3. Civic Leadership in a Growing City

1991 ◽  
pp. 47-64
Keyword(s):  
Civic Leadership

scholarly journals Syria

2019 ◽  
pp. 409-429
Author(s):  
Emma Loosley
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
House Church ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Ecclesiastical Authority ◽  
Civic Leadership ◽  
The Church ◽  
Christian Society

Syria occupies a unique place in early Christian archaeology by virtue of the fact that Antioch was the first city where followers of Jesus Christ were referred to as “Christians” and because it is the country in which the only securely dated house church has ever been discovered. Away from the Holy Land and the events of Christ’s life, and the establishment of ecclesiastical authority in Rome and Constantinople, Syria’s significance to archaeologists of Christianity lies in what the country can tell us about the daily lives of early believers. In the hinterland of Antioch hundreds of villages dating to the first seven centuries ce attest to a fully Christian society from the second half of the fourth century onward, and they offer us valuable information about how the church supplanted the state as the source of moral and civic leadership.

On the Origins of Gandhi's Political Methodology: The Heritage of Kathiawad and Gujarat

1971 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Spodek
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Support ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Labor Union ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Political Methodology ◽  
Passive Resistance ◽  
Princely State ◽  
Civic Leadership ◽  
Land Policies

This paper examines the benefits and the liabilities in Gandhi's exploitation of his own Gujarate regional and bania caste heritages in mobilizing political support.From his father, a prime minister in a small, princely state in Kathiawad, Gujarat, Gandhi learned of methods of nonviolent political protest including the fast, passive resistance by sitting dharna, and organized disobedience to law. Later he employed these Kathiawadi techniques, designed for local struggles, in his national program. Recognizing the political potential of bania financiers, Gandhi chose in middle life to work in Ahmedabad, the business capital of Gujarat, and won the community's support for the Congress. In turn, Gandhi's swadeshi campaigns, proclaimed to encourage cottage industry, also stimulated Ahmedabad's textile industry. Gandhi also found organizational support in Gujarat: a nascent labor union; a press; efficient, nationalistic civic leadership; and caste-based agrarian groups chafing under British land policies.Gandhi's innovative use of various Gujarati and bania heritages won many supporters across India, but is also alienated important groups: many Bengalis favored violence; Marxists called Gandhi a capitalist stooge; princes and landowners feared his mass-organizations; and Muslims found his Hinduism unsympathetic.

Examining an Alternative Take on Urban Development: The Alignment of Public Art and Conservation to Build Seattle’s Olympic Sculpture Park

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 493-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Johnson Ashley
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Urban Revitalization ◽  
Nonprofit Partnership ◽  
Civic Leadership ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Outcome Evaluations ◽  
Market Pressures

Civic boosters advocate physical arts development as a path for urban revitalization. Current research examines these specialized bricks and mortar efforts through snapshot outcome evaluations, broad policy analyses, and critiques of predatory activity. Project development is overlooked as is whether such efforts mirror general urban development patterns and behavior. This case study explores a successful dual-nonprofit partnership between the Seattle Art Museum and the Trust for Public Land to build the Olympic Sculpture Park. This recent history explains institutional motivations and political strategies and identifies organizational assets employed to overcome intense market pressures and past failures. It adds richness to conventional development wisdom and its intense focus on public–private partnerships as the prevalent model for urban development. This alignment between a local arts institution and a national conservation organization may unveil an alternative model or shed light on a less visible structure for developing urban civic amenities. This study further reinforces the connection between contemporary urban improvement and early beautification agendas via municipal art, open space, and civic leadership.

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