The Cultural Construction of Space and Migration in Paiwan, Taiwan

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-406
Author(s):  
Maa-ling Chen
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Cultural Cognition ◽  
Use Of Space ◽  
Metaphorical Meaning ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
Southern Taiwan ◽  
And Migration

The establishment and use of space is a culturally constructed dimension of the human experience that is figurative, metaphorical, and analogical in nature. Such phenomena are mapped and encoded in people's spatial and cultural cognition and they are constituted and reconstituted during moments of migration onto new lands. In this paper it is argued that analysing the spatial dimensions that are enacted by a social group during its migration offers scholars a means to ascertain the metaphorical meaning of the lives of its members. Examining such processes also enables archaeologists to identify and interpret the nature of cultural continuity during such movements. The paper presents the results of examining the nature of cultural continuity in the configurations and patterns of ancient house structures and settlements that were established and then abandoned by the Kaushi, a Paiwan group in southern Taiwan, as they migrated and colonized and created a new cultural landscape.

scholarly journals MINING CULTURAL LANDSCAPE AS POTENTIAL HERITAGE TO MALAYSIA? INSIGHT LENS: THE PERSPECTIVE OF KINTA VALLEY RESIDENTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Suriati Ahmad ◽  
David S. Jones ◽  
Ahmad Zamil Zakaria ◽  
Nur Huzeima Mohd Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Industrial Mining ◽  
Post Industrial

The cultural construction through landscape condense with values that further links to sense of place - genius loci and identity. Identity on the other hand is essential to ‘sense of place’ and creates meaning for people who experience the everyday landscape. Having regard to place, identity and heritage, this paper focusses upon the resident’s perspective in perceiving the merit embedded within the ruin image of the Kinta Valley. Maintaining the qualitative inquiry, the findings of this investigation will enrich the cultural heritage of the place having regard to integrity and authenticity that further defined and characterized Kinta Valley’s regional post-industrial mining landscape today.

Low-Carbon Space in Urban and Rural Areas: Ecological Greenway Planning of Shanhaiguan District, Qinhuangdao City, China

2012 ◽  
Vol 253-255 ◽  
pp. 821-824
Author(s):  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Ning Wang ◽  
Qian Li
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Urban Buildings ◽  
Ecological Protection ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

With the rapid development of urbanization, more intensive urban buildings and crowded space resulted in the declining of the environmental quality in urban areas, and also eroding the natural and cultural resources both in urban and rural areas, which requested the desires for healthy living and natural environment. Greenway, with the low-carbon to meet people's desire, is a dedicated “way” linking the urban, natural and cultural landscape. With ecological protection, exercise, recreation and leisure, historical and cultural continuity, and other functions, it is one of the special low-carbon spaces. Greenway, sharing and integration of urban and rural resources, plays the role of effective protection of urban and rural local cultural and ecological environment. The design of the Shanhaiguan Greenway, for example, is not only to meet the basic requirements of the greenway, but also combined with the history and culture, to further Improve the urban quality of the historical and cultural city of Shanhaiguan and build an urban and rural low-carbon space.

“Free Our Brothers!”

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (3) ◽  
pp. 686-693
Author(s):  
João Gabriell
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
Black People ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
Oppressed Group ◽  
Political Project ◽  
And Migration

Why does a given oppressed group sometimes revolt and take to the streets, while other times it does not? This is a question that is never easy to answer. It requires a detailed examination of its history in a given context (here, France), the conditions and means for self-organization, the forms resistance takes, the struggles for hegemony within this social group to impose a group definition, what should comprise its struggle for emancipation. This article is an attempt to question how the revolt against slavery in Libya, after its presentation in a CNN video, was politicized by black people in the French context. We pay attention to the fact that the outrage exceeded frontiers of political organization and took the form of a mass revolt, under the “black” banner. But it has also shown limits in terms of translating this indignation into a political project of emancipation. To our understanding, those limits take root in the weakness of materialist analysis of race and migration as historical processes within a capitalist system, which cannot be understood solely in terms of ideology.

Historicizing Mobility: Coyoterismo in the Indigenous Ecuadorian Migration Industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 676 (1) ◽  
pp. 194-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Stone-Cadena ◽  
Soledad Álvarez Velasco
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Border Control ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Contemporary Context

Based on ethnographic research in the Ecuadorian Highlands, this article puts the mobility, migration, and smuggling practices of Ecuador’s indigenous people in historical and contemporary context. The people of Ecuador’s Southern Highlands have been on the move for generations, and migration is deeply embedded in the social and cultural landscape. In the rural communities of Cañar, indigenous coyotes are more than facilitators of migration: they are community members operating amid broader structural constraints, which have led to the emergence of specific trends in the facilitation of irregularized migration, yet they are expected to adhere to communal principles of reciprocity and trust. We place indigenous migrant narratives of mobility and identity at the center of our analysis of human smuggling, articulating a counternarrative to that of criminalization prevalent in transnational debates of irregularized migration, national security, and border control.

scholarly journals Urban Culture of the Crimea during the Soviet time: symbolic dominants of cultural space

2021 ◽  
pp. 149-166
Author(s):  
Anna Vadimovna Kostromitskaya
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Symbolic Space ◽  
Cultural Dialogue

The article describes the peculiarities of Crimean culture of the Soviet period through analyzing the key images and symbolic dominants of the cultural space of Soviet society and cultural landscape of the peninsula. The object of this research is the cultural landscape of Crimea as a system of unique cultural codes of symbolic nature; while the subject is the symbolic dominants of Crimean cultural space, most vivid markers of cultural space and meaningful structures of semiosphere of the Crimean cities. Methodological framework is based on the systematic approach that allows studying urban landscape as a set of interrelate elements, such as architecture, monuments, parks, toponymy, nature as a component of cultural landscape, information and communication specificities of interaction between the center and periphery. Analysis is conducted on the nature of the symbolic dominants of Crimean cultural landscape of the Soviet period based on the semiotic models of R. Barth, Y. Lotman, U. Eco, as well as research of the contemporary authors. It is established that symbolic space of the  Crimean cities reflects the “new cultural construction”, in which priority is given to infrastructural transformations; attempt of the cultural dialogue between the city and rural areas, the center and periphery; changes in the social and ethnic structures; image of the Soviet city is now based on the technics, technology, and man. The author identifies the symbolic dominants that resemble the specifics of the Soviet culture formed in the cities of the peninsula, which defined the novelty of this research. The acquired results reveal the current state of the Soviet text on the culture of Crimean cities as a part of cultural memory of the Crimeans, and can be valuable for determining the specificity and mechanisms of the use of urban space by modern urban community. The images of the “Soviet city” and “Soviet Crimea” depicted in the article can be implemented in the strategies for the development and advancement of territories

SETT USE IN EUROPEAN BADGERS MELES MELES

Behaviour ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 138 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Body Condition ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Meles Meles ◽  
Use Of Space ◽  
Sleeping Sites ◽  
European Badgers ◽  
Burrow Use ◽  
Ectoparasite Infestation

AbstractThe European badger Meles meles constructs burrows of two basic types: 'main setts' and 'outliers'. We examined daytime burrow use year-round in 19 radio-collared badgers belonging to six different social groups, in order to test the hypotheses relating use of multiple sleeping sites to ectoparasite avoidance and social status. Ten animals rarely or never slept away from the main sett, while the remaining nine animals spent 20-73% of their days in outliers, mainly in summer. Outlier use was not related to sex or body condition, but animals that used outliers tended to be younger and had larger numbers of fleas than those that remained in the main sett year-round. Within the main sett, all the members of a social group had overlapping ranges: i.e. the sett was not divided into separate 'territories'. Group ranges were smallest in winter and largest in summer/autumn. Nest chambers were usually shared between at least two members of a social group on any one day, but males slept alone more often than did females. Individuals tended to cluster together in the same nest chamber more in winter than at other times of year, presumably to gain thermoregulatory advantage from huddling. We conclude that the pattern of burrow use in badgers is complex. Use of space within the main sett and tendency to disperse to outliers in the summer are in part affected by ectoparasite infestation, while use of space within the main sett is also influenced by variables such as sex and age that may reflect social status.

Excavating and interpreting ancestral action: Stories from the subsurface of Orokolo Bay, Papua New Guinea

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Urwin
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
House Construction ◽  
Gulf Of Papua ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Comparative Study

The Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea, is a rapidly changing geomorphic and cultural landscape in which the ancestral past is constantly being (re)interpreted and negotiated. This paper examines the importance of subsurface archaeological and geomorphological features for the various communities of Orokolo Bay in the Gulf of Papua as they maintain and re-construct cosmological and migration narratives. The everyday practices of digging and clearing for agriculture and house construction at antecedent village locations bring Orokolo Bay locals into regular engagement with buried pottery sherds (deposited during the ancestral hiri trade) and thin strata of ‘black sand’ (iron sand). Local interpretations and imaginings of the subsurface enable spatio-temporal interpretations of the ancestors' actions and the structure of ancestral settlements. These interpretations point to the profound entanglement of orality and material culture and suggest new directions in the comparative study of alternative archaeologies.

scholarly journals The Attempt of the Cossack Revival in the Social and Political System of Russia in the 20th and Early 21st Centuries

2019 ◽  
pp. 173-190
Author(s):  
Olga Rvacheva
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Social Experiments ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Revival Movement ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government

Introduction. The paper conducts the analysis of the attempt of the Cossack revival in Russia in different historical periods of the 20th and early 21st centuries. The attempt of revival is treated as a series of social experiments that involved the government and the Cossacks as a social group. The relevance of the issue is due to the need for complex studying the relations between the government and the Cossacks in the conditions of transformation and systemic modernization in different periods. The revival experiments of different periods had both specific and common characteristics as to their tasks and forms. It is important to study the tasks, participants, forms and methods of the revival experiments in different periods. Methods and materials. The author uses the historical method, the conception of systemic modernization and transformation, and the conception of social and cultural construction. Analysis. The paper determines two main periods in the history of the relations between the government and the Cossacks in the 20th – early 21st centuries that can be characterized as “the Cossack revival”. The author establishes the reasons of those social experiments as well as the roles of participants, and the forms and ways of Cossacks’ integration into the new social and political relations. Results. The article determines that all the attempts of the Cossack revival were undertaken during the systemic modernization. The author determines the main difference between the periods. In the 1920s – 1930s there were transformation of the Cossacks and their adaptation to the new conditions. The late 1980s – early 1990s can be characterized as the period of social and cultural formation of the Cossacks as a social group. Within each period revival development stages that display peculiar features of those experiments can be determined. The mid 1920s was the period of involving Cossacks in the Soviet construction processes. Some Cossack cultural elements were restored and the authorities sought to establish a dialogue with the Cossacks. In the mid 1930s the government actions were rather ostentatious. In both periods the initiator of the processes was the government. In the late 1980s – early 1990s, the initiators of the revival process were Cossacks themselves while the authorities played an important role as a supporter of the revival movement. Within this period the early 2000s can be marked out when the process of the Cossack revival shifted from cultural development to the Cossacks’ public service.

scholarly journals Wiejskie struktury osadnicze i ich przemiany w czasie. Przykład Nowosielca na dawnym pograniczu polsko-rusko-litewskim

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 171-190
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Skrzyńska ◽  
Zygmunt Gałecki
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
Northern Edge ◽  
Regional Settlement

The article discusses the results of archaeological-onomastic research carried out for the village of Nowosielec, Łosice dist., situated in the Toczna river basin on the northern edge of Poland’s Siedlce Upland. Archaeological analyses of the chronological and spatial development of this micro-regional settlement showed this oecumene to have been continuously viable from the younger phases of the early Middle Ages to modern times. A trace of the continuity of settlement is preserved as the very place-name Nowosielec = Nowe Sioło (‘New Village’), which records memory of the existence of an older village. Its onomastic base indicates that it derived from the Old East Slavic term seło, which formed the core of many toponyms along the eastern frontier of contemporary Poland. The rise of the oldest settlement was probably related to the socioeconomic facilities of the nearby Dzięcioły stronghold – identified as the pre-location centre of the region (medieval Łosice). The example of Nowosielec and two other local micro-regions where settlement processes show similar patterns, offer insight into the regional settlement regress dated to the 2nd half of the 13th century. Results of the research carried out in the upper Toczna river basin show that its cultural landscape radically changed not earlier than during the 14th-15th centuries and was not caused by a demographic decline. Regional cultural continuity between the early medieval, late medieval, and modern times can be identified thanks to archaeological investigations and linguistic analysis of regional toponyms – in the case of microregions continuously functioning from the early Middle Ages till the modern period –derived from Old Russian apellatives and personal names.

Intersecting inequalities

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Adamson
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Income Class ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
And Migration

This chapter builds on Chapter 4 by analysing the intersection between childcare and migration policy. It illustrates how emphasis on a single policy area has implications for intersecting issues of gender, income/class and race/migration. These intersecting issues of gender, income/class and race/migration are experienced by families (mothers, parents and children) and by care workers. The analysis examines how policies addressing inequalities experienced by one social group can, in practice, have negative implications for other social groups involved. For example, policies designed to increase mothers’ workforce participation to address gender equality in the workplace often overshadow the working conditions and inequities experienced by women performing the care work. This issue is exacerbated for in-home childcare, as workers are often subject to few regulations and their work is largely invisible, in the private and informal domain.

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