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- Stenberg, Jenny, 1959
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Dilemmas associated with tenant participation in renovation of housing in marginalized areas may lead to system change
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Ingår i: Cogent Social Sciences. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2331-1886. ; 4:1, s. 1-22
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article presents the results of an investigation, conducted in Sweden, of how inviting tenants to participate in renovation of large-scale housing in marginalized areas can lead to increased tenant power over renovation. The results show that the “Consultation model for renovation” employed, which was developed by the Union of Tenants, gives more power to tenants than previous models used in Sweden, although certain dilemmas exist that seem to be hard to overcome. The article concludes by discussing the role of “consultation models”. It suggests that it would be very interesting if such models not only aimed to give tenants power over renovation—within the framework housing companies are prepared to offer at the time—but also contributed to challenging practices and played a role in system change.
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- Zapata Campos, María José, 1972, et al.
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Residents' collective strategies of resistance in Global South cities' informal settlements: Space, scale and knowledge
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Ingår i: Cities. - : Elsevier BV. - 0264-2751. ; 125
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the strategies of resistance articulated by residents of informal settlements response to urban exclusion. Building upon resistance and urban social movements literature the paper is informed by the case of the Villa Rodrigo Bueno in Buenos Aires, a self-constructed villa miseria, and its residents' stories of resistance to attempts of evictions and upgrading programs. In the paper we show how resistance is mobilized, first through its simultaneous disconnection, due to its remoteness and isolation; and reconnection to local and global supportive networks. While disconnection facilitated self-construction, densification and the blooming of informal entrepreneurship; reconnection through relational and multiscalar sites enabled unexpected encounters with distant actors that contributed to resist evictions. Second, the long-term learning and development of self-knowledge (i.e. construction, or housing law), embedded in the remoteness of the informal settlement, contributed to shift expertise from city officers to residents; redefining the role of informal residents into active citizens and experts in policy making, and turning informal settlements into settings of wider social change.
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- Femenias, Paula, 1966, et al.
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Rusta med miljön i fokus!
- 2007
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Ingår i: Invandrare & Minoriteter. ; 34:4-5, s. 42-46
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Gillberg, Gunnar, 1959, et al.
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Livsformsanalys och lokalt utvecklingsarbete: En pilotstudie om analysmetodens potental vid studier av socialt kapital, social ekonomi och hållbar utveckling
- 2002
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report describes the outcome of an interdisciplinary project at the Department of Work Science at Göteborg Univer- sity and at the Department of Built Environment & Sustainable Development at Chalmers Architecture. The purpose of the project was to try out a specific method Life Mode Analysis and to analyse its potentials to support local development work, with a particular focus on social capital, and the two interrelated themes of social economy and sustainable development. The interviewees in the field investigation have a background as refugees, as the study take a special interest in under- standing how the method is functioning in housing areas where the inhabitants to a large extent have had such experiences. The results of the study indicate a need for an integration of theories concerning social exclusion into or as a parallel to Life Mode Analysis. At least, this seems to be a necessity if the method is to be used in areas with many refugees, such as the suburban areas from the 60s and 70s surrounding major swedish urban centres. In other respects, Life Mode Analysis seems to be a relevant and very useful method for facilitating local development work. This is due to its potential to indicate how people in different life modes choose to engage them selves in social life. In the report it is also discussed how social economy is related to social capi- tal, as it is dependent on the existence of social capital, and at the same time contributes to its production. Further, sustainable development is discussed it is also related to social capital as this constitutes one of the four cornerstones which together define the notion of sustainable development.
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- Stenberg, Jenny, 1959, et al.
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Att länka miljöeffekter och sociala effekter: Utvärdering av LIP-finansierade bostadsförnyelseprojekt
- 2005
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Denna utvärdering av LIP-finasierade bostadsförnyelseprojekt, s.k. flerdimensio-nella projekt, kom till stånd för att det finns ett intresse från Naturvårdsverket av att ta fram kunskap om vilket samspel som finns mellan miljöeffekter och sociala effekter i denna typ av nationella satsningar. Förutom att fokusera på miljöeffekter, har vi således också studerat hur de boende har varit inblandade i arbetet och i vilken mån lokalt anställda och boende varit involverade i en lärandeprocess med bestående resultat. Vi har också tittat på om områdets attraktivitet har förändrats.Utvärderingen har lagts upp på ett sätt som är inspirerat av fallstudiemetodik och i studien ingår tio projekt. Analysen vilar på i princip fyra olika typer av information en miljömatris, en massmediastudie, en intervjuundersökning av boende och anställda samt statistiska data om re-spektive bostadsområde.De teorier vi valt att använda för analys av den samlade empirin MAINtetra (Kain 2003) är en tankemodell avsedd att bistå i sökandet efter ökad förståelse om och kunskapsinhämtning gällande komplexa problem från en mångtydig verklighet. Den underlättar alltså möjligheten att relatera olika kunskapsområden till varandra för att öka förståelsen för hur de olika delarna berör varandra i perspektivet hållbar utveckling. Sammantaget visar utvärderingen att det är nödvändigt att länka miljöaspekter och sociala aspekter för att få långvarig effekt och för att få ett helhetsperspektiv. Detta är knappast ett kontroversiellt resultat även om ett sådant arbetssätt är långt ifrån praxis i samhället. Det som är mest intressant är kanske heller inte att detta samband är viktigt. Utvärderingen visar snarare på hur miljöaspekter och sociala aspekter hänger samman. Denna förståelse och kunskap är viktig, eftersom det är den som ger individer anledning till att förändra sina beteendemönster.
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- Stenberg, Jenny, 1959
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Bridging Gaps: Sustainable Development and Local Democracy Processes
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis examines the relation between the notion of sustainable development and broad public participation in local decision-making local democracy processes. The empirical part of the thesis is comprised of a field investigation with the purpose of exploring the potential of the interviewed local professionals to work as transformers of the notion of sustainable development at the local level. The findings indicate that they do, how- ever, there exist several obstacles that need to be overcome. One significant outcome is the observation of the obvious lack of influence of the inhabitants on local decision-making. An- other result is that environmental issues are not extensively discussed by local professionals. Yet one more important observation is that the accounts of the respondents reflect a common criticism of the way that proceedings are implemented, i.e., mainly from the top. In this context the vision of sustainable development is not an exception. Taken together, all the problems that the respondents describe as main obstacles may be seen as forming a thorough description of the distance or gap between top-down management and bottom-up needs. The theoretical part of the thesis is based on a review of the literature exploring the themes related to the problematic of bridging the gap between top-down and bottom-up perspec- tives. The review indicates new ways of perceiving this gap in itself. There exist, at least, four distinctive gaps which seem to obstruct positive local development: the gap between top and bottom; the gap between abstract and concrete; the gap between place and place; and the gap between the four dimensions of sustainable development. It is also discussed whether or not it is desirable to develop one single approach with the purpose of bridging all four gaps. Or if it is better to deal with this problematic by structuring for an assembly of methodologies consti- tuting successive layers of transformation, each one bridging a distinct gap. In such a case, it appears essential to keep track of the whole chain of successive layers of transformation. Is such a comprehensive perspective of the different approaches keeping track of the chain that is lacking today? Is there instead a chain of discontinuities, i.e., a chain of gaps?
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