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Transforming Urban Places: Political Participation of University Students in Bologna
No full textContemporary cities are facing several changings (i.e., housing crises, touristification, and studentification) which have significant consequences on the processes of dwelling. Particularly in university cities, these transformations are influencing the co-existence processes between university students and other groups of city dwellers. Despite extensive research on the political life of students, there is a lack of studies that consider how students address these transformations through their political participation practices, and which are their implications for urban places. This research aims at analyzing how students’ political participation transforms urban places, adopting the theoretical lenses of place-making, with a specific focus on bottom-up place-making processes. The preliminary results of an ethnography conducted in Bologna will be presented. Between May 2022 and February 2023, participant observations were conducted during students’ participatory practices in public places (e.g., demonstrations, parades, occupations, performances) involving various university groups (i.e., academic associations, political and artistic collectives). The initial phases of the Reflective Thematic Analysis conducted on fieldnotes, is focused on students’ right claims, on the strategies of place-making employed during participatory practices (i.e., transformation of the place’s functions, transformation of places’ norms of interaction, emplacement), and on how these practices relate to urban borders (porosity)
Sensing the Inner City: A Conversation with Alex Rhys-Taylor
Full text linkAlex Rhys-Taylor is an urban sociologist at the Goldsmiths University of London. His works are based on the relationship between experiences of the city (e.g., multisensory experiences) and histories of change. Given the importance of sensory methodologies in social sciences, the following conversation addresses their role in the comprehension of contemporary urban changes (e.g., touristification and housing crisis), social processes of discrimination (e.g., cultural disgust), and social history of urban areas (e.g., inner city and culinary experiences). These issues are addressed during the conversation by discussing the methodological and empirical implications of concepts like intersensoriality, sensescapes, inner city, and between the digital and the physical city
Making the City of the Future: University Students’ Narratives about Public Participation
No full textCities are undergoing significant transformations that need to be better understood. In
university cities, in particular, it is important to better understand the crucial and varied placemaking
roles that students play in their transformations. Their role in studentification and
gentrification is addressed by numerous studies. However, little is known about how they
make sense of their in-place public participation practices - e.g., demonstrations,
occupations, performances and other forms of collective action in urban places – and of their
place-making implications for the future of the city. This presentation aims at exploring
students’ narratives about their in-place public and political participation and their senses of
place from a temporal perspective, in relation to the future of the city. Our narrative approach
locates sense of place in a temporal perspective, as different narratives interpret and resignify
the past, the present and the future in different ways, thus legitimizing certain possible
urban futures, and de-legitimizing other. The empirical study includes twenty-seven walking
interviews with students, conducted in Bologna (n=15) and Lisbon (n=12). A Narrative Analysis
is conducted to understand how participants make sense of participation and place-making
by accounting for them with (different) temporal perspectives about self, places, and cities,
identifying place-relevant actors and roles, developing (different) rights-claims and types of
sense of place, and by using collective or individual voices. Results suggest that a first
narrative is based on a confrontational (future-consequential) dynamic between students and
institutions, while a second one is focused on social relationships with other social groups
La partecipazione pubblica degli studenti nelle città storiche universitarie: riflessioni dalle prime esperienze di campo a Bologna
No full textThe present work aims to explore the practices of public participation by students in historical uni- versity cities, analyzing their influences in terms of urban transformations and their relationships with the places that students develop by engaging in such practices. Particularly, the paper will be focused on the case study of Bologna, and it will address the main critical themes related to student-city relations as narrated by student associations, and the observations of an urban street parade conducted by a university political collective
Making the City of the Future: University Students’ Narratives about Public Participation
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Transforming the university city: place-narratives and place-making practices of university students in Bologna and Lisbon
Full text linkGli studenti svolgono un ruolo cruciale nella vita politica delle città universitarie. La letteratura evidenzia diverse forme di partecipazione politica, come associazioni studentesche e movimenti sociali, che si mobilitano soprattutto per il diritto allo studio e questioni di politiche nazionali. Tuttavia, il loro ruolo nella negoziazione con le istituzioni pubbliche urbane e nella trasformazione dei luoghi urbani rimane poco esplorato.
Questa ricerca mira a contribuire a questo dibattito analizzando come gli studenti trasformano la città attraverso la propria partecipazione politica. Il concetto di senso(i) del luogo, comprensivo di significati di luogo e attaccamento ai luoghi, viene esaminato attraverso le lenti della psicologia narrativa e della Teoria delle Rappresentazioni Sociali, per comprendere come gli studenti costruiscano e mobilitino significati per legittimare pratiche di appropriazione e di place-making, considerandone le dinamiche di potere. La ricerca si basa su due studi etnografici condotti a Bologna e Lisbona, attraverso al conduzione di walking interviews (14 a Bologna, 11 a Lisbona) e di osservazioni partecipanti con un approccio sensoriale. Le interviste sono state analizzate attraverso Analisi Narrativa, mentre le note di campo sono state esaminate tramite Analisi Tematica Riflessiva.
I risultati rivelano due narrazioni predominanti in entrambe le città: una Narrazione Conflittuale, che enfatizza l'opposizione tra studenti e istituzioni, dove il senso del luogo è legato all'identità e all'attaccamento, e una Narrazione Polifonica, che evidenzia la convivenza tra diversi gruppi urbani, associata a un attaccamento ambivalente e alla porosità. A Bologna, le istituzioni sono percepite come difensive, limitando la porosità, mentre a Lisbona gli studenti non attivisti sono visti come indifferenti. Le osservazioni sono strutturate attorno a tre temi: appropriazione per il diritto alla città, place-making relazionale e abitare. Lo studio evidenzia come la dimensione urbana sia centrale per comprendere la partecipazione politica degli studenti e i suoi impatti materiali e sociali sulla vita urbana.Students play a crucial role in the political life of university cities. The literature highlights various forms of formal participation, such as student associations and social movements, which advocate for issues like the right to education and national policies. However, their role in negotiating with urban public institution and in transforming urban places remains underexplored. This research aims at contributing to address these gaps by analyzing how students shape the city through political participation. The concept of sense(s) of place, including place meaning and attachment, is examined through narrative psychology and Social Representations' Theory to understand how students construct and mobilize meanings to legitimize practices of place appropriation and place-making, considering power dynamics. The research is based on ethnographic studies in Bologna and Lisbon, using walking interviews (14 in Bologna, 11 in Lisbon) and participant observation adopting a sensory approach. Narrative Analysis was applied to interviews, while Reflexive Thematic Analysis was used for field notes. Findings reveal two predominant narratives in both cities: a Confrontational Narrative, emphasizing opposition between students and institutions, where sense of place is tied to identity and attachment, and a Polyphonic Narrative, highlighting coexistence among different urban groups, linked to ambivalent attachment and porosity. In Bologna, institutions are seen as defensive, limiting porosity, while in Lisbon, non-activist students are perceived as indifferent. Observations are structured around three themes: appropriation for the right to the city, relational place-making, and dwelling. The study highlights how the urban dimension is central to understanding student political participation and its material and social impacts on urban life
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