136 research outputs found
The frontiers of participatory public engagement
Currently missing from critical literature on public engagement with academic research is a public-centric analysis of the wider contemporary context of developments in the field of public engagement and participation. Drawing on three differently useful strands of the existing theoretical literature on the public, this article compares a diverse sample of 100 participatory public engagement initiatives in order to first, analyse a selection of the myriad ways that the public is being constituted and supported across this contemporary field and second, identify what socio-cultural researchers might learn from these developments. Emerging from this research is a preliminary map of the field of public engagement and participation. This map highlights relationships and divergences that exist among diverse forms of practice and brings into clearer view a set of tensions between different contemporary approaches to public engagement and participation. Two âfrontiersâ of participatory public engagement that socio-cultural researchers should attend are also identified. At the first, scholars need to be critical regarding the particular versions of the public that their preferred approach to engagement and participation supports and concerning how their specific identifications with the public relate to those being addressed across the wider field. At the second frontier, researchers need to consider the possibilities for political intervention that public engagement and participation practice could open out, both in the settings they are already working and also in the much broader, rapidly developing and increasingly complicated contemporary field of public engagement and participation that this article explores
Highgate Cemetery heterotopia: A Creative Counterpublic Space
Highgate Cemetery is nominally presented as a heterotopia, constructed, and theorized through the articulation of three âspaces.â First, it is configured as a public space which organizes the individual and the social, where the management of death creates a relationship between external space and its internal conceptualization. This reveals, enables, and disturbs the sociocultural and political imagination which helps order and disrupt thinking. Second, it is conceived as a creative space where cemetery texts emplace and materialize memory that mirrors the cultural capital of those interred, part of an urban aesthetic which articulates the distinction of the metropolitan elite. Last, it is a celebritized counterpublic space that expresses dissent, testimony to those who have actively imagined a better world, which is epitomized by the Marx Memorial. Representation of the cemetery is ambiguous as it is recuperated and framed by the living with the three different âspacesâ offering heterotopic alliances
Der diskrete Charme der Bourgeoisie - Ein Beitrag zur Soziologie des modernen WirtschaftsbĂŒrgertums
Entgegen der These der Auflösungserscheinungen des BĂŒrgertums stellt der Autor die Annahme auf den PrĂŒfstand, dass wir es nach wie vor mit gesellschaftlichen Fraktionierungen bĂŒrgerlicher Lebensweisen zu tun haben. Am Beispiel autobiographischer Schriften von deutschen Topmanagern stellt der Text ein modernes VerstĂ€ndnis des WirtschaftsbĂŒrgertums vor, das organisational (durch die Karrieremechanismen der Organisation) und institutionell (im Feld der Wirtschaft) verankert ist. Die moderne Sozialformation des WirtschaftsbĂŒrgertums ist nur noch auf der Grundlage von Organisationen denkbar. Sie lĂ€sst sich, jenseits von Klasse und Stand, als Positionselite beschreiben. Anhand der Autobiographien lĂ€sst sich die Reproduktion dieser Elite auf Basis einer engen VerknĂŒpfung zwischen familialer Herkunft, an organisationale Karrieren gebundene Leistungsbereitschaft und hoher formaler Bildung nachzeichnen. Die Abgrenzung in der Statusreproduktion zwischen Bildungs- und WirtschaftsbĂŒrgertum weist der Autor am jeweiligen VerhĂ€ltnis zur Bildung nach; zwar können beide einen hohen Bildungsgrad in Form von Bildungspatenten nachweisen, doch im Falle des WirtschaftsbĂŒrgertums herrscht ein instrumentelles VerhĂ€ltnis zur Bildung vor. Der hohe Bildungsgrad folgt hier dem BedĂŒrfnis, den Status mittels formaler Bildung abzusichern und damit die Gefahr der eigenen Austauschbarkeit - als Personal der Organisation - zu kompensieren. Der Text macht auĂerdem generationale Effekte sichtbar; insbesondere indem er darlegt, inwieweit der "moderne Manager" einerseits in der Betonung seines Status seinen VorgĂ€ngern gleicht und sich doch gleichzeitig in der Art der UnternehmensfĂŒhrung abgrenzt - indem er bspw. die Managementkonzepte seiner Zeit aufgreift
Two images of Nantes as a âGreen Modelâ of Urban Planning and Governance: The âCollaborative Cityâ Versus the âSlow Cityâ
This article examines how the city of Nantes, European Green Capital in 2013, came to promote plans for a new international airport at Notre-Dame-des-Landes. Deploying poststructuralist discourse theory, it analyses how the highly politicised struggle against the airport reveals the limits of the Nantes model of urban sustainability and collaboration, giving rise to a counter model, which we provisionally characterise as the âslow cityâ. While the struggle against the airport can be understood as a rural social movement, we show how its ideals and logics have been progressively displaced to Nantes itself, disclosing new images and possibilities of urban governance
Expressive free speech, the state, and the public sphere: A BakhtinianâDeleuzian analysis of âpublic addressâ at Hyde Park
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2008 Taylor & Francis.In this paper I explore how struggles around free speech between social movements and the state are often underpinned by a deeper struggle around expressive images of what counts as either âdecentâ or âindecentâ discussion. These points are developed by exploring what is arguably the most famous populist place for free speech in Britain, namely Hyde Park. In 1872 the state introduced the Parks Regulation Act in order to regulate, amongst other things, populist uses of free speech at Hyde Park. However, although the 1872 Act designated a site in Hyde Park for public meetings, it did not mention âfree speechâ. Rather, the 1872 Act legally enforced the liberty to make a âpublic addressâ and this was implicitly contrasted by the state of an expressive image of âindecentâ speakers exercising their ârightâ of free speech at Hyde Park. Once constructed, the humiliating image of âindecentâ free speech could then be used by the state to regulate actual utterances of public speakers at Hyde Park. But the paper shows how in the years immediately following 1872 a battle was fought out in Hyde Park over the expressive image of public address between the state and regulars using Hyde Park as a public sphere to exercise free speech. For its part the state had to engage in meaningful deliberative forms of discussion within its own regulatory framework and with the public sphere at Hyde Park in order to maintain the legal form, content and expression of the 1872 Act. To draw out the implications of these points I employ some of the theoretical ideas of the Bakhtin Circle and Gilles Deleuze. Each set of thinkers in their own way make valuable contributions for understanding the relationship between the state, public sphere and expressive images
Future workshops as a means to democratic, inclusive and empowering research with children, young people and others
A relational, indirect, meso-level approach to CSCL design in the next decade
This paper reviews some foundational issues that we believe will affect the progress of CSCL over the next ten years. In particular, we examine the terms technology, affordance, and infrastructure and we propose a relational approach to their use in CSCL. Following a consideration of networks, space, and trust as conditions of productive learning, we propose an indirect approach to design in CSCL. The work supporting this theoretical paper is based on the outcomes of two European networks: E-QUEL, a network investigating e-quality in e-learning; and Kaleidoscope, a European Union Framework 6 Network of Excellence. In arguing for a relational understanding of affordance, infrastructure, and technology we also argue for a focus on what we describe as meso-level activity. Overall this paper does not aim to be comprehensive or summative in its review of the state of the art in CSCL, but rather to provide a view of the issues currently facing CSCL from a European perspective
Gewalt in der Schule
Vortrag auf der Tagung Bindung, Trauma und soziale Gewalt , 3.-5.12.2004 in Frankfurt am Main
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