scholarly journals INTRODUCING THE NEW CONFIGURATION BETWEEN STATE, CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE MARKET

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Bauwens
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Peer Production ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The World ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The Commons ◽  
The City

ResumoNos atuais modos de funcionamento do mercado e do Estado, a sociedade civil não tem possibilidade de criar valor a partir de sua visão sobre o que é necessário para sua comunidade. Na lógica do mercado, bens e serviços são produzidos com o objetivo principal de obtenção de lucro e no Estado representativo os cidadãos não têm poder de decisão sobre as políticas públicas necessárias para suas cidades. Este artigo introduz a ideia do comum, que situa a noção de valor na criação colaborativa visando a resultados voltados para o coletivo. Em seguida, é apresentada a idéia de inteligência coletiva - aquela universalmente distribuída entre os seres humanos e que permite a criação de soluções inteligentes para problemas complexos; o documento sugere que o exercício dos valores do comum aprimora a inteligência coletiva. A partir das características da produção e governança peer, o artigo indica como cidades no mundo vêm sendo transformadas. Finalmente, a iniciativa Rio+ é apresentada como um modelo colaborativo que permite que a sociedade civil carioca proponha soluções para sua cidade. AbstractWithin the current working modes of the market and the State, civil society does not have the possibility to create value based on its own vision of what is needed for its communities . In the logic of the market, goods and services are produced with the ultimate goal of profit-making and, within the representative State, citizens do not take part in the decision-making processes that define the necessary public policies for their cities. This article presents the vision of the commons, that places the notion of wealthiness in what is created collaboratively and is aimed towards collective-oriented results. The document introduces the idea of the collective intelligence, which is universally distributed among human beings and which allows the creation of intelligent solutions to complex problems; the paper suggests that the exercise of the values of the commons enhances the collective intelligence. Through the characteristics of peer production and peer governance the article indicates how cities in the world are being transformed. Finally, the Rio+ initiative is presented as a collaborative model that allows civil society in Rio de Janeiro to create solutions for the city.

scholarly journals A CONSTRUÇÃO DO COMUM ATRAVÉS DA PRODUÇÃO PEER

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Janice Figueiredo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Peer Production ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The World ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The Commons ◽  
The City

ResumoNos atuais modos de funcionamento do mercado e do Estado, a sociedade civil não tem possibilidade de criar valor a partir de sua visão sobre o que é necessário para sua comunidade. Na lógica do mercado, bens e serviços são produzidos com o objetivo principal de obtenção de lucro e no Estado representativo os cidadãos não têm poder de decisão sobre as políticas públicas necessárias para suas cidades. Este artigo introduz a ideia do comum, que situa a noção de valor na criação colaborativa visando a resultados voltados para o coletivo. Em seguida, é apresentada a idéia de inteligência coletiva - aquela universalmente distribuída entre os seres humanos e que permite a criação de soluções inteligentes para problemas complexos; o documento sugere que o exercício dos valores do comum aprimora a inteligência coletiva. A partir das características da produção e governança peer, o artigo indica como cidades no mundo vêm sendo transformadas. Finalmente, a iniciativa Rio+ é apresentada como um modelo colaborativo que permite que a sociedade civil carioca proponha soluções para sua cidade.  AbstractWithin the current working modes of the market and the State, civil society does not have the possibility to create value based on its own vision of what is needed for its communities . In the logic of the market, goods and services are produced with the ultimate goal of profit-making and, within the representative State, citizens do not take part in the decision-making processes that define the necessary public policies for their cities. This article presents the vision of the commons, that places the notion of wealthiness in what is created collaboratively and is aimed towards collective-oriented results. The document introduces the idea of the collective intelligence, which is universally distributed among human beings and which allows the creation of intelligent solutions to complex problems; the paper suggests that the exercise of the values of the commons enhances the collective intelligence. Through the characteristics of peer production and peer governance the article indicates how cities in the world are being transformed. Finally, the Rio+ initiative is presented as a collaborative model that allows civil society in Rio de Janeiro to create solutions for the city.

scholarly journals Gender Inequality and Land Rights: The Situation of Indigenous Women in Cameroon

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Esther Effundem Njieassam
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
The World ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Essential Resource ◽  
Gender Based

Land is an essential resource that serves as a means of subsistence for millions of people in the world and indigenous communities and women in particular. Most indigenous societies' survival is closely tied to land. In Cameroon, indigenous women are the backbone of food production in their communities. That makes access to land important, as it is a significant source of wealth and power for indigenous peoples in general and indigenous women in particular. While women all over the world encounter gender-based discrimination in relation to the control and ownership of land, indigenous women face triple discrimination on the basis of their gender (as women), their ethnicity (as indigenous peoples) and their economic class (economically poor). They are often dehumanised, degraded and subjected to treatment as second-class human beings despite the existence of national legislation that discourages such practices. This paper interrogates the possibility of including indigenous women in government and decision-making processes in Cameroon in the hope that they may be involved in key decision-making processes that affect them, thereby reducing their economic and social vulnerability. It concludes with some thoughtful recommendations on policy reform aimed at ensuring access to land for indigenous women as well as socio-economic justice in its broadest sense.    

Everyday agency and transformation: Place, body and story in the divided city

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Mannergren Selimovic
Keyword(s):  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Generative Capacity ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
Analytical Work ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

How do we identify and understand transformative agency in the quotidian that is not contained in formal, or even informal structures? This article investigates the ordinary agency of Palestinian inhabitants in the violent context of the divided city of Jerusalem. Through a close reading of three ethnographic moments I identify creative micropractices of negotiating the separation barrier that slices through the city. To conduct this analytical work I propose a conceptual grid of place, body and story through which the everyday can be grasped, accessed and understood. ‘Place’ encompasses the understanding that the everyday is always located and grounded in materiality; ‘body’ takes into account the embodied experience of subjects moving through this place; and ‘story’ refers to the narrative work conducted by human beings in order to make sense of our place in the world. I argue that people can engage in actions that function both as coping mechanisms (and may even support the upholding of status quo), and as moments of formulating and enacting agential projects with a more or less intentional transformative purpose. This insight is key to understanding the generative capacity of everyday agency and its importance for the macropolitics of peace and conflict.

scholarly journals Corruption and Combating Corruption: A Framework for Peace, Human Rights and Sustainable Development in Post-Independent Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
Eric Che Muma
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
The World ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Global Peace ◽  
The Way

Abstract Since the introduction of democratic reforms in post-independent Africa, most states have been battling corruption to guarantee sustainable peace, human rights and development. Because of the devastating effects of corruption on the realisation of peace, human rights and sustainable development, the world at large and Africa in particular, has strived to fight against corruption with several states adopting national anti-corruption legislation and specialised bodies. Despite international and national efforts to combat corruption, the practice still remains visible in most African states without any effective accountability or transparency in decision-making processes by the various institutions charged with corruption issues. This has further hindered global peace, the effective enjoyment of human rights and sustainable development in the continent. This paper aims to examine the concept of corruption and combating corruption and its impact on peace, human rights and sustainable development in post-independent Africa with a particular focus on Cameroon. It reveals that despite international and national efforts, corruption still remains an obstacle to global peace in Africa requiring a more proactive means among states to achieve economic development. The paper takes into consideration specific socio-economic challenges posed by corruption and the way forward for a united Africa to combat corruption to pull the continent out of poverty, hunger and instability, and to transform it into a better continent for peace, human rights and sustainable development.

scholarly journals Pasteloza – refurbishing of the PPR heritage

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-64
Author(s):  
Sara Nikolić
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Thermal Insulation ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Geometric Figures ◽  
State Administration ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The City ◽  
Housing Estates

Abstract Colourful zigzags, arcade game motifs, geometric figures, pseudo-frames of windows and even infantile drawings of flora and fauna – those are just some of the visible symptoms of the aesthetical and urbanistic chaotic condition also known as Polish pasteloza. One of the most common readings is that the excuse of thermal insulation is being (ab)used in order to radically erase the urbanistic, cultural and political heritage of Polish People’s Republic (PPR) from the city landscape. On the other hand, inhabitants of ‘pastelized’ housing estates claim to be satisfied not only with the insulation but also with their role in decision-making processes. A sense of alienation from one’s home seems to have gone away, together with the centralized state administration, and it is being replaced by citizen participation. The possibility of vindication of pasteloza’s ‘crimes against aesthetics’ will be deliberated in this paper – in order to pave a path for more complex understanding of this phenomenon that could offer a solution for achieving a compromise between aesthetics and civic participation in post-transition processes.

scholarly journals Aftershocks: Globalism and the Future of Democracy

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
The City ◽  
Selection Of

This digital publication consists of a selection of 56 papers presented at the 16th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), held at the University of Zaragoza, 2-5 July 2019, the general theme of which was ‘Aftershocks: Globalism and the Future of Democracy’. Sponsored by The Aragonese Association of Sociology, the conference was well-attended – 170 participants from 28 countries met to discuss a wide variety of topics in 29 workshops. The feedback we received from participants confirmed that they had greatly enjoyed the venue of the conference, that they appreciated the warm welcome they had received and the congenial social atmosphere and opportunity to attend workshops on subjects that were not only in their own field of expertise. No one, of course, could have predicted that our world – our work and life as individuals, as communities and as nations – would change so suddenly and radically eighteen months after the conference, with the rapid and devastating spread of the Convid-19 pandemic. The current deepening global crisis along with the challenge of climate change and growing international tensions are a stark reminder of how vulnerable our societies, our civilization, and our species are. The shocks and aftershocks of these crises are felt today in every corner of the world and in every aspect of our global and local economies, and most obviously in the sociopolitical arena. As several of the conference workshops on the multiple crises Europe and the world face today – from the migrant crisis to the rise of populism and deepening inequality between rich and poor – showed – and as the Covid-19 pandemic has so cruelly brought home to us – we simply cannot take the achievements of human civilization for granted and must find ways to meet the fundamental social and political needs of human beings not only in our own neighborhoods, cities and countries, but ultimately in the world as a whole: their living conditions, livelihoods, social services, education and healthcare, human rights and political representation. Several of the workshops, as I mentioned, directly addressed these issues and emphasized the need for building social resilience based on tolerance, solidarity and equity. This too is why, as academics, we should continue to initiate and engage in collective reflection and debate on how to foster and strengthen human communities and human solidarity. Finally, I want to thank the participants and workshop chairs for their contribution to the success of the conference. It was a pleasure for me to work with the university organizing team and with ISSEI’s team in bringing this about, and I am particularly proud that my university and the city of Zaragoza hosted this conference.

scholarly journals Pendidikan Sosial Sesuai Hadits Rosul SAW

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suluri Suluri
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Third ◽  
Road Users ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right

This paper examines various social problems in society often occur. In interacting with the community, like it or not, like it or not, intentionally or unintentionally it often happens that the offense and hurt hurt. The Prophet Muhammad as the messenger of Allah who was sent to perfect morality has set examples in navigating life in the world, especially in social matters. Evidently Rosul SAW has built a civil society in Medina. The examples of the Prophet Muhammad who I adopted in this article are the prohibition of whispering together without regard to the third, the ethics of visiting, greeting, giving the right of road users and giving rights to neighbors. From these various themes, it is expected to be a learning so that in interacting with fellow human beings, a Muslim always prioritizes morality.

Conclusion: SDO Decision-making and the Public Interest

2020 ◽  
pp. 210-237
Author(s):  
Alison Harcourt ◽  
George Christou ◽  
Seamus Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
International Level ◽  
Multiple Streams ◽  
Policy Entrepreneurship ◽  
Historical Representation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Decision Making Processes

The conclusion situates the book’s findings in academic debates on democracy and the Internet, global self-regulation, and civil society, and international decision-making processes in unstructured environments. It assesses whether current standards-developing organization (SDO) decision-making is able to bridge historical representation gaps and deficiencies. A nuanced pattern is emerging with increasing inclusion of a wider number of actors within SDO fora. The first part of the chapter returns to the Multiple Streams (MS) framework applied to the case studies on a comparative basis. It identifies key processes under which SDO rules of interaction are established at the international level and explains which interests have come to the fore within decision-making highlighting the occurrence of policy entrepreneurship, forum shopping, and coupling. The final part explores additional frameworks for SDO regulation where spaces for public interest consideration might occur in the future. These are opportunities for inserting public interest considerations into international and national Acts, certification programmes, and the move towards open source solutions for Internet management. The book concludes that, although the literature is expansive on the interaction of corporate sector actors within SDOs, the study of other actors, such as digital rights groups, civil society, academics, policy entrepreneurs and the technical community as a whole, has been underdressed in the literature on international self-regulatory fora to date. In this respect, the book raises important questions of representation of the public interest at the international level by having addressed the actions of actors within SDO fora who promote public interest goals.

WASPAS based MULTIMOORA method under IVIF environment for the selection of hub location

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 1233-1256
Author(s):  
Nezir Aydin ◽  
Sukran Seker
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Airline Industry ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Hub Location ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Product Assessment ◽  
The City

PurposeLow cost carriers (LCCs) have become one of the most significantly growing parts of the airline servicing market. This new player has redesigned the whole airline industry, which was previously led by the national/international full-service airline companies. Considering such advancements, the hub locations of LCCs became an important issue than ever before. Within this concept, a guiding framework is developed for an LCC company, which is in search of a new hub airport location within Turkey to satisfy the demand and attract new passengers.Design/methodology/approachAn interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy (IVIF) sets based weighted aggregated sum product assessment (WASPAS) and multi-objective optimization by ratio analysis (MULTIMOORA) methods are developed for decision-making processes.FindingsFive airport locations are evaluated using the developed method. Results showed that in determining hub locations for LCCs, potential number of passengers of the city, airport quality and the number of hotels within the city are obtained as the three most important criteria among 12 evaluation criteria. The best location for the LCC company is determined as Antalya Airport.Research limitations/implicationsTo apply the proposed method to a different set of alternatives, data gathered on comparing location of alternatives from experts should be updated.Originality/valueProposed hybrid framework is presented as the first time in the literature as a decision-making tool. In order to validate framework's applicability, efficiency and effectiveness, a comparison and a sensitivity analysis are conducted at the end of the study.

Citizenship at the Margins: Exploring Participation as ‘Right to the City’ in Vizhinjam, Kerala

Urbanisation ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-93
Author(s):  
Aarathi Ganga
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Fishing Community ◽  
Urban Citizenship ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The Right ◽  
National Governments ◽  
The City

This article explores the nature of urban citizenship among fishers in Kerala, one of the state’s most marginalised communities, by analysing their participation in a centrally sponsored slum rehabilitation programme—Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY)—in Vizhinjam, Thiruvananthapuram. The ‘right to participate’ is considered an integral part of the ‘right to the city’, and the inability of the fishing community to participate in the decision-making processes of urban development programmes that directly affect their lives reveals the exclusionary nature of their citizenship. In a state that is renowned for its achievements in human development and governance, the fishing community continues to be marginalised and lack collective power to influence policies. Participatory meetings in such contexts become tokenistic, and their transformative capacity is undermined. The inefficiency of participatory meetings organised under RAY also stems from the powerlessness of local governments to alter urban programmes designed by national governments.

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