scholarly journals Theatre Associations in Working Class Neighbourhoods: between Politicisation and Public Action

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 431-450
Author(s):  
Francesca Quercia
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
Public Action

Abstract For about thirty years now, in the context of urban policies, number of theater associations carry out projects in working-class neighborhoods providing active participation of their inhabitants. Based on an ethnographic survey in France and Italy, this article highlights the discursive politicisation processes within these associations. Participatory theatre provides a framework a priori conducive to generate “public spirited-political conversations”. However, these processes can be hampered by a set of public funding constraints.

Soviet and Comintern Policies Toward the British General Strike of 1926

1953 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morton H. Cowden
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Strong Interest ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
General Strike

The first general strike in the history of England, with its mass labor action, was bound to attract strong interest from the workers' state which proclaimed as its rallying cry: “Workers of All Countries, Unite!” Soviet concern for the British working class followed logically from the active participation of Marx and Engels in the movement, and the continued attention shown by Lenin to this important “section” of the “world proletariat.”

scholarly journals Some key points on the evaluation of public policies as related to the case of social policies

Ánfora ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 54-76
Author(s):  
Joan Subirats I
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Public Action ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Best Offer ◽  
Evaluation Of Public Policies

This paper pretends to go deeply into the reasons that would explainjustify this dissarrengment between theory and practice, and propose some ways of advancement. Today, the policies of social inclusion almost always have strong elements of innovation, of creative adaptation to heterogeneous situations, not standarized a priori, and precisely for this reason, the elements of the proccess are very significative. It should not be strange to us, -lt is advised- that the evaluations that have this elements of proccess in mind, can be notably more powerful and useful than those that are centered exclusively in the subject "results".In these 14 points for debate, a discusion is presented about the role and results of public action, that it is not situated today only in how to make things, but it demands instruments that let also answer the questions of what public instruments must deal with, and who can best offer these effective and efficient results to these social demands channeled through these representative powers.

scholarly journals Restoring the 'Mam': Archives, Access And Research Into Women’s Pasts In Wales

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 47-64
Author(s):  
Mandi O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Local History ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
General Lack ◽  
Working Class Women ◽  
Women’S History

In this article I look at issues around access to material for researching the pasts of women in Wales and two archives in Wales are discussed: The Butetown History and Arts Centre (BHAC) which has recorded oral interviews with women from the community of Butetown (‘Tiger Bay’) in Cardiff, as well as collecting other material about the community, and Archif Menywod Cymru/Women’s Archive of Wales (WAW), which is working to ‘rescue’ sources of women’s history across Wales. Access to all archives is vital as there is a general lack of material about women’s pasts in Wales which can be used to challenge stereotyped representations of Welsh women, particularly of working-class women. Both BHAC and WAW have relied on public funding to differing degrees and this has been an increasingly important element in helping a large number of groups and organisations in Wales in the areas of community and local history to carry out their own research. However, public funding often comes with obligations regarding access to material which might not tie in with the aims and ethos of some more specialist archives. The changing nature of county record offices/archives is also important as they continue to become much more involved in collaborative projects with community groups and other organisations.

Multiple Perspectives: Social Performance Beyond the Single Criterion

2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 231-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Pantaleo ◽  
Robert A. Wicklund
Keyword(s):  
Social Performance ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Performance Criterion ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Performance Gains

Summary: This article introduces the idea of performance gains in groups in the sense of each group member's readiness to perceive, tolerate, and represent more than one point of view within the group or societal context. For this purpose we refer to enhanced performance as the furthering of “multiple perspectives.” Active participation enables perspective-taking, role-playing, flexibility in one's persuasions, and ultimately increments in one's internalization of diverse aspects of society. We discuss the social conditions that maximize such active participation - thus performance for the other's perspective - as well as individually-based psychological forces that shut down the individual's openness to diverse perspectives. Performance for the other as defined in terms of multiple perspectives is contrasted with group productivity as measured by a single performance criterion on which group members agree a priori.

Selina Solomons, Iconoclastic Suffragist of San Francisco

2020 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 151-160
Author(s):  
Elaine Elinson
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Jewish Family ◽  
Public Action ◽  
Suffrage Movement ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
Working Class Women

This essay describes the efforts of Selina Solomons, a San Francisco suffragist, and her perspectives on two California suffrage campaigns, the failed 1896 effort and the success in 1911. Born to a distinguished Jewish family that had fallen on hard times, Solomons felt the suffrage movement was hindered by its reliance on elite society women. She organized the Votes for Women Club and took bold public action to bring working-class women into the movement and to secure the votes of immigrant and laboring men.

Remaking the Polish Working Class: Early Stalinist Models of Labor and Leisure

Slavic Review ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Padraic Kenney
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Class Conflict

The Stalinist revolution began to accelerate in Poland, as throughout eastern Europe, in 1947, with the implementation of multi-year plans, the repression of opposition and the enforcement of unity in the bloc; by the beginning of 1950, the transformation of the bloc was more or less complete. The construction of the Stalinist system did not occur in a vacuum but was shaped in part by societies, and the regimes which emerged were thus more complex than has been generally acknowledged. That complexity stems in part from Stalinist regimes’ interest in transforming society through mobilization and integration, rather than merely subduing it. Active participation in political and economic life was required; mere acquiescence to the demands of the regime was insufficient; and class conflict was to be eliminated, replaced by an alliance between the working class and its former adversaries.

INVENTING THE ‘TRADITIONAL WORKING CLASS’: A RE-ANALYSIS OF INTERVIEW NOTES FROM YOUNG AND WILLMOTT'S FAMILY AND KINSHIP IN EAST LONDON

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 567-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
JON LAWRENCE
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
London Borough ◽  
Class A ◽  
Personal Testimony

ABSTRACTThis article examines surviving notes from interviews conducted by Michael Young and Peter Willmott in the London Borough of Bethnal Green and the Essex ‘overspill’ estate of ‘Greenleigh’ (Debden) in the mid-1950s to ask how far they support the central arguments about kinship, community, and place advanced in their classic 1957 book Family and kinship in East London. These interviews are used to suggest that Young and Willmott's powerful a priori models about ‘community’ and working-class kinship, and their strong political investment in the idea of a decentralized social democracy based on self-servicing, working-class communities, led them to discount testimony which ran counter to their assumptions as ‘aberrant’ or ‘exceptional’. Though it is difficult to draw strong conclusions from thirty-seven interviews, it is suggested that the snippets of personal testimony that survive in Michael Young's papers reinforce the arguments of historians who seek to question cataclysmic accounts of the consequences of working-class suburbanization in the mid-twentieth century. Culture and lifestyle changed much less with the move out to suburban Essex than Family and kinship would suggest, partly because Bethnal Green's family and neighbourhood networks were considerably less cohesive than they claimed.

scholarly journals AS CAMADAS POPULARES E O REMO NO RIO DE JANEIRO DA TRANSIÇÃO DOS SÉCULOS XIX/XX

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Victor Andrade de Melo
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Complete Relation

No Brasil, ainda não são fartos os estudos sobre a apreensão do esporte pelas camadas populares. O objetivo deste estudo é discutir a presença, a participação e o relacionamento das camadas populares com o esporte, especificamente o remo, no Rio de Janeiro da transição dos séculos XIX/XX, momento de estruturação do campo esportivo no país. Ao final, sugere-se que não seja adequado afirmar que as camadas populares apreenderam o remo, mas por certo deve-se considerar que tiveram uma participação ativa na consolidação e organização dessa prática esportiva. In Brazil, we don't have a significant number of studies about the relation between sport and the working class. This article has for purpose to argue about the presence and the participation of working class members in sporting events, specifically of rowing, in the 19th/20th century culture of Rio de Janeiro. In that moment, we could observe the first moments oí modern sport in Brazil. At the final, I conclude that it is no possible to assert that working class had a complete relation with rowing clubs, but certainlly they had an active participation in development and organization of that sporting practice.

Lo sguardo acquietato dell'urbanista sull'architettura dell'abitare

2009 ◽  
pp. 91-103
Author(s):  
Massimo Bricocoli
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
Public Action ◽  
Close Observation

- Is it possible to investigate urban policies and projects through a close observation of the places they produce? In Torino as in Milano, to research on new urban development projects as well as on the transformation of the existing urban fabric, allows an overview on how public action shapes and guides processes of spatial and social organization in the contemporary urban space. And the organization of urban space is a ground on which the conditions of citizenship are drawn and in which to investigate the relations with social and political organization.Keywords: urban development projects, public action.Parole chiave: progetti urbanistici, azione pubblica.

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