The Impact of Information and Communication Technology on the Rise of Urban Social Movements in Poland

2018 ◽  
pp. 1354-1375
Author(s):  
Maja Grabkowska ◽  
Łukasz Pancewicz ◽  
Iwona Sagan
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
Activist Groups

The chapter examines the relationship between the use of Information and Communications Technology (ITC) and the emergence of social movements focused on urban agenda in Poland. The aim is to investigate how and to what extent a growing body of smaller activist groups use opportunities provided by the ITC to achieve their political objectives. The research results indicate that Web-based media have helped to raise the profile of local initiatives and increased awareness of systemic urban issues between different groups of grass-root actors. The findings of the chapter are based on the analysis of the Congress of Urban Movements (Kongres Ruchów Miejskich: KRM), a broad coalition of smaller non-governmental organizations and bottom-up activist groups, which use Internet-based tools to network. The results indicate that the Web-based tools increase the members' ability to connect and interact, consequently improving the ability to coordinate joint initiatives, expand real-life social networks, and in the result stimulate the rise of urban social movements.

The Impact of Information and Communication Technology on the Rise of Urban Social Movements in Poland

2019 ◽  
pp. 1020-1041
Author(s):  
Maja Grabkowska ◽  
Łukasz Pancewicz ◽  
Iwona Sagan
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
Activist Groups

The chapter examines the relationship between the use of Information and Communications Technology (ITC) and the emergence of social movements focused on urban agenda in Poland. The aim is to investigate how and to what extent a growing body of smaller activist groups use opportunities provided by the ITC to achieve their political objectives. The research results indicate that Web-based media have helped to raise the profile of local initiatives and increased awareness of systemic urban issues between different groups of grass-root actors. The findings of the chapter are based on the analysis of the Congress of Urban Movements (Kongres Ruchów Miejskich: KRM), a broad coalition of smaller non-governmental organizations and bottom-up activist groups, which use Internet-based tools to network. The results indicate that the Web-based tools increase the members' ability to connect and interact, consequently improving the ability to coordinate joint initiatives, expand real-life social networks, and in the result stimulate the rise of urban social movements.

The Impact of Information and Communication Technology on the Rise of Urban Social Movements in Poland

2015 ◽  
pp. 93-113
Author(s):  
Maja Grabkowska ◽  
Łukasz Pancewicz ◽  
Iwona Sagan
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
Activist Groups

The chapter examines the relationship between the use of Information and Communications Technology (ITC) and the emergence of social movements focused on urban agenda in Poland. The aim is to investigate how and to what extent a growing body of smaller activist groups use opportunities provided by the ITC to achieve their political objectives. The research results indicate that Web-based media have helped to raise the profile of local initiatives and increased awareness of systemic urban issues between different groups of grass-root actors. The findings of the chapter are based on the analysis of the Congress of Urban Movements (Kongres Ruchów Miejskich: KRM), a broad coalition of smaller non-governmental organizations and bottom-up activist groups, which use Internet-based tools to network. The results indicate that the Web-based tools increase the members' ability to connect and interact, consequently improving the ability to coordinate joint initiatives, expand real-life social networks, and in the result stimulate the rise of urban social movements.

The Impact of Web-Based Media on Evolution of Participatory Urban Planning and E-Democracy in Poland

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Grabkowska ◽  
Łukasz Pancewicz ◽  
Iwona Sagan
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Local Initiatives ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
Activist Groups ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The article examines the relationship between the use of Web-based media and the emergence of social movements focused on urban agenda in Poland. The authors’ aim is to investigate how and to what extent a growing body of smaller activist groups use opportunities provided by the Internet to achieve their political objectives. The authors’ research results indicate that electronic media have helped to raise the profile of local initiatives and increased awareness of systemic urban issues between different groups of grass-root actors. The findings of the article are based on the analysis of the Congress of Urban Movements (Kongres Ruchów Miejskich), a broad coalition of smaller non-governmental organizations and bottom-up activist groups, which use Internet-based tools to network. The results indicate that the Web-based tools increase the members’ ability to connect and interact, consequently improving the ability to coordinate joint initiatives and expand real-life social networks.

scholarly journals Bourdieu and social movements theories: Some preliminary remarks on a possible conceptual cross-fertilization in the context of (post-)Yugoslav anti-war and peace activism

Sociologija ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bojan Bilic
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Peace Activism ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Institutional Engagement ◽  
Agency And Structure ◽  
Theoretical Considerations ◽  
Cross Fertilization

This paper puts forth and calls for further unpacking of a potentially fruitful conceptual cross-fertilization between various social movements theories and Bourdieu?s sociology of practice. Following some of my most important predecessors, I argue that this theoretical hybridization could accommodate many threads of social movements research that otherwise would not cohere into a rounded theory. Bourdieu?s powerful conceptual armoury is both parsimonious and flexible and seems particularly well-suited to address the problematic issues pertaining to agency and structure in the field of social movements. In the second section of the paper, I call for an exploration of Yugoslav anti-war and pacifist activism immediately before and during the wars of Yugoslav succession. I perceive a number of politically and organizationally heterogeneous initiatives, taking place throughout the demised country, as a case that can be used to empirically test the proposed theoretical considerations. Yugoslav anti-war and pacifist activism has yet to receive the sociological attention that it deserves. It is a complex social phenomenon calling for a sophisticated and systematic examination which should position it between its antecedents - the embryonic forms of extra-institutional engagement during Yugoslav communism - and its divergent posterity, mostly circumscribed within the national fields of non-governmental organizations.

‘What Will We Be without Them?’ Rural Intellectuals in the State and NGOs in Zimbabwe’s Crisis-Ridden Countryside

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 595-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Moore ◽  
Zenzo Moyo
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
The State ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
South West ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
State Organizations ◽  
The Many

Research on NGOs in rural Zimbabwe suggests that ideas of automatic opposition between ‘civil society’ and/or non-governmental organizations and authoritarian states are too simple. Rather, relations between state and non-state organizations such as those referenced in this article, in the rural district of Mangwe about 200 kilometres south-west of Zimbabwe’s Bulawayo, are symbiotic. This contrasts with urban areas where political histories have led to more contested state-civil society relations in the last two decades, during which social movements with a degree of counter-hegemonic (or counter-regime) aspirations were allied with many NGOs and opposition political parties. Gramsci’s idea of ‘rural intellectuals’ could complement the widely used notion of ‘organic intellectuals’ to examine the members of the intelligentsia appearing to be at one with subordinate groups in the countryside and at odds with the state. Likewise state workers distant from the centre and close to their class peers in NGOs as well as their ‘subjects’ may operate with autonomy from their masters in ruling parties and states to assist, rather than repress, citizens and also to co-operate with NGO workers. This research indicates that discerning how hegemony works across whole state-society complexes is more complicated than usually perceived, given the many regional variations therein.

18. Governance and Organizations in Global Politics

Politics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ferdinand ◽  
Robert Garner ◽  
Stephanie Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
United Nations ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Global Order ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

This chapter examines the ways in which governance and organizations influence global politics. It first provides an overview of what an international organization is, focusing on intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations, before discussing the rise of organizations in the global sphere from the nineteenth century onwards. It then takes a look at the major intergovernmental institutions that emerged in the twentieth century and which have played a major role in shaping global order, including the League of Nations and its successor, the United Nations (UN). The chapter concludes with an analysis of ideas about social movements and civil society, along with their relationship to contemporary governance and organizations.

scholarly journals Links Between International Factor Flows and Labor Standards in Malaysia: Findings from a Stakeholder Survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-117
Author(s):  
Evelyn S. Devadason
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Labor Standards ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Global Integration ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Activist Groups

This article identifies the dilution of key aspects of labor standards and establishes their systematic links with the global integration of the Malaysian economy through capital and labor inflows. The approach taken in this article is that investors and migrants, may, serve as channels of (lower) labor rights. For this purpose, the study consolidates information through interviews conducted with trade unions, activist groups and non-governmental organizations. The findings suggest that migrants have influenced and lowered the labor rights for the unskilled group. Since migrants have little information about their rights, they are directed into the secondary labor market with insecure and exploitative jobs. They have therefore become a preferred source of employment, “naturally” relegating the unskilled locals into contractual jobs with minimal to no work entitlements.

Pengaruh Implementasi Pengendalian Intern dan “Total Quality Management” terhadap Kinerja Organisasi

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Sri Fadilah
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Quality Management ◽  
Total Quality Management ◽  
Performance Assessment ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Low Performance

In Indonesia today, there exists a trend in the development of non-governmental organizations that manages the funds of ZIS, thus flourished as social movements. However, there is a gap between the potential for a large charity with the realization of a very small charity. This fact indicates low performance of OPZ. Furthermore, it will raise the problem of accountability and transparency of the LAZ. This problem will make a challenge for LAZ to improve their performances. This paper is expected to be a reference for the development of performance assessment models for LAZ in Indonesia.  It used BSC model which study the influence of IC and TQM, either partially or simultaneously, on the performance of LAZ

scholarly journals Design of an integration platform between the water-energy nexus and a business model applied for sustainable development

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (7) ◽  
pp. 1398-1405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heba Ahmed Mosalam ◽  
Mohamed El-Barad
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Problem Statement ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Integration Platform ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Water Energy Nexus ◽  
New Generation

Abstract Setting out an international standard schema for the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus and providing accurate data with realistic reports for investment through a simple application is essential for our real world. This research presents a tool to help anyone who wants to invest in environmental projects, especially water, energy, or food projects. The user can directly connect to a database of environmental data applying WEF nexus principles. This paper is looking for a mechanism to apply the WEF nexus concept through a web-based platform implementing unified concepts and terminology, setting basic criteria and standards, and making the data available, consistent, and homogeneous. Based on the problem statement, the purpose of this research is to implement a cross-application for sustainable development, including WEF nexus concepts, taking into consideration the interlinkage between the three resources integrated with a business model or financial study for projects. In addition, we have determined organizational perspectives of WEF nexus, including government entities, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector, and consolidated all the concepts into one set of WEF standards. Increasing the awareness of WEF nexus will help to establish a new generation of researchers who believe in the WEF nexus concepts and who will coordinate with developers and expert consultants to convert the WEF standards to programming coding.

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