scholarly journals IDENTITY AND CULTURE CHANGE OF JAVANESE IN JOHOR

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3-1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mifedwil Jandra ◽  
Agus Sulaiman Djamil ◽  
Hussin Salamon ◽  
Anhar Ansyory ◽  
Moh. Damami Zein
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Land Area ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
Wood Fuel ◽  
Chinese Workers ◽  
Fire Wood

The Javanese ethnics are among the largest population group in Johor. According to the history, they came to Johor as part of the suggestion and efforts by Temenggong Daing Ibrahim (1810-1862) when they opened the Gambir plantation in Johor back in 1830s after the failure of Gambir companies in Singapore due to lack of land area and fire-wood fuel. The main reason to bring the Javanese and Chinese workers or coolies to operate the Gambir plantation was through the kankar system which he introduced. Data and information were collected from interview with Javanese and books, as well as from journals and websites. The increase of Javanese population is due to their growth and increase of number of labour in Malaysia. Their present may cause several challenges including social and cultural identity. This study aim to understand the fundamental Javanese character and identity, how this identity has been integrated and blended into the Malays culture, and finally to identify the Javanese characters and identity that contribute to the changes in the local culture. The study found that the high tolerances and adaptability of the Javanese has contributed to the acceptance and social harmony to the existing ethnics in Johor.  Keywords : Java community, identity, cultural change

A Changing Spanish Identity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn L. Ness
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Spanish Novel ◽  
Research Questions

“A Changing Spanish Identity” outlines the research questions and data sets discussed in Setting the Table by introducing the notion of early modern Spanish cultural identity and the changes it encountered in the eighteenth century. It explains the author’s use of Don Quixote as a guide through the study and why this quintessential Spanish novel is appropriate for exploring themes of cultural change and identity. The chapter argues that, despite the major role the Spanish Empire played in early modern history, it has been largely underrepresented in studies of the Atlantic world. The majority of the chapter contains a brief introduction to the three sites addressed in the study as well as the methodology used to investigate these sites. The chapter concludes with an outline of subsequent chapters.

scholarly journals Voices from the “Heart”: Understanding a Community-Engaged Festival in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Li ◽  
Danièle Moore ◽  
Suzanne Smythe
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Downtown Eastside

This study presents findings from an ethnographic case study of a community-engaged festival held annually in Downtown Vancouver. It explores how the festival functions as a small group that contributes to the establishment of local culture and place identities in order to resist engrained stereotypes. This study also examines the ephemeral space of the festival as an interactional arena where participants co-engage in the construction of community, identity, and meaning. The study expands the discussion of community festivals as socially meaningful devices for collective action, community building, and multiliterate meaning-making in urban environments.

Napoli and the loss of innocence: Three theatrical hypotheses

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 523-536
Author(s):  
Raffaele Furno
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
European City ◽  
Hybrid Nature ◽  
The City

The layers of Neapolitan culture have pinned down the representation of the city to two shifting paradigms: Napoli as a nourishing mother, pregnant in luxurious views of her Gulf and generous products of her land, and, on the opposite side, Napoli as a whore and a witch, a dark sterile entity that devours her children. Both ways, female markers have characterized the construction of Napoli’s cultural identity in the imagery of her intellectuals, story-tellers, and writers. This article will analyze such female reincarnations through the theatrical work of three of the city’s major authors: Eduardo de Filippo’s Filumena Marturano (1946), Roberto de Simone’s melodrama La Gatta Cenerentola (1976), and Annibale Ruccello’s Le cinque rose di Jennifer (1980). Through the metaphor of the lost virginity of the female body, and using different stage languages including drama, comedy, music, and fairy tales, Neapolitan theatre has used tradition and local culture to project Napoli into a wider contemporary intellectual debate. This, I deem, was made possible by the fluid and hybrid nature of “being Neapolitan” which consists of deeply grounded linguistic, religious, culinary, and performative roots and, at once, of a keen awareness that those same roots travelled hundreds of miles and originated from foreign sources, marking Napoli as a quintessential multicultural, proto-European city.

The Role of the Educational System in Promoting Local Culture Within Rural Areas in Romania

2018 ◽  
pp. 233-255
Author(s):  
Cristina Iridon ◽  
Cristina Gafu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Study Planning ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
Community Projects

The present chapter presents the results of a research developed within a series of rural schools in Romania (Prahova and Buzău County) regarding the role of the educational system in preserving the individuals' cultural identity and in promoting the local culture within the rural areas. Schools, be they urban or rural, are meant to contribute to capitalizing, reevaluating, and valuing the local cultural identity. The present analysis takes into account both the formal activities (included in the study programs or in the units of study planning: topics of discussion, study themes, optional courses, etc.) and non-formal events (traditional local festivals, school feasts, religious/folk celebrations, etc.) organized with the support of the local community projects, workshops conceived by the teachers in order to preserve the local culture and to make the young generation aware of their identity values.

scholarly journals Limits to CO2-Neutrality of Burning Wood. (Review)

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 48-55
Author(s):  
J. Abolins ◽  
J. Gravitis
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Biomass Accumulation ◽  
Richards Equation ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Land Area ◽  
Annual Increment ◽  
Excess Amount ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Mean Annual Increment ◽  
Fire Wood

Abstract Consumption of wood as a source of energy is discussed with respect to efficiency and restraints to ensure sustainability of the environment on the grounds of a simple analytical model describing dynamics of biomass accumulation in forest stands – a particular case of the well-known empirical Richards’ equation. Amounts of wood harvested under conditions of maximum productivity of forest land are presented in units normalised with respect to the maximum of the mean annual increment and used to determine the limits of CO2-neutrality. The ecological “footprint” defined by the area of growing stands necessary to absorb the excess amount of CO2 annually released from burning biomass is shown to be equal to the land area of a plantation providing sustainable supply of fire-wood.

Cultural Change and Conflict in Rural Wales: Competing Constructs of Identity

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Cloke ◽  
M Goodwin ◽  
P Milbourne
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Significant Others ◽  
Symbolic Boundaries ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
National Scale ◽  
Identity Constructs

In this paper we suggest that understandings of social and cultural recomposition in areas of rural Wales need to consider issues of interacting and competing identities. We explore notions of cultural identity, change, and conflict in four areas of rural Wales, based on recent research involving interviews with around 1000 households. Attention is focused on the interplay between different scales of identity constructs: national-scale constructs of English and Welsh identities; regional constructs of Welsh identity; and more localised identity constructs. In the context of the first of these identity constructs, we consider Cohen's notions of significant ‘others’ and symbolic boundaries as a means of understanding processes of English in-movement to areas of the Welsh countryside.

scholarly journals Stereotype Development in Andalusian Children

2003 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Almudena Giménez de la Peña ◽  
Jesús M. Canto Ortiz ◽  
Pablo Fernández Berrocal ◽  
Martyn Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Autonomous Community ◽  
Affective Evaluation ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Intergroup Relationships ◽  
The Relationship

Social psychologists have shown a profound interest in intergroup relationships, but there are very few papers focusing on the developmental aspects that explain the psychological mechanisms involved in the construction of group and cultural identity. Our research aims to explore how the self-categorization of Andalusian children evolves. We tried to assess the degree to which they self-identify as Andalusian, Spanish, and European, and how this identification changes with age. We were also interested in the affective evaluation of different groups (French, Italian, English, German, Spanish, Catalonian, and Andalusian) made by Andalusian children. Furthermore, we analyzed the relationship between self-categorization and the evaluation of these groups. Results show that the development of national (autonomous community) identity in these children is influenced by their cognitive development, as well as by the relationships among the regional communities of Spain and the relationships between Spain and other countries. The peculiarity of Andalusians as a group is that they assume both identities: Spanish and Andalusian, from a very early age. In-group favoritism is an extended phenomenon at all ages, and Andalusian children have a negative stereotype of the other Spanish groups and other European communities.

scholarly journals Gerakan Tolak Proyek Reklamasi Teluk Benoa sebagai Penguatan Identitas Kultural Masyarakat Bali

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Ni Wayan Rainy Priadarsini S. ◽  
Putu Ratih Kumala Dewi ◽  
A.A.A. Intan Parameswari
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Reclamation Project ◽  
Reclamation Plan ◽  
Capitalist Control

From the beginning of its emergence, the Benoa Bay reclamation project that received fully support from Bali Provincial Government had been rejected by Balinese people in general. The project worked by PT Tirta Wahana Bali International is considered as a form of global capitalist hegemony. Thousand of demonstrators protested against the reclamation project because it is not only threatening the ecology sustainability but also the local culture. “Reject Reclamation” movement, organized by the Balinese People’s Forum to Reject Reclamation(ForBALI), as opposition to global capitalist control. It has been thirty nine customary villages in Bali protested in various ways against the controversial project. This article discusses the struggle of Balinese peopleto reject Benoa Bay’s reclamation plan through the revitalization of Balinese cultural identity to face the global capitalist hegemony.

scholarly journals IDENTITAS BUDAYA NASIONAL PADA GAME NUSANTARA ONLINE

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Harli Brata Wardhana ◽  
Didik Hariyanto
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Online Games ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Short Film ◽  
Online Game ◽  
Game Play ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
History Of

Game Nusantara Online is the only online game that lifted the Indonesian culture hey day empires that ever existed and is the only original online games domestically-made. So it is not surprising that this game displays various types of display depicting national cultural identity in the game. The method used in analyzing was John Fiske the semiotics (semiology) through three tiers level, reality, representation, and ideology in the opening game in the form of nondialogue short film, but it was also analyzed in the game play in game logo, the cast of characters, and missions “Timun Mas”. Further analysis was based on the study of literature and other supporting data to determinenational cultural identity. After doing research on the game Nusantara Online, it was found thatnational cultural identity displayed on the level of reality by visualizing typical clothing and accessories of Indonesia empire at that time, the use of the name on the cast of characters that has its own story and has become the local culture, including Hayam Wuruk, Elephant Mada, and others. Visualization of social life, such as religious rituals Bendrong Dimples and Bali, and incorporate folklore or legends in the game missions. While the level of representation, the camera technique is used so that the details of the national cultural identity clearly visible on the clothing motif and shape of the building. The ideology that displayed the Nusantara Online games are games that have cultural values and history of Nusantara (Indonesia).

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