scholarly journals The Exploration of LGBTQ2+ Communities

Topophilia ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 28-31
Author(s):  
Natalie Tremblay
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
Diverse Communities ◽  
Social Geographies ◽  
The Voice

This paper will analyze identity, and what identity means for the LGBTQ2+ community with regards to physical places and spaces. Shared identity, and individual identity of the LGBTQ2+ community shape the physical places and spaces in which the community can live and thrive. Looking into the differentiation of sexualities today has led to boundaries separating the LGBTQ2+ community from cultural and social spaces, as well as physical places and spaces. Why these boundaries exist for the LGBTQ2+ community, and the justification for these boundaries will be brought to light from an urban planning perspective. The importance of the work of urban planners shaping cities and communities to create a safe and comfortable space for the LGBTQ2+ community will be explored. The boundaries presented by the LGBTQ2+ community provides a just social and cultural geography for individuals with shared identities to create a safe space and diverse communities and neighbourhoods. The border presented by LGBTQ2+ communities allows for the voice of LGBTQ2+ individuals to be heard, and the cultural and social geographies to reflect the acceptance of this community.

Translating Intercultural Creativities in Community Music

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Burnard ◽  
Valerie Ross ◽  
Laura Hassler ◽  
Lis Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Intercultural Dialogue ◽  
Community Music ◽  
Diverse Communities ◽  
Global World ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The Voice

The term ‘intercultural’ (as in ‘intercultural creativity’) acknowledges the complexity of locations, identities, and modes of expression in a global world, and the desire to raise awareness, foster intercultural dialogue, and facilitate understanding across and between cultures. In a globalized world faced with unprecedented challenges, intercultural communication and dialogue is considered key to facilitating possibilities that, previously, might not have been available to us. In this chapter, we identify how intercultural creativity can be recognized and evaluated in the practice of community musicians. The notion of ‘translation’ is related to the interrogation, not only of what intercultural creativity is, but also how it is experienced. This chapter features the work of Netherlands-based Musicians without Borders and UK-based Music Action International, and the voice of a Malaysia-based composer working in an intercultural environment. We examine collaboration between diverse communities and musicians. The chapter concludes with implications for educating and developing the community musician.

scholarly journals The weight of the voice: gender, privilege, and qualic apperception

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Archie Crowley
Keyword(s):  
Peer Support ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Testosterone Therapy ◽  
Peer Support Group ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Social Weight ◽  
Over Time

For transmasculine individuals who undergo testosterone therapy, a lower pitch is often one of the most desired results, both for personal affirmation as well as for how a low pitch is gendered by others. This paper explores how members from a peer support group for transmasculine individuals articulate their experiences taking testosterone. During interviews participants discussed their apperception of the acoustic changes in their voices (Zimman 2012, 2018) as well as the recognition of this change by others. In this paper, I explore how their apperceptions of their voices are organized around a cluster of related qualia of the voice (Harkness 2014, 2017) such as “heaviness”, “deepness”, “resonance”, and social “weightiness”. As their voices lower in pitch over time and they are more frequently gendered as men in social spaces, they navigate shifting positionalities of privilege, and I show how their descriptions of their voices naturalize various qualia of the voice, linking “deepness” to the social “weight”, or power, of a voice.

Scripture and the Disabled: Redeeming Mephibosheth's Identity

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Rouse
Keyword(s):  
Power Structure ◽  
Missio Dei ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Individuals With Disabilities ◽  
Sitz Im Leben ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice ◽  
The Church

AbstractDisabled individuals form a constituency often marginalized in society. The Christian Church must realize that participation in the missio dei, requires the redemption of individual identity. Thus, societal structures which produce stigmatizing labels must be challenged appropriately. Pentecostals also face unique challenges in regards to the relationship between 'healing' and 'disability'. Focusing upon the story of Mephibosheth, one can construct a 'redemptive reading' which allows for the voice of the disabled to be redeemed. A Foucaultan lens is employed to account for issues of power, structure and society applicable to the plight of individuals with disabilities. Attention is also given to the place of the disabled in Israelite culture, as further illustrated from other Jewish sources. Finally, Mephibosheth's voice is conceived as a 'sign' for the Sitz-im-Leben of the disabled universally. Approaching the text from this particular hermeneutic can ultimately empower the Church (and particularly Pentecostals) to redeem the identity of the disabled in community.

Application of Communicative Planning Approach in Urban Planning

2012 ◽  
Vol 174-177 ◽  
pp. 2505-2507
Author(s):  
Wei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Complex Society ◽  
Communicative Planning ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Diverse Communities ◽  
Communicative Process

Within a changing and increasingly complex society, see planning as a communicative process can make planners work with disparate and diverse communities in order to reach agreement between them and formulate a ‘plan’. This paper aims to understand the concept of communicative planning and identify the effective measures to achieve the communicative process. It begins with analysing the influences upon the communicative planning, and the principles to underpin communicative planning theory. Finally, it presents the practical significance of communicative action in urban planning.

“I” seek differentiation and “we” seek assimilation: the impact of self-expressive customization on consumers’ willingness to pay a premium

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaohui Lei ◽  
Xianqing Wang ◽  
Leiqing Peng ◽  
Yulang Guo
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Interactive Effect ◽  
Consumer Product ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
Hypothetical Scenario ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Product Identification ◽  
The Impact

Purpose Customization, as a crucial way to meet the heterogeneous demand of individuals, exists two fundamental and competing motivations, namely, assimilation and uniqueness. Based on optimal distinctiveness theory, this paper aims to validate the interactive effect of self-expressive customization types (i.e. customization to express individual identity and customization to express a shared identity) and self-construal on consumers’ willingness to pay a premium (WPP). Design/methodology/approach Two studies were conducted to provide empirical support for all proposed hypotheses. The first study (n = 151) uses a hypothetical scenario of a basketball game to test the interaction effect of self-expressive customization and self-construal. The second study (n = 184) assumes a scenario of designing a t-shirt or a uniform to examined the moderated mediating role of consumer-product identification. Findings The results reveal that independent (vs interdependent) self-construal will have stronger consumer-product identification for customization to express an individual identity (vs customization to express a shared identity), thus generating a higher WPP. Also, perceived task difficulty is the boundary condition of the research model. Research limitations/implications This paper makes insightful contributions to the customization literature by strengthening the identity signals of customization and exploring the psychological mechanism and the boundary conditions. Originality/value This research is one of the first few empirical studies to examine the impact of self-expressive customization on consumers’ WPP via the identification with the focal object. This paper not only expands the literature of self-expressive customization but also provides a new research direction for the research of person-object interaction in marketing.

scholarly journals Active Travel Oriented Development: Assessing the suitability of sites for new homes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Talbot ◽  
Martin Lucas-Smith ◽  
Andrew Speakman ◽  
Megan Streb ◽  
Simon Nuttall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Travel Behaviour ◽  
Active Travel ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Sustainable Transport ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
Development Policies

The location of new housing developments, and the provision of safe space for walking and cycling to key destinations around them, have major and long lasting impacts on travel behaviour, health, and environmental outcomes. Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is a well-recognised concept in urban planning, but systemic evidence is often lacking on the likely ‘active travel performance’ of new developments, making it hard for the planning process to support sustainable transport objectives. This paper articulates the concept of‘Active Travel Oriented Development’ (ATOD) and describes methods for operationalising it. We demonstrate the use of a set of simple metrics to assess the active travel performance of new and proposed development sites. ATOD has the benefits of building on the established concept of TOD and being easy to assess. We conclude that ATOD, and tools for measuring it, are needed to ensure that transport and development policies work in harmony.

The Cyber-Propelled Egyptian Revolution and the De/Construction of Ethos

2012 ◽  
pp. 316-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samaa Gamie
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Egyptian Revolution ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Youth Movement ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
Facebook Pages ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Composition Teaching

This chapter examines two key Egyptian Facebook pages that became the voice and face of the youth movement that ignited the Egyptian revolution. The “Kolena Khaled Said” and “We are all Khaled Said” Facebook pages, respectively, represent the Arabic and international branch of the Egyptian human rights campaign against police violence. This chapter explores the complexity of ethos construction in activist digital discourses by analyzing the visual and textual elements of each page, the communal ethos, and the sense of shared identity that emerge in these digital social networks, as well as the internal and external challenges posed to their emergent ethos. The results of the analysis of both Facebook campaigns indicate the powerful role anonymity plays in activist digital discourses in creating a communal ethos that, combined with the visual and textual elements of the page, are able to achieve massive outreach that legitimates their calls for reform, activism, and revolutionary work. The chapter reflects upon the possibilities of integrating the critical study of ethos in composition teaching.

scholarly journals Processos de inclusão e participação Quilombola nas políticas urbanas da cidade/Quilombola inclusion and participation processes in the city urban policies

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 827-839
Author(s):  
Ricardo Lopes Correia ◽  
Samira Lima da Costa ◽  
Marco Akerman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
The City

A participação na cidade deve considerar os processos de envolvimento coletivo em ocupações para as tomadas de decisão, planejamento e engajamento sobre o desenvolvimento e expansão de seus espaços públicos e sociais. Este artigo é uma análise da prática em Terapia Ocupacional que sumariza as intervenções construídas junto a uma Comunidade Quilombola, para a criação de um Plano Diretor Participativo Local, incluindo tal população enquanto cidadãos de direito na pauta do desenvolvimento da cidade. Considera-se que terapeutas ocupacionais podem produzir espaços de atuação no planejamento urbano das cidades, se suas intervenções estiverem balizadas pelas ocupações coletivas e políticas públicas de urbanização. AbstractParticipation in the city should consider the processes of collective involvement in occupations for decision making, planning and engagement in the development and expansion of its public and social spaces. This article is an analysis of the practice in Occupational Therapy, which summarizes the interventions constructed, together with a Quilombola Community, for the creation of a local participatory director plan, including such population as citizens of right in the agenda of the development of the city. It is considered that occupational therapists can find spaces of action in the urban planning of cities, if their interventions are marked by collective occupations and public policies of urbanization.Keywords: Community; Local development; Right to the city. Collective occupations; Urban planning; Occupational therapy.

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