The times of social innovation – fictional expectation, precautionary expectation and social imaginary

2019 ◽  
pp. 164-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
The Times

Neighborhood Activism in Planning for New York City, 1945-1975

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 1261-1289
Author(s):  
Marci Reaven
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
York City ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Democratic Action ◽  
Cumulative Process ◽  
The Times

The practice of city planning in New York City was transformed in the decades after World War II. At the start of this period, the system was characterized by little citizen involvement and no transparency. By the mid-1970s, citizens had become accepted participants in land-use decision-making, and formal procedures for involving citizens in planning had been written into local law. This article explores how this turning point in citizen participation came about by focusing on the Cooper Square Committee—an ambitious practitioner of neighborhood activism on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Setting the Committee’s quest in the participatory context of the times uncovers a groundswell of voluntary groups who used the city’s neighborhoods as forums for democratic action. Along with government actors, planning professionals, and civic and social agencies, such groups contributed to the transformation in planning, which developed not by premeditated campaign but by a cumulative process of public problem-solving and social innovation.

scholarly journals Migrants, people in need or resources? The case of an emancipating narrative

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ada Manfreda
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
African Migrants ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Imagination

The narratives draw fields of possibility of social and subjective action, they support the collective imagination. This paper presents some results of an empirical research still in progress on Casa Sankara, a self-organized community of African migrants, present in the Capitanata countryside. It intends in particular to illustrate its emblematic character for integration processes, its potential for transformation and social innovation, due to its being a ‘counter-narrative’ with respect to the social imaginary around terms such as ‘migrant’, ‘help’, ‘hospitality’.

Remembering and forgetting the arts of technical education

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-193
Author(s):  
John Pardy
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Technical Education ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Technical Schools ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
National Imaginary ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeTechnical education in the twentieth century played an important role in the cultural life of Australia in ways are that routinely overlooked or forgotten. As all education is central to the cultural life of any nation this article traces the relationship between technical education and the national social imaginary. Specifically, the article focuses on the connection between art and technical education and does so by considering changing cultural representations of Australia.Design/methodology/approachDrawing upon materials, that include school archives, an unpublished autobiography monograph, art catalogues and documentary film, the article details the lives and works of two artists, from different eras of twentieth century Australia. Utilising social memory as theorised by Connerton (1989, 2009, 2011), the article reflects on the lives of two Australian artists as examples of, and a way into appreciating, the enduring relationship between technical education and art.FindingsThe two artists, William Wallace Anderson and Carol Jerrems both products of, and teachers in, technical schools produced their own art that offered different insights into changes in Australia's national imaginary. By exploring their lives and work, the connections between technical education and art represent a social memory made material in the works of the artists and their representations of Australia's changing national imaginary.Originality/valueThis article features two artist teachers from technical schools as examples of the centrality of art to technical education. Through the teacher-artists lives and works the article highlights a shift in the Australian cultural imaginary at the same time as remembering the centrality of art to technical education. Through the twentieth century the relationship between art and technical education persisted, revealing the sensibilities of the times.

scholarly journals Probleme der Klassenanalyse

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (186) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Lessenich
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Class Analysis ◽  
Exclusionary Practices ◽  
Democratic Capitalism ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Objective Interest ◽  
The Times

In analyzing the signs of the times in advanced democratic capitalism, it is pressing for a Marxist left to take into account the motivational structures of the dominated classes. Marxists tend to attribute the current rise of nationalist and authoritarian thinking and the recurrent dominance of protectionist and exclusionary practices to internal struggles in the ruling classes, leading to a split-off of the most reactionary class fractions who in turn successfully address the populace with a racist and pseudo-social semantic and programmatic. But what if such a programmatic is not only a class strategy “from above” and not external to the “actual” social imaginary of the dominated classes? What if at least major parts of the dominated in the rich capitalist societies of Europe and North America may be said to have an (“objective”) interest in sticking to what is given and to opt against solidarity – because they know or at least suspect that, at the end of the day, they profit from the structures of inequality that over decades have been established in global capitalism? What if we admit that, today, the proletarians have more to lose than only their chains? To be sure, class analysis (and, as it were, class struggle) becomes a much harder business then.

The Eclipsing Binary WX Eridani

1979 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 385
Author(s):  
M.B.K. Sarma ◽  
K.D. Abhankar
Keyword(s):  
Light Curve ◽  
Spectral Type ◽  
Orbital Period ◽  
Primary Component ◽  
Light Curves ◽  
Absorption Feature ◽  
Primary Star ◽  
Eclipsing Binary ◽  
The Times ◽  
Phase Angles

AbstractThe Algol-type eclipsing binary WX Eridani was observed on 21 nights on the 48-inch telescope of the Japal-Rangapur Observatory during 1973-75 in B and V colours. An improved period of P = 0.82327038 days was obtained from the analysis of the times of five primary minima. An absorption feature between phase angles 50-80, 100-130, 230-260 and 280-310 was present in the light curves. The analysis of the light curves indicated the eclipses to be grazing with primary to be transit and secondary, an occultation. Elements derived from the solution of the light curve using Russel-Merrill method are given. From comparison of the fractional radii with Roche lobes, it is concluded that none of the components have filled their respective lobes but the primary star seems to be evolving. The spectral type of the primary component was estimated to be F3 and is found to be pulsating with two periods equal to one-fifth and one-sixth of the orbital period.

PERUBAHAN MINDSET MENGAJAR DALAM MENYIAPKAN PENDIDIK YANG PROFESIONAL DALAM PERSAINGAN DI ERA MEA

KEBERLANJUTAN ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 897
Author(s):  
ROMENAH ROMENAH
Keyword(s):  
Economic Community ◽  
National Education ◽  
Professional Educators ◽  
Free Competition ◽  
National Education System ◽  
Asean Countries ◽  
Asean Economic Community ◽  
The Times ◽  
Agent Of Change

AbstractThe National Education System has grown so rapidly over time. A variety of efforts have been made to build every prosperous, dignified Indonesian human being, so that the quality of Indonesian thinking is progressing. The ASEAN Economic Community which has been launched since 2015 has resulted in free competition, both in trade, employment, and there is free competition for educators in ASEAN countries. Besides that, Indonesian education is faced with challenges and developments in the times, where the culture between ASEAN countries has no limits, this is the challenge faced when implementing the Asean Economic Comunity (ASEAN Economic Community) MEA. Indonesia as a country in the ASEAN region must prepare domestic educators to have professionalism and character so that they can compete with the AEC. Educators must be aware of the essence of the existence of their profession, continue to struggle to make changes in order to realize professionalism with noble character. Efforts made in preparing professional educators to face the challenges of the AEC must touch the most fundamental aspects of changing their competencies, namely the mindset. A student must be more advanced and innovative in developing his learning so that he can change the mindset of students to do agent of change. Through this mindset educators will become professional and characterized so that they can compete and compete in the MEA era. Keywords: MEA, Changes in Mindset, Professional Educators

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