Bonds Of Solidarity Research Articles

The new agora: The space of public debate in the digital age

This paper raises two questions: can the Web be a space for public debate? Can this debate be constructive? Adopting a non-normative and not overly narrow definition, it is possible to say that the Web is a space for public debate. However, some of its structural characteristics and some aspects of the dominant social media (individualism and the impossibility of establishing durable bonds of solidarity) can be interpreted as elements that contribute to social polarization on the Web. This makes it difficult to give a clear answer to the second question.

Changing The Largest Force of Inequality by Ruqayya in Radwa Ashour's The Woman from Tantoura

Women as victims of sexist oppression become a global issues up to now. One of the causes that lead to women being victims of sexist oppression is a patriarchy system that is still developing. This study aims to analyse Ruqayya’s strength in dealing with various kinds of pressure as a Palestinian woman in Radwa Ashour’s The Woman from Tantoura. Furthermore, three issues will be investigated in this study, those are; kinds of sexist oppression experienced by Ruqayya, how solidarity is formed by sharing sources and how solidarity forms a unity front for the emergence of Ruqayya’s power practices to stop sexist oppression. This study is qualitative design because the data are collected in the form of words. The data of this study are the narrator’s explanations and the character’s utterances related to the three issues above. The results of the analysis show that Ruqayya experiences kinds of sexist oppression such as arranged marriages, violence, and sexual abuse. Ruqayya forms a bond of solidarity built on empathy and sharing sources. Ruqayya obtains power from the bond so that the action is formed by Ruqayya as her resistance to end sexist oppression.

Sweden, Inc.: Temporal Sovereignty of the Realm and People from the Middle Ages to Modernity

Sweden, Inc.: Temporal Sovereignty of the Realm and People from the Middle Ages to Modernity

Transitions in the Post-pandemic COVID-19 Context: Building Youth Policies in the Global South

This article seeks to contribute to the field of youth studies, particularly to the tradition of youth studies as transition, from Global South standpoint and integrating a gender perspective into youth policymaking. Our approach endorses the development of plural public interventions, focusing on the debates of youth as a transition with a commitment to the construction of a political economy of transitions, through a feminist lens, and amidst the challenges of current youth policies within the post-pandemic COVID-19 context. Thus, in this article, we aim to promote the pluralization of socially just policies that can enable building new bonds of solidarity between generations, genders, and social groups. Ultimately, we argue for the importance of continuing the design of participatory, plural, and well-situated youth policies, underlining the importance of new intergenerational agreements in the construction of fairer and more democratic societies from a Global South perspective.

The question of solidarity in tourism

ABSTRACT Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 inspired some within the tourism industry to react rapidly to support Ukrainians in the crisis. This presents an opportunity to address solidarity through tourism as we confront change in the global order and cascading crises. While some tourism analysts hailed the response in support of Ukraine, others raised critical questions about the absence of care when similar injustices were perpetrated on Global South peoples. This article interrogates these developments as a concern for tourism politics and policy. It examines the expansiveness of solidarity bonds in a world characterised by structural injustices and ongoing imperialism. It suggests a transformation of the World Tourism Organization to focus on harnessing tourism as a tool for equitable solidarity in an era characterised by climate change and multiple crises. It also recommends political astuteness in future tourism analyses, including paying due attention to issues of ongoing structural injustices.

Modernleşme Sürecinde Yaşlılık Sorunlarına İlişkin Sosyolojik Bir Değerlendirme

Batı özelinde ortaya çıkan modernleşme önemli bir toplumsal değişim sürecidir. Bu değişim süreci, toplumsal yaşamın farklı alanlarında çok boyutlu ve köklü değişimleri başlatmıştır. Bu değişim sürecinde yaşlılık olgusu, aile ile birlikte değişimin merkezinde yer almıştır. Özellikle sanayileşme ve kentleşme gibi toplumsal değişim unsurlarının birbiriyle olan ilişkisi ve artan yoğunluğu modernleşme sürecinde geleneksel aile yaşamı üzerinde derin etkiler bırakmıştır. Bu etkiler, ailelerin yeni yaşam biçimlerini benimsemelerine yol açmıştır. Toplumsal değişimler, yaşamın her alanında birçok sorunu ortaya çıkarsa da genellikle görünür olduğu yer ailedir. Modernleşmeyle birlikte geleneksel aile bağlarının çözülmesi ve bireyselliğin öne çıkması, yaşlılıkla ilgili birçok değeri değiştirmiştir. Yaşlı bireylerin geleneksel toplumda ailesi ve çevresi ile kurduğu ilişkilerinin boyutu modern döneme geçişle birlikte değişmiş, geleneksel dönemdeki etkin rollerinin bir kısmını kaybetmişlerdir. Dolayısıyla geleneksel dönemde yaşlı bireylerin yaşam tarzı, modern döneme geçişle birlikte zaafa uğramıştır. Bu durum, yaşlıların aileleri ve sosyal çevreleri ile ilgili yaşadıkları birtakım sıkıntıları gündeme taşımıştır. Modern dönem; bireyselliğin radikalleştiği, geleneksel dayanışma bağlarının çözüldüğü, aidiyet ve kimlik krizlerinin insan yaşamında sosyo-psikolojik gerilimleri tırmandırdığı bir sürece işaret etse de etkilerinin bundan daha yoğun olduğu bir gerçektir. Yaşlı bireylerin bu yoğun etkiler karşısındaki savunmasızlığı neredeyse toplumun diğer üyelerinin önüne geçmiştir. Bu makalede geleneksel dönem ile modern dönemde yaşlı bireylerin, aileleri ve çevreleri üzerinden içinde bulunduğu sosyokültürel durumun bir karşılaştırılması yapılmış ve modern dönemde yaşlıları, geleneksel toplumdan farklı kılan unsurlar konu edilmiştir. Öncelikle araştırmada geleneksel toplumda yaşlıya verilen önemin üzerinde durulmuş, daha sonra ise modernleşmenin etkisiyle yaşlılığı bir sorun haline getiren süreçler tartışılmaya açılmıştır. Araştırmada yaşlılık olgusu ele alınırken literatür kaynaklarından elde ettiğimiz verilerin bir derlemesi yapılmıştır.

An Identity Born Out of Shared Grief: The Account of Rambuai in the Contemporary Mizo Literary Texts

Anthony David Stephen Smith’s definition of nationalism as a feeling of “intense bond of solidarity”, when applied to contemporary Mizo nationalist consciousness, is a bond born not out of pre-historic kinship but of shared grief and a spiritual anchor in Christianity. The MNF movement for self-determination, which began with half-hearted support from the people spiraled off into the most violent and darkest period in Mizo history known as Rambuai (1966-1986) which, when translated into English, means ‘troubled land’. The human experience of this period has been a subject of Mizo literature. Three works of fiction— Nunna Kawngthuam Puiah (1989), Silaimu Ngaihawm (2012) and Zorami: A Redemption Song (2015) are among the best literary representations of human suffering in the troubled land. These works will be used as textual bases upon which the role of religion and spirituality in bringing about a reconciliation and healing can be studied. The paper examines how the rambuai memories construct the Mizo identity that relies on forging connections between religion and a heroic cultural past.

Digital Migration Practices and the Everyday

AbstractThis special issue explores the role that digital technology plays in the lives of migrants. It does so by paying close attention to governmental and supranational organizations as well as to subjective and affective dimensions of the everyday. Digital migration practices emerge as complex negotiations in the digital media sphere between infrastructural bias and agential opportunities, contesting racial practices as well as enabling digitally mediated bonds of solidarity and intimacy. The issue offers nuanced critical perspectives ranging from surveillance capitalism, extractive humanitarianism, datafication, and border regimes to choreographies of care and intimacy in transnational settings, among other aspects. Renowned international scholars reflect on these issues from different vantage points. The closing forum section provides state-of-the-art commentaries on digital diaspora, affect and belonging, voice and visibility in the digital media sphere, queer migrant interventions in non-academic settings, and datafication and media infrastructures in “deep time.”

Therapies without Pride: An Explorative Study of the Therapist’s Perspective on the Quality of the Social Bond with Clients in Cognitive Behavior Therapy and a Psychodynamic Therapy against Men’s Violence in Sweden

This explorative paper aims to test a model of operationalized subindicators that allows for a simplified analysis of the social bond between therapists and clients in violence therapy. A theoretical premise of this work is that a stable social bond is a prerequisite for the client’s building a positive self-image and becoming reintegrated into society as nonviolent. The research entails the comparison of two different therapy treatments. A psychodynamic therapy against men’s violence, undertaken voluntarily and frequently used in Nordic countries, is compared to a compulsory cognitive behavior therapy used for men in correctional settings. Although the therapists in both treatments attempt to balance the relationship between themselves and the clients, both therapies tend to alienate the parties from each other, thereby preventing the development of a stable social bond of solidarity. For both treatments, an awareness is needed of those parts of the therapy that evoke shame and pride, thereby permitting an evaluation of the treatment so that the positive quality of the social bond can develop.

Techno-altruism. From cultural conflict to constructive and supportive use of online environments

Abstract Even before the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, the massive use of the digital in everyday life, in the absence of intercultural - media skills, seemed to have fuelled violence, misinformation, ethnocentrisms, prejudices towards the Other (Urry 2000; Appadurai 2005; Couldry 2015; Ziccardi 2016; Europol 2016; SWG 2017, Vox 2018). However, social and digital technology can also be re-thought as a civic and moral space (Silverstone, 2009) able to overcome conflict and polarisation, as a strategic medium to improve social policies and the management of migration flows, actively involving host institutions and communities (Buoncompagni, D’Ambrosi 2020). The panorama of humanitarian aid, in particular, i.e. that typology of interventions aimed at helping populations affected by war events or natural disasters, is completely changing in the way of operating within the world of international migration precisely thanks to the digital infrastructure (IOM 2018). Apps, virtual itinerant maps and self-narratives via social networks, sharing GPS coordinates of the safest routes among migrants, increasing numbers of socially engaged indigenous citizens enrolled in online platforms, are just a few examples of how digital media are acquiring a fundamental role within the migration network in hospitality and aid actions (Brunwasser 2015; Buoncompagni 2021. Only by developing the art of solidarity and the ability to communicate and cooperate globally, opening up to the Other, can the “different” relate effectively and productively in digital society (Chen 2005; Bennet 2015). Pitirim A. Sorokin himself, a still prominent figure of 20th century sociology, stated that historical and techno-cultural changes have not always produced positive results within societies, but at times also negative (or more precisely ‘destructive’) ones: individualism, antagonism, excess of technology and rationality, and in particular the fall of the bonds of solidarity towards the different and the loss of the feeling of belonging (Cimagalli 2010; Marletti 2018; Perrotta 2016). But the sociologist also stressed how altruism could be one of the indispensable ingredients of social life. No society can exist without an “altruistic and creative love” that has as its aim the “altruisation” of individuals and social institutions: a complex process/project capable of encompassing the emotional, supra-rational and spiritual aspects of human relationships (including online), starting from the idea that all men can recognise themselves in certain moral principles, eternal and universal (Mangone, 2020). And such a condition could be re-created/supported also through digital tools and exist in online environments, thus trying to extend, on a theoretical level, Sorokin’s attempt to make sociology (also digital, in this case) a “science of altruism” in the post-pandemic era of global interconnectedness.

"It's not 30 pesos. It´s 500 years": monuments, memory and activism in the Wallmapu during the estallido social in Chile

This article studies to what extent the interaction between activists and historical monuments during the 2019 Chilean protests created a shift in the interpretation of the country's past, thus facilitating the emergence of alternative and more inclusive narratives able to challenge hegemonic power structures. The article embarks on this endeavour through an analysis of three cases of demonumentalisation that occurred in the Chilean city of Temuco on the 29th of October 2019. Methodologically, the article engages with a combination of theories regarding the coloniality of power, the politics of aesthetics, and cultural memory. Finally, the paper concludes by arguing that Chilean activists' engagement in the practice of demonumentalisation exposed alternative narratives concerning the historical conflict between the Chilean state and the Mapuche community. Making visible the perpetuation of unjust social structures in Chilean society and creating bonds of solidarity between the Chilean mass movement and the Mapuche movement.

Soyo Practice: Revitalization of Local Wisdom Values in The Community Empowerment of The Modern Management Era

The mutual help or soyo practice, which has relevance in modern management systems, is an effort to strengthen the local wisdom values in urban communities that tend to rely on cultural mechanisms. This research aims to show the cultural mechanism that still survives in Javanese urban communities concerning modern management systems development. Meanwhile, the analysis performed was based on data obtained through interviews, observation, and documentation methods. The research showed that soyo is a local tradition that emphasizes the survival of solidarity bonds and mutual help or ta’awun. Furthermore, the practice describes the efforts to maintain community cohesion and solidity amid life’s complexities. The mutual help principle in soyo has also proven to assist the community in achieving goals without fully relying on economic capital and other parties’ intervention, especially from the state. Therefore, a modern management system should be open to the local wisdom values in reflecting how to achieve these goals.

Coronavirus: A Contingency that Eliminates Contingency

The experience of containment during the coronavirus allows us to draw several lessons. It is not true that a physical distance is necessarily tantamount to a human distance (which is why the term social distancing is totally inappropriate); we have seen many cases where the crisis tightened the bonds of solidarity between close relations, between relatives or neighbors. But by asking citizens to suspend all “unnecessary” activities, the authorities have brought to light everything that intrinsically defines social relationships: chance encounters, unforeseen exchanges, exposure to the unexpected. By enjoining individuals to concentrate on the essential, we are basically returning to what we are most familiar with, warding ourselves off from that part of contingency that is the leaven of all human relationships. The disappearance of shared public space also corresponds to a disappearance of surprise. In times of confinement, the algorithms of on-demand television become the suppliers of our favorite films or series, while culinary orders are delivered to the door, without even seeing the face of the delivery person who has already turned on his or her heels.

Socialização organizacional no setor público: ações e percepções de novatos e experientes

Purpose – This study aims to explain how the process of organizational socialization of newcomers occurs in a public faculty.Design/methodology/approach – This qualitative and interpretativist research was conducted under an interactionist approach. We interviewed 14 newcomers and also experienced government employees from a state public faculty in São Paulo. The content of the interviews was analyzed by a categorization process.Findings – The findings show that socialization of newcomers is self-motivated, informal, non-institutionalized, influenced by the normative nature of work and insufficient support given by the group. Newcomers’ admission into the workplace does not cause serious conflicts or tensions that could lead to changes in the workplace. It is the proactive behavior of the newcomers that allows them to adapt to work and know traditions, beliefs and history of the organization.Research limitations/implications – The limitation of this study is the context of a public university’s workplace. Practical implications – This research allows the organization to get information about the triangular relationship between challenge, support and trust which could have direct effects on the newcomers’ workplace learning.Social implications – We propose that the organization creates a workplace in which the employees can feel strong bonds of solidarity and collectivism, and in which they could have concrete opportunities to realize that their work can contribute to something important, impacting, in the group and in the organization.Originality/value – This study articulates the concepts of organizational socialization, proactive behavior and self-socialization, which may provide future implications for public management in universities.

A gastronomia como ferramenta de transformação social: estudo de caso do Projeto Co[m]feito

O Movimento de Gastronomia Social, criado por David Hertz, fundador da Gastromotiva, é uma rede global de comunidades locais interconectadas que usa o poder da comida como ferramenta para a mudança social. O projeto Co[m]feito: aprendendo e ensinando a fazer em comunidade, insere-se nesse contexto, com objetivo principal de promover a integração entre universidade e comunidade local, contribuindo para a capacitação profissional de sujeitos de baixa renda e sua inserção no mercado de trabalho. A Universidade do Vale do Itajaí (UNIVALI), entende que o contato com a comunidade e os projetos de extensão são primordiais para expandir a visão de mundo dos alunos e professores que participam das atividades, com vistas à formação de profissionais cidadãos, conscientes de seu papel social. Para atingir os objetivos deste projeto, optou-se pelo método qualitativo e escolheu-se o estudo de caso como método investigativo e apoiou-se nos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS). Foram realizadas, até o momento, três edições do Projeto: segundo semestre de 2018, e primeiro e segundo semestres de 2019. Em cada edição, uma acadêmica de gastronomia atuou como bolsista, ministrando as aulas de panificação e confeitaria básicas. Alguns dos resultados previstos dentro de uma das etapas foi a adesão de acadêmicos voluntários, superando as expectativas, com 36 alunos participantes, valorizando a importância do exercício da cidadania e da responsabilidade social e incentivando o fortalecimento dos vínculos de solidariedade entre os atores sociais. Além disso, houve inserção dos beneficiados no mercado de trabalho, bem como no Programa de jovens aprendizes.

Incidencia de la violencia de género en el ámbito penal

La determinación del ámbito de competencia propio de los Juzgados de Violencia sobre la Mujer es uno de los principales temas de debate que propicia la aplicación práctica de la Ley Orgánica 1/2004, de 28 de diciembre, de Medidas de Protección Integral contra la Violencia de Género. Los procedimientos más habituales en los Juzgados de Violencia sobre la Mujer lo constituyen: JUICIO RÁPIDO (Diligencias Urgentes) y DIP (Diligencias Previas). Muy importante y necesaria la labor del médico forense, complementaria a la realizada por otros profesionales. Esta interrelación da como fruto la elaboración de un informe pericial de calidad adaptado a la solicitud realizada en el procedimiento penal correspondiente. La excepción o DISPENSA de declarar al pariente del procesado o al cónyuge que establece este artículo 416, tiene por finalidad resolver el conflicto que se le puede plantear al testigo entre el deber de decir la verdad y el vínculo de solidaridad y familiaridad que le une con el procesado.

Utopia e destruição, ruína e progresso

O filme A Margem, de Ozualdo Candeias, relata o cotidiano de quatro indivíduos moradores de uma região periférica da cidade de São Paulo. A partir das considerações de Marc Ferro, Eduardo Morettin e Ismail Xavier, o artigo elege caminhos para a mobilização do cinema como fonte do conhecimento histórico. Na investigação, principal ênfase se dá para a construção da experiência dos marginalizados, a qual aparece tensionada entre a constituição de vínculos de solidariedade e a incapacidade de reagirem coletivamente à s opressões. Além disso, o filme também é investigado como perspectiva crítica acerca do processo de modernização da cidade de São Paulo, intensificado a partir dos anos 50.

Literacy and Awakening: The Awakening of 1804/1805 in Hopedale, Labrador

ABSTRACT This exploration of literacy and awakening draws attention to the fact that the learning of hymns and the translation of the Passion narrative of the Gospels were instrumental in the acceptance of the Moravian faith among the Labrador Inuit. Literacy, made possible through systematic schooling since 1780, was thus an important factor in the awakening of 1804/5 in Hopedale and contributed to the indigenization of Christianity in the eighteenth-century Moravian settlements of Nain, Okak, and Hopedale. During the awakening a significant shift occurred in the religious self-understanding of the Labrador Inuit when people moved from a relatively superficial understanding of Christianity as a remedy for personal lapses and violations to an existential understanding of the drama of sin and salvation as well as a deeper identification with the religious community. The study also points out the fact that communication through written epistles between Labrador and Greenland may have established a wider religious bond of solidarity between Greenland and Labrador Inuit and encouraged the Hopedale Inuit during their awakening.

A Postcolonial Critique of Community Energy: Searching for Community as Solidarity in India and Scotland

AbstractCommunity renewable energy (CRE) represents a growing empirical and academic turn towards community‐based sustainability and climate change interventions. This paper brings together postcolonial theory and CRE for the first time to outline fundamental tensions in the conceptualisation and application of the idea of community. The understanding of community within the CRE discourse is largely: (1) location‐based; and/or (2) a community of choice that is consciously opted into. Driven by postcolonial theory, this paper counterpoises both as a form of community as contract against an idea of community as solidarity. Its central thesis is that actually existing community, contrary to how the bulk of CRE literature commonly understands it, is a combination of bonds of solidarity and emergent purposes. The paper conceptualises community as fluid bonds of solidarity that align and realign differently around different purposes.

Elite da Liberdade: a contribution to the history of black clubs in Brazil

This article investigates the trajectory of the Grêmio Dramático, Recreativo e Literário Elite da Liberdade (the Liberdade Elite Guild of Drama, Recreation, and Literature), a black club active in São Paulo, Brazil, from 1919 to 1927. The aim is to reconstruct aspects of the club’s history in light of its educational discourse on civility, which was used as a strategy to promote modern virtues in the black milieu. By appropriating the precepts of civility, Elite da Liberdade helped construct a positive black identity, enabled the creation of bonds of solidarity among its members, and made itself a place of resistance and struggle for social inclusion, recognition, and citizens’ rights.