scholarly journals A Discourse on Machiavelli’s New Rome

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-34
Author(s):  
Davorin Žagar
Keyword(s):  
Common Goal ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
The City ◽  
Modern Solution

In the first part of the paper the author presents the key theses of Vickie Sullivan’s‎reading of Machiavelli. Sullivan argues that, in order to prevent corruption,‎Machiavelli innovatively reworks elements of Christian teaching‎for entirely temporal purposes and offers a specific, modern solution, ‘new‎Rome’, in the form of an irreligious, fearful republic which early and effectively‎punishes the ambitious few seeking to establish tyranny. In the internal‎realm of the city, the Florentine reduces class desires of the plebs and the‎greats under the common goal of acquisition. A bellicose, tumultuous republic‎satisfies the desires of all the social actors, resulting in a lasting political order.‎In the second part the author critically engages with Sullivan’s interpretation,‎drawing on Claude Lefort’s interpretation of Machiavelli. Surprisingly,‎Lefort’s groundbreaking work on Machiavelli has been absent in Straussian‎readings of the Florentine. By highlighting the authentically democratic nature‎of Machiavelli’s project, in contrast with Sullivan’s reading, an entirely‎different ‘new Rome’ arises on the horizon.

scholarly journals Housing and living conditions of working youth in the plants of Buryat-Mongolian ASSR during the Great Patriotic War

2020 ◽  
pp. 86-93
Author(s):  
Anastasiya Nikolaevna Soboleva
Keyword(s):  
Living Conditions ◽  
Industrial Plant ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Problems ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Poor Nutrition ◽  
The City

The object of this research is the youth of Buryat-Mongolian ASSR as most active social group within the social structure of 1941 – 1945, which was the major source for replenishment of labor reserves. The subject of this research is the examination of core financial and social problems faced by the youth working at the defense industry plants of the republic. Special attention is given to analysis of the impact of wartime struggles and hardships upon household and food procurement. It is noted that shortage of housing, low salaries, insecure life, poor nutrition, deficit of clothing and footwear often led breach of employee discipline. The article explores the important vectors in the activity of Komsomol with regards to housing and living conditions, as well as various forms of financial and psychological incentives that promote adaptation of youth to working at the industrial plant. The scientific novelty consists in introduction into the scientific discourse of a number of previously unpublished source that were collected specifically for this research. As a result of the conducted research, it was established that working youth, who for the most part came from rural localities to the city, were put in quite difficult social and living conditions, experiencing critical problems in the process of adaptation; however, they accomplished significant labor achievements and made their contribution to the common Victory.

scholarly journals CDMX Resilient Code: Water Commons in Mexico City

ZARCH ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 138-153
Author(s):  
Lorena Bello Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
The Social ◽  
Strategic Program ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City

Using Mexico City (CDMX) as a paradigmatic example of seriously unbalanced water regimes, our project Resilient Code helps strengthen and communicate CDMX’s government efforts toward risk reduction and water resilience in marginal communities. Our project does so by bridging otherwise separate agents in the government towards a common goal: equitable resilience. Resilient Code provides design solutions that link the social infrastructure of PILARES (a network of 300 vocational schools distributed throughout the city) to CDMX’s environmental and risk reduction initiatives, including their Risk Atlas. This strategic program of design-based solutions began with “water resilience” as a Pilot to repurpose public space throughout underserviced barrios as a network of “water-commons”. Resilient Code helps partners in CDMX implement projects to reduce environmental risks and complement socio-economic programs, fostering growth of the “water-commons”. Resilient Code is socialized through a participatory game-based workshop, and through an online Atlas of Risk Reduction.

The Information and Communication Strategies Focused on Young People and Adolescents within the Field of Public Health

2013 ◽  
pp. 247-267
Author(s):  
Martha Sabelli ◽  
Jorge Rasner ◽  
María Cristina Pérez Giffoni ◽  
Eduardo Álvarez Pedrosian
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Electronic Information Resources ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Communication Flow ◽  
The City

Within the framework of the implementation of the Integrated National Healthcare System (SNIS) along with national policies of information and communication at the República Oriental del Uruguay, a research is being conducted, focusing on adolescents and young people in vulnerable contexts in the city of Montevideo, taking them as both real and potential users of healthcare information. It also centers in the mediators in the flow of communication and information, especially among healthcare staff. From a multi-interdisciplinary approach, this investigation aims at identifying the behaviors and needs of the target population in relation to the information and ICTs, the availability and access to personal technological resources, its context of use (the community, their everyday lives, the institutions), the process of interaction among the different social actors in the sector, as well as in the communication flow within the organizational culture of these services. On this basis, it will provide models to design electronic information resources according to the social needs, and which may contribute to the inclusion of all citizens in the so-called Information Society.

scholarly journals Digital Environmentalism: A Case Study of PM2.5 Pollution Issue in Chinese Social Media

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Yanshuang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Environmental Discourse ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Civil Discourse ◽  
The Common

The emergence of social media over the last decade has substantially altered not only the means people communicate with each other but also the whole online ecosystems. For the common public in particular, social media enables and broadens the social conversation that anyone interested can engage in on urgent social problems such as environmental pollution. In China, the ever-thickening air pollution smothering most urban cities in recent years has provoked a nationwide discussion, and popular social media like Weibo has been fully utilised by various social actors to participate in this “green speak”. This paper examines the civil discourse about the deteriorating air pollution on China’s largest microblogging platform-Sina Weibo, and seeks to understand how different social actors respond to and reconstruct the reality. Through a discourse analysis aided by a text analytics/ visualisation software—eximancer, this paper investigates the civil discourse from three angles: the demographics, the discursive strategies and the potential social effect. The result suggests that proactive civil engagement in this issue has produced an environmental discourse with a wide range of topics involved, and that the benign interactions between social actors could give rise to a proactive interactional mode between Chinese state and civil society which would definitely be beneficial to the democratisation process in contemporary China.

The Meaningful City

2019 ◽  
pp. 465-486
Author(s):  
Ruth Yeoman
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Social Cooperation ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
The Common ◽  
The City

This chapter applies the value of meaningfulness to a philosophy of the city. It argues that philosophies of the city can supply smart and sustainable city initiatives with human values and attention to the common good which they currently lack. By bringing the value of meaningfulness into a description of city-making, the chapter shows how city people have responsibilities to make the city when the activities of social cooperation associated with discharging such responsibilities are constituted by freedom, autonomy, and dignity, and when the social interactions of meaning-making are just. The features of an ethico-normative architecture which is capable of promoting city-level meaningfulness are specified. These include three core elements: public meaningfulness; the society of meaning-makers; and agonistic republicanism. City-making organized to manifest these features will generate a rich diversity of meaning sources on which city people can draw to craft meaningfulness in life and in work.

scholarly journals Consciência ambiental e percepção sobre os resíduos sólidos pelos residentes da Cidade de Coremas, Paraíba

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Carlos Sergio Araújo dos Santos ◽  
Daniel Jackson Andrade de Sousa ◽  
Gabriel Carlos Moura Pessôa ◽  
Ricardo Ricelli Pereira de Almeida ◽  
Alan Dél Carlos Gomes Chaves
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Solid Wastes ◽  
Environmental Perceptions ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Chi Square Test ◽  
Semi Solid ◽  
The City

<p><strong>Resíduos sólidos</strong><strong> </strong>são todos os restos sólidos ou semi-sólidos das atividades humanas ou não-humanas, que embora possam não apresentar utilidade para a atividade fim de onde foram gerados, podem virar insumos para outras utilizações. Objetivou-se avaliar o comportamento da população à respeito das atitudes e percepção com relação aos resíduos sólidos na cidade de Coremas, Paraíba. Os dados referentes a atitudes e percepção dos atores sociais foram coletados na cidade de Coremas por meio de questionários, previamente estruturados com perguntas de múltipla escolha a fim de conhecer o perfil dos entrevistados através das seguintes variáveis: sexo, faixa etária, escolaridade, estado civil e renda. Foi realizada uma análise descritiva para verificar a percepção dos residentes no município segundo as variáveis relacionadas aos resíduos sólidos. A relação entre variáveis socioeconômicas e o comportamento ambiental referente aos resíduos sólidos dos moradores da cidade de Coremas foi verificada por meio do teste qui-quadrado de independência, mostrando que houve forte dependência entre essas variáveis, sugerindo que, a escolaridade, a renda e a localização dos residentes influenciaram em suas atitudes e percepções ambientais naquele município.</p><p><strong><em>Environmental Awareness and perception about solid waste by the residents of the City of Coremas, Paraíba</em></strong></p><p><strong>Abstract</strong><strong>: </strong>Solid wastes are all the solid or semi-solid residues of human or non-human activities that, although do not show utility for the order in which they were generated, can become to inputs for other activities. The study’s aim was to evaluate the population’s behavior about the attitudes and the perception connected to the solid wastes in the city of Coremas, Paraíba state. The data on attitudes and perceptions of the social actors were collected in the city of Coremas through questionnaires, previously structured with multiple choice questions in order to know the profile of the interviewed using the following variables: gender, age, education, marital status and income. The Descriptive analysis were performed to verify the perception of residents in the city according to the related variables to solid wastes. The relationship between socioeconomics variables and environmental performance related to solids wastes from residents of Coremas were verified by the chi-square test of independence, showing that there was a strong dependency between these variables, suggesting that the educational level, the income and the location of residents influenced in their attitudes and environmental perceptions in that city.</p>

An emerging art world: The de-subculturalization and artification process of graffiti and pixação in São Paulo

2021 ◽  
pp. 136787792110184
Author(s):  
Ricardo Campos ◽  
Gabriela Leal
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Art World ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Urban Art ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

Graffiti art and street art have been increasingly described as an artistic movement, with a constant presence in the streets, but also in galleries and museums. In this article we use the term urban art to define this institutionalized category, originating from informal street expressions. In the specific context of the city of São Paulo (Brazil), most of the social actors that make up this art world have backgrounds linked to graffiti and pixação. These two urban subcultures are linked to informal forms of appropriation of the urban space through illicit inscriptions. In this article, we aim, on the one hand, to describe the features and singularities of urban art as an emerging art world and, on the other, to understand how careers are developed in this universe. The empirical data derives from a qualitative research (in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation) developed during the past three years.

scholarly journals RELATIONS BETWEEN UKRAINIAN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS IN CANADA IN 1918–1939: CONFLICTS ON IDEOLOGICAL AND CONFESSIONAL GROUND

2019 ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
Olesia Dzyra
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Political Organizations ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Ukrainian Catholic

The article describes the division of the Ukrainian community of Canada in the interwar period into a number of public and political organizations. The focus is on the national and patriotic bloc, which opposed the communist one. The basis of this bloc constituted liberal the Ukrainian self-reliance league of Canada, nationalist the Ukrainian war veterans association in Canada, the Ukrainian national federation of Canada, conservative the Ukrainian catholic brotherhood of Canada, and the United hetman organization. The basis of the various conflicts in the bloc, including differences in ideological postulates of liberal, nationalist and conservative societies and views on the religion of Orthodox and Greek Catholics who were members of the organizations mentioned above are analyzed in the study. It is described how opposing parties resisted against each other, and what role the press played in those conflicts. The article also enlightens attempts of agreements between public organizations and mentions joint actions to support the Ukrainian issue in the world. The common goal could reconcile the national and patriotic public associations at the time of the formation of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee on November 7, 1940, which marked a new stage in the social and political life of the Ukrainian Diaspora, as it was emphasized in the article. The reasons that hindered Ukrainian societies from reaching a mutually acceptable consensus and promoted further aggravation of relations were elucidated. The main consequences of conflicts in the environment of national and patriotic public organizations were identified, namely how it was reflected in the social and political life of the Ukrainian diaspora during the interwar period, how it was perceived by the ruling circles of Canada, and how it was used by the communist groups.

EVALUATION OF DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE VIA THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABILITY: Cases from Konya City Center

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dicle Aydin ◽  
Esra Yaldız ◽  
Süheyla Büyükşahin Sıramkaya
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Domestic Architecture ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Existing Buildings ◽  
City Center ◽  
Cultural Sustainability ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
The City

Reusing pre-existing buildings for new functions and thereby ensuring the transfer of cultural knowledge and experiences to future generations contributes significantly to cultural sustainability by enhancing the city’s cultural life and the value of certain city areas. When reusing buildings the social aspect of the functions that will be assigned to these buildings that no longer serve their original function need to be considered as well, since such aspects form the basis of socio-cultural sustainability. The aim of this study was to evaluate various examples of domestic architecture at the Konya city center that no longer serve their original functions, within the context of socio-cultural sustainability. The common characteristics of these buildings, which are currently being reused as cafés or as the offices of the Conservation Board and the Chamber of Architects in Konya, is that they are all examples of authentic domestic architecture that are registered for preservation and are located in the city center. The contribution of these examples of domestic architecture to socio-cultural sustainability was analyzed by administering a questionnaire to university students and then evaluating the questionnaire results with descriptive statistics.

ARCHITECTURAL ENVIRONMENT: SPACES, TERRITORIES, LOCIS

2020 ◽  
pp. 38-47
Author(s):  
V.V. Fedorov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Latent Features ◽  
The Status ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
Compositional Properties ◽  
The City

The structural organization of the city's architectural environment, including territories, spaces, and loci, is considered. It is shown that the architectural environment of the historical center of the city is characterized by special subject-spatial inclusions-loci of power. The complex dynamics of the interdependence of social existence and the architectural environment determines the relevance of studying the interaction of the locus (architecture) of power and society. The basic features of the architecture of power are considered: sociotechnical character, features of functioning, orderliness of the structure. The author analyzes the advantages and social significance of the power architecture, the latent features of the functional structure, the diachrony of compositional properties and the principles of ensuring closeness. The potential influence of power using architecture semantics is correlated with the processes of implementing algorithms for habitation, distribution, and dominance. The transformation of the status of the architectural space of power is considered not only as an architectural and planning transformation, but also as a change in its semantics and attitude to it. It is argued that the conceptualization of the locus (the assertion of authenticity) is converted into the popularity, influence, and economic growth of the locality. The social significance of loci of power is in their ability to subject-spatial modeling of social reality; in the formation of the potential for relieving social tension; in prompting the behavior of social actors in non-standard situations. It is noted that modern spaces of power are characterized by a gradual rejection of traditional closeness in favor of simulated openness. It is stated that the image of the architectural space of power is one of the angles of the socio-historical portrait of power.

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