Extreme violence against women in Peru: The role of the State and health professionals

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santiago Stucchi-Portocarrero 3 ◽  
Jessica Raquel PÉREZ-ANDRADE 1* ◽  
Humberto MALDONADO-RUIZ 2
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
The State ◽  
Health Service Providers ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Media ◽  
Extreme Violence

Violence against women occurs in all latitudes, countries and cultures, and represents a public health problem. In Peru there is currently a wave of extreme violence against women, which must be understood as a very recurrent phenomenon, but not sufficiently reflected. Citizen movements from social networks and civil society have manifested the alarming number of occurrences of this problem and the media evidence more and more cases of women being violated and even killed with mechanisms as cruel as incineration. This article reflects on the role of the State and health institutions in the attention of violence against women and how through the discourse of hegemonic masculinity, as well as that of the pathologization of the victimizer, can even encourage its perpetuation. This analysis includes those components related to the professional training of health service providers and provides some ideas to improve the sociocultural understanding of the phenomenon of violence against women.

scholarly journals The Media Industry’s Structural Transformation in Capitalism and the Role of the State: Media Economics in the Age of Digital Communications

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manfred Knoche
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Digital Communications ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Media System ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Media

Abstract: This paper discusses how the capitalist media industry has been structurally transformed in the age of digital communications. It takes an approach that is grounded in the Marxian critique of the political economy of the media. It draws a distinction between media capital, media-oriented capital, media infrastructure capital and media-external capital as the forms of capital in the media industry. The article identifies four capital strategies that media capital tends to use in order to try to maximise profits: a) The substitution of “old” by “new” media technology, b) the introduction of new transmission channels for “old” media products, c) the definition of new property rights for media sectors and networks, d) the reduction of production and transaction costs. The drive to profit maximization is at the heart of the capitalist media industry’s structural transformation. This work also discusses the tendency to the universalization of the media system in the digital age and the economic contradictions arising from it. It identifies activity fields of the media industry’s structural transformation and shows how the concentration of the capitalist media markets is an essential, contradictory and inherent feature of the capitalist media system and its structural transformation. The paper identifies six causes of why capital seeks to employ capital strategies that result in the media industry’s structural transformation. They include market saturation, overaccumulation, the tendency of the profit rate to fall, capital-concentration, competition pressure, and advertising. The paper finally discusses the role of the state as an agent of capital in general and media capital in particular. It discusses the role of the state in privatisations, neoliberal deregulation, the formation of national competitive states, and various benefits that the state provides for media capital. This contribution shows that capital and capitalism are the main structural transformers of the media and communications system. For understanding these transformations, we need an approach that is grounded in Marx’s critique of the political economy.Translation from German: Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval

How State Capacity Helps Autocrats win Elections

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Merete Bech Seeberg
Keyword(s):  
State Capacity ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
Specific Aspect ◽  
The State ◽  
State Control ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
The Media ◽  
Election Violence

Abstract Research has highlighted the role of the state in sustaining authoritarian regimes. But how does state capacity support autocrats during elections? The author argues that one specific aspect of state capacity – control over territory through the state apparatus – helps autocrats ensure large majority electoral victories. High-capacity rulers can rely on local agents and institutions to subtly manipulate elections, for instance by controlling the media or inhibiting the work of domestic election monitors throughout the territory while staying clear of costly manipulation such as election violence. In cross-national analyses of authoritarian multiparty elections from 1946 to 2017, the study finds that state territorial control increases the likelihood of large victories. Furthermore, high levels of state control correlate with subtle strategies of manipulation, including media bias and restrictions on domestic monitors – strategies that are also positively associated with large victories. At the same time, state control is negatively associated with election violence.

RESPONSE TO OUR COMMENTATORS ON THE REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL PANEL ON SOCIAL PROGRESS 2018

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-482
Author(s):  
Matthew Adler ◽  
Marc Fleurbaey
Keyword(s):  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Social Care ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
International Panel ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Care Policies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Different Levels

The contributors to this symposium have brought up many important points in their discussions of five chapters of the Report, and we are very grateful to them. Since the authors of the chapters would be better able to respond to many of the specific comments, we will confine ourselves here to a brief discussion of a few major issues highlighted by the contributors. We are in particular inspired by the following comments: Alina Rocha Menocal's point about the role of the state and committed elites; James Deane's description of the deep transformation of the media scene by new forms of communication; Uma Rani's emphasis on the importance of structural transformation and social care policies; and Diana Alarcon's call for paying greater attention to different levels of development and to macroeconomic policy.

scholarly journals DIMENSÕES SÓCIO-HISTÓRICAS DA VIOLÊNCIA CONTRA A MULHER: EM PAUTA, A ORDEM DA GUERRA

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (22) ◽  
pp. 57-69
Author(s):  
Cristina Lovato ◽  
Gabriel Kehler ◽  
Vanessa Motta
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Review Article ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Body ◽  
Role Of The State

This text is structured as a literature review article in which the socio-historical dimensions of violence against women are discussed. To this end, the following discursive itinerary is envisaged: a) the role of the State in regulating the order of war, in short, violence; b) the resumption of the discussion on the institutionalization of patriarchy; c) the reaffirmation of the position of Feminism as a device for living and combating violence, and, finally, some final considerations about the genesis and reproduction of violence against women are presented. Thus, this undertaking corroborates with previous studies that highlight the mode of social organization as the foundation on which the patriarchy's discursive prerogatives that foster violence against the female social body are sustained.

scholarly journals How IT Investments Help Hospitals Gain and Sustain Reputation in the Media: The Role of Signaling and Framing

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torsten Oliver Salge ◽  
David Antons ◽  
Michael Barrett ◽  
Rajiv Kohli ◽  
Eivor Oborn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
It Investments ◽  
Information Intermediaries ◽  
Health Service Providers ◽  
The Media

Practice- and Policy-Oriented Abstract Understanding how IT investments help organizations to build and sustain reputation is of particular relevance for healthcare practitioners and policy makers because patients are often unable to assess the quality of care, relying instead on the reputation of health service providers in the media, such as newspapers. As information intermediaries, journalists detect, aggregate, and translate the weaker signals for quality, such as state-of-the-art IT, that a hospital emanates. Our analysis of 152 hospital organizations in England, complemented by interviews with healthcare journalists, shows that journalists write less negatively about hospitals when healthcare organizations’ IT equipment investments are high. This implies that investments in IT equipment can buffer hospitals from negative press, thereby helping them to gain and maintain a strong reputation in the media. Practitioners and policy makers may incorporate the reputational effect of IT when making investment decisions and further amplify such IT investment through press releases, corporate reports, and media interactions.

Economic and Legal Support for Commercialization of Intellectual Property in Russia

2003 ◽  
pp. 66-76
Author(s):  
I. Dezhina ◽  
I. Leonov
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
The State ◽  
Commercial Application ◽  
The West ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Legal Context

The article is devoted to the analysis of the changes in economic and legal context for commercial application of intellectual property created under federal budgetary financing. Special attention is given to the role of the state and to comparison of key elements of mechanisms for commercial application of intellectual property that are currently under implementation in Russia and in the West. A number of practical suggestions are presented aimed at improving government stimuli to commercialization of intellectual property created at budgetary expense.

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