scholarly journals Environmental Racism in Indianapolis

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Clark
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Environmental Racism ◽  
Government Response ◽  
Community Engaged Research ◽  
The People ◽  
The Impact

Community-engaged research, grounded in the humanities and social sciences and rooted in ethnographic methods, can provide important insights into the ways that environmental racism impacts neighborhoods and communities. The Anthropocene Household project at the IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute explores the current geological epoch, the Age of Humans, on a local level through the lens of the household in order to understand the experiences, knowledges, and practices associated with environmental change. In my research, I am looking at these experiences and understandings specifically related to environmental racism. In this paper I would like to explore two different examples of environmental racism in Indianapolis. One illustrates how white privilege plays a role in creating environmental racism and the other shows the impact of white supremacy in shaping government response to an issue of environmental racism. Both examples demonstrate the value in foregrounding the voices and experiences of the people who are living in these impacted communities. We cannot develop meaningful interventions into environmental racism without understanding these lived experiences and creating space to hear these voices.

scholarly journals The role of social capital in enhancing community disaster preparedness and building back better in recovery

2018 ◽  
Vol 229 ◽  
pp. 01001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deny Hidayati
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Mutual Help ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

As a country with high risk of disasters, the people of Indonesia have to prepare and anticipate these calamities. One of the most important aspects of disaster risk reduction at the local level is social capital. This paper discusses the role of social capital in strengthening community disaster preparedness for effective respond and its potential for building back after recovery, focusing on local wisdom, prior experiences and re-establishment of community livelihoods. Local wisdom plays an important role in raising community efforts to find relief and recover from the impact of the earthquake in Bantul and floods in Jambi. The spirit of community-self, mutual help and fundraising help the Javanese in Bantul to be strong and care among neighbors. The community that supported by the local leaders and institutions agreed to set up priority for affected people who need more help. Meanwhile, experiences of the people in Jambi on regular floods made them aware and assisted them to develop self-efficacy beliefs in disaster preparedness, including making plans as well as increasing skill to get ready for and respond to this disaster. This paper also shows that in addition to economic recovery programs from the government and donor in Bantul and Aceh, the community in Jambi used floods as a source of their alternative livelihood through fishing and its related activities, and perceived floods as economic opportunities. This paper utilises empirical evidence from cases across Indonesia that are collected from my research results under LIPI and Human Ecology research activities. Data is also collected from secondary sources that largely rely on desk reviews of relevant books, documents, papers, and other references.

SOCIAL ASSET AND SUSTAINABLE POVERTY REDUCTION: ANY NEXUS?

2019 ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Yusuf Kasim
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
The People ◽  
Poverty Status ◽  
The Impact

This study explores the impact of access to Social asset towards achieving Sustainable Poverty reduction in Sokoto State-Nigeria. Quantitative approach was adopted and the data samples were collected from three (3) local government in each of the three (3) senatorial districts using purposive sampling technique. The data analysis was carried out using Statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) and Partial least squares for both preliminary and main data analyses. The results of the study confirm the existence of significant positive relationship between access to Social asset and Sustainable poverty reduction, thus households in the empirical area can assuage their poverty status by harnessing the benefits of Social asset. Suggestions were made as far mechanism need to be in place for accessing Social asset in the study area, which if employed would enhance social resources of the people in the area and in turn affect positively their livelihoods. Similarly, further researches are suggested to bridge the shortcoming of quantitative approach so as to have robust findings as well as the need to explore impact of other livelihood assets and contexts. KEYWORDS: Access, Social asset, Sustainable Poverty reduction, Sokoto State, Nigeria

Contribution to Britain’s War Efforts in Osun Division of Western Nigeria, 1939–1945

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 133-153
Author(s):  
Abiodun Ajayi
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategy ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The People ◽  
War Effort ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Second World

Abstract Although no real battle was fought in Nigeria during the Second World War (1939–1945), the burden of the war was much felt by Nigerians. They made significant contributions to the war effort; a method through which the British shifted the burden of the war onto their colonial subjects. This strategy had caught the attentions of many scholars, and various discussions have centered on its origin, purpose and operation at provincial and Nigeria wide level. Thus, contributions at the Districts and Division levels have always been subsumed into colony-wide studies, and by that fact remained unresearched. This paper focuses the effects of the imperial coping strategy on the Yoruba society with Osun Division as a case study. The study adopts historical approach, which depends on written, oral, and archival sources. However, it is hoped that, with due attention being given to the efforts of the people at a local level, the impact of the Second World War on African social order will be better understood.

scholarly journals The State of Local Government and Service Delivery in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Aderonke Majekodunmi
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Grassroots Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Effective Service

Local government creates an appropriate and conduciveenvironment for the people at the local level through efficient and effective service delivery. The value of localgovernment in a country is inestimable because it is an indispensable arm of government. As a result, the link between the qualities of service that citizens enjoy is very significant. The article examines local government and effective service delivery with special reference to Nigerianlocal governments. It notes that Local government is the closest government<br />to the people at the grassroots level,so it is expected to play significant  roles in providing the social services for the people in order to improve their standard of living. But in Nigeria, the impact of local government is so far limited, especially with regard to improving service delivery. The article observes that  despite the strategic importance of local government to the development process through effective service delivery, there has not been much development in most local governments in Nigeria. The article recommends that  local governments in Nigeria need adequate autonomy that can facilitate their operations and development of the localities through effective service delivery.

The 1916 Bongo ‘Riots’ and Their Background: Aspects of Colonial Administration and African Response in Eastern Upper Ghana

1983 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger G. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Local Administration ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
Military Recruitment ◽  
Land Dispute ◽  
The People ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Northern Territories ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Several recent studies have examined the impact of the First World War on the people, and rulers – alien and indigenous - of West Africa. Diverse societies responded in a variety of ways to a situation in which extraordinary demands from the colonial rulers - of which direct military recruitment was only one - were often accompanied by administrative and military contraction at the local level.This paper examines the way in which wartime conditions in the Zouaragu (Zuarungu) and Bawku districts of what is now upper Ghana exposed the weakness of the indigenous administrative structure recently constructed by the British. Here, in many instances, chiefs had been imposed, or at least had had their powers qualitatively changed and substantially increased, in societies that were traditionally organized on a kinship basis. The War seemed to provide an opportunity for an overthrow of this structure, which had enabled many of the chiefs to establish harshly exploitative relations with their subjects. An upsurge of disobedience to chiefly orders was followed in the Bongo area by a land dispute which flared into disturbances in which a constable was killed. These disturbances and an incident in the neighbouring Bawku District were taken as a sign of revolt and ruthlessly crushed by a local administration intent on teaching an unforgettable lesson.Governor Clifford in Accra anatomized the inadequacies of administrative control and condemned his officers' brutal response to the disturbances, but offered little in the way of suggestions for the reform of the chieftaincy system despite clear indications that local hostility was directed more against it than against colonial rule per se. Neither were reform proposals forthcoming from the Northern Territories administration. Thus the severity of the British response to popular opposition to chiefly power was a factor in enabling some chiefs to continue as ‘spoilers’ rather than ‘fathers’ of their people even after the introduction of formal Indirect Rule in the 1930s had nominally broadened popular participation in local administration.

Impact of Workplace Bullying on Job Performance and Job Stress

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faran Robert
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Workplace Bullying ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Private Banks ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Bullying at workplace is a very serious issue and can be found in every other organization. The actions of bullying could be very obvious or discreet and the people who are victimized by workplace bullying can strike them in numerous ways. This research is focused on the impact of workplace bullying on job performance and job stress. A total of 250 employees of 6 private banks of Lahore, Pakistan took part in this study and facts were examined through Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25. The results clearly depict the significant relationship between workplace bullying and job stress, while the relationship between the workplace bulling and job performance is subtle. Furthermore, this research paper also provides the findings, conclusion and recommendations for future researchers.

Live through of the Students in the Conditions of Pandemic of Covid - 19

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-171
Author(s):  
Valeri Stoyanov
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
The Other ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact

Using the methodological approach of qualitative research to conduct empirical research in the social sciences, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students' experiences of the present and their projections for the future is revealed. The results show that many of them find positives from social isolation in the opportunity to pay more attention to the people important to them and to work more purposefully on their own development. On the other hand, serious fears are revealed, the main of which is for the health and life of their loved ones, as well as for the future, for their career development and realization. They find it difficult to tolerate social isolation and most of them experience their mental state as shaky, as depressed. In general, students have a negative attitude towards distance learning – online, considering it inferior to face-to-face training and assess this training as a risk to their professional development and subsequent realization in the labor market.

scholarly journals Democratising Terai Forestry Governance: Emerging Innovations in the Western Terai Region of Nepal

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bal Krishna Jamarkattel ◽  
Sindhu Prasad Dhungana ◽  
Srijana Baral ◽  
Bishwas Rana ◽  
Hari Dhungana
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
The People ◽  
Management Context ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

The Government of Nepal has had a high interest in the Terai forest in order to harness its enormous revenue potential. However, the policies and plans formulated to this end have not attained the intended results, as these have failed to fully understand the emerging complexities in the Terai. Accordingly, policy response has often been ad hoc, inconsistent and unstable, leading to confusion and conflict on Terai forest management. Drawing on the cases of three districts of Lumbini zone in the Western Terai of Nepal, this paper discusses the forest management context of Nepal Terai, and identifies key innovations that have emerged at district and local levels. It argues that these innovations have the potential for a creative transformation of forest management planning process at district and local level, and for their wider replication and diffusion. This paper also discusses key issues that need further attention so as to maximise the impact of these innovations by putting them into practice. It highlights that emerging complexity of Nepal Terai requires much wider stakeholder engagement in order to facilitate forest management planning and implementation that benefit both the government and the people. Full text is available at the ForestAction websiteDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jfl.v8i2.2306 Journal of Forest and Livelihood 8(2) February 2009 pp.27-38

scholarly journals Effect of Microfinance on Enterprise Level of Poor People: An Empirical Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 22-30
Author(s):  
Ram Prasad Parajuli
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
The People ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Enterprise Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Regular Training

 The current study tries to set the impact of micro-credit services on improvement in business base in Nepal. The study employed a causal study. The sample for this study consists of participants of MFIs in the Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Sindhupalchok from January 2014 to December January 2016. Stratified random sampling was used to select 400 respondents. Data was collected by use of a questionnaire and in-depth interview. The data was pre-processed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Studies shows the credit facilities had the highest impact followed by use of different business base. The study also recommends that the MFIs operating in the Nepal be empowered through provision of finances which can be advanced to the locals as credit to facilitate economic growth of people. To build capacity among the people of the study area, the study recommends that the MFIs operating in the Nepal undertake regular training especially on financial management/ management as well as operational courses so that the local can learn the best financial management skills and thus improve their businesses as well as income.Journal of Advanced Academic Research, Vol. 3, No.3, 2016, page:22-30

Research Participation Experiences of Informants of Suicide and Control Cases

Crisis ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 238-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul W. C. Wong ◽  
Wincy S. C. Chan ◽  
Philip S. L. Beh ◽  
Fiona W. S. Yau ◽  
Paul S. F. Yip ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Research Participation ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Initial Contact ◽  
Psychological Autopsy ◽  
Autopsy Study ◽  
The People ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

Background: Ethical issues have been raised about using the psychological autopsy approach in the study of suicide. The impact on informants of control cases who participated in case-control psychological autopsy studies has not been investigated. Aims: (1) To investigate whether informants of suicide cases recruited by two approaches (coroners’ court and public mortuaries) respond differently to the initial contact by the research team. (2) To explore the reactions, reasons for participation, and comments of both the informants of suicide and control cases to psychological autopsy interviews. (3) To investigate the impact of the interviews on informants of suicide cases about a month after the interviews. Methods: A self-report questionnaire was used for the informants of both suicide and control cases. Telephone follow-up interviews were conducted with the informants of suicide cases. Results: The majority of the informants of suicide cases, regardless of the initial route of contact, as well as the control cases were positive about being approached to take part in the study. A minority of informants of suicide and control cases found the experience of talking about their family member to be more upsetting than expected. The telephone follow-up interviews showed that none of the informants of suicide cases reported being distressed by the psychological autopsy interviews. Limitations: The acceptance rate for our original psychological autopsy study was modest. Conclusions: The findings of this study are useful for future participants and researchers in measuring the potential benefits and risks of participating in similar sensitive research. Psychological autopsy interviews may be utilized as an active engagement approach to reach out to the people bereaved by suicide, especially in places where the postvention work is underdeveloped.

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