The Study Village and Its Socioeconomic Organization

2019 ◽  
pp. 53-69
Author(s):  
Aminur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Study Village ◽  
Socioeconomic Organization

scholarly journals A measure of vulnerability

2002 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. van Dillen
Keyword(s):  
Social Contexts ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Spatial Processes ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Study Village ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Extensive Field ◽  
Indian Village ◽  
Activity Areas ◽  
Important Activity

Abstract. The article, based on an extensive field study carried out from 1995–1998 in a South Indian village, is concerned with the question of how vulnerable people can be identified and targeted. By focusing on the most important activity areas in the study village, i.e. on what people actually do, it is possible to see how social and spatial processes are tied up with each other. In the light of the fieldwork, a quantitative index of vulnerability is proposed. The purpose of this index is to measure the vulnerability of households in this particular setting, or at least to rank them according to their vulnerability. In keeping with the conceptual approach the index is not based on observed outcomes in the forms of incomes realised during the study period. Rather, by taking a close look at how such outcomes were achieved, it seeks to identify the core determinants of vulnerability which lay hidden in the complex social and spatial processes of everyday life in the study village. Under clearly defined conditions such indices may be helpful in targeting vulnerable groups. They are problematic with regard to both concept and method, however, in particular when applied in larger spatial and social contexts.

scholarly journals Urban Villages, Their Redevelopment and Implications for Inequality and Integration

2021 ◽  
pp. 99-120
Author(s):  
Ya Ping Wang
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Public Projects ◽  
Urban Village ◽  
Study Village ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Urban Villages

AbstractUrbanvillages are a unique product of China’s rapid urban expansion. They provide a new way of life sustained by property rental income for local villagers. More importantly, urban villages provide cheap accommodation for millions of rural migrant workers in most large cities. Recently, with the increasing demand for land by commercialdevelopers and public projects, urban villages have become the targets for redevelopment. This chapter uses a case study village in Beijing as an example to assess the social and economic impacts of urban village redevelopment on both the original local inhabitants and migrants in rented accommodation. The case study village went through a very long and complicated redevelopment process from 2004 to 2017 involving different stages of demolition and relocation. It provided a rare opportunity to evaluate the effects on the local population, both pre- and post-redevelopment. The study involved several field visits, observation and interviews with village residents. It shows that urban village redevelopment offered no positive benefits for migrant workers who often lost their homes to demolition. For local villagers, redevelopment and relocation into new flats may improve their living conditions. However, most suffer from the loss of long-term economic and income generation opportunities. Moreover, the new property rights for the replacement flats confer no additional rights of citizenship for the relocated villagers who remain ‘second-class citizens’ within Chinese cities.

scholarly journals Elderly people at village level in Botswana

1996 ◽  
pp. 243-261
Author(s):  
Benedicte Ingstad ◽  
Helge Brunborg ◽  
Frank J. Bruun
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Social Data ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Village Level ◽  
Study Village ◽  
Depth Study

The paper presents demographic and social data from an in-depth study of the situation of elderly people in a village in Botswana. Botswana is undergoing rapid economic and social change and this change also affects the elderly part of the population. While younger people  migrate to urban areas, the elderly are to a large extent left behind in the villages, often with responsibility for caring tor small grandchildren. We found that the majority of elderly people in the study village are women. The educational level of the elderly people of both sexes is low but the majority have undergone the traditional initiation schools, Bojale and Bogwera. All households are influenced by modernization in that they need cash for survival. They depend to a large extent on the support of their grandchildren for survival, a support which is not always given.

Three Lahu Nyi (Red Lahu) Marriage Prayers: Lahu Texts and Ethnographic Notes

1974 ◽  
Vol 106 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-49
Author(s):  
Anthony R. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Oral Poetry ◽  
Everyday Language ◽  
Original Language ◽  
Study Village ◽  
Anthropological Fieldwork ◽  
North Thailand

During the course of my anthropological fieldwork among the Lahu people in the hills of north Thailand, I devoted much time to the recording and translation of ritual prayers and chants. Analysis of these texts was of fundamental importance in my studies of Lahu religious ideas, for often the ritual word made clear what remained nebulous in the ritual act or in everyday language. But apart from their usefulness in explanation, the ritual texts are intrinsically valuable as a contemporary expression of the cultural heritage of this preliterate mountain folk. It is for this reason that I record here, both in translation and in the original language, the texts of marriage prayers given to me by three elders of my study village. A brief description of the ceremony suggests the setting for these recitations. The Lahu text is given for language scholars and for future generations of Lahu, who for the most part are still unable to record their own cultural heritage. I hope my translations will give some idea of the beauty of Lahu oral poetry.

scholarly journals Conceptual Notes on the Internal Business Environment Analysis and the Stra.Tech.Man Synthesis

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Charis Vlados
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Organizational Environment ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Value Chain Analysis ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Environment Analysis ◽  
Chain Analysis ◽  
Socioeconomic Organization

This paper examines the theoretical contributions on the firm’s resources and the articulation of competitive advantages, the firm’s value chain analysis, and the comprehension of the “intangible nature” of the firm in the discipline of the internal organizational environment analysis. The aim is to synthesize these approaches from a critical perspective and attempt to enrich them conceptually based on the “biological perception” and “physiology” of the firm. To this end, the Stra.Tech.Man approach, which exploits interpretatively a synthesis of the evolutionary spheres of strategy, technology, and management for the “living” socioeconomic organization, seems capable of unifying the previous approaches analytically and enrich them.

Tea Party Toys? Classical Kisalian Grave Goods from the Upemba (D.R. Congo)

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre de Maret
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Tea Party ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Spiritual World ◽  
Age Sequence ◽  
Socioeconomic Organization ◽  
Rare Opportunity ◽  
Grave Goods

The continuous Iron Age sequence that connects the 10th century Kisalian in central Africa to the present day inhabitants of the area, the Luba, provides a rare opportunity to link archaeological data to ethnographic observations. Numerous Kisalian graves reflect the elaborate rituals and beliefs and the complex socioeconomic organization of that period. One of its intriguing aspects is the extensive use of various miniature objects as grave goods, for children and adults. The widespread Luba practice of making miniature objects for their children, as well as in connection with the spiritual world, is thus likely to date back many centuries and testifies to the symbolic qualities of miniatures.

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