scholarly journals Tramandare la memoria sociale del Novecento

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
University Of Florence

The volume contains the proceedings of the conference Tramandare la memoria sociale del Novecento (Florence, 11.21.2019), on the occasion of presenting Gino Cerrito’s archive. owned at present by the Social sciences library, University of Florence. Cerrito papers represent a primary source to investigate social movements in the XX century, especially anarchism, with particular reference to the War of Spain and to anarchical syndacalism between the two world wars. The project gave the opportunity to focus on the main issues concerning the preservation of the social memory of the XX century among experts and professionals. Historians, archivists, librarians, professors, association members and officers of the heritage preservation institutions discuss the problems and strategies confronting its conservation and enhancement. Investigate recent past requires a molteplicity of sources, beyond paper and through a great variety of expressions and media. And movements and their archives present peculiarities. Technical and political issues are considered, and a variety of cases and initiatives relating to archives dedicated to social movements and associations.

scholarly journals Changing Social Focusing in Indigenous Social Movements

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. David Flynn ◽  
James M. Hay
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social System ◽  
Centrality Measures ◽  
Northern Ontario ◽  
The Social ◽  
Incoming Information ◽  
Indigenous Social Movements ◽  
Self Immolation

Using complexity science, we develop a theory to explain why some social movements develop through stages of increasing intensity which we define as an increase in  social focusing. We name six such stages of focusing: disintegration, revitalization, religious, organisation, militaristic, and self-immolation. Our theory uses two variables from the social sciences: differentiation and centrality, where differentiation refers to the internal structure of a social system and centrality measures the variety of incoming information. The ratio of the two, differentiation/centrality (the d/c ratio) is a shorthand way of saying that centrality must be matched by a corresponding level of differentiation to maintain basic focusing. If centrality exceeds differentiation, then the result is a lack of focusing—disintegration. On the other hand, the more differentiation exceeds centrality, the more the system moves into the higher stages of social focusing, from revitalization to the final stage of self-immolation.   To test the theory we examine historically indigenous social movements, in particular, the Grassy Narrows movement in northern Ontario Canada. We also suggest how the theory might be applied to explain other examples of social movement, especially millenarian movements at the end of the 20th century. We also suggest sociocybernetic ways the rest of society and the social movement itself can change its own social focusing.

scholarly journals “Fronteiras dos Movimentos Sociais” / "Frontiers of the Social Movements"

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (20) ◽  
pp. 7-25
Author(s):  
José Eduardo Leon Szwako ◽  
Monika Dowbor ◽  
Matheus Mazzilli Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Research Networks ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Robust Evidence ◽  
Academic Debate

O adensamento da produção acadêmica sobre movimentos sociais na última década no Brasil, quer nas Ciências Sociais ou ao redor delas, se expressa hoje na consolidação de redes de pesquisa e espaços de debate acadêmico em fóruns como, por exemplo, as últimas edições do Congresso Brasileiro de Sociologia e os encontros anuais da Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais (Anpocs). Junto a tais redes e fóruns, é possível destacar como evidência robusta desse mesmo processo o volume crescente de dossiês temáticos, bem como de artigos publicados em diálogo constante e crítico com abordagens teóricas e autores internacionais. O dossiê ora apresentado se insere nesse ritmo de adensamento, explorando, nesta apresentação e nos artigos a seguir, debates sobre fenômenos e abordagens que, há algum tempo, têm recebido crescente atenção de pesquisas de movimentos sociais, expandindo as fronteiras analítico-conceituais desse campo de estudos e, assim, desafiando-o. AbstractThe intensification in academic production on social movements in the last decade in Brazil, whether within or around the Social Sciences, is expressed today in the consolidation of research networks and spaces for academic debate in forums such as, for example, the latest editions of the Brazilian Congress of Sociology and the annual meetings of the National Association of Graduate Studies in Social Sciences (Anpocs). Along with such networks and forums, it is possible to highlight as robust evidence of this same process the growing volume of thematic dossiers, as well as articles published in constant and critical dialogue with theoretical approaches and international authors. The dossier presented here falls within this pace of intensification, exploring, in this presentation and in the following articles, debates on phenomena and approaches that, for some time, have received increasing attention from research on social movements, expanding the analytical-conceptual frontiers of this field of studies and, thus, challenging it.

scholarly journals Elementos y obstáculos a tomar en cuenta en la conceptuación y apropiación de los derechos sexuales y reproductivos / Elements and Obstacles to Be Taken into Account in the Conceptualization and Appropriation of Sexual and Reproductive Rights

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Ortiz-Ortega
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Sexual Rights ◽  
Social Legitimacy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Rights

El presente artículo ubica el concepto de derechos sexuales en el ámbito de las ciencias políticas, y muestra el papel que diversos actores y procesos sociales han tenido en la evolución del concepto, que aún lucha por ganar legitimidad social. Se evidencia cómo los derechos sexuales pertenecen al terreno de la ética, el derecho y el ejercicio de la ciudadanía, en contraste con la perspectiva de las religiones ortodoxas que no consideran que la sexualidad sea terreno del derecho sino de la naturalidad. Frente a dicha perspectiva se enfatiza el papel de los movimientos sociales y de las conferencias de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para facilitar la construcción de discursos. Finalmente el artículo ofrece una evaluación de la apropiación de los derechos sexuales por mujeres en el México contemporáneo. AbstractThe article places the concept of sexual rights within the sphere of the social sciences. It shows the role of various actors and social processes in the evolution of a concept that it is still struggling to gain social legitimacy. It shows how sexual rights belong to the sphere of ethics, law and the exercise of citizenship as opposed to the view of orthodox religions, which consider that sexuality belongs to the sphere of nature rather than law. The author contrasts the religious position with the role of social movements and the United Nations Conference in facilitating the construction of discourse. Finally, the article ends by offering an evaluation of the appropriation of sexual rights by women in contemporary Mexico.

scholarly journals Agenciamiento de la memoria social en la escuela colombiana como mecanismo reparador

2017 ◽  
pp. 171-204
Author(s):  
Ingrid Lorena Torres Gámez
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Exponential Growth ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social

El presente trabajo tiene como principal objetivo reflexionar sobre el papel de la escue­la en los ejercicios de reparación de afectaciones acaecidas en el marco del conflicto armado en Colombia. Para dicha tarea, resulta importante reconocer que hace aproximadamente tres décadas las Ciencias Sociales asisten al crecimiento exponencial de trabajos que sitúan la memoria como elemento sustancial en la comprensión del pasado y su incidencia en los discursos sociales, polí­ticos, culturales y normativos del presente, frente a los cuales la escuela no es indiferente, pues se encuentra en un lugar privilegiado para la producción y reproducción de discursos relacionados con los ejercicios de memoria. En este sentido, se acude metodológicamente al orden cualitativo de revisión bibliográfica, enfatizada en la localización y recuperación de información para construir reflexiones desde la óptica de la pedagogía de la memoria, que, más que conclusiones, se conciben como abrebocas ante la mirada multidisciplinar con la que es necesario asumir los retos del reco­nocimiento de las diversas formas de reparar en la escuela.Palabras clave: memoria social, conflicto armado, escuela, reparación. ABSTRACTSocial memory agency in the Colombian school as a reparation mechanism The aim of this article is to reflect on the role of the school in the exercises for making amends that have occurred in the context of the armed conflict in Colombia. For this task, it is important to recognize that approximately three decades ago Social Sciences attended the exponential growth of works that place the memory as a substantial element in the understanding of the past and its incidence in the social, political, cultural and normative discourses of the present, in which the school is not indifferent, because it is on a privileged place for the production and reproduction of discourses related to memory exer­cises. In this sense, a methodological approach is done tothe qualitative order of bibliographic review, emphasized in the location and retrieval of information, to build reflections from the perspective of the pedagogy of memory, which, more than conclusions, are conceived as an appetizer before the multidisciplinary view that is necessary to assume the challenges of the recognition of the diverse forms to make amend for the school.Keywords: social memory, armed conflict, school, to make amend for.

scholarly journals The Vienna circles: cultivating economic knowledge outside academia

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erwin Dekker
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Knowledge ◽  
Professional Identities ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
The Social ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
The University

This article examines the intellectual scenery of interwar Vienna. It argues that its central institution was not academia, but rather the circles ('Kreise'). The prominence of these circles can partly account for the creative outburst in the social sciences in interwar Vienna. The article also helps to explain the peculiar character of the knowledge produced in interwar Vienna which is just as much concerned with social and political issues as it is with more traditional scientific issues. The lack of formal institutions and the marginal position of the University of Vienna also had downsides. It caused uncertainty in terms of career prospects and professional identities, although the informal interaction within the circles full of rituals and alternative institutions could partly make up for this. The uncertain future for scholars ultimately contributed to the enormous wave of migration from Vienna, frequently even before the political situation became an acute threat.

Relationality, Place, and Absence: A Three-Dimensional Perspective on Social Memory

2005 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 729-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathrine Degnen
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
War Memorials ◽  
The North ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
The Social

This article builds on recent work on memory and place in the social sciences. One emphasis in the literature on ‘Western’ forms of social memory has been on official, intentional sites of commemoration, such as war memorials and monuments. Based on fieldwork in the north of England with older residents of a former coal mining village, I approach social memory from a different perspective, emphasising the work of memory and its complex interactions with place, absence, social relations and social rupture. Like Village on the Border, this research has taken place in a setting that has undergone significant socio-economic change: the closure of the South Yorkshire coalfields. The embeddedness of local knowledge in social relations emerge in both Ronnie Frankenberg's work and my own and I explore these topics here in connection with what I term a ‘three-dimensionality of memory’.

The Affective Ambiguity of Solidarity: Resonance Within Anti-Deportation Protest in the German Radical Left

2020 ◽  
pp. 089692052093266
Author(s):  
Sonja Moghaddari
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Political Opinion ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Social ◽  
Emotional Dimensions ◽  
Radical Left

Solidarity is a key concept in the literature on humanitarianism and social movements. Public discourse, too, promotes solidarity as a consistent feeling of belonging and empowerment. However, despite its popularity in the social sciences, there is little evidence about the phenomenological experiences underlying the concept. This article aims at moving beyond ethical considerations that underlie the boundaries between more conventional and contentious forms of civil engagement in examining the affective and emotional dimensions of solidarity. Building on long-term ethnographic fieldwork within deportation protest in Germany, I draw on cultural approaches to social movements and on the anthropology of affect in order to analyse resonance in four affective encounters. I argue that rather than communicating a political opinion, solidarity represents an attitude with which people explain their engagement in certain forms of affective and emotional exchange which are often just as ambiguous, challenging and contradictory as they are comforting and exciting.

Beyond Secularization

2011 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-662
Author(s):  
Thomas Heilke
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Front Seat ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Peter Berger ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

“Religion” has retaken a front seat in the news. Its presence in the media is echoed in the concerns of policymakers, whence it is more strongly felt again in the thinking and writing of social scientists. Concerning religion, “resurgence” is a word that shows up in many a social science title of late. For scholars such as sociologist Rodney Stark, this language is merely further evidence of a deep-seated secularist inattention in the social sciences: religion has never been absent from human affairs, it just hasn't been of interest to prejudiced scholars. “Pluralism, not secularism, is the dominant trend in an ‘age of explosive, pervasive religiosity,’” argues former secularization theorist Peter Berger in the title words of his 2006 article. The three books under consideration here do not share directly in either of these arguments. Nor do any make a claim for “resurgence,” though each author acknowledges some version of the secularization myth and its dismantling in developments and events of the recent past, and each knowingly writes in that context (Benne, 2–6; Buruma, 1–3; Beiner, xiv n11, 4–5, 312).

Uses and Abuses of “State and Civil Society” in Contemporary Turkey

1998 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yael Navaro-Yashin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Social Scientific

The categories of “state” and “civil society” have too often been used as oppositional terms in the social sciences and in public discourse. This article aims to problematize the concepts of “state” and “civil society” when perceived as separate and distinct entities in the discourses of social scientists as well as of members of contemporary social movements in Turkey. Rather than readily using state and society as analytical categories referring to essential domains of sociality, the purpose is to transform these very categories into objects of ethnographic study. There has been a proliferation of discourse on “the state” and “the civil society” in Turkey in the 1980s and 1990s. This article emerges out of an observation of the peculiar coalescence of social scientific and public usages of these terms in this period. It aims to radically relativize and to historically contextualize these terms through a close ethnographic study of the various political domains in which they have been discursively employed.

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