Affordable Strategies for the Reduction of Future Tsunami Effects on Local Populations in Phuket, Krabi and Phang Nga, Southern Thailand

Assumptions that local communities have an endogenous capacity to adapt to climate change stemming from time-tested knowledge and an inherent sense of community that prompts mobilisation are becoming increasingly common in material produced by international organisations. This discourse, which relies on ahistorical and apolitical conceptions of localities and populations, is based on ideas of timeless knowledge and places. Analysing the water-place nexus in Ladakh, in the Indian Himalayas, through a close study of glacier practices as they change over time, the article argues that local knowledge is subject to change and must be analysed in light of changing conceptions and experiences of place by the state and by local populations alike.

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Language Maintenanceand The Preservation of Ethnic Identity: A Case of Malay Muslims in Southern Thailand

Journal of Islam in Asia <span style="font-size: 0.6em">(E-ISSN: 2289-8077)</span> ◽

10.31436/jia.v8i0.262 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 8 ◽

pp. 297-308

Author(s):

Nonglaksana Kama ◽

Munirah Yamirudeng

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Identity ◽

Language Shift ◽

Muslim Community ◽

Cultural Groups ◽

Know How ◽

Thai Language ◽

Ethnic Language ◽

Southern Thailand ◽

Southern Border ◽

Vital Element

Language is known to have an effect on ethnic identity.For cultural groups who hold knowledge of ethnic language as a core value, language shift can lead to a loss of ethnic identity, cultural fragmentation and “non-authentic” expressions of ethnicity Thelanguage has played and is still playing a symbolic role in the evolution and maintenance of ethnic identity within the Malay Muslim community in southern Thailand. Itis significant to know how the Malay language was used as a symbol to create and sustain the Malay identity on the ways in which Malay Muslims today understand ethnic identity, and how ethnic language fits into their own ethnic self-identifications.This paper attempts to answer the question why Malay language constitutes a vital element in the maintenance of Malay ethnic identity among the Malays of southern Thailand.Two facts have been identified regarding the language and ethnicity link among Malay Muslims. First, Malay language is seen as a relevant ethno-cultural marker and its usage is limited within family, relatives and close friends. Second, Malay language is preserved along with Thai language, making many Malay Muslims bilingual, which is quite typical in the southern border provinces of Thailand.

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The Role of Local Populations within a Landscape Context: Defining and Classifying Sources and Sinks

The American Naturalist ◽

10.2307/3844748 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 167 (6) ◽

pp. 925 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Runge ◽

Nichols

Keyword(s):

Landscape Context ◽

Sources And Sinks ◽

Local Populations

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Introduction

10.1093/oso/9780199673346.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Christine Cheng

Keyword(s):

Theoretical Framework ◽

Political Authority ◽

The State ◽

Dual Nature ◽

For Profit ◽

Business Interests ◽

Local Populations ◽

Post Conflict ◽

Over Time ◽

Commercial Environment

This chapter introduces the concept of extralegal groups and a theoretical framework for analyzing them—how they emerge, develop, and become entrenched over time. It explores their dual nature as threats to the state and as local statebuilders. Formally, an extralegal group is defined as a set of individuals with a proven capacity for violence who work outside the law for profit and provide basic governance functions to sustain its business interests. This framing shows how political authority can develop as a by-product of the commercial environment, even where the state has little or no presence. In post-conflict societies, the predatory nature and historical abuses of citizens conducted in the name of the state means that government is not always more trusted or better able to look after the interests of local populations than an extralegal group. Ultimately, extralegal groups blur the lines between the formal and informal; the licit and illicit.

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Aspects of the Relationships between the Community of Sheikh Abd al-Qurna and Ancient Egyptian Monuments

The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Paleography ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190604653.013.35 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 507-522

Author(s):

Andrew Bednarski ◽

Gemma Tully

Keyword(s):

Social Action ◽

Single Case ◽

Local Population ◽

Social Awareness ◽

Single Case Study ◽

Local Populations ◽

Ancient Egyptian ◽

Complex Relationships

Epigraphers and archaeologists working in Egypt must navigate a host of complex relationships both on and off site. This chapter explores the multifaceted nature of local Egyptian peoples’ relationships with nearby monuments through the lens of a single case study: the site of Sheikh Abd al-Qurna and its local population, the Qurnawi. Egyptologists have not traditionally sought to incorporate formally the stories and histories of local populations in their studies of pharaonic sites. An increasing blend of social awareness and the desire for social action on the part of both foreign professionals and local activists, however, is pushing Egyptologists to re-evaluate their practices, which, in turn, is moving the discipline in new and positive directions.

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POPULATION GENETICS OF ALLOZYME VARIATION IN NEUROSPORA INTERMEDIA

Genetics ◽

10.1093/genetics/80.4.785 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 80 (4) ◽

pp. 785-805

Author(s):

P T Spieth

Keyword(s):

Genetic Variation ◽

Vegetative Reproduction ◽

Vascular Plant ◽

Natural Populations ◽

Allozyme Variation ◽

Regular Feature ◽

Local Populations ◽

Neurospora Intermedia ◽

Pattern Of Variation ◽

High Level

ABSTRACT Electrophoretically detectable variation in the fungus Neurospora intermedia has been surveyed among isolates from natural populations in Malaya, Papua, Australia and Florida. The principal result is a pattern of genetic variation within and between populations that is qualitatively no different than the well documented patterns for Drosophila and humans. In particular, there is a high level of genetic variation, the majority of which occurs at the level of local populations. Evidence is presented which argues that N. intermedia has a population structure analogous to that of an annual vascular plant with a high level of vegetative reproduction. Sexual reproduction appears to be a regular feature in the biology of the species. Substantial heterokaryon function seems unlikely in natural populations of N. intermedia. Theoretical considerations concerning the mechanisms underlying the observed pattern of variation most likely should be consistent with haploid selection theory. The implications of this constraint upon the theory are discussed in detail, leading to the presentation of a model based upon the concept of environmental heterogeneity. The essence of the model, which is equally applicable to haploid and diploid situations, is a shifting distribution of multiple adaptive niches among local populations such that a given population has a small net selective pressure in favor of one allele or another, depending upon its particular distribution of niches. Gene flow among neighboring populations with differing net selective pressures is postulated as the principal factor underlying intrapopulational allozyme variation.

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