Understanding and Managing Gender Identity Variance in Minors: A Qualitative Research on the Parental Role in Italy

Identities that differ from what is expected of each gender challenge the crystallised binary form of social organisation. Furthermore, having a gender-variant child is an experience that confronts parents with something unknown to them that questions most of their assumptions. In the Italian context, there is a lack of awareness about the population of transgender and gender-variant minors, and what their or their families' needs are. In the present study, we interviewed the parents of gender-variant minors from Italy and asked them to describe the ways they got to know their child's gender identity and how they managed such a completely new situation. The interviews were transcribed literally and analysed through discourse analysis. We carried out descriptions of how parents configure this topic and the different positionings adopted thorough their experience of understanding and managing gender variance. Overall, we discussed and promoted parent-children interacting modalities aimed at co-constructing and sharing the process of gender identity development, instead of adopting self-referential or ideological positionings. The present article offers a qualitative exploratory study of gender-variant minors and their families in the Italian context. The limitations of the study and suggestions for future research are also presented

Individual and community-level socioeconomic position and its association with adolescents experience of childhood sexual abuse : a multilevel analysis of six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

Background: Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a substantial global health and human rights problem and consequently a growing concern in sub-Saharan Africa. We examined the association between individual and community-level socioeconomic status (SES) and the likelihood of reporting CSA. Methods: We applied multiple multilevel logistic regression analysis on Demographic and Health Survey data for 6,351female adolescents between the ages of 15 and 18 years from six countries in sub-Saharan Africa, between 2006 and 2008. Results: About 70% of the reported cases of CSA were between 14 and 17 years. Zambia had the highest proportion of reported cases of CSA (5.8%). At the individual and community level, we found that there was no association between CSA and socioeconomic position. This study provides evidence that the likelihood of reporting CSA cut across all individual SES as well as all community socioeconomic strata. Conclusions: We found no evidence of socioeconomic differentials in adolescents’ experience of CSA, suggesting that adolescents from the six countries studied experienced CSA regardless of their individual- and community-level socioeconomic position. However, we found some evidence of geographical clustering, adolescents in the same community are subject to common contextual influences. Further studies are needed to explore possible effects of countries’ political, social, economic, legal, and cultural impact on Childhood sexual abuse

Do best and worst innovative companies differ in terms of intellectual capital, knowledge and radicalness?

This paper differentiates “best innovative companies” from “worst innovative companies” and it takes into account three separate bodies of literature— intellectual capital, knowledge-based view, and innovation literatures. Based on a sample of 181 firms which belong to manufacturing and services industries, our findings show that best innovative performers companies (considering both financial and non-financial dimensions of innovation success) present systematically higher scores for all dimensions of intellectual capital: human, organizational and social capital) than worst innovation performers. Knowledge exchange and combination seems to be characteristic of most successful innovators, but no differences in systemic, tacit, complex and not observable knowledge have been found for these companies. Finally, regarding radicalness, firms with more innovation success provide new products or services that incorporates a new technology and new customer benefits (uniqueness), while firms with less innovation success laughs new products or services which are unfamiliar or difficult to understand by customers.Mobile-shopping

Social capital and knowledge in interorganizational networks: Their joint effect on innovation

This research analyzes the effects of interorganizational links on innovation using a comprehensive framework that integrates three research streams: social capital, knowledge based view and innovation. Using data from 143 R&D and/or marketing departments of innovative manufacturing and service companies, our results show that while knowledge complexity, per se, exerts a clear influence on the degree of innovations radicalness, the effect of knowledge tacitness appears only when it is combined with social capital. Similarly, the mere existence of strong cooperation agreements (relational social capital) does not guarantee more radical innovations. It is only when this social capital is combined with tacit knowledge that it really produces more innovative products. We also find that such radical products have an important impact on firm performance.: Innovation; radicalness; social capital; knowledge complexity; knowledge tacitness; firm performance

Proyecto "La casa de tod@s" utilización del medio audiovisual para exponer problemáticas de género en comunidades minoritarias en las zonas con necesidad de transformación social

Proyecto de integración de la población inmigrante en el distrito de PalmaPalmilla (Málaga) en el entorno de una asociación gitana durante los años posteriores a la crisis del 2007/2008 fomentando la participación activa y la difusión de la figura del voluntariado con tres ejes fundamentales: la educación, la visibilidad y la igualdad. Metodología: Tomamos dos modelos teóricos de trabajo: La mediación entre iguales. La educación a través de Mediadores Sociales (educación inter pares) como estrategia para el cambio del comportamiento se basa, entre otras, en la Teoría del aprendizaje social (Bandura, 1986), o en la Teoría de la acción razonada (Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975), y que se importa a través del conocimiento que se tiene del “Proyecto Bola de Nieve. Guía para la formación de usuarios de la droga como agentes de salud” (García, Gutiérrez y Morante, 2004) que lo sintetiza previamente. Iniciación de un proceso de empoderamiento de mujeres gitanas, inmigrantes y ex presidiarias. Este proyecto tiene algún remoto precedente teórico en el movimiento de mujeres musulmanas francesas “Ni putas ni sumisas". Se actúa desde la matriculación de niñas musulmanas en institutos, la intervención en foros de participación del barrio posicionándose en temas de maltrato, machismo, racismo o derecho al trabajo, y atribuyendo sonoridad a las nuevas lideresas Ani Cortés (gitana), Yuli Fajardo (ex presidiaria), Cristiana (subsahariana), Fati ElHachimi(marroquí) y otras surgidas en hábitats patriarcales. Conclusiones: se inicia un proyecto audiovisual para intentar plasmar lo que allí está ocurriendo difundiéndolo a través de las redes sociales y de una trilogía de cortometrajes (2008-2015) www.la trilogiadelapalmilla.blogspot.com: * Ruta del cole 2009 (tema la educación) * El edificio fantasma 2010 (la visibilidad) * Vida desatenta 2015 (la superación

Do best and worst innovative companies differ in terms of intellectual capital, knowledge and radicalness?

This paper differentiates “best innovative companies” from “worst innovative companies” and it takes into account three separate bodies of literature— intellectual capital, knowledge-based view, and innovation literatures. Based on a sample of 181 firms which belong to manufacturing and services industries, our findings show that best innovative performers companies (considering both financial and non-financial dimensions of innovation success) present systematically higher scores for all dimensions of intellectual capital: human, organizational and social capital) than worst innovation performers. Knowledge exchange and combination seems to be characteristic of most successful innovators, but no differences in systemic, tacit, complex and not observable knowledge have been found for these companies. Finally, regarding radicalness, firms with more innovation success provide new products or services that incorporates a new technology and new customer benefits (uniqueness), while firms with less innovation success laughs new products or services which are unfamiliar or difficult to understand by customers.Mobile-shopping

Culture, sexuality and youth: experience of our young people in London

Se ha realizado un estudio etnográfico para saber cómo los jóvenes almerienses (con unas edades comprendidas entre 20-24 años) viven su sexualidad en Londres. Nos interesa específicamente obtener información sobre los choques culturales que han experimentado a nivel social y sexual debido a la convivencia con otros grupos culturales y con la población autóctona, también los cambios que se han producido en su identidad cultural tras su experiencia en Londres, y por último, cómo el contacto con otros grupos culturales ha influenciado en su relaciones afectivas, y en definitiva, en su sexualidad. Para esta finalidad, la investigación se ha desarrollado en dos etapas, la primera, tiene lugar en Almería y se seleccionan jóvenes que han estado trabajando o estudiando en Londres durante más de un año y que han regresado a España, la segunda y última fase, se desenvuelve en el propio contexto de la vida diaria de los jóvenes almerienses en Londres, exactamente en una residencia de estudiantes extranjeros y autóctonos. La recogida de información se ha llevado a cabo mediante entrevistas semiestructuradas, grupos de discusión y observación participante.An ethnographical research has been carried out in order to learn how youth from Almeria (aged from 20 to 24 years old) live their sexuality in London. We are specifically interested in getting information regarding cultural shocks that these youth have experienced in a social and sexual level due to the coexistence with people from different cultures including native population. We are also interested in discovering which changes, if any, have suffered their own cultural identity after the time passed in London. Lastly, we want to know if the contact with people from other cultures has any kind of influence over their affective and sexual relations. This research have been carried out in two stages. In the first of them, performed in Almeria, youth who have been working or studying in London for more of one year and who are back in Spain are recruited for study purposes. The second stage take place in the context of the normal day to day of these Spanish youth in London, specifically in a residence for native and foreigner students. The information was gathered trough semistructured interviews, discussion groups and intervening observation