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"A thought-provoking and provocative challenge to consumerism (with plenty of name-dropping and celebrity antics). Sassy and satirical, Shopomania is an economic, environmental and social study. This light-hearted, dark-souled dictionary of coined words, or "shoponyms," takes readers on a roller-coaster ride of avaricious antics and outrageous profligacy. Shopping in one form or another has existed for millennia but, aside from a few slumps, each generation has outdone the previous one. In the past fifty years, shopping--and its associated carbon footprint-- has grown exponentially. Berton argues that if we invented today's consumer culture, then we can invent something to replace it. We can do a better job of making the cycle of stuff truly circular rather than linear. We can be more environmentally, socially and politically conscious of what we buy and how it comes to us--and where it will go after we are finished with it. A species that has made shopping ubiquitous can figure all these things out with little more than co-operation and creativity, and by asking if it is really necessary to "own it now" as we have been told--endlessly-- since childhood. Must we possess a thing to enjoy it? Do we really need all that stuff?"--

AbstractSince project management is inevitably a social effort involving all relevant actors, social aspects have to be emphasized when considering collaborative project management. Social innovation focuses on reacting to social demands and developing innovative solutions to overcome various social issues. Therefore, determining the social innovation potential in the project management process is very important. The main purpose of this study is to propose a Fuzzy Analytic Network Process (FANP) and Fuzzy VIKOR (FVIKOR)‐based decision model to determine the social innovation potential of technological projects. The results of FANP revealed that the most important criteria for determining social innovation potential of projects are financial resources, technological developments and social capital. Furthermore, FVIKOR was used for ranking social innovation potential of the selected technological projects. There are several managerial implications of this study. First, we suggest that practitioners should integrate the proposed model into their project evaluation processes. Second, they can also use this model to define the social innovation factors during project selection. Lastly, the proposed model can be employed to prioritize the social innovation factors that enable managers to allocate the appropriate resources to project management process.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. ICT Development for Mobile Communities -- 3. Maasai Online Petitions -- 4. Inner Mongolian Online Identity -- 5. Bedouin Poetry in Personal and Public Spheres -- 6. Mongolia's Cell Phone Referendum -- 7. Sámi Protests to Preserve the Arctic -- 8. Standing Rock Unites International Protesters -- 9. New Herding Networks -- Works Cited -- Index.

Think of the toughest problems in your organization or community. What if they'd already been solved and you didn't even know it? In The Power of Positive Deviance, the authors present a counterintuitive new approach to problem-solving. Their advice? Leverage positive deviants--the few individuals in a group who find unique ways to look at, and overcome, seemingly insoluble difficulties. By seeing solutions where others don't, positive deviants spread and sustain needed change. With vivid, firsthand stories of how positive deviance has alleviated some of the world's toughest problems (malnutrition in Vietnam, staph infections in hospitals), the authors illuminate its core practices, including: · Mobilizing communities to discover "invisible" solutions in their midst · Using innovative designs to "act" your way into a new way of thinking instead of thinking your way into a new way of acting · Confounding the organizational "immune response" seeking to sustain the status quo Inspiring and insightful, The Power of Positive Deviance unveils a potent new way to tackle the thorniest challenges in your own company and community

Now in its fourth edition, completely revised and updated, this book continues to offer in-depth coverage spanning both conceptual debates about empowerment and a range of practice issues. The text provides social workers with a clear framework for critical and empowering practice with service users and carers. The author offers an account of the development of empowerment and participation in practice, considering all dimensions, from work with individuals and groupwork, through to organisational, community and political aspects. The clarity and accessibility, as well as new examples reflecting varied global contexts and material on empowering children and adults, make it an essential resource at all levels of study. New to this Edition: - Strong emphasis on the needs of service users and a clear focus on how social workers may encourage service user and carer prticipation - Internationally diverse case studies and practice examples, reflecting global concerns as well as the changing service and practice terrains in the UK - New and extended material on empowering children and adults

The establishment of East African Community Common Market in July 2010 was a positive step taken by Partner States for pursuing intra-regional trade liberalization through free movement of goods, capital, persons and services. This aimed at widening and deepening the level of co-operation among the Partner States in the economic and social fields leading to political federation. However, four years of being operational, the full implementation of the Common Market remains challenging. This paper makes a review on compliance of the Common Market Protocol while analysing progress made in the implementation process as well as examining regional prospects and challenges. The paper concludes by arguing that Partner States should re-think, plan and work together to comply with the Protocol for strong implementation in order to deliver the rights and freedom enshrined in.

This book reflects on the continuing expansion of extractive forms of capitalist development into new territories in Latin America, and the resistance movements that are trying to combat the ecological and social destruction that follows. Latin American development models continue to prioritise extractivism: the intensive exploitation and exportation of nature in its primary commodity form. This constant expansion of the extractive frontier into new territories leads to forms of place-based resistance, negotiation and struggle in which competing territorial projects and claims are at stake. This book uncovers the underlying trends and dynamics of these territorialities in dispute', and the socio- ecological resistance movements that are emerging as marginalized communities struggle to reclaim their territorial rights and defend and protect their right of access to the global commons. A focus on territorialities in dispute renders visible the unsustainable expansion of extractivist territories and opens up new horizons to learn from these processes and to consider post-extractivist/post-development imaginings of another world and alternate futures - as well as the challenges to their realisation. This book will be of interest to both students and researchers in the fields of international development, political ecology, critical geography, social anthropology as well as to activists engaged in socio-ecological/eco-territorial movements

The present paper is focused on the development of social entrepreneurship and social enterprises in Bulgaria. The article presents a theoretical analysis of the legislation that regulates the existence of social enterprises in the country. It outlines and describes the main aspects and effect of social enterprises activity at present

In this article author analyzes the development of local government as one of the foundations of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation. This institution has a serious impact on the entire history of the state, and is especially important in today's society. however, there are a number of features of local authorities today. Based on the analysis the author proposes a number of measures to harmonize the existing legislation. Practice has shown that the local government as an institution of direct democracy and public participation in addressing important issues are extremely important, but still not enough to effectively functioning in our country. In any country the ability of local authorities to effectively perform their tasks largely depends on how they are organized. With regard to the mechanism of local government, first of all, means the creation of an appropriate system of local self-government, the development of these structures, the establishment of competence of each of them, selection and placement. In view of the evolution of the institution of local self-government in Russia, it should be noted that in the process of democratization of the society, this institution has an impact on all the historical path of development of the state.

In the following article you will rescue the importance and the concept of inclusion, relating it to the project entitled training Centre for Vulnerable People Focused on Demobilized (CVPFD), identifying the social responsibility of enterprises in all economic sectors against the social inclusion, in this case with relation to the different actors involved in the current process of peace signed by the Colombian government with the group insurgent of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (RAFC). Taking as a starting point, the processes of peace signed by other countries such as: Honduras, Salvador, Peru and Mexico; where is highlighted, that to meet the objective of the peace processes, should be so constant dialogues to negotiate and establish different aspects influencing the time of signing, emphasizing how has been the corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the incorporation of demobilized combatants; being excluded and discriminated against because of its judicial background, in the same way it has presented a constant difficulty in its incorporation when integrating to a new work environment. Why you want to identify the opportunities, skills and strategies that have been implemented by different Governments after the signing of the processes of peace, participation of the productive and educational sector in the development of strategies to face the challenge of incorporating people in a condition of reinserted into life civil. ; En el siguiente artículo se rescatará la importancia y el concepto de inclusión, relacionándolo con el proyecto denominado Centro de Capacitación para Personas Vulnerables enfocado en Desmovilizados (CCPVD), identificando la responsabilidad social de las empresas de todos los sectores económicos frente a la inclusión social, en este caso con relación a los diferentes actores involucrados en el actual proceso de paz firmado por el gobierno colombiano con el grupo insurgente de las Farc. Tomando como punto de partida, los procesos de paz firmados por otros países como: Honduras, Salvador, Perú y México; donde se resalta, que para cumplir el objetivo, de proceso de paz, se deben mantener de manera constante, diálogos para pactar y establecer diferentes aspectos que influyan en el momento de la firma, haciendo énfasis en cómo se ha manifestado la responsabilidad social empresarial (RSE), en la incorporación de la población desmovilizada; siendo está excluida y discriminada por sus antecedentes judiciales, del mismo modo ha presentado de manera constante dificultades en su incorporación al momento de integrarse a un nuevo ambiente laborales. Por ello se quiere identificar las oportunidades, competencias y estrategias que han implementado diferentes gobiernos luego de la firma de procesos de paz, participación del sector productivo y educativo en el desarrollo de estrategias para afrontar el reto de incorporar a las personas en condición de reinsertadas a la vida civil.

"This collection focuses attention on an important but academically neglected area of contemporary operational policing: the regulation of consensual sexual practices. Despite the high-level public visibility of, and debate about, policing in relation to violent and abusive sexual crimes (from child sexual abuse to adult rape) very little public or scholarly attention is paid to the policing of consensual sexual practices in contemporary societies. In the context of social and cultural change "sexual life" is largely understood as a matter of "private life," policing plays an active part in regulating consensual sexual practices across a number of areas. This book brings together a well known and respected group of academics to explore the role of the police in shaping the boundaries of that aspect of contemporary life that we imagine to be most private and most our own, uniting scholars from a range of disciplines. It is essential supplementary readings for courses in criminology, law, policing, sociology of deviance, gender and sexuality, and cultural studies"--Provided by publisher