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Roots and Problems of Universalism: The Concept of Children's Agency
No full textThis chapter highlights the conceptual narratives of children and childhood. These conceptual narratives have been enhanced in Western society since the beginning of modernity, and later expanded to the global society. Recently, the conceptual narrative of Sociology of Childhood has proposed a new form of universalism in global society. Starting with a radical critique of adult control, this narrative analyses the meanings of social relations involving children, and point out that children are competent actors of social relations and active agents of change. The concept of agency implies the relationship between children’s actions and social structures. The social structure which conditions children’s agency is explained as a hierarchical, although dynamic, generational order of relations. However, the incresaing interest in children’s participation has generated a quest for effective adult-child relations which may promote children’s agency. This interest has also enhanced efforts to find forms of relations that can also enhance the agency of marginalized children, taking into account the global dimension of society. However, the analysis and enhancement of agency require the recogntion of five presuppositions. First, the actions of adults differ in meaning according to different social structures. Second, although the significance of adult actions depends on the strucure of the social system in which they are produced, only local conditions can promote more or less effective adult-child relations. Third, the actions of adults can enable various forms of children’s action, coordination with and among children, management of decisions. Fourth, the paradoxical dependence of children’s actions on adults’ actions may take two forms: either guided adaptation and socialization, or empowered choices and decision-making. Fifth, empowering children’s choices means enhancing unpredictability, which needs the additional enhancement of children’s management of their own actions.
The challenge is globalizing facilitation of adult-children dialogue, rather than universal narratives of childhood and children, as dialogue is a hybrid social structure that can promote effective local and differentiated conditions of children’s agency. The identification of the structure of dialogue is a result of research that cannot imply that dialogue and agency are the best possible future in which to hope in the global society. The future of children and their relations with society is the consequence of the unpreditctable success of the structures of relations in which children are involved
Ceramic Tile Market Forecast Analysis. TREND 2022—2026
No full textSUMMARY. With the covid pandemic emergency over in much of the world, most of the world's
economies face new and unexpected problems in 2022, from the conflict situation on
Europe's eastern border, to rising energy costs, to the emergence of inflation after
years of stable prices. This new world scenario is also having a significant impact on
the construction industry and ceramic tile production and consumption, and has led us
to revise our global forecasts for the sector downwards, especially for European coun-
tries and North America. Despite all the new challenges at international level, China will
remain the undisputed oligopolist of the world ceramic market, with almost half of the
shares in both production and consumption of ceramic tiles, close to reaching 10 billion
sqm; India, at a great distance, will manufacture more than 3 billion sqm in 2026, but
nearly one third of it will be exported (thus becoming the world's leading exporter in
terms of volume), followed by Brazil and Spain, Iran and Vietnam.
Overall, the world ceramic market looks set to grow by 3.1 billion square meters with-
in five years, a growth rate of 3.3% if read in terms of production, 3.2% if we look
at demand, almost two points less if compared with our previous forecasts. Asia will
strengthen its dominance in terms of production, not as an area of consumption. Africa
confirms as the region with the greatest dynamism (starting from lower absolute levels
and with a considerable gap to make up), the surprise - already tasted in the last edi-
tion of "World Production and Consumption of ceramic tiles" - is the speed with which
Latin American countries have resumed growth after a period of stability.
The analysis starts by using a qualitative approach to describe all the factors that
will condition both the supply and the demand of ceramic tiles in the next few years,
factors that have been considered in this outlook and transformed into variables of
our econometric forecasting model: from population and wealth trends to geopolitical
tensions, from the impact of rising energy prices to the scarcity of raw materials, from
the ups and downs of the construction sector to logistics performance and the new
international standards of sustainability for materials in the living sector.
After the descriptive part, space will be left for the numbers, organized in easy-to-
view charts, first by macro-areas, then by single countries (double charts for countries
that are both producers and consumers, single charts for countries that consume but
produce negligible quantities of ceramics). In the report, a total of 91 countries are an-
alysed. We chose to exclude areas where the lack of official data and estimates would
have made the projections too risky.
In closing, however, all data are summed up in summary tables with rankings of the
main producing and consuming countries based on the expected change over the next
five years
Ceramic machinery: Italian companies see growth in profitability
No full textAnalisi critica dei bilanci 2016 delle aziende internazionali produttrici di piastrelle ceramiche, elaborazione di benchmark analysi
Financial statement analysis of Italian ceramic tile manufacturers
No full textAnalisi critica dei bilanci 2016 delle aziende produttrici di piastrelle ceramich
FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS, EUROPEAN PACKAGING MACHINERY COMPANIES - OVER 5 MLN. EURO TURNOVER
No full textThis report provides a complete economic
and financial analysis of main European
packaging machinery producers. The re-
port is based on published financial state-
ment data for a sample of European com-
panies chosen from the sector. The operat-
ing results of each individual company
were evaluated through an analysis of fi-
nancial statement indices and by making a
comparison with the relevant geographical
or sectoral aggregates, taking into consid-
eration all operational areas of the compa-
nies. Specific financial statement analyses
were also conducted for aggregates of Ital-
ian, German, and other european compa-
nies and the results were compared.
This was followed by a cluster and bench-
marking analysis aimed at describing and
comparing homogeneous groups of compa-
nies. In this case the specific financial state-
ment analyses were conducted for different
clusters of companies and the results com-
pared with the corresponding aggregate
results.
Lastly, the report provides various rankings
of the companies included in the sample
The Micro Level: Reconstructing the Luoyang’s Horse and Chariot Discovery
No full textIn this chapter, the Heritage Chain is applied to a specific case of heritage preservation and management in China: the “Horse and Chariot” museum . The case highlights the ability of the “Heritage Chain” to grasp a single case of heritage management with a holistic view
Between Policies and Practices: Administration Matters
No full textIn this chapter the authors outline an analytical framework which acknowledges the potential disconnection between policies and practices in cultural policies. While leaving aside the hyper-complexity of models introduced by policy implementation studies, the framework aims to immediately focus on three different levels of consistency for the analysis of cultural policies at the micro level. First, it focuses on the policy statement phase (a main topic of cultural policies studies), then on the enactment phase (a main topic of policy implementation research), and finally on the evaluation of results (partly considered by public management scholars), with the aim to recouple the three different and separated approaches
The heritage chain: Assessing the Economic Organization of the Sector
No full textIn this section the authors focus on the notion of the Heritage Chain and its possible uses through two case studies: the Horse and Chariot discovery in Luoyang, China, and the heritage system in Turkey. The Heritage Chain is to some extent another example of framework that emerged in our field research about the management of heritage in various countries. The concept refers to the set of activities taking place in the heritage sector, from protection to public access, and is derived from the notion of supply chain that was developed in the field of Industrial Organization few decades ago
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