Students Economic Empowerment through the Public Sphere

DOI

10.2991/icomacs-18.2018.3How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Empowerment; Economy; Public Sphere

Abstract

This research was conducted at Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung, where currently, there are more than twenty-four thousand students there. Through observations, the researchers found that some of the students used public space such as the mosque yard and the class yard for economic activities (for instance selling food and beverages). The data in this research were collected through observation and interview. Moreover, the data were qualitatively analyzed and narrated descriptively using critical theory and development model of achievement motivation. Through this critical paradigm, we will see how the students struggle in developing their talents, or their interest in the economic field, while their spaces are limited enough to do these things. Moreover, they must bet on buyer dishonesty and clash with restrictions issued by officials or power holders on campus regarding the rules of selling in those public spaces. The results of the research indicated that students' interest in developing the economic activities did increase both personally and in groups.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Enok Risdayah
AU  - Asep Iwan Setiawan
AU  - Krisna Somantri
AU  - Dedi Suyandi
PY  - 2018/10
DA  - 2018/10
TI  - Students Economic Empowerment through the Public Sphere
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Media and Communication Studies (ICOMACS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 11
EP  - 14
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icomacs-18.2018.3
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