Network Logic - Index of

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Network logic embed equality and diversity perspectives throughout organisational cultures and working practices. As a result, today the debate often becomes trapped within an unhelpful dichotomy of compulsion versus voluntarism. The major problem with this dichotomy is that it cannot accommodate any approach to equality that doesn’t take either the state or the market as its starting point. Yet policy-makers are increasingly recognising that long-term problems cannot be addressed using the traditional instruments available to them, or by a blind faith in market forces. Instead, as Bentley and Wilsdon have recently argued, they require changing the dominant assumptions governing models of organisation, and the development of greater adaptive capacity at every level of the system. 9 In this emerging framework, gender inequality should be understood as a problem involving complex, dynamic processes that cannot be easily tackled by reference to existing models or off-the-peg solutions. Instead, it requires open-ended capacity-building efforts, involving multiple stakeholders, across the wider system, which produces and reproduces gender inequalities. Women’s networks might not provide the whole picture here, but they offer some important clues as to what an ‘adaptive’ approach towards gender equality could look like. An approach that is participatory Equality cannot be ‘gifted’ to individuals or groups by the state using a top-down model, nor can it be bestowed by diversity initiatives driven by employers. These approaches are least likely to win widespread legitimacy and most likely to attract backlash and charges of tokenism. In contrast, the starting point for women’s networks is women themselves. Whether corporate or sector-wide, networks rely on the active participation of their members to succeed. They facilitate access to a supportive and enabling community, but individuals have the ultimate responsibility for converting the ties they make through the network into concrete opportunities and outcomes. Women’s success is thus generated by women’s own agency. 124 Demos
Old boys and new girls An approach that is self-organising In the same way that equality and diversity initiatives that are imposed in a top-down manner are unlikely to result in whole system change, women’s networks cannot be prescribed by managers. The first corporate networks were created on the initiative of individual women who perceived a need, and succeeded because there was a groundswell of women within the company who shared that view. The same principle applies to networks outside the workplace, where the range and scope of activities tend to be member-led, often evolving through series of experiments and listening exercises. This self-organising quality gives networks their dynamic quality, but it may also explain why some networks do not survive. An approach that accommodates diversity The fragmentation of the women’s movement during the 1980s is often attributed to the challenge of diversity. Women’s identities and experiences, it was felt by many, were far too complex and diverse to sustain any notion of collective interests, and the search for consensus thus became an illegitimate political project. Today, women’s networks offer an alternative model of solidarity, which balances the interests of individuals (‘What can I get out of this? How can I develop as a person?’) with the desire for reciprocity, mutual support and, if appropriate, collective action (‘How can I help others? What can we achieve together?’). Women’s networks are highly flexible, allowing members to pick and choose how and when they connect with each other. Many women are members of several networks simultaneously, or switch from one to another as their needs change. While networks create shared identities among women, they do not demand political consensus. An approach that operates on several levels simultaneously Gender inequality cannot be tackled by breaking the problem down into smaller components and treating each one separately. Rather, a fabric of interrelated factors must be addressed at the same time. Women’s networks operate on at least three levels. First, they meet the Demos 125
Page 1:
Network Logic Who governs in an int
Page 4 and 5:
About Demos Demos is a greenhouse f
Page 6 and 7:
Open access. Some rights reserved.
Page 8 and 9:
Network logic 10. Your friendship n
Page 11:
We are some way from being able to
Page 14 and 15:
Network logic urban communities, re
Page 16 and 17:
Network logic a weblog called DearR
Page 18 and 19:
Network logic networks permit, to c
Page 20 and 21:
Network logic we approach such regu
Page 22 and 23:
Network logic Power The changing na
Page 25:
One of the most important insights
Page 28 and 29:
Network logic has coined the term
Page 30 and 31:
Network logic Boundaries of identit
Page 32 and 33:
Network logic beliefs, explanations
Page 34 and 35:
Network logic verbal forms of mutua
Page 36 and 37:
Network logic framework for the und
Page 39 and 40:
3. Towards a theory of government K
Page 41 and 42:
Towards a theory of government in f
Page 43 and 44:
Towards a theory of government What
Page 45 and 46:
Toward the theory of government spe
Page 47 and 48:
Towards a theory of government Look
Page 49 and 50:
Towards a theory of government enge
Page 51:
Seeing the connectedness of things
Page 54 and 55:
Network logic up the political agen
Page 56 and 57:
Network logic against risk: protect
Page 58 and 59:
Network logic Holism The second pri
Page 60 and 61:
Network logic the actions to tackle
Page 63:
Editors’ note A significant featu
Page 67 and 68:
5. Untangling the threads networks,
Page 69 and 70:
Untangling the threads Given the co
Page 71 and 72:
Untangling the threads teachers exp
Page 73 and 74:
Untangling the threads districts, a
Page 75 and 76: Untangling the threads These networ
Page 77: Untangling the threads implementati
Page 81 and 82: 6. Networks, knowledge and innovati
Page 83 and 84: Networks, knowledge and innovation
Page 91: Asked about leadership, most people
Page 94 and 95: Network logic which they are part.
Page 96 and 97: Network logic Finally, in the refor
Page 98 and 99: Network logic meet them. The task t
Page 100 and 101: Network logic social network analys
Page 102 and 103: Network logic ‘right’ people ce
Page 105: Disparities of wealth appear as a l
Page 108 and 109: Network logic finally plot the resu
Page 110 and 111: Network logic But might there be a
Page 112 and 113: Network logic may start businesses,
Page 114 and 115: Network logic ago. Under the networ
Page 116 and 117: Network logic honestly. If it is no
Page 119 and 120: 9. Old boys and new girls women’s
Page 121 and 122: women’s networking movement. This
Page 123 and 124: Old boys and new girls Nevertheless
Page 125: Old boys and new girls practices. I
Page 129: Old boys and new girls 2 For an ove
Page 133 and 134: 10. Your friendship networks are th
Page 135 and 136: Your friendship networks government
Page 137 and 138: Your friendship networks Figure 1 N
Page 139 and 140: Your friendship networks Figure 2 I
Page 141 and 142: Your friendship networks protective
Page 143 and 144: Your friendship networks do not go
Page 145: If the rhetoric of community-led re
Page 148 and 149: Network logic located within geogra
Page 150 and 151: Network logic Enhancing service del
Page 152 and 153: Network logic have been hidden unde
Page 154 and 155: Network logic diverse networks coul
Page 156 and 157: Network logic more representative c
Page 159 and 160: 12. Networks and neighbourhoods the
Page 161 and 162: Networks and neighbourhoods coordin
Page 163 and 164: Networks and neighbourhoods where e
Page 165 and 166: Networks and neighbourhoods Figure
Page 167 and 168: Networks and neighbourhoods in any
Page 169: Delegating judgement and individual
Page 172 and 173: Network logic more likely to be lar
Page 174 and 175: Network logic culmination of the cl
Page 176 and 177:
Network logic many sectors we categ
Page 178 and 179:
Network logic evidence on the retur
Page 181 and 182:
14. The information utility John Ta
Page 183 and 184:
The information utility task will b
Page 185 and 186:
The information utility instrumenta
Page 187 and 188:
The information utility Goods and s
Page 189 and 190:
The information utility other publi
Page 191:
Smart mobs aren’t a ‘thing’ t
Page 194 and 195:
Network logic ‘People Power’ pe
Page 196 and 197:
Network logic Netwar is an emerging
Page 198 and 199:
Network logic another Lovegety owne
Page 200 and 201:
Network logic One of Granovetter’
Page 202 and 203:
Network logic performance of partic
Page 204 and 205:
Network logic technology becomes we
Page 207:
Social movements have always had an
Page 210 and 211:
Network logic experience of diverse
Page 212 and 213:
Network logic Use of network techno
Page 214 and 215:
Network logic campaigners? One way
Page 216 and 217:
Network logic The challenges of net
Page 218 and 219:
Network logic domain. Increasing us
Page 221:
Power does not reside in institutio
Page 224 and 225:
Network logic technological paradig
Page 226 and 227:
Network logic recombinant power, pr
Page 228 and 229:
Copyright 226 Demos DEMOS - Licence
show all

Network Logic - Index of

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?