“This is an Italian Church with a Large Hispanic Population”: Factors and Strategies in White Ethno–Religious Place Making

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-420
Author(s):  
Juan R. Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Place Marketing ◽  
Hispanic Population ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Italian American ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
White Ethnic ◽  
White Ethnics ◽  
Do So

This paper examines how a group of white ethnic, mostly Italian American, Catholics participate in ethno–religious place making in a predominantly Latino church. In light of a growing number of Latino parishioners, white ethnic church members engage in place making activities to ascribe a white ethno–religious identity to place. Drawing on participant observations, interviews, and archival documents, I examine the impetus behind, and strategies used, in making ethno–religious place. I find that place attachment and group threat drive white ethnics to make place. They do so by employing strategies of place making, place marking, and place marketing. The findings point to the importance of using place as a focal point of social analysis and understanding how people make place.

Recovering the local: From glocalization to localization

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 801-817 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Roudometof
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Do So

Addressing a major theoretical lacuna in the literature concerning ‘the local’ and localization, different interpretations of the local are presented and critiqued and a different account of the local and localization as a focal point for social research is offered. In the article, it is argued that social theory needs to give the local its due and avoid surrendering the local to localism. The local is thematized in terms of the space/place nexus; although it is impossible to bind the local in terms of space, it is possible to do so in terms of place. Hence, the suggestion is to think of the local as a place. Through these lenses, localization is conceived as a process of place-making, which in turn successfully differentiates the local from the related concepts of globalization and glocalization. The increasing pace of globalization emerges as a factor counteracting localization, thereby giving birth to various localisms. Possible avenues for developing alternatives to current versions of exclusivist localism are explored.

scholarly journals Plan for city identity establishment and city marketing the case of Kimpo city

Dela ◽  
2004 ◽  
pp. 233-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Inn
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Policy Implication ◽  
City Management ◽  
Place Marketing ◽  
City Marketing ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Theoretical Methods ◽  
Specific Advantage ◽  
Place Promotion ◽  
City Identity

The purpose of this study is to provide theoretical methods and practical strategies of crea-ting city identity, and to utilize them as basic tools of city management. Place marketing consists of two parts, place assets making and place promotion. Place asset making is the process of making the place-specific advantage or attractiveness and the place promotion is the process that makes notice of it. The place marketing debates and strategies is quite often confined to partial place marketing, the search for the tactical method of place promotion. However, this study examines the characteristics of full place marketing focused on the place making such as the background, concept, category, participants and principles of place making. This study finds out that the originality, specificity, and indispensability of place asset is the source of competitive advantage. The principles of place asset making are participation, learning and experience, and leadership and networks among actors. The policy implication of this study is that it is most important for the success of place marke-ting to make competitive assets and eventual city identity.

Boundaries of Inclusion and Exclusion in Postwar America

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Danielle Battisti
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Social Position ◽  
American Identity ◽  
The Political ◽  
World War ◽  
Postwar America ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
Italian American ◽  
White Ethnic

The introduction comments on the nature of campaigns to reform American immigration laws after World War II, Italian American identity, and the political and social position of white ethnic groups.

scholarly journals SECULAR ROOTS OF RELIGIOUS RAGE: SHAPING RELIGIOUS IDENTITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-196
Author(s):  
Philip W. Barker ◽  
William J. Muck
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
Mass Mobilization ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
Political Economic

In historic cases of religious conflict, religion was not necessarily the original source of the conflict, but was eventually established as the focal point around which individuals defined their identity. Although the differences between the two groups may have been numerous (political, economic, cultural, etc.), religion provided the easiest and most prominently accessible tool for mass mobilization and identity differentiation. Once this shift occurs, the religious identities become so salient that all future interactions tend to be defined along religious lines, which in turn lends itself to intractability. This paper draws parallels between previous intractable religious conflicts and the current developing conflict between the United States and the Islamic world. Although the United States has made a concerted effort to declare a war on “terror” and not Islam, the perceived threat associated with current U.S. foreign policy behavior is encouraging the redefinition of Middle Eastern identity in Islamic terms and creating the possibility of intractable religious conflict on a global scale. Consequently, while many within the region may not have initially seen this conflict along religious lines, Islam has provided the most prominent and convenient form for articulating their frustrations.

scholarly journals Pandemic fitness assemblages: The sociomaterialities and affective dimensions of exercising at home during the COVID-19 crisis

2021 ◽  
pp. 135485652110424
Author(s):  
Marianne Clark ◽  
Deborah Lupton
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Place And Space ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Affective Experiences ◽  
Affective Dimensions ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
Do So ◽  
At Home

The implementation of physical distancing measures and lockdowns across the globe to control the spread of COVID-19 has led to the home becoming a focal point of exercise and fitness activities for many people. A plethora of digital tools were hastily assembled to help people workout at home or in spaces close to home: including apps with workout suggestions, online videos and livestreamed fitness classes. In this article, we draw on our empirical material collected through semi-structured interviews and virtual ethnographic home tours with Australian adults to explore the ‘pandemic fitness assemblages’ generated with and through their improvised pandemic fitness practices inside and outside their homes. These materials illustrate how bodies, digital and non-digital technologies, and place and space came together and help to surface the affects, sensations and embodiments that emerged. We describe how people’s re-imagined fitness practices contributed to daily routines, transformed the atmospheres of the home and yielded affective experiences of escape. To do so, we think with sociospatial and feminist materialism theoretical frameworks that emphasise the generative relationships emerging between human and more-than-human forces and entities. Our analysis further illuminates the situatedness and relationality of these heterogeneous forces and considers how they come to matter within the broader sociomaterial context of COVID-19.

Inaugurating Neoliberal Crimmigration

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Perry
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
Italian American ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Asian Men ◽  
Latin American Immigrants ◽  
And Gender ◽  
White Ethnics

This chapter examines the criminalization of Latin American immigrants and Latina/os in media, policy debates, and law, and in relation to the prison-industrial system. In 1980s films, romanticized Italian American mafia families contrasted media alarm—the continuation of the “immigrant emergency”—over unmarried Latino gangbangers in films and television shows. This was largely accomplished by portraying Latina/o family and gender arrangements as dysfunctional deviations from “family values.” In martial arts films, Asian men were cast as exotic and often family-less crime fighters, again occupying a place between Latin American immigrants and Latinas/os and white ethnics. Focusing on increased border control and punitive immigration law that targeted undocumented immigrants and functioned increasingly like criminal law, as well as on racialized tropes of immigrant criminals in media, this chapter asserts that racially disparate discourses of immigrants and crime produced, justified, and negotiated racist and sexist social relations for neoliberalizing America.

Oak Point or Dog Point?

2020 ◽  
pp. 96-116
Author(s):  
Nathalie Dajko
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
Place Making ◽  
History Of ◽  
Place Naming ◽  
The Town ◽  
Do So

Chapter Six confirms the findings of chapter Five, via an examination of the dispute over the name of the town that is either Pointe au Chien or Pointe aux Chênes. Place naming is an important part of place-making: those who name a place are the authentic stewards of the place. The chapter traces the history of the confusion and shows that the long-standing dispute seems to pattern along ethnic lines today. However, via an examination of many factors, including the linguistic landscape, storytelling, and a consideration of semantics, it becomes clear that both groups lay claim to the same space, using the same means to do so. Because place is so closely tied to personal identity, the competing goals of the two sub-groups results in the need to characterize the place differently. The dispute over the name is not a dispute over boundaries or stewardship, but rather over characterization.

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