Suchergebnisse

Los Estados-nación han reforzado la vinculación entre identidad y territorio delimitado por fronteras. En los últimos años, la comunidad gitana, con su definición como un pueblo que ni tiene ni quiere un territorio, ha iniciado un proceso que está transformando la relación entre territorio e identidad tanto en la Unión Europea como en la teoría social. El parlamento europeo recogió y aprobó por unanimidad la principal conclusión del precedente de INCLUD-ED, el proyecto RTD WORKALÓ, del V Programa Marco de Investigación: el reconocimiento del pueblo gitano. Esa investigación aportó el análisis de la identidad transterritorial gitana, uno de los mejores ejemplos reales de que disponemos como modelo de la globalización. El impacto de esa nueva concepción no sólo ha llegado a la política, sino también a las ciencias sociales, en las cuales autores como Beck, Habermas o Touraine han criticado el nacionalismo metodológico para analizar los actuales fenómenos sociales. ; The Nation States have reinforced the connection between identity and territory demarcated by borders. Over the last years, the Roma community, defined as a people that do not have nor want a territory, have started a process that is transforming the relationships between territory and identity both in the European Union as well as in the social theory. The European parliament gathered and approved by unanimity the main conclusion of INCLUD-ED's background project, the RTD Project WORKALÓ, from the V Framework Programme of Research: the recognition of the Roma People. This research provided the analysis of the Roma transterritorial identity, one of the best real example as a model of the globalization. The impact of this new conception not only has influenced politics but also the social sciences, in which authors such as Beck, Habermas or Touraine have criticized the methodological nationalism to analyze current social phenomena.

This investigation complies with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, and resolution P7_TA 0312 of 9 September 2010, of the European Parliament on the Situation of the Roma People and Free Movement in the European Union [44,45]. To protect the participants' identities and personal data, pseudonyms have been used. Consent forms with detailed information about the study and an explanation that they have the right to withdraw from it at any time were provided to all the persons participating in the research. ; Scientific literature has focused on the constraints that Roma women have faced to overcome the racism and inequalities that they and the Roma people as a whole have suffered. However, less attention has been paid to how Roma women organize to challenge this reality. Drawing on a qualitative case study about the Roma Association of Women Drom Kotar Mestipen (Barcelona) and specifically on the analysis of one of its activities, the 'Roma women student gatherings' (known as 'Trobades' in Catalan), this article contributes evidence to show how Roma women are fighting to improve their own living conditions and those of their people by organizing at the grassroots level. The communicative analysis reveals the impacts that these gatherings have on the individual and societal levels. First, the gatherings have impacts on the individual level, as many of the women who participate in them are exposed to and embrace new educational projects, thus acquiring more skills to be better prepared to later access the labor market. Second, their impact is also evidenced on the societal level, as the gatherings enhance Roma women's associational life, resulting in new mobilizations and often making women who were once in the shadows become community leaders.

Después de más de diez años de implementar estrategias educativas que están avaladas por la comunidad científica internacional, las Comunidades de Aprendizaje han demostrado tener éxito a nivel de mejores resultados educativos y de convivencia. Esta experiencia ha servido para que algunos gobiernos y organismos internacionales reconocieran el proyecto como un ejemplo en el que basarse para desarrollar programas y políticas educativas. En este artículo se analizará el caso concreto del País Vasco y el Cluster Europeo de Inclusión Social y Acceso, como ejemplo de esta transferencia. ; After ten years implementing strategies endorsed by the international scientific community, Learning Communities have shown to be successful in terms of students' outcomes and improvement of their coexistence. This experience has led governments and international organizations to base their educational policies on this project. In this article, authors analyse the particular cases of the Basque Country and the European Cluster on Access and Social Inclusion, as examples of such transfer process.

The need to develop adequate methodologies to comprehensively assess the impact of research, especially the social impact of European Union (EU)-funded research, is one of the main concerns within the European Commission as well as for EU citizens, who are more active than ever. This article discusses the rationale behind using a qualitative approach to better address these concerns. Drawing on the FP7 IMPACT-EV research project, the present article discusses how to overcome a positivist approach that evaluates the social impact of research conducted only for its economic objectives and using only quantitative data. The focus on what is needed and what research is expected to bring to society are emphasized and made possible through qualitative inquiry of the social impact of the EU social sciences and the humanities (SSH) research. Thus, the development of qualitative-based analysis of the social impact of research is increasingly required to be conducted in dialogue with citizens.

A pesar de ser uno de los conceptos más recurrentes entre la comunidad científica y en los discursos políticos, la cohesión social carece de una definición rigurosa y compartida que aglutine toda su complejidad. En el presente artículo, a partir de una revisión de las distintas aportaciones científicas, se definen tres dimensiones de la cohesión social: la cultural, la redistributiva de recursos y la relacional (capital social). Estas tres dimensiones se contrastan con los discursos políticos subyacentes en las políticas migratorias europeas, españolas y catalanas. En todos ellos se identifica una voluntad de construir un marco de referencia común, que reconozca la diversidad cultural, como también la necesidad de garantizar el acceso a los derechos básicos como un medio hacia la cohesión social. Se concluye que las tres dimensiones se encuentran en menor o mayor medida en los discursos políticos, diferenciándose más en su priorización que de forma sustantiva. ; Despite being one of the most used concepts by the scientific community and in political discourses, social cohesion lacks of a rigorous and shared definition. In this article, based on a literature review, three dimensions of social cohesion are defined in relation to cultural diversity, the redistribution of resources and social capital. These dimensions are contrasted with the political discourses underlying migration policies at the European, Spanish and Catalan level. The authors conclude that the three dimensions are to greater or lesser extent present in the political discourses, although they differ in priorities rather than in the substantive core.

Recently, the need to contribute to the evaluation of the scientific, social, and political impact of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research has become a demand of policy makers and society. The international scientific community has made significant advances that have transformed the impact of evaluation landscape. This article reviews the existing scientific knowledge on evaluation tools and techniques that are applied to assess the scientific impact of SSH research; the changing structure of social and political impacts of SSH research is investigated based on an overarching research question: to what extent do scholars attempt to apply methods, instruments, and approaches that take into account the distinctive features of SSH? The review also includes examples of European Union (EU) projects that demonstrate these impacts. This article culminates in a discussion of the development of the assessment of different impacts and identifies limitations, and areas and topics to explore in the future.