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    Weaving Open Dialogue Using Canada’s Open Science Roadmap Framework

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    Open science (OS) as a movement has transformative potential in making the process of scientific research transparent and collaborative as well as the outputs freely accessible to all in society. However, these opportunities and challenges are subject to biases and entrenched in power disparities. In addition, the very broad nature of open science also invokes challenges in having meaningful discussions. In 2020, the Government of Canada unveiled a national framework, Roadmap to Open Science, which provided overarching principles and recommendations to allow federal science to be open to all. The University of Toronto (U of T) used this national open science framework to guide an international group of researchers and librarians to discuss open science in practical terms and engage the audience in being part of the dialogue. The five high-level principles of People, Transparency, Inclusiveness, Collaboration, and Sustainability were used as the structure in order to guide discussions into the current state of open science practices on-the-ground in academia. The University of Toronto Library (UTL) partnered with the Centre for Research & Innovation Support (CRIS) to host engaging conversations in a series of five virtual panels, Open Science: Following the Roadmap for Research, held in November 2021. The panelists consisted of librarians, faculty, and researchers from local, national as well as international institutions and organizations. Two core considerations on developing the make-up of the panels were to ensure diversity amongst panelists and have librarians included in every panel. The conversations were thought-provoking and touched-on aspects such as who is included and excluded in the various stages in research, implications of funding and control, infrastructure, power dynamics, and preservation of information. This paper will discuss the open science panel series and common themes which emerged from the conversations

    Co-production as a strategy for enhanced equal representation in public service delivery:The case of Rotterdam

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    Co-production, in its various forms, may add to urban vitality by giving shape to relationships between governmental institutions and local communities, providing spaces for citizens and active groups of residents to co-produce public services. Although various authors have argued that co-production may empower citizens and lead to enhanced equality in public service delivery (Jo &amp; Nabatchi, 2018; Meijer, 2016; Needham, 2008), empirical evidence to support such claims remains relatively slim. This article aims to evaluate to what extent co-production enables local government to include a representative part of the population, and if this leads to enhanced inclusiveness. We build on both quantitative and qualitative data of citizens participating in co-production instruments implemented by the Municipality of Rotterdam. Whether or not co-production by default leads to urban vitality should be questioned, as the inclusiveness of various groups of citizens participating within co-production instruments is limited. Our findings show that citizens with a higher socioeconomic status (SES), especially in terms of education, take up a much larger part of the participants in the different instrument than citizens with a lower SES. Our qualitative data analysis goes deeper into social and cultural capital, institutional knowledge, skills and personal resources as explanatory conditions for who is included in participation. More research is needed on non-participants, and their reasons for not participating in co-production.</p

    Ethnographies of social enterprise

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    Purpose – As a critical and intimate form of inquiry, ethnography remains close to lived realities and equips scholars with a unique methodological angle on social phenomena. This paper aims to explore the potential gains from an increased use of ethnography in social enterprise studies. Design/methodology/approach – The authors develop the argument through a set of dualistic themes, namely, the socio-economic dichotomy and the discourse/practice divide as predominant critical lenses through which social enterprise is currently examined, and suggest shifts from visible leaders to invisible collectives and from case study-based monologues to dialogic ethnography. Findings – Ethnography sheds new light on at least four neglected aspects. Studying social enterprises ethnographically complicates simple reductions to socio-economic tensions, by enriching the set of differences through which practitioners make sense of their work-world. Ethnography provides a tool for unravelling how practitioners engage with discourse(s) of power, thus marking the concrete results of intervention (to some degree at least) as unplannable, and yet effective. Ethnographic examples signal the merits of moving beyond leaders towards more collective representations and in-depth accounts of (self-)development. Reflexive ethnographies demonstrate the heuristic value of accepting the self as an inevitable part of research and exemplify insights won through a thoroughly bodily and emotional commitment to sharing the life world of others. Originality/value – The present volume collects original ethnographic research of social enterprises. The editorial develops the first consistent account of the merits of studying social enterprises ethnographically

    A new cycle in Euro-Latin American cooperation : shared values and interests

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    Números monográficos con título distintivo catalogados individualmente.‎Bajo la denominación "Documentos de trabajo" se publican resultados de los proyectos de investigación realizados y promovidos por el CEALCI. Además pueden ser incluidos en esta serie aquellos trabajos que, previa aceptación por el Consejo Editorial, reunan los requisitos de calidad establecidos y coincidan con los objetivos de la Fundación Carolina y su Centro de Estudios.‎Con la colaboración de la Fundación ICOBibliografía: p. 23-25Resumen: La pandemia global ha provocado la mayor contracción en 200 años en América Latina y el Caribe, región que en los últimos años ya presentaba un crecimiento económico reducido y tensiones sociales al alza, debido a las brechas estructurales históricas en materia de desigualdades, diferencias en el acceso a servicios y derechos, limitado espacio fiscal y una reducida capacidad de redistribución, informalidad laboral y una productividad limitada

    Commodity-Centric Landscape Governance as a Double-Edged Sword: The Case of Soy and the Cerrado Working Group in Brazil

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    Persistent ecological and socio-economic impacts from the expansion of industrial monocultures in the tropics have raised land use sustainability to the top of the environmental policy agenda. As major crops such as soy continue to experience growing market demand and threaten both natural ecosystems and traditional populations, a number of multi-stakeholder governance initiatives have been established around agricultural commodity chains or key landscapes. Effectiveness in curbing unsustainable land use, however, remains limited. In this context, innovative initiatives have blurred the lines to combine both supply chain and landscape governance. We analyze such arrangements-here conceptualized as commodity-centric landscape governance (CCLG)-with an in-depth case study of the Cerrado Working Group, a multi-stakeholder initiative led by civil society and the soy agribusiness to address land use change in that savanna landscape in Brazil. The paper examines how that initiative has come about, its agenda, as well as usually underexposed political dimensions using agenda-setting theory. The research is based on extensive fieldwork in Brazil, with data collected through document analysis and 56 key-informant interviews. The findings suggest that a sustainable development agenda for the Cerrado has been substantially narrowed to become mostly one of conversion-free soy supply, serving more the interests of that agroindustry and its consumers than those of the landscape\u27s most vulnerable stakeholders, such as local communities. While the Cerrado Working Group has importantly broadened the policy scope beyond commodity certification, its limited inclusiveness and a skewed agenda have led to instruments that target only soy farmers as beneficiaries. We conclude that, although effective for targeting conversion drivers, CCLG can crystallize and reinforce existing land use patterns by granting disproportionate power to dominant stakeholders, thus limiting the agenda to incremental changes. As a consequence, distant demand-side actors may exert greater governance authority than the landscape\u27s own population. If embodying norms of inclusiveness and equitable participation, CCLG may serve as an entry point, but it does not per se replace inclusive land-use planning and integrated landscape governance

    Towards the co-production of urban space for increased inclusiveness

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    Increasingly, civil society is demanding greater participation and involvement in urban development. For this reason, planning processes have become more openly structured in recent years, offering a wider range of opportunities for participation. In order to enable such participation not only in planning but also in producing the city itself, structures for the co-production of urban space have now established themselves. The co-productive city is being made reality by civil society and local actors, whose goal is to create a long-term and sustainable value creation chain. As a counter-model to the neoliberal city, co-productive urban development requires alternative financial and organizational structures. Here our primary focus is the community-based and inclusive production of space that also redefines the role of the planner

    Inclusive theatre-making on the stage: The case of Rebekka Kricheldorf ’s Homo Empathicus (2014)

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    The play Homo Empathicus (2014) describes a hyperempathic community by bringing the ethic of political correctness to its extreme. This utopian society is dominated by language taboos: words such as ugly, suffering, and deficiency are banned. In this brave new world, where all conflicts are avoided, disability plays a major role. In fact, one of the protagonists is the deaf-mute Sam, who refuses the linguistic rules of his community. He complains about those who have befouled the park that he, as a gardener, is required to keep clean. He even avoids going to language therapy to cure his aversion to Jerusalem artichokes. In this play, disability, far from serving as a metaphor of virtue or lending itself to an ideological reading, represents Sam’s path toward freedom. Our paper aims to provide a case study of inclusive theatre-making by analysing the production of Homo Empathicus by the company Teatro a Rotelle (Wheeled Theatre) at the University of Verona. This company is composed of non-professional actors, mostly students both disabled and non-disabled. Accessibility plays a crucial role in staging as Sam uses sign language, which has to go through an intersemiotic translation for both the actors and the audience. For example, the visual stimuli have to be transformed into acoustic signals for our blind actors. Another issue concerning accessibility are the dances described in the text, as some of the actors are wheelchair users. One of the dramaturgical challenges of this production is that the text of Homo Empathicus is focused on the diversity of Sam solely, while on the stage our actors manifest different disabilities. Building up on this case study, our paper aims at bringing together practical experience and theoretical knowledge on accessible theatre combining different research fields such as Dramatics (Johnston 2016), Translation, Accessibility and Disability Studie

    Adaptive reuse process of the Historic Urban Landscape post-Covid-19. The potential of the inner areas for a “new normal”

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    [EN] Often in the past, the great disasters (environmental calamities, earthquakes, epidemics) activated unexpressed energies, triggering transformations of the built environment, able to give rise unexpected conditions of economic, cultural and social development. The fragility of settlement systems in the face of unexpected threats brings out the need for a new planning, changing our gaze on the city.The new framework of needs drawn by the pandemic and the renewed sensitivity towards the combination of health – sustainability, rekindle the spotlight on inner areas. These emerged as "reservoirs of resilience", areas to look at, in order to reach an eco-systemic balance.The aim of the paper is to return an experience of adaptive reuse of the Historical Urban Landscape in an inner area of Southern Italy, where the needs of health and safety of the community are integrated with the transmission of the built heritage to future generations. 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