Year: 2015

• August 6, 2015

  “Bye Bye Barcelona” #masstourism #globalization

  Bye Bye Barcelona is a documentary about a city and it’s relationship with tourism, about the difficult coexistence between Barcelona and it’s people with tourism and tourists. It is a documentary that exposes through the thoughts of some of it’s residents, the grave effects that mass tourism has in the city. You can watch this…

• August 3, 2015

  “The shrinking mining city: urban dynamics and contested territory” by Martinez-Fernandez (2012)

  Abstract Shrinking mining cities — once prosperous settlements servicing a mining site or a system of mining sites — are characterized by long-term population and/or economic decline. Many of these towns experience periods of growth and shrinkage, mirroring the ebbs and flows of international mineral markets which determine the fortunes of the dominant mining corporation…

• July 29, 2015

  My research visit at UFZ Leipzig

  I have been awarded a Erasmus Internship Scholarship by European Union to do a research stay at the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in the city of Leipzig (Eastern Germany) during July, August and September. For this reason, I have decided to create a blog category (“Visiting UFZ Leipzig“) entirely…

• July 29, 2015

  why blog your field work?

  Great post! Another good reason to do so is that not only participants but also co-researchers and/or supervisor, know more about what you’re doing.

• July 28, 2015

  “Street Phenomenology: The Go-Along as Ethnographic Research Tool” by Kusenbach

  Kusenbach, M. 2003. “Street Phenomenology: The Go-Along as Ethnographic Research Tool.” Ethnography 4 (3): 455–485. doi:10.1177/146613810343007. Abstract This article introduces and evaluates the go-along as a qualitative research tool. What sets this technique apart from traditional ethnographic methods such as participant observation and interviewing is its potential to access some of the transcendent and reflexive…

• July 28, 2015

  Por que o sistema urbano galego esta composto por urbes de tamanho medio e alta dispersion?

  Porque o proceso de mecanizacion e racionalizacion da agricultura se paralizou nalgun momento da historia e, en consecuencia non houbo un proceso de urbanizacion maior. Park o explicaba asi en 1942: The mechanization and rationalization of agriculture, for instance, has tended to depopulate the countryside, and by converting the farmsted into a factory and the…

• July 28, 2015

  Unintended consequences of Industrialization and urbanization by Park

  The mechanization and rationalization of agriculture, for instance, has tended to depopulate the countryside, and by converting the farmsted into a factory and the peasant into a wage earner and proletarian, has so stepped up the tempo of rural life that is has brought society as a whole into such a condition of unstable equilibrium…

• July 28, 2015

  INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF SOCIOLOGY by Robert E. Park and Ernest W. Burgess

  TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter I. Sociology and the Social Sciences PAGE I. Sociology and “Scientific” History 1 II. Historical and Sociological Facts 6 III. Human Nature and Law 12 IV. History, Natural History, and Sociology 16 V. The Social Organism: Humanity or Leviathan? 24 VI. Social Control and Schools of Thought 27 VII. Social Control…

• July 24, 2015

  The new production of knowledge: The dynamics of science and research in contemporary societies

  In this provocative and broad-ranging work, the authors argue that the ways in which knowledge – scientific, social and cultural – is produced are undergoing fundamental changes at the end of the twentieth century. They claim that these changes mark a distinct shift into a new mode of knowledge production which is replacing or reforming…

• July 23, 2015

  Re-Thinking Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty

  “Re-Thinking Science” presents an account of the dynamic relationship between society and science. Despite the mounting evidence of a much closer, interactive relationship between society and science, current debate still seems to turn on the need to maintain a ‘line’ to demarcate them. The view persists that there is a one-way communication flow from science…