The Role of the Organizational Actor in the Process of Social Transformation in Territories

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Suzanne Érica Nóbrega Correia ◽  
Verônica Macário de Oliveira ◽  
Carla Regina Pasa Goméz
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Arid Region ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
Family Farmers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semi Arid

To discuss the role of the organizational actor in the process of social transformation in territories as a promoter of social gains and responses is what this chapter is all about. The discussion was carried out through theoretical landmarks on social innovation, and an empirical study in the articulation of the semi-arid (SAA) organization, which is aimed at creating conditions for coexistence with the most arid region of Brazil. Results show that the organizational actor plays the roles of enhancing the society capacity to act, to create new roles and relationships with the other actors, and to promote access to resources, thus enabling family farmers to better meet their own needs. It is concluded that the social innovation initiative studied is characterized by its dissemination in sync with specific actions articulated in a network and adapted to the contexts, with the organizational actor as the pivot and representative of the paradigmatic transition.

scholarly journals Impacts of the Fomento Program on Family Farmers in the Brazilian Semi-Arid and its relevance to climate change: a case study in the region of Sub medio São Francisco

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-225
Author(s):  
Patrícia Mesquita ◽  
Ricardo Theophilo Folhes ◽  
Louise Cavalcante ◽  
Luciana Vieira de Novais Rodrigues ◽  
Beatriz Abreu Santos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Arid Region ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Climate Projections ◽  
Family Farmers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Semi Arid Region ◽  
Food And Nutritional Security ◽  
Semi Arid

For some years, Brazil established itself as a leader in strategies of strategies and programs aimed at reducing the social vulnerability of the most vulnerable populations. In this context, the Program for the Promotion of Rural Productive Activities (Fomento Program), created in 2011, had as one of the main objectives to stimulate the generation of work and income, and promote food and nutritional security for rural, indigenous, traditional and settled populations of agrarian reform. In the Northeast, and more specifically in the Semi-arid region, the relevance of this Program stands out even more concerning climate projections, which indicates that such areas will suffer from more extreme drought in the face of climate change, affecting populations dependent on climate-sensitive activities. Therefore, given the diversity of impacts of the Fomento Program reported in the literature, this article sought to present results on the perception of the Program's impacts from 24 family farmers, interviewed through qualitative research in four municipalities in the state of Bahia in 2017. In addition to the socio-productive aspects, the research sought to understand the Program's impacts in the context of climate change. The results point to a positive perception mainly related to changes in production and technical assistance based on the Paradigm of Co-existence with the Semi-arid Region.

scholarly journals DESAFIOS DA CONVIVÊNCIA COM O SEMIÁRIDO: abordagem à luz da configuração econômica e socioespacial do município de Esperança – PB

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
João Paulo Gomes de Vasconcelos Aragão ◽  
Joel Santos Pereira Nobre
Keyword(s):  
Arid Region ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Rural Workers ◽  
Family Farmers ◽  
Transition Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semi Arid Region ◽  
Semi Arid

CHALLENGES OF COEXISTENCE WITH THE SEMI ARID: approach to the light of the economic and socioespacial configuration of the municipality of Esperança – PBDESAFÍOS DE LA CONVIVENCIA CON EL SEMIÁRIDO: enfoque a la luz de la configuración económica y socialespacial del municipio de Esperança – PBA convivência equilibrada com a natureza continua sendo um dos grandes desafios da sociedade contemporânea. Um exemplo disto ocorre no município paraibano de Esperança, no qual populações vivem em relação com a natureza do semiárido. A finalidade deste estudo foi analisar a configuração econômica e socioespacial, além dos desafios da convivência com o semiárido no município. O método utilizado foi inspirado em alguns princípios clássicos da Geografia, enquanto ciência social e historicamente estabelecida. Este método foi denominado de “DCACI”, resultado das letras iniciais dos cinco princípios geográficos trabalhados neste estudo enquanto etapas: 1. Delimitação, 2. Caracterização, 3. Analogia, 4. Conexidade e 5. Indicação. Os resultados obtidos indicam que, mesmo situado em uma área de transição entre clima úmido e semiárido, o município de Esperança não dispõem de condições técnicas suficientes para garantir de forma satisfatória uma convivência equilibrada com o semiárido. Apesar de ações isoladas, como as realizadas pelo Sindicato de Trabalhadores Rurais e Agricultores Familiares, que constituem avanços, vê-se no conjunto das dimenões socioespacial e ambiental do município, a contradição econômica social típica das políticas setorializadas as quais não têm priorizado a convivência sustentável com o semiárido.Palavras-chave: Convivência; Sociedade; Natureza; Semiárido; Esperança/PB.ABSTRACTBalanced coexistence with nature continues to be one of the great challenges of contemporary society. An example of this occurs in the Paraiba municipality of Esperança, in which populations live in relation to the nature of the semiarid. The purpose of this study was to analyze the economic and socio-spatial configuration, as well as the challenges of living with the semi-arid region in the municipality. The method used was inspired by some classical principles of Geography as a social science and historically established This method was called "DCACI", a result of the initial letters of the five geographical principles worked in this study as steps: 1. Delimitation, 2. Characterization, 3. Analogy, 4. Connectivity and 5. Indication. The results indicate that, although located in a transition area between humid and semi-arid climate, the municipality of Esperança does not have enough technical conditions to guarantee a satisfactory way of living a balanced life with the semi-arid region. In spite of isolated actions, such as those carried out by the Union of Rural Workers and Family Farmers, which constitute advances, the socio-spatial and environmental dimensions of the municipality show the social economic contradiction typical of sectoral policies, which have not prioritized sustainable coexistence with the semi arid.Keywords: Coexistence; Society; Nature; Semiarid; Esperança/PB.RESUMENLa convivencia equilibrada con la naturaleza sigue siendo uno de los grandes desafíos de la sociedad contemporánea. Un ejemplo de ello, ocurre en el municipio paraibano de Esperança, en el que poblaciones viven en relación con la naturaleza del semiárido. La finalidad de este estudio fue analizar la configuración económica y socioespacial, además de los desafíos de la convivencia con el semiárido en el municipio. El método utilizado fue inspirado en algunos principios clásicos de la Geografía, como ciencia social e históricamente establecida. Este método fue denominado "DCACI", resultado de las letras iniciales de los cinco principios geográficos trabajados en este estudio como etapas: 1. Delimitación, 2. Caracterización, 3. Analogía, 4. Conexiones y 5. Indicación. Los resultados obtenidos indican que, incluso en un área de transición entre clima húmedo y semiárido, el municipio de Esperança no dispone de condiciones técnicas suficientes para garantizar de forma satisfactoria una convivencia equilibrada con el semiárido. A pesar de acciones aisladas, como las realizadas por el Sindicato de Trabajadores Rurales y Agricultores Familiares, que constituyen avances, se ve en el conjunto de las dimensiones socioespacial y ambiental del municipio, la contradicción económica social típica de las políticas sectorializadas que no han priorizado la convivencia sostenible con el semiárido.Palabras clave: Convivencia; Sociedad; Naturaleza; Semiárido; Esperança/PB.

scholarly journals Revisiting Health in Colonial Bengal: A Literary Overview (1880 -1930)

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 374-377
Author(s):  
Tinni Goswami Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
The Other ◽  
Vernacular Literature ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
British Raj ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Tensions ◽  
The One ◽  
Active Link

The essential theme of this paper is to highlight the condition of health and hygiene in the British Bengal from the perspective of official documents and vernacular writings, with special emphasis on the journals and periodicals. The fatal effects of the epidemics like malaria and cholera, the insanitary condition of the rural Bengal and the cultivated indifference of the British Raj made the lives of the poor natives miserable and ailing. The authorities had a tendency to blame the colonized for their illiteracy and callousness, which became instrumental for the outbreak of the epidemics. On the other, in the late 19 th and the beginning of the 20th, the vernacular literature played the role of a catalyst in awakening health awareness, highlighting the issues related with ill health, insanitation and malnourishment. More importantly, it became an active link between the society and culture on the one hand, and health and people on the other. The present researcher wants to highlight these opposite trajectories of mentalities with a different connotation. The ideologies of the Raj and the native political aspirations often reflected in the colonial writings, where the year 1880 was considered as a landmark in the field of public health policies. On the other, the dichotomy between the masters and the colonized took a prominent shape during 1930s. Within these fifty years; the health of the natives witnessed many upheavals grounded on the social, economic and cultural tensions.

scholarly journals Social representations of the Coronavirus and causal perception of its origin. The role of reasons for fear.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Rateau ◽  
Jean Louis Tavani ◽  
Sylvain Delouvée
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
The Other ◽  
French Population ◽  
Causal Perception ◽  
The Social

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic (between 26 March and 2 April 2020), we analysed (n=1144) the social representations of the coronavirus and the differentiated perceptions according to the origins attributed to the appearance of the virus (Human vs Non-Human and Intentional vs. Unintentional) in a French population. The results show that the social representation is organized around five potentially central descriptive, anxiety-provoking and globally negative elements. But death and contagion are the only stable and structuring elements. The other elements vary according to the reason attributed to the object of fear. Depending on how individuals attribute the origin of the virus, social representations of it vary not only in terms of their content but also in terms of their structure. These results indicate how important it is to consider the perceptions that individuals share about the human (vs. non-human) and intentional (vs. unintentional) origin of an object of fear in the analysis of their representation of that object.

scholarly journals O PAPEL DA JUVENTUDE CAMPONESA NA CONSTRUÇÃO DE ECONOMIAS DE RESISTÊNCIA NO SEMIÁRIDO NORDESTINO/The role of peasant youth in the construction of resistance economies in the northeastern semi-arid region

REVISTA NERA ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 144-156
Author(s):  
Gabriel Troilo ◽  
Maria Nalva Rodrigues Araújo
Keyword(s):  
Arid Region ◽  
Semi Arid Region ◽  
Semi Arid

O objetivo do presente trabalho é apresentar as reflexões promovidas pelas organizações sociais do campo e por pesquisadores da questão agrária sobre a forma como as comunidades camponesas do semiárido nordestino se articulam para garantir as condições de produção e subsistência em meio à lógica de livre mercado capitalista, destacando o papel da juventude do campo neste processo. Para tanto foram analisadas as experiências de produção e mercado das comunidades camponesas do semiárido baiano, levando em conta a dinâmica econômica, os enfrentamentos, potencialidades e estratégias de resistência das mesmas frente o avanço do mercado capitalista na atualidade. As ações da juventude do campo na estruturação de economias de resistência, seja pelo associativismo e cooperativismo rural, pela formação de mercados camponeses e ocupação do mercado capitalista tem possibilitado a viabilidade da produção camponesa frente às pressões do modelo de produção agrícola dominante. Tais estratégias tem gerado importantes avanços para o campo no semiárido nordestino, e demonstram os resultados da luta política da juventude do campo pela perpetuação do modo de vida camponês e pela construção da soberania alimentar e territorial das comunidades sertanejas. 

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF ENGLISH EDUCATION AS THE SOLUTION OF THE SOCIAL WELFARE PROBLEM IN INDONESIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
Anisah Setyaningrum
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
English Education ◽  
The Other ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Welfare Level ◽  
International Language ◽  
The Social ◽  
Welfare Problem ◽  
Compulsory Subject

<p>The problem of social welfare becomes the theme which has been often to be discussed. This paper aims to describe the role of English Education as the solution of society’s welfare problem in Indonesia. English as an international language has become a compulsory subject in every level of education since last two decades. There are many advantages that can be gained by mastering English well, one of them is able to improve someone’s welfare level. One of the roles of English in increasing the Indonesian society’s welfare is English can be a potential provision in conducting entrepreneurship. In the other hand, it will increase their income. Besides, by having a good English mastery can facilitate them in gaining a better job.</p><p> </p>

Exploring the social innovation process in a large market based social enterprise

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 1399-1414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martine Vézina ◽  
Majdi Ben Selma ◽  
Marie Claire Malo
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Investment Fund ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Large Market ◽  
The Social

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the organising of social innovation in a large market-based social enterprises from the perspective of dynamic capabilities and social transformation.Design/methodology/approachThis paper analyses the process by which Desjardins Group launched the Desjardins Environment Fund as the first investment fund in North America to integrate environmental screening. It uses longitudinal single case analysis and a theoretical framework based on Teece’s three dynamic capabilities.FindingsResults show that dynamic capabilities can be conceived as stages in the process of social innovation. Sensing refers to the capability to identify a societal demand for social transformation. Seizing capability is about shaping societal demand into a commercial offer. Reconfiguring concerns organisational innovation to integrate actual and new knowledge through innovative routines. Microprocesses of both path dependency and path building are in action at each of the three stages.Practical implicationsThis paper shows that managing dynamic capabilities is central to social innovation in the context of a large social business and provides genuine managerial input via an analysis of the microprocesses at work in the social innovation process.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the operationalization of Teece’s dynamic capabilities model. In mobilising a framework in the field of management of innovation, it contributes to the understanding of the process of social innovation and develops the organisational mechanism for multiscalarity of social innovation as a condition for social transformation.

The Role of Societal Culture in Social Innovation

2021 ◽  
pp. 86-101
Author(s):  
Gaye Karacay
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Societal Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Value Creation ◽  
Research Propositions

Being at a development stage, the social innovation literature needs further contributions that would help to comprehensively find out the enablers of social innovation especially within macro level. Since the nature of social innovation is cumulative as well as interactive, the micro level practices of individual social innovation initiatives add up to the general patterns at the macro-level. On account of the fact that shared values among members of a society bring about similar expectations, perceptions, and behavioral patterns, it is essential to explore how various societal cultural attributes contribute to social innovation capacities of countries. This study aims to explore an evidence of the influence of societal culture on social innovation, specifically by shaping the perceptions of social entrepreneurs for social value creation. By discussing the relationship between societal culture and social innovation in a conceptual manner along with developing research propositions, this study offers a new direction for future research.

Responding to neoliberal diets: School meal programmes in Brazil and Canada

2018 ◽  
pp. 347-364
Author(s):  
Estevan Leopoldo de Freitas Coca ◽  
Ricardo César Barbosa Júnior
Keyword(s):  
Food System ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
The Other ◽  
Farm To School ◽  
School Meal ◽  
Family Farmers ◽  
Food Education ◽  
Global Food System ◽  
Global Food

This chapter identifies school meal programs in Brazil and Canada as sustainable alternatives to some of the harms caused by the dominance large corporations exert on the global food system. It analyses the new version of the Brazilian National School Meal Program (PNAE) and British Columbia’s Farm to School initiative (F2S BC) in Canada. On one hand, PNAE creates an institutional market for family farmers, while offering students a greater amount of locally produced fresh and healthy food. On the other, F2S BC takes form through activities such as school gardens, food education and incentives to purchase locally produced food. This work finds that PNAE has more reach but limits school meals to consumption, whereas F2S BC emphasizes the role of schools as spaces for growing and recognises food as a pedagogical resource.

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