scholarly journals Who Do You Think You Are?: Constructing and Representing Central Otago identity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jamie Bell
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
Frames Of Reference ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
History Museums ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Community Relationship

<p>As museums are increasingly looking to the local community for support and validation, so too are communities looking to the museum for affirmation of their identity. Theories of meaning making and work in the field of social inclusion have led the way in restructuring the museum into an institution that embraces its surrounding community for the mutual benefit of both sides. In attempting to represent community, museums are taking up these new theories as they build towards becoming ever more relevant institutions. This thesis explores the current literature and investigates its relevance to the museum/community relationship through a case study of the Central Otago community and its new Museum, Central Stories. The study explores the construction of identity within the community and the representation of that identity within the Museum. In order to investigate the construction of community identity in Central Otago, three discussion groups were conducted in September 2006, with each group made up of members of local community and business groups. The discussions within these groups were divided into two phases, the first of which centred on the construction of Central Otago identity and the second on the Museum's representation of Central Otago identity. In the analysis of these focus groups, common themes were identified surrounding the region's landscape, events, history, museums, and community. In the first phase, participants were particularly reliant on their 'frames of reference' (Perin, 1992) in constructing identity. In particular, the role of personal experience emerged as an important factor in constructing community identity. Comparing the first and second phases of the discussions reveals the complex interweaving of elements in the construction and representation of the community's identity. The findings of this study highlight the significance of the museum/community relationship in contemporary museology. The developing museological theories on meaning making, particularly those that address the importance of visitor frames of reference, are identified as playing a critical role in developing this relationship. While this study is focused on the Central Otago example, the findings have broader relevance to the field of museum studies through their insights into the dynamics involved in constructing and representing community identity, and the complex relationship between the museum and its community.</p>

scholarly journals Who Do You Think You Are?: Constructing and Representing Central Otago identity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jamie Bell
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
Frames Of Reference ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
History Museums ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Community Relationship

<p>As museums are increasingly looking to the local community for support and validation, so too are communities looking to the museum for affirmation of their identity. Theories of meaning making and work in the field of social inclusion have led the way in restructuring the museum into an institution that embraces its surrounding community for the mutual benefit of both sides. In attempting to represent community, museums are taking up these new theories as they build towards becoming ever more relevant institutions. This thesis explores the current literature and investigates its relevance to the museum/community relationship through a case study of the Central Otago community and its new Museum, Central Stories. The study explores the construction of identity within the community and the representation of that identity within the Museum. In order to investigate the construction of community identity in Central Otago, three discussion groups were conducted in September 2006, with each group made up of members of local community and business groups. The discussions within these groups were divided into two phases, the first of which centred on the construction of Central Otago identity and the second on the Museum's representation of Central Otago identity. In the analysis of these focus groups, common themes were identified surrounding the region's landscape, events, history, museums, and community. In the first phase, participants were particularly reliant on their 'frames of reference' (Perin, 1992) in constructing identity. In particular, the role of personal experience emerged as an important factor in constructing community identity. Comparing the first and second phases of the discussions reveals the complex interweaving of elements in the construction and representation of the community's identity. The findings of this study highlight the significance of the museum/community relationship in contemporary museology. The developing museological theories on meaning making, particularly those that address the importance of visitor frames of reference, are identified as playing a critical role in developing this relationship. While this study is focused on the Central Otago example, the findings have broader relevance to the field of museum studies through their insights into the dynamics involved in constructing and representing community identity, and the complex relationship between the museum and its community.</p>

Social Capital and Third Places Through the Internet

2011 ◽  
pp. 1904-1923
Author(s):  
Duncan Timms ◽  
Sara Ferlander
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Interpersonal Trust ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
Third Places ◽  
Third Place ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Ict Revolution

Although Sweden is generally considered to be at the forefront of the ICT revolution and to have high levels of social capital – interpersonal trust and participation – there remain areas and populations which are relatively disadvantaged. In this chapter we examine a number of efforts which have attempted to make use of ICT to enhance social capital in a Stockholm suburb which has been stigmatised in the press and which contains relatively high proportions of immigrants, single parents and the unemployed, all groups which are relatively excluded. An initial effort, based on the installation of a local community network, largely failed. A second effort, based on a locally-run Internet Café was more successful, with the café operating as a Third Place, both online and offline, bridging many of the divisions characterising the community. Despite its success in encouraging participation, trust and community identity, the IT-Café could not be sustained following the end of project funding and a change in personnel. The factors accompanying the success and failure of the Swedish undertakings provide lessons for other efforts to use ICTs in attempts to enhance social inclusion and community.

Social Capital and Third Places Through the Internet

2011 ◽  
pp. 199-217
Author(s):  
Duncan Timms ◽  
Sara Ferlander
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Interpersonal Trust ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
Third Places ◽  
Third Place ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Ict Revolution

Although Sweden is generally considered to be at the forefront of the ICT revolution and to have high levels of social capital – interpersonal trust and participation – there remain areas and populations which are relatively disadvantaged. In this chapter we examine a number of efforts which have attempted to make use of ICT to enhance social capital in a Stockholm suburb which has been stigmatised in the press and which contains relatively high proportions of immigrants, single parents and the unemployed, all groups which are relatively excluded. An initial effort, based on the installation of a local community network, largely failed. A second effort, based on a locally-run Internet Café was more successful, with the café operating as a Third Place, both online and offline, bridging many of the divisions characterising the community. Despite its success in encouraging participation, trust and community identity, the IT-Café could not be sustained following the end of project funding and a change in personnel. The factors accompanying the success and failure of the Swedish undertakings provide lessons for other efforts to use ICTs in attempts to enhance social inclusion and community.

Services and surveillance during the pandemic lockdown: Residents’ committees in Wuhan and Beijing

2021 ◽  
pp. 0920203X2110128
Author(s):  
Zhenjie Yang ◽  
Guilan Zhu ◽  
Linda Chelan Li ◽  
Yilong Sheng
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Critical Periods ◽  
Prevention Policy ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
National Capital ◽  
Prevention And Control Measures ◽  
And Control ◽  
Residents Committee

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a lockdown of Wuhan, and strict control was imposed in many major Chinese cities, including the national capital of Beijing. Residents’ committee workers at the grass-roots level have played a critical role in the enforcement of the government’s pandemic prevention and control measures, through their day-to-day service and surveillance as local community managers. This article examines their work in Wuhan and Beijing neighbourhoods during the most critical periods of the outbreak, from late January to June 2020, and the challenges the workers faced as executors of the government’s community-based prevention policy. The two cities have developed different community strategies because of very different epidemiological situations and city functions.

Who tells which story and why? Micro and macro contexts in narrative

2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna de Fina
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Local Meaning ◽  
The Many

AbstractThis article focuses on the inter-relations between storytelling and micro and macro contexts. It explores how narrative activity is shaped by and shapes in unique ways the local context of interaction in a community of practice, an Italian American card-playing club, but also illustrates how the storytelling events that take place within this local community relate to wider social processes. The analysis centers on a number of topically linked narratives to argue that these texts have a variety of functions linked to the roles and relationships negotiated by individuals within the club and to the construction of a collective identity for the community. However, the narrative activities that occur within the club also articulate aspects of the wider social context. It is argued that, in the case analyzed here, local meaning-making activities connect with macro social processes through the negotiation, within the constraints of local practices, of the position and roles of the ethnic group in the wider social space. In this sense, narrative activity can be seen as one of the many symbolic practices (Bourdieu 2002 [1977]) in which social groups engage to carry out struggles for legitimation and recognition in order to accumulate symbolic capital and greater social power.

scholarly journals Against Food Waste: CSR for the Social and Environmental Impact through a Network-Based Organizational Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Moggi ◽  
Sabrina Bonomi ◽  
Francesca Ricciardi
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Farmers Markets ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Organizational Relationships ◽  
Farmers Market

This article inductively develops a model of how farmers market organizations can contribute to reduce food waste, fight poverty, and improve public health through innovative Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices enabled by networked activity systems. To this aim, a ten-year longitudinal case study of one of the biggest Italian farmers markets has been conducted, based on triangulated data from participant observation, interviews, and internal documents collection. This study suggests that farmers market organizations are in the position to leverage their inter-organizational relationships, institutional role, and power to build collaborative networks with businesses, government bodies, and charities, so that concrete CSR-based virtuous circles on surplus food donation are triggered at the organizational field level. Answering the call from United Nation Goals for successful examples on SDG 12, this case presents how several CSR levers can have a social and environmental impact allowing farmers and their market organizations to increase their efficiency and accountability to the local community, improve processes, reduce food waste, and contribute to public health and social inclusion. CSR actions have co-evolved with significant changes in organizational logics and identity, thus enabling accountability to the local community and innovative network-level auditing of the relevant organizational processes.

scholarly journals School libraries, information gap and social inclusion in Papua New Guinea – Making it happen

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlene Filippi
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Local Community ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Information Gap ◽  
The Social ◽  
Teaching Learning

School libraries, just like the school community, do reflect the social environment in which they operate. This is the story of the emergence of one such library, within Papua New Guinea and its development through the assistance of AUSAID. It looks at an idea – Resource Based Learning - which has enabled the local community to take ownership of a resource centre which will now be able to provide a true teaching/learning environment for all of the community. It is more than a collection of books! It has the beginnings of a vibrant active resource for the whole community.

scholarly journals The Role of the Indonesian Muslim Community Identity in Strengthening Indonesia-Malaysia Relations

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 314-324
Author(s):  
Ali Maksum ◽  
Aris Fauzan ◽  
Sidiq Ahmadi
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Islamic Identity

This article departs from the reality that identity played a significant role in Indonesia-Malaysia brotherhood relations. In addition, Malaysia is home to many Indonesian diasporas, either to work or study. In fact, the Indonesian diaspora still maintains a connection with the motherland through communities amid of identity issues with the Malaysian local. For instance, the emergence of anti-Malaysian versus anti-migrant sentiments, the use of a controversial term called ‘Indon’ and ‘Malingsia’ in the middle of Muslim brotherhood identity. Therefore, using a qualitative approach supplemented with unstructured interviews, this study found that Islamic identity obviously contributed to the harmony of people to people relations between the two nations. Indeed, Islamic identity became a catalyst especially for many Indonesian workers to build close contact with the Muslim local community. These findings are important for sociology and international relations students and researchers.

Temporary urban landscapes and urban gardening: re-inventing open space in Greece and Switzerland

2019 ◽  
pp. 59-73
Author(s):  
Sofia Nikolaidou
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Urban Gardening ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Access Rights

New forms of urban gardening are gaining a momentum in cities transforming the conventional use and functions of open green and public space. They often take place through informal and temporary (re)use of vacant land consisting part of greening strategies or social inclusion policy through new modes of land use management, green space governance and collaborative practices. Particular emphasis is placed on shifted meanings of the notion of open public space by referring to its openness to a diversity of uses and users that claim it and relates to the questions of access rights, power relations among actors, negotiations and the so called right to use and re-appropriate land. By using examples drawn from the Greek and Swiss case, this chapter underlines differences and similarities in urban gardening practices, social and institutional contexts, collaborative governance patterns, motivations, levels of institutionalisation, openness and inclusiveness of space. More specifically it calls attention to the critical role of the temporary nature of these initiatives in relation to their multifunctional, spatial and socio-political aspects that affect new configurations of urban green areas and public space as well as related planning practices.

A ‘conspicuous success’? Policing Liverpool and Manchester in July 1981

2019 ◽  
pp. 150-176
Author(s):  
Simon Peplow
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Police Response ◽  
The Government ◽  
Police Vehicles ◽  
Riot Control ◽  
Community Relationship ◽  
Police Tactics

This chapter examines some key policing developments of the 1980–1 disorders, focussing upon Toxteth, Liverpool and Moss Side, Manchester through interviews and original local records. Reaction to previous disturbances strengthened police tactics and riot control equipment, with this transformation demonstrated by the first use of CS gas within mainland Britain and suggestions of arming the police or mobilising the army; radical black groups even alleged the police instigated the July disorders to justify enhanced equipment and ‘stronger’ police tactics. In Moss Side, during a contentious meeting between local community organisations and the police, apparent advances in the police/community relationship were alleged to have actually been a ploy to justify a forceful police response to disorder, employing tactics modelled upon Northern Ireland examples – including using police vehicles to disperse crowds, and ‘snatch squads’ targeting influential participants. Authorities again framed disturbances around law and order, rather than addressing broader issues of racism, discrimination, or their economic and social policies; Manchester Chief Constable James Anderton’s actions were described by the government as a ‘conspicuous success’, but did little to improve poor police/black relations at the heart of spreading disturbances.

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