Elite Strategies, Local Networks

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher C. Fennell
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Spatial Models ◽  
Commodity Chains ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
Group Solidarity ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
Theory Framework

“Elite Strategies, Local Networks” outlines analytic frameworks for studying the clash of development strategies and local social networks. Fennell starts by laying out definitions of ethnic groups and how individual action and group solidarity interact. Next, one considers how individual and group dynamics shape material culture and the built environment. Finally, Fennell describes the influences of development plans on regional scales and spatial models for understanding economic structures and commodity chains. The theory framework described here provides a powerful, flexible way to analyze a great variety of cultural systems.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher C. Fennell
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Commodity Chains ◽  
Economic Dynamics ◽  
Ethnic Networks ◽  
Global Commodity Chains ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
The Subject

The introduction provides an overview of the themes of world economic systems, global commodity chains, and ways in which development plans can be thwarted by local social networks and ostensibly peripheral players. This chapter opens the subject of the ways in which these theories have neglected the impacts of ethnic networks and racism upon economic dynamics. This critique is revisited and expanded in the concluding chapters seven and eleven.

Broken Chains and Subverted Plans

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher C. Fennell
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Selective Advantage ◽  
Commodity Chains ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
Anglo American

Broken Chains and Subverted Plans: Ethnicity, Race, and Commodities examines the ways in which the large-scale development plans of Anglo-American governing officials and investors were subverted by the choices of individuals and social networks in the regions of Virginia and Illinois in the nineteenth century. The lessons from this study inform issues very current today, as economists and policy makers debate the best ways to create new markets and develop commodity chains of production and consumption spanning the globe. The backcountry of Virginia presents a story of German-American farmers utilizing ethnic social networks to take selective advantage of economic opportunities promoted by Anglo-American officials and investors. The region of Illinois illustrates the ways in which African Americans worked to overcome the overt and structural racism that shaped the availability of land and economic opportunities in the Midwest. These two case studies emerge from multi-year research projects in which Fennell served as a principal investigator, analyst, and archaeologist.

Conflict, Population Movement, and Microscale Social Networks in Northern Iroquoian Archaeology

2021 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 350-367
Author(s):  
Jennifer Birch ◽  
John P. Hart
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Lake Ontario ◽  
Population Movement ◽  
Network Ties ◽  
The West ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
North Shore ◽  
The North ◽  
Specific Sequences

We employ social network analysis of collar decoration on Iroquoian vessels to conduct a multiscalar analysis of signaling practices among ancestral Huron-Wendat communities on the north shore of Lake Ontario. Our analysis focuses on the microscale of the West Duffins Creek community relocation sequence as well as the mesoscale, incorporating several populations to the west. The data demonstrate that network ties were stronger among populations in adjacent drainages as opposed to within drainage-specific sequences, providing evidence for west-to-east population movement, especially as conflict between Wendat and Haudenosaunee populations escalated in the sixteenth century. These results suggest that although coalescence may have initially involved the incorporation of peoples from microscale (local) networks, populations originating among wider mesoscale (subregional) networks contributed to later coalescent communities. These findings challenge previous models of village relocation and settlement aggregation that oversimplified these processes.

Small Worlds, Material Culture and Ancient Near Eastern Social Networks

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Coward
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Agricultural Societies

The cognitive, psychological and sociological mechanisms underpinning complex social relationships among small groups are a part of our primate heritage. However, among human groups, relationships persist over much greater temporal and spatial scales, often in the physical absence of one or other of the individuals themselves. This chapter examines how such individual face-to-face social interactions were ‘scaled up’ during human evolution to the regional and global networks characteristic of modern societies. One recent suggestion has been that a radical change in human sociality occurred with the shift to sedentary and agricultural societies in the early Neolithic. The discussion presents the results of a focused study of the long-term development of regional social networks in the Near East, using the distribution of different forms of material culture as a proxy for the social relationships that underpinned processes of trade, exchange and the dissemination of material culture practices.

scholarly journals Tacit networks, crucial care: Informal networks and disaster response in Nepal’s 2015 Gorkha earthquake

Urban Studies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 561-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rocio Carrero ◽  
Michele Acuto ◽  
Asaf Tzachor ◽  
Niraj Subedi ◽  
Ben Campbell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Gorkha Earthquake ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
2015 Gorkha Earthquake ◽  
Informal Social Networks

It is often reiterated that a better understanding of local networks and needs is key to risk reduction. Nevertheless, the crucial role of informal social networks and actors in the catering for human needs in disaster circumstances remains largely under-explored. If we have to rethink the ‘work’ that informality does for our understanding of urban areas, its contribution to resilience, and take it seriously in the ‘full spectrum of risk’ in urban and peri-urban centres, better and more balanced methods are needed. This paper attends to this gap. Examining the mechanisms of aid provision in the aftermath of the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal, it details an experimental set of quantitative research methods to explore the role of informal social networks in the provision of critical human needs in natural disasters. Relying on a sample of 160 households across four districts and 16 villages in the built environment affected by the Gorkha earthquake, the paper reveals that, overall, a wide disparity exists in the comparative importance of organisations in the provision of aid and resources. Much crucial after-disaster care is catered for by a mix of relatives, temples, friends, neighbours and local clubs. It highlights the importance of informal networks in understanding, and theorising, governance (of disaster and of the ‘urban’ more in general), and calls for greater attention to its role. It is time, it argues, to revalue informal disaster governance networks as a crucial, not tacit, component of disaster response.

Group dynamics in discussing incidental topics over online social networks

IEEE Network ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 42-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yadong Zhou ◽  
Xiaohong Guan ◽  
Qinghua Zheng ◽  
Qindong Sun ◽  
Junzhou Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Online Social Networks

scholarly journals Sustainable Urban Development for Costal City Case Study: Bourg El-Bourols City

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 1039-1047
Author(s):  
Amany Ragheb ◽  
Haithem El Sharnouby
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Coastal Cities ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
Distinct Character ◽  
Development Area ◽  
The City ◽  
Current Reality

Comprehensive urban development varies from place to place according to the different natural environment, unplanned urban development on coastal cities led to an urban disruption and random possession of lands, Burj Al-Burullus is a coastal city with high environmental sensitivity and has many environmental, social, and cultural systems that qualify it to be a development area with a distinct character. The challenges of urban development represent the biggest challenge to development in the region. Despite the presence of many development plans in the region, there is no clear methodology that considers the resources and the distinct potentials of these areas to make use of them in solving the problems that hinder development. The research presents an attempt to reach a mechanism through which sustainable urban development can be achieved in all economic, social, and demographic aspects. In addition, it contributes to formulating a vision and developing a strategy to achieve sustainable urban development, with the participation of economic institutions in a way that stimulates these institutions to invest. The research studies and evaluates the current reality of Burj Al-Burullus city using GIS in terms of the characteristics and activities of the city and explores its developmental reality. The research attempts to find appropriate urban solutions to overcome these urban challenges and develop plans to be used as a link between the challenges and development results and to be followed in the development of the region and similar areas.

scholarly journals AS DIMENSÕES MATERIAIS DA FOTOGRAFIA: CULTURA MATERIAL E RETRATOS DE FAMÍLIA * THE MATERIAL DIMENSIONS OF PHOTOGRAPHY: MATERIAL CULTURE AND FAMILY PORTRAITS

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Richard Gonçalves André
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Visual Discourse ◽  
Different Dimensions

Resumo: Este artigo reflete teoricamente sobre a fotografia para além do discurso visual, chamando a atenção para sua materialidade. Enfoca-se os retratos de família, imagens que representam diferentes dimensões da memória familiar, tais como a infância, os ritos religiosos, as formaturas, os casamentos e mesmo a morte. Compreende-se a cultura material, de acordo com as proposições do historiador Ulpiano Toledo Bezerra de Meneses, como processos cognitivos encarnados, inclusive em sua visualidade. Como discussão, sugere-se que, considerando que as fotos são coisas, é importante compreendê-las em seu processo de produção, circulação, recepção e ação, na medida em que, ultrapassando o tempo de vida de seus produtores, as fotografias ganham apropriações e usos específicos, inserindo-se em redes sociais híbridas, como sugere Bruno Latour.Palavras-chave: Retratos. Família. Cultura material. Abstract: This paper reflects theoretically about photography beyond the visual discourse, calling attention to its materiality. It delimits the so-called family portraits, images that represent different dimensions of family memory, such as childhood, religious rites, graduations, weddings and even death. Material culture is understood, according to the propositions of historian Ulpiano Toledo Bezerra de Meneses, as embodied cognitive process, including its visuality. As discussion, it is suggested that, considering photos are things, it is important to understand them in their process of production, circulation, reception and action, since they surpass the time life of their producers and get specific appropriations and uses, being inserted in hybrid social networks, as suggests Bruno Latour.Keywords: Portraits. Family. Material culture.

scholarly journals Neighbourhoods, networks and unemployment: The role of neighbourhood disadvantage and local networks in taking up work

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802092537
Author(s):  
Leen Vandecasteele ◽  
Anette Eva Fasang
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Embeddedness ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Neighbourhood Effects ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
Administrative Information ◽  
Disadvantaged Neighbourhood ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Employment Data

We bring together research on social networks and neighbourhood disadvantage to examine how they jointly affect unemployed individuals’ probability of re-entering employment. Data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study ‘Understanding Society’ provide information on the proportion of friends who live in the same neighbourhood, and are linked with small-scale administrative information on neighborhood employment deprivation. Results indicate that neighbourhood employment deprivation prolongs unemployment, but only for individuals who report that all of their friends live in the same neighbourhood. Living in an advantaged neighbourhood with all of one’s friends in the neighbourhood increases the chances of exiting unemployment. In contrast, neighbourhood location is not associated with unemployment exit if one’s friends do not live in the same neighbourhood. We conclude that neighbourhood effects on exiting unemployment critically depend on individuals’ social embeddedness in the neighbourhood. Not just residing in a disadvantaged neighbourhood, but actually living there with all one’s friends, prevents individuals from re-entering employment. This opens new avenues for theorising neighbourhood effects as social rather than geographic phenomena, and highlights that the effects of neighbourhood socio-economic characteristics are conditional on the level of interaction residents have within their neighbourhood.

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