Female Traditional Leaders (Queen Mothers) and Community Planning and Development in Ghana

This paper will grapple with notions of celebration, commemoration and leadership as narratives of memory in particular in the Ciskei Bantustan. It is to remember and reflect on our past to understand the present. It will also focus on the history of the Ciskei Homeland, leadership values, and role of traditional leaders, rural development, legislative imperatives, and system of separate development, coups, suppression, torture and killings that happened during this era between 1972 to 1994.

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Bereaved Mothers and Masculine Queens: The Political Use of Maternal Grief in 1–2 Kings

Open Theology ◽

10.1515/opth-2020-0120 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 407-422

Author(s):

Cat Quine

Keyword(s):

Hebrew Bible ◽

Emotional Responses ◽

The Political ◽

Royal Power ◽

Gender Fluidity ◽

Reproductive Ability ◽

Gender Performances ◽

Queen Mothers ◽

Female Power ◽

Maternal Grief

AbstractRecent research demonstrates that maternal grief functions paradigmatically to epitomize despair and sorrow in the Hebrew Bible. These literary uses of maternal grief reinforce the stereotype of womanhood, defined by devotion to children and anguish at their loss. In 1–2 Kings, narratives about unnamed bereaved mothers are used politically to create a contrast with named biblical queens who lose their sons but never grieve for them. Although 1–2 Kings names the queen mothers alongside the male rulers, these mothers have no agency or when they do, they act more like men than women. Neo-Assyrian inscriptions attest the masculinity of royal female power, and this article argues that conceptions of royal female power in Judah were similar. By contrasting the masculine queens with stereotyped “real men” and “real women,” traditional gender performances literarily overcome the institution of queenship. While the queens are polemicized, unnamed mothers emerge as the female heroes of Kings. Royal female power is demoted beneath reproductive ability and emotional responses to children, while the gender fluidity of royal power is circumscribed.

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Using Mixed Reality (MR) to Improve On-Site Design Experience in Community Planning

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11073071 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (7) ◽

pp. 3071

Author(s):

Yuze Dan ◽

Zhenjiang Shen ◽

Yiyun Zhu ◽

Ling Huang

Keyword(s):

Mixed Reality ◽

3D Visualization ◽

Community Planning ◽

Virtual Design ◽

Design Decisions ◽

Accurate Design ◽

Design Support System ◽

Site Design ◽

Intuitive Design ◽

Design Objects

In recent years, designing in existing environments has been consistently emphasized in community planning. However, practicing such on-site design is not easy for designers, because the current technical conditions do not allow virtual design objects into real environments for 3D visualization and interaction. Thus, designers’ intuitive design perceptions, accurate design judgments, and convenient design decisions are hardly supported. This paper explores the possibilities of using mixed reality (MR) technology to improve designers’ on-site design experiences in community planning. For this, we introduced an MR design support system (MR-DSS) for the interactive on-site 3D visualization of virtual design objects. With the MR-DSS, we performed a design experiment with sixteen participants in a typical on-site design scene of community planning. The results showed that the MR technology could provide designers with intuitive design perceptions, accurate design judgments, and convenient design decisions, thus effectively improving their on-site design experiences.

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Communication model of musyawarah and role of traditional leaders in building public acceptance to support nuclear powerplant development plan at Bengkayang Regency

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/739/1/012079 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 739 (1) ◽

pp. 012079

Author(s):

N Herawati ◽

L Sunyata ◽

A D Sudagung

Keyword(s):

Development Plan ◽

Public Acceptance ◽

Communication Model ◽

Traditional Leaders

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Social Isolation in Chinese Older Adults: Scoping Review for Age-Friendly Community Planning

Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement ◽

10.1017/s0714980817000101 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 223-245 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

M. Anum Syed ◽

Lynn McDonald ◽

Corinne Smirle ◽

Karen Lau ◽

Raza M. Mirza ◽

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Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Social Isolation ◽

Scoping Review ◽

Community Planning ◽

Services De Santé ◽

Chinese Older Adults ◽

Milieu Urbain ◽

Participation Sociale

RÉSUMÉLes adultes chinois plus âgés peuvent être exposés à un risque accru d’isolement social et de solitude; pourtant, une telle compréhension des défis auxquels ils peuvent faire face pour la participation sociale dans leurs quartiers et communautés est fragmentée. Un examen de la portée a été entrepris pour décrire les connaissances actuelles sur l’isolement social et la solitude chez les aînés chinois vivant en milieu urbain dans les sociétés occidentales afin d’éclairer les recherches, les pratiques et les politiques futures au Canada. Dix-neuf articles répondent aux critères d’inclusion. Le système des communautés conçues pour les adultes vieillisantes de l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé a contextualisé les résultats de l’étude. Les études ont identifié des questions liées (1) à la participation sociale; (2) au soutien communautaire et aux services de santé; (3) au logement; (4) à la communauté et à l’information; (5) au respect et à l’inclusion sociale; (6) aux espaces extérieurs et aux édifices publics; (7) à la participation civique et à l’emploi; et (8) au transport. L’isolement social et la solitude sont des préoccupations croissantes au sein de cette population au Canada, et des recherches supplémentaires sont nécessaires pour en déterminer la portée et les interventions efficaces.

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