Cultures of Social Participation in Local Communities

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
Gabriele Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Social Participation ◽  
Local Communities

A Real Or a Marginal Trend in Participatory Budgets in Local Governments

e-Finanse ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 12-21
Author(s):  
Beata Zofia Filipiak ◽  
Marek Dylewski
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Participatory Budget

AbstractThe purpose of the article is analysis of participatory budgets as a tool for shaping decisions of local communities on the use of public funds. The authors ask the question of whether the current practice of using the participatory budget is actually a growing trend in local government finances or, after the initial euphoria resulting from participation, society ceased to notice the real possibilities of influencing the directions of public expenditures as an opportunity to legislate public policies implemented. It is expected that the conducted research will allow us to evaluate the participatory budget and indicate whether this tool practically acts as a stimulus for changes in the scope of tasks under public policies. The authors analyzed and evaluated the announced competitions for projects as part of the procedure for elaborating participatory budgeting for selected LGUs. Then, they carried out an in-depth analysis of the data used to assess real social participation in the process of establishing social policies.

scholarly journals BOOK REVIEW: RETHINKING SPORTS AND INTEGRATION. DEVELOPING A TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON MIGRANTS AND DESCENDANTS IN SPORTS

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-194
Author(s):  
Jacek Burski
Keyword(s):  
Social Participation ◽  
Women Professionals ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Transnational Relations ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Migration

Sine Agergaard, the author of “Rethinking sports and integration. Developing a Transnational Perspective on Migrants and Descendants in Sports”, is well known for her work in researches of migration, integration and social participation, especially in and by sport. In her previous researches she had used sport-based perspective to examine how migrants had integrated within hosting society, in what ways relations between newcomers, local communities and state institutions were established, and what were the social processes of migration with special focus on professionals as an actors and objects of these phenomena (Agergaard and Tiesler 2014; Agergaard et al. 2018; Agergaard 2017; Agergaard and Botelho 2014; Agergaard and la Cour 2012). She is also the co-founder and currently head of the International Network for research in Sport and Migration Issues. (spomi-net) In the mentioned works, Agergaard used different approaches and methods to examine both particular cases (like a problem of women professionals’ integration, ethnic minority into the field of Danish football) and transnational relations. Problems researched by the author refer to broader mosaic of interests tied up by the question: “How one can establish perspective on locally occurring but internationally connected migration-related phenomena in field of sport?” Summary of work (books and articles) establish Agergaard’s position as an expert in the field of migration and sport.

Poczucie wspólnotowości w wymiarze pedagogicznym. Uzasadnienie teoretyczne i kierunki badań

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-26
Author(s):  
Jolanta Muszyńska
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Internal Resources ◽  
Local Environments ◽  
Local Space ◽  
Pedagogical Research

The sense of community is recognised as a key category favouring the development of local communities, conducive to the growth of social activity, supporting the activation of internal resources of the group in the field of solving social problems. The main goal of the article is to show the possibility of using the assumptions of the theory of community-relatedness in pedagogical research. The author indicates how much and to what extent the sense of community is complementing the area of research of contemporary local environments. The analysis of research on the sense of community conducted by American and European researchers determines possible areas and directions of research with particular emphasis on social participation in the local space.

scholarly journals Level of Social Participation in the Creation of Urban Regeneration Programmes – The Case Study of Small Towns in Poland

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariusz Czupich
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Social

Social participation enables citizens to take part in the decision-making process. It is an increasingly popular instrument in Poland. The effectiveness of participation is the most important issue in this context. In accordance with the Act of 9 October 2015, urban regeneration mainly applies to mitigating negative social phenomena. The social aspect is also important at the stage of establishing urban regeneration programmes. Extensive social participation in the process of creat­ing these programmes is one of the main requirements. The aim of the article is to present the scale of the involvement of local communities in the procedure of creating regeneration programmes in selected small towns in Poland. Conclusions from the analysis include an assessment of participation success rate in regeneration activities.

scholarly journals Social Participation in Indonesian Media and Art: Echoes from the Past, Visions for the Future

2013 ◽  
Vol 169 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-36
Author(s):  
Edwin Jurriëns
Keyword(s):  
Social Participation ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Community Media ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The 1950S

Abstract This article uses a critical and historical perspective to examine some of the achievements of Indonesian community media, the problems they have encountered, as well as the solutions they are offering. It analyses the similarities and differences with earlier genres with an explicit participatory agenda, including certain forms of LEKRA literature and art of the 1950s and 1960s, ‘people’s theatre’ since the 1970s, and ‘conscientization art’ since the 1980s. One of the main challenges for contemporary community media has been to reconcile class differences in the collaboration between media or art facilitators and local communities. These and other factors have affected the accessibility, distribution, sustainability and reach of their ideas, activities and outputs. The article demonstrates how facilitators and practitioners have tried to solve some of these problems through the exploration of alternative media networks, formats and content.

scholarly journals Comunidad rural, poder local, politización y ciudadanía: Prácticas y aprendizajes políticos en el suroeste peninsular a principios de la contemporaneidad (1808-1823)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Saldaña Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Political Space ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Political Transformations

The first decades of the nineteenth century were crucial to shaping the new political practices that both disrupted the established public and social participation scenario and created the new liberal political culture. However, acquiring a more thorough understanding of these issues involves reassessing the disparity of the scenarios, the multiplicity of actors and the directionality of the processes. This work analyses practices that politicized and the rural political space, using local examples extracted from southwestern Spain. It emphasizes political practices and learning from 1808 to 1823, the years that marked the beginning and end of critical political transformations in the journey from the Old to the New Regime. The research verifies that local communities in rural areas were not passive agents within this scenario of politicization, but active participants. They implemented a rich, complex political practice based on a reading of the underlying political framework that was both broad and specific.

scholarly journals TEARING THE SPACE APART. RESPONSIBLE PARTICIPATION OR SELF-SERVING PARTICIPATION

space&FORM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 77-108
Author(s):  
Robert Barełkowski ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Participation ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
The Past ◽  
Participatory Techniques

Participation in spatial planning has specific origins rooted in the ideology that in the past was responsible for inhuman actions and large-scale social manipulations. This article is an account on participation, written in the context of over twenty years of experience in actively introducing participatory techniques into various planning procedures. The original assumptions about making spatial planning a matter of importance to local communities had to collide with the reality determined both by the authorities and by individual and collective interests. The attempt to reorient the paradigm of social participation is aimed at preserving many of its positive features.

scholarly journals Funkcjonowanie i wyzwania władz lokalnych związane z budżetem partycypacyjnym w Polsce na przykładzie największych miast

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 162-176
Author(s):  
Paweł Ostachowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Participation ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Space Management ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Space ◽  
Participatory Budget

The Functioning of and Challenges for Local Authorities Related to the Participatory Budget in Poland Exemplified by Largest Polish Cities The article presents issues related to the participatory budget as fast-developing contemporary tool of residents’ participation in local space management. It focuses on the benefits of the participatory budget shared by authorities and local communities. The article also presents threats to that vehicle of social participation, including one of the key ones, i.e. the weakening interest shown by residents in its creation and implementation. The main premise of the article in this case is that large cities are the most effected by the weak attendance of urban population in voting on the participatory budget, which is confirmed by the analysis of the functioning of the tool in question in Poland’s largest cities in the period 2014–2018. In the summary of the results of the analysis, the article highlights the fact that the participatory budget in large Polish cities continues to be not fully established or effective. It also requires further years of work of local authorities and society itself to become more popular among the public, both in terms of knowledge about it and civic participation in its creation and implementation.

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