The Return of Folklore to the Local Community and the 80’s Resistance Culture - An Ethnographic Study of the ‘Jangpacheon Culture Festival’ on Yeongyang-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do -

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 193-234
Author(s):  
Jin-Gyo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Ethnographic Study

scholarly journals Client or Volunteer? Understanding Neoliberalism and Neocolonialism Within International Volunteer Health Work

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 233339361879295
Author(s):  
Oona St-Amant ◽  
Catherine Ward-Griffin ◽  
Helene Berman ◽  
Arja Vainio-Mattila
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Health Work ◽  
Social Organizations ◽  
The Social ◽  
International Volunteer

As international volunteer health work increases globally, research pertaining to the social organizations that coordinate the volunteer experience in the Global South has severely lagged. The purpose of this ethnographic study was to critically examine the social organizations within Canadian NGOs in the provision of health work in Tanzania. Multiple, concurrent data collection methods, including text analysis, participant observation and in-depth interviews were utilized. Data collection occurred in Tanzania and Canada. Neoliberalism and neocolonialism were pervasive in international volunteer health work. In this study, the social relations—“volunteer as client,” “experience as commodity,” and “free market evaluation”—coordinated the volunteer experience, whereby the volunteers became “the client” over the local community and resulting in an asymmetrical relationship. These findings illuminate the need to generate additional awareness and response related to social inequities embedded in international volunteer health work.

scholarly journals Mediatization, Spatial Coherence and Social Sustainability: The Role of Digital Media Networks in a Swedish Countryside Community

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Jansson
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Spatial Coherence ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Communicative Patterns ◽  
The Individual

What does the implementation of new communication networks mean for the spatial coherence and social sustainability of rural communities? This paper takes its key from Wittel’s discussion of network sociality, understood as the opposite of Gemeinschaft. Wittel’s argument may inform our understanding of how communicative patterns in rural communities are partly reembedded through ongoing media transitions. But it must also be problematized. Relating Wittel’s discussion to Halfacree’s model of spatial coherence and Urry’s notion of network capital, as well as to findings from an ethnographic study in a Swedish countryside community, a more complex view is presented. It is argued that global communication networks under rural conditions contribute to the integration and sustainability of the community, as much as to processes of expansion and differentiation. The results show that network sociality and community constitute interdependent concepts. Through their capacity of linking people to external realms of interest, while simultaneously reinforcing their sense of belonging in the local community, online media promote ontological security at the individual level, thus operating as a social stabilizer.

Being Uprooted and Re-planted

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anjali Shanmugam
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Identity Conflict ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
International Adoptees ◽  
Transracial Adoptees ◽  
Canadian Culture ◽  
Experience Of Inclusion ◽  
Compare And Contrast

The ethnographic study focuses on the experience of inclusion and exclusion for young transnational women who were adopted from India, by Indian-Canadian immigrant parents. The study examines the process of international adoption, and the emerging themes of belonging, identity and connectedness in Canada. The feelings of inclusion and exclusion will be analyzed through the lens of the self and relationships with family, friends and the local community. The paper will unpack the meaning of identity and belonging through reflecting on the experiences and memories of growing up in a single parent Indian family as an international adoptee from India. The focus of the paper will further contrast theories of scholars (Manzi, Ferrari, Rosnati, and Benet-Martinez, 2014) who have introduced concepts of multiple identities, and belonging. These scholars have applied these concepts to transracial adoptees, who have been adopted by families of a different race and/or ethnic background. By interviewing other international adoptees and analyzing their experiences, this paper will establish the similarities international adoptees encounter, and the challenges adoptees face in families of the same origin when they deal with integration into Canadian culture. Through a compare and contrast I will examine these factors in relation to my identity and its development. In conclusion, I have used my experiences and recent travel back to India to address the feelings of inclusion and exclusion. This has resulted in a cultural identity conflict between the country of origin and my adopted country. Therefore, I find myself neither included nor excluded, but rather I am placed in the center of both cultural identities.

scholarly journals Dominasi Medis Modern Atas Medis Tradisional Suku Sumuri, Teluk Bintuni, Papua Barat

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 174
Author(s):  
Atik Triratnawati
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Health Centers ◽  
Infant Mortality Rate ◽  
Community Leader

Declaration 1990-2015 MDG's 4 and 5 points in Indonesia fail due to a decrease in maternal and infant mortality rate is not reached until three quarters. Sumuri District, in West Papua is one of the area that maternal and infant mortality rates high, althought free health care for its residents. This paper wants to explore how the interaction between modern medicine and local medicine so the dominant health care in the community will be identified. Ethnographic study by living together with the local community to make the observation of the patient's health centers, community leader interviews, adult population, health workers and mini Focus Group Discussion among 4 mothers who has under 5 years old children conducted in June 2014. Government, oil and gas companies are aggressively introducing modern medical to the residents of SumuriDistrict, as a result communities have high interest to visit the health center for treatment and natural healing tends to disappear. New health institutions such as health centers, integrated health, midwives, nurses, physicians are able to shift the role of traditional birth attendants, traditional healer or traditional medicine. As a result of social relations within the extended family was replaced by a stronger role of midwives, nurses and doctors. However, the older generation tends to be more suitable with traditional healing compare to modern medicine.

scholarly journals From paper to practice? Assembling a rights-based conservation approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1128-1147
Author(s):  
Catherine Corson ◽  
Julia Worcester ◽  
Sabine Rogers ◽  
Isabel Flores-Ganley
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
Conservation Governance ◽  
Conservation Politics ◽  
Principles And Standards

Drawing on a collaborative ethnographic study of the 2016 International Union for the Conservation of Nature World Conservation Congress (WCC), we analyze how Indigenous peoples and local community (IPLC) rights advocates have used a rights-based approach (RBA) to advance long-standing struggles to secure local communities' land and resource rights and advance governing authority in biodiversity conservation. The RBA has allowed IPLC advocates to draw legitimacy from the United Nations system—from its declarations to its special rapporteurs—and to build transnational strategic alliances in ways they could not with participatory discourses. Using it, they have brought attention to biodiversity as a basic human right and to the struggle to use, access, and own it as a human rights struggle. In this article, we show how the 2016 WCC provided a platform for building and reinforcing these alliances, advancing diverse procedural and substantive rights, redefining key principles and standards for a rights-based conservation approach, and leveraging international support for enforcement mechanisms on-the-ground. We argue that, as advocates staked out physical and discursive space at the venue, they secured the authority to shape conservation politics, shifting the terrain of struggle between strict conservationists and community activists and creating new conditions of possibility for advancing the human rights agenda in international conservation politics. Nonetheless, while RBAs have been politically successful at reconfiguring global discourse, numerous obstacles remain in translating that progress to secure human rights to resources "on the ground", and it is vital that the international conservation community finance the implementation of RBA in specific locales, demand that nation states create monitoring and grievance systems, and decolonize the ways in which they interact with IPLCs. Finally, we reflect on the value of the Collaborative Event Ethnography methodology, with its emphasis on capturing the mundane, meaningful and processual aspects of policymaking, in illuminating the on-going labor entailed in bringing together and aligning the disparate elements in dynamic assemblages.Keywords: Human rights, global conservation governance, collaborative event ethnography, Indigenous peoples 

scholarly journals The End of a Custom: A Social Necessity or a Lust for “Modernisation”? The Case of Sergiani in Megala Kalyvia (Trikala, Greece)

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Dimopoulos ◽  
Vasiliki Tyrovola ◽  
Maria Koutsouba
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractThe custom as an act inherently includes the concept of compulsory repetition and expresses the community as a whole. Through custom and ritual, every local or wider community discovers its own identity, but also the ritual is the vehicle through which the inhabitants of the local community give shape to that identity and are influenced by it . The custom of sergiani was a cultural act performed by the inhabitants of the Megala Kalyvia municipality, as the latter forms part of the wider Karagkounides group. The aim of this paper is to shed light on the custom of sergiani performed in Megala Kalyvia (Trikala, Greece), as well as to emphasise on the reasons why the custom stopped being performed. The collection and processing of data is based on the principles of ethnographic study. The new socioeconomic, historical and cultural facts that prevailed let to the discontinuance of the custom and the accompanying dances, as it occurred with other cultural and dance practices, and it was sealed by the historical structure a dependent - in a broader sense - local social and cultural identity. The president of the municipality, as an expression of the occidental perception with foreign cultural influences contrary to the perceptions of its inhabitants, contributed, with his actions, to the alienation of the local cultural identity.

scholarly journals Young Women's Reproductive Health (Ethnographic Study Oon Young Women's Knowledge and Behavior Related to Reproductive Health In Bantan Village Slums Medan Tembung)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Febri Siahaan ◽  
Aida Fitria Harahap
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Reproductive Organs ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Public ◽  
Reproductive Health Education ◽  
And Behavior

This study discusses how the knowledge and behavior of young women in slums are related to reproductive health. The purpose of this study is to describe the knowledge and behavior of young women in slums. Whether the influence of slum environments with adolescent social behavior, how parents play in providing reproductive health education to their daughters, and how the rules exist in society limit young women's sexual behavior. The research method used in i research is a qualitative approach. The data collection techniques used are interviews and observations to the public. The result of the study is that reproductive health is understood as a matter of how to maintain the cleanliness of reproductive organs to avoid disease. The scope of the conversation also concerns sexual intercourse conducted by men and women. Parents usually provide knowledge of this only in the form of straightforward advice. Meanwhile, the local community also imposes moral sanctions in the form of censure, innuendo for deviant young women.

The (un)celebrated asylum centre: How Danish media hijacked an ethnographic fieldwork and altered local realities

Ethnography ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146613812110385
Author(s):  
Birgitte Romme Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
After School ◽  
Daycare Centre ◽  
Public Media ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
National Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
School Club

Denmark’s oldest asylum centre has been in operation in the small town of Jelling since 1993. Here, over time, the institutions of the local community and the asylum centre have merged, spatially and socially. Today, a local daycare centre and the local after-school club operate on the premises of the asylum centre. Based on an ethnographic study of the everyday institutional neighbourliness between ‘asylum centre’ and ‘local community’ in this small Danish town, this tale from the field pertains to the overwhelming national media attention that hit the research case halfway through its term – and unpacks how public media collaboration came to alter the very local state of affairs that I was in the middle of studying. It is argued how, more than simply dissemination partners or collaborators, ‘the media’ instead turned into actual co-creators of the ethnographic field – and so of the concrete empirical findings and analyses.

scholarly journals Re-envisioning the local: spatiality, land and law in Botswana

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Specific Site ◽  
The Past ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Future

AbstractBased on an ethnographic study located in Botswana, I move beyond conceptions of the local as physically or territorially grounded to one that examines how it is constituted through links between persons and land derived from life histories extended over several generations. This not only takes account of a specific site in which social relations are bounded and locally constituted but also of how perceptions of locality are discursively and historically constructed. Viewing land as both a tangible and intangible universe constructed through social relationships, I highlight ways in which individuals, as part of a ‘local’ community, find their life courses shaped by wider transnational and global processes, including law, that have an impact on their everyday lives. For some, this provides opportunities for upward mobility and future gains, while others find scope for action severely curtailed. In documenting these uneven, diverse effects of globalisation, what emerges are processes of ‘internalisation’ and ‘relocalisation’ of global conditions, allowing for the emergence of new identities, alliances and struggles for space and power within specific populations. Thus what exists in the here and now as a form of temporality is constantly remade, drawing on the past while fashioning new prospects for the future.

scholarly journals KOMUNIKASI RITUAL PEZIARAH “NGALAP BERKAH” DI KAWASAN WISATA GUNUNG KEMUKUS (Studi Etnografi Komunikasi Tentang Budaya Ritual Ziarah di Kawasan Wisata Gunung Kemukus, Desa Pendem, Kecamatan Sumber Lawang, Sragen-Jawa Tengah)

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahmi Setiawati ◽  
Priyanto Priyanto
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Behavior Patterns ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Local Economies ◽  
Central Java

AbstractThis article is explain of ritual commucation pilgrim "ngalap berkah" in the Kemukus mountain, ethnographic study of communication about cultural tourism zone ritual pilgrimage in Mount Kemukus, Pendem Village, District Sumber Lawang, Sragen, Central Java. The results showed that for the local community a message of what is hidden behind this ritual is still ambiguity. But in the process of social interaction between indigenous communities with immigrant communities, both in terms of livelihoods, different behavior patterns, causing local people trying to accept changes to the meaning of "ngalap berkah". It is caused when the pilgrimage locations have changed or constructed for tourist commodification, and is thought to enhance the growth of local economies, which have an impact on improving social and economic conditions of the communities in Pendem.Keywords: ritual communication, ethnographic communications, ritual pilgrimage ngalap berkah, kemukus mountain

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