scholarly journals Social Inclusion and Local Practices of Belonging

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 84-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Garbutt
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Regional Community ◽  
Key Aspects

Social inclusion has been conceptualised as having two key aspects: distributional aspects relating to access to resources including employment, and relational aspects which concern the connections between people and the wider society. While both are important, the emphasis in Australian social inclusion policy has been on distributional aspects. This paper focuses on the relational aspects of social inclusion, and argues that it is critically important to include relational considerations in social inclusion policy. Central to the relational aspects of social inclusion is achieving a sense of belonging, particularly at the everyday, local level. Belonging in this everyday sense can be thought of as an ongoing project achieved through everyday practices, rather than solely in terms of membership of a group. While many such practices, for example regularly engaging in team sports, are accepted ways of establishing and maintaining belonging, for others in a community practices of belonging may necessitate disrupting or at least broadening the established norms of how one belongs. To ground this discussion of inclusion and belonging, this paper draws on practices of belonging in a regional community. Established norms of belonging are examined through the idea of ‘being a local’, a way of belonging that appears to be based on membership. The paper then turns to two local projects which disrupt the exclusive bounds of local membership and establish new and inclusive practices of belonging. To conclude, parallels are drawn between the boundaries which define ‘the social’ in social inclusion and ‘the local community’ in being a local, to argue for the importance of including relational aspects of social inclusion within social inclusion policy debates and program formulation.

scholarly journals Reflections on the L’Aquila trial and the social dimensions of disaster risk

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 434-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelo Jonas Imperiale ◽  
Frank Vanclay
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Earthquake Swarm ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Court Case ◽  
Civil Protection ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reflect on what can be learned about disaster risk reduction (DRR) from the L’Aquila trial of scientists. The court case was initiated because of a controversial meeting on 31 March 2009 of the Major Risks Committee (MRC), held under the auspices of the Italian Department of Civil Protection. The purpose of the meeting was to consider (prior to the fatal earthquake of 6 April 2009) disaster risk in the L’Aquila area, which was being affected by an earthquake swarm since October 2008. Design/methodology/approach The authors undertook a document analysis of trial materials, and a review of academic and media commentary about the trial. Findings The legal process revealed that disaster governance was inadequate and not informed by the DRR paradigm or international guidelines. Risk assessment was carried out only in a techno-scientific manner, with little acknowledgement of the social issues influencing risks at the local community level. There was no inclusion of local knowledge or engagement of local people in transformative DRR strategies. Originality/value Most previous commentary is inadequate in terms of not considering the institutional, scientific and social responsibilities for DRR as exposed by the trial. This paper is unique in that it considers the contents of the MRC meeting as well as all trial documents. It provides a comprehensive reflection on the implications of this case for DRR and the resilience of peoples and places at risk. It highlights that a switch from civil protection to community empowerment is needed to achieve sustainable outcomes at the local level.

scholarly journals School libraries, information gap and social inclusion in Papua New Guinea – Making it happen

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlene Filippi
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Local Community ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Information Gap ◽  
The Social ◽  
Teaching Learning

School libraries, just like the school community, do reflect the social environment in which they operate. This is the story of the emergence of one such library, within Papua New Guinea and its development through the assistance of AUSAID. It looks at an idea – Resource Based Learning - which has enabled the local community to take ownership of a resource centre which will now be able to provide a true teaching/learning environment for all of the community. It is more than a collection of books! It has the beginnings of a vibrant active resource for the whole community.

scholarly journals Education as a mechanism of social inclusion - The role of education in reducing the risks of social exclusion -

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dušanka Slijepčević
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Family System ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Community System ◽  
Social Welfare System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Inclusion Education

The author is addressing the social inclusion, as a prerequisite forthe optimal satisfaction of human needs (from biological to social),respectively the mechanisms by which individuals and social groupsare involved in the wider community, and that are giving them therights and the opportunities to achieve integration in one or moresocial systems (democratic - legal, labor - market, social welfare system,family system and the local community system). The dimensionof social inclusion (education, employment, health, etc.) to which theauthor’s analysis will be oriented is education, because the inclusionin the education system (either as a teacher or professor, either asa student) is to partake in the ‘sociopolitical context’. So it will bedrawn the attention to the link between the education with the economic(employment) and the socio-cultural (social inclusion) space,in order to emphasize the importance of including in the all threementioned areas, with aim of reducing the risk of social exclusionand its overcoming. Therefore, the inclusive education and lifelonglearning, as mechanisms of social inclusion and reducing the risks ofsocial exclusion, are the main assumptions that this work proceeds.

scholarly journals Hacia la Inclusión Social desde la IAP. Una experiencia en Andalucía

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia Corona Aguilar ◽  
Virginia Gutiérrez Barbarrusa
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
San Juan ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
The Social ◽  
Specific Project

La Investigación Participativa se nos presenta como una metodología adecuada para promover cambios a nivel local que pueden incidir en una forma de organización social más amplia e innovadora. Más allá de las bases teóricas, la Investigación Acción Participativa representa una metodología eminentemente práctica, pues la aplicación de diferentes técnicas y herramientas en lo cotidiano no solo es útil, sino, además, necesaria para la incidencia de la ciudadanía en la construcción de su espacio y de sus condiciones de vida. En este artículo presentamos el cambio de enfoque que la Investigación Participativa supone frente a otras metodologías de investigación social, destacando la forma de abordar el conocimiento de la realidad social (investigación), su carácter transformador (acción) y la relación sujeto-sujeto (participación) que plantea, entendiendo que no hay un modelo metodológico único, sino un conjunto de técnicas al servicio de la ciudadanía para lograr una mayor incidencia en las decisiones públicas, pero que comparten algunos principios básicos en los que la Investigación Participativa se asienta. Por otro lado, nos ceñimos a un proyecto concreto que se desarrolla en el municipio de San Juan de Aznalfarache, situado a la entrada de Sevilla desde la carretera de Huelva. Por su situación geográfica, esta localidad ha sido un polo de atracción para muchas personas que provienen de países muy diferentes, entre los que se cuentan más de 79 nacionalidades, destacando el carácter diverso e intercultural del municipio. En este sentido se hace fundamental aplicar políticas de integración que sean construidas de forma participada y lograr el mayor grado de consenso posible para definir las condiciones del lugar en el que queremos vivir. Partiendo de las bases epistemológicas y metodológicas de esta propuesta se presenta esta experiencia de participación ciudadana a través del proceso participativo que se está desarrollando en San Juan de Aznalfarache para la elaboración del Plan de Inclusión Social del municipio, a través del GLISA (Grupo Local de Inclusión Social de San Juan de Aznalfarache). Destacamos en este sentido el carácter eminentemente práctico de esta metodología. Participatory research is an adequate methodology to promote changes at a local level that can affect a more extensive and innovative form of social organization. Beyond the theoretical bases, Participatory Action Research represents an eminently practical methodology, since the application of different techniques and tools in the daily life is not only useful, but also is necessary for the incidence of citizenship in the construction of their space and of their living conditions. In this article, we present the change of approach that Participatory Research assumes compared to other social research methodologies, highlighting the way of approaching knowledge of social reality (research), its transforming character (action) and the subject-subject relationship (participation ) that it raises, understanding that there is not a single methodological model, but a set of techniques at the service of citizens to achieve a greater incidence in public decisions, but that share some basic principles on which Participatory Research is based. On the other hand, we stick to a specific project that takes place in the municipality of San Juan de Aznalfarache, located at the entrance to Seville from the Huelva road. Due to its geographical location, this town has been a magnet for many people from very different countries, among which there are more than 79 nationalities, highlighting the diverse and intercultural nature of the municipality. In this sense, it is essential to apply integration policies that are built in a participatory manner and achieve the highest degree of consensus possible to define the conditions of the place where we want.Starting from the epistemological and methodological bases of this proposal, an experience of citizen participation is presented through a concrete practice that is being developed in San Juan de Aznalfarache (Seville) for the elaboration of the Social Inclusion Plan of the municipality.We emphasize in this sense the eminently practical nature of this methodology.

Trust, clientelism and state intervention in disaster relief policy: The case of Southern Italy

Human Affairs ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Caruso
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Disaster Relief ◽  
Local Level ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Economic Equilibrium ◽  
The South ◽  
Financial Investment ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe aim of this article is to describe the consequences of state intervention at the local level after a destructive earthquake hit the south of Italy in 1980. The kind of intervention adopted, the amount of financial investment and the way in which it was distributed affected the social and economic equilibrium of the local community in terms of perceptions of trust, patronage and effects on development.

scholarly journals Visualizing the Impacts of Movement Infrastructures on Social Inclusion: Graph-Based Methods for Observing Community Formations in Contrasting Geographic Contexts

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 132-146
Author(s):  
Jamie O'Brien ◽  
Laura García Vélez ◽  
Martin Zaltz Austwick
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Data Mapping ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Urban Network ◽  
Community Assets ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Community Spaces

In this article we describe some innovative methods for observing the possible impacts of roads, junctions and pathways (movement infrastructures), on community life in terms of their affordances and hindrances for social connectivity. In seeking to observe these impacts, we combined a range of visualization research methods, based on qualitative points-data mapping, graphic representation and urban morphological analysis at local and global geographic scales. Our overall aim in this study was to develop exploratory methods for combining and visualizing various kinds of data that relate to urban community formations in contrasting urban contexts. We focused our enquiry on the perspectives of adolescents in two urban contexts: Liverpool, UK, and Medellín, Colombia. While they contrast in their geo-political and cultural characteristics, these two cities each present polarized socio-economic inequalities across distinctive spatial patterns. We found that adolescents in these cities offer generally localized, pedestrian perspectives of their local areas, and unique insights into the opportunities and challenges for place-making in their local community spaces. We gathered the communities’ local perspectives through map-making workshops, in which participants used given iconographic symbols to select and weight the social and structural assets that they deemed to be significant features of their community spaces. We then sampled and visualized these selective points data to observe ways in which local community assets relate to infrastructural affordances for movement (in terms of network integration). This analysis was based on the theory and method of Space Syntax, which provides a model of affordances for movement across the urban network over various scales of network configuration. In particular, we sought to determine how city-scale movement infrastructures interact with local-scale infrastructures, and to develop methods for observing ways in which these interactions have positive or negative consequences for community formations.

THE SOCIAL ECONOMY SECTOR AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR THE INCLUSION OF MARGINALIZED AND SOCIALLY EXCLUDED – A LOCAL PERSPECTIVE

2021 ◽  
Vol 564 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Zdzisława Janowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Socially Excluded ◽  
Favorable Conditions

The aim of this study is to emphasize the importance of the social economy sector for local development. The social economy sector is bringing together various entities and is activating socially and professionally marginalized and excluded groups. Its proper functioning is an example of social inclusion, which is the slogan of the Europe 2020 Strategy. The guarantee of success is the local government applying a strategy for active social policy. The government should be the initiator and ally of changes aimed at strengthening social inclusion at the local level. Therefore, it should create favorable conditions for the emergence and functioning of social economy entities. It can act as their founder, but also as the ordering party of services (socially responsible procurement). In this way, the government becomes an advocate of the interests of socially excluded groups. Finally, it can be the initiator of establishing cooperation with business. Unfortunately, the research conducted in Poland on this issue, as well as my own experience managing a social cooperative, highlight serious discrepancies between the ideal state and reality. The spending of European funds for many years for the purpose of social inclusion are disproportionate to the achieved results. This study will present the barriers which inhibit the development of the social economy at the local level as well as at the national level and will indicate ways to overcome them.

scholarly journals Social Farming: Heterogeneity in Social and Agricultural Relationships

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 4824
Author(s):  
Angela Genova ◽  
Martina Maccaroni ◽  
Elena Viganò
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Local Case ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Farming

Social farming (SF) has emerged as a social innovation practice shaping heterogeneous approaches and results. This study discusses the complexity of SF policy and practices, and it is led by the main hypothesis that the relationship between agricultural and social dimensions might be very heterogeneous, not only in different national contexts but also within the same national and local level. SF policy and practices are investigated testing the hypothesis of three main different modalities of interaction according to how the social and the agricultural perspectives interact. In the first, social target is not involved in the production system of the farm and the farm is the context where actions and measures of a social nature take place. In the second type of interaction, the farm employs the beneficiaries in some of its production activities collaborating with the social services. The third is where the farm organizes its activities to actively employ targeted people to enhance their social inclusion and integration in the community. Italian SF policy and practices are analyzed as case study, through the lens of sociological critical discourse analysis regarding the regional regulatory documents, and interviews for local case studies. The results of the study show that SF policy and practices might be very heterogeneous also within the same national and local level, outlining different hybridization of social and agriculture actions that can be properly analyzed through the three SF model proposal. This study contributes to the broader debate on the various dimensions of sustainability, suggesting the need for further research on the efficiency of SF as local development model sustainable in economic, social and environmental terms.

scholarly journals Social Inclusion Indicators for Building Citizen-Centric Smart Cities: A Systematic Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 376
Author(s):  
Jalaluddin Abdul Malek ◽  
Seng Boon Lim ◽  
Tan Yigitcanlar
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
Governance Practices

Despite the rhetoric of “citizen-first,” which has been tokenized in recent years by the smart city administrations, what it means has long been unclear to many, including the public at large. Put simply, this rhetoric concerns the mindset of the members of a local community and places them at the heart of the smart city initiatives. In order to bring further clarity to this issue under the current neoliberal urbanism, this study aimed to identify the key indicators of citizen-centric smart cities from the perspective of participative governance practices and citizens’ responsibilities. To achieve this aim, this study involved a systematic literature review of the social inclusion indicators for building citizen-centric smart cities. The social inclusion indicators that were formed were verified by practitioners to suit the local contexts of an emerging and developing country, in this case, Malaysia. The findings of the review revealed that: (a) the acceptance of social inclusion indicators was mainly limited to the realm of democratic developed countries, leaders’ understanding of citizenship, the delegation of decision-making power in governance practices, the participative culture of societies, and individual citizens’ self-discipline; (b) the social inclusion indicators may not be welcomed in emerging and developing countries; (c) in the long term, these indicators would shed light on the rise of self-organizing cities that will gain popularity in potential city developments, be it in developed or developing countries.

A conceptual approach to the relationships between the social economy, social welfare, and social innovation

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changhwan Shin
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Welfare Provision ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Welfare State

Purpose With the aim of finding a balance between social and economic benefits, the social economy has reemerged in the crisis of the welfare state. The Fordist welfare state can be characterized by state-provided welfare, the mediation of paid work and welfare by the labor market and redistributive policies. Globally, neoliberalism and the market have given rise to social exclusion; in this context, the social economy is emerging as an alternative to the market domination of societies. This paper aims to construct a conceptual framework of welfare provision in an open innovation era. Design/methodology/approach The welfare state system between the Fordist welfare state and post-Fordist welfare state is different on provision and delivery of welfare service. To construct the conceptual relation among the social economy, the state and the market and welfare provision in the social economy, this study mainly used the literature review. Findings Attention should be paid to civil society at the local level to ignite social economy through open social innovation. Various social actors in the local community need to change and develop the social economy with collaborative entrepreneurship and collaborative economic mindsets. Research limitation/implications This paper presents the welfare service model led by social economy and open innovation, as well as social change. To fill the shortage of welfare provision caused by crisis of the welfare state, social economy is considered as an alternative for neo-liberalism. This study emphasizes that endogenous local development is a prerequisite for social economy as a welfare supplier. Practical implications In the social economy, reciprocity, democracy, self-help and social capital at the local level are emphasized. Also, open innovation put emphasis on collaboration economy among the local community, firms and the public sector: this emphasis can be expected to affect the welfare provision system and the social relations surrounding welfare. To address social problem and social needs, the social economy can adapt and apply the open innovation model. Originality/value The previous researches on open innovation mainly deal with the business sector and the public sector, but this paper has a focus on the relation between provision of social welfare and social innovation. The social economy is likely to function properly on the foundation of open social innovation.

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