scholarly journals Vietnam and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC): Prospects, Challenges and Opportunities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Hoa Thi Hai Vu
Keyword(s):  
Community Building ◽  
National Level ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Cultural Community ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
The Way

<p>Although there is a large literature on ASEAN regionalism, comparatively little attention has been devoted to Southeast Asia’s efforts to build a shared social and cultural community. This thesis examines how the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) is understood in ASEAN and explores challenges that stand in the way of the Community being realized by its 2015 deadline. The study reviews the origins and response to the ASCC at both the regional level, and at the national level through a case-study of Vietnam’s participation. It argues that although the ASCC is an important component of the ASEAN Community building process and member states have proclaimed their determination to realize the ASCC by 2015, the reality in ASEAN with its “unity in diversity” and “ASEAN Way” norms, means there are many obstacles in the way. Divergent national interests and priorities have led to different priorities in designing and implementing the ASCC Blueprint in the period 2009-2015. The thesis concludes by speculating about the likely scenario for ASCC implementation. It argues that in 2015, the most likely scenario for the ASCC is one in which a nascent ASCC will be formed but with only some of its components in place. ASEAN needs a longer journey to realize its aspiration of a shared socio-culture community.</p>

scholarly journals Vietnam and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC): Prospects, Challenges and Opportunities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Hoa Thi Hai Vu
Keyword(s):  
Community Building ◽  
National Level ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Cultural Community ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
The Way

<p>Although there is a large literature on ASEAN regionalism, comparatively little attention has been devoted to Southeast Asia’s efforts to build a shared social and cultural community. This thesis examines how the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) is understood in ASEAN and explores challenges that stand in the way of the Community being realized by its 2015 deadline. The study reviews the origins and response to the ASCC at both the regional level, and at the national level through a case-study of Vietnam’s participation. It argues that although the ASCC is an important component of the ASEAN Community building process and member states have proclaimed their determination to realize the ASCC by 2015, the reality in ASEAN with its “unity in diversity” and “ASEAN Way” norms, means there are many obstacles in the way. Divergent national interests and priorities have led to different priorities in designing and implementing the ASCC Blueprint in the period 2009-2015. The thesis concludes by speculating about the likely scenario for ASCC implementation. It argues that in 2015, the most likely scenario for the ASCC is one in which a nascent ASCC will be formed but with only some of its components in place. ASEAN needs a longer journey to realize its aspiration of a shared socio-culture community.</p>

scholarly journals The Prism of Change

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Bruun
Keyword(s):  
Linear Model ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Institutional Values ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Way

Abstract This article presents and discusses the communicative behaviour in the continuity texts produced by public service television providers in Denmark in the digital era. Based on a case study of the two main channels, DR and TV 2, the article argues that, after previous trends towards convergence in the way the two providers communicate, the present developments exhibit a divergence. Three major differences are found in the efforts to (1) hold on to and ‘herd’ the viewers within the scope of products and platforms, (2) strengthen the provider–viewer relationship, and (3) stand out with a distinctive set of institutional values. The findings are interpreted as a consequence of the challenges and opportunities facing the providers in terms of funding and in terms of meeting public service obligations, in a situation of tension between a traditional linear model of broadcasting and an emerging non-linear model.

Violent Conflicts and Neutral Legations: A Case Study of the Spanish and Swiss Legations in Wartime Japan

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Lottaz
Keyword(s):  
Regular Representation ◽  
National Interests ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
International Environment ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Violent Conflicts ◽  
The Way ◽  
At Home

AbstractThis article explores the way in which the Spanish and the Swiss legations in Japan acted and reacted to violent change in the international environment. By looking at the period of Japanese wartime aggression in Asia and the Pacific from 1931–1945, it analyzes key moments for both diplomatic missions, when changes abroad or at home led their respective diplomats to take a stance beyond the regular representation of national interests. The article argues that violent conflicts impacted the diplomatic behavior of the legations in Japan heavily. They were shaped by new policies in reaction to the violence, while sometimes also engaging in shaping such policies themselves.

From "Danwei" Society to New Community Building: Opportunities and Challenges for Citizen Participation in Chinese Cities

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaifeng Yang
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
The Future ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
New Community

This paper discusses the Chiese government's current efforts to build moder communities in its major cities. Background information is provided about the evolution of community building in Chinese cities since the Red Revolution. Based on a case study from Beijing, this paper addresses the challenges and opportunities the moverment brings to improve citizen participation and democratization in Chinese cities, as well as the future of the moverment and some other theoretical concerns.

scholarly journals Education as a Tool of Change Among Gujjars: A Case Study Pulwama

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Syed Damsaz Ali Andrabi
Keyword(s):  
Normal Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Social Evil ◽  
The Social ◽  
Standard Rate ◽  
Condition Of Women ◽  
The Way

Illiteracy is the social evil and can be removed through the appropriate system of education. Gujjars of district Pulwama are in social delima because they are lagging behind in the field of peace and prosperity. Their orthodoxy is the main hurdle in the way of progress. The community is lacking the trained working force. In the district they are among the backwards and same can be realized and marked because of their poor performance in the field of education. Because of lack advancements, their health conditions are very poor in comparison to national level. The standard rate of literary is below the normal level in both the sexes. The condition of women is very miserable. Proper change among them can be brought through proper intervention and mediation of religious preachers.

scholarly journals A unidade na diversidade em Paulo Freire: avanços para a transformação educacional

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Fabiana Marini Braga ◽  
Roseli Rodrigues de Mello ◽  
Denise Bachega
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Democratic Education ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Paulo Freire ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
The Way

In this article, we relate the concept of unity in diversity, developed by Paulo Freire, to educational actions that promote both academic achievement and improvement in social coexistence in diversity. Initially, we present key concepts elaborated by the author in different publications and we emphasize its relevance. Subsequently, we highlight the concept of unity in diversity and how it underpins Successful Educational Actions (SEA) for Youth and Adult Education, based on the results of a qualitative case study, developed between 2014 and 2016. Finally, we highlight the way that the theory and the comprehension that Paulo Freire offers us remains alive and current, mainly by demonstrating the history that has been built by men and women in favor of humanization and democratic education.

Old Paukku Re-Built and Re-Spoken - Discursive Formation of Cultural Heritage

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 66-75
Author(s):  
Helena Teräväinen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
National Level ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Planning Decision ◽  
In The Beginning

The concept of culture is defined in several ways in different contexts. In the case study of Old Paukku (1993-2003) the actors were using the word “culture” in their argumentation in several ways. The discourses were varying and developing during the planning, decision-making and re-building process. The word “culture” may not be “swear word like in old times” - this was how a local politician told me in the interview - but still it's not a blessing either. Anyway “the cultural heritage (of the built environment)” seems to arouse same suspicions nowadays as “the culture” earlier. The local authorities (i.e. the town municipalities as actor in the culoture life) and the industry (i.e. the organisation of local entrepreneurs as actor) seemed at first to be heading towards different courses in the planning and developing project of the old factory area. In the beginning of the research period many different discourses of cultural policy (DCP) and town planning strategies (TPS) prevailed. There were a lot of talk about the image in the economics and cultural heritage sites on the national level. In this paper I shall clarify how the process and the discourses during the process were changing and how Old Paukku (the old factory) was developed into “a cultural heritage site” in these discourses. The word discourse' is explicated here in the Foucaldian meaning and it is condequently including the ‘power’.

scholarly journals Formulating New Policy for the Creative Economy in Slovakia

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Emile M. Roest ◽  
Alena Dudekova
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
National Level ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Creative Industry ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness

AbstractThe purpose of the research is to understand formulation of policy for creative industries, and in particular the importance of quantitative and qualitative data or information for formulation of the first policies for creative industries at national and regional level. The goal of the research is to assess whether it is possible to draft useful policy for the creative industry without having specific quantitative data at its disposal, which is often the case when such policy is being newly developed. The methodology used is a brief literature review, and a case study. The case study regards policy development for the architectural sector in the East-Slovak region of Košice, which was executed by the authors in the context of the assignment to draft a strategy for development of the creative economy of the Košice region. Statistical data presented in this research were generated in the context of that assignment.The authors found that in the case of Slovakia and the region of Košice, the availability of data on the creative industries as a new policy area is very limited. Both at national level and at regional level, qualitative data and information are most useful for formulating policy. This is possible among others because qualitative needs’ assessment is feasible; international literature and best practices provide a guideline for formulating policy; and because general policies can address specific requirements through demand driven projects. The implication of the research is that specific quantitative data on the creative industries does not need to be considered a conditio sine qua non for drafting and implementing policy for the creative industries. Quantitative data will be necessary for evaluating outputs and impact of policy, in terms of efficiency and effectiveness of public spending. The choice of indicators, and collecting, processing and interpreting of quantitative data shall be an integral part of the policy to be implemented.

scholarly journals Cardboard as a construction material for temporary architecture: a case study

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-25
Author(s):  
Agata Jasiołek
Keyword(s):  
Building Material ◽  
Construction Material ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Building Process ◽  
The Future ◽  
Corrugated Cardboard ◽  
The Way

The topic of this article is cardboard as a construction material for temporary architecture: a case study of the Zbigniew Herbert Exhibition Pavilion. The Pavilion was designed and built by a group of 18 students at the course ProtoLAB at the Faculty of Architecture at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in July 2018. The project focused on constructing Pavilion components out of paper tubes and corrugated cardboard, which have been proven to be a promising building material. Wood-based materials also were used to strengthen the construction. The design of the Pavilion aimed to use the geometry of the components to minimize the amount of metal used to connect elements. The article focuses on the problems of paper’s strength, stability, connections, impregnation, and the way they have been solved during the building process. It also discusses the topic of the possibility of using the unimpregnated cardboard in outdoor constructions. The structure was then evaluated after 5 months of being used and exposed to diverse weather conditions. Damages in the Pavilion elements are mentioned in the paper and the probable reasons why they have appeared are explained. Conclusions from this article may be useful when designing similar objects in the future.

scholarly journals Integrating Practical and Epistemic Actors: Co-Constructing a Knowledge Organization System to Address Housing Insecurity in West Philadelphia

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Samantha Stein ◽  
Diana Susan Nicholas ◽  
Yvonne Michael ◽  
Thanh My Nguyen ◽  
Kristen Giordano
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems ◽  
Knowledge Organization System ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
The Way

In response to colonial legacies of divisiveness and paternalism underpinning the development of knowledge organization systems (KOS) and thus impeding their appeal, accessibility, and usefulness to diverse stakeholders (Castleden, Morgan, and Lamb, 2012), this case study explores the challenges and opportunities inherent to the design of a malleable, sustainable KOS as part of an mHealth tool called Map the Gap. Map the Gap intends to reduce the burden of housing insecurity in West Philadelphia. By examining the active cultivation of communal ties between the “epistemic” and “practical” actors (Callon, 4, 2004) who substantiate Map the Gap, as well as the sociotechnical infrastructure which shapes and is shaped by such ties, the processes of collaboration underpinning functionality decisions are delineated. This paper reflects on the way KOS sociotechnical structures defy and challenge traditional academic and community models of research and development, thus requiring a unique, temporally-conscious embracement of select and dynamic collaborations. By elucidating and evaluating the considerations and practices central to Map the Gap, we seek to yield a template for cultivating healthy KOS sociotechnical structures.

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