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Micro-pol: or the story of the large within the small
No full textI artiklen tages udgangspunkt i den rurale case om Lemvig, der nægter at være udkant. Det diskuteres, hvordan casen udfordrer gængse sociologiskeforestillinger om relationen mellem center og periferi og mellem metropol og det lokale. Vi argumenterer for, at det netop er karakteren af, hvad vi til dennelejlighed betegner som »mikropol« – den internationale orientering og en lokal social kultur, som kobler sig til globale flows – der tilsammen skaber detlokales resiliens. Analysen af Lemvig begrebsliggør den modstandskræft, der er med til at sikre lokal udvikling på trods af de urbaniseringskræfter, somskaber en stærk affolkningstendens i lignende områder. Artiklen trækker på en del af det empiriske materiale fra et igangværende Horizon 2020-projekt,COHSMO – Inequality, urbanization and territorial cohesion: Developing the European social model of economic growth and democratic capacity. Projektethar omdrejningspunkt i en europæisk sammenligning af forholdet mellem urbanisering, ulighed og territoriel sammenhængskraft. Fortællingernefra Lemvig viser, at den lokale kultur ikke kun er et spørgsmål om nødvendighedens politik i et område, der er strukturelt udfordret, men derimod, atstedskulturen er produkt af det særlige samspil mellem erhvervsstrukturen, størrelsesforholdet, historiske kulturelle stiafhængigheder og et aktivt lokaltmiljø.In this article, we employ case of Lemvig, a small Danish community that refuses to be considered part of the periphery. We discuss how this case challengessociological conceptions of the relation between center and periphery and between metropolis and the local. We argue that it is exactly the characterof what we conceptualize as the »micro-pol« – international orientation and a local culture that couple to global flows – which generates the resilience ofthe local place. The analysis of qualitative material from Lemvig helps us understand the conditions that support resilience in places, which are shapedby de-urbanization. The article draws on empirical material from an ongoing Horizon 2020 project, COHSMO – Inequality, urbanization and territorial cohesion: Developing the European social model of economic growth and democratic capacity. The project is a cross European comparison of the relationbetween urbanization, inequality and territorial cohesion. The narratives from Lemvig highlight how local culture cannot be understood alone as a productof necessity due to structural challenges. Rather the place specific culture is a product of the interplay between local business structures, the scale of place,historical path dependencies, and active local engagement
The carceral existence of social work academics: a Foucauldian analysis of social work education in English universities
Get PDFApplying Foucault’s concepts of disciplinary power and technologies of the self to the ex-periences of social work academics in English universities, this articles reveals their carceral existences, arguing that social work academics and their students exist within a “carceral network” which controls and normalises behaviour by simultaneously trapping them with-in and excluding them from succeeding in academic practices. While social work academics become “docile bodies” as they are shaped and trained by competing norms of neoliberal higher education and professional social practice, their position as insiders and outsiders to both can also enable them to resist certain disciplinary expectations. The findings of the qualitative study discussed in this article support Foucault’s analysis of powerful institu-tions but problematise binary positions of docility or resistance to disciplinary power with-in them. Lived experiences of ‘becoming academic’ in English social work education reveal how normalising judgements and hierarchical observation intersect with neoliberal forms of responsibilisation to create a carcerality rooted in “incompetence”; how “technologies of relationships” are used to mediate individual forms of responsibilisation, and how having to negotiate multiple disciplinary regimes can create opportunities for resistance to each
Et zoom på online-undervisning
Get PDFInterview med informationsspecialister og undervisere, Annemette Møller Hansen og Susie Rimborg. Vi taler online-undervisning og hvordan corona-tiden også blev et strategisk tigerspring for dem selv - og for Københavns Universitetsbibliotek
Contested Spaces, Shared Concerns: Road Interactions from the Perspective of Three User Groups
Get PDFRoadways are sociocultural spaces constructed for human travel which embody intersections of technology, transportation, and culture. In order to navigate these spaces successfully, autonomous vehicles must be able to respond to the needs and practices of those who use the road. We conducted research on how cyclists, solid waste truck drivers, and crossing guards experience the driving behaviors of other road users, to inform the development of autonomous vehicles. We found that the roadways were contested spaces, with each road user group enacting their own social constructions of the road. Furthermore, the three groups we worked with all felt marginalized by comparison with car drivers, who were ideologically and often physically dominant on the road. This article is based on research for the Nissan Research Center - Silicon Valley, which took place as part of a Design Anthropology course at the University of North Texas
Når samfundslederskab bliver det demokratiske problem
Get PDFArtiklen sætter fokus på, hvordan statsministeren i et demokratisk perspektiv har håndteret Covid-19-krisen. Artiklen fokuserer således ikke på, om en nedlukning af Danmark var korrekt, men på hvordan demokrati og borgerlige, grundlovssikrede rettigheder reelt blev dekonstrueret og suspenderet i løbet af 24 timer uden anden begrundelse end en statsministers mavefornemmelse. Og hvordan en paralyseret befolkning lod det ske. Artiklen problematiserer også, hvordan et samlet pressekorps under efterfølgende pressemøder blev forment retten til at stille kritiske, opfølgende spørgsmål til statsministerens forskellige initiativer ved kun at have retten til at stille to spørgsmål uden mulighed for supplerende spørgsmål udsprunget af svaret. Yderligere sættes der i artiklen fokus på, hvordan udskamning og overvågning blev en del af regeringens diskurs – indtil det blev afsløret. Hele statsministerens ageren efterlader spørgsmålet om, hvor stabilt vort demokrati egentlig er, og hvor resistent det er over for angreb både indefra og udefra
Trans-local involvement in rural areas: the playground of new mobile elites?
No full textDenne artikel tager udgangspunkt i tidens stigende translokale tendenser, derer karakteriseret ved øget mobilitet og multiple stedsidentiteter. Udviklingenopbløder dikotomien mellem beboere og besøgende i de danske landdistrikter.Artiklen fokuserer på de deltidsbeboere, der engagerer sig aktivt i lokaleudviklingsprojekter f.eks. som investorer i lokale forretninger, projektlederefor kulturarvs- og kulturinstitutionsprojekter, eventmagere eller aktiehavere ilokale bæredygtighedsprojekter. Der ses en flertydig påvirkning af stedernessociologi, ligesom stedskvaliteter, der i udgangspunktet er med til at motivereog tiltrække midlertidige aktører, påvirkes. Teoretisk bygges på en forståelseaf stedsudviklingsprocesser som multiskalære, flerdimensionelle og dybt betingetaf forskellige sociale aktørers differentierede kapacitet til mobilitet ogstedsengagement. Empirisk er artiklen baseret på kvalitativ forskning foretageti 2018 på fire attraktive nordiske øer. Undersøgelsens resultater pegerpå, at deltidsbeboerne indgår i en række translokale engagementsfælleskabersammen med lokale kræfter, og at de motiveres af oplevede stedskvaliteterknyttet til forestillingen om det rurale såvel som af de fællesskaber, de indgåri – eventuelt med andre ressourcestærke deltidsaktører som hovedattraktionen.De translokale fællesskaber udgør et betydeligt stedsudviklingspotentiale,men rummer samtidig et potentiale for social eksklusion, fordi de ressourcestærkested-skabere, der rummer både fuldtids- og deltidsbeboere, kanrisikere at understøtte økonomiske gentrificeringsprocesser såvel som fremme social displacement.This article is concerned with the effects of trans-local development processeson place-making in rural areas. Trans-localism is characterized by increasedmobility, multiple place identities and a (partial) dissolution of permanentand temporary resident dichotomies. It focuses on a group of part-time residentswho become involved as project managers and shareholders in culturalheritage and sustainability projects as well as in local business investmentsin rural communities. It explores how these resourceful new actors influencethe sociology of rural localities including the qualities of the particular placethat attract and motivate them as well as the effects of their engagement in thesocial dynamics of these localities. Theoretically, the work understands placemakingprocesses as multi-scalar, multidimensional and deeply conditionedby the differentiated capacities of different social actors in terms of mobilityand place engagement. Empirically, the article is based on qualitative researchconducted on four Nordic islands in 2018. The results indicate that part-timeresidents forge trans-local engagement communities with local elites and aremotivated by perceived place qualities linked to the notion of `the rural´, aswell as by collaboration with other part-time residents. An under-studied riskis that these trans-local place-making processes may lead to economic gentrificationprocesses and promote social displacement
