Sviluppo e disuguaglianze. Monaco, Barcellona, Copenhagen e Lione a confronto

TERRITORIO ◽

10.3280/tr2012-061003 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 17-24

Author(s):

Roberta Cucca ◽

Costanzo Ranci

Keyword(s):

Social Reproduction ◽

Social Impact ◽

Essential Elements ◽

Urban Systems ◽

Social Fabric ◽

Development Models ◽

Trade Offs ◽

The Social ◽

Integration Of Immigrants ◽

Investment Goods

This essay reconsiders and reanalyses the results of research carried out in four European cities (Monaco, Barcelona, Copenhagen and Lyon) on the social impact of the economic growth process, as well as potential tensions and trade-offs between the mechanisms of social reproduction and competitiveness of urban systems, till shortly before the 2009 financial and economic. In particular, this article restores several essential elements relative to four aspects of the analysis: policies for attracting flows of investment, goods, and people, and for safeguarding and enhancing local liveability; the impacts of economic development models on conditions of social inequality; the policies, the housing market and the affirmation of various lines of spatial division; and the integration of immigrants into the economic and social fabric of the cities.

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Cittŕ europee nella rete globale

TERRITORIO ◽

10.3280/tr2012-061002 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 16-16

Author(s):

Roberta Cucca ◽

Costanzo Ranci

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Social Inequality ◽

Growth Process ◽

Social Impact ◽

Urban Systems ◽

Economic Role ◽

Development Models ◽

Common Features ◽

Initial Hypothesis ◽

Central Economic

This paper considers various types of social impact from the economic growth process experienced by several European urban systems, shortly before the spread of the crises still in progress. The collection opens with an essay that transversally analyses several mechanisms that show economic growth and social inequality as connected or disconnected to one other. This line of thought is further developed by reconstructing four cases of more specific study (Barcelona, Copenhagen, Lyon and Monaco) that describe contexts that are similar because they play a certain central economic role in their respective national contexts and hold powerful transnational positions, but which belong to different welfare models. A portrait emerges marked by several common features and many points of differentiation, confirming the initial hypothesis, i.e., the importance of examining development models for cities.

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Saudi Reforms: Developing Tourism to Minimize Dependency on Oil and Its Impact in the Society

10.20944/preprints202101.0072.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Masood Ahmed

Keyword(s):

Social Exchange ◽

Social Exchange Theory ◽

Social Impact ◽

Oil Prices ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Social Reforms ◽

Social Fabric ◽

The Awakening ◽

The Social ◽

Cultural Exchanges

Many countries are raising questions on the intentions behind Saudi reforms. The low oil prices in 2008-09 were the awakening call for Saudis, and later in 2014, it became the reason to look for the economy that is less dependent on oil. The article studies the initiated social reforms and social impact of foreign cultural activities. It scrutinizes the Saudi social fabric under the social exchange theory and looks for the positive and negative effects of cultural exchanges. The paper also considers the COVID-19 situation in KSA as it has broken the chain of cultural events planned all over the country to promote tourism and improve the image of KSA.

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Building Faith

10.1093/oso/9780190883447.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Robert Brenneman ◽

Brian J. Miller

Keyword(s):

Social Impact ◽

Sociological Theory ◽

Empirical Method ◽

Religious Groups ◽

Wall Street ◽

Social Fabric ◽

Religious Buildings ◽

The Social ◽

The Impact ◽

Religious Landscape

Religious buildings are all around us. From Wall Street to Main Street, from sublime and historic cathedrals to humble converted storefronts, these buildings shape the global religious landscape, “building faith” among those who worship in them while providing a testament to the faith of those who built them and those who maintain them. Building Faith explores the social impact of religious buildings in places as diverse as a Chicago suburb and a Guatemalan indigenous Mayan village, all the while asking the questions, “How does space shape community?” and “How do communities shape the spaces that speak for them?” The social sciences have mostly ignored the role of physical buildings in shaping the social fabric of communities and groups. Although the emerging field of the sociology of architecture has started to pay attention to physical structures, Brenneman and Miller are the first to combine the light of sociological theory and the empirical method in order to understand the impact of physical structures on religious groups that build, transform, and maintain them. Religious buildings not only reflect the groups that build them or use them; they shape and change those who gather and worship there.

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The broken promises of the social investment market

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1177/0308518x19827298 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 51 (4) ◽

pp. 980-1004 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

David Harvie ◽

Robert Ogman

Keyword(s):

Crisis Management ◽

Social Reproduction ◽

Capital Accumulation ◽

Management Strategy ◽

Social Impact ◽

Political Legitimacy ◽

Fiscal Crisis ◽

Social Investment ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The Social

The United Kingdom is pioneering a new model for the delivery of public services, based around the device of a social investment market. At the heart of this social investment market is an innovative new financial instrument, the social impact bond (SIB). In this paper we argue that the SIB promises (partial) solutions to four aspects of the present multifaceted crisis: the crisis of social reproduction; the crisis of capital accumulation; the fiscal crisis of the state; and the crisis of political legitimacy. In this sense, we conceive the social investment market as a crisis management strategy. We draw on evidence from the world’s first SIB, the Peterborough SIB, launched in 2010, as well as from other SIBs, in order to assess the extent to which the social investment market delivers on its four promises. In doing so, we argue that the crisis of neoliberalism and the social investment market are not only in historical correspondence, but in a relation of causality to one another. In developing this argument, this paper contributes to contemporary theories of neoliberalism by investigating how concrete state developments and societal restructuring is being advanced around the idea of linking marketization with progressive social change. It also supports critical practitioners by offering a theoretical lens to identify the contradictions of this increasingly popular policy approach.

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LABOUR, SOCIAL REPRODUCTION AND THE TIME OF LAW

HUMANITIES AND RIGHTS | GLOBAL NETWORK JOURNAL ◽

10.24861/2675-1038.v2i1.29 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 135-163

Author(s):

Henrique Weil Afonso

Keyword(s):

Social Reproduction ◽

Legal Regulation ◽

Social Fabric ◽

Work Related ◽

Social Sphere ◽

First Case ◽

The Social ◽

The Status ◽

Forms Of Violence ◽

Significant Attention

The aim of this paper is to develop a historical scrutiny of the interplay between legal regulation and social reproduction. The question of marketization of the social sphere has been gaining significant attention over the past decades. While social theorists update Polanyian analysis of the status of embedded and disembedded markets to understand present-day crisis of social reproduction, it is relevant to situate these in light of historical lenses. By focusing on the idea of uberization of labour and care work, it considers, in the first case, how contemporary forms of labour are detrimental to the maintenance of the social fabric and, in the second one, how long-standing forms of violence are reproduced. It develops an argument according to which the disruption of work-related regulation has a direct connection to the inability of legal systems to institutionalize proper social times that are not reducible to market time.

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(Big) Society and (Market) Discipline: Social Investment and the Financialisation of Social Reproduction

Historical Materialism ◽

10.1163/1569206x-00001573 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 92-124 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

David Harvie

Keyword(s):

Social Reproduction ◽

Social Impact ◽

Social Investment ◽

Third Way ◽

Big Society ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The Social ◽

Global Movement ◽

History Of ◽

The Uk

Abstract The United Kingdom is at the forefront of a global movement to establish a social-investment market. At the heart of social investment we find finance – and financialisation. Specifically, we find: a financial market (the social-investment market); a series of financial institutions (Big Society Capital, for example); a financial instrument (the social-impact bond); and a financial practice (social investing). Focusing on the UK, given its pioneering role, this paper first provides a brief history of social investment, tracing its development from the politics of the ‘Third Way’ to the social-impact bond. It then maps the terrain of the social-investment market, explaining the main institutions and actors, and the social-impact bond. Finally, it proposes a framework for analysing the disciplinary logics of finance, which it uses to understand the promise or threat (depending on one’s perspective) of social investment and the social-investment market.

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Case study on the environmental impact and efficiency of travel

CEAS Aeronautical Journal ◽

10.1007/s13272-021-00547-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Evelyn Otero ◽

Ulf Ringertz

Keyword(s):

Electric Propulsion ◽

Fossil Fuels ◽

Social Impact ◽

Social Aspect ◽

Business Travel ◽

A Value ◽

Trade Offs ◽

The Social ◽

Value Model ◽

Transportation Mode Choice

AbstractTraveling and possible impact on climate and environment are currently under intense debate, and air travel in particular is often in question due to the use of fossil fuels. Electric propulsion has therefore become very popular but the energy sources for electricity generation should as well be taken into consideration. On the other hand, the social aspect of traveling is usually forgotten and should be also included for a complete sustainability analysis. In this study, the business trip from Stockholm to Bordeaux experienced by airplane and train is analyzed. Though the journey by airplane generated six and a half times more CO2 emissions than the journey by train on a per-passenger basis, this latter resulted in a 35-h journey compared to seven, and a cost up to eight and a half times more expensive than the airplane. The trip is defined as an optimization problem with focus on environmental, economic, and social impact to define acceptable trade-offs. The critical criteria for transportation mode choice were identified as the environment, time and comfort, and a value model for business travel mode optimization is proposed, integrating as well a personal value.

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