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La lucha por el liderazgo adecuado en las organizaciones de los movimientos sociales: reflexión colectiva y reglas como base para la autonomía
Get PDFThis article analyzes how leadership is practiced in social movement organizations (OMS). Drawing on Critical Leadership Studies, and based on qualitative empirical research conducted in the organizations of the Spanish 15M protest movement, we analyze leadership perceptions, tensions and practices in dealing with these challenges. Our findings indicate that leadership practices in the investigated OMSs are autonomous, reflective and rule-based. Emphasizing collective reflection and rules highlights two aspects of leadership in OMSs that have been largely ignored in the discourses. Nevertheless, they turn out to be important means to address the challenges of autonomous leadership
The Unwelcome Guest: Envy and Shame Materialized in a Roman Villa
Get PDFA third-century C.E. inscribed mosaic from Skala, on the Greek island of Kefallonia, has greatly expanded our knowledge of envy’s evil eye in the Roman Mediterranean. Yet its inscription has not drawn the attention it deserves. Paying heed to the literary, affective, and material dimensions of this and other mosaic texts, I explore how the Skala poem, in tandem with the imagery it accompanies, mediates encounters between guest, host, and house. In so doing, it forms part of a decorative program materializing envy as actor in a drama celebrating a householder’s fortune while exposing the envious to general scorn
The Prospera Conditional Cash Transfer Program and its Impact on Education, Labor, and Migration in an Indigenous Mayan Community in Chiapas, Mexico
Get PDFProspera, a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCTs) program in Mexico, provides recipients with cash contingent on three nodes of civic engagement: health, nutrition and education. This article examines the educational component of Prospera in La Gloria, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. I utilize gender and culture of migration theories to explore the role gender plays in the educational, employment and migration outcomes of 31 high school students, and a smaller sample that pursued post-secondary education, six years after participating in the Prospera program. My findings raise questions about the ability of Prospera to ameliorate social inequalities, foster gender equity, and economic mobility among indigenous recipient households
Alma oh Alma how might thee help me?
Get PDFMigrations are never easy, but they can provide great opportunities for growth and positive change. In migrating from Aleph to Alma, the Binghamton University Libraries found that while Aleph did many things, Alma has allowed us to understand how we can integrate existing functionalities that were known in Aleph but not easily taken advantage of. Some of these functionalities have let us automate processes; these include ordering API\u27s with GOBI and Proquest; Invoicing for GOBI, Proquest, EBSCO; and now MARC record delivery with OCLC Cataloging partners. Come hear how three units (Acquisitions, Cataloging, and Systems) collaborated to implement automated functionality that has allowed the Binghamton University Libraries to keep up with a hiring freeze and 3 retirements
Thin metal rods, 3D printed sculpture, image 3
No full textBelow are pictures of a 3D printed sculpture of a design I created many years ago based on the Star of David, originally made by soldering thin metal rods together. Four such stars are placed on the faces of a tetrahedron, so that each star touches an adjacent star at three points. Three of these pictures show a 3D printed version made from strong flexible plastic where each line segment of each star is 3 long. I received these models from Shapeways.com.https://orb.binghamton.edu/mathematical_sculptures/1589/thumbnail.jp
“Wild Neat Cattle…”: Using Domesticated Livestock to Engineer Colonial Landscapes in Seventeenth-Century Maryland
Get PDFThe excavation of two 17th-century sites in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, provides an opportunity to explore the impacts of domesticated livestock on the surrounding landscape. Faunal assemblages are analyzed following Henry Miller’s (1984, 1988) foundational study of subsistence practices of early English colonists in the Tidewater region. Data sets from Sparrow’s Rest (18AN1436) and Shaw’s Folly (18AN339) are examined to determine the percentages of domestic livestock vs. wild game consumed by the families at each site as compared to the patterns identified on contemporaneous sites in Miller’s survey, as well as to elucidate potential environmental impacts from the free-ranging herds of cattle and swine. Analysis shows the Shaw and Sparrow families relied primarily on domesticated livestock, rather than exploiting indigenous mammal, bird, and fish species for the majority of their dietary needs. However, each family’s domesticated livestock reshaped the colonial landscape, causing far greater impacts than 17th-century subsistence and cultivation practices alone
Políticas públicas locales, un caso de estudio sobre la cultura ciudadana
No full textEl estudio de las políticas públicas locales guarda importantes lecciones y aprendizajes sociales para los tomadores de decisión que se encuentran inmersos en procesos de diseño, implementación o evaluación de intervenciones y acciones dirigidas a resolver problemas colectivos. Las contribuciones de estos análisis resultan fundamentales para la consolidación de las perspectivas de la disciplina en Colombia y América Latina, y aportan a la consolidación del conocimiento sobre las políticas públicas pensadas, construidas y desarrolladas desde la localidad.
Esta tarea resulta particularmente relevante al revisar políticas públicas locales desde el enfoque de cultura ciudadana o dirigido a identificar los efectos sobre la convivencia en los comportamientos ciudadanos. Este artículo presenta el caso del diseño de la política pública de cultura ciudadana de Medellín, recogiendo su trayecto programático, normativo y revisando sus perspectivas de implementación. Busca también señalar algunas propuestas de agendas de investigación salidas, precisamente, de las necesidades presentes en las realidades empíricas de adelantar un proceso local de política pública en cultura ciudadana.
The study of local public policies holds important lessons and social insigns for decision makers who are immersed in the processes of design, implementation or evaluation of interventions and actions aimed at solving coletive problems. The contributions of these analyzes are fundamental for the consolidation of the discipline in Colombia and Latin America, and contribute to the consolidation of knowledge about public policies designed and developed from the locality.
This task is particularly relevant when reviewing local public policies from the perspective of citizen culture or aimed at identifying the effects on living together in citizen behaviors in a city. This article presents the case of the design of the public policy of citizen culture of Medellín, collecting its programmatic, normative trajectory and revising its implementation perspectives. It also seeks to point out some proposals for research agendas, precisely, of the needs present in the empirical realities of advancing a local public policy process in citizen culture and civic engagement