuse, aggression, physical aggression, cowardice and lack of respect. Such terms were present in the context of the interviews. The professionals acknowledged that violence is not limited to physical aspects and were judgemental about the acts of the aggressor. CONCLUSION This knowledge may enable the problematization of the studied phenomenon with the team, and facilitate the search for prevention and intervention strategies for victims, offenders and managers of health services.

scholarly journals Representaciones sociales, conciliación en equidad y justicia comunitaria: un estudio de caso / Social Representations, Equitiy Conciliation and Community Justice: A Case Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodolfo Alfonso Torregrosa Jiménez ◽  
Norhys Torregrosa Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Community Justice ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The City

ABSTRACTaccess problems and dysfunctions of the judiciary, in all societies there are communal forms of conflict resolution. Community and institutional mechanisms for conflict resolution can provide the ability to handle conflict from the values, habits and customs of the communities and not from the mere formality of state justice inaccessible to the masses. Thus, the Settlement in Equity is one of the alternatives through which the popular sectors can get for themselves and through community leaders, a righteousness that is in accordance with the needs and responsibilities of the direct stakeholders of the community. Thus, the purpose of the research is to investigate the social representations (RS) of the concepts of fairness, justice and coexistence Community Ratings equity conciliation of a town in the city of Bogotá, Colombia. In addition, as we are interested in identifying the point of view of these users, ie, their opinions, attitudes and information, is that the theoretical and methodological approach used RS. So, be described by methods and with the support of the theoretical framework, the cognitive dimension of the RS user. Such representations are interpreted through formalization that conform segmenting in graphic forms (codes), the corpus of semi-structured interviews applied to users, considered as a continuation of separate occurrences among themselves, delimited by several characters. These occurrences are analyzed, both quantitatively and qualitatively.RESUMENPor problemas de acceso y disfunciones del aparato judicial, en todas las sociedades existen formas comunitarias de resolución de conflictos. Los mecanismos comunitarios e institucionales de solución de conflictos pueden brindar la posibilidad de tramitar los conflictos a partir de los valores, los usos y las costumbres de las comunidades y no desde la mera formalidad de la justicia estatal inaccesible para los sectores populares. Así, la Conciliación en Equidad es una de las alternativas a través de la cual los sectores populares pueden obtener por ellos mismos y a través de líderes comunitarios, una justicia que esté de acuerdo con las necesidades y responsabilidades de los actores directos de la comunidad. De este modo, el propósito de la investigación es indagar sobre las representaciones sociales (RS) de los conceptos de equidad, justicia comunitaria y convivencia de los usuarios de la conciliación en equidad de una Localidad en la ciudad de Bogotá-Colombia. Y como lo que interesa es identificar el punto de vista de estos usuarios, es decir, sus opiniones, actitudes e información, es que se usa el enfoque teórico-metodológico de las RS. Así, se describirá, a través de métodos y con el apoyo de los referentes teóricos, la dimensión cognitiva de las RS de los usuarios. Dichas representaciones son interpretadas a través de formalizaciones que se conforman segmentando en formas gráficas (códigos), el corpus de entrevistas semi-dirigidas aplicadas a los usuarios, considerado como una continuación de ocurrencias separadas, entre sí, mediante varios caracteres delimitados. Estas ocurrencias son analizadas, tanto desde el punto de vista cuantitativo como cualitativo.

scholarly journals Diabetes in Africa sub-Saharan Distribution Based on Social Status: The Case of Libreville (Gabon)

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 459
Author(s):  
Guy S. Padzys ◽  
Joseph P Ondo ◽  
Priscilla L Omouenze ◽  
Sylvie Zongo
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
The Social ◽  
Modifiable Factor ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Diabetes Center ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

<p class="Pa5"><strong>Objectives: </strong>Many researchers continue to believe that urbanization is a major contributor to diabetes. We seek to demon­strate that the social status associated with urbanization has an impact on the preva­lence of diabetes in Libreville, Gabon in sub-Saharan Africa.</p><p class="Pa5"><strong>Methods: </strong>Our study was conducted in Li­breville, the capital of Gabon; the city has a population of 397,000. Our study analyzed data from the registries of patients hospital­ized in 2013 in the main diabetes center in Libreville.</p><p class="Pa5"><strong>Result: </strong>The results revealed that, for 2013, 798 patients were hospitalized with diabetes at a prevalence of .2%. We found differences (<em>P</em>&lt;.05) between women (423) and men (375). Mean age for women was 52.02 years and 48.88 years for men. The number of existing cases hospitalized was significantly more than new cases. All levels of society were represented in our study: students (42); military (36); administratives (99); technicians (180); unemployed (295); and retired (146). The results showed that the unemployed (36%), particularly women (29.40%) are most affected by diabetes.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our results show the impact of social status on the increase of diabetes in Libreville. We found that urbanization, associated with insecurity especially in women, had an effect on the prevalence of diabetes in Libreville. These results indicate that, apart from the non-modifiable fac­tors (age, race, ethnicity), insecurity is a modifiable factor that should be taken into account. <em>Ethn Dis. </em>2015;25(4):459-462; doi:10.18865/ed.25.4.459</p>

scholarly journals From Ex-Combatants to Citizens: Connecting Everyday Citizenship and Social Reintegration in Colombia

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maivel Rodríguez López ◽  
Eleni Andreouli ◽  
Caroline Howarth
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
National Programme ◽  
The Social ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
The City

Citizenship can be understood as a form of civic participation and a means of developing social relations with members of the broader community and, therefore, can act as an important means to help reintegrate ex-combatants back into mainstream society. This paper discusses an exploratory research project conducted with a sample of 23 Colombian ex-combatants from non-state armed groups who are current participants of the national programme of reintegration in the city of Bogotá, Colombia. By collecting their views and opinions about what it is like to become reintegrated, we explored the range of social factors that facilitate as well as obstruct practices of citizenship in everyday life and, subsequently, the ways in which this affects their overall experience of reintegration into Colombian society. Drawing on social psychological literature on citizenship and on the theory of social representations, we explored how citizenship is understood and enacted by this group as part of their reintegration process. A thematic analysis of three focus groups highlights an enabling as well as a limiting social context that affects former combatants’ ability to participate as citizens. This paper also contributes to the social psychology of citizenship by studying the experience of reintegration in conflict-affected societies.

scholarly journals Cultura, Imaginário Social e Representações Sociais: o Corpo na História e no Currículo da Educação Física

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Felipe Da Silva Triani ◽  
Cristina Novikoff
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

O objetivo foi analisar o currículo do Curso de graduação de licenciatura em Educação Física da cidade de Duque de Caxias para interpretar as representações sociais sobre corpo nele contidas. Para atingir o objetivo pretendido foi realizada uma pesquisa qualitativa, por meio de revisão bibliográfica e análise documental. Os resultados encontrados são de que as mudanças ocorridas no desenvolvimento da Educação Física acerca do corpo são resultado de desenvolvimentos culturais, que implicaram a transformação social dos grupos e que o currículo do curso analisado institui representações de corpo relacionadas com a ideia de saúde.Palavras-chave: Corpo. Representações Sociais. Imaginário Social. Formação de Professores. AbstractThe objective was to analyze the  undergraduate degree curriculum  in Physical Education Course of the city of Duque de Caxias to interpret the social representations about the body contained in it. In order to achieve the intended objective, a qualitative research was carried out through bibliographical review and documentary analysis. The results are that the changes that occurred in the  Physical Education development about the body are results of cultural developments that implied the groups’ social transformation and that the curriculum of the analyzed course establishes representations of body related to the idea of health. Keywords: Body. Social representations. Social imaginary. Teacher’s Training.

scholarly journals Poetic Examination of Spatial Experience: Suprematist Composition No. 1, Black on Grey by Kristina Leko

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-176
Author(s):  
Katarina Rukavina
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Spatial Experience ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
Art Intervention ◽  
The City

The paper analyses the concept of space in contemporary art on the example of Suprematist Composition No. 1, Black on Grey by Kristina Leko from 2008. Referring to Malevich’s suprematism, in December 2008 Leko initiated a project of art intervention in Ban Jelačić Square in Zagreb, where she intended to cover in black all commercials, advertisements, signs and names of various companies. This poetic intervention, as the artist calls it, was intended to prompt people to relativise material goods in the pre-Christmas period. However, despite the authorisation obtained from the city authorities, the companies concerned refused to remove their respective advertisements, be it for only for 24 hours, so this project has never been realised. The project, however, does exist in the virtual space, which is also public, and continues to act in the form of documentation. The non-feasibility of the intervention, or rather its invisibility on Jelačić Square, makes visible or directly indicates the ordering of the powers and the constellation of values in the social sphere, thus raising new questions. Indeed, in this way it actually enters the public space, sensitising and expanding it at the same time.

scholarly journals Procesos de humanización de los perros de la ciudad de Xalapa

UVserva ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Francisco Kuri Camacho
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Las Casas ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Contradictions ◽  
The City ◽  
Social Sectors ◽  
Unequal Protection

En el presente artículo se argumenta cómo los seres humanos han generado un proceso de humanización de los animales, especialmente con los perros. Los humanos cuando adquieren y cuidan un perro con sus prácticas diferenciales, demuestran protección, defensa, rechazo o indiferencia de manera desigual. Este tipo de prácticas diferenciales en los distintos sectores sociales ha provocado contradicciones sociales y culturales en la ciudad de Xalapa. Para ello, se revisa cómo en un barrio los humanos en su vida cotidiana tienen cierto tipo de prácticas hacia los caninos que deambulan por las calles, así como los que están encerrados en las casas, también se examina cuando transitan en ciertos territorios de la ciudad, hasta mostrar las representaciones sociales que se pueden dar en la ciudad de Xalapa sobre los procesos de humanización de éstos.Palabras clave: animales, humanismo, prácticas, subjetividadAbstractIn the present article it is argued how the human beings have generated a process of huma­nization of the animals, especially with the dogs. Humans, when they acquire and care for a dog with its differential practices, demonstrate unequal protection, defense, rejection or indi­fference. This type of differential practices in the different social sectors has provoked social and cultural contradictions in the city of Xalapa. For this, it is reviewed as in a neighborhood the humans in their daily life have certain types of practices towards the canines that roam the streets, as well as those that are locked in the houses, also is examined when they transit in certain territories of the city , To show the social representations that can be given in the city of Xalapa on the processes of humanization of these.Keywords: animals; humanism; practices; subjectivity

scholarly journals How Do Urban Neighbourhoods Impact Parents’ Subjective Well-being?

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-38
Author(s):  
Jaana Poikolainen ◽  
Kati Honkanen
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Residential Area ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

Introduction: In this paper, parents’ well-being is examined from their subjective point of view of their living experiences in a certain residential area. The subjective viewpoint is relevant as the focus of the research is interlinked with residential areas. Aims: The research aims to determine what meaning parents ascribe to their residential area (suburb or city centre) as a space for physical, social and psychological well-being. It also aims to discover whether there are qualitative differences between the given meanings of parents living in different areas. Methods: The data were acquired through semi-structured interviews with parents who live in a suburb or the city centre of Lahti, Finland. Data analysis was conducted using abductive thematic analysis. Results: The results revealed that physical, social and psychological spaces were experienced differently depending on the residential area in question. In parents’ narration about the physical space, in both areas the basic services were defined as valuable for well-being. Parents living in the suburb experienced the natural environment as an important source of well-being. When talking about the social space, the parents living in the suburb emphasised social networks and the importance of building well-being bridges in their neighbourhood, unlike the city dwellers. The psychological space was connected to the reputation and security of the residential area. An important well-being factor for all parents was the well-being of their children, with an emphasis on the safety of the residential area. Discussion: Subjective assessments of neighbourhood attributes are more important in explaining neighbourhood satisfaction than any perceived reputation. Parents’ ways of thinking and acting in certain residential areas appear to tie in with the social capital that forms social resources. Almost all parents who participated in this research estimated their well-being as rather high, irrespective of their socioeconomic status, but the city centre residents rated their well-being even higher.

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