52 research outputs found
Economic Geography and the Financial Crisis: Full Steam Ahead?
This article considers whether the growing theoretical and methodological diversity or pluralistic nature of economic geographycontributes to its lack of engagement outside the discipline and academy. Although we are enthusiastic about the vibrancy thispluralism brings, we also speculate that it contributes to the disciplineâs tendency to fall short of significantly impacting keydebates in the social sciences. In particular, we consider the disciplinary challenges to influencing mainstream debates overfinancialization and the recent financial crisis and the recurring lament that economic geography âmisses the boatâ by failingto significantly impact key scholarly and policy issues. Specifically, we suggest that methodological and theoretical diversity,local contextualization, and relational analysis, all of which we support as vital to the discipline, make it difficult to isolate adisciplinary core. We conclude that pluralism produces a vibrant discipline with unique explanatory power but that it also hasimportant impacts on the design, execution, and influence of geographersâ research outside the discipline
Intervening in globalization: the spatial possibilities and institutional barriers to labourâs collective agency
Trade unions are facing a series of challenges around place-based forms of work in industries such as construction, transport and public services. New spatial strategies by employers involving corporate reorganization, increased outsourcing and the use of migrant labour, allied to a deepening of neoliberal governance processes are accelerating a race to the bottom in wages and conditions. Drawing upon the experience of two recent labour disputes in the UKâat Heathrow Airport and Lindsey Oil Refineryâwe explore the potential for workers to intervene in such globalizing processes. We highlight both the ability of grassroots workers to mobilize their own spatial networks but also their limitations in an increasingly hostile neoliberal landscape
Feminist Reflections on the Scope of Labour Law: Domestic Work, Social Reproduction and Jurisdiction
Drawing on feminist labour law and political economy literature, I argue that it is crucial to interrogate the personal and territorial scope of labour. After discussing the âcommodificationâ of care, global care chains, and body work, I claim that the territorial scope of labour law must be expanded beyond that nation state to include transnational processes. I use the idea of social reproduction both to illustrate and to examine some of the recurring regulatory dilemmas that plague labour markets. I argue that unpaid care and domestic work performed in the household, typically by women, troubles the personal scope of labour law. I use the example of this specific type of personal service relation to illustrate my claim that the jurisdiction of labour law is historical and contingent, rather than conceptual and universal. I conclude by identifying some of the implications of redrawing the territorial and personal scope of labour law in light of feminist understandings of social reproduction
Bullying escolar: um fenĂŽmeno multifacetado
School bullying can involve children in different ways, making them play different roles, among them, victims, bullies and bully-victims. The aim of this study was to describe how bullying occurs in high social vulnerability schools of Florianópolis metropolitan area and the roles played by students in this phenomenon. Overall, 409 children and adolescents from the 3rd to 5th grades and of two public elementary schools aged 8-16 years (X = 11.14) participated in this study. As a tool, the Olweus Questionnaire adapted to the Brazilian population was used. For data analysis, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were applied by the Mann Whitney and Kruskal Wallis tests. As for results, 29.8% of boys and 40.5% of girls reported being victims; 32.3% of boys and 24.6% of girls reported being bullies. Victims were the most willing to help a colleague who is suffering from bullying (X = 1.54; p> 0.001), even if they do not know the victims (X = 1.57; p> 0.004). Bullies are differentiated from the group that does not participate (X = 1.73) and the group of victims (X = 2.34), being those who felt less alone (x = 1.47; p> 0.001). It was concluded that the information obtained in this study is indispensable in the search for alternatives to reduce school bullying. The strengthening of relations between school and students and a better preparation of teachers and school staff are extremely necessary to try to minimize the effects of risk factors to which these children are exposed and consequently violence at school.O bullying escolar pode envolver crianças de diferentes
maneiras, fazendo com que essas assumam papéis diferenciados.
Dentre estes, tĂȘm-se vĂtimas, agressores e vĂtimas-agressoras. O
objetivo deste estudo foi descrever como ocorre o bullying em
escolas de alta vulnerabilidade social da Grande FlorianĂłpolis
e os papéis assumidos pelos alunos nesse fenÎmeno. Quanto ao
método, participaram 409 crianças e adolescentes do terceiro
ao quinto ano e da quarta à sexta série do ensino fundamental,
de duas escolas pĂșblicas municipais, com idades entre 8 e 16
anos (X=11,14). Como instrumento, utilizou-se o QuestionĂĄrio
de Olweus adaptado à população brasileira. Para a anålise
dos dados, empregaram-se a estatĂstica descritiva e estatĂstica
inferencial por meio dos testes Mann Whitney e Kruskal Wallis.
Quanto aos resultados, 29,8% dos meninos e 40,5% das meninas
relataram terem sido vĂtimas; jĂĄ 32,3% dos meninos e 24,6%
das meninas relataram terem sido agressores. As vĂtimas foram
as que se mostraram mais dispostas a ajudar como podem um
colega que esteja sofrendo agressĂŁo (X=1,54; p>0,001), mesmo
que não o conheçam (X=1,57; p>0,004). Em contrapartida,
os agressores se diferenciaram do grupo que nĂŁo participa
(X=1,73) e do grupo das vĂtimas (X=2,34), sendo aqueles que
menos se sentiram sozinhos (X=1,47; p>0,001). Concluiu-se
que as informaçÔes obtidas neste estudo são indispensåveis
na busca de alternativas para redução do bullying escolar. O
fortalecimento das relaçÔes entre escola e alunos, e um maior
preparo dos professores e funcionĂĄrios sĂŁo extremamente
necessĂĄrios para tentar minimizar os efeitos dos fatores de
risco a que essas crianças estão expostas e consequentemente a
violĂȘncia na escola.CAPES - Proc. nÂș 0815/14-4CIEC - Centro de Investigação em Estudos da Criança, IE, UMinho (UI 317 da FCT)Projeto EstratĂ©gico da FCT: UID/CED/00317/201
Internationalisation and the Neoliberal University
In einer kurzen Intervention werden die Ergebnisse der aktuellen Geschlechterforschung sowie die Situation von Wissenschaftlerinnen im Fach Geographie betrachtet  und daraus Schlussfolgerungen fĂŒr die Auswirkungen der Internationalisierung im Kontext des Konzepts der neoliberalen UniversitĂ€t gezogen.This short intervention explores recent research on gender and the status of women in geography and draws implications for the ramifications of the internationalisation in the context of the neoliberal university
Risk, responsibility and choice in U.K. occupational pensions
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