Spatial capital as a tool for planning practice

This purpose of this article is to look at the potential benefit to planning practice of engaging with spatial capital – a concept derived from the social theory of Bourdieu. Doubt is expressed about the theoretical basis for spatial capital; nevertheless, it is argued that it may have merit as a trope for planning practitioners. Spatial capital has a strong empirical basis, making it accessible to planning practice and offering a new means for interpreting and communicating the combined effects of a range of individual urban events such as the gating of communities, differing mobilities and schooling tactics. By focussing on the interplay of social positioning within place, it emphasises the joined-up nature of disadvantage and highlights the limits of environmental determinism. However, its use is not without possible drawbacks. Here, the experience of social capital is informative, as this has been appropriated by groups with quite different readings of its implications for policy

Democracy, emancipation and widening participation in the UK: changing the ‘distribution of the sensible’

The broad concern of this paper is how the relationship between education, democracy and emancipation might be conceived. This theme is explored through examining the contribution of a Rancierian conception of emancipation and democracy to rethinking widening participation in higher education. Following Ranciere, it is argued that taking equality as a starting point in higher education, rather than as a goal to be achieved through education, disrupts a prevailing logic of education as necessarily providing a pathway to emancipation. From this view the pedagogic practices of explication and mastery, which Ranciere argues work to separate academic reason and practical reason, need no longer be understood as the only way to be academic. It is proposed that this ‘redistribution of the sensible’ enables higher education to be conceived in ways other than available in ongoing educational debates and enables a move beyond an assimilation/recognition binary. Instead, widening participation can be understood as a space for opening up to experience, transformation and change for both academics and students. From this view, democracy is enacted in the here and now, rather than a goal for the future, and practice can be understood as a site for change

Luta social por reconhecimento: dilemas e impasses na articulação pública do desrespeito

O artigo faz uma reconstrução da teoria de Honneth sobre o reconhecimento da imputabilidade moral e social e sua complexa articulação com a formação da identidade e de seus estados de luta. Mostra-se a inter-relação entre a comunidade de valores e as condições morais das relações jurídicas. Ou seja, os ideais de justiça e os critérios pelos quais os grupos sociais avaliam moralmente o seu meio social estão mais presentes no sentimento de desrespeito do que em uma formulação racional e crítica aos princípios de valor vigente. O desafio que se coloca é se essas zonas de conflito normativo são capazes de atingir a visibilidade e o potencial de articular e coordenar uma luta social que integre os meios semânticos, simbólicos, materiais e imateriais para além das redes emotivas e morais por em que circulam cotidianamente, sem que se deixem cooptar politicamente ou se traduzir publicamente por uma semântica inadequada a suas pretensões de reconhecimento

Fyysisesti inaktiivisten opiskelijoiden motivaatio korkeaintensiteettisessä intervalliharjoittelussa

Tämän opinnäytetyön tarkoituksena oli selvittää fyysisesti inaktiivisten opiskeli-joiden kokemuksia sisäisestä ja ulkoisesta motivaatiosta ja harjoittelun mielek-kyydestä pyörällä toteutetussa korkeaintensiteettisessä intervalliharjoittelussa (Sprint interval training=SIT). Yhteistyökumppani opinnäytetyössä oli Saimaan korkeakoululiikunta, jonka yhdyshenkilönä toimi fysioterapeutti Hanna Bohm. Opinnäytetyö oli kvalitatiivinen, jossa aineisto kerättiin puolistrukturoiduilla teemahaastatteluilla. Opinnäytetyöstä laitettiin ilmoitus Saimaan korkeakoulu-liikunta SaLUT:n sivuille, jonka kautta vapaaehtoiset olivat yhteydessä opin-näytetyön tekijöihin. Vapaaehtoisista ja kriteerit täyttävistä hakijoista valittiin viisi henkilöä, joista lopulta neljä päätyi opinnäytetyöhön osallistujiksi. Osallis-tujat osallistuivat neljän viikon SIT–protokollan mukaiseen harjoitteluun kol-mena päivänä viikossa. Haastatteluista saadut tulokset analysoitiin käyttämällä induktiivista sisällönanalyysiä. Aineiston perusteella fyysisesti inaktiiviset opiskelijat kokivat sisäisiä ja ulkoisia motiiveja pyörällä toteutetussa korkeaintensiteettisessä intervalliharjoittelussa. Osallistujat kokivat harjoittelun mielekkääksi näkyvien harjoitusvasteiden, har-joituksen lyhytkestoisuuden ja fyysisten tuntemusten ansiosta. Osallistujia mo-tivoivat jatkamaan tuloksien näkyminen, oma hyvinvointi, onnistumisen koke-mukset ja mielenkiinto harjoitusmuotoa kohtaan. Jatkossa tutkimustuloksia voidaan hyödyntää esimerkiksi osana fysioterapiaprosessia fyysisesti inaktiivi-silla asiakkailla.The purpose of the thesis was to examine experiences of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and reasonableness of training on physically inactive students in high intensity interval training implemented by cycle ergometer (Sprint interval training=SIT). The thesis was carried out in co-operation with Saimaan korkeakoululiikunta (Saimaa Higher Education Sports and Welfare Services). Physiotherapist Hanna Bohm from Saimaan korkeakoululiikunta acted as a contact person. The research method was qualitative and material was collected via semi-structured theme interviews. An advertisement was placed in the Saimaan korkeakoululiikunta website, inviting volunteers to contact the research team. Five people were selected among the volunteers and four ended up participat-ing in the study. The volunteers took part in intervention activities during four weeks, doing exercises according to the SIT–protocol three times a week. In-ductive content analysis was employed for analysing the answers received through interviews. According to the results, physically inactive students experienced both intrinsic and extrinsic motives in high intensity interval training implemented by cycle ergometer. Training was experienced enjoyable by the participants because of the exercise responses, short duration and physical sensations. The partici-pants were motivated to continue training because they saw the results and wanted to improve their wellbeing. Other motives to continue training were ex-periences of success and interest towards the training method. In the future the results can be used in physiotherapy processes with physically inactive clients, for example

Politics of dissensus in geographies of architecture: Testing equality at Ed Roberts Campus, Berkeley

This paper evokes the writings of Jacques Rancière to propose a concept of politics for geographies of architecture that is attentive to the polemical conditions under which more equal ways of composing built environments emerge. Discussing Ed Roberts Campus, a building designed and operated by the disability community in Berkeley, California, the paper argues for a politics of architecture that does not entail conflicts over power or identity, but revolves around a testing of materials that alters the bodily circumstances built form offers for collective inhabitation. Such testing sets in motion an uncertain process where a building undergoes constant destabilisation by new claimants who verify and expand its equality. The paper then counterpoises this disruptive politics to institutional practices in order to investigate how its fragile after‐effects might be sustained

Space, politics, and the political

In this paper I offer a reading of Jacques Ranciere's conceptualization of politics, and consider its implications for the links between space, politics, and the political. I provide an overview of Ranciere's conceptualizations of 'the police, politics, and the political, and try to recover the spatiality of these notions. Based on this overview, the argument pursued in the paper is that space does not become political just by virtue of being full of power or competing interests. It becomes political by becoming the place where a wrong can be addressed and equality can be demonstrated. This definition makes space not only an integral element of the defining moment of the political, but an integral element of the disruption of the normalized order of domination as well