The Role of Local Perceptions in Environmental Diagnosis

2020 ◽  
pp. 151-163
Author(s):  
Taline Cristina da Silva ◽  
Juliana Loureiro de Almeida Campus ◽  
Regina Célia da Silva Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Local Perceptions

Perceptions of Chinese in Southern Africa: Constructions of the “Other” and the Role of Memory

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoon Jung Park
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Local Perceptions ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Negative News ◽  
Mitigating Factors ◽  
The Face

Abstract:Increasing numbers of Chinese migrants have arrived in southern Africa over the past two decades. Perceptions of and reactions to the Chinese, however, vary from country to country and within countries. This article, based on several years of field and survey research, examines perceptions of Chinese in South Africa and Lesotho. The author argues that in addition to the global context, national political and economic realities, history, and memory shape local perceptions of China and the Chinese people who now reside in these spaces. States and other political actors play a key role in constructions of foreigners. Competition, whether real or perceived, is also important in shaping negative attitudes toward migrants. However, personal interactions and memories can serve as mitigating factors, even in the face of negative news of China or Chinese activities.

scholarly journals Senses of Place, Senses of Past: The Case of Antikythera and its Castle, Greece

Heritage ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1274-1285
Author(s):  
Kalliopi Fouseki ◽  
Georgios Alexopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Local Perceptions ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
Negative Feelings ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Greek Island

This article explores local perceptions towards an archaeological site on the Greek island of Antikythera, known as ‘Castle’, within the context of recent calls for the development of the island through heritage tourism. As the identification of such perceptions is a fundamental step in tourism planning we will reflect on data gathered during an ethnographic study funded by the post-doctoral scheme of the Greek State Scholarship Foundation. Our purpose was to examine how local perceptions of the island and its landscape, as a whole, define the ways in which the archaeological ‘Castle’ of Antikythera is perceived. We observed that positive or negative attitudes towards the archaeology of the island are strongly interlinked with positive or negative feelings for the island in general. Since most studies focus on the role of heritage in shaping a sense of place, we hope that this article will offer a new insight into the role of place in shaping heritage perceptions. We also hope that the findings of the research will inform future decisions on tourism development and its impact (potential risks or opportunities) on the sense of place.

Placing the Environment in Migration: Environment, Economy, and Power in Ghana's Central Region

10.1068/a3754 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 925-946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward R Carr
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Central Region ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Human Dimensions ◽  
Local Perceptions ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Power And Resistance ◽  
And Control

This paper examines the role of environmental change as a driver of migration, a central concern of areas of inquiry ranging from the Human Dimensions of Global Change research to population geography and development studies. Although much of the literature on the role of the environment in migration reflects a general awareness that environmental factors are but one of a suite of influences shaping migration decisionmaking, a framework within which to place social, economic, and environmental issues with regard to particular migration decisions is absent from this literature. Drawing upon recent contributions to the literature on migration, and political ecological concerns for access to and control over resources, in this paper I present a framework for placing such issues founded on a Foucauldian conceptualization of power. This framework treats environment, economy, and society as both products of and productive of social differentiation, instrumental modes of power, and resistance. These forms shape actors' understanding and negotiation of their social, economic, and environmental contexts, and therefore their migration decisionmaking. I illustrate the application of this framework through the example of three villages in Ghana's Central Region, where rural environmental and economic changes appear to have driven a complex pattern of out-migration over the past thirty-five years. This migration shows the ways in which environmental change becomes inseparable from local perceptions of economy and local politics through local manifestations of power.

scholarly journals Educating the Other

Aspasia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-56
Author(s):  
Nicoleta Roman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Local Perceptions ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Southeastern Part ◽  
Professional Integration ◽  
Educational Networks

This article explores the role of foreign governesses in the early nineteenth century in the province of Wallachia, a principality in the southeastern part of present-day Romania and a peripheral territory at the intersection of the Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman empires. It focuses on the professional integration of governesses into Romanian society, exploring their complementary routes of activity, both in private educational networks for the elite and in the emerging educational institutions for girls. Their cultural identities as transnational teachers sometimes collided with local perceptions and employers’ ambitions, and the study sheds light on the different categories of governesses and how they succeeded in keeping up with a certain model for governesses that prevailed in this period.

scholarly journals The role of local perceptions in the marketing of rural areas

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma L. Giles ◽  
Gary Bosworth ◽  
Joanie Willett
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Perceptions

scholarly journals A Citizen Survey in the District of Steinfurt, Germany: Insights into the Local Perceptions of the Social and Environmental Activities of Enterprises in Their Region

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1767
Author(s):  
Michael Kress-Ludwig ◽  
Simon Funcke ◽  
Madeleine Böhm ◽  
Chantal Ruppert-Winkel
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Citizenship ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Surrounding Area ◽  
Local Perceptions ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Environmental Activities

Starting from the extended corporate citizenship (CC) perspective, this article focuses on the perceptions of residents in the district of Steinfurt, Germany, regarding the social and environmental activities of enterprises in their region. In a citizen survey, in the district, 1,003 households—selected by a Random-Route-Procedure—were interviewed using a partly standardized questionnaire. The results of the explorative and descriptive study show that approximately, only half of the interviewees associated social and environmental activities with enterprises in the region. The answers point towards a wide diversity of understandings. Furthermore, less than one-fifth feel well-informed about the theses activities. This hints towards a lack of information, which could be tackled by targeted communication. When asked about prioritization, most interviewees consider social activities for employees to be more relevant. In the environmental field, a majority favor local action being taken by enterprises locally, in order to prevent environmental damage in the surrounding area. These results suggest that the direct impact with regard to measures is crucial for citizens’ perceptions. In addition, residents highlight the issue of employment as a main role of enterprises in the region. This may offer an anchor point for enterprises to develop social activities that are highly relevant to the citizens.

scholarly journals "Investors are good, if they follow the rules" – power relations and local perceptions in the case of two European forestry companies in Tanzania

2014 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 249-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Locher ◽  
U. Müller-Böker
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Bargaining Model ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Land Grabbing ◽  
Local Perceptions ◽  
Local Populations ◽  
Large Scale Land ◽  
People’S Perceptions

Abstract. The rapidly increasing interest of foreign investors in land in the global South, also termed land grabbing, has been widely discussed as potentially supportive, but often rather harmful for local populations. Combining a critical livelihoods perspective with access theory and a bargaining model, this study scrutinizes local people's perceptions of the land investments, power relations during land negotiations and intra-community differences. By analysing two European forestry companies in Tanzania, we have chosen a sector and a country with presumably more positive outcomes for local populations. The deals resulted in not only labour opportunities and infrastructural improvements, which are mainly perceived as positive, but also cases of violated land rights, inadequate compensation and decreased food security. Hence, even under favourable preconditions, the consequences for local people are ambivalent. With this study, we contribute to a differentiated analysis of the contested role of large-scale land deals in contemporary rural development.

scholarly journals Mapping cultural enablers and barriers to environmental participation in Connemara: The role of lay knowledge, discourses of sustainability and ‘defensive localism’ in environmental governance

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Moran
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Local Perceptions ◽  
Lay Knowledge ◽  
Environmental Participation

This paper focuses upon lay knowledge and sustainability concepts that shape and reflect environmental policy implementation and public reactions to environmental participatory forums in Connemara, Ireland. Drawing on in-depth qualitative fieldwork from a mixed-method study of knowledge in Connemara, the paper argues that local understandings of sustainability which prioritise lay knowledge for future generations both helps and hinders successful environmental participation. These definitions of sustainability are central to how community actors define what constitutes effective environmental participation. Many established locals draw upon these sustainability ideals to justify the deliberate exclusion of recent settlers to the area from environmental participatory forums. Insights revealed here on how local cultural conventions pertaining to language use, ‘defensive localism’ and insider–outsider distinctions affect participation in rural Ireland are highly significant for understanding barriers to effective environmental governance and the complexity of local perceptions of participation, sustainability and policy-making.

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