Thailand’s “77th Province”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Padoongpatt
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Global City ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Slave Labor ◽  
Culinary Tourism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Development Center

Chapter 5 explores "Thai Town" in East Hollywood (established in 1999) to highlight the role of culinary tourism in Thai American struggles for a right to the global city. It charts the history of Thai Town's development as a product of Thai community leaders, specifically the Thai Community Development Center, and Los Angeles city officials’ attempt to parlay Thai cuisine's popularity into political visibility, civic engagement, social justice activism, and urban redevelopment. While playing on cuisine-driven multiculturalism allowed Thais to use food, specifically culinary tourism, to root identity and community in a physical place, the chapter argues that heritage commodification in Thai Town also constricted a right to the global city, because it was geared toward a neoliberal vision of multiculturalism that sought to highlight the position of Los Angeles in the global capitalist economy. The chapter also includes a discussion of the 1995 El Monte slave-labor case.

From Arroyo Culture to NELA Arts

2019 ◽  
pp. 92-123
Author(s):  
Jan Lin
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Arts And Crafts Movement ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Art Scene ◽  
Art Collectives

Examines arts culture in the Arroyo Seco from the Arts and Crafts movement colony of the “Arroyo Culture” to the contemporary NELA art scene. It chronicles the major figures of this bohemia which waned with the decline of the region during decades of suburban outmovement and white flight. The significance of art collectives in the revival of the Northeast Los Angeles art scene is discussed, with Chicano(a)/Latino(a) art collectives emerging in the 1970s and white artists through the Arroyo Arts Collective in the 1980s. The central figures and themes of the Latino/a arts renaissance are explored in depth. The contributions of the arts to community development and cultural revitalization are identified. Finally the growing role of arts entrepreneurs in economic development is discussed, with reflections from arts leaders on the gentrification process and their growing role in local politics and cultural policy

The Development of the Underclass

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marne L. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Local Media ◽  
History Of ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The Impact ◽  
History Of Race

Chapter 4, “The Development of the Underclass,” contextualizes the history of race in Los Angeles within the history of the American West (1870 – 1900). It explores how local white Angelenos combated notions of criminality and attempted to portray Los Angeles as atypical compared to other western American centers, hoping to pin its social ills on the small racialized communities (black Latino/a, and Chinese) that they were actively trying to segregate and minimize. It also explores California’s legal history, and examines the impact of federal, state, and local legislation on the communities of racialized minorities, particularly African American, Native American, and Chinese people. This chapter also examines the role of the local media in shaping mainstream attitudes towards local people of color.

Historical Evolution of Adult Education in America

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Terry Liddell
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Community Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Adult Education

This chapter focuses on the history of adult education in the United States, but the implication is that the formation of the field is dependent upon the social, economic, and political needs, resources, and priorities of a given time and place. This is true anywhere in the world as was demonstrated in modern history such as the role of adult education in the post- World War II reconstruction in Europe and Japan, or more recently, in Southern Africa with the dramatic changes after the fall of apartheid (officially in South Africa and symbolically in other countries). For example, in the past ten years, universities in Southern African countries have consolidated Departments of Adult Education with Departments of Community Development in recognition of the symbiotic and reciprocal relationship between the two fields of study during this time of reconstruction of inclusive participatory democracy. The role of various institutions and the influence on the direction and resources for adult education are explored. The role of change and acculturation is also visited.

The Development of Japanese as a Heritage Language in the Los Angeles Conurbation

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 336-356
Author(s):  
Masako O. Douglas ◽  
Hiroko C. Kataoka ◽  
Kiyomi Chinen
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Capacity Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of

This paper examines the current status of Japanese as a heritage language (JHL) in the Los Angeles conurbation, applying the Capacity-Opportunity-Desire (COD) framework. After briefly describing the Japanese-American community and the history of JHL education in the United States with a focus on the Los Angeles conurbation, we review research to date on JHL capacity development in JHL schools and the role of the family in JHL development. We then present the results of two studies and analyze factors that contribute to JHL development,reflecting on COD principles. We conclude by presenting suggestions for future research on JHL based on this framework.

Water Infrastructure and Practical Knowledge in Progressive-Era Los Angeles

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-419
Author(s):  
Jan Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Municipal Health

This article proposes that a history-of-knowledge approach offers innovative ways to study the use of domestic infrastructure in the household. More specifically, the article investigates the role of knowledge about water fixtures, such as meters, taps, and toilets, in the history of progressive-era Los Angeles. Building on the rich literature about how Los Angeles obtained its water, this article shifts the focus to the relationship that everyday consumers had with their water and how technology mediated this relationship. While the article analyzes three major fields of knowledge about the use of infrastructure (knowledge about personal and public hygiene, about the maintenance and repair of fittings, and about responsible levels of water consumption), it foregrounds users’ agency in construing bodies of knowledge. Taken together, this article argues, first, that practical knowledge about water as a modern convenience was mutually developed by the utility’s publicity department, meter men, municipal health authorities, elected officials, newspaper editors, middle-class reformers, property owners, working-class immigrants, and female householders. Second, the article emphasizes the dynamics, contingency, and locality of this knowledge, which was linked to the stunning growth of Los Angeles between 1880 and 1930.

Policing by Numbers

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-36
Author(s):  
Sarah Brayne
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Data Use ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Predictive Algorithms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Evidence Based Policing

This chapter traces the history of quantification in policing, from pin maps to predictive algorithms. It examines the surveillance landscape, starting with the “scientific turn” in policing in the early 20th century, then moving to the rise of evidence-based policing, the Information Sharing Environment (ISE) that emerged after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and then predictive algorithms and big data analytics put to work in modern policing. Historically, the police collected most of the information they use in the course of their daily operations themselves. However, the chapter highlights the growing role of the private sector—for data collection and the provision of analytic platforms—in policing. Both the past and present of policing are highly racialized, so it also describes how data is positioned as an antidote to racism and bias in policing. The chapter concludes with an overview of data use and technologies at work in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).

“More Than a Place of Worship”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Padoongpatt
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Global City ◽  
Buddhist Temple ◽  
History Of ◽  
San Fernando ◽  
Liberal Multiculturalism ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Community Space ◽  
Race And Place

This chapter examines food festivals at the Wat Thai of Los Angeles, the first and largest Thai Buddhist temple in the nation, which was established in 1979, as a window on the relationship between food, race, and place in the suburbs during the 1980s. It charts Thai American suburbanization in the East San Fernando Valley near Wat Thai and traces the history of the temple, including how it evolved into a community space that became popular for its weekend food festivals. The festivals, which attracted thousands of visitors, fostered a public-oriented Thai American suburban culture that was a claim for a "right to the global city." The festivals, however, sparked complaints from a group of nearby residents, who used zoning laws to try to shut them down. The chapter contends that the residents who opposed the festivals articulated a liberal multiculturalism to maintain the white spatial imaginary of the neighborhood.

Masyarakat Mantap

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
Siti Maryam Qurotul Aini ◽  
Sukandar Sukandar ◽  
Hafidul Umami
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
The Body ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Education ◽  
Asset Based Community Development ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
And Function ◽  
Role And Function

The role and function of the mosque in rural Takmir often still dwell on the management and service, has not touched on the empowerment efforts of pilgrims. Takmir Mosque has the opportunity to develop community based education. In this case the role of the college in the mentoring of the mosque Takmir indispensable. This mentoring uses an ABCD (asset based community Development) approach conducted in Jatipunggur Lengkong Nganjuk village. The result of mentoring managed to realize community based education in the form of empowering the mosque Takmir to build worshippers in terms of the care of the body and to overcome femininity problems. This achievement can be achieved because the process of mentoring from the stage of social analysis, planning, implementation and evaluation is done with all the mosque stakeholders. Takmir Mosque managed to get mentoring to organize community based education by involving administrators, village apparatus and religious and community leaders.

Historical Evolution of Adult Education in America

2013 ◽  
pp. 257-271
Author(s):  
Terry Liddell
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Community Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Adult Education

This chapter focuses on the history of adult education in the United States, but the implication is that the formation of the field is dependent upon the social, economic, and political needs, resources, and priorities of a given time and place. This is true anywhere in the world as was demonstrated in modern history such as the role of adult education in the post- World War II reconstruction in Europe and Japan, or more recently, in Southern Africa with the dramatic changes after the fall of apartheid (officially in South Africa and symbolically in other countries). For example, in the past ten years, universities in Southern African countries have consolidated Departments of Adult Education with Departments of Community Development in recognition of the symbiotic and reciprocal relationship between the two fields of study during this time of reconstruction of inclusive participatory democracy. The role of various institutions and the influence on the direction and resources for adult education are explored. The role of change and acculturation is also visited.

Clinical Pharmacist’s Role in an Alcohol Detox Unit in a Correctional Setting

2019 ◽  
pp. 089719001988807
Author(s):  
Ibrahim K. Muradian ◽  
Arastou Aminzadeh ◽  
Cindy H. Lin ◽  
Ngocdung T. Tran ◽  
Nguyen N. Do ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Medication History ◽  
Correctional Setting ◽  
Severe Withdrawal ◽  
History Of

Introduction: Newly incarcerated inmates with chronic alcohol use are at high risk for alcohol withdrawal. This descriptive study aims to describe the role of a clinical pharmacist within an alcohol detoxification unit (ADU) in the Los Angeles County jail that serves nearly 18 000 inmates facility-wide daily. Methods: This descriptive analysis was conducted from August 2, 2018 through October 31, 2018 within the jail ADU. The pharmacist attended daily assessments on all alcohol detox patients; identified and assessed patients at high risk of severe withdrawal; and initiated, modified, and discontinued withdrawal medication for selected patients. Patients were determined to be high risk of severe withdrawal if they had history of severe withdrawal, any Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol-revised (CIWA-Ar) score ≥15, or polysubstance withdrawal. Results: A total of 1263 patients were admitted to the ADU during the study (average 97 per week). A total of 282 patients were assessed by the pharmacist. Patient assessments included substance use and medication history, CIWA-Ar score, response to pharmacotherapy, and referral to a substance use counselor. Medications were initiated, modified, or discontinued in 148 patients after discussion with a physician. Transfer to an acute care facility occurred in 48 patients. Zero alcohol detox patient deaths occurred during the study. Conclusion: This is a novel role of a pharmacist in a correctional setting. A pharmacist can aid in an ADU by identifying and assessing patients at high risk of severe withdrawal and managing pharmacotherapy. Future studies can examine pharmacist withdrawal management of additional substances.

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