Social and Political Dimensions of Identity

We study the interior regularity of solutions to the Dirichlet problem Lu = g in Omega, u = 0 in R-nOmega, for anisotropic operators of fractional type Lu(x) = integral(+infinity)(0) dp integral(Sn-1) da(w) 2u(x) - u(x + rho w) - u(x - rho w)/rho(1+2s). Here, a is any measure on Sn-1 (a prototype example for L is given by the sum of one-dimensional fractional Laplacians in fixed, given directions). When a is an element of C-infinity(Sn-1) and g is c(infinity)(Omega), solutions are known to be C-infinity inside Omega (but not up to the boundary). However, when a is a general measure, or even when a is L-infinity(s(n-1)), solutions are only known to be C-3s inside Omega. We prove here that, for general measures a, solutions are C1+3s-epsilon inside Omega for all epsilon > 0 whenever Omega is convex. When a is an element of L-infinity(Sn-1), we show that the same holds in all C-1,C-1 domains. In particular, solutions always possess a classical first derivative. The assumptions on the domain are sharp, since if the domain is not convex and the measure a is singular, we construct an explicit counterexample for which u is not C3s+epsilon for any epsilon > 0 - even if g and Omega are C-infinity

Inequality Matters

This is one of a series of five papers outlining the particular domains and dimensions of inequality where new research may yield a better understanding of responses to this growing issue.The aim of this paper is to describe, in very broad brushstrokes, the state of academic scholarship regarding social inequality, with an eye toward identifying important gaps. The focus is on four key interacting social domains: 1) socioeconomic (financial and human capital)2) health (including physical and psychological) 3) political (access to power and political representation)4) sociocultural (identity, cultural freedoms, and human rights

The normative permissiveness of political partyism

Political party identity has become one of the strongest social divides within many Western societies. This paper employs experiments to measure discrimination along different dimensions of social identity, and replicates previous findings showing the strongest discrimination against out-groups occurs in the political party domain. Moreover, we explore a possible explanation for this phenomenon based on social norms. We measure the social appropriateness of discrimination along each identity dimension. The ranking of dimensions by discrimination against out-groups reflects the extent to which such behaviour is normatively permissible, with the weakest anti-discrimination norms on the political party dimension. Results are qualitatively similar in two European countries. We argue that, while strong norms sanctioning discrimination on other dimensions have developed historically, no such process has taken place concerning party affiliation, bringing partisan identity to the fore and helping polarisation flourish

After Barth: The Mexican Calós’s lived identity

The reasons for adopting a problem in terms of the survival of a Roma anthropological and historical system are not factual, but theoretical. This text analyses some dimensions of this system in relation to cultural identity, an idea that is close but not identical to the concept of ethnic identity of Fredrik F. Barth. The ethnography with the Gitanos of Mexico City dialogues with previous ethnographies and inquiries about the lived identity. The memory of the life of the Calós are constructed subjectively and through sociability are objectified in a cultural identity, opposed to the legal-political identification. The discourse on modernity, the economic activities, the social rhythms and practices of the place, as well as the transnational and diasporic dimension are the object of reflection

The debates on citizenship in Morocco. Social movements and constitutional reform. EUSpring Working Paper No. 4, 11 August 2015

Introduction. The current debates on citizenship in Morocco are taking place in a political context marked by the events of the Arab Spring. How are political, social, legal, and identity-related dimensions of citizenship formulated in the context of a monarchy that has a long continuity in Moroccan history

THE REFLECTION OF PEDAGOGUE’S IDENTITY IN THE LIFE ACTIVITIES: THEORETICAL RESEARCH MODEL

The innovative research model presented in this article includes the micro, mezzo, and macro context of the identity by expressing its multiple dimensions of the pedagogue’s personality in personal, cultural and historical and social aspect.  The dispositional traits of personality i.e. emotions, talent, behaviour and opinion, along with the adaptation characteristics i.e. interests, motivation, values, attitudes and character are analysed in the micro context. The meaning of the respective social environment is drawn in the mezzo context where the pedagogue’s, family, student’s and religious identity develop. The further crystallisation of the identity happens in the macro context that influences the development of professional, national, local, political and cultural identity

Racism as Self-Love

In the United States today, much interpersonal racism is driven by corrupt forms of self-preservation. Drawing from Jean- Jacques Rousseau, I refer to this as self-love racism. The byproduct of socially-induced racial anxieties and perceived threats to one’s physical or social wellbeing, self-love racism is the protective attachment to the racialized dimensions of one’s social status, wealth, privilege, and/or identity. Examples include police officer related shootings of unarmed Black Americans, anti-immigrant sentiment, and the resurgence of unabashed white supremacy. This form of racism is defined less by the introduction of racism into the world and more on the perpetuation of racially unjust socioeconomic and political structures. My theory, therefore, works at the intersection of the interpersonal and structural by offering an account of moral complacency in racist social structures. My goal is to reorient the directionality of philosophical work on racism by questioning the sense of innocence at the core of white ways-of-being

Current challenges for a Changing Europe: a social and legal perspective

Estudio de los retos actuales en la Unión Europea tras la crisis económica desde la perspectiva de los derechos fudamentales y la ciudadanía europea.From the point of view of Law and Social Sciences, actual challenges in European Union actual challenges in European Union are defined by the current economic and social crisis, most of them linked to fundamental rights protection, social dimension and European integration identity. As we know, European integration is an economic, social, political and legal process where EU Member States, EU Institutions, and European citizens are principal actors. It's very important to identificate the actual problems, to balance social and economic dimensions of EU integration and to identificate clearly the European Union's identity

Too big, will fail. Megaevents and protest participation

The paper examines the relationship between "social democratic megaevents" (Olympic Games and World Expos) and political protests. It tries to analyze the reasons that led these popular ceremonies to act in our societies as catalysts of social conflict and activators of an "agonistic citizenship". Today some structural characteristics of the network society - growth of urban populations; increase in migration flows; widening of socioeconomic disparities - determined a renewed "political" interest for these great public rituals, which in a previous season of the modernity had shown themselves capable to patch up the lacerations of the social fabric. But in recent years something is broken in the relationship between megaevents and urban populations and we are witnessing a growing antagonism against events historically conceived with a function of social "glue". The aim is therefore to reflect on the meaning of this "antagonistic drift" of "social democratic megaevents" through the analysis of a specific case study: the Attitudine NoExpo Network (Milan 2015). We identified four crucial dimensions to trace the NoExpo movement's physiognomy and define the reasons for its opposition to the world fair: the historical relation between Milan and a cultural form of antagonism; the crucial role of the territorial factor in the formation and evolution of the movement; the centrality of the practices in the structuring of the movement's identity; the adoption of an instrumental and tactical approach in the choice and use of media