scholarly journals PENGEFORMER BLANDT FATTIGE FORBRUGERE I DANMARK

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pernille Hohnen
Keyword(s):  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Electronic Money ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Paper Money ◽  
Economic Framework ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Moral Discourses ◽  
Material Form

The first half of the article presents critical analyses of the existing “consensus” within consumption studies, namely that consumption is primarily about symbolism, freedom of choice and lifestyle, by introducing dissenting voices (Carrier & Heyman; Löfgren; and Lodziak) arguing for a revival of a more political-economic framework. The author proceeds to argue that by using a broader framework of both qualitative and quantitative money (Zelizer), it is possible to focus on the interplay between material and immaterial dimensions at work in contemporary processes of social differentiation. The second half of the article consists of an empirical analysis of consumption patterns and forms of money in poor Danish families. This reveals a widespread tendency among the poor families to earmark the limited amount of money available with the result that they have no “free money” at all. The earmarking is a way to control money according to different principles, e.g. use value, temporality, beneficiaries of pursuits (children/ parents), material form (electronic money versus paper money) and moral discourses. The tendency to conceptualise money in terms of qualitatively different currencies, however, also places poor citizens in a position outside mainstream consumption regimes, in contrast to existing discourses on consumption in contemporary Danish society.  

The depoliticization of health and safety committees and representation: The Ontario case

2021 ◽  
pp. 030981682110615
Author(s):  
Alan Hall
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Theory Analysis ◽  
Economic Framework ◽  
Canadian Data ◽  
Joint Health ◽  
Safety Committees ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Responsibility System

Studies in several national jurisdictions have highlighted the limitations of joint health and safety committees and worker representatives in affecting change in working conditions. Using Canadian data, this article focuses on the argument that many health and safety committees and worker representatives have been captured or substantially controlled through the State’s promotion of an internal responsibility system framed around a technocratic partnership. The historical development of this framing is first understood within a political economic framework which highlights several major influences, followed by a field theory analysis which explains how these control relations are established by management within workplace settings.

scholarly journals Center Rondon project and university extension: sharing and knowledge production

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-396
Author(s):  
Vaneza Cauduro Peranzoni ◽  
Alieze Nascimento da Silva ◽  
Carine Nascimento da Silva ◽  
Luana Possamai Menezes
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Extension Activity ◽  
The University ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The City

This work explores the experience of team participation the University of Cruz Alta Cruz Alta Rio Grande do Sul, Rondon Project. With goal to integrate the student to reality Brazil, and develop political, economic, and health care activities education for the poor, in January 2012, teachers and students visited the city of Aguiarnópolis, state of Tocantins in Brazil. The project is the intellectual effort of research and understanding of the process history, involving the saga of Brazilian Cândido Mariano Rondon and his legacy to the formation of anthropologists. This study proposes a reflection on Rondon Project while the university democratization of space public, considering it essential to approach institution with society. The Rondon Project is an extension activity that aims to consolidate the sense of social responsibility in university, knowledge on different Brazilian realities and production local collective projects.  It is intended, finally, contribute through this study to highlight the importance of alliance between scientific knowledge and empirical in everyone's life citizens, and the contribution of the Rondon Project to provide this exchange of knowledge between students and underserved communities.

scholarly journals Wealth of nomads – an exploratory analysis of livestock inequality in the Saami reindeer husbandry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marius Warg Næss ◽  
Bård-Jørgen Bårdsen
Keyword(s):  
Primary Source ◽  
Wealth Inequality ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Reindeer Herding ◽  
Reindeer Husbandry ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Wealth Inequalities ◽  
Rank Differences ◽  
Over Time

Social inequality is pervasive in contemporary human societies. Nevertheless, there is a view that livestock, as the primary source of wealth, limits the development of inequalities, making pastoralism unable to support complex or hierarchical organisations. Thus, complex nomadic pastoral organisation is predominantly caused by external factors, i.e., historically nomadic political organisation mirrored the neighbouring sedentary population's sophistication. Using governmental statistics on reindeer herding in Norway (2001 - 2018), this study demonstrates nothing apparent in the pastoral adaptation with livestock as the main base of wealth that level wealth inequalities and limits social differentiation. This study found that inequality was generally decreasing in terms of the Gini coefficient and cumulative wealth. For example, the proportion owned by the wealthy decreased from 2001 to 2018, while the proportion owned by the poor increased. Nevertheless, rank differences persist over time with minor changes. Especially, being poor is stable: around 50% of households ranked as poor in 2001 continued to be so in 2018. In sum, results from this study indicate that pastoral wealth inequality follows the same patterns as all forms of wealth. Wealth accumulates over time, and because the highest earners can save much of their income (i.e., newborn livestock), low earners cannot. High earners can thus accumulate more and more wealth over time, leading to considerable wealth inequalities.

The Politics of the Knowledge Economy and the Rise of Populism

2019 ◽  
pp. 216-255
Author(s):  
Torben Iversen ◽  
David Soskice
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Government Support ◽  
The Political ◽  
Order Effects ◽  
First Order ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Political Economic

This chapter considers the “second-order” effects of the transition to the knowledge economy. This means the set of preferences, beliefs, and party allegiances that are crystallizing as a consequence of the political-economic realities brought about by the knowledge economy. Chapter 3 considered “first-order” effects—immediate policy responses reflecting existing political coalitions—and showed that these responses were relatively limited and in most countries, failed to offer much compensation for those who lost out in the collapse of the Fordist economy. This chapter argues that this failure has created the political conditions for the rise of populism. Populism refers to a set of preferences and beliefs that rejects established parties and elites, that sees established politicians as gaming the system to their own advantage, and that at the same time sees the poor as undeserving of government support.

Rationalizing Sport Spectatorship

2018 ◽  
pp. 350-385
Author(s):  
Shankar Selvam
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Poor

This chapter aligns itself with spectatorship theories to identify possible causes for the poor spectatorship numbers observed at S-League matches. Taking into account club affiliations among spectators and how such relationships affect the fortunes of a club's following, relevant theories are discussed in the context of the sports situation in Singapore. Qualitative and quantitative components pertaining to S-League spectatorship are analysed, which serve as the basis for the recommendations presented on improving attendance at local football matches.

Southern Enclosure as American Literature

Black Market ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 138-183
Author(s):  
Aaron Carico
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
New Deal ◽  
New Criticism ◽  
Poor Whites ◽  
Paper Money ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Land Grabs ◽  
Racial History

Set against the backdrop of Southern land grabs in the 1830s and again in the 1930s that were meant to sustain the cotton economy, this chapter studies the literary representation of the poor whites who were side-lined by the slave plantation’s expansion and modernization, and who were then remade into a national folk by literary elites. Facilitated by these Southern enclosures, the ambivalent canonization of poor whites as the nation’s folk would have a decisive and determining influence on the constitution—and the racial covenant—of American literature, and not only on its Americaness but also on its literariness. Slavery was the condition of possibility for this literature, but its role, along with that of the enslaved, was silenced. From frontier humor to the New Criticism, this chapter reveals a submerged racial history beneath the canonization of U.S. national literature, which was undertaken in the early twentieth century in U.S. literary criticism, explainingthe roleof New Deal photography, of paper money and paperwork, and modernism in literary style in the constitution of American literature as both discipline and object.

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