Institutional Space Research Articles

Community-Based Psychiatric Care Provision in Hungary: Trends and Steps towards Progress.

Psychiatric care has undergone several cycles of profound changes in the past centuries all over the world. In Hungary, community-based outpatient care has been showing signs of evolution since the 1950s. Initially, the system centered on assertive outreach and family involvement, especially for those with serious mental health problems. Such services remain available throughout the country, but the emphasis in the past decades has shifted towards mass care provision. In many places, community-based services are no longer provided, and where they are the approach is biomedical and less asuming of recovery. In other centers, the services provided are conceived with the eventuality of rehabilitation in mind and in close cooperation with community-based care providers. Community-based services providers, as part of the social fabric, offer as many psychiatric and rehabilitation services as possible for those with mental disorders within their communities. The main objective of community-based care is to achieve community re-integration and recovery from mental disorders. Today in Hungary, deinstitutionalisation and the introduction of community-based psychiatric care have been adopted even by large inpatient institutions. The replacement of institutional bed space and the provision of subsidised housing further underscore the importance of community-based psychiatric care provision. There is the opinion that, as a further course of development, the emphasis needs to now shift towards the nurturing of a community of experienced experts and creastion of user-led programs. In this new paradigm, the ability of a person with a mental disorder to make decisions and the bolstering of that ability are seen as vital. In order to achieve these objectives, it is essential that health and social seervices professionals cooperate. Hands-on experience is key in the provision and development of such services.

Institutional work within the boundaries of multi-stakeholder initiatives: The relational agency of implementing partners and women cotton-pickers in practice change

In Pakistan, cotton is picked by women who witness first-hand the social and environmental challenges of the global textile industry, which the BCI, a multi-stakeholder initiative (MSI), aims to mitigate. Scholars have yet to investigate the ability of MSIs to achieve change as experienced by the cotton-pickers themselves. This article offers an original perspective on how relational agency is exerted between an MSI, implementing partners and cotton-pickers, through the mutually interacting work of creating boundaries around an institutional space. This helps explain how, in an otherwise highly restrictive context, women’s agency is leveraged. Based on 40 qualitative interviews with the BCI cotton-pickers and their implementing partners, the study finds that, through institutional work, cotton-pickers have upgraded their working practices. However, the MSI’s impact depends on its ability to maintain its boundary and corresponding practices. By implication, the women’s poverty continues to be a highly significant limitation on the improvements to their lives.

The performance of renewable energy infrastructure

PurposeRenewable energy infrastructure is an important asset class in the context of reducing global carbon emissions going forward. This includes solar power, wind farms, hydro, battery storage and hydrogen. This paper examines the risk-adjusted performance and diversification benefits of listed renewable energy infrastructure globally over Q1:2009–Q4:2022 to examine the role of renewable energy infrastructure in a global infrastructure portfolio and in a global mixed-asset portfolio. The performance of renewable energy infrastructure is compared with the other major infrastructure sectors and other major asset classes. The strategic investment implications for institutional investors and renewable energy infrastructure in their portfolios going forward are also highlighted. This includes identifying effective pathways for renewable energy infrastructure exposure by institutional investors.Design/methodology/approachUsing quarterly total returns, the risk-adjusted performance and portfolio diversification benefits of global listed renewable energy infrastructure over Q1:2009–Q4:2022 is assessed. Asset allocation diagrams are used to assess the role of renewable energy infrastructure in a global infrastructure portfolio and in a global mixed-asset portfolio.FindingsListed renewable energy infrastructure was seen to underperform the other infrastructure sectors and other major asset classes over 2009–2022. While delivering portfolio diversification benefits, no renewable energy infrastructure was seen in the optimal infrastructure portfolio or mixed-asset portfolio. More impressive performance characteristics were seen by nonlisted infrastructure funds over this period. Practical reasons for these results are provided as well as effective pathways going forward are identified for the fuller inclusion of renewable energy infrastructure in institutional investor portfolios.Practical implicationsInstitutional investors have an important role in supporting reduced global carbon emissions via their investment mandates and asset allocations. Renewable energy infrastructure will be a key asset to assist in the delivery of this important agenda for a greener economy and addressing global warming. Based on this performance analysis, effective pathways are identified for institutional investors of different size assets under management (AUM) to access renewable energy infrastructure. This will see institutional investors embracing critical investment issues as well as environmental and social issues in their investment strategies going forward.Originality/valueThis paper is the first published empirical research analysis on the performance of renewable energy infrastructure at a global level. This research enables empirically validated, more informed and practical decision-making by institutional investors in the renewable energy infrastructure space. The ultimate aim of this paper is to articulate the potential strategic role of renewable energy infrastructure as an important infrastructure sector in the institutional real asset investment space and to identify effective pathways to achieve this renewable energy infrastructure exposure, as institutional investors focus on the strategic issues in reducing global carbon emissions in the context of increased global warming.

Black Gay Men in Graduate Education: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Finding Black Queer Joy

In today’s sociopolitical climate, many marginalized communities face unique challenges and yet triumph in carving a pathway toward happiness and self-acceptance. Among those resilient individuals are Black gay men, who experience the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality, creating an array of experiences. This collaborative autoethnography explores the distinct hardship Black gay men face in graduate education while trying to find Black queer joy, particularly at predominantly white institutions (PWIs), where these programs can perpetuate institutional and systemic racism and homophobia. Through interviews, three themes emerged: a sense of belonging, battle fatigue, and finding joy. Elevating the experiences of Black gay men emphasizes the importance of recognizing intersectionality and inclusivity in institutional spaces for a more sustainable future.

Experiences of Engineering Education Research Faculty Members in Canada: A Collaborative Autoethnography

As Engineering Education Research (EER) capacity has grown in Canada, tensions have emerged including negotiating legitimacy and the struggle to find space in institutions. In Canada, these tensions have been examined through the perspectives of graduate students studying EER, however, the experiences of new faculty members in EER-specific roles in our region are under-researched. In this paper, we examine our experiences as pre-tenure faculty members in EER-specific roles using collaborative authoethnography. Through a series of reflective prompts and iterative discussions, we address the question of how early-career EER faculty negotiate building an academic “home.” Our findings highlight how our senses of belonging in our academic unit, our engineering faculty, and the wider EER national community are mediated by our abilities to take on engineering identities. This research can help other individuals and faculties understand what supports can help us survive and thrive in Canadian academic contexts.

Displacing the burden of representation: Engaging with critical Whiteness to expand the theory of representative bureaucracy

The theory of representative bureaucracy has provided an important yet limited framework for understanding exclusion in the public sector. This theoretical paper engages with critical approaches to argue for an expanded theory that centers social equity. Close attention to the relationship between the public and nonprofit sectors illuminates how public institutions protect and reproduce White, masculine space by shifting the burden of representation onto racially minoritized public administrators and community-based nonprofit organizations led by and for people of color. An expanded theory will (1) advance an understanding of both sectors as institutional spaces that protect Whiteness and impede full representation and (2) recognize the importance of the labor required to counter inequities and actively represent minoritized constituents.

Making Sense of the Gendered Realities in Science: An Exploration of the Indian Situation

The field of ‘women in science’ in India is evolving with policies that could support ending gender discrimination in the practice and culture of science. Gender inclusivity in science is a complex phenomenon, and it differs in forms and scale across institutions. This complexity has invoked feminist scholars, governments, and organisations to critically engage with issues of gender inequities in science. This article, based on a sample study, seeks to understand the idea of gender inclusivity in science, and the discrimination and marginalisation women scientists face, while exploring how they negotiate institutional spaces and address specific and unique challenges in their everyday reality.

Technological and Institutional Space, Entrepreneurial Activities and Innovation in Asian Economies

The East Asian region has shown increased innovation performance over the past 20 years. At the same time, individual economies within the region have shown divergent performance. This article investigated the relationship between institutional potentials, entrepreneurial activities and innovation in 12 Asian economies in order to address the question of why innovation performance in Asian economies has been dynamic as well as divergent. We empirically examine the question in the following two steps. First, we apply a multiple factor analysis to a range of indicators of multiple institutional domains that are relevant to a technological system, and we show that there can be diversity of institutional space underlying a technological architecture. Second, we investigate how and to what extent technological and institutional dimensions—derived from multiple factor analysis (MFA)—affect innovation performance by using an ordered logit model. We find that there is a diversity of technological and institutional systems available for innovation activities, leading to different innovation systems, and that entrepreneurial activity is essential for a technological and institutional potential to be linked with innovative activity. The positive synergy between innovation, technological and institutional potentials and entrepreneurial activities results in different trajectories for Asian economies to lead to increasing innovation performance. This finding implies that there can be multiple ways for emerging economies to be able to develop innovative capabilities. It also contributes to innovation policy, because it allows policymakers in emerging economies to understand how to build a synergy between institutional spaces and entrepreneurs’ activities for innovation performance.

Formation of an effective management system in the educational space of higher education institutions

The article shows the importance of reforming the education system at the current stage of society's development to create an effective management system in the educational space. The role of an innovative university in creating an effective management system in the educational space is revealed; the principle provisions of the new management paradigm are highlighted; the formation of an effective management system in the educational space of higher education institutions is proposed. The main mechanisms and functions of control for carrying out reforms to form an effective management system in the educational space of a higher education institution are revealed; the main types of management activities are described. The main functions for controlling the management system are highlighted; the principles of the development of the management system in the educational space of higher education institutions and the task of an innovative research university by the peculiarities of the organization of the management system in the educational space is proposed. An experimental study was conducted during which we investigated the importance of an innovative management system in the educational space, the professional development of heads of higher education institutions, and the level of quality of higher education in higher education institutions.

How do projects decouple from coercive pressures? A study of decoupling in construction projects

PurposeHow organisations interact with and respond to environmental pressures has been a long-term interest of organisational scholars. Still, it remains an under-theorised phenomenon from a project perspective. So far, there is limited understanding of how projects, which are composed by a constellation of organisations, “respond” to institutional pressures that are exerted on them. This research takes the perspective of projects as adopters/implementers of institutional pressures and analyses how they interact with, and respond to, such pressures. More specifically, this research explores how construction projects respond to the pressure of a Building Information Modelling (BIM) mandate.Design/methodology/approachMultiple in-depth case studies were conducted to explore the practical implementation of a BIM mandate in the UK and understand how the construction projects responded to the coercive pressures to implement a new policy mandate for process digitalisation. Multiple sources were employed for data collection and the data were analysed inductively. The findings identify a hybrid response comprising four distinct ways that projects might respond to an institutional pressure.FindingsWe find that projects decouple both from the content and from the intended purpose of a policy, i.e. there are two variance of a policy-practice decoupling phenomenon in projects. The findings also reveal the underlying conditions leading to decoupling.Originality/valueWe advance decoupling literature so that it better applies to the temporary, distributed and interdependent work conducted via projects. Second, we define decoupling in projects as a provisional and fragmented process of wayfinding through heterogeneous institutional spaces, and discuss the potential policy-practice assemblages in projects, influenced by how, if and when project members' activities decouple from the many and often contradicting institutional pressures they face. Third, we discuss how the qualitatively different forms of decoupling that we identified in our work may act as part of a legitimation process in ambiguous situations whereby projects might share a resemblance of conformity with institutional pressures when they are de facto only partially conforming to them.

Teaching and Learning Visual and Arts-Based Inquiry: Collaborative Visions and Possibilities in Graduate Education

This paper describes a doctoral seminar in visual and arts-based inquiry (V/ABR) to champion the generativity of such approaches for advancing doctoral research. We first describe the social and institutional context of the course and its design to situate the projects and the need for creating institutional spaces to amplify creative inquiry approaches in doctoral education. Then, five researchers reflect on their research approaches, including comics, collaging, critical visual analysis, a virtual walkography, and photo-elicitation. The projects focused on contemporary issues including researcher identity, racial justice, mothering crises, and Christian summer camps, collectively underscoring the productivity of V/ABR inquiry for amplifying researchers’ imaginaries and processes of becoming. We underscore the necessity of exploring qualitative diversity in doctoral education to unsettle fixed inquiry approaches that Bailey (2018) calls “methodological taxidermy.” Collectively, we demonstrate the vitality of advancing doctoral research using creative methods in relational, socially responsive, and critical, visionary ways (Finley, 2003).

SAFE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT: NEW CHALLENGES AND INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS AT THE PRYDNIPROVSKA STATE ACADEMY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

Problem statement. Carrying out its mission in the extremely difficult circumstances of the war, the Ukrainian pedagogical community remains at the forefront of the educational front. Taking on a new, higher level of responsibility, the scientific and pedagogical team of the Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture (PSACEA) (Dnipro city) is among the ranks of educators. The full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine forced us to rethink the role of education and change our view of the educational environment of our institution of higher education. In the first place, next to the traditional requirements for the educational environment, came the requirement of safety, i.e. the need to create a safe educational environment. In the martial law conditions in Ukraine, a priority goal of the state is to preserve the life and health of its citizens, especially young people, by ensuring their access to education. Access to education in war-time is the organisation of a safe educational environment. A safe educational environment is the surrounding space of an educational institution created in accordance with the institution educational goals, in which the educational process is carried out and the necessary and sufficient conditions for its participants to effectively and safely achieve the goals of education and upbringing are created. This is confirmed in the regulatory document “Concept of Educational Institutions Safety”, which aims to create equal, appropriate and safe conditions for education, to organise a safe educational environment, in particular in the of the russian federation military aggression context against Ukraine. The implementation period of this Concept is 2023−2025. The methodological framework for ensuring a safe educational environment is set out in the letter of the State Emergency Situations Service of Ukraine No. 03-1870/162-2 dated 14.06.2022. This methodological framework provides for a wide range of components for the preservation and provision of a set of objects and their attitudes to the realisation of educational goals.

Epistemic translation: towards an affective methodology of navigating intimacies, reflexivity and moments of untranslatability

This article contributes to the scholarship on queer migration by exploring the translation of knowledge as a concept and process whereby social, cultural and epistemic histories and structures are negotiated. Drawing on my own experiences of engaging in ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative interviews with queer asylum seekers in Denmark, I reflect on ways of translating knowledge by focusing on the epistemological, methodological and affective dimensions of research relations. By reflecting on my own position as an epistemological translator, I follow the ways in which affective intimacies emerge in embodied encounters and how these intimacies are constrained and made possible by institutional norms, bodies and spaces. My central argument, drawing on autoethnography, affect theories and decolonial perspectives, suggests epistemic translation as a method of navigating affective intimacies and encounters in research relations. This approach may support a critical reflection of differing positionalities and moments of untranslatability within knowledge production.

Motherhood, Mental Incompetence, and the Denial of Reproductive Autonomy in the Early Years of Israeli Statehood

Abstract As the State of Israel defined citizenship rights for its Jewish population after independence in 1948, it also began to articulate the rights of those affected by disabilities of the mind—i.e., psychiatric, cognitive, and learning disabilities—by issuing, for example, the “Law for the Management of Institutes” (1952) and the “Law for the Treatment of the Mentally Ill” (1955). Due to haphazard state-building and insufficient funding, however, this process was slow and uneven. In the meantime, people with mental and cognitive disabilities often remained vulnerable to abuse and sexual violence in domestic and institutional spaces and suffered from a lack of proper care and accommodation. Operating on the assumption that disability of the mind could be transmitted from generation to generation, some medical professionals contemplated sterilization as a way to prevent the reproduction of mental disability in the children of affected parents, but the lingering trauma caused by the Holocaust and Nazi racial hygiene hindered their plan. This article examines a 1954 case involving a cognitively disabled woman who was brought to court for neglecting her children. Due to her delinquent parenting, she was slated to undergo sterilization, but her legal incompetence raised a host of ethical questions that tested the psychiatrists’ and judicial authorities’ assumptions about cognitive competence, civic fitness, and reproductive autonomy. By examining contemporary press reports of the legal proceedings, their larger context, and their consequences, this article shows how the woman remained hostage to male-dominated power structures that devalued her dual status as a mother and as a cognitively impaired citizen. While this case study shows how easily overridden were the liberties and protections of those affected by disabilities of the mind, it can also be viewed as a situation that impelled the Israeli public to contemplate the rights of the cognitively disabled, foreshadowing later movements aimed at expanding the boundaries of society to include members of many degrees of ability.

‘It’s nice that we can do that too’: investigating transgender persons' negotiations with identity and community questions in Indian science institutions

Abstract In 2014, the Indian Supreme Court passed the landmark NALSA v. Union of India judgment that not only granted transgender persons the right to self-identify their gender but also recognized their right to equitable and accessible education. Further, in 2018, the apex court passed another landmark judgment in the case of Navtej Singh Johar & Ors. v. Union of India, reading down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, and, therefore, decriminalizing consensual adult homosexual sex acts. In the backdrop of these landmark judgments – i.e. in post-NALSA and post-377 India – identity and community questions pertaining to transgender, gender non-conforming, and non-binary persons’ access to and presence in educational institutions in India have intensified. Focusing on science institutions, this paper attempts to delineate the ways in which proximal and distal networks of caste-class and gender shape transgender, gender non-conforming, and non-binary persons’ exclusion from and belonging in science collectivities. Further, this paper also investigates how transgender persons’ sense of belonging to certain communities speaks to their shifting epistemic dispositions. Finally, contextualizing transpersons’ negotiations in science communities and individual and collective scales as ‘unstable and hybrid assemblages’, this paper demonstrates the ways in which trans collectives in science institutions radicalize community building and development in these institutional spaces by interrupting dominant institutional cultures and practices.

Cared for masculinities in nursing homes - A material perspective on the intersectionality of institutional, spacial, gendered and corporal materiality

This paper takes the co-construction of age and gender over the course of a life as a starting point and expands this perspective by looking at the intersectional interplay of institutional, spatial, and bodily materiality in the setting of a nursing home. Nursing homes are often perceived as a female space, both socially and physically. Moreover, they are institutional spaces that are primarily oriented towards the deficits of aging and bodies in need of care so that age and aging are reproduced in a narrative of decline, and gender hardly has space to be constructed. This interweaving of institutional spaces, bodies in need of care, and gender poses the question: How are age and gender produced through the space(s) of the nursing home and its materiality, and vice versa? On this basis, the influence on the construction of masculinities in the context of materialism is discussed.This paper draws on two case studies, Walter Probst (age 93) and Günther Schiffke (age 78), based on biographical interviews, to focus on the perspective of very old men in need of care and work out the interplay between the material nature of the institutional space and the body in need of care. It will be shown how closely the performance of age, gender, and masculinities is determined by spatial materiality in the nursing home and the increasing dependence of bodies in need of care, as well as how these bodies produce the spaces in turn. On the basis of the case studies, three aspects of materiality of care home spaces are highlighted. The first aspect of this materiality shows how the body can be increasingly perceived and treated as a material object. The second aspect is defined by the body situated in space, and its relationship to objects and aids. As a third aspect, the possibilities of interacting in communal and private spaces of the nursing home are explored. The article thus contributes to linking the (re-) construction of biographic narratives more strongly to spatial materiality and to embedding the construction and performance of age and gender in spatial and institutional structures, thus demonstrating that spaces and environments shape age, gender, and masculinities in a reciprocal way.

Pedagogical requirements for developing a culture of environmental safety among students in the educational space of higher education institutions

Relevance Dynamic changes in social relations have a dramatic impact on the environment. This is evidenced by several factors revealing the detrimental impact of human, particularly professional, activities on the environment. The issue of relevance related to the development of ecological culture among young people is quite high today, both in scientific doctrine and among practitioners.Purpose. The research aims to analyze the approaches to the formation of environmental safety culture within higher education institutions.Methodology. To achieve it, a system of methodological tools was used, namely the method of analysis, synthesis, abstraction, comparison, deduction, and questioning.Results. As a result, it was possible to conclude an in-depth analysis of the "ecological culture" concept, to investigate its main properties expressed in the educational environment. It was possible to reveal different approaches to effective development and provision of ecological safety in the university. In addition, recommendations for integrating students' knowledge about environmental safety into their future professional activities have been formed. It has been proved that the process of ecological culture formation in students should be proportional and interconnected with the study of other disciplines. Due to such an approach, it is possible to develop both personal qualities of students concerning the environment and prepare them for future professional activity. Consequently, the formation of quality environmental security in the university is the key to enhancing the role of principles that relate to environmental protection and ecology in general.Conclusions. The practical value of the research is in the fact that the findings obtained therein can be effectively used by teachers and methodologists in the development or improvement of existing curricula in higher education institutions.

Managing the power of images: Environmental NGOs, networked public screens, and ‘interactive’ image events in China

Scholars have researched the ‘wildness’ or ‘tameness’ of public screens for staging image events. This study argues that in non-democratic contexts, public screens are not totally wild or tame but are constrained by institutional limits, straddling the tame and the wild. In networked public screens, activists should keep a careful balance between tameness and wildness, staging ‘interactive’ image events to conduct bottom–up social mobilization to pressure the local state while avoiding being perceived as a threat. Through a case study of environmental activism in China, we identified two interactive strategies that were organized around image events. One was a visible interaction through which activists manipulated the mediated visibility of environmental problems by constructing image events. The other was an invisible interplay through which states and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) engaged in closed-door negotiations to solve the problems exposed, without relinquishing the potential for social mobilization by constructing image events. These two forms of interactions, visible and invisible, form a circuit and are interconvertible in specific situations. With the shrinking of institutional space, invisible interaction is becoming the dominant mode of interaction with the state. The formation of such an interactive circuit has largely constrained the power of environmental images in social mobilization.

Public University Students’ Experiences of Anti-Feminist Backlash in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Public university campuses in Bangladesh have been historically significant sites of negotiating with social and political orders. Based on in-depth interviews with male and female students from three public universities in Dhaka, conducted between 2022 and 2023, this article identifies the ways in which formal and informal structures of power on campus reproduce patriarchal norms and gendered inequities. The students’ narratives shed light on how the culture of residential halls, and practices of policing and surveillance, interact with patriarchal norms to limit women’s agency and mobility. They also show the ways in which masculine practices which draw from hypersexual views on women and glorify violence become enabled and sustained by institutional power dynamics, wherein harassment and policing become instruments to negotiate power. The article provides new insights into the ways in which patriarchal power dynamics and gender norms promoted and practised within an institutional space create drivers of anti‑feminist backlash.

Блуждая среди высот гор и низин рек: художественные исследования и то, что их характеризует

This article presents an overview of the origin of the concept of “artistic research” and the discussions around it that unfolded in the artistic and academic environment. Artistic research emerged within the framework of the academy, but at the same time, as many critics emphasize with whom the author of the article agrees, it should not be colonized by it. The article examines the models of conducting artistic research with reference to the Mika Hannula’s, Juha Suoranta’s and Tere Vadén’s Artistic Research Methodology and identifies general patterns that characterize this practice in all its diversity. The basic formula presents artistic research as an artistic process to which contextual, interpretative and conceptual work is added, aimed at argumentation of a point of view. In any case the practices of artistic research are supposed to be performative. The author of the article offers a look at the course of artistic research as a process extended over time, including alternating phases and various “points of visibility”. Artistic research can be presented in the institutional space if it coincides with the program and objectives of a particular institution, but at the same time it can be carried out independently. The finished project demonstrated within the framework of the institution may be preceded by a long research period remaining “behind the scenes”, or some intermediate research results may be presented in a variety of formats.