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Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Homeless People: The Role of Discrimination and Family Rejection
Full text linkThe objective of this article is to compare the causal factors in the loss of housing between the LGBTQ and non‐LGBTQ populations. One hundred and twelve questionnaires were collected from LGBTQ people and 93 cases from the non‐LGBTQ population in the region of Madrid, Spain. Using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), the variable of sexual orientation and gender identity predicted significant differences in the causal factors related to the loss of housing. The findings refer to maintaining housing (p < .005), family problems and/or break up of the couple (p < .010), change of place of residence (p < 0.010), and expulsion from the home directly related to gender orientation and identity (p < .005 and p < 0.01). Except for expulsion from the home due to discrimination in the LGBTQ group, gender orientation and identity do not generate, but do intensify, the situation of losing housing
Navigating Resistance: Analysing the Complex Dynamics of Resistance in Gender Equality Policy Implementation in Universities
Full text linkWhile resistance to gender equality policies across institutions has received considerable scholarly attention, the study of resistance to specific themes of gender equality, such as gender‐based violence (GBV), has gained significant momentum only over the last decade, especially in Central and Eastern European countries. This article analyses the development and implementation of gender equality plans (GEPs) with measures against GBV in higher education institutions (HEIs). It examines the strategies applied by institutions to develop or modify institutional policies and procedures to monitor, prevent, and address GBV, and the resistances encountered during these processes in the socio‐political context of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Empirically, the article is based on an analysis of institutional policies and the process of developing roadmaps for devising and implementing GEPs in eight sport HEIs in CEE. Theoretically, it situates resistance as acts of opposition and the implementation of gender equality policies as a result of power struggles between status quo and gender equality actors. Moreover, the article identifies forms of resistance and counteractions that hinder and drive gender equality reform in HEIs and proposes key initiatives and strategic priorities to support institutional change
Die Clickgabe: Crowdfunding als soziokulturelle Praxis
Full text linkCrowdfunding trat um 2010 als neue Praxis in Erscheinung. Unsere Fallstudie zum Schweizer Crowdfunding-Anbieter wemakeit verwendet die Plattform als Seismograph, um mediale, politisch-ökonomische, semantische, rechtliche, kulturelle und in einem weiteren Sinne gesellschaftliche Verschiebungen zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts zeithistorisch und empirisch-kulturwissenschaftlich zu diskutieren. Methodisch verbindet der Beitrag Quellenarbeit und halbnarrative Interviews unter anderem mit den Gründer:innen von wemakeit. Crowdfunding als soziokulturelle Praxis, die auf einer technischen Infrastruktur basiert, wird im Hinblick auf die mitkonstituierende Wissensproduktion kontextualisiert sowie an konkrete Akteur:innen, ihre Biographien und den lokalen Entstehungszusammenhang geknüpft. Zugleich aber sind es, so die These, gegenstandsbestimmende Grenzziehungen (semantisch, juristisch, politisch), welche die Spezifik von Crowdfunding-Plattformen prägen. Abschließend werden die Ergebnisse vor dem Hintergrund historischer Entwicklungen einer zunehmenden Vermarktlichung von Kultur eingeordnet.Crowdfunding emerged around 2010 as a new socio-cultural practice based on a technical infrastructure. Our case study of the Swiss crowdfunding company wemakeit reads the platform as a seismograph for broader shifts. From a contemporary history and empirical cultural studies perspective, we discuss transformations in media, politics, economy, semantics, law and the wider cultural and social context at the beginning of the 21st century. Methodologically, the article combines source work and semi-narrative interviews with the founders, among others, of wemakeit. This article contextualises the socio-cultural practice of crowdfunding with the knowledge production that accompanies and co-constitutes the phenomenon, and links it to specific actors, their biographies and the local context. At the same time, we argue that a number of demarcations (semantic, legal, political) determine the contours of the phenomenon. Finally, the results are placed in the historical context of an increasing marketisation of culture
Just Food for Kids? School Food Management Models and Sustainable Procurement in France and Germany
Full text linkBiodiversity loss, climate change, rising indices of food insecurity, and increasing amounts of food waste underscore the need for a transition toward more sustainable and just food systems. Public food procurement can be considered an important leverage point in sustainable transition processes. Based on a conceptual framework that combines sustainability, just transition, and the role of public food procurement, this study focuses on the role of municipalities in France (Normandy and Brittany) and Germany (Bavaria and Baden‐Württemberg) and analyzes their sustainability efforts. Seventeen urban and rural municipalities have been selected as they all engage with the issue of sustainable food but employ a variety of different models of school food management. Our methodology is based on a comparative approach, combining literature analysis and qualitative expert interviews with stakeholders from French and German local municipalities. Our analysis focuses on the ecological, economic, and social dimensions of sustainability, including organic share, food waste, local food, accessibility, diversity, education, and participation. Our research aim is to identify potentials and challenges in just food system transitions and appropriate policy measures for promoting sustainable public procurement in school canteens. The results show that direct public management models, that are not externalized through outsourcing to private catering companies, have more potential for defining high organic standards and for integrating local food into regional value chains
Vom drohenden Selbstwiderspruch einer relationalen Utopie - Das revolutionäre Übergangsdilemma bei Butler, Adamczak und von Redecker
No full textSammelrezension: Rechtsextremismus und Homosexualität
Full text linkSammelrezension zu: 1) Patrick Wielowiejski, 2024: Rechtspopulismus und Homosexualität: Eine Ethnografie der Feindschaft. Frankfurt/M.: Campus, ISBN: 978-3-593-51960-9 2) Katrin Degen, 2024: Flexible Normalität: Über die fragile Zugehörigkeit von cis Frauen und LSBTI-Personen zur extremen Rechten. Bielefeld: Transcript, ISBN: 978-3-8394-7079-4
Experiencing Social Exclusion and Distrust: Mental Health Rehabilitees Struggling With Digital Administrative Burdens
Full text linkThe digital welfare state has been transforming into a type of state structure in which the citizen no longer faces the official in person, but interaction instead occurs with system‐level bureaucracy, and decision‐making takes place in an algorithmic system's frame. This article aimed to determine what kind of burden digital self‐service and algorithmic decision‐making poses to people with mental health problems. The article contributes to the social sustainability literature by introducing the concept of digital administrative burden and how it can create social exclusion and distrust in public administration among vulnerable citizens. Drawing on social representation theory and the concept of social identity, we examine how the digital administrative burden faced by mental health rehabilitees affects their identity and self‐perception. The data gathered comprises audio‐recorded group discussions with mental health rehabilitees. Based on the data, it can be demonstrated that digital citizen–state encounters create subject positions for mental health rehabilitees that portray them as dispossessed, unreliable, insignificant, and inferior. The positioning of mental health rehabilitees highlights how administrative burdens in digital citizen–state encounters contribute to social exclusion, preventing the full realisation of their citizenship. It can be stated that digital burdens imposed by automated administration on those dependent on social benefits can endanger society's social sustainability. This is particularly irritating because the welfare state's capability and commitment to social sustainability are crucial in preventing development of inequality and polarisation between different population groups
European Social Survey (ESS) - Fragen aus dem Kernmodul Immigration: Kognitiver Online-Pretest
Full text linkDer European Social Survey (ESS) ist eine länderübergreifende, auf wissenschaftlichen Standards beruhende Erhebung, die seit 2001 alle zwei Jahre durchgeführt wird. Der ESS erhebt Daten über Einstellungen und Verhaltensmuster der Bevölkerung in mehr als 30 europäischen Ländern. Der ESS wurde im November 2013 mit dem Status European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) ausgezeichnet. International wird dieses Umfrageprojekt von einem wissenschaftlichen Team unter der Leitung von Rory Fitzgerald von der City St George's, University of London koordiniert. Gegenstand dieses Pretests sind Fragen zum Thema Immigration aus einem der Kernmodule des ESS. Es sollte untersucht werden, inwiefern der politisch weniger vorgeprägte, inklusivere Begriff "Mensch" die Messung im Vergleich zu den Begriffen "Zuwanderer" oder "Zuwandernde" beeinflusst. Getestet wurden die Fragen im Rahmen eines kognitiven Online-Pretests mittels der Methode des Web Probings
