Modernization

The Provincial Agency for Sustainable Development (OPDS) and municipalities under the law of industrial settlement: delegation and decentralization in provincial regionalization.

by Federico Del Giorgio Solfa

Co-authored with Luciana Mercedes Girotto, published in VII Congreso de Medio Ambiente de la AUGM, May 22th - 24th 2012.

Environmental issues are oriented towards clean production, that is, a preventive strategy against contamination and a... more Environmental issues are oriented towards clean production, that is, a preventive strategy against contamination and a key point in the environmental policy. There is a trend to generate a sustainable productive development, including the environmental dimension. Among the rules and regulations, the General Environmental Act of the Province of Buenos Aires (Law No. 11723) seeks to protect, preserve, enhance and restore natural resources within the territory. This Act also compels the Provincial Executive Branch and the Municipalities to guarantee environmental rights, environmental policy principles as well as an environmental impact assessment on industries. This paper shows the relationship between the provincial institution for sustainable development (OPDS, in Spanish) - as the authority to enforce the law- and the municipalities within the Province of Buenos Aires. Municipalities were classified according to their productive features and resources. The industrial profile of each municipality was analyzed and the need for more exhaustive and direct control was determined in order to strengthen environmental protection. Advantages and obstacles (operative, legal and economic) from a local and a provincial perspective were also analyzed in order to delegate the OPDS faculties to Municipalities so the latter can issue environmental certificates and control industrial business. After this analysis, some proposals were made in order to strengthen  environmental actions taken by the provincial government.. Two lines were stated to improve the control of productive enterprises to achieve sustainable development: 1. trengthening the idea of the delegating OPDS faculties to municipalities, 2. decentralizing OPDS in the provincial program.

El horizonte en la temática ambiental es la producción limpia, estrategia preventiva de la contaminación e instrumento clave de la política ambiental. La tendencia es generar un desarrollo productivo sustentable, incorporando la dimensión ambiental. Entre las normativas, la Ley N° 11.723 “Ley de Medio Ambiente”, tiene por objeto la protección, conservación, mejoramiento y restauración de los recursos naturales y del ambiente, en la Provincia de Buenos Aires. La misma, obliga a que el Poder Ejecutivo Provincial y los Municipios, garanticen los derechos ambientales y los principios de política ambiental; al mismo tiempo que cada emprendimiento industrial cuente con una evaluación de impacto ambiental. En este contexto, el presente trabajo da cuenta de la relación existente entre el Organismo Provincial para el Desarrollo Sostenible (OPDS) -como Autoridad de Aplicación de la Ley- y los Municipios bonaerenses. Se clasificó a los Municipios, tomando en cuenta sus características productivas y recursos territoriales. Se diagnosticó el perfil industrial de cada municipio y se determinaron las necesidades de controles más directos y exhaustivos, para el fortalecimiento de la protección medioambiental. También se analizaron ventajas y obstáculos –operativos, legales y económicos- desde las perspectivas municipal y provincial, para la delegación de facultades del OPDS a los Municipios, en la expedición de Certificados Ambientales y las fiscalizaciones de los establecimientos industriales (Art. 2°, Ley N° 11.459). Una vez realizado el diagnóstico y el análisis respectivo, concluimos con algunas propuestas tendientes a alinear está temática con los principales ejes del gobierno provincial (PBA, 2011) y de esta manera, fortalecer la gestión medioambiental. Se desarrollan dos líneas: 1. Fortalecimiento de la delegación de facultades del OPDS a los Municipios; y, 2. Descentralización del OPDS en el marco del Programa de Regionalización Provincial. Entendiendo que a partir de estas propuestas, se podría mejorar el control de los emprendimientos productivos, logrando un desarrollo sustentable.

La modernité dans l'historiographie du Soudan : usages convenus d'un concept nébuleux ?

by Iris Seri-Hersch

To be published in Cahiers d'Etudes africaines, 2012

Cet article propose une réflexion critique sur les usages de la catégorie modernité dans l'historiographie du Soudan... more Cet article propose une réflexion critique sur les usages de la catégorie modernité dans l'historiographie du Soudan contemporain. Attentive à la distinction heuristique entre catégories analytiques et catégories normatives, l'étude revient sur des conceptualisations européennes de la modernité avant d'examiner ses usages dans la production académique soudaniste des cinquante dernières années. En dépit de la diversité de leurs approches et de leurs objets, la plupart des travaux analysés endossent explicitement ou implicitement l'une ou l'autre des théories de la modernisation et de la dépendance. L'argumentaire débouche sur la nécessité, pour les chercheurs en sciences sociales, de sortir des impasses épistémologiques de la modernité "modernisatrice" et des modernités "multiples".

This paper deals with "modernity" as an analytical category, investigating how it has been used by scholars of modern Sudan in the last fifty years. Keeping in mind the heuristic distinction between analytical and normative categories, the study goes back to European conceptualizations of modernity before examining how it has been constructed and used across a wide range of Sudanist academic writings. Despite significant differences in their approaches and subjects of study, most of the works under review explicitly or implicitly adopt either modernization or dependence theories. The paper ultimately argues for the necessity of avoiding the epistemological dead ends of both "modernizing" and "multiple" modernities.

Sorcery and social change

by Rena Lederman

Individualization and Political Trust in The Netherlands What role do value orientations play?

by Bengü Hosch-Dayican

Chapter prepared for the book project “Democratic Audit in The Netherlands”

Published in Dutch in “De democratie doorgelicht: evaluatie van het Nederlandse democratische bestel“ (The Democratic Audit: Evaluation of the democratic system of The Netherlands), edited by Rudy Andeweg and Jacques Thomassen, Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2011, pp. 45-63

Al-hadâtha wal-idâra al-hadâriyya fî Misr al-'uthmâniyya. As'ila wa tafsîrât (Modernity and Administration in Ottoman Egypt: Questions and Research Perspectives)

by Nora Lafi

in Nasser Ahmed Ibrahim (ed.), Objectivity and Subjectivity in the Historiography of Egypt, in Honour of Nelly Hanna, Cairo, Gebo, 2012, p.263-273.

Egypt has always been an important research field for studies on urban governance in an Arab context. Many seminal... more Egypt has always been an important research field for studies on urban governance in an Arab context. Many seminal concepts in the analysis of the 'Islamic' city or of the 'Arab city' were built in the Egyptian context. The Ottoman period however has always had a speficific status in this panorama. Between the 'medieval' paradigm of Islamic urban governance and the 'modern' paradigm of reformed urban governance, Ottoman times have always been objects of contradictory readings. On the one hand they were
seen in Egypt as a distorsion of the medieval urban heritage, and on the other hand they were already a distorsion of the relationship to urban modernity, a relationship then even more distorted by the colonial influence. The object of this paper, based on the study of archives from BOA in Istanbul, court record in Cairo and SHAT in Vincennes, and on local chronicles, is to try and propose a reading of urban government features
in Ottoman Egypt that could both go beyond this unsatisfactory dichotomy and discuss such important paradigms as old regime urban governance and the various morphologies of reform of the inherited framework, the aim being to discuss the very nature of urban governance in Ottoman Egypt, between institutional aspects and the various scales of relationship of the individual to power, urbanity, citadinity, community, religion and profession.

Governing the Karimojong: Tradition, Modernity and Power in Contemporary Karamoja

by Karol Czuba

The complex gerontocratic governance system of the Karimojong, the largest ethnic group in Karamoja, was challenged in... more The complex gerontocratic governance system of the Karimojong, the largest ethnic group in Karamoja, was challenged in the second half of the twentieth century by the combined forces of the modernising Ugandan nation-state and undisciplined young men. The paper demonstrates that, although Karimojong power structures were substantially weakened during the period of great disequilibrium between the late 1970s and 2000s, recent years have seen their gradual reconstruction. Some traditional institutions have disappeared or declined, but the position of elders has been largely restored. Ekokwa, or an informal assembly, has partially integrated the state-imposed Local Council 1 structure and emerged as the new central political forum of the Karimojong. Karimojong culture remains in a state of flux and significant changes can be expected in the near future.

Benchmarking Design: multiplying the impact of technical assistance to MSMEs in design and product development [Abstract]

by Federico Del Giorgio Solfa

Published in International Design Congress CIDI2012, May 16th - 18th 2012.

Benchmarking Design: multiplicación del impacto de asistencias técnicas a MiPyMEs en diseño y desarrollo de productos... more Benchmarking Design: multiplicación del impacto de asistencias técnicas a MiPyMEs en diseño y desarrollo de productos

El presente trabajo toma como desafío -estudiar a nivel exploratorio- la importancia, alcances y dimensiones del benchmarking of product design (evaluación comparada de diseño de producto o diseño industrial) para el asesoramiento estatal en diseño y desarrollo de nuevos productos a micro, pequeños y medianos productores. Esta iniciativa, se inscribe como la etapa cero del proyecto formulado para el Ingreso a la Carrera del Investigador Científico y Tecnológico (Convocatoria CICCEN11) de la Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (CIC), que actualmente se encuentra en la etapa de evaluación-aprobación. Nuestro enfoque comprende a las distintas políticas y acciones de apoyo a las micro, pequeñas y medianas industrias (MiPyMIs), que se emprenden desde los Estados subnacionales. En general consideraremos a las asistencias técnicas de tipo organizacional y en particular a las asistencias para el diseño y desarrollo de nuevos productos, las cuales demandan importantes esfuerzos de gestión y recursos públicos. Entendemos que no deben escapar a las acciones de gestión, investigación y desarrollo; la utilización de estrategias que permitan multiplicar sus efectos -y por supuesto- de los recursos públicos invertidos. En este punto, queremos dejar en claro que no apuntamos a la reducción de la inversión pública, sino a la maximización de su eficacia. Con esta lógica, se inscribe el estudio exploratorio que nos permitirá vislumbrar cómo el benchmarking design puede coadyuvar –en un sistema de apoyo institucional a las MiPyMIs basado en asistencias técnicas y redes- a que las asistencias en diseño de productos consigan multiplicar sus efectos. Benchmarking, es una técnica de gestión, que básicamente comprende un proceso de continuo de medición de productos, servicios y tecnologías de producción de una determinada organización; para compararlos con los de una organización modelo (líder o ejemplar). Esta técnica ha sido muy difundida y utilizada en el sector privado; pero desde hace algunos años, se vienen realizando aplicaciones en el sector público de manera sectorizada. El comprobado potencial que posee esta herramienta y la heterogeneidad en los niveles de desarrollo de las MiPyMIs en la Provincia de Buenos Aires, nos obliga a indagar acerca de las posibles aplicaciones de benchmarking en el sector. En el ámbito bonaerense, la potencial utilización del benchmarking a nivel estatal, comprende a todas las Organizaciones de la Administración Pública Provincial (administración central, organismos descentralizados y autárquicos). De acuerdo a su finalidad, pueden incorporar al benchmarking tanto para el desarrollo de sus propias organizaciones; como para apoyo de otras organizaciones públicas, privadas o mixtas, que puedan ser objeto de sus regulaciones, controles o políticas. En este sentido, el Ministerio de la Producción, podría conformar y administrar redes de benchmarking orientadas al desarrollo económico y productivo de las regiones y/o sus organizaciones productivas. Así es que en este ámbito, cobra relevancia la inclusión de la técnica en el Centro de Diseño Industrial de la CIC; donde el núcleo de la ciencia y la tecnología, conforma un todo coherente con las políticas de producción emanadas desde la cartera ministerial.


Benchmarking Design: multiplying the impact of technical assistance to MSMEs in design and product development

This paper takes as challenge-level exploratory study in the importance, scope and dimensions of the benchmarking of product design (comparative evaluation of product design or industrial design) for advice statewide in design and development of new products to micro, small and medium producers. This initiative falls as the zero phase of the project made for the Admission to the Research Career Scientist and Technology (Call CICCEN11) of the Commission for Scientific Research of the Province of Buenos Aires (CIC), which is currently at the stage -approval evaluation. Our approach includes individual policies and actions to support micro, small and medium industries (MSMIs), which are undertaken from within the sub. In general consider the technical assistance of organizational type and in particular assists for the design and development of new products, which require significant efforts and public resources management. We understand that they should not escape the actions of management, research and development, the use of strategies to multiply its effects, and of course, of public resources invested. At this point, we want to make clear that we do not aim to reduce public investment, but to maximize their effectiveness. With this logic, fits the exploratory study will allow us to glimpse how benchmarking can assist design-in a system of institutional support for technical assistance based MSMEs and networks, to assists in product design succeed in multiplying their effects. Benchmarking is a management technique, which basically comprises a continuous process of measuring products, services and technologies for production of a particular organization, for comparison with a model organization (leader or exemplary). This technique has been used widely and in the private sector, but in recent years, applications have been conducted in the public sector in a sectorized. The proven tool that has potential and heterogeneity in levels of development of MSMIs in the Province of Buenos Aires, forces us to inquire about the possible applications of benchmarking in the sector. In the area of ​​Buenos Aires, the potential use of benchmarking at the state, encompasses all organizations of the Provincial Civil Service (central, decentralized and self-sufficient). According to its purpose, benchmarking can be incorporated into both the development of their own organizations to support other public, private or mixed, which may be subject to its regulations, controls or policies. In this regard, the Ministry of Production, could form and manage networks aimed at benchmarking and productive economic development of regions and / or productive organizations. So in this area becomes important to include technology in the Industrial Design Centre of the CIC, where the core of science and technology, forms a coherent whole with production policies emanating from the ministerial portfolio.

The Provincial Agency for Sustainable Development (OPDS) and municipalities under the law of industrial settlement: delegation and decentralization in provincial regionalization [Abstract]

by Federico Del Giorgio Solfa

Co-authored with Luciana Mercedes Girotto, published in VII Congreso de Medio Ambiente de la AUGM, May 22th - 24th 2012.

The objective in environmental issues aims at clean production, that is, a preventive strategy against contamination... more The objective in environmental issues aims at clean production, that is, a preventive strategy against contamination and key point in the environmental policy. There is a tendency to generate a sustainable productive development, including the environmental dimension. Among the rules and regulations, the General Environmental Act of the Province of Buenos Aires (Law No. 11723) seeks to protect, preserve, enhance and restore natural resources within the territory. This Act also compels the Provincial Executive Branch and the Municipalities to guarantee environmental rights, environmental policy principles as well as an environmental impact assessment of industries. In this context, this paper shows the relationship between the Provincial Agency for Sustainable Development (OPDS) - as the authority to enforce the law- and the municipalities within the Province of Buenos Aires. Municipalities were classified according to their productive features and resources within the territory. The industrial profile of each municipality was analyzed and the need for more exhaustive and direct control was determined in order to strengthen environmental protection. Advantages and obstacles (operative, legal and economic) from a local and a provincial perspective were also analyzed in order to delegate the OPDS faculties to Municipalities so the latter can issue environmental certificates and control industrial business . Once this analysis has been made, in order to strengthen the environmental action taken by the provincial government , some proposals were made. Two lines are stated to improve the control of productive enterprises with a sustainable development: 1. to strengthen the delegation of the OPDS faculties to municipalities, 2. to decentralize OPDS in the provincial program.

Pushing children up: maternal obligation, modernity, and medicine in the Tongan ethnoscape

by Heather Young-Leslie

The Emergence of Television as a Conservative Media Revolution: Historicising a Process of Remediation in the Post-War Western Europen Mass Media Ensemble

by Andreas Fickers

Article published in Journal of Modern European History Vol. 10: 1 (2012), pp. 49-75.

This article claims that the emergence of television in the 1950s must be interpreted as a conservative media... more This article claims that the emergence of television in the 1950s must be interpreted as a conservative media revolution. It aims at revisiting some of the popular narratives about the emergence of television as a revolutionary moment in media history and questions the newness of television in the European mass media ensemble. Focusing on a set of privileged sites of negotiation where the tensions between the conservative and modernising agencies of the medium became most visible or explicit, the article emphasizes the ambiguous and contested nature of television as a new medium. Finally, the author pleas for an integral approach to media history that studies the intermedial relationships and interdependencies between television and other mass media.

Por una inclusión social efectiva

by Federico Del Giorgio Solfa

Coautor junto a Jorge Blasetti, Luciana Mercedes Girotto, Andrea Napolitano y Valeria Pau, Especialización en Gestión Pública, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, 2010.

Propuesta de Proyecto, organizada en base a los siguientes objetivos y resultados esperados:

Objetivo... more Propuesta de Proyecto, organizada en base a los siguientes objetivos y resultados esperados:

Objetivo general:
• Profundizar la inclusión social de los destinatarios de la AUH, que tienen entre 16 a 18 años, a partir de la creación de Oficinas de Inclusión Juvenil (OIJ) que contribuyan a la adquisición de herramientas que favorezcan su inserción laboral y/o educativa.

Objetivos específicos:
• Conformar distintos procesos acompañantes integrados en un Sistema Tutorial que contenga y oriente al sujeto poblacional (jóvenes de 16 a 18 años) para que de acuerdo a sus intereses, puedan fortalecer y sostener su elección de vida.
• Coordinar y articular, a nivel territorial, los programas y planes sociales existentes a nivel nacional, provincial y municipal.
• Fomentar la capacidad estatal para dar respuesta a las distintas necesidades y de-mandas de los jóvenes.
• Mejorar la eficacia de los planes gubernamentales para lograr la inclusión laboral y educativa de los jóvenes.
• Generar vínculos entre los beneficiarios y los actores sociales involucrados, tendien-tes a componer el tejido social.
• Fortalecer a los jóvenes como sujetos de derecho.

Resultados esperados:
• Jóvenes incluidos en los procesos acompañantes que integran el sistema tutorial.
• Conocimiento y acceso integral de los jóvenes, al conjunto de programas y planes sociales de los diferentes niveles de gobierno, vigentes en su territorio.
• Oficinas de Inclusión Juvenil, dedicadas a analizar y dar respuesta a las necesidades y demandas de los jóvenes, que obstaculicen su inserción laboral y/o educativa.
• Jóvenes con mayores posibilidades de insertarse laboral y/o educativamente.
• Jóvenes vinculados con las organizaciones productivas, con la administración públi-ca local y provincial; y con las instituciones educativas formales.
• Relaciones positivas y mutuamente beneficiosas, entre los destinatarios del Progra-ma y los actores sociales.
• Reconocimiento social del derecho de los jóvenes a trabajar y educarse.

Evaluación de los programas de formación dictados por los Institutos de Administración Pública para los empleados públicos en España (1999/2005)

by Rubén Sánchez Medero

Análisis de la política de formación de los funcionarios públicos que han desarrollado los Institutos de... more Análisis de la política de formación de los funcionarios públicos que han desarrollado los Institutos de Administración Pública en España entre 1999 y 2005, esto con el fin de determinar las diferencias y las similitudes entre los distintos programas, identificar los mecanismos de coordinación y colaboración y, por último, determinar la incidencia que estos programas han tenido en la nueva gestión pública.

This article analyzes training policy for public servants developed by Spanish Public Adminisration Institutes between 1999 and 2005. The objective is to ascertain differences and similarities between the various programs, to identify coordination and cooperation mechanisms, and to determine the impact that these programs have had on new public
management.

Los institutos de administración pública en España: programas de formación para el personal al servicio de la administración

by Rubén Sánchez Medero

La administración pública siempre ha mostrado cierta preocupación por la formación de sus empleados. Por eso a lo... more La administración pública siempre ha mostrado cierta preocupación por la formación de sus empleados. Por eso a lo largo de este artículo se han analizado los planes de formación que en el 2004 llevaron a cabo cinco Institutos de Administración Pública españoles, aunque únicamente se ha hecho referencia a cinco variables: las características, la temporalización, los destinatarios, los requisitos y selección, y las materias de las acciones formativas. Así, utilizando el programa informático SPSS se cruzarán dichas variables para determinar qué camino está tomando la política formativa de estas instituciones y, por tanto, averiguar si ésta guarda algún tipo de relación con un intento de modernización y profesionalización, o si bien, por el contrario, se trata de una política programada sin un objetivo claro.

Public administration has always shown some concern about the training of public officials. This is the reason that this article provides a review of the training plans for 2004 at five Institutes of Public Administration in Spain, but only reference is made to the five following variables: characteristics, timing, target audience, requirements, and selection, and the subjects of the training activities. The SPSS software enabled us to corelate these variables and identify the current training policy of these institutions. In turn, it also allowed us to establish whether there is some sort of connection with an attempt of modernization and professionalization or this policy has been scheduled without a clear objective.

İzmir'in İçinde bir Yol Ayrımı: Bürokratlar ve liberaller hürriyeti tartışıyor

by Cahit Akın

Ankara'da bir Yaban Kadrocu

by Cahit Akın

Tutunamayanlar'da aydın ve Batılılaşma

by Cahit Akın

Aynadaki kadın ve bir Aşk-ı Memnu

by Cahit Akın

Aldanmış bir muvakkit: Halit Ayarcı

by Cahit Akın

Mümtaz'ın mesuliyeti ve "çözülmemiş bir yumak gibi duran hayat"

by Cahit Akın

Andriotis, K. (2003). Tourism in Crete. A Form of Modernisation. Current Issues In Tourism, 6(1): 23-53.

by Konstantinos Andriotis

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13683500308667943

Tourism in Crete is an irreversible phenomenon that has resulted in a process of change under the form of... more Tourism in Crete is an irreversible phenomenon that has resulted in a process of change under the form of modernisation.This modernisation has both positive and negative consequences. Specifically, tourism has been transformed into a primary source of income and employment generation for the island and has improved the quality of life for the locals. However, tourism development was directed to the increase of demand through the increase of the numbers of beds, as well as the concentration of tourist arrivals in space and time, rather than the balanced development of the tourism industry. In effect, various social and environmental strains have resulted, such as environmental degradation, cultural pollution, commercialisation of human relations and negative demonstration effects. It is the aim of this paper to review past studies, having examined various aspects of tourism in Crete in order to investigate the costs and benefits associated with the modernisation of the island through tourism expansion and to provide recommendations for future development.

Keywords: Tourism, modernisation, costs and benefits, development, demand and supply, Crete.