The role of change- and stability-oriented place attachment in rural community resilience: a case study in south-west Scotland

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saskia Zwiers ◽  
Marianna Markantoni ◽  
Dirk Strijker
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Place Attachment ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
South West

scholarly journals Community paramedicine: Higher education as an enabling factor

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter O’Meara ◽  
Michel Ruest ◽  
Christine Stirling
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
Health Care Team ◽  
System Reform ◽  
Community Paramedicine ◽  
Sustainable Implementation ◽  
Extended Care

The aim of this case study was to describe one rural community paramedic model and identify enablers related to the implementation of the model. It was undertaken in the County of Renfrew, Ontario, Canada where a community paramedicine role has emerged in response to demographic changes and broader health system reform. Qualitative data was collected through direct observation of practice, informal discussions, interviews and focus groups.The crucial role of education in the effective and sustainable implementation of the community paramedicine model was identified as one of four enablers. Traditional paramedicine education programs are narrowly focused on emergency response, with limited education in health promotion, aged care and chronic disease management. Educational programs hoping to include a wider range of topics face the twin challenges of an already crowded curriculum and predominately young students who fail to see the relevance of community primary care content.A closer match between the paramedicine curriculum and the emerging roles of paramedics, whether they are community paramedics, extended care paramedics, or as yet unformed roles is needed if paramedics are to become valued members of the health care team.

Simple English in the South Seas Evangelical Mission

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverly S. Mühlhäusler ◽  
Peter Mühlhäusler
Keyword(s):  
Language Planning ◽  
General Point ◽  
Standard English ◽  
The South ◽  
Christian Missions ◽  
South West ◽  
Development Of Language ◽  
Basic English

The general point of this paper is to highlight the important role of Christian missions in the development of language planning. We document this with a case study: the attempt of the South Seas Evangelical Mission to devise a simplified English, intermediate between Pidgin English and full Standard English for their mission work in the south west Pacific. The relatively unsophisticated approach to corpus planning by this body is contrasted with Ogden’s more elaborate proposals for Basic English.

scholarly journals The Role of Rural Educational Leadership in Influencing Societal Behaviour: A Case Study of Goromonzi District: Educational Leaders’ Perceptive

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 149-164
Author(s):  
E. Mafigu ◽  
B.C. Chisaka
Keyword(s):  
Educational Leadership ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Rural Setting ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Cultural Shift ◽  
Rural Context

This study establishes the role of rural educational leadership in influencing societal behaviour, focusing Goromonzi District. It was positioned alongside the behavioural theories and the African unhu/ubuntu philosophy, informed by a qualitative case study. It made use of interviews, focus group discussions and observations in the generation of data from a purposive sample of three rural secondary schools. The rural context has its own set of unique community identifiers, making rural schools remarkably different from those found in the urban centres. The rural community is experiencing an influx of urban migration and as a result, the disturbance of an ideal rural setting is posing a challenge to the educational leadership in impacting the societal behaviour in the way it ought to be. Moreover, the educational leadership in the rural community is often characterised by lack of understanding of the rural communities’ traditional beliefs and practices, giving rise to contradictions with what the educational leadership intends to promote and encourage at times. Consequently, a cultural shift and contextual adaptation of distinctive attitudes and behaviours that enhance positive behaviour transformation becomes imperative. Above it all, studying rural behavioural trends as a response to educational leadership was paradoxical journey. The study thus, concludes that while literature points out that leadership has a direct influence of the behaviour of its community, this cannot go far unless the educational leadership deliberately aligns its own behaviour with the dictates of unhu/ubuntu philosophy which has a place in the African rural context.

The Politics of Interpretation: Understanding Biblical History in Palestinian Rural Culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-20
Author(s):  
Elizabeth S. Marteijn
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Rural Culture ◽  
The West ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical History ◽  
Cultural Belonging

This article investigates the role of the biblical story in the Palestinian context of cultural and political change. It explores how Palestinian Christians have depicted modern-day Palestinian rural culture as being a continuation of biblical culture. The article explores two different ways of understanding the bible to which this continuation thinking applies: first, when the bible is being read through the eyes of the Palestinian rural community (or ‘the Bible through peasant eyes’, as New Testament scholar Kenneth E. Bailey put it) and secondly, through the eyes of the politically oppressed. To illustrate this, the small Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh in the West Bank serves as a case study. In the post-1967 context, it became important for the inhabitants to portray their village as going back historically to the Ophrah and Ephraim of the bible, thus reimagining their identity as being essentially biblical. This insertion of contemporary Palestinian history into biblical history, and vice versa, is for the inhabitants of Taybeh a way to give scriptural sanction against Zionist constructions and a way to express their theological and cultural belonging to the land. This article demonstrates how their view both relates to and stands in conflict with Western understandings of biblical history, featuring the work of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century travellers, missionaries and ethnographers from Europe.

scholarly journals Strategic Responses to Grand Challenges: Why and How Corporations Build Community Resilience

2019 ◽  
Vol 161 (4) ◽  
pp. 835-853
Author(s):  
Ralph Hamann ◽  
Lulamile Makaula ◽  
Gina Ziervogel ◽  
Clifford Shearing ◽  
Alan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Process Model ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Strategic Responses ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Grand Challenges ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Building Community

AbstractWe explore why and how corporations seek to build community resilience as a strategic response to grand challenges. Based on a comparative case study analysis of four corporations strategically building community resilience in five place-based communities in South Africa, as well as three counterfactual cases, we develop a process model of corporate practices and contingent factors that explain why and how some corporations commit to community resilience building and whether they try to do so directly or indirectly. We thus help explain corporations’ strategic contributions to community resilience, and we emphasise the role of place-specific resources, social-ecological system viability, and limited statehood in motivating such organisational responses to grand challenges.

The Changing Role of Women in Resilience, Recovery and Economic Development at the Intersection of Recurrent Disaster: A Case Study from Sirajgang, Bangladesh

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mir Rabiul Islam ◽  
Valerie Ingham ◽  
John Hicks ◽  
Ian Manock
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Depth Interviews

Two million people were affected in the floodplains and low-lying areas in Sirajgang in 2012. Seven hundred and fifty families were made homeless and forced to live in small temporary huts on the river protection embankments. Unemployment rose alarmingly and the jobless left their villages to find work in larger cities, leaving behind their vulnerable and insecure families. Consequently, women were increasingly required to take on totally unfamiliar roles. Our research utilised in-depth interviews with women managing without the support of their husbands. Key findings highlighted that community resilience would improve if these women were engaged at the local operational level of disaster management.

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