Myanmar's Mountain and Maritime Borderscapes: Local Practices, Boundary-Making and Figured Worlds

The recent work in critical geopolitics problematizes the notion of boundaries and interrogates the narratives, ideologies, and institutions that inform processes of boundary making, or ‘reborderings’. From the perspective of critical geopolitics, boundary making for conservation purposes is understood as an act of power embedded within a discourse of environmental geopolitics. Through reborderings, environmental geopolitics thus reflects and informs everyday practices and relations of power between local, state, and international actors. In this paper I illustrate a process of rebordering in Trinidad, the West Indies, in which local, state, and international actors engaged in a contest to define conservation boundaries and produce bounded identities within the Nariva Swamp. Rebordering in the Nariva Swamp reflected and influenced state and local practices in complex ways, altered relations of power on multiple levels, and led to the production of a bounded space that is simultaneously local and global.

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Track 2.a Introduction

Conference Proceedings of the Academy for Design Innovation Management ◽

10.33114/adim.2019.2a ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Sucharita BENIWAL ◽

Sahil MATHUR ◽

Lesley-Ann NOEL ◽

Cilla PEMBERTON ◽

Suchitra BALASUBRAHMANYAN ◽

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Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Local Knowledge ◽

Ways Of Knowing ◽

Social Contexts ◽

Knowledge Systems ◽

Theoretical Frameworks ◽

Native Communities ◽

Cultural Systems ◽

Local Practices

The aim of this track was to question the divide between the nature of knowledge understood as experiential in indigenous contexts and science as an objective transferable knowledge. However, these can co-exist and inform design practices within transforming social contexts. The track aimed to challenge the hegemony of dominant knowledge systems, and demonstrate co-existence. The track also hoped to make a case for other systems of knowledges and ways of knowing through examples from native communities. The track was particularly interested in, first, how innovators use indigenous and cultural systems and frameworks to manage or promote innovation and second, the role of local knowledge and culture in transforming innovation as well as the form of local practices inspired innovation. The contributions also aspired to challenge through examples, case studies, theoretical frameworks and methodologies the hegemony of dominant knowledge systems, the divides of ‘academic’ vs ‘non-academic’ and ‘traditional’ vs ‘non-traditional’.

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Promoting Mass Movements- A New Perspective On Japanese Wartime Imperialism In Korea

European Journal of Korean Studies ◽

10.33526/ejks.20151501.1 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 1-22

Author(s):

Shinyoung Kim

Keyword(s):

Extended Family ◽

Direct Access ◽

Mass Movements ◽

Japanese Imperialism ◽

Local Practices ◽

The Social ◽

Japanese Colonial ◽

New Perspective ◽

Economic Bloc ◽

Colonial Government

This article aims to explore the Japanese colonial government’s efforts to promote mass movements in Korea which rose suddenly and showed remarkable growth throughout the 1930s. It focuses on two Governor-Generals and the directors of the Education Bureau who created the Social Indoctrination movements under Governor-General Ugaki Kazushige in the early 1930s and the National Spiritual Mobilization Movement of Governor-General Minami Jirō in the late 1930s. The analysis covers their respective political motivations, ideological orientation, and organizational structure. It demonstrates that Ugaki, under the drive to integrate Korea with an economic bloc centered on Japan, adapted the traditional local practices of the colonized based on the claim of “Particularities of Korea,” whereas the second Sino-Japanese War led Minami to emphasize assimilation, utilizing the ideology of the extended-family to give colonial power more direct access to individuals as well as obscuring the unequal nature of the colonial relationship. It argues that the colonial government-led campaigns constituted a core ruling mechanism of Japanese imperialism in the 1930s.

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MANAGING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES APPLICATIONS IN THE LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN K’RONG PAC DISTRICT, DAK LAK PROVINCE IN THE CONTEXT OF TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION 4.0

Tạp chí Nghiên cứu dân tộc ◽

10.25073/0866-773x/153 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Pham Van Truong

Keyword(s):

Secondary Schools ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Software Management ◽

Active Teaching ◽

Application Management ◽

Local Practices ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Lower Secondary Schools

The author analyze deeply management status of information and communication technologies (ICTs) application in teaching at the lower secondary schools in Krong Pac District, Dak Lak province today on the back: management status of building and using multimedia classrooms; management status of using teaching software; management status of desining and using active teaching and learning (ATL) lesson plans with using ICTs; management status of using ICTs in the examination and evaluation learning outcomes of pupils from that author proposed 6 application management solutions for ICTs in the lower secondary schools in Krong Pac district, Dak Lak province in the context of technological revolution 4.0 fit the circumstances of local practices.

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