The Role of Individuals in Community Change Within the Findhorn Intentional Community

2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. Forster ◽  
Marijke Wilhelmus
Keyword(s):  
Community Change ◽  
Intentional Community

Transforming Ethical Thinking With Healthcare Reform: A Nursing Theoretical Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-123
Author(s):  
Constance L. Milton
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Reform ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Community Change ◽  
Change Model ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Ethical Thinking

Healthcare reform discussions dominate the global media and legislative priorities. Many ethical straight-thinking questions arise over what the role of healthcare professionals, including nurses, should be in this debate. This article begins a discussion of potential ethical questions surrounding healthcare reform in light of a nursing theoretical humanbecoming community change model perspective.

scholarly journals Faith and development: The role of local religious organization in community change in Papua

2020 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
pp. 01001
Author(s):  
Elco van Burg
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Community Change ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Fruitful Cooperation ◽  
To Come ◽  
Role Of Religion

Religious organizations have an important role in development aid. For a long time, this role was not acknowledged by the main players in the development arena, but this has changed over the last few decades. Yet, this role is not without tensions, as in particular western donors hold secular perspectives on development and find it hard to deal with organizations that want to provide help as well as spread their religion. In this study, I review the literature on faith-based organizations (FBOs) and present a case-study of how churches in rural areas of Indonesia’s Papua province fulfill key roles in local development. To come to a fruitful cooperation between large development organizations and such indigenous churches, an important condition is that the role of religion in daily life of these Papuans needs to be acknowledged.

Engaging community change: the critical role of values in asset mapping

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 392-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Jakes ◽  
Annie Hardison-Moody ◽  
Sarah Bowen ◽  
John Blevins
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Community Change ◽  
Asset Mapping

Money is the Root of All Evil – Or Is It? Recreating Culture through Everyday Neutralizing Practices

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 775-793 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carine Farias
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Organizational Cultures ◽  
Intentional Community ◽  
Alternative Organizations

Alternative organizations exist within the prevalent social order which they simultaneously attempt to resist. To construct and maintain alternative cultural practices, they must continuously deal with symbolic threats. By illuminating processes of cultural creation stemming from the day-to-day neutralization of threats associated with money, this ethnographic study of an intentional community moves the question of boundaries beyond issues of exclusion/inclusion. Instead, it argues for a full appreciation of the role of transgression and disorder in the shaping of organizational cultures. Two sets of everyday neutralizing practices – distancing and re-appropriating – have been identified as factors that facilitate the emergence of a relational and politicized culture of exchange.

scholarly journals Multi-omics approach reveals new insights into the gut microbiome of Galleria mellonella (Lepidoptera:Pyralidae) exposed to polyethylene diet

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Latour ◽  
Gregoire Noel ◽  
Laurent Serteyn ◽  
Abdoul Razack Sare ◽  
Sebastien Massart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gut Microbiota ◽  
Gut Microbiome ◽  
Galleria Mellonella ◽  
Community Change ◽  
Sequence Variant ◽  
Plastic Pollution ◽  
Degrading Bacteria ◽  
Biodegradation Study

The current plastic pollution throughout the world implies a crucial optimization of its (bio)degradation processes. In order to identify plastic degrading bacteria and associated enzymes, the gut microbiota of insects has raised interest. Some entomological models such as Tenebrio molitor (L. 1758), Plodia interpunctella (Hubner 1813) or Galleria mellonella (L. 1758) have the ability to ingest and degrade polyethylene. Then, it is promising to identify the composition and the role of the gut microbiota in this process. This study takes part in this issue by investigating G. mellonella as a biological model feeding with a polyethylene diet. Gut microbiome samples were processed by high throughput 16S rRNA sequencing, and Enterococcaceae and Oxalobacteraceae were found to be the major bacterial families. At low polyethylene dose, we detect no bacterial community change and no amplicon sequence variant associated with the polyethylene diet suggesting microbiome resilience. The functional analysis of insects gut content was promising for the identification of plastic degrading enzymes such as the phenylacetaldehyde dehydrogenase which participate in styrene degradation. This study allows a better characterization of the gut microbiota of G. mellonella and provides a basis for the further biodegradation study of polyethylene based on the microorganism valorization from insect guts.

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