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Murals have been used by marginalized communities to demand social justice and to reinforce the collective identity. It serves as a tactic to resist invisibilization by authority, a strategy used to marginalize and control some communities. Murals' capacity to codify ideas into an image makes this practice a tool for the collective production of knowledge and education. In collaboration with the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, I co-founded an art project to employ local youth to do a community mural based on Paulo Freire's notion of dialogue. I explored the use of public space, public art, and dialogue to facilitate a decolonizing pedagogical experience. My research questions are: How is public space transformed into an alternative pedagogical space through public art? How does a public art project preserve the collective memory in new generations and inform them about local social issues? How does a dialogue based project enable youth empowerment and critical thinking? The project took place in Humboldt Park in Chicago, a predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood. I worked with seven teenagers for six weeks. The first two weeks we engaged in conversations with community leaders and local socially engaged artists. The next four weeks the participants developed a concept, which included cultural symbols and images. The data was collected through journals, videos, photos and the artwork itself. The metamorphosis of the dialogue into public art is parallel to politicization in the public sphere. The intervention of public art in public space serves to articulate and expose community struggles, identity, and inequalities. Through codification, dialogue emerges as an ongoing process, constantly mutating before, during and after the mural painting. The project unveils identity gaps that the participants were not aware of. These gaps awaken a curiosity for their own culture and identity, as well as to the social issues in the local community. I noticed the group dynamic became a platform for the participants to create new social bonds and to meet community leaders. Through conversations, tacit community struggles became evident. The public space becomes the scene to disseminate arguments that will challenge the social imagination. The strength of mural painting in education lies in the capacity to produce knowledge organically, in contrast to many institutions where knowledge is prepackaged and alien to the realities of marginalized communities.

This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of "the public" or "public life," and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, systems, webs, or networks to talk about, describe, and map various practices. This volume proposes a new metaphor-modalities-to suggest that publics are forever in flux, and much more fluid and dynamic than the static models of systems or spheres would indicate-especially in the digital age, where various publics rapidly evolve and dissipate. Contributors to th

"Public trust in business is one of the most important but least understood issues for business leaders, public officials, employees, NGOs and other key stakeholders. This book provides much-needed thinking on the topic. Drawing on the expertise of an international array of experts from academic disciplines including business, sociology, political science and philosophy, it explores long-term strategies for building and maintaining public trust in business. The authors look to new ways of moving forward by carefully blending the latest academic research with conclusions for future research and practice. They address core drivers of public trust, how to manage it effectively, the consequences of low public trust, and how best to trust challenges and restore trust when it has been lost. This is a must-read for business practitioners, policy makers and students taking courses in corporate social responsibility or business ethics"--

An examination of the relationship between war and public health, this book documents the public health consequences of war and describes what health professionals can do to minimise these consequences and even help prevent war altogether. It explores the effects of war on health, human rights, and the environment

The public sector hires disproportionately more educated workers. Using US microdata, we show that the education bias also holds within industries and in two thirds of 3-digit occupations. To rationalize this finding, we propose a model of private and public employment based on two features. First, alongside a perfectly competitive private sector, a cost-minimizing government acts with a wage schedule that does not equate supply and demand. Second, our economy features heterogeneity across individuals and jobs, and a simple sorting mechanism that generates underemployment – educated workers performing unskilled jobs. The equilibrium model is parsimonious and is calibrated to match key moments of the US public and private sectors. We find that the public-sector wage differential and excess underemployment account for 15 percent of the education bias, with the remaining accounted for by technology. In a counterintuitive fashion, we find that more wage compression in the public sector raises inequality in the private sector. A 1 percent increase in unskilled public wages raises skilled private wages by 0.07 percent and lowers unskilled private wages by 0.06 percent.

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