scholarly journals The Air-conditioned Nation under Global Warming – An Exploratory Study of the Speech and Assembly Freedom and Politics of Space in Singapore

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (SI) ◽  
pp. 15-31
Author(s):  
Hei Ting Wong
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Body ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Politics Of Space ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Relationship

Singapore is known to have a citizenry loyal to its one-party dominated government. Cherian George refers Singapore as the “Air-conditioned Nation,” wherein free speech is sacrificed for economic stability in this metaphorical or virtual greenhouse and fostered a controlled and docile politic. Dissent from members of registered opposition parties or ordinary citizens, however, has been voiced during “illegal gatherings” in public places. Many of these attempts, both purposeful and accidental, challenge rules designed to limit the citizenry’s ability to voice publicly. In this paper, I examine these civil disobedient acts under the framework of construction and politics of socially- and mentally-constructed space in connection to the laws of Singapore. Utilizing the ideas of space as defined by Henri Lefebvre and Michel Foucault, I analyze three separate accounts of assembly and/or procession. I identify the relevant laws of Singapore and examine how these laws are interpreted and applied by law enforcement, revealing a tension between space and the body politic. Politics of space is a concept usually connected to social class; yet, class consciousness is what the Singaporean government strives to eliminate through the control of ideology and by limiting the freedom of speech in public spaces. My contribution examines the relationship between space and politics, reflecting the conflicts between the government, which has the power over the use of places and citizens who would like to express ideas differently from governmental-led ideologies physically and publicly in these places, and the opposition’s actions in this virtually-caged public space named Singapore.

scholarly journals INSTITUSI SOSIAL: PERANNYA DALAM KEBERLANGSUNGAN RUANG PUBLIK TERPADU RAMAH ANAK DI JAKARTA

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 193
Author(s):  
Loa Mei Ling
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Child Friendly ◽  
The Government ◽  
Area North ◽  
The Relationship

The existence of public space has become an inseparable part in the development of city residents. Humans as social creatures need a place where they can gather and interact with each other. Especially in big cities, such as Jakarta, the density that occurs makes the lack of land that can be used as public space. This certainly creates difficulties for the community to find qualified social institutions to meet their needs. It is the Child Friendly Integrated Public Space (RPTRA), an alternative run by the government to get around the function of parks and abandoned areas in Jakarta. The revival of public spaces in the midst of the community is expected to be able to accommodate the needs of citizens while at the same time strengthening community relations between city residents. The thesis used as a reference for evaluation took two locations, namely the Alfa Dahlia RPTRA located in the Tegal Alur area, West Jakarta and the RPTRA Kelapa Nias III in the Kelapa Gading area, North Jakarta. Armed with the basis of this thesis research, it will be understood further how social institutions take part in the success of the RPTRA, as well as exploring the depth of the process of institutionalizing the relationship between each supporting community and the RPTRA. This research was conducted using a qualitative approach. Data is collected and reviewed through field observations, interviews, and documentation. The findings of the study explain that the institutional process plays an important role in the sustainability of the RPTRA in the future. AbstrakKeberadaan ruang publik telah menjadi bagian yang tak terpisahkan dalam perkembangan warga kota. Manusia sebagai makhluk sosial memerlukan tempat dimana mereka dapat berkumpul dan berinteraksi satu sama lain. Khususnya di kota besar, seperti Jakarta, kepadatan yang terjadi membuat kurangnya lahan yang dapat digunakan sebagai ruang publik. Hal ini tentu menimbulkan kesulitan tersendiri bagi masyarakat untuk menemukan wadah sosial yang mumpuni untuk memenuhi kebutuhannya. Ialah Ruang Publik Terpadu Ramah Anak (RPTRA), sebuah alternatif yang dijalankan oleh pemerintah utk menyiasati fungsi taman maupun area yang terbengkalai di Jakarta. Dihidupkannya kembali ruang-ruang publik di tengah masyarakat diharapkan dapat mengakomodasi kebutuhan warga sekaligus menguatkan hubungan kemasyarakatan antar warga kota. Tesis yang digunakan sebagai acuan evaluasi mengambil dua lokasi, yaitu RPTRA Alur Dahlia yang berada di area Tegal Alur, Jakarta Barat dan RPTRA Kelapa Nias III yang berada di area Kelapa Gading, Jakarta Utara. Berbekal dasar penelitian tesis ini, akan dipahami lebih lanjut bagaimana institusi sosial mengambil peranan dalam keberhasilan RPTRA, serta mengekplorasi kedalaman proses pelembagaan hubungan antara masing-masing komunitas pendukung dan RPTRA. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif. Data dikumpulkan dan dikaji melalui observasi lapangan, wawancara, serta dokumentasi. Hasil temuan penelitian menjelaskan bahwa proses institusional memegang peranan penting dalam keberlangsungan RPTRA di masa depan.

scholarly journals Rancang Bangun Pengukur Suhu Tubuh Berbasis Arduino Sebagai Alat Deteksi Awal Covid-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rindi Wulandari
Keyword(s):  
Body Temperature ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Temperature Data ◽  
The Body ◽  
Measuring Instruments ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The People ◽  
Computer Device ◽  
The Government

<p class="AbstractEnglish"><strong>Abstract:</strong> Maintaining health is very important for life especially in the current Covid-19 pandemic. One of the protocols imposed by the government for people who do in public spaces or open facilities is to check body temperature. In this study, arduino-based body temperature gauges were designed to have reminder alarms if the body temperature was above 37.30 and connected to a computer device via bluetooth. This body temperature gauge utilizes the DS18B20 sensor to measure temperature in celsius (0C). Body temperature data is also displayed on the 16x2 (cm) LCD found on the appliance. The test results of body temperature measuring instruments compared to thermo guns and have a deviation range of 1.16% - 2.02%. This body temperature gauge is expected to be installed in public places that need to conduct checks on the people who will be active in the room, the operator can stand at the control table so that it does not come into direct contact with the community.</p><p class="AbstrakIndonesia"><strong>Abstrak:</strong> Menjaga kesehatan merupakan hal yang sangat penting bagi kehidupan terutama di masa pandemi Covid- 19 sekarang. Salah satu protokol yang diberlakukan oleh pemerintah bagi masyarakat yang berkegiatan di ruang umum atau fasilitas terbuka adalah memeriksa suhu tubuh. Dalam penelitian ini dibuat rancang bangun alat pengukur suhu tubuh berbasis arduino yang memiliki alarm pengingat jika suhu tubuh berada diatas angka 37.30 dan terhubung ke perangkat komputer melalui bluetooth. Alat pengukur suhu tubuh ini memanfaatkan sensor DS18B20 untuk mengukur suhu dalam satuan celcius (0C). Data suhu tubuh juga ditampilkan pada LCD 16x2 (cm) yang terdapat pada alat. Hasil pengujian alat ukur suhu tubuh dibandingkan dengan thermo gun dan memiliki rentang penyimpangan 1.16% - 2.02%. Alat pengukur suhu tubuh ini diharapkan dapat dipasang di tempat-tempat umum yang membutuhkan untuk melakukan pemeriksaan terhadap masyarakat yanga akan beraktifitas diruangan tersebut, operator dapat berdiri di meja kendali sehingga tidak kontak langsung dengan masyarakat.</p>

scholarly journals LIBERALISM, LOCAL GOVERNMENT REFORM, AND POLITICAL EDUCATION IN GREAT BRITAIN AND BRITISH INDIA, 1880–1886

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
BENJAMIN WEINSTEIN
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Political Education ◽  
Government Reform ◽  
British India ◽  
The Government

AbstractThis article attempts to shed new light on the character of late Victorian Liberalism by investigating its political priorities in British India. It takes as its particular focus the debates which raged between 1881 and 1883 over the Government of India Resolution on Local Self-Government. Along with the Ilbert Bill, the Resolution comprised the centrepiece of the marquis of Ripon's self-consciously Liberal programme for dismantling Lytton's Raj. When analysed in conjunction with contemporaneous Liberal discourse on English local government reform, the debates surrounding the Resolution help to clarify many of the central principles of late Victorian Liberalism. In particular, these debates emphasize the profound importance of local government reform to what one might call the Liberal project. Beyond its utility in effecting retrenchment, efficiency, and ‘sound finance’, local government reform was valued by Liberals as the best and safest means of effecting ‘political education’ among populations, in both Britain and India, with increasingly strong claims to inclusion within the body politic.

Reconceptualizing the Public Spaces of New Urban Areas in Hanoi: The End or the New of Public-Making?

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Minh-Tung Tran ◽  
◽  
Tien-Hau Phan ◽  
Ngoc-Huyen Chu ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Public ◽  
Doi Moi ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Neighborhood Level

Public spaces are designed and managed in many different ways. In Hanoi, after the Doi moi policy in 1986, the transfer of the public spaces creation at the neighborhood-level to the private sector has prospered na-ture of public and added a large amount of public space for the city, directly impacting on citizen's daily life, creating a new trend, new concept of public spaces. This article looks forward to understanding the public spaces-making and operating in KDTMs (Khu Do Thi Moi - new urban areas) in Hanoi to answer the question of whether ‘socialization’/privatization of these public spaces will put an end to the urban public or the new means of public-making trend. Based on the comparison and literature review of studies in the world on public spaces privatization with domestic studies to see the differences in the Vietnamese context leading to differences in definitions and roles and the concept of public spaces in KDTMs of Hanoi. Through adducing and analyzing practical cases, the article also mentions the trends, the issues, the ways and the technologies of public-making and public-spaces-making in KDTMs of Hanoi. Win/loss and the relationship of the three most important influential actors in this process (municipality, KDTM owners, inhabitants/citizens) is also considered to reconceptualize the public spaces of KDTMs in Hanoi.

Trolls Just Want To Have Fun

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shefali Virkar
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Government

Over the last two decades, public confidence and trust in Government has declined visibly in several Western liberal democracies owing to a distinct lack of opportunities for citizen participation in political processes; and has instead given way instead to disillusionment with current political institutions, actors, and practices. The rise of the Internet as a global communications medium and the advent of digital platforms has opened up huge opportunities and raised new challenges for public institutions and agencies, with digital technology creating new forms of community; empowering citizens and reforming existing power structures in a way that has rendered obsolete or inappropriate many of the tools and processes of traditional democratic politics. Through an analysis of the No. 10 Downing Street ePetitions Initiative based in the United Kingdom, this article seeks to engage with issues related to the innovative use of network technology by Government to involve citizens in policy processes within existing democratic frameworks in order to improve administration, to reform democratic processes, and to renew citizen trust in institutions of governance. In particular, the work seeks to examine whether the application of the new Information and Communication Technologies to participatory democracy in the Government 2.0 era would eventually lead to radical transformations in government functioning, policymaking, and the body politic, or merely to modest, unspectacular political reform and to the emergence of technology-based, obsessive-compulsive pathologies and Internet-based trolling behaviours amongst individuals in society.

scholarly journals The birth of public space privatization: How entrepreneurialism, convivial urbanism and stakeholder interactions made the Martim Moniz square, in Lisbon, ‘privatization-ready’

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Private Governance ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Management Scheme ◽  
Political Objective ◽  
Stakeholder Interactions ◽  
Private Management ◽  
The Relationship

Despite the vigorous debate on the extent, modalities and impacts of public space privatization, there have been few analyses of the processes of its emergence in specific places. Based on 36 stakeholder interviews and desk research, this paper does so through an analysis of how the Martim Moniz square, in Lisbon, became the city’s first square under private management in 2012. To do so, the paper goes through the local governance context and the importance of convivial public spaces as a political objective, leading to regular partnerships with non-state actors. The square is adjacent to Mouraria, a derelict neighbourhood that was a testing ground for the city’s new urban policies. The square’s private management scheme – branded the Mercado de Fusão – rather than a rupture with existing practices, is the result of a coincidence of interests of both actors. Moreover, it reassembles typical local policy responses and the company’s expertise in a unitary management scheme. The seamless implementation of the Mercado is made possible by the pre-existing relationship between the company and the municipality. The paper thus shows that there is no fundamental shift towards private governance in Lisbon. Rather, it is the generalized commodification of public spaces resulting from the emergence of conviviality as a political objective that opened up the conditions for the square’s privatization. The relationship between conviviality as a political objective and privatization is presented as a promising subject for further research.

scholarly journals Uma trilha sonora no largo da carioca: caminhadas de escuta e observação como método de investigação dos espaços públicos/A soundtrack on the Largo da Carioca: listening and observation walks as a public spaces investigation method

2018 ◽  
pp. 235-253
Author(s):  
Renato Coimbra Frias
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Political ◽  
Audio Recording ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Investigation Method ◽  
The Relationship

RESUMOO presente trabalho discute a relação existente entre sons, política e espaços públicos. Tal discussão é conduzida pela análise dos dados obtidos em um trabalho de campo realizado no Largo da Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, que consistiu no mapeamento das diferentes atividades que ocupam esse espaço público e no registro em áudio dos sons ao longo de uma caminhada pelo Largo da Carioca. A análise evidencia como o som produzido por camelôs, artistas de rua e outras atividades observadas em campo exerce um importante papel no jogo de posições entre elas, configurando-se como importante fator na geografia política dos espaços públicos.Palavras-chave: Espaços Públicos, Caminhadas Sonoras, Paisagens Sonoras. ABSTRACTThis paper discusses the relationship between sounds, politics and public spaces. This discussion is conducted by the analysis of data obtained in a fieldwork in Largo da Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, which consisted in mapping the different activities that occupy this public space and in the audio recording of the sounds present on a walk along the Largo da Carioca. Our analysis shows how the sound produced by street vendors, street performers and other activities observed in field plays an important role in the positions established between them, becoming an important factor in the political geography of public spaces.Keywords: Public Spaces, Soundwalks, Paisagens Sonoras.

scholarly journals Recovery of residual public spaces to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of San Borja, Lima

2021 ◽  
Vol 2089 (1) ◽  
pp. 012051
Author(s):  
O Facho ◽  
T Cama ◽  
D Esenarro ◽  
J Livia ◽  
C Cuetoand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Public ◽  
Phase Study

Abstract The present research aims to propose a model for the recovery of residual public spaces to improve the quality of life of the district of San Borja’s inhabitants. San Borja is in the process of densification and requires a more significant number of public spaces that offer, in addition to vegetation, public places for active and passive recreation, such as spaces for sports and games, walking pets, and relaxation. These needs have increased due to the confinement caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Also, it was noted that the median strip, or central reservation of the avenue, can be recovered for people to use. Therefore, a four-phase study was carried out that included reviewing the literature and observing two cases. In conclusion, a model was proposed to recover the public space of the median strips of San Borja Norte Avenue and San Borja Sur Avenue to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of San Borja, which can be replicated in other avenues with residual spaces with similar characteristics.

Fear of the Thirty Years War

Facing Fear ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lederer
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Fear Response ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the relationship between fears and crises by focusing on the Thirty Years War. It considers how the war evoked a universal fear response and highlights expressions of preexisting apocalyptic fears in the material context of a long-term crisis. It also examines universal and traditional elements in contemporary portrayals of fear aroused by the specific events of the war. During the Thirty Years War, the body politic often appeared twisted, contorted, or monstrous in form, suggesting a fearful condition affecting society as a whole. In other words, the body functioned as a repository of fear during the conflict. The chapter argues that the linchpin of the relationship between crises and fear during the Thirty Years War was their literal embodiment by contemporary political culture and a peculiar understanding of history.

Recruiting the Justice League

2019 ◽  
pp. 65-88
Author(s):  
Wesley C. Hogan
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Leadership Models ◽  
Community Organizers ◽  
Youth Community ◽  
Time And Energy

Since the mid-1990s, the Ella Baker Center of Oakland has been creating a society based on restorative justice and law enforcement accountability, not the punishment economy. It does what Ella Baker called “spadework”: building youth community organizers who know that a fundamental element of democracy is to spend time and energy developing people at the base as their own leaders—one person at a time, as members of the body politic. Leadership models of Van Jones, Nona Perry, Darris Young and Lanise Frazier are examined.

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