Protest-Case Analysis: A Methodological Approach for the Study of Grassroots Environmental Mobilizations

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51334/1/570.pd

Proletarianization Under Tourism: A Micro-Level Analysis

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51093/1/325.pd

Alternative Forms of Resilience. A typology of approaches for the study of Citizen Collective Responses in Hard Economic Times

A variety of theoretical and conceptual perspectives have been applied to studying collective citizen initiatives arising in response to hard economic times, such as solidarity-based exchanges and networks, cooperative structures, barter clubs, credit unions, ethical banks, time banks, alternative social currency, citizens' self-help groups, neighbourhood assemblies and social enterprises. Since the global financial crisis of 2008, scholarly attention on novel, alternative, resilient structures has increased, especially in regions that have been most affected. A comprehensive literature review is therefore needed on these initiatives which usually aim to meet basic needs such as food, shelter, health and education at the community level, or build and envision autonomous communities. This paper has four aims. First, it proposes a new, all-encompassing conceptual framework, alternative forms of resilience, to embrace all issues and groups related to such initiatives, during the new millennium and its economic and political challenges, while taking into account the impact of the 2008 crisis. Secondly, it offers a comprehensive literature review on collective citizen initiatives studied through different theoretical, methodological and conceptual understandings. Thirdly, it provides a new typology of several approaches on novel, collective and solidarity-oriented critical resilience initiatives which take into account political issues, be they policy or social-movement related. Finally, it points to future research areas which would aim to systematically address the political and non-political features of citizen-collective responses

Tourism as an Agent of Social Change in a Rural Cretan Community.

The expansion of international mass tourism during the post-war period meant rapid changes for the host, underdeveloped regions. In Greece, among these regions, belongs the Cretan village of Drethia. In studying social change a modified Schneider, Schneider and Hansen approach was proposed whereby three paths of change due to economic growth are identified: modernization, development and autonomy, each resulting from a different balance between increasing contact with centers of power, and increasing local control of capital. The thesis tested the proposition that tourism is a case of modernization in the rural community of Drethia by analyzing a variety of issues for the pre-tourism (1950-64), early tourism (1965-72), and full-scale tourism (1973-82) phases. In addition, although speculative, implicit comparisons were made to similar communities undergoing dissimilar transformations. The data shows that the growth of tourism in Drethia led to dependence on centers of power and decrease in local control of capital; unlike autonomy where the opposite occurs. Consequently, even though inequality and proletarianization are not unique to tourism, the old vertical divisions in the pre-tourism phase were replaced by horizontal ones by the 1980's, while fewer people maintained control over the sources of economic activity. Unlike communities with different growth, emigration from Drethia decreased significantly, while high levels of immigration, including repatriation, occurred. Tourism took the jobs away from the primary and secondary sectors and placed them in the tertiary one. In contrast to cash-crop and manufacturing communities, seasonal instability and the growth of the tertiary sector size were evident in Drethia. Simultaneously, tourism led to high increases in exogamy and social contacts with outsiders. Also, kin control of marriage and vertical kin ties did not lose their importance, as they do under manufacturing, especially for business owning families. Finally, increases in the male-female marital age gap, although present in alternative communities, occurred in Drethia for different reasons. Overall, the findings support the argument that Drethia has experienced modernization, and not development, as the neo-evolutionists describe it, during the past two decades.Ph.D.Social workUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/160354/1/8502860.pd

Alternative Forms of Resilience Confronting Hard Economic Times. A South European Perspective

The aim of this special issue is to contribute to the study of alternative forms of resilience, visible in the economic and noneconomic activities of citizens confronting hard economic times and falling rights in Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal, since the global financial crisis of 2008. It does so through a set of recent empirical studies which adopt recent theoretical approaches, such as Social Innovation or Sustainable Community Movement Organizations, and offer new evidence on solidarity oriented practices, including their links to social movement activism. The authors of this special issue contribute to the existing recent debates by highlighting key features of alternative forms of resilience, their links to social movements and theoretical orientations influenced by social movement and resilience studies in four Southern European countries and regions.<br /

Alternative Forms of Resilience Confronting Hard Economic Times. A South European Perspective

The aim of this special issue is to contribute to the study of alternative forms of resilience, visible in the economic and noneconomic activities of citizens confronting hard economic times and falling rights in Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal, since the global financial crisis of 2008. It does so through a set of recent empirical studies which adopt recent theoretical approaches, such as Social Innovation or Sustainable Community Movement Organizations, and offer new evidence on solidarity oriented practices, including their links to social movement activism. The authors of this special issue contribute to the existing recent debates by highlighting key features of alternative forms of resilience, their links to social movements and theoretical orientations influenced by social movement and resilience studies in four Southern European countries and regions

Alternative Forms of Resilience. A typology of approaches for the study of Citizen Collective Responses in Hard Economic Times

A variety of theoretical and conceptual perspectives have been applied to studying collective citizen initiatives arising in response to hard economic times, such as solidarity-based exchanges and networks, cooperative structures, barter clubs, credit unions, ethical banks, time banks, alternative social currency, citizens' self-help groups, neighbourhood assemblies and social enterprises. Since the global financial crisis of 2008, scholarly attention on novel, alternative, resilient structures has increased, especially in regions that have been most affected. A comprehensive literature review is therefore needed on these initiatives which usually aim to meet basic needs such as food, shelter, health and education at the community level, or build and envision autonomous communities. This paper has four aims. First, it proposes a new, all-encompassing conceptual framework, alternative forms of resilience, to embrace all issues and groups related to such initiatives, during the new millennium and its economic and political challenges, while taking into account the impact of the 2008 crisis. Secondly, it offers a comprehensive literature review on collective citizen initiatives studied through different theoretical, methodological and conceptual understandings. Thirdly, it provides a new typology of several approaches on novel, collective and solidarity-oriented critical resilience initiatives which take into account political issues, be they policy or social-movement related. Finally, it points to future research areas which would aim to systematically address the political and non-political features of citizen-collective responses.<br /

Sustainability Narratives on Caretta Caretta: Evidence from Zakynthos and Crete

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Introduction: Claiming and framing youth in the public domain during times of increasing inequalities

Aiming to contribute to research on youth representation in the mainstream media, this special issue provides eight articles offering fresh empirical comparative analyses of the ways in which young people as well as issues concerning them are dealt with in the public domain. Applying political claims analysis on original data from the EURYKA project (European Commission, Horizon 2020), the special issue is focused on how youth-related claims are raised in the media by youth and nonyouth actors during a period of increasing inequalities and social and political exclusion, how young people's ways of doing politics are dealt with in the media, and to what extent organized youth and contestation are visible in the public domain