scholarly journals Ageing and Dying Radically

2018 ◽  
pp. 23-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Phenomenological Anthropology ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Broad Scale

This biographical and, in part, phenomenological anthropology of older people in post-industrial England illuminates a local and generationally specific communitarian critique of and form of resistance against the process of individualisation. Rather than presenting communitarianism conventionally as an abstract political ideology or set of ideas about locality, it is conceptualised as emerging from and being reinforced by experiences of ageing, especially bodily ageing. It these respects, the article responds positively to Tatjana Thelen and Cati Coe’s call to take the anthropology of ageing out of its current condition of relative intellectual marginality, by recognising ageing and its related care arrangements as key structuring features within societies and political organisation and by treating them as a window onto understanding broad-scale social and political processes.

Age and gentrification in Berlin: urban ageing policy and the experiences of disadvantaged older people

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Dale ◽  
Josefine Heusinger ◽  
Birgit Wolter
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Socially Disadvantaged ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Chapter 5 examines the impact of gentrification processes in Berlin, Germany, on the distribution of older people across the city as well as the everyday experiences of ageing in socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The chapter concludes with an overview of developments in the context of political processes, where urban transformation driven by economic interests generates growing conflict and contradiction with the needs of an ageing and increasingly less affluent population.

The Importance of Methodological Approaches when Choosing Optimal Electoral System

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Виктория Ерыгина ◽  
Viktoriya Erygina
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The Law

Yet another change of the electoral system at the federal elections in the Russian Federation, the revision of the rules of conducting elections triggers a number of the questions about purposes and criteria of such reforms, doubts their objective nature, and undermines voters’ trust in the elections. The variety of electoral systems and the search for the best one is the topic of fierce scientific debates in various social sciences, including jurisprudence. Since the electoral system is a complex scientific category, there are many different approaches and methods to investigate it. And the author undertakes the search of those to emphasize the importance of taking into account of scientific developments, political will manifestations when the legislator resolves the conceptual task of selecting the electoral system that in suitable for the society and the objective conditions. The author recognizes the leading role of party-political ideology, viability when reforming the electoral legislation. However, in order to strengthen the legal order in the country, scientifically substantiated conclusions, obtained through the combination of general scientific, special (sociological, psychological and historical-cultural), particular methods of legal science, should become the basis for any legislation, including the electoral one. The author reveals such new methodological approaches, as anthropological, culturological, historical, social-psychological and comparative-legal for the conceptual solution of the problem of selection the best electoral system and its further use in the law-making and law-enforcement practice. The author touches upon the issue of searching for a scientific set of instruments, with the aid of which it is possible to apply the science in the political sphere in order to control political processes, including through the law.

scholarly journals The features of social and political processes in post-industrial society

ScienceRise ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1(10)) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Лариса Іванівна Яковенко ◽  
Сергей Николаевич Приходько
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Society ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Post Industrial

Living in a Fool’s Paradise

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-86
Author(s):  
Mark Hogan
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Residential Location ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Industrial Decline ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

This article investigates the political processes and attitudes that have prevented San Francisco from adequately dealing with many of its challenges. It posits that the city is at risk of becoming a caricature of its former self if attitudes towards accepting and preparing for the future do not change as a chronic shortage of housing threatens to push many long-time residents out. The history of anti-development attitudes since the 1980s is reviewed, tracing the rebound from post-industrial decline to becoming a highly desirable residential location and the home to some of the world’s most innovative companies.

scholarly journals The Hybrid Spatialities of Post-Industrial Beijing: Communism, Neoliberalism, and Brownfield Redevelopment

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 5029
Author(s):  
Nyuying Wang ◽  
Oleg Golubchikov ◽  
Wei Chen ◽  
Zhigao Liu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Brownfield Redevelopment ◽  
Brownfield Sites ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Evolutionary Perspectives

While the redevelopment of urban brownfield sites in China has received much attention, the role of political ideology in this process is usually downplayed or sidelined to a set of stylized assumptions. This paper invites giving a greater analytical focus to the evolving and nonorthodox nature of China’s politico-ideological model as a factor shaping urban change and redevelopment. The paper provides an analytical framework integrating multi-level and evolutionary perspectives while exploring the experiences of the formation and post-industrial redevelopment of brownfield sites in Beijing. The analysis demonstrates that neoliberal economic policies and the communist political doctrine are co-constitutive in the production of China’s post-industrial urban space. This produces a sense of spatial hybridity that combines and co-embeds what may be assumed to be mutually exclusive.

The Economic ‘Burden’ of Ageing and the Prospect of Intergenerational Conflict

1990 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Walker
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Economic Burden ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Economic Costs ◽  
Working Population ◽  
Generational Conflict ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us

ABSTRACTThis article examines the mounting pessimism of policy-makers concerning the implications of societal ageing. It is argued that underlying this pessimism are primarily macroeconomic worries about the economic ‘burden’ that older people are said to represent to the economy and, specifically, the working population. It is suggested that, in turn, these particular concerns are ideologically inspired; hence it is the public expenditure costs of pensions and health care rather than, for example, the economic costs of ageing for older people and their families, that are the chief causes of anxiety. Thus political ideology has distorted and amplified the macroeconomic consequences of population ageing in order to legitimate anti-welfare state policies.While Britain and the US represent leading examples of this trend, there is a danger that, inspired to some extent by the leading international economic agencies, other countries will follow their lead. An unintended result of doing so may be the growth of inter-generational conflict. This concept has achieved quite wide currency in the US literature and has been influential in some policy circles. It is subjected to close scrutiny and found deficient as a basis for policy-making. In conclusion some lessons are drawn about the failure of orthodox social gerontology to counteract the pessimistic accounts emanating from economic and demographic analyses and the need for a more critical stance by the discipline.

scholarly journals A spatio-legal approach to the intermediate housing-with-care solutions for older people: exploring the adoption of a retirement village concept in Finland

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 1956-1977
Author(s):  
Riina Lundman
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Senior Housing ◽  
Alternative Housing ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Retirement Village ◽  
The Many

AbstractRetirement villages are an increasingly popular senior housing option that aims to comprehensively integrate accommodation, care services, social activities and interaction opportunities for ageing people. The research literature about retirement villages and communities is extensive, but less studied are the contextually varying spatial, legal and political processes of how such villages and other intermediate housing-with-care solutions for older people are initially constituted, especially in novel national and local contexts. In this paper, a spatio-legal approach is employed to study the many legal possibilities and barriers that have arisen while developing retirement villages in Finland. As a specific case, I examine the new Finnish Virkkulankylä retirement village concept and its implementation process. As the key result of my study, I identify three major spatio-legal barriers to developing retirement villages and other intermediate senior housing solutions, which are (a) the polarised division between the fields of elderly care and housing in both law and practice, (b) the prevalence of ‘local law’ in spatial planning and service provision for elderly people, and (c) the inflexible funding system regarding alternative housing-with-care solutions for seniors. I argue that although the ‘in-betweenness’ of retirement villages may facilitate a more comprehensive understanding about the housing and care of older adults, in practice their intermediary position translates into many ambiguities and challenges.

scholarly journals The relationship between the categories of “political culture” and “electoral behavior” in european political thought

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (11) ◽  
pp. 18-32
Author(s):  
Dmitry A. Golovin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Electoral Behavior ◽  
Political Consciousness ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Systemic Analysis ◽  
New Research ◽  
Post Industrial

This article is devoted to identifying the interrelationship and interdependence of political culture and electoral behavior in the concepts of European political researchers. The methodology of the study is based on the assumption that electoral behavior is a comprehensive political and legal indicator of the level and nature of political culture. The following methods of research are used: systemic analysis, chronological analysis of scientific concepts on the topic of research, analysis of factors that affect the dynamics of political consciousness and electoral behavior. As a result of the study of scientific approaches on the topic of the article, it was revealed that the methodology for studying the dynamics of political processes is now in the active development stage and is constantly replenished with new research hypotheses. It is shown that in chronologically early concepts, moral and ethical ideas, traditions, customs and religion come first in the structure of political consciousness. This circumstance is associated with the high role of traditional and religious factors in the consciousness and life of all societies until the beginning of the 20th century. It is argued that at the present stage of post-industrial development, the model of electoral behavior preferred for Western European researchers is the model of a targeted voter, which involves the sustainability and clarity of political values and preferences, normative oriented political behavior, as well as the "habit" of critically analyzing the programs and speeches of public leaders and parties for their usefulness for the voter. At the same time, this model still remains quite abstract and difficult to implement in electoral practices, since its implementation is hindered by irrational political archetypes, symbols, myths - components of the political consciousness of modern man.

Changing Political Processes among the Abaja Ibo

Africa ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Smock
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Central Direction ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
Near Unanimity ◽  
Broad Scale

Opening ParagraphThe basic features of the political processes among the Ibo of Eastern Nigeria are well documented. The most striking element of the system is its decentralization. Margery Perham wrote thirty years ago that ‘it is almost impossible to imagine a wider diffusion of authority’ than one finds in Ibo society (Perham, 1937, p. 234). When a decision affecting an Ibo community is to be made, several groups and organizations concern themselves with the issue and within each organization near unanimity must be reached before discussion can be closed. Participation is on such a broad scale that most traditional meetings have no chairman or central direction, take no votes, permit more than one person to speak at a time, have no agenda, and continue for long periods. A decision reached by one organization within a community that is not acceptable to another organization can usually not be implemented. Margaret Green writes: ‘Ibo democracy works through a number of juxtaposed groups and a system of checks and balances rather than on a unitary or hierarchical principle’ (Green, 1947, p. 145).

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