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Social policy in a future of degrowth? Challenges for decommodification, commoning and public support

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
Achieving sustainability within planetary boundaries requires radical changes to production and consumption beyond technology- and efficiency-oriented solutions, especially in affluent countries. The literature on degrowth offers visions and policy paths
Kristian Kongshøj
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Sustainability Politics and Housing Development in Urban Brazil and Ghana

open access: yes, 2023
Rapid population growth in the Global South places extreme pressure on cities, making it very difficult for governments to provide the necessary housing to city dwellers.
Jeffrey W. Paller   +3 more
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Collective Action Initiatives as a Tool for a Peaceful Energy Transition

open access: yesEnergies, 2022
In recent years, collective action initiatives in the energy field, such as energy communities and cooperatives, have been gaining relevance both in the policy and in the social research domains as primary actors of energy transition. [...]
Osman Arrobbio   +2 more
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Place consciousness as a method. Reterritorialisation processes and governance practices in the case of the Vassallo Administration in Pollica

open access: yesScienze del Territorio, 2022
The article evaluates in a qualitative and diachronic key the characteristics of self-sustainability and social innovation of the local development path activated by the Administration lead by Angelo Vassallo, mayor of Pollica from 1995 to 2010.
Giulia Panepinto
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‘You Can’t Do Anything Right’: How Adolescents Experience and Navigate the Achievement Imperative on Social Media

open access: yesYoung, 2023
The rise in mental health issues among youth has been linked to an emergence of an achievement imperative, causing a rise in personal expectations and achievement demands, with social media highlighted as a significant contributor to these developments ...
Søren Christian Krogh
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Discourses about Daily Activity Contracts: A Ground for Children’s Participation?

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2019
The paper presents the findings of a secondary analysis of qualitative research conducted in Turin (Northern Italy) in 2012–2013 on autonomy and responsibility in the relationships between children and parents. A total of 46 parents and 48 children
Roberta Bosisio, Manuela Olagnero
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Politicians’ social media usage in a hybrid media environment: A scoping review of the literature between 2008–2022

open access: yesNordicom Review, 2023
In recent years, politicians and political parties have increasingly adopted various social media as political communication platforms. While the research on the topic has provided valuable knowledge about politicians’ use of these platforms and the ...
Severin-Nielsen Majbritt K.
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Is the (Mass) Party Really Over? The Case of the Dutch Forum for Democracy

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2021
Over the past decades, the Netherlands has witnessed the rise of several influential populist radical right parties, including the Pim Fortuyn List (Lijst Pim Fortuyn), Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid) and, more recently, the ...
Léonie de Jonge
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Too much or never enough: mattering and adolescent ill-being. revisiting social pathologies through the schism between hyper-significance and invisibility

open access: yesInternational Journal of Adolescence and Youth
Adolescent illbeing is often framed as individualized mental health problems through medicalized language. Drawing on Durkheim’s concepts of regulation and disintegration and Prilleltensky’s theory of mattering, this article reconceptualizes adolescent ...
Iben Lausten Kragh   +2 more
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The Persistent Constraints of New Public Management on Sustainable Co-Production between Non-Profit Professionals and Service Users

open access: yesAdministrative Sciences, 2023
In this paper, I explore whether and how New Public Management (NPM) inhibits the long-term sustainability of co-production between non-profit practitioners and service users in the United Kingdom.
Caitlin McMullin
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