Dissertations / Theses: 'Cultural survival of community'

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Tapia, Javier Campos. "Cultural reproduction: Funds of knowledge as survival strategies in the Mexican-American community." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185619.

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The Mexican American population in the United States, as all other human groups, employ a number of strategies and practices in order to ensure the maintenance and continuation of its members. These strategies are culturally derived, and they have been created by the interaction of people's practices with the social, economic, and political forces of the larger environment. Mexican American culture is reproduced across generations through the enactment of historically constituted social practices or funds of knowledge. These practices are "acted out" by actors within the domain of the household or the family in its relation to the capitalist system. In order to understand cultural reproduction in the Mexican American community, the structure and operation of four households were examined. The practices used by people to meet household members' sustenance, shelter, education, household management, and emotional/psychological needs are explored. Household members practices were divided in three domains: economic, social/recreational, and ceremonial/religious. In a sense then, Mexican Americans are enculturated by carrying out activities appropriate to the immediate cultural setting. In this social setting, children learn appropriate ways of behaving by interacting with other people whom, through verbal and nonverbal ways, teach them the norms appropriate to their cultural group. In addition, children spend a great part of the day in another setting (the school). This setting, as part of the larger environment, influences household members practices, but the institution is affected in return. The interplay of these factors affects students' academic achievement.

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Vadakkan, Mary F. "SURVIVAL: CULTURE-SPECIFIC RESOURCES FOR ASIAN INDIAN ELDERS IN THE COMMUNITY." Connect to this document online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1115836553.

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Thesis (M.G.S.)--Miami University, Dept. of Sociology and Gerontology, 2005.
Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [1], iii, 43 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 36-37).

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Coleman, Anne. "Community as catalyst : a study of personhood and identity in the culture of survival, São Paulo, Brazil." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670269.

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Negash, Goitom. "Unmuted by Social Media: Narratives of Eritrean and Ethiopian Migrants in the US." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1565627544096228.

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Schemmer, Ruth Ann. "Survival of nonprofit community health clinics." Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3885.

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In the provision of public goods such as health care for the uninsured, nonprofit organizations serve important functions in society. Because they often rely on volunteer labor, and funding is frequently unstable, their survival depends on factors not present in either private enterprise or state agencies. This comparison case study examines three clinics, one surviving clinic and two that did not survive, to find patterns that characterize organizational success and survival. Theories about public goods, volunteering, and organizational coordination and communication provide insight into different aspects of the case study. Data was gathered from 19 in-depth interviews with individuals connected to the three clinics. The analysis employs OstromÂs characterization of eight principles of longstanding common-pool resource organizations, with slight adjustments for the public goods setting. As expected, the successful clinic reflects more of the characteristics, or possesses them to a greater degree, than the unsuccessful ones. Specifically, the successful clinic reflects a greater degree of congruence between organizational rules and local conditions (as evidenced by community support), and collective-choice arrangements (as indicated by the presence of an actively engaged board of directors). In addition, the successful clinic is loosely nested with other organizations, whereas the nonsurviving clinics were more tightly nested within local organizations; the looser nesting allows for greater autonomy in decision-making. Finally, an unexpected finding drawn from the interviews concerns the manner in which the clinics framed their message and mission. The successful clinic framed its mission in terms of serving the Âworking poor,Â whereas the nonsurviving clinics stated their mission as charity for the poor and needy. This variance may have contributed to greater community support for the successful clinic.

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Verma, Neena. "Arrival, survival, and beyond survival, the Indo-Trinidadian journey to political and cultural ascendancy." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ53870.pdf.

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Kymlicka, W. "Liberal equality and cultural community." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234294.

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Johnson, Terri Lynn. "Survival strategies of African-American women in community college /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3008362.

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Zahn, Matthew A. Lacey Wayne R. "Building a virtual cultural intelligence community." Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion-image.exe/07Jun%5FZahn%5FDA.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2007.
Thesis Advisor(s): Dorothy Denning, Robert O'Connell. "June 2007." Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-75). Also available in print.

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Robinson, Yvonne Natalie. "The cultural geographies of community theatre." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.415200.

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Against a backdrop of growing interest in performance geographies and performative notions of embodiment and social identity, this thesis critically examines the geographies of 'community theatre' (or 'theatre in the community'). Drawing on in-depth qualitative research, the study is concerned to analyse the forms of 'community' presumed in and produced through the performances of community theatre companies in London. It focuses in particular on detailed case studies of three companies - London Bubble, Outside Edge and Tamasha - which were chosen to examine how different engagements with the notion of 'community' are made through performance and practice. This thesis demonstrates how practices of community theatre have been positioned marginally to that of mainstream and established theatre. Through the empirical analysis, it examines both the opportunities and contradictions that an engagement with the discourse and practice of 'community' brings for community theatre companies. It also illustrates how 'theatre in the community' companies mobilise themselves in ways which may be both subversive, democratic and powerful. Engaging with forms of performative art that work with ideas of community and notions of communality articulated through performance, the thesis helps to rectify the absence of geographic research on the social spatial constitution of the arts. In so doing, it seeks to contribute to emergent understandings of the social and cultural geographies of performance.

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Lacey, Wayne R. "Building a virtual cultural intelligence community." Thesis, Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/3444.

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The U.S. intelligence community is without peer in providing high-quality, detailed technical intelligence. Due to the intelligence community's efforts, the USG has a thorough understanding of its adversaries' activities. What we propose is to develop a means by which that same intelligence community can use cultural factors to answer the question "Why?" Although cultural intelligence plays a key role in many of America's political and military successes, the maintenance of a broad-based, detailed cultural intelligence capability has thus far proven elusive. With the advent of networked collaboration tools, the intelligence community now has the ability to deploy a virtual cultural intelligence community. Such a community, based on a wiki, would incur almost no monetary or bureaucratic overhead, and could be configured so that the loss of any single intelligence organization would have minimal negative effect on its mission.

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Moynihan, Emma Louise. "Interactions between microbial community structure and pathogen survival in soil." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2012. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/7297.

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Manure and slurry are valuable resources that may enhance many soil properties. However, organic amendments can pose a significant health risk to both humans and livestock if not managed correctly due to pathogenic loads that may be carried within them. Therefore it is crucial to identify the factors that affect pathogen survival in soil, in order to gain maximum benefit from such resources, whilst minimising the threat to public and animal welfare. This research aimed to elucidate the impact of microbial community structure on pathogen decline following entry of such organisms into the soil. It was hypothesised that pathogen survival would be significantly influenced by both diversity and phenotypic configuration of the microbial community. This was experimentally investigated within three distinctly different biological contexts. Firstly, it was shown that the survival of Escherichia coli 0157 was significantly affected by the presence of an intact microbial community. Microcosms consisting of sterile and non-sterile sand and clay soils were inoculated with E. coli and destructively sampled over time. The pathogen remained stable at 4°C, irrespective of biological status. However at 18°C, the pathogen grew in sterile soil and declined in non-sterile soil. This result was attributed to microbial antagonism in non-sterile soil, which only became apparent at 18°C, due to increased metabolic activity of the native community. The next experiment was designed to investigate the impact of microbial diversity and community configuration on the survival of a suite of model pathogens. A gradient of community complexity was created by inoculation of gamma-irradiated soil mesocosms with a serial-dilution of a suspension of a field soil. Soils were incubated to allow biomass equilibration and the establishment of distinct community phenotypes. Sub-samples were then inoculated with Listeria, Salmonella and E. coli strains and survival was monitored over 160 days. Death rates were calculated and plotted as a function of dilution, which represented diversity, and of principal component (PC) scores from PLFA profiles, which represented the phenotypic community context. There was some evidence of a diversity effect as weak negative linear correlations were observed between death rate and dilution for S. Dublin and environmentally-persistent E. coli. However, a much stronger correlation was observed between death rate and certain PC scores for these organisms. No effect of diversity or phenotype was detected on either L. monocytogenes or E. coli 0157. These results suggest that pathogen survival was affected by diversity, but the phenotypic community context was apparently much more influential. Additionally, such community effects were specific to pathogen type. Pathogen survival was also investigated in the context of highly-contrasting communities within a range of naturally-derived field soils. PLFA analysis was used to determine phenotypic community structure and soils were also characterized for a range of physico-chemical properties. They were inoculated with Listeria, Salmonella and E. coli strains as above. Pathogen survival was monitored over 110 days and death rates were calculated. Physicochemical and biotic data, including PC scores derived from PLFA profiles, were used in stepwise regression analysis to determine the predominant factor influencing pathogen-specific death rates. PC scores were identified as the most significant factor in pathogen decay for all organisms tested, with the exception of an environmentally-persistent E. coli isolate. Overall, these results demonstrate the importance of soil biological quality, specifically the configuration of the microbial community, in pathogen suppression, and provide a possible means to assess the inherent potential of soils to regulate pathogen survival. This may lead to the identification of management strategies which will ultimately accelerate pathogen decay, and therefore improve the safety of agricultural practice.

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Albertson, Mark C. "Cultivating Chicana/o images negotiating the cinematic mainstream for cultural survival /." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2007. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.

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Anwar, Abeer. "Cultural Perspectives on Communication in Community Leadership." Thesis, Walden University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10747804.

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Effective communication is important, particularly for the over 26 million immigrant workers with non-English speaking backgrounds who have entered the U.S. workforce. The research problem addressed the disillusion of non-English speakers in the workplace because of the communication gap. The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the experiences of non-English speaking immigrant workers in overcoming language and cultural communication challenges at work. The research question focused on how non-English speakers or English as a Second Language (ESL) speakers describe their communication experiences in the workplace. The theoretical framework was based on the cultural approach to organizations and the transactional model of communication. A qualitative narrative inquiry design was used that employed sources of information including an interview questionnaire and existing literature. The target population was immigrant employees who are managers, assistant managers, and supervisors in New York City and Long Island who work in accounting, banking, finance, information technology, and marketing with at least 5 years’ experience. A purposive sampling procedure was used to select 20 participants for semistructured interviews. The qualitative data were subjectively analyzed by using member checking and triangulation. Key findings indicated 6 themes: miscommunication, lack of appropriate terms, delays in work completion, loss of respect, inability to express oneself clearly, and the need to use alternative means of communication. Opportunity for contributions to social change can include increased understanding and utilization of effective management and communication strategies for dealing with non-English-speaking and ESL workers. This can also help to bridge cultural and language gaps.

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Armstrong, Christopher. "Placing Atlantic Canada, community, cultural history, politics." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0020/NQ43463.pdf.

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Fahy, Anna Louise. "Borderland Chinese community identity and cultural change /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2006. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?1439475.

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London, Scott Barry 1962. "Community mediation and gender ideology." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291678.

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The community mediation movement has arisen in response to criticisms of the American judicial system. Advocates claim it can counter the role of law in reproducing ideologies that disadvantage subordinate groups, such as women. But this potential relies in part on the ideological positions of the mediators themselves. This study evaluates the counter-hegemonic potential of community mediation in regard to a gendered social power structure through an ideological analysis of sixteen male volunteer community mediators in Tucson, Arizona. Arguing against a narrow economic or gender reductionist analytical approach, this study relies on a neo-Gramscian perspective to uncover the multiple factors that determine this ideology. What emerges is a gender ideology that at once contains a "feminist" critique of social power structures yet is filled with contradictions. This implies that the community mediation movement must continue to struggle if it is to become a genuinely counter-hegemonic movement.

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Sehatzadeh, Adrienne Lucas. "Survival of an African Nova Scotian community, up the avenue, revisited." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0012/MQ36526.pdf.

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Rodrigue, Craig E. Jr. "American Shinto Community of Practice| Community Formation outside Original Context." Thesis, University of Nevada, Reno, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10286665.

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Shinto is a native Japanese religion with a history that goes back thousands of years. Because of its close ties to Japanese culture, and Shinto’s strong emphasis on place in its practice, it does not seem to be the kind of religion that would migrate to other areas of the world and convert new practitioners. However, not only are there examples of Shinto being practiced outside of Japan, the people doing the practice are not always of Japanese heritage.

The Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America is one of the only fully functional Shinto shrines in the United States and is run by the first non-Japanese Shinto priest. This thesis looks at the community of practice that surrounds this American shrine and examines how membership is negotiated through action. There are three main practices that form the larger community: language use, rituals, and Aikido. Through participation in these activities members engage with an American Shinto community of practice.

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Hjorth, Isis Amelie. "Networked cultural production : filmmaking in the Wreckamovie community." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c5baae87-6667-463a-bef2-b22d25c75896.

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This thesis challenges core assumptions associated with the peer production of culture using the web-based collaborative film production platform Wreckamovie to understand how peer production works in practice. Active cultural participation is a growing political priority for many governments and cultural bodies, but these priorities are often implemented without a basis in empirical evidence, making it necessary for rigorous scholarship to tackle emerging networked cultural production. Existing work portrays peer production efforts as unrealistically distinct from proprietary, market-based production, incorrectly suggesting that peer production allows distributed, non-monetarily motivated, collaboration between self-selected individuals in hierarchy-free communities. In overcoming these assumptions, this thesis contributes to the development of a consolidated theoretical framework encompassing the complicated and multifaceted nature of networked cultural production. This theoretical framing extends Bourdieu’s theory of cultural production and reconciles it with Becker’s Art Worlds framework, and further embeds and draws on Benkler’s notion of commons-based peer production. Concretely, this research tackles the emergence of new collaborative production models enabled by networked technologies, and theorizes the tensions and challenges characterizing such production forms. Secondly, this thesis redefines cultural participation and considers the divisions of labour in online filmmaking materializing from the interactions between professional and non-professional filmmakers. Finally, this study considers the social economies surrounding networked cultural production, including crowdfunding, and characterizes associated conversions of capital, such as the conversion of symbolic capital into financial capital. Methodologically, this thesis employs an embedded case study strategy. It examines four feature film productions facilitated by the online platform Wreckamovie, as well as the online community within which these productions are embedded. The four production cases have completed all production stages, and have resulted in completed cultural goods during the course of data collection. This study’s findings were derived from two and half years of participant observations, interviews with 29 Wreckamovie community and production members, and the examination of archived production-related discourses (2006-2013). Ultimately, this study makes concrete proposals towards a theory of networked cultural production with clear policy implications.

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Lessard, David. "Emergence and community: the Washaw Sibi Eeyouch." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=121218.

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Drawing on twelve months of multi-sited ethnography with members of the Washaw Sibi Eeyouch Association (WSEA), this dissertation investigates how notions of community and identity are constructed, interact with each other, and are transformed in a context of ongoing social and institutional change that allows a reflexion about the concept of emergence. Using both ethnographic and historical material, the body of this dissertation deals with different periods of the history of the Harricana River watershed, where Washaw Sibi's traditional territories are located, namely: the early fur trade, the Treaty and post-Confederation period, and the establishment of the WSEA from the 1980's to the current period. The WSEA is an incorporated organization working for political recognition and the establishment of a village of their own in northern Quebec. The organization is working toward full inclusion under the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (JBNQA) as a Quebec Cree community, which will bring about probable financial, political and social benefits to the group. During the research, for many decades prior to the research, and still to the present day, members have been scattered across different locales of Northern Quebec and Ontario because of a history of nomadism and government policies which caused the relocation and the social and geographical fragmentation of the group at several times in the past two hundred years. Recognition as a community of JBNQA beneficiaries implies renewed relationships with state institutions and the establishment of forms of collective life similar to those of other Quebec Cree communities. It thus brings fundamental changes for the group and the emergence of a form of communal life that its members have never experienced before as Wahshaw Sibi Eeyouch, the village.The analysis shows how colonial powers and the state have contributed to the emergence of local social and symbolic boundaries, leading to the historical exclusion of the Washaw Sibi group from historical treaties and from the JBNQA, among other things. The discussion analyses the different conflicts, gains and losses emerging when one claims a Cree or Washaw Sibi identity in a context characterized by a multiplicity of overlapping identities, a diversity of historical experiences, and singular political dynamics affecting the group. The dissertation builds on social anthropological theory of subarctic bands to emphasize the fluidity, adaptability and pragmatism of the social organization of regional aboriginal populations. At the same time, it involves concepts of symbolic violence and habitus to deal with the complex relationships between social reproduction and change, and more specifically with local experiences of colonialism as well as ongoing transformations occurring in members' social networks and living conditions.
S'appuyant sur douze mois de travail ethnographique multi-site avec les membres de l'Association Washaw Sibi Eeyouch (WSEA), cette thèse analyse comme les notions de communauté et d'identité sont construites, interagissent entre elles et se transforment dans un contexte de changement social et institutionnel appelant à une réflexion sur le concept d'émergence. À l'aide de matériel ethnographique et historique, le corps de la thèse traite de différents moments de l'histoire du bassin hydrographique de la rivière Harricana, où sont principalement situés les territoires traditionnels de Washaw Sibi. Principalement, ces sections traitent de la traite des fourrures, la période suivant la Confédération, l'ère des traités et l'établissement de la WSEA, des années 1980 jusqu'à la situation actuelle. La WSEA est une organisation incorporée travaillant à la reconnaissance politique du groupe et à l'établissement d'un village dans le nord du Québec. L'organisation travaille à l'inclusion complète du groupe sous la Convention de la Baie James et du Nord québécois (CBJNQ) en tant que communauté crie, ce qui apporterait des bénéficies financiers, politiques et sociaux au groupe. Depuis plusieurs décennies jusqu'au moment de réaliser cette recherche, les membres de ce dernier ont été dispersés dans différentes localités du nord du Québec et de l'Ontario étant donné leur nomadisme traditionnel et une histoire de politiques gouvernementales qui ont amené la relocalisation du groupe et sa fragmentation sociale et géographique, plusieurs fois au cours des deux derniers siècles. La reconnaissance en tant que communauté bénéficiaire de la CBJNQ implique l'émergence de relations renouvelées avec certaines institutions autochtones et étatiques et le développement de formes de vie collective similaire à celles d'autres communautés cries du Québec. Cela signifie donc des changements fondamentaux pour le groupe et l'émergence d'une vie communautaire que ses membres n'ont jamais expérimenté auparavant comme Washaw Sibi Eeyouch. L'analyse montre comment les pouvoirs coloniaux et l'état ont contribué à l'émergence de frontières symboliques et sociales locales, menant à l'exclusion historique du groupe de Washaw Sibi par rapport aux traités historiques et à la CBJNQ, entre autres. La discussion analyse les différents conflits, gains et pertes liés au fait de se réclamer d'une identité crie ou Washaw Sibi dans un contexte caractérisé par une multiplicité d'identités imbriquées les unes dans les autres, une diversité d'expériences historiques et des dynamiques politiques particulières affectant le groupe. La thèse se réfère à la théorie anthropologique concernant les bandes autochtones du subarctique qui insistent sur la fluidité, l'adaptabilité et le pragmatisme de l'organisation sociale au niveau régional. Aussi, la thèse s'appuie sur les concepts de violence symbolique et d'habitus pour traiter des relations complexes entre reproduction et changement social et, plus spécifiquement, des expériences locales du colonialisme.

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Rine, Dana. "Small Flowerings of Unhu: the Survival of Community in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Novels." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3312.

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This thesis examines the presence of unhu, a process of becoming and remaining human through community ties, in Nervous Conditions and The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangarembga. Dangarembga interrogates corrupt versions of community by creating positive examples of unhu that alternatively foster community building. Utilizing ecocritical, utopian, and postcolonial methodologies, this thesis postulates that these novels stress the importance of retaining a traditional concept like unhu while also acknowledging the need to adjust it over time to ensure its vitality. Both novels depict the creativity and resilience of unhu amid toxic surroundings.

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Obateru, T. C. "The socio-cultural dynamics and 'survival struggle' in professional journalism practice in Nigeria." Thesis, University of Salford, 2017. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/42335/.

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This study responds to the call for more empirical work to understand the journalism profession in non-Western countries. It critiques the current state of journalism practice in Nigeria to determine how journalists are responding to the numerous professional challenges they face. Journalists in Nigeria appear caught between global phenomena in journalism, such as the impact of new technologies, and those of the environment in which they work, which, some evidence from current literature suggests, is impacting the profession negatively. The literature also shows that factors such as diversity of access to information made possible by technological development, declining audience for news, increasing market pressures impacting news decisions, the declining reputation of the profession, and loss of identity by the journalism profession, though not necessarily peculiar to Nigeria, constitute serious challenges to the news media. With an absence of media conglomerates and a well-defined media system along the lines of those recognised in the developed world, journalism practice in Nigeria presents a case ripe for research. Some evidence in the literature suggests that the standard of journalism practice in Nigeria is deficient in a number of respects. However, little is known about how journalists in Nigeria do their work and the challenges they face, as well as their responses to those challenges. This thesis addresses this particular gap in knowledge. Using the Field Theory and the Social Theory of Journalism, as framework to interrogate the research problem, the research employs convergent parallel mixed methods allowing the use of quantitative and qualitative methods, side-by-side, to gather data in respect of attaining its objectives. Quantitative data were generated through a questionnaire-based survey, while qualitative data were gathered through a series of semi-structured interviews. The research finds that, and illustrates how, the operating environment they face, impacts journalists in their work. Challenges, such as poor or irregular salary, ownership influence, market and social forces were found to influence the way in which journalists perform. However, a key finding is that that although journalists encounter similar challenges in the course of their duties, their response to them varies. Based on these findings, and drawing on explanatory insights from Field Theory and the Social Theory of Journalism, the thesis develops its own explanatory framework coined, The Survival Struggle in Journalism Practice in Nigeria. This leads to the presentation of a series of recommendations, prominent among which is argument that the institutional and regulatory framework of journalism needs immediate strengthening in order to secure an appropriate standard of professional journalism practice in Nigeria.

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Navarro, Bernard M. "Southern Ute language revitalization : a case study in indigenous cultural survival and decolonization /." Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1617381121&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2008.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 330-345). Also available online in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.

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Parker, Andrea Grimes. "A cultural, community-based approach to health technology design." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/41157.

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This research has examined how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can promote healthy eating habits amongst African Americans in low-income neighborhoods, a population that faces disproportionately high rates of diet-related health problems. In this dissertation, I describe the formative research I conducted to obtain system design guidelines and how I used those guidelines to develop two applications: EatWell and Community Mosaic. I also describe the results of the in-depth field studies I conducted to evaluate each application. Both EatWell and Community Mosaic incorporate the cultural construct of collectivism, a social orientation in which interdependence and communal responsibility are valued over individual goals and independence. As researchers have generally characterized the African American culture as collectivistic and argued for the value of designing collectivistic health interventions for this population, I examined the implications of taking such an approach to designing health promotion technologies. EatWell and Community Mosaic are collectivistic because they empower users to care for the health of their local community by helping others learn practical, locally-relevant healthy eating strategies. I discuss the results of my formative fieldwork and system evaluations, which characterize the value, challenge and nuances of developing community-based health information sharing systems for specific cultural contexts. By focusing on health disparities issues and the community social unit, I extend previous health technology research within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). In particular, my results describe 1) a set of characteristics that help make shared material useful and engaging, 2) how accessing this information affects how people view the feasibility of eating well in their local context, 3) the way in which sharing information actually benefits the contributor by catalyzing personal behavior reflection, analysis and modification and 4) how sharing information and seeing that information's impact on others can help to build individuals' capacity to be a community health advocate. In addition, my work shows how examining cultural generalizations such as collectivism is not a straightforward process but one that requires careful investigation and appreciation for the way in which such generalizations are (or are not) manifested in the lives of individual people. I further contribute to HCI by presenting a set of important considerations that researchers should make when designing and evaluating community-based health systems. I conclude this dissertation by outlining directions for future HCI research that incorporates an understanding of the relationship between culture and health and that attempts to address health disparities in the developed world.

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Candler, Craig T. "Healing and cultural formation in a Bush Cree community." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ40004.pdf.

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Lasso, Ana Maria 1976. "Planning a community cultural festival : the power of politics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68375.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-119).
This investigation is catalyzed by my interest in the impact that cultural planning has had on the physical and social formation of cities. Beginning with the hypothesis that urban festivals have lasting impacts on cities, I intend to investigate how cultural planning shapes the social and physical form of a city through the mechanism of festivals. Since these festivals are ephemeral, one might assume that such events would have fleeting impressions on the communities they engage and the spaces they occupy. On the contrary, I will argue that the impacts of festivals are tangible and long lasting. They have significant economic effects, stimulating local and, at times, citywide development. In some cases, festivals spur urban design projects that have permanent consequences for the neighborhoods and cities where the event takes place. In addition to the economic revitalization that festivals produce, they are vehicles by which community organizations come to participate actively in political decision-making and ultimately help give voice and expression to cultural groups. I will investigate how two entities-city governments and community organizations-plan and produce special events, and I will analyze how their collaborative efforts influence the social and physical impacts that festivals have on cities. Comparing and contrasting the two municipal governments, Los Angeles and Chicago, I argue that cultural programming policies are not the only factors that influence how festivals impact space and communities; a combination of other policies and variables such as the social construction of identity and the shaping of urban space influence the impacts that these urban cultural festivals have on the city. I will use the ideas of the social construction of identity and power of place to understand better the planning and impacts of festivals.
by Ana Maria Lasso.
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Li, Tania Joan Alexandra. "Cultural and economic change in the Singapore Malay community." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283652.

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Mitchell, Karrie Denise. "Cultural Capital Facilitators and First-Generation Community College Students." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194090.

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Cultural capital facilitators are an unexplored phenomenon in the higher education literature despite their crucial presence on community college campuses. Through the use of social capital theory, social networks, and cultural capital theory, this study explores the role that cultural capital facilitators play in first-generation, community college student information acquisition and ultimate success. Multiple qualitative methods are utilized to discover the cultural capital facilitator characteristics and attributes, social networks and types of cultural capital information shared between first-generation students and cultural capital facilitators. Implications for community college practitioners are also presented in terms of the role that classroom instructors play as cultural capital facilitators as well as the characteristics and attributes that these individuals can acquire through professional development opportunities. Finally, the interconnectedness of cultural capital facilitators' social networks and the domination of academic, cultural capital information are elaborated on for community college personnel in their examination of structural and functional barriers to first-generation student success.

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Fletcher, Eric John. "Exploring the sail training voyage as a cultural community." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/4002.

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Studies have demonstrated that participation on a sail training voyage, as a structured educational activity that is more than mere adventure (McCulloch et al., 2010: 661), enhances self-constructs, and inter- and intra-personal skills. Many studies have followed an outcome-based approach to measure various self-constructs at pre-, on- and/or post-voyage intervals, however, there has been limited investigation as to how these outcomes may be generated; or how they may be ‘laminated’ in participants’ personal and social development, and thereby influence skills for life and work, such as social and emotional skills and supporting educational attainment (Feinstein, 2015). The origins of modern day sail training voyages are to be found in the traditions and practices of the age of sail, representing a rich socio-cultural and historical setting for participants to explore the voyage experience. This study takes an ethnographic approach to explore a six-day sail training voyage as a ‘cultural community’, and how this concept may generate beneficial outcomes through apprenticeship and guided participation (after Rogoff, 1990; Rogoff and Angelillo, 2002). Few studies on this topic have extended their scope of interest beyond the young crew participants; this study engages with all of those who sailed on the voyage, comprising twelve 12- and 13-year old girls, two teachers, and the full-time and volunteer sea-staff (and the researcher as a participant observer). This voyage-based case study uses a range of methods, including visual methods, as pre-, on- and post-voyage research activities, complemented with a post-voyage photo elicitation activity and semi-structured interviews to construct a rich, detailed account of the study voyage.

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Stroope, Samuel, and Joseph O. Baker. "Structural and Cultural Sources of Community in American Congregations." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/493.

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Religious institutions are among the deepest reservoirs of social belonging in America, but what determines whether belonging is cultivated in these institutions? Previous research shows that individuals’ social network composition is a primary predictor of feelings of belonging. However, less is known about how group characteristics condition the influence of social networks on belonging. We use data from the 2001 U.S. Congregational Life Survey and multilevel modeling to examine how organizational characteristics such as group size, in-group network density, and aggregate ideological uniformity moderate the effects of individual social networks on sense of belonging. Results indicate that both structural (network density, church size) and cultural (ideology) characteristics of groups significantly condition the effects of individual social networks on belonging. Smaller group size, network density, and ideological unity cultivate contexts that amplify the relationship between personal networks and belonging.

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Groves, Leroy. "The politics of cultural policy." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2001. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3504/.

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Over the past twenty years the arts and culture have become a popular vehicle through which local economic development can be pursued. Whilst this relatively new local economic development tool has generated much interest amongst academics, many have been content to simply provide descriptive accounts of its development. Where theoretical frameworks for analysis have been applied, they have failed to adequately examine and assess those local factors which have contributed to the development of these strategies. Interestingly, the evolution of arts policy as a vehicle through which to pursue economic development, has been mirrored by proliferation In coalitions as preferred vehicles through which governing decisions, at the local level are effected. Current debates surrounding the New Urban Politics have focused on the degree to which current modes of governance reflect: widened representation; increased community empowerment; and increased local autonomy. By employing regime theory as a framework for analysis, this thesis will examine how those local political factors in two cities have influenced the development of cultural strategy. Such an exercise will enable a comment to be made on the degree to which cultural strategies reflect more co - operative forms of decision making, increased access to new forms of expertise and community empowerment.

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Burton, Barbara Ann. "Telling survival stories : trauma, violence, family and everyday life in an American community /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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King-Dorset, Rodreguez. "Black dance in London 1730-1850 : cultural innovation, tradition, continuity, resistance, adaptation and survival." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.436235.

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McNab, Philip R. ""Planting Wholesome Seeds"| Organic Farming and Community Supported Agriculture at Sweetwater Organic Community Farm." University of South Florida, 2013.

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Denny, Maura B. "Creating Community: A qualitative study to identify factors impacting community in a university Learning Community cohort." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4884.

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This study explores the role of `community' within a university campus Learning Community (LC). With a cohort-based structure, an LC exists to enhance student learning through peer cooperation and participation, however the scope of what constitutes community within these cohorts is not currently understood. This study investigates the roles of individual reciprocity, communication, need, time, and physical environment in community building, utilizing qualitative interviews and observations of a 30 member LC over the course of two academic years and a four-week study abroad experience in Panama. Through this, the vital roles of the orientation period and programming staff are revealed and should be considered in order to generate more effective LCs with stronger cohort communities.

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Davis, Lori E. "Global community creating a living learning community for international and American students /." [Muncie, Ind. : Ball State University], 2009. http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/685.

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Gosse, Ann. "Towards a new understanding of community arts : 1960-2000." Thesis, Birmingham City University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272090.

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Kunkel, Joseph F. "Culture, community, place sustaining cultural values: past, present, & future /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/10034.

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Thesis (M. Arch.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.
Thesis research directed by: School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Architecture . Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Aguada, José Antonio. "Cultural influences : visual traces of the Cuban community in Hialeah." FIU Digital Commons, 2005. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1212.

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This thesis examines specific changes and modifications made to the domestic architecture of Hialeah that relate to the construction of cultural identity. Much of the study is based upon oral histories from twelve (12) Cuban immigrants now residing in Hialeah, focusing on their renovated houses as architectural responses to cultural and social changes in their community and family life. The research focused specifically on those renovations that transformed standard developers' houses into the "Cuban" home. A shared theme was the creation of additions, where the point of connections between the existing and the new structures as well as how these expansions created courtyards, became important to the study. The design project is an addition to John F. Kennedy Library located on Henry L. Milander Park, which includes new computer areas and gallery spaces connecting the past and the present with Cubans in Hialeah and all over the world-connecting identities.

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Kgantsi, Boitshekwane. "Cultural ecosystem services of the Diep River corridor: community perceptions." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27948.

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The purpose of the study was to examine the cultural ecosystem service and the community perceptions of the Diep River Corridor that connects the Table Mountain National Park, Little Princess Vlei, Zandvlei Estuary, and finally feeds to the sea of the Atlantic Ocean. Constructed interview questions were used to assess the cultural ecosystem activities occurring along the Diep River corridor. The intention of assessing the cultural ecosystem services was to examine the importance of the corridor for the local communities. The corridor was historically important for various activities such as water for human and livestock drinking purposes, agricultural activities, and irrigation of gardens and to a power water mill. The increased number of people relocating and using the Diep River corridor resulted in degradation and transformation of the river. The study thereof acknowledges people as the major cause of transformation of the Diep River corridor. Literature revealed a lot of studies that have been about water quality, vegetation cover and positions people as the cause of environmental crisis such as pollution. This study thereof saw the need to assess the perceptions of people towards their natural environment and see if this could be used to argue for the importance of this green amenity. Overall, the assessment of community members' perceptions regarding the importance of the river corridor as an available green space was a challenge as individuals had a number of different views. Cultural ecosystem services associated with the Diep River corridor are numerous and variably experienced and enjoyed by the different communities along the river corridor. The outcome of the study revealed different levels of importance and various uses of the corridor by individual and group participants. Important community activities included walking, relaxing, enjoying the peaceful environment, experiencing the beauty of nature, spending time alone or with loved ones, having picnics, sports and kayaking/ boating. The study recognizes that improved management of Diep River corridor for these recreational activities is important and efforts must be made to meet the diverse interest of local community members and residents. The findings will hopefully result in community needs being taken into increased consideration for future recreational management around the Diep River corridor.

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BELVILLE, DARA SUE. "REGION - COMMUNITY - PLACE: A CULTURAL MUSEUM CENTER IN SOUTHEASTERN OHIO." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053612447.

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Belville, Dara. "Region - community - place a cultural museum center in southeastern Ohio /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=ucin1053612447.

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MacDougall, Jennifer Paige. "Being deaf in a Yucatec Maya community: communication and identity negotiation." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=114162.

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My dissertation sheds light on multilayered experiences of identity in an indigenous, Yucatec Maya community where both deaf and hearing persons use sign language. Owing to the history of Spanish colonialism in this region, and as a result of state approaches which see deafness as pathology, the peoples of Chican acquiesce to assumptions about their identity without necessarily emulating these assertions within community life. At the time I carried out fieldwork, identity assertions in Chican appeared to be reactive, therefore ephemeral, rather than based on some inherent essentialized quality. This was the case for deaf members of the community, and also for the community at large, both of whom negotiate identity labels strategically and continually in a passive form of resistance to hierarchical traditions of social labeling. I consider subjective, collective, and imposed identities in light of local and global assumptions about what it means to be Deaf, or to be Maya.Methodologically, I use ethnographic inquiry to explore the nature of communication in my field site by engaging passively with my interlocutors in their daily life activities. Allowing local people to carve out my role in the community, I became engaged in educational and recreational workshops facilitating my observance of integrated sign language use. Becoming aware of disjuncture between local perspectives and state approaches, especially toward deafness, gave rise to my founding a non-profit organization called YUCAN Make a Difference A.C. The activities of YUCAN suggest the utility of ethnography as a means to bridge local initiatives with state efforts at facilitating community wellbeing.
Ma thèse explore les diverses expériences identitaires au sein d'une communauté indigèn Maya Yucatec où les personnes sourdes aussi bien que les personnes entendantes se servent du langage des signes. De par l'histoire coloniale de la région, autrefois sous domination espagnole, ainsi qu'en raison de l'approche étatique qui médicalise la surdité, la population de Chican ne s'oppose pas aux suppositions faites quant à leur identité, sans pour autant émuler ces affirmations au sein de la vie communautaire. Lors de mon travail de terrain dans la région de Chican, les affirmations identitaires semblaient émerger en réaction à des circonstances spécifiques et étaient donc plus éphémères que fondées sur des caractérisitques essentialistes. Ceci était le cas à la fois pour les membres sourds de la communauté et l'ensemble de la communauté en général. Ces deux groupes négocient leurs dénominations identitaires de façon stratégique et continuelle, par une forme de résistance passive aux traditions hiérarchiques de l'étiquetage social. Dans ma thèse, je me penche sur les identités subjectives, collectives et imposées en les mettant en lien avec des hypothèses locales et globales erronées portant sur ce qu'il signifie véritablement d'être «Sourd» ou «Maya». Pour ce qui a trait à la méthodologie, j'ai mené une enquête ethnographique, en interagissant passivement avec mes interlocuteurs dans leurs activités quotidiennes, pour explorer la nature de la communication sur mon site de terrain. Laissant aux habitants de la communauté le soin d'y définir mon rôle, j'ai pris part à des sessions éducatives et récréatives; ceci a facilité mes observations de l'utilisation du langage des signes. Ma prise de conscience graduelle des différences entre les perspectives locales et les approches de l'état, surtout par rapport à la surdité, m'a encouragée à fonder une organisation à but non lucratif nommée YUCAN Make a Difference A.C. Les activités de YUCAN soulignent l'efficacité de la méthode ethnographique comme moyen d'établir une collaboration entre les initiatives locales et les efforts de l'état visant à promouvoir le bien-être de la communauté.

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Hogg, Dana E. "Influence of Cultural Capital in Two Rural Appalachian Towns: A Comparative Case Study." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73555.

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Despite natural beauty and strong ties to kinship and community, the Appalachian region has experienced economic and social disadvantages compared to other regions of the United States. Historically rural areas have been left by the wayside with little federal or state funding; rural areas received $401-$648 less per capita than their metropolitan counterparts in the years between 1994 and 2001(Kellogg Foundation, 2004). 42 percent of the population of Appalachia live in rural areas, compared to 20 percent nationally (Gohl, 2013). As of 2014 the poverty rate in Appalachia is 17.2 percent in comparison to the national average of 15.6 percent (ARC, 2016). Consequently Appalachian towns have been privy to anti-poverty policies and development work by the United States government for over half a century (Farmbry, 2014). But the anti-poverty measures did very little to change the region. In order to promote change and prosper as a region, many Appalachian towns have turned to using their cultural capital as a community development resource. As a tool in community building, cultural capital shifts the focus of a community away from its problems, towards its assets (Phillips and Shockley, 2010). The purpose of this study was to explore how two rural Appalachian towns use cultural capital to impact their community's viability. To do so the researcher used qualitative interview methods and focus groups to understand the experiences of three leadership groups in each community. The findings of this study provide insight into how communities identify and operationalize their cultural capital, and what impact it has on their economic and social prosperity. Additional research should be done on community viability in rural areas, including community visioning, and power dynamics of rural spaces.
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Gebhard, Jessica P. S. "Community identity in the "Granada Pioneer"." Thesis, University of Denver, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1595183.

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My research examines how the writers of the Granada Pioneer, a newspaper published in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II, used the editorial column of that publication to shape the community identity of that camp. The newspaper was published by Japanese America internees living in that camp, but their readership was composed of Japanese American internees and also non-interned non-Japanese Americans. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, I found that the internee writers were using the editorial column to shape a community habitus within the internment camp while at the same time attempting to reshape the imagined community of "America" within the minds of all their readers. In addition, I found that though the internee writers were subject to administrative censorship, they were able to circumvent that censorship by reprinting editorial columns from mainstream newspapers and thus express sentiments that they themselves were not permitted to published.

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Rowe, Nicholas. "Post-Salvagism; Cultural interventions and cultural evolution in a traumatised community : dance in the Central West Bank." Thesis, University of Kent, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.503565.

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This thesis examines how 19th Century social dance practices in Palestine have been transformed into 21st Century presentations of dance as a performed art in the Central West Bank An extensive ethnographic history of the local dance culture is collated from various perspectives and (in acknowledging the ongoing collective trauma experienced by the indigenous population during this period) analysed in terms of pre-salvage, salvage and post-salvage phases. This involves an examination of the impact of dominant socio-political paradigms on local dance practices, including European Imperialism, political Zionism, Islamic Reformism, Pan Arabism and Palestinian nationalism. Whilst the experienced community of the Central West Bank is acknowledged as continuously negotiating with various manifestations of an imagined community, this analysis considers how local dance products have not necessarily been limited by such definitions of identity. As the research aims to support (what has been identified here as) post-salvage dance production in the region through cultural interventions, the aesthetic principles and evolutionary processes of post-salvagism are examined and defined here as anti-hegemonic. This examination involves reflections on the author's own approaches to local dance interventions, conducted with dance groups in Ramallah and Al-Bireh from 2000- 2006. It also posits a theory of cultural evolution that contrasts with more ethnocentric notions of unilinear progress and development. This proposition includes an algorithm for the evolution of dance that suggests how the processes of learning, creating and evaluating dance can be seen as analogous to the Darwinian evolutionary processes of reproduction, adaptation and selection. In this sense, it considers how post-colonial (and particularly post-development) studies may benefit from applications of Richard Dawkins' (1976) meme theory.

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Stickel, Alexis. "Culture, Conflict and Community Mediation: Understanding and Removing Barriers to Active Participation of Latinos in Community Mediation Centers in Oregon." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13247.

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The Latino population is not accessing community mediation centers throughout Oregon. Mediation provides a safe space to resolve conflicts outside of the adjudicative processes and at a lower cost. Through interviews with program coordinators/directors of community mediation centers around Oregon, mediators with experience in bilingual mediation and Latino stakeholders, I explore the barriers that exist and methods to increase the participation of the Latino population in community mediation centers. The research asserts that mediation program practitioners have a desire to reach out to the Latino population but face enormous difficulty due to a lack of trust and, frequently, a lack of resources. The findings illustrate that energy and time focused on outreach and community building with the Latino population is necessary to increase trust, knowledge and willingness to participate in mediation. There is a need to train new mediators and to design programs to bring conflict resolution into diverse communities.

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Lynch, Karen. "Senegalese Diaspora in Cincinnati: Cultural Continuity and Disruption." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1544100674972147.

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Edwards, Terra. "Language Emergence in the Seattle DeafBlind Community." Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3686264.

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This dissertation examines the social and interactional foundations of a grammatical divergence between Tactile American Sign Language (TASL) and Visual American Sign Language (VASL) in the Seattle DeafBlind community. I argue that as a result of the pro-tactile movement, structures of interaction have been reconfigured and a new language has begun to emerge. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic research, more than 190 hours of videorecordings of interaction and language use, 50 interviews with members of the community, and more than 14 years of involvement in a range of capacities, I analyze this social transformation and its effect on the semiotic organization of TASL.

I identify two processes as requisite for the emergence of TASL: deictic integration and embedding in the social field. Deictic integration involves the coordination of grammatical systems with modes of access and orientation that are reciprocal across a group of language-users. Embedding in the social field involves: (1) the legitimation of the language for taking up valued social roles, along with the embodied knowledge necessary for doing so, and (2) authorization of some language-users to evaluate linguistic forms and communicative practices as correct or not.

In this dissertation, I track these processes among DeafBlind people and I show how they are leading to new mechanisms for referring to the immediate environment and tracking referents across a stream of discourse (Chapter 7), new rules for the formation of lexical signs (Chapter 8), and a new system for generating semiotically complex signs, which incorporate both linguistic and non-linguistic elements (Chapter 9). In order to understand the social and interactional foundations of these emergent systems, I examine the history of two institutions around which the Seattle DeafBlind community was built (Chapter 3). In Chapter 4, I show how social roles, given by the history of those institutions, were reconfigured by DeafBlind leaders and how this led to changes in modes of access and orientation (Chapters 5 and 6). I argue that as relations between linguistic, deictic, and social phenomena grew tighter and more restricted, a new tactile language began to emerge. I therefore apprehend language emergence not as a process of liberation or abstraction from context, but as a process of contextual integration (Chapter 1).

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