scholarly journals Shared Spaces or Shelters for Precarious Workers? Coworking Spaces in Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Pacchi ◽  
Ilaria Mariotti

This paper critically discusses the relationship between new workspaces, such as Coworking Spaces (CSs), professionals using such spaces, and the related work patterns, looking at the Italian context in particular. There appears to be a mismatch between the educational level of such workers, their expertise and expected professional status on the one hand, and their reality in terms of employment precariousness and low income, on the other. It appears that CSs and, more in general, new shared workspaces act more as shelters from a difficult and exclusionary job market than as mainly ‘serendipity accelerators’. The hypothesis of this article is that, through a careful interpretation of the emerging dimensions and spatial effects of CSs, it is possible to more clearly identify some dynamics of inclusion and exclusion on the one hand, and of sharing and competition on the other, that characterize the job path of new knowledge-based occupational groups.


Author(s):  
Polina Shvanyukova ◽  

Texts authored by maritime explorers occupy a special place in the body of travel literature in English dealing with the exploration of the Pacific in the modern period. This article focuses on a specimen of scientific travel writing in epistolary form authored by Commander Matthew Flinders, the officer under whose command HMS Investigator completed the first circumnavigation of Australia in 1803. I analyse Matthew Flinders’s official despatch to Evan Nepean, Secretary of the Admiralty at the time, as an example of early nineteenth-century epistolary travel writing, paying special attention to the textual strategies employed by Flinders in order to produce a coherent and accurate travel account, on the one hand, and to negotiate his professional status and persona with his interlocutor(s), on the other.



2021 ◽  
pp. 94-115
Author(s):  
Назеник Саргсян

На сегодняшний день мало известен и по достоинству не оценен пер-вый период деятельности Србуи Лисициан. В 10-е гг., в бытность ее студенткой московских высших женских курсов им. Герье, Юрий Веселовский, обратился к ней, по поручению Александра Спендиарова с просьбой написать либретто для оперы «Старые боги» по одноименной драме Левона Шанта. Лисициан подготовила либретто, однако вскоре Спендиаров отказался от этого сюжета. В 1917 году Лисициан основала в Тифлисе «Студию декламации, ритма и пластики», которая в 1923 г. была переименована в «Институт Ритма и Пластики», где разрабатывалось, преподавалось и сценически воплощалось одно из направлений ритмопластического танца. Институт был первым хореографическим учебным заведением в армянской действительности, имеющим профессиональный статус, целенаправленно подобранный цикл предметов и четко сформулированную систему и метод преподавания. Это первое учебное заведение, подготовившее кадры исполнителей, постановщиков, преподавателей, которые на протяжении определенного времени (конец 10-х и 20-ые годы) фактически нивелировали отсутствие профессиональных специалистов в области классического танца. В процессе деятельности института постепенно формировался своеобразный хореографический язык, охватывающий, с одной стороны, элементы различных ритмопластических систем, с другой – элементы местных восточных танцев, что привело к созданию своего рода ритмопластического ориентализма. Деятельность Института Ритма и Пластики явилась предтечей формирования хореографического училища в Ереване. To date, the first period of Srbuhi Lisitsian’s activity has not been sufficiently studied and assessed at its true worth. In the 1910s, when she was a student at the Moscow Guerrier Higher Women’s Courses, Yuri Veselovsky, on behalf of Alexander Spendiarov, turned to her with a request to write a libretto for the opera “Ancient Gods”, based on Levon Shant’s drama of the same name. Lisitsian prepared the libretto, but before long, Spendiarov gave up this plot. In 1917, Lisitsian founded the “Studio of Recitation, Rhythm and Plastique” in Tiflis, which in 1923 was renamed the “Institute of Rhythm and Plastique”. Here, a new direction in the rhythm-and-plastique dance was developed, taught and staged. The Institute was the first choreographic educational institution in the Armenian reality with a professional status, purposefully selected set of subjects and a clearly formulated system and method of teaching. It was the first educational institution to train performers, stage directors, teachers, who, within the period between the late 1910s – 1920s, eliminated the lack of professional specialists in the field of classical dance. While working for the Institute, they developed a distinctive choreographic language, which embraced the elements of various rhythm-and-plastique systems, on the one hand, and those of local oriental dances, on the other. This led to the emergence of a kind of rhythm-and-plastique orientalism. The “Institute of Rhythm and Plastique” was the forerunner of the Choreography School in Yerevan.



2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyda Emekci

AbstractThe housing affordability problem in Turkey is not new. With the pandemic increasing pressure on the economy, the issue of housing affordability problem has reached an alarming level. The problem has been deepened not only as a result of the pandemic but also due to the incomplete and wrong policies from the past. This paper on the one hand aims to examine how the pandemic has exacerbated the problem; on the other hand, it purposes to reveal that the problem has been handled incorrectly and how weaknesses in the policy strategies contribute to this problem through a case study of the low-income group. The article also focuses on how architects can contribute to solving this problem.



Author(s):  
O. V. A. Ban ◽  
B. N. Djyh ◽  
C. Bahi ◽  
G. Siransy Kouakou ◽  
Coulibaly Adama

Aims: The purpose of this study is to identify the medicinal plants used in the bistros and to determine the preference between the consumption of Koutoukou alone or the Koutoukou mixture associated with medicinal plants in the city of Abidjan. Place and Duration: Pharmacodynamic Biochemical Laboratory, Faculty of Biosciences, University Félix Houphouët-Boigny, between December 2017 and June 2018. Methodology: The investigation took place in the neighborhoods of Abobo, Cocody, Koumassi and Yopougon. This is an open-ended questionnaire intended for consumers of Koutoukou alone and  association of medicinal Plants-Koutoukou. The identity, the region, the marital and professional status of the consumers on the one hand, the ethnobotany of the medicinal plants used and their associations with Koutoukou on the other hand were considered. Results: This study identified 12 species of medicinal plants commonly used in bistros. 70% of the surveyed population prefer and consume more cocktails at the expense of simple koutoukou. The Garcinia kola-Koutoukou combination is the most significantly consumed cocktail (Number of treated illnesses greater than 10). Conclusion: This descriptive study resulted in the identification of 12 medicinal plants commonly used in the bistros of 4 Commune of the city of Abidjan and consumed in association with Koutoukou. The populations of these municipalities (70%) greatly appreciate. The Most consumed is the association of Garcinia kola-Koutoukou  for his righ rate of healing.



1970 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 429-446
Author(s):  
Michal Chabada

Theologians of the 14th C. agreed that theology is scientific knowledge based upon the truths of revelation. But the very introduction of Aristotle's and aristotelian philosophy into theology turned out to be problematic. Above all, it was questionable to integrate theology—as a science based on revelation—within the aristotelian framework of sciences. This problem is difficult for Scotus in two ways. On the one hand, he uses the concepts elaborated in greek philosophy, but, on the other hand, his franciscan spirituality compels him towards the opposite solution. Scotus only has the Aristotle's division of theoretical and practical sciences at his disposal to determine the character of theology, and he chooses to classify theology as practical science. Scotus is pouring “new wine” of Christian revelation into “old wineskins” of greek philosophy, the fact causing noticeable problems when interpreting many Scotus' ideas and views.



1999 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
KAY STANDING

At the same time as the number of lone mother families has been increasing, education policy has demanded more involvement in children's schooling from ‘parents’ (i.e., mothers). Social policy in this area is inherently contradictory, encouraging lone mothers into paid employment on the one hand, whilst imploring mothers to ‘help’ in (and out of) the classroom on the other. Whilst lone mothers become scapegoats for all societal ills, parental involvement schemes are seen to solve society's ‘problems’. Drawing on data from a research project, this article begins to examine the contradictions within and between these policies for low income lone mothers.



2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-125
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Lasocik ◽  

Prostitution has not received the academic interest it deserves in Poland. On the one hand the issue of eroticism and human sexuality is a relatively strong cultural taboo, on the other research on prostitution raises numerous methodological diffi culties. The purpose of this article is to explore two issues. The fi rst is go back to unsatisfactory attempts to defi ne the commercial sex. The second is to look at legal regulations regarding this issue in Poland and several European countries. At the level of sociological reflection, prostitution can be defi ned by referring to the elements of a specifi c interaction between two people, one of whom offers paid sex and the other of whom is interested in using such a service. Prostitution is defi ned completely differently in law and in several European countries, for example in Great Britain and Austria there are interesting legal provisions. But I propose my own definition of prostitution or sex work in which the eight elements are combined. As far as legal regulations of prostitution are concern four categories of countries can be mentioned in Europe. From these in which the provision and purchase of sexual services is prohibited, to those where prostitution is legal and the professional status of the person engaging in it is regulated. There is also variety of perceptions of prostitution as a social phenomenon and different typologies of policies implemented by individual countries. But it appears that further studies on sex business and prostitution as a social phenomenon are needed.



2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-55
Author(s):  
Graziella Sicoli ◽  
Paolo Tenuta

The present work aims to analyse the concept of going concern on the one hand, through a case study of three companies which have recently come under observation of the CONSOB and have been inserted in the so-called “black list” and, on the other, the consequences that the removal of the presumption of continuity can have on the kind of assessment the auditors make. The aim of the present work is twofold: the first part analyses the principle of going concern from a business and economic perspective. Once this has been completed, the work will go on to offer an overview of the dynamics that can bring a company to a crisis point, and how these affect the judgments expressed by the auditors.



2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Olga Ferraro ◽  
Franco Ernesto Rubino

The valuation of a (non-totalitarian) shareholding in capital stock is characterized by some critical conditions, which are mainly related to the fact that the transfer or acquisition of the same can determine the transfer of control from one subject to another. It follows that the value of the investment can not simply be equal to the proportional value of the share capital, but should include premiums or discounts. Discounts and premiums do not just affect the value of a company; they play a crucial role in influencing a host of other factors and conditions that can make or break a deal. When it comes to business valuations, it is the business appraiser’s responsibility to be intimately knowledgeable with every aspect of discounts and premiums: the different types, the situations when they may or may not apply, and how to quantify them. The paper has a twofold approach: on the one hand, it analyzes the main reference literature on the definition and characteristics of premiums and discounts and the recognition and quantification of the same; on the other, subsequently, it examines the behavior adopted by the Italian professional practice in recognition and appreciation of prizes and discounts.



2019 ◽  

The term ‘education’ refers to the examination of subjects that are relevant to education by an individual and their environment, to the establishment of relationships and limits that occurs during that examination process and, in this respect in particular, to the question of ‘educational fluid’ on the one hand and fluidity as a characteristic of educational processes and fields on the other. If education is thought to be ‘fluid’, it cannot be used as solid ‘capital’ in a steady process of (power accumulation and) growth, as anything fluid can neither be cumulated nor added up. Does this fluidity thesis for education possibly offer us the chance of a departure from the logic of capitalisation, utilisation and growth of and through education? How can a knowledge-based society which views itself as ‘fluid’ be conceived? With contributions by Florian Dobmeier, Sebastian Engelmann, André Epp, Dominik Farrenberg, Nina Grünberger, Raffael Hiden, Juliane Noack Napoles, Manfred Oberlechner, Guido Pollak, Anke Redecker, Thomas Rucker, Robert Schneider-Reisinger, Andreas Spengler, Gabriele Sorgo, Birke Sturm



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