scholarly journals Community-building and Security: Case Studies

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sinclair Dinnen ◽  
John Cartwright ◽  
Madeleine Jenneker ◽  
Clifford Shearing ◽  
Isaac Wai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Community Building

scholarly journals Making School Children’s Participation in Planning Processes a Routine Practice

Societies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Jenny Stenberg ◽  
Lasse Fryk
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Routine Practice ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Regular Process ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Children's Participation

Children’s participation in planning has been investigated to some extent. There are, however, unexplored topics, particularly concerning what is needed for children’s participation to become a regular process. Based on case studies in Sweden, this article draws some conclusions. It is quite possible to organize ordinary processes where children participate in community building, in collaboration with planners, as part of their schoolwork. The key question is how this can be done. Clearly, it needs to occur in close collaboration with teachers and pupils, however it also needs to be implemented in a system-challenging manner. Thus, rather than looking for tools with potential to work in the existing school and planners’ world, it is important to design research that aims to create learning processes that have the potential to change praxis. Hence, it is not the case that tools are not needed, rather that children need to help to develop them.

Religion and the Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-249
Author(s):  
Kenneth Dean
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Chinese Diaspora ◽  
Chinese Religion ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Made In

Abstract This paper uses three case studies—(1) community building by Methodist Chinese in Sibu, Sarawak; (2) the construction of transnational temple networks originating in Chinese temples in Sibu; and (3) hybrid spirit medium processions in Kalimantan—to explore aspects of the role of religion within the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia. Analytic approaches to Chinese religion proposed by Weber and Mauss are discussed, and an argument is made in favor of following the spread of civilizational techniques into hybrid social and ritual formations.

Representing Ourselves into Existence

2021 ◽  
pp. 510-540
Author(s):  
Laura Horak
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Arts Funding ◽  
Transgender Identity ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Many ◽  
Film And Video

This chapter explores the energetic and innovative trans cinema movement that emerged in the 1990s by looking at case studies of the first transgender film festivals—Counting Past 2 in Toronto, the International Transgender Film and Video Festival in London, and Tranny Fest in San Francisco. Each festival took a different approach to trans film programming, community building, and arts funding. Together, the three festivals helped define a specifically transgender identity and community that overlapped with but were not the same as “queer.” They also influenced the programming of lesbian and gay festivals, carving out more room for trans-made work. These case studies demonstrate how film festivals can contribute to social and aesthetic movements, how festival organizers have overcome and become mired in the challenges they face, and the many ways in which trans has long put pressure on “lesbian and gay” and “queer” in the face of its erasure.

scholarly journals AGRARIAN REFORM AND THE PRODUCTION OF LOCALITY: RESETTLEMENT AND COMMUNITY BUILDING IN MATO GROSSO, BRAZIL

REVISTA NERA ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 94-111
Author(s):  
Hannah Wittman
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Agrarian Reform ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Intentional Community ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Ethnographic Data

This paper investigates processes of place-making and community formation following agrarian reform resettlement in Brazil. Based on case studies conducted between 2002 and 2004 in several settlements organized by the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, I argue that resettlement through agrarian reform in Brazil is a process of intentional community-building through resettlement and emplacement. Ethnographic data from one settlement, Antonio Conselheiro, shows that land recipients passed through a series of physical movements [displacement, occupation, encampment, settlement] that shape the production of locality, or what I refer to here as emplacement. I discuss key social processes that contribute to emplacement: the transition from individual to imagined community, from imagined community to collectivity, and from collectivity to place-based community.

scholarly journals Approaching Trust: Case Studies for Developing Global Research Infrastructures

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Flanagan ◽  
Laurel L. Haak ◽  
Laura Dorival Paglione
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Trust Building ◽  
Technical Service ◽  
Core Component ◽  
Global Alliance ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Governance Processes

Trust is a core component of collaboration. Trust is a local phenomenon, and scientific research is a global collaborative, its impact multiplied through open exchange, communication and mobility of people and information. Given the diversity of participants, local policies and cultures, how can trust be established in and between research communities? You need transparent governance processes, thoughtful engagement of stakeholder groups, and open and durable information sharing to build the “stickiness” needed. In this paper we illustrate these concepts through three trust building use cases: ORCID, Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, and SeamlessAccess, platforms sharing an identity and access technical service core, painstaking community building, and transparent governance frameworks.

Narrating the Urban Waterfront: The Role of Public History in Community Revitalization

2006 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREW HURLEY
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Public History ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Revitalization ◽  
Urban Waterfront

Abstract In recent years, urban waterfronts have become effective settings for community-based public history projects. St. Louis, with a long tradition of historical commemoration on its waterfront, provides an opportunity to examine the trend toward grassroots public history in the context of broader urban redevelopment strategies and identify some of the difficulties encountered in constructing more socially inclusive historical narratives. In particular, the case studies reviewed here highlight the challenge of balancing internal community-building goals with the demands of heritage tourism. The case studies also suggest the enormous potential of grassroots public history to connect the residents of diverse metropolitan areas more meaningfully to the urban landscape and to one another.

Feminist humour’s disruptive potential: Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood and Rupi Kaur’s ‘I’m taking back my body’

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiera Obbard
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
South African ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Crime Stories

Using Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood and Rupi Kaur’s TEDxKC performance, ‘I’m taking back my body’, as case studies, this article examines how feminist humour is used by celebrities and public intellectuals to tell personal stories of oppression, trauma and inequality. Building on humour theory, feminist humour theory and affect theory, this article examines the potential of feminist humour as a rhetorical device to help storytellers tell difficult stories, to engage in acts of community-building and world-making, to challenge social inequalities and to enable social change. Ultimately, this article asks what we can learn from these examples, and how we can employ feminist humour in our own storytelling practices not only to disrupt power relations and establish solidarity, but also to imagine new, more equitable, worlds.

scholarly journals In the Footsteps of Smartphone-Users Traces of a Deferred Community in Ingress and Pokémon Go

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Ganzert ◽  
Theresa Gielnik ◽  
Philip Hauser ◽  
Julia Ihls ◽  
Isabell Otto
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Shape Spaces ◽  
Central Aspect ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
Pokémon Go ◽  
Temporal Dimensions

Abstract In this article, the authors carry out conceptual and theoretical reflections on smartphone communities by closely investigating two apps: Ingress (Niantic 2012) and Pokemon Go (Niantic 2016). While the games’ narratives fabricate reasons for the players to move, it is the Smartphone - understood as an open object between technological and cultural processes - that visualizes and tracks players’ movements and that situates and reshapes the devices, the users and their surroundings. A central aspect is that the ‘augmented’ cities that become visible in the apps are based on the traces of others: other processes and technologies, as well as other players. These traces of practices and movements structure the users’ experience and shape spaces. Traces are necessarily subsequent and we therefore develop the concept of a deferred (smartphone) community and analyse its visibility within the apps. By close reading the two case studies, we examine potential “smartphone communities” in their temporal dimensions, as well as their demands and promises of participation. In order to gain a perspective that is neither adverse to new media nor celebratory of assumed participatory community phenomena, the article aims to interrogate the examples regarding their potential for individuation/ dividuation and community building/dissolution. In doing so, the games’ conditions and the impositions placed on the players are central and include notions of consent and dissent. Drawing upon approaches from community philosophy and media theory, we concentrate on the visible aspects smartphone-interfaces. The traces left by the various processes that were at work become momentarily actualized on the display, where they manifest not as a fixed community, but as a sense of communality.

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