Community & Identities: Contemporary Discourses on Culture and Politics in India

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (9/10) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Amit Prakash ◽  
Surinder S. Jodhka
Keyword(s):  
Community Identities

On the Need for a Nuanced Understanding of “Community” in Heritage Policy and Practice

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Mulligan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Resource Management ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Due Diligence ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Power Needs ◽  
Heritage Policy ◽  
Complete Process ◽  
Community Identities

The alleged benefits of community participation in cultural resource management has been an article of faith in the international heritage community since the early 1990s, yet the ambiguous and multi-layered concept of community is commonly deployed uncritically. This chapter argues that “community” should be seen as an open-ended, never complete process rather than end-product. It suggests that heritage practitioners inevitably contribute to the creation of a sense of community at scales ranging from the local to the national. The projection of community identities can enhance or undermine social cohesion at and across geographic scales and the chapter argues that heritage practitioners need to work with a nuanced understanding of their role in the creation of community identities. The link between heritage values and community formation remains powerful but the power needs to be unleashed with due diligence.

scholarly journals Into the divide: community identities and the visualisation of place

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-110
Author(s):  
Stephen Spencer ◽  
Andrew Cox
Keyword(s):  
Community Identities

Community identities as visions for landscape change

2004 ◽  
Vol 69 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 315-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
William P. Stewart ◽  
Derek Liebert ◽  
Kevin W. Larkin
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Change ◽  
Community Identities

The Transformation of Pig Feasts in Rural Northeast China

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 58-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Veeck ◽  
Hongyan Yu ◽  
Gregory Veeck
Keyword(s):  
Northeast China ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Jilin Province ◽  
Farm Households ◽  
Pig Production ◽  
Permanent Migration ◽  
Community Identities

In many areas of rural China, pig feasts have long functioned as a vital ritual exchange among codependent farm households. Called sha nian zhu (roughly translated as “killing the year's pig”), the annual reciprocal feast has traditionally served to maintain community identities, provide aid, and strengthen social ties. Based on interviews with farm households in Zhenlai County in northern Jilin Province, we study the benefits that the annual pig feast provides communities. While some farmers believe this tradition will endure indefinitely, trends of urbanization and privatization—e.g., the peri-urban encroachment and confiscation of village land, the temporary and permanent migration of rural villagers to cities, the industrialization of pig production, and the year-round availability of meat—could lead to the transformation and marketization, or even abandonment, of this ancestral tradition.

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