Taxes, the Local Elite, and the Rural Populace in the Chinju Uprising of 1862

2007 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 993-1027 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sun Joo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Economic Distress ◽  
Local Elite ◽  
The Social ◽  
Resistance Movement

This paper examines the causes and processes of a popular tax-resistance movement by adopting a multidimensional approach that considers dynamic rural power relations, popular responses to social and economic changes, and cultural practices that both united and divided rural communities. Popular rebellions in 1862 reflected not only the social and economic distress that the peasantry experienced in everyday life but also the inability of the dynastic structure to accommodate the social, political, and economic changes that were occurring in the nineteenth century. This work pays close attention to the particular historical and cultural context of 1862 Korea, such as various rural conditions and the workings of dynastic institutions at the local level, and discovers that different patterns of popular protest grew out of the competition, division, and conflict that had developed along class, social status, village community, and political lines.

scholarly journals Aggregate and Agriculture: Cultivating Neighbourly Relations, Stories from Across Ontario

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Reichheld ◽  
Emily Hehl ◽  
Regan Zink
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Best Management Practices ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Land Use Impacts ◽  
Best Management ◽  
The Social ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Depth Interviews

Aggregate extraction and agriculture are prominent land uses in rural southern Ontario, and both industries are vital contributors to the provincial economy. However, these industries compete for the same land base and their operations have the potential to negatively impact the other. There is currently little research into this relationship, particularly at the site or neighbour scale. This project, in its third year, is designed to address this gap and to provide best management practices to both agricultural and aggregate operators, as well as local and provincial governments, about how these industries can better work together. While research has been conducted regarding the social impacts of aggregate extraction on rural residents, little is known regarding the social, economic, environmental and land use impacts on farms operating in close proximity to aggregate extraction activity. The aggregate industry is widely believed to cause a variety of undesirable impacts, including noise, dust, road traffic, extended hours of operation, as well as a loss of water quantity and quality. The development of best management practices is important to help mitigate these potential impacts, both at the local level and for rural communities at large. This presentation provides a summary of research to date as well a preliminary analysis of more than 150 farm surveys collected over the last year. Next steps include further consultation with aggregate operators and more in-depth  interviews with key informants from both industries.

scholarly journals TRADISI UNGGAHAN SEBAGAI TRANSFORMASI AGAMA, SOSIAL, DAN BUDAYA (Studi Etnografi Komunitas Bonokeling di Desa Pekuncen Kecamatan Jatilawang Kabupaten Banyumas)

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-173
Author(s):  
Nawawi Nawawi
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
Religious Transformation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family

Abstract: Unggahan tradition in a ritual that is unique and full of magical feel. Unggahan conducted at sites considered sacred and trusted local people can get closer to the Almighty. This ritual in understood as a form of preservation of cultural heritage. In the social and cultural context, unggahan can be used as a vehicle for social cohesion, a means of togetherness of community members. In a unggahan ritual procession, community members gathered togheter without any barriers in the class and social status. Unggahan centred in rural communities Bonokeling Pekuncen Jatilawang District of Banyumas. All members of the community, including “child putu” of the various regions, both in the district of the Banyumas, Cilacap, Banjarnegara, even in far away arears come together in Pekuncen. Unggahan also become a means of gathering the family and as well as a social, cultural, and religious transformation. Unggahan is an expression of piety society where a sense of mutual assistance, solidarity and togetherness become main patterns of this tradition. Keyword: Unggahan, Transformation, Religion, Social, Culture.

scholarly journals The Poetics of Life

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Víctor Manuel Rubio Carrillo
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Social ◽  
America South

The conditions generated by the COVID-19 global pandemic led our Musical Learning Community to improvise and face challenging social circumstances. We aimed at maintaining intact our long-term vision to create alternative cultural practices away from neoliberal subjugation. By exploring the lived experiences of musicians, dancers, artists, educators, and community members in North America, South America, and Asia, we learned how imagination became an imperative in the quest to create alternatives. Liberation, while confined, was carried out through artistic practices. However, neoliberal economic policies maintain a stronghold at the social level. Despite that, rural experiences showed different responses to the pandemic. While in urban centers, confinement and curfews were normative; in rural communities, artistic performances and togetherness were common. While in cities distancing was advised, in rural communities, proximity was embraced. We further reflect on how the current circumstances allowed us to improvise the birth of our action research community, which we propose as a humble grassroots alternative to neoliberal knowledge construction.

scholarly journals Maternal Mortality in the District of Uzumba in Zimbabwe

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Maybe Zengenene
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Maternal Mortality ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Observation Methods

Maternal mortality is among the neglected problem in the District of Uzumba, Zimbabwe. This qualitative study therefore, explores the patriarchal hegemonies embedded in the socio-cultural harmful practices, traditions, beliefs, values and norms associated with maternal mortality in Uzumba district. These have been neglected in the reduction initiatives of maternal mortality. The originality of this study lies in the use of primary data through interviews and observation methods on the key informants and significant. Snowballing technique was employed in this study to select the key informants and significant others. The study have also benefited from the proliferation of secondary data on the social phenomena of maternal mortality across the globe. The results of the study showed that, despite the medical related causes of maternal mortality, the non-medical aspects such as patriarchal hegemonies in the socio-cultural practices, beliefs, traditions, norms, values and perceptions play a significant role in escalating maternal mortality especially in Uzumba district, Zimbabwe. The article therefore, recommends that maternal mortality reduction needs more of a holistic approach of medical and non-medical initiatives as it is still the major problem in Zimbabwe’s rural communities. Therefore, maternal mortality can be addressed and reduced within the socio-cultural context as shown in Uzumba district, Zimbabwe.

Living in The Merry Ghetto

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trever Hagen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Political Transitions ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Music Making ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Do So

Living in the Merry Ghetto reframes how people use music to build resistance. To do so, Hagen addresses the social context of illegal music-making in Czechoslovakia during state socialism, asking “How Do Aesthetics Nurture Political Consciousness?”. He tells the story of a group of rock ’n’ rollers who went underground after 1968, building a parallel world from where they could flourish: the Merry Ghetto. The book examines the case of the Czech Underground, the politics of their music and their way of life, paying close attention to the development of the ensemble the Plastic People of the Universe. Taking in multiple political transitions from the 1940s to the 2000s, the story focuses on non-official cultural practices such as listening to foreign radio broadcasts, seeking out copied cassette tapes, listening to banned LPs, growing long hair, attending clandestine concerts, smuggling albums via diplomats, recording in home-studios, and being thrown in prison for any of these activities. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with Undergrounders, archival research, and participant observation, Hagen shows how these practices shaped consciousness, informed bodies, and promoted collective action, all of which contributed to an Underground way of life.

scholarly journals Economic foundations of conflicts and solidarity within the traditional rural community of Slovenia

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-40
Author(s):  
Žarko Lazarević
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
World War ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Foundations

The following article focuses on the economic conflicts in the local rural communities in Slovenia until World War II and analyses the example of the privatisation of a public good, the relations between labour and capital, and economic solidarity in form of cooperatives as a tool for ensuring social cohesion at the local level. The author presents a viewpoint that the feeling of social justice (moral economy) represented a cohesive element in the analysed local communities. Justice, defined according to the rules of traditional law, provided the relations in the local communities with a status of legitimacy. If the feeling of justice was questioned, then the legitimacy of the social relations and consequently the cohesion of the local communities were uncertain as well.

Determinants of regional and local development – their impact on socio-economic space

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-9
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Rejman ◽  
Roman Fedan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Production Factors ◽  
Rational Planning ◽  
Local Resource Management

Processes of the expected spatial socio-economic changes arise as a result of rational planning and continuation of development at regional and local level. A three-tier division ofthe local self-government creates opportunities for engagement of community in the rational planning model and local resource management, as well as usage of production factors; for socio-economic growth and improvement in the quality of life of the residents. The aim of the article is to show the functional structure and role of local government units in formation of regional and local policy toincrease economic growth, while maintaining the environmental protection requirements.

scholarly journals Are Norwegian Municipality policies enabling intersectoral collaboration in migration health?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
C Nordström ◽  
B Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Migrant Health ◽  
Intersectoral Collaboration ◽  
Health Work ◽  
Integration Policy ◽  
Intersectoral Action ◽  
The Social

Abstract Issue Sporadic accounts of initiatives, interventions and good practices in Migrant Health at the Municipality level account for Norways' lower score on “Measures to achieve change” in the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX). While the structure and organization at the municipality level should enable intersectoral action (as all under one umbrella), the municipal counties say lack of intersectoral collaboration is one of the main barriers for long-term public health work. Description of the Problem 51 municipalities have an immigrant population larger than the national average 17,8% (2019). In a recent Country Assessment (part of Joint Action on Health Equity Europe), limited inter-sectoral action on the social determinants of health including migration was observed. Although multiple agencies are engaged in attempts to address these issues. While there is a drive to promote public health and primary health care in municipalities, these initiatives do not pay special attention to migrants. In the first stage of this project, we have reviewed municipal policy documents to map policy and measures on public health, migrant health and intersectoral collaboration. In the second stage, municipalities will be contacted to engage them in the implementation of intersectoral actions. Results The desk review and mapping show that only 8 of the “top” 32 municipalities mention “intersectoral” in the municipal master plan (5 were not available online), its mentioned in 9 action program/budgets, but not necessarily by the same municipalities. 15 of the municipalities mention migrants, but rarely in relation to health. We observe that, the size of the municipality, financial resources and support from the County are factors that may play a significant role in prioritising migrant health and intersectoral collaboration. Lessons Advocating for and supporting the local/municipal level for intersectoral action is highly relevant, timely and essential. Key messages Intersectoral action on the social determinants of migrants’ health needs to be implemented through municipal policies to reduce inequities in migrants’ health. Implementation on the local level is the main arena for good public health work and is crucial to ensure good health for migrants.

scholarly journals “Redha tu Ikhlas”: The Social–Textual Significance of Islamic Virtue in Malay Forced Marriage Narratives

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 310
Author(s):  
Alicia Izharuddin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Individual Choice ◽  
Forced Marriage ◽  
Marital Relations ◽  
Love Stories ◽  
God's Will ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mediated Discourse ◽  
Marital Success ◽  
Do So

What accounts for the endurance of forced marriage (kahwin paksa) narratives in Malaysian public culture? How does one explain the ways popular fascination with forced marriage relate to assumptions about heteronormative institutions and practices? In a society where most who enter into marriages do so based on individual choice, the enduring popularity of forced marriage as a melodramatic trope in fictional love stories suggests an ambivalence about modernity and egalitarianism. This ambivalence is further excavated by illuminating the intertextual engagement by readers, publishers and booksellers of Malay romantic fiction with a mediated discourse on intimacy and cultural practices. This article finds that forced marriage in the intimate publics of Malay romance is delivered as a kind of melodramatic mode, a storytelling strategy to solve practical problems of experience. Intertextual narratives of pain and struggle cast light on ‘redha’ (submission to God’s will) and ‘sabar’ (patience), emotional virtues that are mobilised during personal hardship and the challenge of maintaining successful marital relations. I argue that ‘redha’ and ‘sabar’ serve as important linchpins for the reproduction of heteronormative institutions and wifely obedience (taat). This article also demonstrates the ways texts are interwoven in the narratives about gender roles, intimacy, and marital success (or lack thereof) and how they relate to the modes of romantic melodrama.

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