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Abstract
Los Desgarramientos Civilizatorios: Una Perspectiva
- Maria Eugenia SANCHEZ DIAZ, Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Mexico
El texto Los Desgarramientos Civilizatorios: Una perspectiva propone la categoría de desgarramiento civilizatorio entendida como la ruptura de andamiajes estructurales de larga duración y de imaginarios sociales naturalizados durante siglos. Se trata de una propuesta teórica y epistemológica que pretende aportar elementos de comprensión a la inédita crisis civilizatoria que está viviendo la Humanidad. A partir de una articulación compleja y no lineal de capitalismo, patriarcado y colonialidad, el texto sugiere la necesidad de deconstruir las categorías analíticas tradicionales que en vez de ayudar a comprender las realidades emergentes las encubren. Se agrupan en tres ámbitos los desgarramientos civilizatorios medulares: Territorios y corporeidades resquebrajadas, Símbolos e identidades dislocados y Regulaciones institucionales desestructuradas. Territorios y corporeidades resquebrajadas hace alusión al trastocamiento de la base material de la sociedad, de sus coordenadas espacio-temporales y de la corporeidad societal. Símbolos e identidades dislocados hace referencia a las rupturas de los entramados culturales y de las subjetividades de individuos y colectividades relacionados con procesos tecnológicos, imaginarios rotos, futuros inciertos. Regulaciones institucionales desestructuradas hace referencia a la desconfiguración de los aparatos regulatorios de la sociedad que se concretizan en instituciones y normatividades. Los tres ámbitos se refieren a la base material y corpórea, a los referentes simbólicos y a las lógicas político-regulatorias que conforman las redes estructurales y los significantes sociales de una colectividad. La categoría de desgarramientos civilizatorio puede ser útil para ahondar en esas tendencias subterráneas que sugiere Sassen (2015) para profundizar en la comprensión de las lógicas sociales contemporáneas.
El texto Los Desgarramientos Civilizatorios: Una perspectiva propone la categoría de desgarramiento civilizatorio entendida como la ruptura de andamiajes estructurales de larga duración y de imaginarios sociales naturalizados durante siglos. Se trata de una propuesta teórica y epistemológica que pretende aportar elementos de comprensión a la inédita crisis civilizatoria que está viviendo la Humanidad. A partir de una articulación compleja y no lineal de capitalismo, patriarcado y colonialidad, el texto sugiere la necesidad de deconstruir las categorías analíticas tradicionales que en vez de ayudar a comprender las realidades emergentes las encubren. Se agrupan en tres ámbitos los desgarramientos civilizatorios medulares: Territorios y corporeidades resquebrajadas, Símbolos e identidades dislocados y Regulaciones institucionales desestructuradas. Territorios y corporeidades resquebrajadas hace alusión al trastocamiento de la base material de la sociedad, de sus coordenadas espacio-temporales y de la corporeidad societal. Símbolos e identidades dislocados hace referencia a las rupturas de los entramados culturales y de las subjetividades de individuos y colectividades relacionados con procesos tecnológicos, imaginarios rotos, futuros inciertos. Regulaciones institucionales desestructuradas hace referencia a la desconfiguración de los aparatos regulatorios de la sociedad que se concretizan en instituciones y normatividades. Los tres ámbitos se refieren a la base material y corpórea, a los referentes simbólicos y a las lógicas político-regulatorias que conforman las redes estructurales y los significantes sociales de una colectividad. La categoría de desgarramientos civilizatorio puede ser útil para ahondar en esas tendencias subterráneas que sugiere Sassen (2015) para profundizar en la comprensión de las lógicas sociales contemporáneas.
El texto Los Desgarramientos Civilizatorios: Una perspectiva propone la categoría de desgarramiento civilizatorio entendida como la ruptura de andamiajes estructurales de larga duración y de imaginarios sociales naturalizados durante siglos. Se trata de una propuesta teórica y epistemológica que pretende aportar elementos de comprensión a la inédita crisis civilizatoria que está viviendo la Humanidad. A partir de una articulación compleja y no lineal de capitalismo, patriarcado y colonialidad, el texto sugiere la necesidad de deconstruir las categorías analíticas tradicionales que en vez de ayudar a comprender las realidades emergentes las encubren. Se agrupan en tres ámbitos los desgarramientos civilizatorios medulares: Territorios y corporeidades resquebrajadas, Símbolos e identidades dislocados y Regulaciones institucionales desestructuradas. Territorios y corporeidades resquebrajadas hace alusión al trastocamiento de la base material de la sociedad, de sus coordenadas espacio-temporales y de la corporeidad societal. Símbolos e identidades dislocados hace referencia a las rupturas de los entramados culturales y de las subjetividades de individuos y colectividades relacionados con procesos tecnológicos, imaginarios rotos, futuros inciertos. Regulaciones institucionales desestructuradas hace referencia a la desconfiguración de los aparatos regulatorios de la sociedad que se concretizan en instituciones y normatividades. Los tres ámbitos se refieren a la base material y corpórea, a los referentes simbólicos y a las lógicas político-regulatorias que conforman las redes estructurales y los significantes sociales de una colectividad. La categoría de desgarramientos civilizatorio puede ser útil para ahondar en esas tendencias subterráneas que sugiere Sassen (2015) para profundizar en la comprensión de las lógicas sociales contemporáneas.
Keywords
Andamiajes estructurales y simbólicos
Desgarramientos civilizatorios
Tendencias subterráneas
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Abstract
Creating Legitimacy to “Regenerate” Urban Inner Areas: How Art Under the Creative City Policy Changes the Local Context
- Kahoruko YAMAMOTO, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
When modern art is associated with a regional redevelopment policy, art, especially modern art, effectively serves to conceal previous local history and culture and recreate them under the guise of “community revitalization.” This means changing the public’s recognition of a certain community to be renewed without respect for the local context. With the case of Yokohama, Japan, this paper discusses critically how art can work to plant a seed for renewing a context that allows and conceals the displacement of vulnerable urban communities. Data are from qualitative social research by the author.
Recently, in Japan, administration policies have often supported the normative idea that arts can solve social problems. Yokohama City began its Creative City policy in 2004 and leveraged modern arts and art projects to regenerate inner-city areas.
Among the inner-city areas in Yokohama, Kogane and Kotobuki are the two main towns in which nonprofit art organizations work with the municipal Creative City policy. Kogane was a former brothel town cleaned up in 2005. Since 2006, an art-related organization has regularly organized large art events and the town is becoming a tourist destination. It recreates the town’s image from being characterized by an old, negative history to a “town regenerated by art.”
Kotobuki is a former day laborers’ town, where recently the majority were on social welfare. In 2008, an art-related organization granted by the Creative City policy started an art project. They received recognition for making artworks even in a town formerly described as a skid row but neither connected to nor respected by a history of community-based culture and those engaged in its long term.
The art projects under the Creative City policy unintentionally serve to change public recognition of inner-city areas to be regenerated, thus concealing the negative effects of redevelopment on vulnerable people.
When modern art is associated with a regional redevelopment policy, art, especially modern art, effectively serves to conceal previous local history and culture and recreate them under the guise of “community revitalization.” This means changing the public’s recognition of a certain community to be renewed without respect for the local context. With the case of Yokohama, Japan, this paper discusses critically how art can work to plant a seed for renewing a context that allows and conceals the displacement of vulnerable urban communities. Data are from qualitative social research by the author.
Recently, in Japan, administration policies have often supported the normative idea that arts can solve social problems. Yokohama City began its Creative City policy in 2004 and leveraged modern arts and art projects to regenerate inner-city areas.
Among the inner-city areas in Yokohama, Kogane and Kotobuki are the two main towns in which nonprofit art organizations work with the municipal Creative City policy. Kogane was a former brothel town cleaned up in 2005. Since 2006, an art-related organization has regularly organized large art events and the town is becoming a tourist destination. It recreates the town’s image from being characterized by an old, negative history to a “town regenerated by art.”
Kotobuki is a former day laborers’ town, where recently the majority were on social welfare. In 2008, an art-related organization granted by the Creative City policy started an art project. They received recognition for making artworks even in a town formerly described as a skid row but neither connected to nor respected by a history of community-based culture and those engaged in its long term.
The art projects under the Creative City policy unintentionally serve to change public recognition of inner-city areas to be regenerated, thus concealing the negative effects of redevelopment on vulnerable people.
When modern art is associated with a regional redevelopment policy, art, especially modern art, effectively serves to conceal previous local history and culture and recreate them under the guise of “community revitalization.” This means changing the public’s recognition of a certain community to be renewed without respect for the local context. With the case of Yokohama, Japan, this paper discusses critically how art can work to plant a seed for renewing a context that allows and conceals the displacement of vulnerable urban communities. Data are from qualitative social research by the author.
Recently, in Japan, administration policies have often supported the normative idea that arts can solve social problems. Yokohama City began its Creative City policy in 2004 and leveraged modern arts and art projects to regenerate inner-city areas.
Among the inner-city areas in Yokohama, Kogane and Kotobuki are the two main towns in which nonprofit art organizations work with the municipal Creative City policy. Kogane was a former brothel town cleaned up in 2005. Since 2006, an art-related organization has regularly organized large art events and the town is becoming a tourist destination. It recreates the town’s image from being characterized by an old, negative history to a “town regenerated by art.”
Kotobuki is a former day laborers’ town, where recently the majority were on social welfare. In 2008, an art-related organization granted by the Creative City policy started an art project. They received recognition for making artworks even in a town formerly described as a skid row but neither connected to nor respected by a history of community-based culture and those engaged in its long term.
The art projects under the Creative City policy unintentionally serve to change public recognition of inner-city areas to be regenerated, thus concealing the negative effects of redevelopment on vulnerable people.
Keywords
creative city policy
displacement
local context
urban inner areas
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Abstract
Reflecting on Some Methodolological Challenges in Investigating Data Governance and “Digital Entrapments”
- Dennis ZUEV, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
One of the crucial contemporary challenges for social sciences is the emergence of Big Data practices and
infrastructures (Couldry 2020). Scholars have addressed the phenomenon of big data (Borgman 2016,
Boyd&Crawford 2012), underlining the spatial nature of data manufacturing and emerging data divides
(Andrejevic2014, Dalton et al. 2016). Recent studies have emphasized “data justice” (Sourbati&Behrendt 2020) as a
significant issue to be addressed in data-driven government and policy-making, suggesting that we need studies
that demystify the transnational process of data manufacturing as secretive, non-transparent and intimidating.
Data is the newest and most coveted raw material, and is extracted by transnational companies that are not
transparent to the host or local authorities. Thus, this key question is how can we make these companies more
accountable and improve fairness in data governance? In order to answer this question, study aims to investigate the
processes of data extraction and data governance accompanying urban smartification (creation of smart cities and
ports) using the example of Digital Silk Road (DSR) – digital infrastructure package within the Chinese Belt and
Road Initiative (BRI). The modest goal of the presentation is to reflect on some methodological challenges in conducting research
on emerging relations in data governance between transnational corporate entities and local authorities, customers and citizens.
Drawing on the critical data studies (Kushner 2013, Pasquale 2015, Seaver 2013), media
theory (Couldry&Mejias 2019, Kitchin 2018) and borrowing from studies of organizations in digital economy
(Bialski2020, Takhteev 2016) the presentation aims at presenting power asymmetries emerging in a new regime of data
extraction. The introduced concept of “digital entrapment” helps to examine mechanisms through which
local governance becomes technologically locked-in and dependent on the supply of tech solutions by
Chinese companies. Digital entrapments are legal and technological assemblages/practices contributing to
frictions between data capturing companies and host-countries.
One of the crucial contemporary challenges for social sciences is the emergence of Big Data practices and
infrastructures (Couldry 2020). Scholars have addressed the phenomenon of big data (Borgman 2016,
Boyd&Crawford 2012), underlining the spatial nature of data manufacturing and emerging data divides
(Andrejevic2014, Dalton et al. 2016). Recent studies have emphasized “data justice” (Sourbati&Behrendt 2020) as a
significant issue to be addressed in data-driven government and policy-making, suggesting that we need studies
that demystify the transnational process of data manufacturing as secretive, non-transparent and intimidating.
Data is the newest and most coveted raw material, and is extracted by transnational companies that are not
transparent to the host or local authorities. Thus, this key question is how can we make these companies more
accountable and improve fairness in data governance? In order to answer this question, study aims to investigate the
processes of data extraction and data governance accompanying urban smartification (creation of smart cities and
ports) using the example of Digital Silk Road (DSR) – digital infrastructure package within the Chinese Belt and
Road Initiative (BRI). The modest goal of the presentation is to reflect on some methodological challenges in conducting research
on emerging relations in data governance between transnational corporate entities and local authorities, customers and citizens.
Drawing on the critical data studies (Kushner 2013, Pasquale 2015, Seaver 2013), media
theory (Couldry&Mejias 2019, Kitchin 2018) and borrowing from studies of organizations in digital economy
(Bialski2020, Takhteev 2016) the presentation aims at presenting power asymmetries emerging in a new regime of data
extraction. The introduced concept of “digital entrapment” helps to examine mechanisms through which
local governance becomes technologically locked-in and dependent on the supply of tech solutions by
Chinese companies. Digital entrapments are legal and technological assemblages/practices contributing to
frictions between data capturing companies and host-countries.
One of the crucial contemporary challenges for social sciences is the emergence of Big Data practices and
infrastructures (Couldry 2020). Scholars have addressed the phenomenon of big data (Borgman 2016,
Boyd&Crawford 2012), underlining the spatial nature of data manufacturing and emerging data divides
(Andrejevic2014, Dalton et al. 2016). Recent studies have emphasized “data justice” (Sourbati&Behrendt 2020) as a
significant issue to be addressed in data-driven government and policy-making, suggesting that we need studies
that demystify the transnational process of data manufacturing as secretive, non-transparent and intimidating.
Data is the newest and most coveted raw material, and is extracted by transnational companies that are not
transparent to the host or local authorities. Thus, this key question is how can we make these companies more
accountable and improve fairness in data governance? In order to answer this question, study aims to investigate the
processes of data extraction and data governance accompanying urban smartification (creation of smart cities and
ports) using the example of Digital Silk Road (DSR) – digital infrastructure package within the Chinese Belt and
Road Initiative (BRI). The modest goal of the presentation is to reflect on some methodological challenges in conducting research
on emerging relations in data governance between transnational corporate entities and local authorities, customers and citizens.
Drawing on the critical data studies (Kushner 2013, Pasquale 2015, Seaver 2013), media
theory (Couldry&Mejias 2019, Kitchin 2018) and borrowing from studies of organizations in digital economy
(Bialski2020, Takhteev 2016) the presentation aims at presenting power asymmetries emerging in a new regime of data
extraction. The introduced concept of “digital entrapment” helps to examine mechanisms through which
local governance becomes technologically locked-in and dependent on the supply of tech solutions by
Chinese companies. Digital entrapments are legal and technological assemblages/practices contributing to
frictions between data capturing companies and host-countries.
Keywords
data governance
digital entrapment
digital silk road
methodology
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Abstract
Researching Data Gathering Consciousness in the Design Process: Rethinking How Intelligent Objects and Services Are Being Designed.
- Amparo COIDURAS, University of San Jorge, Spain
In the last decade, there has been a rise in the number of everyday objects transforming from inert things to becoming smart devices. These new objects such as cars, TV’s or watches offer now a wide range of services that are intended to help and make users’ life’s easier and better. With that purpose in mind, smart products are collecting and gathering personal data from users which are, most of the times, uninformed or unaware. The main topic studied in this work aims to help reframing the design process of such smart products in order to meet the new challenges risen within this new typology of product. The way these devices and services are being thought, designed and developed is under examination in order to see if it have adapted or if otherwise, it remained the same. Through a mixed method approach, we analyse and pose unidentified key points for this new paradox risen.
In the last decade, there has been a rise in the number of everyday objects transforming from inert things to becoming smart devices. These new objects such as cars, TV’s or watches offer now a wide range of services that are intended to help and make users’ life’s easier and better. With that purpose in mind, smart products are collecting and gathering personal data from users which are, most of the times, uninformed or unaware. The main topic studied in this work aims to help reframing the design process of such smart products in order to meet the new challenges risen within this new typology of product. The way these devices and services are being thought, designed and developed is under examination in order to see if it have adapted or if otherwise, it remained the same. Through a mixed method approach, we analyse and pose unidentified key points for this new paradox risen.
In the last decade, there has been a rise in the number of everyday objects transforming from inert things to becoming smart devices. These new objects such as cars, TV’s or watches offer now a wide range of services that are intended to help and make users’ life’s easier and better. With that purpose in mind, smart products are collecting and gathering personal data from users which are, most of the times, uninformed or unaware. The main topic studied in this work aims to help reframing the design process of such smart products in order to meet the new challenges risen within this new typology of product. The way these devices and services are being thought, designed and developed is under examination in order to see if it have adapted or if otherwise, it remained the same. Through a mixed method approach, we analyse and pose unidentified key points for this new paradox risen.
Keywords
data mining
design process
personal data
smart products
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Abstract
What about All That Data We Didn’t Use? Putting in Dialogue Data Analysis in Institutional Ethnography with Other Methods.
- Sarah MURRU, KU Leuven, Belgium
This paper aims to reflexively and critically engage with my experience of bringing an IE perspective to non-IE research team. It uses as focus the data I collected with children living in shared physical custody in Italy – part of the ERC Starting Grant project MobileKids: Children in Multi-Local, Post-Separation Families (PI Prof. Laura Merla).
The research I led was framed as an IE, aimed at starting from these children’s standpoint and understanding how their everyday, mobile, experiences are socially organized. I did participative interviews with 22 children (which I’ve met 2 to 3 times) and one or both of their parents. The data collected is thus large and dense. In this paper, I will put in dialogue the two ways in which I analyzed the data: one done in a “classical” thematic analysis approach using Nvivo coding (for the needs of the larger project), and the other one following the IE approach of mapping ruling relations. Results include, among others, a reflection about the different type of knowledge that comes out of both approaches – namely, a broader overview of a social reality that is analyzed through various structural factors in the “classical” approach, and the more in-depth path that highlights the organization by one specific Institution with IE. But also, considering the frustration we sometimes feel in IE when we end up mobilizing only a small portion of data to follow more specific social relations, I will highlight the pros and cons of engaging into both types of analysis for one same body of data.
This paper aims to reflexively and critically engage with my experience of bringing an IE perspective to non-IE research team. It uses as focus the data I collected with children living in shared physical custody in Italy – part of the ERC Starting Grant project MobileKids: Children in Multi-Local, Post-Separation Families (PI Prof. Laura Merla).
The research I led was framed as an IE, aimed at starting from these children’s standpoint and understanding how their everyday, mobile, experiences are socially organized. I did participative interviews with 22 children (which I’ve met 2 to 3 times) and one or both of their parents. The data collected is thus large and dense. In this paper, I will put in dialogue the two ways in which I analyzed the data: one done in a “classical” thematic analysis approach using Nvivo coding (for the needs of the larger project), and the other one following the IE approach of mapping ruling relations. Results include, among others, a reflection about the different type of knowledge that comes out of both approaches – namely, a broader overview of a social reality that is analyzed through various structural factors in the “classical” approach, and the more in-depth path that highlights the organization by one specific Institution with IE. But also, considering the frustration we sometimes feel in IE when we end up mobilizing only a small portion of data to follow more specific social relations, I will highlight the pros and cons of engaging into both types of analysis for one same body of data.
This paper aims to reflexively and critically engage with my experience of bringing an IE perspective to non-IE research team. It uses as focus the data I collected with children living in shared physical custody in Italy – part of the ERC Starting Grant project MobileKids: Children in Multi-Local, Post-Separation Families (PI Prof. Laura Merla).
The research I led was framed as an IE, aimed at starting from these children’s standpoint and understanding how their everyday, mobile, experiences are socially organized. I did participative interviews with 22 children (which I’ve met 2 to 3 times) and one or both of their parents. The data collected is thus large and dense. In this paper, I will put in dialogue the two ways in which I analyzed the data: one done in a “classical” thematic analysis approach using Nvivo coding (for the needs of the larger project), and the other one following the IE approach of mapping ruling relations. Results include, among others, a reflection about the different type of knowledge that comes out of both approaches – namely, a broader overview of a social reality that is analyzed through various structural factors in the “classical” approach, and the more in-depth path that highlights the organization by one specific Institution with IE. But also, considering the frustration we sometimes feel in IE when we end up mobilizing only a small portion of data to follow more specific social relations, I will highlight the pros and cons of engaging into both types of analysis for one same body of data.
Keywords
data analysis
institutional ethnography
italy
shared physical custody
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Abstract
Using Experience Sampling Method in an IE
- Laura PARSON, North Dakota State University, United States and Fredricka SAUNDERS, North Dakota State University, Bahamas
In this presentation, we discuss the use of Experience Sampling Method (ESM) as a part of data collection for an Institutional Ethnography in a Higher Education Setting. Using ESM technology, participants are prompted to respond to the following questions at random intervals throughout three weeks across a 4-6 month period:
• Where are you?
• What are you doing? (Prompted to complete the EMA if applicable)
• How are you feeling?
• Who are you with?
Responses to these questions, coupled with rating scale responses on affective, cognitive, and motivational aspects of their momentary experience are then organized into a timeline of a typical day, and then participants will be asked to describe salient events in one-on-one in-depth interview(s). This method provides an additional method of data collection in an Institutional Ethnography with the aim of creating a daily log that can be explored further in a daily interview. The goal is provide structure for the exploration of participants everyday experiences and a template for traditional IE mapping exercises. Our hope is that the use of ESM in an IE will extend the methodological literature on the role and use of IE in research settings.
In this presentation, we discuss the use of Experience Sampling Method (ESM) as a part of data collection for an Institutional Ethnography in a Higher Education Setting. Using ESM technology, participants are prompted to respond to the following questions at random intervals throughout three weeks across a 4-6 month period:
• Where are you?
• What are you doing? (Prompted to complete the EMA if applicable)
• How are you feeling?
• Who are you with?
Responses to these questions, coupled with rating scale responses on affective, cognitive, and motivational aspects of their momentary experience are then organized into a timeline of a typical day, and then participants will be asked to describe salient events in one-on-one in-depth interview(s). This method provides an additional method of data collection in an Institutional Ethnography with the aim of creating a daily log that can be explored further in a daily interview. The goal is provide structure for the exploration of participants everyday experiences and a template for traditional IE mapping exercises. Our hope is that the use of ESM in an IE will extend the methodological literature on the role and use of IE in research settings.
In this presentation, we discuss the use of Experience Sampling Method (ESM) as a part of data collection for an Institutional Ethnography in a Higher Education Setting. Using ESM technology, participants are prompted to respond to the following questions at random intervals throughout three weeks across a 4-6 month period:
• Where are you?
• What are you doing? (Prompted to complete the EMA if applicable)
• How are you feeling?
• Who are you with?
Responses to these questions, coupled with rating scale responses on affective, cognitive, and motivational aspects of their momentary experience are then organized into a timeline of a typical day, and then participants will be asked to describe salient events in one-on-one in-depth interview(s). This method provides an additional method of data collection in an Institutional Ethnography with the aim of creating a daily log that can be explored further in a daily interview. The goal is provide structure for the exploration of participants everyday experiences and a template for traditional IE mapping exercises. Our hope is that the use of ESM in an IE will extend the methodological literature on the role and use of IE in research settings.
Keywords
experience sampling method
higher education
institutional ethnography
