American Royalty

2021 ◽  
pp. 163-170
Author(s):  
Spencer W. McBride
Keyword(s):  
American West ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
The City ◽  
Political Opinions ◽  
American Families

This chapter tells the story of a visit to Nauvoo by two men from illustrious American families, Charles Francis Adams and Josiah Quincy. Adams and Quincy were touring the American West in 1844 when, in May of that year, their steamboat stopped at Nauvoo. The men spent the night in the city, and the next morning they met Joseph Smith at his home. Adams and Quincy spent the entire day together and toured the city and surrounding farms in Smith’s coach. Both men would record their impressions of Smith and Nauvoo, including Smith’s political opinions and presidential ambitions. Smith did not win over their political support, be he sustained their curiosity.

The Mormon City in Decline

2018 ◽  
pp. 12-30
Author(s):  
Scott C. Esplin
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

This chapter examines the preparation for and eventual abandonment of Nauvoo, Illinois, by the Mormons following the 1844 death of Joseph Smith, the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism). It marks the failed attempts to sell properties by the faith’s new leader, Brigham Young, and the eventual resettlement of the city by a French communal society known as the Icarians. The chapter also traces the Icarian’s demise and the German farmers and vintners who next occupied Nauvoo, transforming it into a rural river village by occupying, repurposing, or removing remaining Mormon structures while remaking the city’s religious character.

scholarly journals Intra-organizational brand resistance and counter-narratives in city branding – a comparative study of three Danish cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 1001-1018
Author(s):  
Marianne Wollf Lundholt ◽  
Ole Have Jørgensen ◽  
Bodil Stilling Blichfeldt
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Political Support ◽  
The Political ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
City Brand ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
The City ◽  
Competition For Resources

Purpose This study aims to contribute to an increased understanding of intra-organizational city brand resistance by identifying and discussing different types of counter-narratives emerging from the political and administrative arenas. Design/methodology/approach The empirical material consists of secondary data as well as six in-depth semi-structured interviews with Danish mayors and city managers in three different municipalities in Denmark. Findings Intra-organizational counter-narratives differ from inter-organizational counter-narratives but resemble a number of issues known from extra-organizational resistance. Still, significant differences are found within the political arena: lack of ownership, competition for resources and political conflicts. Lack of ownership, internal competition for resources and distrust of motives play an important role within the administrative arena. Mayors are aware of the needs for continued political support for branding projects but projects are nonetheless realized despite resistance if there is a political majority for it. Research limitations/implications This study points to the implications of city brand resistance and counter-narratives emerging from the “inside” of the political and administrative arenas in the city, here defined as “intra-organizational counter-narratives”. Practical implications It is suggested that politicians and municipality staff should be systematically addressed as individual and unique audiences and considered as important as citizens in the brand process. Originality/value So far little attention has been paid to internal stakeholders within the municipal organization and their impact on the city branding process approached from a narrative perspective.

Borderlands Fortress

2017 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-289
Author(s):  
Maxwell Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
World War I ◽  
American West ◽  
World War ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
Los Angeles Times ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Focusing on the World War I era, this article examines Harry Chandler’s Los Angeles Times and William Randolph Hearst’s Los Angeles Examiner. It argues that these two rival newspapers urged a particular urban identity for Los Angeles during World War I. If Los Angeles was to become the capital of the American West, the papers demanded that real and rhetorical barriers be constructed to protect the city from a dual Japanese-Mexican menace. While federal officials viewed the border as a line to be maintained, Chandler and Hearst feared it. Los Angeles needed to be a borderlands fortress. After the war, the two newspapers ably transitioned into an editorial style that privileged progress over preparedness. This paper reveals that the contested narrative of progress, based in transnational concerns, was crucial to the city’s early and ultimate development.

scholarly journals Political Support in Times of Personalized Politics. A Qualitative Inquiry of French Citizens' Representations About Political Actors and the Political Regime

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Dolez
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Representative Democracy ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Field ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
Political Opinions

This article investigates how citizens speak about representative democracy and questions their perceptions of representation and of the democratic regime they live in, by mobilizing the distinction between diffuse and specific support, in a context of personalized politics. It shows that political actors and their performances are at the core of citizens' perceptions. I investigate citizens' representations of the political field through an original qualitative fieldwork, composed of couple interviews with French citizens, under the Sarkozy presidency. Studies about the political support of citizens often mobilize quantitative surveys to measure the degree of support and satisfaction. I rather choose the qualitative approach to grasp perceptions of political field through discussions about political and societal issues. Couple interviews offer an adequate framework to observe political opinions that are built in daily life. Representations of the political field are mainly dominated by the role of political actors. Political parties and institutions are rarely mentioned. Politicians are systematically held accountable, and are often criticized in citizens' discussions. The existing literature has often distinguished specific and diffuse support. My analysis tends to show that the weakness of the former through personalization can undermine the support for the regime. However, alternatives to representative democracy remain underexplored and even not considered. Overall, these representations depend on sociopolitical factors, such as political convictions or social backgrounds.

scholarly journals Barriers to Implementing Pro-Cycling Policies: A Case Study of Hamburg

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 4196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luqi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Travel Behavior ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Effective Policy ◽  
Mode Of Transport ◽  
The City

Cycling is gaining increasing attention as a convenient, environmentally friendly, and fitness-improving mode of transport. While many policy interventions have been made to promote cycling, not enough research has focused on the barriers to implementing pro-cycling policies. For effective policy implementation, identifying major barriers and removing them is critical. This study took an in-depth look at Hamburg which started a major cycling promotion in 2008. According to expert interviews and literature surveys, the author found that the major barriers are physical, political and institutional, and social and cultural. Specifically, the city lacks enough physical space, political support, and the evaluation of travel behavior and demand. Also, some private stakeholders are reluctant to give up on-street car parking space for cycling lanes, and the negotiation process is difficult and time-consuming. To overcome these barriers, Hamburg requires cycling-oriented urban design, a strategic and integrated cycling action plan, strong political support, and target group-oriented communication.

Eyes Westward

2020 ◽  
pp. 81-106
Author(s):  
Sara M. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
American West ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
Prophetic Vision ◽  
Prophetic Office

The Smithification of the American West refers to the process whereby Utah Mormons embraced and emphasized a historical narrative that proclaimed that the prophet Joseph Smith had known all along that the Mormons would wind up in Utah. It suggests not only that Brigham Young was the rightful heir to Smith’s prophetic office but also that Smith knew the landscapes of the American West intimately because he had seen them in prophetic vision.

Return to the City of Joseph

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott C. Esplin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social History ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Mississippi River ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

In the 1840s, Nauvoo, Illinois, was a religious boomtown, the headquarters for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), a controversial religion whose theology, social practices, and solidarity led to cultural conflict. By the mid-1840s, Joseph Smith, the religion’s prophet-leader, was killed, and thousands of Mormons relocated west to Utah. During the twentieth century, the Latter-day Saints returned to their former headquarters in Nauvoo, Illinois, in a dramatic way. Acquiring nearly half of the property in the city, the faith transformed the sleepy Mississippi River town into a historical re-creation of its earlier splendor. However, as it did in the nineteenth century, Mormonism’s presence in western Illinois in the twentieth century created conflict. Competing groups, including the religion’s sister faith, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ, offered a rival interpretation of Nauvoo’s past. Additionally, community members without a connection to either branch of Mormonism sought to preserve their own rich history in the city. Return to the City of Joseph: Modern Mormonism’s Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo examines the conflicts over historical memory that have developed as Mormonism returned to western Illinois. It focuses on the social history of the community, examining interactions between groups impacted by Mormonism’s touristic takeover. In a broader way, it also intersects with studies of historical tourism and pilgrimage.

scholarly journals “Places you shouldn't go to”: (Im)mobility, violence and democracy in Brazil and South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1365-1391
Author(s):  
Elizabete Albernaz ◽  
Lenin Pires
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Pursuing the broader political effects of the relationship between violence, mobility, and inequality, the article describes some of the grounded political-economies (re)producing social inequalities in Brazil and South Africa, and a discontinuous experience of the urban space. This fragmented spatial experience is produced by the simultaneous operation of a discursive apparatus projecting a split ideal of “city”, and grounded social mechanics, in the intersection of values and power relations. In Johannesburg, South Africa, we’ve described the creation of Maboneng, a “urban development project”, to highlight the role of social mobility and growing class aspirations as powerful political vehicles for neoliberal markets reissuing old apartheid socio-spatial divisions. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we’ve explored the relationship between the State and its margins to understand the production of the milícia as a violent anti-modern capitalist venture, aiming to control the circulation of people, capital and political support in the city.

scholarly journals An Exploratory Case Study Utilizing a Health in All Policies Approach to Improve Health in the City of Montclair

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Alyssa Colunga
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Logic Model ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Health In All Policies ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Document Review ◽  
The City ◽  
Improve Health

Rates of chronic disease are a long-term problem in the City of Montclair, a predominately high minority community with low socioeconomic status and limited resources. There is a need for leadership in small local jurisdictions, such as Montclair, to champion sustainable and effective health promotion strategies that meet the needs of its citizens and is accessible and tailored to the population.The purpose of this case study is to utilize a cross-sector social ecological lens to develop strategies for the City of Montclair to improve health through a collaborative health in all policies (HiAP) approach. This analysis of HiAP as a means to improve health, includes the incidence of chronic disease, uses document review and semi-structured interviews to adapt a logic model meant to guide a HiAP initiative for the City of Montclair. It also identifies the next steps in guiding a future HiAP initiative. Stakeholders within the City of Montclair were recruited to provide feedback on utilizing a HiAP approach to improve health. Five stakeholders participated in semi-structured interviews and were asked about barriers to creating a HiAP initiative in Montclair, how messaging can be better tailored for multiple sectors to buy-in, the feasibility of engaging high-level stakeholders and community leaders, and the potential benefits of HiAP in Montclair. This study fills a major need for investigation of how local municipalities might begin a HiAP initiative. Five critical themes were derived from the document review and from the six interviews conducted with Montclair city staff and community leaders provide perspective and insight into plans for a HiAP initiative. The five overall themes mentioned by both include: (1) communications and messaging, (2) incorporating health into decision making, (3) assessments and data collection, (4) building awareness and political support, and (5) formalizing HiAP. HiAP is an approach to improve chronic disease rates and ensure that future decisions are cross-sectoral and made only after serious consideration of their impacts on health. Other small cities can use this as an example of how to examine their specific environments and determine what they need to do and how to employ the existing literature as they tailor a foundational logic model for their own use.

scholarly journals Factors influencing walking trips. Evidence from Gdynia, Poland

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. e0254949
Author(s):  
Marcin Wolek ◽  
Michal Suchanek ◽  
Tomasz Czuba
Keyword(s):  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Local Use ◽  
The City

Political support for active mobility is growing for many reasons, including land use planning, health, and improved mobility. As the vital part of many cities is their central area, decision-makers need to know what factors are essential for increasing walkability. This paper aims to identify the main factors affecting the walkability of the city centre of Gdynia (Poland). To achieve this, the research design was adjusted to the specificity of the local use case. Based on primary data collected via personal interviews, factor analysis was applied to rule out potential collinearity and reduce dimensions. Logistic regression models were then constructed. The results were compared with the research carried out in other cities. The results show that only two of the analysed factors are significant, namely accessibility and safety. Both are extensive categories and include many subcomponents that are influential among different groups of citizens. Our research also confirms that walkability is a city-specific issue that is influenced by many local factors.

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