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David Stuckler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Excess suicides and attempted suicides in Italy attributable to the great recession
Journal of epidemiology and community health, 2012Co-Authors: Roberto De Vogli, Michael Marmot, David StucklerAbstract:In early May, widows of men who killed themselves began marching on tax offices in Bologna, Italy. Their protest? Austerity and tax collection put their husbands at risk. This is the first Grassroots Movement on mental health in Europe responding to what has been recently dubbed ‘suicide by economic crisis’.1 But not everyone agrees with these widows' interpretation of events. Although articles recently published in The Lancet 2 ,3 provided support for the hypothesis, some commentators have claimed that the suggestion that increases in suicides are linked to the recession is a ‘premature overinterpretation’.4 Are these recent suicide increases in Italy attributable to the financial crisis or just ‘normal statistical …
Karolosiosif Kavoulakos - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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from charity to welfare disability Movement institutional change and social transformation in post dictatorial greece 1974 81
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2020Co-Authors: Vasiliki Chalaza, Christos Tsakas, Karolosiosif KavoulakosAbstract:This article studies the role of the blind Movement in the legislative achievements regarding the disabled people, and in the formation of blind identities and broader perceptions of disability in post-dictatorial Greece. By highlighting the institutional impact of the 1976 occupation of the Home of the Blind, this paper shows how a Grassroots Movement contributed to democratization, and it challenges the dichotomy between institutional and societal accounts of democratic transitions, thus touching upon themes, such as citizenship and empowerment. In doing so, this article seeks to explain the paradigm shift from charity to welfare with respect to disability as part of the broader dynamics of social transformation in Greece in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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From Charity to Welfare: Disability Movement, Institutional Change and Social Transformation in Post-Dictatorial Greece, 1974–81
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2020Co-Authors: Vasiliki Chalaza, Christos Tsakas, Karolosiosif KavoulakosAbstract:This article studies the role of the blind Movement in the legislative achievements regarding the disabled people, and in the formation of blind identities and broader perceptions of disability in post-dictatorial Greece. By highlighting the institutional impact of the 1976 occupation of the Home of the Blind, this paper shows how a Grassroots Movement contributed to democratization, and it challenges the dichotomy between institutional and societal accounts of democratic transitions, thus touching upon themes, such as citizenship and empowerment. In doing so, this article seeks to explain the paradigm shift from charity to welfare with respect to disability as part of the broader dynamics of social transformation in Greece in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Roberto De Vogli - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Excess suicides and attempted suicides in Italy attributable to the great recession
Journal of epidemiology and community health, 2012Co-Authors: Roberto De Vogli, Michael Marmot, David StucklerAbstract:In early May, widows of men who killed themselves began marching on tax offices in Bologna, Italy. Their protest? Austerity and tax collection put their husbands at risk. This is the first Grassroots Movement on mental health in Europe responding to what has been recently dubbed ‘suicide by economic crisis’.1 But not everyone agrees with these widows' interpretation of events. Although articles recently published in The Lancet 2 ,3 provided support for the hypothesis, some commentators have claimed that the suggestion that increases in suicides are linked to the recession is a ‘premature overinterpretation’.4 Are these recent suicide increases in Italy attributable to the financial crisis or just ‘normal statistical …
Scott L. Cummings - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Community Economic Development as Progressive Politics: Toward a Grassroots Movement for Economic Justice
Stanford Law Review, 2001Co-Authors: Scott L. CummingsAbstract:Author(s): Cummings, Scott | Abstract: Community economic development (CED) emerged during the 1990s as the dominant approach to redressing urban poverty, replacing entitlement programs and civil rights initiatives with a market-based strategy for promoting economic equality. Premised on the idea that poor neighborhoods are underutilized markets in need of private sector investment, market-based CED gained a broad range of ideological adherents, resonating with proponents of black nationalism, neoliberal economics, and postmodern micropolitics. As the decade brought economic issues to the fore and legal services advocates faced mounting federal restrictions, increasing numbers of poverty lawyers adopted the market-based CED model, providing transactional legal assistance to community organizations engaged in neighborhood revitalization initiatives. Yet, despite the expansion of the market paradigm, analysts have largely avoided a critical dialogue about CED theory and have neglected a careful examination of the evolving nature of Grassroots CED practice. This Article sets forth an indigenous critique of market-based CED, arguing that it fails to deliver on its promise of poverty alleviation, diverts attention from the need for a coordinated political response to economic disadvantage, privileges localism over structural reform, and impedes the formation of multiracial political alliances. This Article then presents an alternative model of politically engaged CED that integrates legal advocacy and community organizing to build cross-neighborhood coalitions that promote broad-based economic reform. It concludes by outlining the contours of this new approach, highlighting how poverty lawyers are collaborating with organizing groups to expand living wage ordinances, establish cooperative businesses, and implement comprehensive hiring and job training programs.
Michael Chau - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Use of Microblogs in Grassroots Movements in China: Exploring the Role of Online Networking in Agenda Setting
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2014Co-Authors: Michael ChauAbstract:AbstractThis study examines the role of online networking in a Grassroots Movement in China. Drawing on Manuel Castells’s theory of communication power in the network society, we argue that microblogs can facilitate China’s mass self-communication in a network environment, even under authoritarian control, and are able to challenge the power of agenda setting, which has been mainly dominated by the state and the state media. We study a Grassroots Movement in China and examine the ways in which messages were communicated and people were connected into a network. Thus we investigate the role of online communication in reconfiguring the balance of power between the authority and Chinese citizens. Using systematic data collection and social network analysis, we characterize the microbloggers who contributed to the process, the network configuration, and the interplays between different stakeholders.
