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Children’s Right to Participation and Well-Being within and for a Sustainable Development: Towards the Expansion of the Self
No full textInspired by social interactionism (Weber 1921, Mead 1934) and the structuration theory (Giddens 1984), an emergent theory addresses social actions and discourses in terms of transactional horizons (Stoecklin 2021a, 2021b). New understandings of agency derived from an analytical framework called the “actor’s system” (Stoecklin 2013), stemming from long-term research with children in street situations (Lucchini and Stoecklin 2020). This framework was then applied in small-scale studies in Switzerland (Stoecklin et al. 2017; Stoecklin 2021b) and in a review of Greta Thunberg’s speeches (Stoecklin 2021a). The comparisons show that children’s participation, well-being, and attitudes towards sustainable development share a common feature that is the need for individual flourishing. This commonality in children’s experiences is grasped here with the notion “expansion of the self”. This provides a new understanding of the replicated claims for participation, well-being and sustainability: the need to flourish is bound to the most common system, namely the perceptual system. The five senses (touch, smell, hearing, sight, taste) are the human common basis for discursive collocations. An interdisciplinary dialogue is needed to understand actions as forms of being and connectors between perceptual and reflective consciousness
Droits de l'enfant et changements climatiques: analyse des discours des jeunes activistes pour le climat à la lumière des droits de l'enfant
No full textCe travail vise à appréhender les mobilisations récentes des jeunes pour le climat – considérées alors comme un « nouveau mouvement social » – à la lumière du « projet » des droits de l'enfant qui a pris forme en 1989 suite à l'adoption par les Nations Unies de la Convention internationale relative aux droits de l'enfant (CDE). À travers une analyse thématique des discours de Greta Thunberg, Anuna De Wever et Adélaïde Charlier, ainsi que de deux grilles de lecture, qui sont les écoles de pensée en droits de l'enfant théorisées par Karl Hanson et le système de l'acteur formulé par Daniel Stoecklin, nous nous interrogeons sur la manière dont ces deux luttes – climatique et pour les droits de l'enfant – peuvent se rejoindre et se compléter. Au cours de notre recherche, nous verrons que ces jeunes activistes pour le climat ont des capacités d'action importantes, une « agency politique », qui répondent à la promesse faite par les Nations Unies en proclamant l'enfant acteur.rice et sujet de droits
Jean-Pierre Abbet & Daniel Stoecklin, « We were talking… » Les Beatles en héritage
Get PDFVoici un ouvrage autour des Beatles qui n’est pas une biographie, ni une étude sociologique, mais une collection d’essais par deux sociologues. Dans « We were talking » Les Beatles en héritage, Jean-Pierre Abbet et Daniel Stoecklin prennent un style discursif libre et, ne visant pas une neutralité scientifique, proposent leurs points de vue personnels sur des thèmes divers autour des Beatles. Les thèmes varient de l’œuvre des Beatles à la « Beatlemania » comme phénomène social, en passant par..
The General Comment on Children in Street Situations: Insights into the Institutionalisation of Children’s Rights
No full textThe drafting of the General Comment (gc) on Children in Street Situations (
uncrc, 2016), whereby the sociological perspective (Lucchini, 1993, 1996, 2007; Stoecklin, 2000a, 2007) that informed this labelling becomes lost in translation, provides a convincing example of the ‘paradox of institutionalisation’ (Stammers, 2013). The vision of children’s “living rights” as the outcome of a structured process translating specific claims into an institutionalised set of norms (Hanson and Nieuwenhuys, 2013) is thus specified. Analysis of the labels used for “street children” underlines the transformability of signification, domination and legitimisation in the theory of structuration (Giddens, 1979, 1984).</jats:p
Report on Meteorological Research March 1, 1935 (m-1)
No full textThe object of the report was to elucidate in detail the various features of the research program in meteorology being carried on at the Daniel Guggenheim Airship Institute in Akron, Ohio. Mr. L. J. Fangman, of the U.S. Weather Bureau, was collaborating with the author in carrying out work such as a study of autographic records of the various meteorological elements during frontal passages with a view to the possible prediction of the intensity of the accompanying disturbance as it may affect the operation of aircraft and a study of atmospheric gustiness with a view to finding the dependence between frequency end amplitude of velocity fluctuations and the vertical temperature and velocity gradients
Transactional horizons as mitigation of power imbalance in adult-child interviews
No full textData gathered in the French-speaking and Italian-speaking parts of Switzerland, using the protocol of the Children’s Understandings of Well-being multinational qualitative study (Hunner-Kreisel et al., 2016) raises the issue of language differences and taken-for-granted categories. The chapter focuses on the critical question of how far children’s discourses on their well-being are really “subjective”, when considering that any item exchanged in a conversation is already a situational account framed by power relations. The words chosen by social actors are selected according to their perception of the situation (social position, gender, ethnicity), with auto-censorship stronger as children face an adult researcher they don’t know. Therefore, power imbalance in interviews is as much an ethical issue as its mitigation is a methodological challenge. This issue has been addressed by adding a layer in the CUWB study protocol, namely the introduction of a tool called “kaleidoscope of experience” (Stoecklin 2013), functioning as a mediator in the interview situation. The presentation of self (Mead 1934) is negociated through this tool which has the ethical advantage of a more horizontal communication thanks to the use of five categories – activities, relations, values, images of self and motivations – that are universal enough to embrace experience without being trapped in gaps of communication due to local and generational cultures (Stoecklin 2019a). Latest developments are critical of these substantives, replacing them with verbs and considering them as “transactional horizons” (Stoecklin 2019b) whereby the experience that simultaneously conveys sensory perceptions is translated into hierarchised categories forming an intelligible discourse. The centrality of verbs in the ordening of reality (Foucault 1989) is underlined, with theoretical developments on forms of agency rather than levels. Drawing on interview notes and a vignette on the case of a girl of 11 with a relatively complex migration and family history, it will be shown that children’s subjective feeling of well-being is linked to social and personal factors at play in the co-construction of a balanced self. This enriches the capability approach (Sen, 1999) by highlighting that real freedoms depend on modes of acting that are culturally, socially and economically favored.</p
Freely expressed views: Methodological challenges for the right of the child to be heard
No full textThe methodological challenges in the research on children's subjective understandings of well-being are very close to the ones surrounding the implementation of the right of the child to be heard. Therefore, identification of the factors favouring or impeding children's freely expressed views on the one hand, and preliminary results of research on children's subjective well-being on the other hand, reciprocally inform each other. The right to be heard is approached from the perspective of capabilities (Stoecklin & Bonvin 2014) identifying factors that are converting this formal freedom into real freedom. They highlight preliminary results of a qualitative study conducted in Switzerland along the procotol of the Child's Subjective Well-Being study (Hunner-Kreisel et al. 2016). The inclusion of a participative research tool, the “actor's system” (Stoecklin 2013), has allowed to concentrate on children's subjective understandings of their experience. The results are not analysed in terms of statistical representativeness, but rather in terms of « structural » features they allow to highlight. The endeavour is methodological. The analysis shows that language itself can be a conversion factor in the implementation of the right to be heard, and similarly a methodological trap inducing specific translations of children's voices into the official “vocabulary” of well-being. Research protocols should therefore be adapted to the evolving capacities of children, considering that well-being is not given state but rather a subjective feeling stemming from processual social dynamics in which children play a part, even when they have little voice
(Fourth) Report on Meteorological Activities at the DGAI (8-1-36)(Weather Bureau Copy)
No full textThis report is on the investigations of frontal phenomena at the Daniel Guggenheim Airship Institute in Akron, Ohio from January 1, 1935 through August 1, 1936. The investigation was carried out with the cooperation of the U.S. Bureau of Aeronautics, the U.S. Weather Bureau, the California Institute of Technology, and the Guggenheim Airship Institute. Mr. R.C. Robinson of the Weather Bureau cooperated with the author in carrying out the investigation. The object of the investigation was to determine the intensity of the atmospheric disturbances (i.e. rapidity of wind shift and gustiness) accompanying the passage of cold fronts, along with a study of the characteristics of the air masses involved and other features which might affect the intensity of the disturbance. The report treated thirty cold fronts which passed the station during 1935 to 1936
Archives and Images as Repositories of Time, Language, and Forms from the Past: A Conversation with Daniel Eisenberg
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Get PDFabstract: Daniel was a little boy when the war came to his village. He witnessed people being shot and running for shelter. There was no food or water so he drank urine and ate tree leaves.
“Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age: 24Region: Upper NileThis picture and bio was donated to the "Lost Boys Found" oral history project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente
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