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1. Taking part : a study of adolescent sexual health promotion in Peru

Author

Ramella, Marcelo

Subjects
613, BF Psychology, HM Sociology, RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Abstract

This study introduces a theoretical and empirical exploration of the issue of participation within the field of adolescent sexual health promotion. It contributes to, and engages in, two kinds of debates: policy and practice discussions on how to involve adolescents in promoting their sexual health, and academic debates on the relevant theory that informs policy and practice. The thesis critically reviews literature on participatory adolescent sexual health promotion arguing that the field is located at the intersection of three central conceptual vectors: adolescence, which is constructed as inevitably transiting towards adulthood from the moment childhood ends; adolescent sexual health, which is primarily dictated by the languages of biomedicine and psychology; and adolescent participation, which appears understood as a process of adult transmission of knowledge onto the participating adolescent. Challenging these coordinates, and by drawing on the works of Jürgen Habermas and Paulo Freire, a framework for understanding participatory processes is elaborated. Participation here is conceptualised as a social process of creation via which those taking part in it concurrently shape and maintain knowledge, mould and stabilise social relations, and care for themselves. A participatory adolescent sexual health promotion initiative implemented in rural and urban-marginal communities of the Andean, Coastal and Jungle regions of Peru, acts as the observational field for the empirical investigation of the conceptualisation of participation advanced in the thesis. Documentaries and dramas produced in video format by the adolescents taking part in the initiative, together with audio-visual recordings of group discussions in which the adolescents presented and problematised these videos constitute the qualitative data gathered in this study. The data was analysed to explore adolescents’ collective elaborations of sexuality in general and of sexual health in particular, and to reconstruct, from these instances of collective creation, the workings of the participation processes that underpin them.

Published
2002

9. Extending discursive space: toward the development of an online information system for organizational consulting and management

Author

Deriabin, Andrey, Ramella, Marcelo, Ryzhenkov, Peter, and Humphreys, Patrick

Subjects
HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Abstract

Modern business in Russia, being a new phenomenon in cultural traditions, is characterized by a lot of special features due to the recency of its ascendance within the new economic, social and political conditions. Many of these features seriously prevent the further development of organizations and are anyhow realized by agents of business activity. In this context, Tepfer (2000) identifies characteristic features like placing collective values above personal values, concentration of authority onto the chief executive, insufficient delegation of authority, and an inefficiency of discussions between people at different hierarchical levels in the organization (See also Humphreys and Nappelbaum, 1997). Forms of inter-organizational communications, such as business clubs, are not developed in a proper way. Within Russian organizations, problem handling is more likely to search for "the guilty ones" rather than to conduct a scrupulous analysis of allowed mistakes: representations of problems and the phenomena involved have a primarily emotional character. Direct communication, both inside an organization and in relations between different organizations, is complicated by virtue of the dominance of competitive relations, the cultural norms prevalent in Russian business, and absence of a supportive environment in which such communications might be realized.

Published
2000

11. Part III: Good Practice: Chapter 9: The creation of gendered spaces as a medium for sexual health promotion among young people in Peru.

Author

Ramella, Marcelo, Attride-Stirling, Jennifer, Watson, Jonathan, and Platt, Stephen

Subjects
YOUTH health, YOUTHS' sexual behavior, HEALTH promotion, YOUTH psychology, SOCIAL interaction, SOCIAL psychology
Abstract

This chapter describes an innovative project regarding adolescent sexual health promotion in Peru. In working with adolescents the issue of sexual health promotion involves an array of unsettled and delicate issues ranging from age and gender to various taboos that touch conflicting points lying at the intersection of the sociocultural, the medical and the legal spheres. The chapter attempts to provide a social psychological approach to the issue of sexual health promotion among adolescents. Focusing on a project that is being carried out in severely deprived areas of Peru, the concept of the gendered space is proposed as an effective medium for the promotion of adolescent sexual health. The gendered space is conceptualized as a community-grounded social sphere where interaction, exchange and dialogue between young women and men are facilitated. The notion of gendered space provides a promising tool for the promotion of sexual health among adolescents. It combines in an innovative fashion a fundamentally social conceptualization of health promotion, with a challenging approach to adolescent participation. The chapter outlines the theoretical basis underpinning the approach, discusses preliminary findings corresponding to the first two years of implementation of the project, and sketches further steps to be carried out in the future. It proposes some ideas that might be of use for practitioners, and of interest to researchers in the field of adolescent sexual health promotion.

Published
2000

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