Aftermaths

2021 ◽  
pp. 367-412
Author(s):  
Paul Watt
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Spatial Scale ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Empty Shell ◽  
New Residents ◽  
Mixed Communities

This chapter examines the provisional regeneration aftermaths at three estates – West Hendon (Barnet), Woodberry Down (Hackney) and Carpenters (Newham) – in relation to what kind of new places are being created. West Hendon and Woodberry Down form hybrid places consisting of the remaining old estate which is undergoing degeneration, displacement and demolition, and the redeveloped section which is receiving new residents. At the intermediate spatial scale, although some interviewees appreciated the enhanced security features in the new gated blocks, the latter were routinely described as soulless, hotel-like non-places (Auge). One major aim at both West Hendon and Woodberry Down was to create mixed-tenure communities. However, at neither estate had this been achieved as far as social tenants were concerned. Despite the attempts made to enhance community development, there was a common lament at both redeveloped estates – that their previous sense of community had been lost. There was also little evidence of class/tenure mixing, and these hybrid neighbourhoods constitute fragmented rather than mixed communities. The final section focuses on the Carpenters estate where no redevelopment has occurred despite its being nominally under regeneration for fifteen years. By 2019 it was a half-empty shell of a previously functioning multi-ethnic, working-class east London community.

Shared Action: Stronger communities, safer children

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
Fiona Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
Community Ownership ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Community Responsibility ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Exciting Project

This article explores the effectiveness of an innovative and exciting project called ‘Shared Action’, a community development approach to child protection in Bendigo, Victoria. Shared Action was a three-year project which started in January 1997. It began by encouraging a sense of community ownership. A shared vision was developed with key goals leading to a wide range of community activities. A sense of hope and cooperation grew along with social networks, the capacity to resolve conflict constructively and a shared sense of community responsibility.

Punk, class, and taste in Desert Island Discs

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Webb
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Economic Hardship ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Desert Island ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Uk

This chapter attempts to use popular music as a way of connecting a number of castaways who shared a similar love of punk and post-punk and who described certain experiences that their appreciation of that music had resonance with. The music is used as a starting point to trace the experiences of the castaways to wider sets of social, cultural, and political histories of the UK. Among the castaways chosen are Kathy Burke, Ian Rankin, Ricky Gervais, and Hanif Kureshi. Each of these had a working-class upbringing and Kureshi grew up in a working-class area with parents who had been well off in India before moving to the UK. The choice of music intertwines with their descriptions of economic hardship, domestic violence, and racism but also a developed sense of community, sensitivity, and humanism that illustrates a sector of British life in the 1950s through to the 1980s.

The Measure of Industry

2019 ◽  
pp. 137-173
Author(s):  
Kirstie Blair
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Industrial Change

Chapter 4 turns to the ways in which poets engaged with industrial cultures. It argues against a persistent narrative that Victorian Scottish writers ignored industrial change and developments, and shows that in relation to working-class writers, this is not the case. The first subsection studies poetic representations of industry in Lanarkshire, especially the heavily industrialized towns of Coatbridge and Airdrie. The second remains in the Glasgow/Lanarkshire area, but concentrates on miner-poets and the ways in which they discussed their work, with particular attention to poet David Wingate. The final section considers form and rhythm in industrial poetics, using Scottish railway poets Alexander Anderson and William Aitken as examples of the incorporation of industrial rhythms into poetry.

Part 3 The Post 9/11-Era (2001–), 65 The Saudi-led Military Intervention in Yemen’s Civil War—2015

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferro Luca ◽  
Ruys Tom
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Military Intervention ◽  
The United States ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Internal Conflict ◽  
Empty Shell ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Proportionality Test

This chapter addresses the intervention in Yemen’s civil war launched by Saudi Arabia on 26 March 2015. The intervention was supported by Gulf Cooperation Council and other Arab countries, and received technical and logistical support from the United States and the United Kingdom. After retracing the origin and development of the internal conflict, the contribution provides an overview of the legal positions of its main protagonists and the reaction (or lack thereof) by other States. Closer scrutiny of the operation’s legality nonetheless reveals that the self-defence justification, which is primarily relied upon, does not provide a convincing legal basis. Moreover, the intervention is problematical from the perspective of the intervention by invitation doctrine and exposes its indeterminacy and proneness to abuse. As a result, the authors argue in the final section that if the concept of ‘counter-intervention’ (as a possible exception to the prohibition on intervention during civil war) is to be more than an empty shell, it should be subject to a proportionality test.

Virtual Social Networks

2011 ◽  
pp. 213-225
Author(s):  
Sunanda Sangwan ◽  
Chong Guan ◽  
Judy A. Siguaw
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Mutual Learning ◽  
Share Information

Multi-user virtual communities have become an accepted fundamental component of communication whereby community members share information and knowledge for mutual learning or problem solving.Virtual communities in a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) have evolved into active social networks, formulating an alternative social existence and this phenomenon warrants further investigations. In these virtual social networks (VSNs), member participation is essential for their success. Therefore, developing knowledge on how to manage and sustain participation of members in VSNs fills a gap in our academic understanding of the dynamics underpinning the processes of virtual community development. This article aims to address these issues by extending the theory of sense of community into a virtual context (SOVC) and by integrating it with other communication theory of U&G.

Model of Tsunami Preparedness for Indonesian Tsunami Prone Areas Communities

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 957-965
Author(s):  
Any Nurhayaty ◽  
◽  
Supra Wimbarti ◽  
Radianta Triatmadja ◽  
Thomas D. Hastjarjo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Important Variable ◽  
Tsunami Disaster ◽  
The People ◽  
Collectivistic Culture ◽  
Individualistic Culture ◽  
Tsunami Preparedness ◽  
Banda Aceh

A tsunami disaster normally happens minutes to hours after an earthquake. Indonesia is prone to tsunamis that may be triggered by activity at plates’ boundaries surrounding the archipelago. In order to mitigate the risks and to prepare the people against the hazard a model that relates important variables influencing the degree of preparedness is required. Such model is not yet available for people with highly collectivistic culture such as Indonesia.The study is aimed primarily at establishing a new model of preparedness against tsunami based on an existing model by accommodating a sense of community variable which is missing in the existing model. The existing model was developed based on an individualistic culture of Kodiak Alaska. In Indonesia where the culture is highly collectivistic, such a variable may play important role in the tsunami preparedness model. The model was tested on Parangtritis and Banda Aceh communities of Indonesia. The results were compared with the existing model where the sense of community variable is absent. The inter-related dependence relationships of variables in the existing model are found to be largely similar to those in the proposed models of tsunami preparedness in Indonesia with two significant differences. First the sense of community is the most important variable that affects empowerment, whilst the influence of community participation on empowerment is much lower in Indonesia. Secondly the community participation has insignificant direct influence on the preparedness within the collectivistic community. Therefore it may be concluded that direct community development through preparedness education and information without considering the sense of community within the collectivistic community is not likely to give significant results to preparedness improvement.

scholarly journals Online forum discussion interactions as an indicator of student community

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shane Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Discussion Forum ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Student Community ◽  
Peer Discussion ◽  
Content System ◽  
The Relationship

<blockquote>Given the current diversity of communication tools at an educator's disposal, what role (if any) does the discussion forum play in the development of a strong sense of community among students? This study sought to investigate the relationship between discussion forum interaction and perceived student sense of community. The results of the study demonstrate that while mere quantity of discussion forum postings is not an indicator of community development, a significant relationship is observed when contributions are codified into the various discussion interaction types (learner - learner; learner - content; system). An implication emerging from these findings is the ability for the institution to implement evaluative measures to gauge levels of student sense of community in a just in time environment. As discussion interactions are automatically captured and reported, the data provides an indication of the degree of community developing among the student population at a specific snapshot in time. As multiple snapshots provide an ongoing indicator of community development, practitioners have the capacity to develop intervention activities designed to promote further peer to peer discussion and therefore, facilitate the development of a strong sense of community.</blockquote><p> </p>

scholarly journals Influence Analysis of Sustainability Perceptions on Sense of Community and Support for Sustainable Community Development in Relocated Communities

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (22) ◽  
pp. 12223
Author(s):  
Yi-Hsien Lin ◽  
Tsung-Hung Lee ◽  
Chiu-Kuang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
Sustainable Community Development ◽  
Sustainable Community

This study aims to examine a theoretical model using sustainability perceptions, including environmental; sociocultural; economic; and life satisfaction, sense of community, and support for sustainable community development among the indigenous people of two relocated communities in Taiwan. A total of 747 usable questionnaires were collected and analyzed using structural equation modeling. The analytical results indicated that sense of community is an antecedent of support for sustainable community development in both relocated communities. Life satisfaction perceptions can influence the sense of community in Rinari. Additionally, environmental and economic perceptions are antecedents of the sense of community in New Laiyi. Finally, this study provides theoretical implications to fill the gaps in previous research, and offers valuable insights for promoting residents’ support for sustainable community development in aboriginal communities; thus, this study has significant contributions, theoretically and practically.

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