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Kunnuji, Joseph Olanrewaj. "Renewal of Ogu Musical Culture Through Jazz Intervention." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20719.
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This thesis instigates the discussion of the broad implications of cultural marginalization on Ogu music of Badagry, Lagos State Nigeria. Owing to the manner in which African States were carved out, without consideration for cultural boundaries, Ogu people were split through colonial delineation schemes with a minority within the Nigerian borders and the majority in Benin Republic. The same delineation process of the British and French administrations led to a multicultural Nigeria with over two hundred ethnic groups. In the ensuing battle for supremacy among the ethnic groups, in which number plays no minor role, the cultural integrity of the Ogu people began to wane. The complexity of social interactions in Nigeria witnessed the more populated and dominant ethnic groups casting their shadows on the smaller ones. The far-reaching consequence of such marginalization and social ostracism is cultural erosion and a xenocentric world-view of Ogu youths. Whilst elucidating the consequences of cultural marginalization, low self-esteem and the condescending mannerism of Ogu youths toward their traditional music, this thesis concomitantly discusses a possible method of forestalling the musical decay and restoring the integrity of Ogu music through the intervention of the jazz genre. Given the reality of globalization, mass transculturation, and the adoption of Western educational system by African States, musical syncretism cannot be evaded. Thus, this dissertation concludes by examining a method of documentation and reestablishment of Ogu musical integrity, which employs the adoption of jazz elements in creating a new Ogu musical style. Jazz is favoured as it is deemed with the potency of arousing the interest of the western-musicallytrained younger generation of Ogu people for whom jazz represents the highest level of harmonic complexity.
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Shepherd, Ann Brogan. "Black and White: Race, Culture, and Urban Renewal." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/99930.
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This is a qualitative study using ethnographic methods to collect data and critical autoethnography to reflect on my personal history in the light of what I learned about others (Anderson and Glass-Coffin, 2013; Ellis, 2009; Erickson, 2011; Manning and Adams, 2015; Rennel, 2015). My research focuses on race and culture in relation to perceptions in relationships, community, and education before and after urban renewal.
I present my work in two-manuscripts: Growing Up White: I Didn't Know What I Didn't Know and Gainsboro: It's Just the Way Things Were. The first portion of the study looks at growing up in a White neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia, during the early years of integration and the Civil Rights Movement, while being unaware of the existence of another world beyond my own. The second manuscript presents findings from interviews in the corresponding Black community and archival research interrogating systemic issues associated with urban renewal.Doctor of Philosophy
In this study, I examine the effects of urban renewal on race and culture in a mid-sized southern city. My work focuses on individual perceptions about relationships, community, and education. The first portion of the study looks at growing up in a white neighborhood during the early years of integration and the Civil Rights Movement, while being unaware of the existence of another world beyond this one. The following section presents findings from interviews with residents in the corresponding Black community and research on issues associated with urban renewal.
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Pugh, Jeffrey Raymond, and jpugh@bcv vic edu au. "Symbols of Dysfunction, Strategies for Renewal." Flinders University. EHLT, 2006. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20060227.150043.
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This thesis is an exploration of five church communities, three of which are represented in depth. These communities have as a common narrative plot a period of significant decline followed by renewal and growth.The frameworks employed to understand these corporate narratives are an Organizational Culture, a Family Systems and an Organizational Psychological lens. The efficacy of each lens is assessed as to its ability to interpret each narrative coherently. Then the narratives are interpreted with all lenses used in parallel. The results of the thesis indicate that periods of decline were associated with certain dysfunctions, particularly Bion like basic assumptions, neurotic constellations or control cultures. Pastors and congregations are both idealized or demonized in the inner theatres of the community psyche. In periods of renewal, more rational and 'depressive' engagements with the environment of the church are indicative of strategic ministry that supplies both a more adequate holding environment and significant transitional objects that assist community maturation. Moreover, these maturational processes also reonnate with what is to be expected of a church community that exhibits the process attributes of an orthodox version of the Triune community.
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Henning, Bethany Nicole. "The Kristevan Imaginary: Love, Music, and the Renewal of Culture." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1255.
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Our contemporary culture is the product of enlightenment movements that have produced a discursive mode that favors skepticism, abstraction, and a mistrust of the body. This crisis of meaning has produced subjects that have lost the capacity for convincing symbolic exchanges. This project aims to reveal the vital importance of the imaginary for our possibilities of community, culture, and connectedness. I will use the work of Julia Kristeva to explain how we benefit from a symbolic that is supported by a robust and dynamic imaginary that springs from our embodied life. My thesis is that the foundation of the imaginary is best conceived as acoustical rather than visual. The contemporary experience that best recovers these representational capacities is found in our making, hearing, and sharing music. The current crisis of meaning can be ameliorated and subjectivity can be restored when aesthetic experiences and artistic practices rehabilitate the semiotic body as a source of meaning.
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Lachance, Lindsay. "Cultural Renewal in Aboriginal Theatre Aesthetics." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23425.
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The goal of this research is to shed light on current developments in the field of Aboriginal Theatre Studies. This investigation encourages the reader to look again at the ways in which elements of Aboriginal culture are manifesting in contemporary theatre. Aboriginal theatre is increasingly visible in Canada and its cachet is growing with both artists and audiences. As a result, culturally specific worldviews and traditional practices are being introduced to mainstream Canadian theatre audiences. Through interviews with practicing Aboriginal artists like Floyd Favel, Yvette Nolan and Marie Clements and through an exploration of their individual theatrical processes, this research has attempted to identify how practicing Aboriginal artists consciously privilege Indigenous ways of knowing in their approaches to creating theatre for the contemporary stage.
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Boland, Terry W. "A case study of lower secondary school reform, renewal and culture." Curtin University of Technology, Faculty of Education, 2003. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=13576.
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The case study examines the outcomes of a process of re-structuring, renewal and cultural change in a school undergoing transformation from a senior high school to a middle school. The research investigates the impact of school improvement initiatives on the school and classroom culture and learning environment after 12 to 18 months of reform implementation.The research approach is a developmental mixed method investigation utilising quantitative and qualitative data collection procedures. The study proceeded through two stages: Quantitative surveying of students and parents prior to the implementation of school improvement initiatives; and quantitative and qualitative surveying of students and parents after 12 and 18 months, respectively, of reform implementation and application of the treatment.Evidence of change in the college and classroom culture and learning environment was evident after twelve months. The case study identified that students and parents identified changes in a number of elements of the classroom culture and learning environment. These included improvements in home-school communications, involvement in classroom planning and organization, relationships between teachers and students, school culture and evidence of pedagogical change. The research also identified that change had not occurred in the attainment of student learning outcomes, educational values and parent confidence to assist students in their learning.It became apparent that change in the organisational culture had occurred within the first 12 to 18 months. However, change to the deeper cultural dimensions of educational values and student learning outcomes were less in evidence.
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Boland, Terry Wayne. "A case study of lower secondary school reform, renewal and culture /." Full text available, 2003. http://adt.curtin.edu.au/theses/available/adt-WCU20031013.120723.
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Wong, Mei-ling. "Urban renewal and cultural heritage conservation in Hong Kong : a case study of Hong Lok Street renewal project /." [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B14802399.
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Weber-Newth, Francesca. "The game of urban regeneration : culture & community in London 2012 and Berlin's Mediaspree." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2015. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=227623.
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This thesis explores who 'wins' and 'loses' in urban regeneration, and the mechanisms behind this process. I take a comparative approach, focusing on two neighbourhoods – Hackney Wick Fish Island and Rudolfkiez – that are adjacent to the large-scale regeneration schemes London 2012 and Mediaspree in Berlin. By analysing how urban regeneration is experienced on the ground, my aim is to disrupt the notion that Olympic-led regeneration is any different from other forms of neoliberal urban development. I adopt Pierre Bourdieu's view of the social world as made up of competitive 'games' to demonstrate that urban regeneration is a game with winners and losers in which language constructions play a decisive role. I use the lenses of 'culture' and 'community' to analyse the dynamics of urban regeneration by documenting how the two concepts are strategically employed, and who has a monopoly over 'legitimate' definitions. I draw on a mixed methodology, including interviews, visual methods, document analysis and participant observation. Analysis of the empirical data demonstrates that despite significantly different historical contexts, political ideologies and fiscal climates, the power dynamics of urban development converge in Berlin and London. My analysis shows that, while there is a tendency for 'the winners to keep winning and the losers to keep losing', protest networks and critical artistic practices can change the language of the game and therefore have the potential to shift the dominant neoliberal logic. My aim is to reveal these subtleties and nuances of the game.
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Tschumi, Christian. "Studies of Mirei Shigemori's Approach to the Renewal of the Japanese Garden Culture." Kyoto University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/147728.
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Kyoto University (京都大学)0048
新制・課程博士
博士(農学)
甲第10878号
農博第1384号
新制||農||887(附属図書館)
学位論文||H16||N3889(農学部図書室)
UT51-2004-G725
京都大学大学院農学研究科森林科学専攻
(主査)教授 森本 幸裕, 教授 増田 稔, 教授 樋口 忠彦
学位規則第4条第1項該当
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au, M. Stein@murdoch edu, and Michael Stein. "The Chinese Combat Film Since 1949: Variants of 'Regulation', 'Reform' and 'Renewal'." Murdoch University, 2005. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20061123.141154.
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This thesis examines variations of the Chinese combat film, from its origins within cinema in 1949, through to the contemporary period. My argument transposes the critical approach of genre, as a popular style within conventional film criticism, to a specific Chinese form. In particular, this study investigates the combat film as a prevailing mode in Chinese cinema, with a particular history, form of progression and set of aesthetics.
The argument initially applies the war film and combat genre categorisations to Chinese forms. Consequently three major variants emerge, manifest in the regulated (1949-1966), reformed (1980s) and renewed (1990s) styles, respectively. These modes are subsequently examined in rigorous narratological and cinematic contexts, resulting in an expanded conception of the Chinese combat film.
This thesis offers an integrative appreciation of variegations of the Chinese combat film since 1949, sutured to wider discursive and socio-political changes within the country. Moreover, this argument produces a framework for a more expansive and complex comprehension of Chinese cinema, one undergoing continual modes of re-negotiation as the medium progresses into the Twenty First Century.
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Pichler, A. "Founders, floods and fathers : narratives of origins and renewal in Florentine art and culture." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.528430.
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This dissertation explores the understanding of origins in late medieval and Renaissance Florence as represented in art and in wider fields of literary and historiographic discourse. Its particular focus is a myth associating the foundation of Tuscany with Noah, which was promoted in a volume of forged texts published by Annius of Viterbo in 1498. Rather than focusing on Annius or his scholarly reception as other writers have done, the thesis attempts to set the myths that he publicised in the context of other stories about origins that circulated in Renaissance Florence. The central part of the thesis consists of three chapters each of which takes its lead from a particular science of origins: etymology, genealogy and archaeology. The topics discussed in them, however, range beyond the strict confines of these disciplines to include such themes as: the shifting narratives of the foundation of Florence; family history as recorded in Florentine ricordanze; portraits as an expression of patrilineal ideology; and the legend of the Florentine Baptistery as a former temple of Mars together with its influence on Renaissance architecture. A recurring theme in these chapters is that of the origin narrative as a myth that serves to justify present-day arrangements or identities. The final chapter develops the theme of origins to encompass ideas of historical recurrence and renewal. In a discussion that draws heavily on the writings of Machiavelli I attempt to show that Florentine cyclical conceptions of history relied on a model of returning to the origin. The chapter closes with a discussion of Renaissance artists who were either perceived as the re-embodiment of an artistic ancestor, a 'new Giotto' for example, or who actively strove to attain such a status. Finally, the conclusion attempts to draw connections between a number of the narratives discussed earlier in the thesis on the basis of a shared fantasy of autonomous male creativity
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Warner, Daniel. "Working-class culture and practice amid urban renewal and decline : Liverpool, c.1965-1985." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2018. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3019748/.
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This thesis examines the relationship between Liverpool’s urban space and its inner city communities between 1965 and 1985. As a period in which the city was buffeted by urban planning, urban renewal and urban decline, it illustrates the profound effects these processes had over the materiality of the city and the geography and culture of its communities. In doing so, it exposes the mutually constitutive relations between people and place in the postwar city. Landscapes created by planners and local government, and their subsequent decline, deeply shaped the structure of and potential for everyday life. The rich and diverse populations that existed underneath and alongside these processes demonstrates how communities retained an agency within these frameworks with which to shape their own lives. Their cultures and practices were deeply embedded within the cityscape, immeasurably shaping Liverpool. In drawing upon a combination of oral histories, photography and archival sources (including sociologies and urban planning documents), this thesis considers the relationship between the state, the city and its citizens. It illustrates how attempts to exert authority and control over the urban working class were met with myriad responses. It demonstrates the capacity of Liverpool’s inner city communities to resist, thwart and modify the plans and schemes that attempted to mould and shape their behaviour. It positions mundane and everyday cultures and practices as a form of resistance to exercises in state power. Moreover, it stipulates that these interactions ‘produced’ a series of spaces, to which the spaces of religion, sport, childhood and policing are examined. In illustrating the disparity between the city’s attempted shaping and actual use, it stresses the need for histories to focus on the experiences of the planned, and not simply on the plan or the planners. This thesis also provides a detailed investigation into the spaces, places and discursive constructs that became adopted into discourses regarding the inner city’s social breakdown. It furthers our understandings into the particularities of its “crisis” and exposes the diverse ways in which these endemic notions filtered down into everyday life. Furthermore, in presenting the memories of renewal and decline through oral histories, it critiques the wider cultural representations that have obscured, marginalised and stereotyped the inner city’s residents. Instead, it positions the inner city as a lively, productive and contested social and cultural space. In doing so, it contributes to our understandings of postwar working-class life and the history of the postwar British city.
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Tang, Siu-fan, and 鄧少芬. "Making artist neighbourhoods: production of urban space and culture in Hong Kong and Taipei." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50434470.
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This research uses extended case studies undertaken in two artists’ neighbourhoods, the Hong Kong’s Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre in Shek Kip Mei and Taipei’s Treasure Hill Village in Gongguan, to examine how historical state-owned spaces in old urban cores now have become new sites of production for artists and arts practitioners. It addresses how and why the two cities, with similar histories and urban strategies, have created and defined the artists’ neighbourhoods in different ways, resulting in diverse paths of socio-spatial development. Hong Kong and Taipei have constituted the few examples amongst East Asian cities that have converted state-owned properties into artists’ clusters under the management of non-profit organizations in recent years. In both cities, artists have become a vanguard for the revitalization of urban spaces that aim to serve the interests of the state, the cultural sector and local community through place-making practices, which entail participation in the production of meaning and local specificities of a place.
Research on urban cultural strategies of East Asian cities has put more emphasis on the political-economic factors as shaping cultural spaces but little on the social dynamics involved in spatial production. This study suggests that the new form of artists’ clusters in Hong Kong and Taipei requires an approach that incorporates the social dimension of space into an analysis of the artists’ neighbourhoods, which have tended to be less economically driven than the art districts run by business corporations. By focusing on Hong Kong and Taipei, this study shows that not only are the orientation and socio-spatial outcomes of the two artist neighbourhoods shaped by history and state definitions of cultural governance, but also by the social dynamics on the ground as configured by the different compositions of cultural space, the relationships between the management, cultural producers and local community, as well as their associated spatial practices.
This study demonstrates that Hong Kong’s Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre exemplifies a regulated space that has been shaped by contentious politics, in which incompatible spatial practices between the management by the non-profit company and the artists have created confrontations on a daily basis. The tendency of the non-profit company toward management practices, accommodating leisure and consumption experience, and including a wide variety of artistic experience has created contradictions and undermined social cohesion within the artist community. In the case of Taipei, Treasure Hill Village manifested the civic orientation of the state in cultural governance. The officials’ endorsements of social activists as cultural planners and artists as the drivers for community revitalization have reinforced public participation in cultural activities and public meanings of cultural space. The primary aim to foster collective sense of action within the artist community and the local residents in promoting civic engagement and social inclusion through arts has generated greater cohesion among the local actors. The differences between the two cases suggest that social dynamics have been central to how the experimental processes in place-making are realised and unfolded.published_or_final_version
Sociology
Master
Master of Philosophy
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Khaizakham, Khaute. "Family renewal and the mission of the Kuki, Chin and Zomi peoples of Northeast India." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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Lloyd, Thea. "The importance of self development as a renewal tool towards competent repositioning." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51986.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examined the role that self development can play in order to renew any aspect of life that was found to be undesirable. During the study the analogy was used of self development being the means by which to move from an undesirable departure point of the environment, whether that of the working world, or family life, or an undesirable behaviour of the individual, or the self, to a more desirable one. Life is made up of many different spheres or roles of life, and the only way that these can be improved, is by realising that change begins from within the self. In order to achieve our zenith in life is by growing, not only in the physical sense, but also in the spiritual and emotional sense and by so doing, making an impact on all the spheres of our own lives. In this way, changes and renewal can be started in other spheres, as well as in other peoples' lives too. It must be noted that the physical dimension works in synergy with the other dimensions of spirit, mental and social so it looked at the metaphysical as well, in order to show that there is an area which one does not consider it to be within our control, but must never the less be kept in mind in order to understand life and enrich our self developmental learning. Work, family, religious and social life, all create roles with their concomitant expectations and needs which interact and create a synergy that makes a person who they are. When one area is underdeveloped or even undeveloped, there is an imbalance that upsets all the other areas that may create dis-ease of some kind. The roles themselves create expectations that, if not met, cause conflict that results in stress. Self awareness requires, and causes, a rising up from the old way to a new way. It is a repositioning of the individual within the spheres of life that they choose to develop. This self development leads to a higher level of consciousness, and this was not mere self actualisation, as it encompasses more that the satisfaction of needs, but influences the lives of those whom they may wish to influence as well.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doelstelling van die werkstuk is om aan die hand van 'n literatuurstudie 'n breë oorsig te gee oor die rol van selfontwikkeling in die invloede van een deel van die lewe op die ander. Daar is nie baie navorsing in hierdie verband gedoen nie. Ten einde die oorkruisendie invloede te verstaan, is dit noodsaaklik: dat die verskillende rolle ontleed word. Gevolglik word die oorsake, simptome en gevolge as self ontwikkeling nie plaasvind nie bespreek. Self ontwikkeling as vak en die rol wat dit speel in alle dele van die lewe word bespreek, asook die dinamika binne en buite werksomstandighede. Die invloed van selfontwikkeling op psigiese, fisiese en geestelike dimesies van die persoon, word aangetoon. Die afleiding kan gemaak word dat selfontwikkeling kan 'n invloed hê op alle dele van die lewe van 'n persoon en die invloed daarop kan oordraagbaar wees van een na die ander toe.
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Leung, Ming Fai. "The making of Graham Street market : culture and politics in spatial production." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2012. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1472.
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Ho, Kar-yin, and 何嘉妍. "Embedded coloniality in Hong Kong: from flower cultivation to culture-led urban renewal in Mong Kok FlowerMarket." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B48330073.
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According to the Urban Renewal Authority (URA) preservation project launched in 2009, the vibrant Flower Market in Mong Kok, a long-time industry production, wholesale and retail hub, is going to be remade into a heritage consumption area. The economic network of an entire industry is drastically re-commodified into consumable heritage space, with disregard to the socio-economic necessity of the Flower Market as a place for quotidian culture and economy, and flower cultivation as a significant part of agriculture in Hong Kong. Although the preservation project launched by the URA is still in land acquisition process by the time this dissertation is completed, gentrification around the Flower Market has already started. Business environment in the market is increasingly difficult because of this kind of urban renewal in the name of cultural preservation, without real regard for quotidian tradition, culture and way of life. Government policy and previous scholarship have paid little attention to the needs and contributions of producers and sellers in the flower industry in understanding the Mong Kok Flower Market heritage preservation project, which this research aims to rectify.
This dissertation studies the history, operation and transformation of the Mong Kok Flower Market and flower cultivation in Hong Kong. Through investigating the power dynamics between ordinary people, local elites and the government in the process, this research discovers a kind of subjugated knowledge, purposely neglected, but is in fact of great importance to the understanding of how coloniality (colonial mentality) is embedded in the daily operations of power in colonial and postcolonial Hong Kong. This implies that the official end of colonialism does not automatically allow for the end of coloniality, which this research discovers to be still evidently embedded in Hong Kong’s “governmentality.” In fact, coloniality can be glimpsed through discovering its embedded operations in the daily operations and transformations of the Mong Kok Flower Market and flower cultivation in Hong Kong.
My thesis engages in a process of decolonisation, which aims to explore embedded coloniality as a method of disclosing unarticulated and unconscious values and mentalities hidden in institutional practices that have been used to govern Hong Kong. The government has implanted this mentality in a process in which social injustice becomes institutionalised into well-accepted values in daily practice, and in this way, coloniality becomes normalised and legitimised. The government had deployed unjust social relations into executive protocols, bureaucratic procedures and laws governing the government and semi-governmental bodies affecting everyday life.
The theoretical framework of this study is principally drawn from Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Ranajit Guha’s subaltern studies theories, which articulate the nature of subaltern people and their power dynamics vis-?-vis the elite. This study is structured through an examination of three aspects related to the flower industry: the first emphasises the dissipation of flower cultivation in the New Territories in relation to the collaboration between the government and the rural elites; the second highlights law enforcement patrols in the flower market wherein the government uses street management tactics rather than responding to the industry’s requests for a permanent wholesale market; and the third examines the heritage preservation of several buildings in the market and a revitalisation project in the vicinity as a way of beautifying the area, yet in these projects the government failed to engage the people in the industry in a democratic process of decision-making to determine the future of the market.
My research explores three key issues relating to subaltern studies: (1) how coloniality is negotiated, articulated, forced and infused into the flower industry; (2) the impact of coloniality imposed on the flower industry through analysing its historic and cultural context; and (3) to what extent does the government use public policies (i.e. land policy, hawker control policy, heritage preservation policy) to facilitate the economic progress of the city.
This study adopts a qualitative approach, using multiple methods such as textual analysis, ethnography including participant observation in the flower market, and semi-structured in-depth interviews with workers in the flower industry, including farmers, wholesalers, retailers and floral designers, etc. I performed participant observation through working as an assistant in a retail flower shop before Valentine’s Day which allowed me to gain first-hand information about flower shop operation and the customers’ perception of flowers. Through these approaches and methods my thesis explores the flower culture of Hong Kong and the power dynamics between the government, elites and ordinary people.
The findings of the thesis reveal that the government often adopted negotiation as a means of governance. For instance, the government used various methods to incorporate local resistance as a way to facilitate development, but at the same time, ignored the needs of the flower industry, such as the need (1) to relax land administration rules which would have allowed larger pieces of land for flower cultivation, (2) to offer an appropriate site for a permanent flower market, and (3) to widen the pavement to solve the problem of street obstruction. Instead, the government managed people’s request for a permanent flower market. Law enforcement officers were employed to control the street and limit illegitimate use. I found that a hegemonic decision-making process prevailed, and the government tended to value professional advice but refused to seriously consider the voice of the people. These findings reveal the unwritten power dynamics between the government, elites and ordinary people and add variations to subaltern studies which merely focus on the agency of subalterns.
This research is one of the first few local attempts to study the flower industry through its historical and cultural formation. By exploring the point of view of subaltern people vis-?-vis the power dynamics between the government and local elites in executive protocols, bureaucratic practices and laws, this research aims to adopt subaltern studies in understanding quotidian culture, and to make a significant contribution to postcolonial studies and urban studies.published_or_final_version
Comparative Literature
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Master of Philosophy
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Vignoe, Camilla G. Wengler. "Living Aloha: Portraits of Resilience, Renewal, Reclamation, and Resistance." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1432737872.
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Lee, Cheuk-hei, and 李卓禧. "Culture-led regeneration: an opportunity for sustainable urban regeneration in Hong Kong?" Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B49885315.
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Culture-led regeneration policy has become a global trend in many major cities worldwide (UNCHS, 2004; Miles and Paddison, 2005). While overseas governments such as the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia have directed their regeneration policies to encourage the creative class and industries; Hong Kong is again left behind. Some scholars suggest that the culture-led strategy can act as the twenty-first century driver for regeneration, able to better preserve social networks and capital, and hence bring greater benefit to the local residents (Szeto, 2007). However, the methods of promoting culture-led regeneration in the Hong Kong context are rarely discussed. In addition, to what extend urban planning could help to facilitate creative class, and its possible impact on local residents is yet to be studied.
This dissertation therefore has a two-way focus; on one hand, it seeks to address the research gap on how culture-led regeneration can be implemented in Hong Kong; on the other hand, it contributes to the academic debate by exploring the mechanism of capitalising culture in a regeneration project in order to maximise the ways at which local residents can truly benefit. It is often assumed that the integration of cultural production, consumption and community art programmes bring about the greatest benefits for the local economy, and hence benefit the locals by ‘trickle down’ effect (Binns, 2005). However, this dissertation argues that the community and its institutions play an important role in distributing the wealth created by culture-led redevelopment. While gentrification as well as the displacement of local residents, is usually observed in culture-led regeneration, progressive community planning and community ownership of the ‘Common’ can help in breaking the monopoly of rent and fixed capitals, to the benefit of local residents.
The case of Hoxton – with the success of its local organizations in reducing the pressures of gentrification – is studied alongside with a case of similar background, Noho, Hong Kong, to explore new research and enlighten a possible new policy direction of culture-led regeneration in Hong Kong. Both cases are led by artists and creative industries in the area with the aim of revitalizing poor local economies. In light of this, the two cases are compared to firstly address the research gap on the community role in a sustainable culture-led regeneration, and then to enlighten a possible new policy direction of culture-led regeneration in Hong Kong.published_or_final_version
Urban Planning and Design
Master
Master of Science in Urban Planning
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Li, Wenjing Genie, and 李雯婧. "Symbiosis of culture and landscape open space design in "Thirteen hongs" area of Guangzhou." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4754398X.
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Mahesh, Gajanan Sahare. "Establishment of Long-Term Culture and Elucidation of Self-Renewal Mechanisms of Primitive Male Germ Cells in Cattle." Kyoto University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/200509.
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Kyoto University (京都大学)0048
新制・課程博士
博士(農学)
甲第19243号
農博第2140号
新制||農||1036(附属図書館)
学位論文||H27||N4947(農学部図書室)
32242
京都大学大学院農学研究科応用生物科学専攻
(主査)教授 今井 裕, 教授 祝前 博明, 教授 松井 徹
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Lister, Florence D., and Robert H. Lister. "The Chinese of Early Tucson: Historic Archaeology from the Tucson Urban Renewal Project." University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ), 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/582059.
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Tsai, Yuchu. "The Church in Taiwan yesterday, today and tomorrow /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Labuschagne, Frederick Johannes. "Kerkleierskap as bemiddeling van 'n onmoontlike werklikheid 'n prakties teologiese ondersoek na die rol van leierskap in die transformasie van gemeentes /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09252009-005600/.
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Tan, Jit Hin. "Cell-to-cell variability and culture conditions during self-renewal reversibly affect subsequent differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82175.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 2013.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-151).
Cell-to-cell variability in clonal populations is reflected in a distribution of mRNA and protein levels among individual cells, including those of key transcription factors governing embryonic stem cell (ESC) pluripotency and differentiation. This may be a source of heterogeneity resulting in mixtures of cell types in differentiated populations despite efforts to control the differentiation conditions and the use of a clonal starting population. In addition, this distribution may be affected by the cell microenvironment during self-renewal. Prior studies on self-renewal culture of ESC, however, focused on long term proliferation and pluripotency. The effects of culture conditions during self-renewal on the effectiveness of subsequent differentiation protocols remains understudied. Using a mouse ESC line harboring a GFP reporter, we examined cell-to-cell variability in clonal undifferentiated populations and how such variability affects subsequent differentiation. Subpopulations sorted according to their levels of Oct4-GFP expression displayed distinctly different expression levels of pluripotency and early differentiation markers and differentiated into cardiomyocytes at different efficiencies. However, when allowed to self-renew after sorting, the subpopulations regenerated the parental distributions of Oct4-GFP and subsequent differentiation after regeneration did not show differences. In addition to differences between cells in a clonal population, self-renewal conditions affecting Oct4 expression on the population-level were examined. Changes in culture conditions during self-renewal by low oxygen culture or small molecule dual inhibition (2i) of mitogen-activated protein kinase and glycogen synthase kinase reversibly affected levels of Oct4 expression in cells that were otherwise pluripotent. Effects of different self-renewal conditions immediately preceding differentiation are manifested by changes in subsequent differentiation to cardiomyocytes. This study demonstrates that manipulation of self-renewal culture conditions can lead to changes in the outcomes of defined differentiation protocols, a novel dimension to explore for directed differentiation of pluripotent stem cells.
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Archambault, Catherine. "The roles and behaviors of upper and middle management within the strategic renewal process." Thesis, Lille 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LIL1A023.
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Les chercheurs en management stratégique reconnaissent le renouveau stratégique comme un champ d’étude dynamique permettant de révéler comment les organisations assurent leur survie à long terme tout comme leur prospérité́. Toutefois, l’accumulation de la littérature sur le renouveau stratégique a provoqué́ une fragmentation du champ de recherche, qui exhibe maintenant diverses perspectives conceptuelles et des tensions. Dans cette thèse, j’explore la tension processuelle du renouveau stratégique impliquant le top et le middle management, et révèle comment ces deux groupes font entreprise commune pour mettre en place le processus de régénération d’une firme. Ma contribution à la littérature portant sur renouveau stratégique est triple. Premièrement, je présente six méta-rôles pour le renouveau stratégique qui révèlent comment les deux niveaux organisationnels peuvent collaborer activement à construire ce dernier. Cette perspective de collaboration inter-niveaux est nouvelle pour la littérature sur le processus de renouveau stratégique. Deuxièmement, j’enrichis le processus de renouveau stratégique de Stopford et Baden-Fuller (1990) et explicite comment les six méta-rôles et leurs comportements inhérents peuvent être associés aux trois étapes de leur processus. Finalement, ma recherche entrevoit le renouveau stratégique comme un acte émergent, tel que conçu initialement par Burgelman (1983). Les rôles et les comportements émergents du renouveau stratégique font notamment revivre le débat sur la stratégie et la structure, et démontrent comment la stratégie et la structure constituent et sont constitués continuellement dans le processus de renouveau stratégique – et ce, quand les méta-rôles agissent comme force de changementScholars of strategic management recognize strategic renewal as a vibrant field of study which is key to unveil how organizations insure their long term survival and prosperity. Yet, strategic renewal’s increasing literature has brought fragmentation to the field, which now displays various conceptual perspectives and tensions. In this thesis, I explore the process tension of strategic renewal (upper versus middle management) and unveil how both groups can join efforts to enact a firm’s rejuvenation process. My contribution to the strategic renewal literature is threefold. First, I introduce six meta-roles for strategic renewal and reveal how both organizational layers can actively collaborate to shape the latter. This inter-layer collaboration perspective is new to the strategic renewal process literature. Second, I enrich Stopford and Baden-Fuller’s corporate rejuvenation process (1990) and reveal how the six meta-roles and their inherent behaviors can be associated with their three process steps. Lastly, my research revives Burgelman’s 1983 initial emergent conception of strategic renewal’s roles and behaviors. This emergent approach also revives the strategy and structure debate, demonstrating how strategy and structure are continuously shaping and being shaped in the process of strategic renewal - enacted when meta-roles act as driving forces for change
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Steele, Terrance Scott. "Neogeist in ecotopia creating understanding between moderns and postmoderns in the American Northwest /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
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Kang, Jinhee. "Understanding of mission and ministry in the Korean context for the Sisters of Congregation of Jesus." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
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Jutkienė, Donata. "Kultūros sektoriaus atsinaujinimo prielaidos regionuose: Kupiškio atvejo analizė." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2013. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2013~D_20130805_101839-28134.
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Lietuvoje profesionalioji kultūra yra susikoncentravusi ties didžiaisiais kultūros centrais didžiuosiuose miestuose. Kuo toliau į šalies pakraščius, tuo profesionaliosios kultūros sklaida mažėja, o kokybė prastėja. Kultūros sektorius yra vienas didžiausių veiksnių, kuriantis vietos patrauklumą ir parodantis jos išskirtinį veidą. Darbe analizuojama, kaip vyksta kultūros sektoriaus decentralizacija; kokie yra pagrindiniai veiksniai, skatinantys kultūros sektoriaus atsinaujinimą regionuose bei kas ir kokios organizacijos turi įtakos kuriant vietos patrauklumą ir išskirtinumą. Taip pat ypatingas dėmesys yra kreipiamas pasirinkto atvejo - Kupiškio miesto kultūros sektoriaus išsamiai analizei:tiriami gyventojų kultūriniai poreikiai,prioritetai bei lūkesčiai; kultūros organizacijų tinklas ir bandoma apibrėžti jų atsinaujinimo perspektyvas. Analizuojama, kas įtakoja ir kas galėtų įtakoti kultūros lauko atsinaujinimo ir Kupiškio kaip vietos patrauklumo kūrimo procesus.The professional culture is focused on the major cultural centers in major cities in Lithuania. The further into the nation’s borders the dissemination of professional culture decreases and its quality is getting worse. In addition to cultural sector is one of the major factors that creates the local attractiveness and shows its particularity. In this Thesis are analyzing which ways and how the cultural sector decentralization goes. Moreover there is trying to investigate what the main factors are stimulating the cultural sector renewal in regions and what types of cultural organizations have an influence in creating local attractiveness and distinctiveness. In addition to the most attention is paid to Kupiškis case study. There is investigating the cultural sector situation, and what has and what could have influence into renewal of culture field and creation of local attractiveness processes in Kupiškis.
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Nam, Byung Sub. "Developing a program to train workers for a seeker service at Central Police Academy Church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p049-0463.
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Hodge, James Nathan. "Multisensory worship in traditional setting." Fort Worth, Tex. : [Texas Christian University], 2007. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-01092008-120546/unrestricted/Hodge.pdf.
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Thesis (D.Min.)--Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, 2007.Title from dissertation title page (viewed Jan. 31, 2008). Includes abstract. "A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Brite Divinity School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Ministry." Includes bibliographical references.
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Chick, Kristine Robbyn. "Re-framing French culture : transformation and renewal in the films of Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda and Jacques Tati (1954-1968)." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3101/.
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In this dissertation I focus on the cultural transformations and renewal apparent in the films of Godard, Resnais, Varda and Tati in the period 1954-1968. I contend that the Algerian Revolution (1954-1962) – also known as the Algerian War of Independence – contributed to eroding the myth of Résistancialisme and engendered, especially in the generation young enough to be drafted, an initially confused but nevertheless sincere quest for a cause or a Revolution to believe in. This is depicted in the films of Godard, Resnais and Vautier chosen for study here. I also maintain that the aforementioned quest and related cultural, societal and ideological transformations contributed to the events of May 1968. While May 68 is generally considered to have been unforeseen, it was, with hindsight, clearly foreshadowed in the films I have chosen to study. During this period it was not only Algerians but also women who were engaged in a struggle for equality and civil rights, not least of all the right to corporal freedom through fair and legal access to contraception and abortion. Momentous changes in laws governing women and their social status was achieved through sustained challenges to dominant power structures and ideology: therefore, I complement the aforementioned theses by deploying sexual-linguistics and Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva’s challenges to Lacanian psychoanalysis in an analysis of Varda’s films to portray these transformations and argue that women are not excluded from the Logos, but rather can be considered to be the very point of origin of the symbolic order and language itself. Moving towards May 68, I conclude by applying Bakhtin’s theories on the role of laughter and Rabelaisian carnival to four of Jacques Tati’s films of this era, which, I argue, offer representations of a growing collective folk movement and are redolent with the symbolism of historic renewal, therefore also pointing forward to the solidarity and rebellion that typified May 68. Finally, I conclude that the films included in my dissertation, when considered together, have the distinct advantage of portraying an insight into the many momentous cultural and societal transformations taking place in a chapter of modern French history more commonly described as ‘quiet’.
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Wray, Jason Patrick. "Characterisation of a novel culture condition for the establishment and maintenance of mouse embryonic stem cells and implications for the mechanisms of self-renewal." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3215.
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Pluripotency is defined as the ability of a cell to give rise to all the cell types of the adult organism. In vivo this property is possessed transiently by the cells of the epiblast in the developing embryo but it can be maintained indefinitely by deriving embryonic stem (ES) cells. How the pluripotent state is established in the cells of the early embryo and how it is ‘captured’ and maintained in the form of ES cells is a fascinating question for biology with practical implications. It is hoped that ES cells will be of use in biomedical research and cell replacement therapy. Our understanding of their biology and our ability to manipulate the cells in vitro will be of great importance if these hopes are to be realised. The starting point for the work presented in this thesis was the development of a novel culture condition for the derivation and maintenance of mouse ES cells (Q-L. Ying and J. Nichols). The media is formed by the addition of three small molecule inhibitors to a previously described serum-free media, N2B27, and is termed 3i (three inhibitors).The inhibitors are SU5402, PD184352 and CHIRON99021, and they inhibit the FGF receptor, mitogen activated protein/extracellular signalregulated kinase (ERK) kinase (MEK), and glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3) respectively. I attempt to further our understanding of pluripotency and self-renewal in ES cells by genetic and biochemical examination of ES cells cultured in 3i. Analysis of intracellular signalling pathways together with descriptions of genetic mutants for the targets of the inhibitors validates the mode of action and the specificity of the three inhibitors. Self-renewal of mouse ES cells is considered dependent on activation of STAT3 through provision of the cytokine leukaemia inhibitory factor (LIF). I demonstrate unequivocally that this pathway is not required for self-renewal in 3i by characterising Stat3-null ES cells. Further experiments reveal that preventing activation of ERK downstream of the growth factor FGF4, produced by the ES cells themselves, is key to preventing differentiation. Pleiotropic effects of GSK3 inhibition are observed and candidate GSK3 targets with known or predicted effects on self-renewal are investigated as potential downstream effectors. I propose that activation of canonical Wnt signalling, together with a global derepression of biosynthetic capacity, mediate the pro-self-renewal effects of GSK3 inhibition. The description of culture conditions that function independently of signalling pathways previously thought essential for self-renewal provides fresh insight into the nature of ES cell self-renewal and the relationship of ES cells to the pluripotent cells of the developing embryo. There are practical implications for ES cell biology as there is reason to hope that the new conditions will translate more readily to other mammalian species to facilitate the derivation of ES cells and will provide an optimal platform for differentiation of ES cells into somatic cell types of interest.
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Seibel, Cory Lane. "Intergenerational reconciliation and justice as essential dimensions of missional renewal in the post-modern transition." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10172009-105350/.
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Marchis, Mouren Laure. "Les manifestations taurines populaires en Camargue et leurs publics : un champ social entre équilibre et tension." Thesis, Avignon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AVIG1180/document.
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Une culture populaire, installée sur un territoire restreint depuis au moins deux siècles, a-t-elle encore un avenir à l’ère de l’uniformisation du monde des loisirs ? Lorsque l’on parle de la culture taurine camarguaise, la question des publics est primordiale. L’élevage extensif du taureau de Camargue, qui est une des vocations de ce territoire, est peu à même d’assurer la rentabilité des exploitations agricoles par la seule fourniture de bêtes pour des jeux taurins… Or, on s’accorde à penser que les spectateurs des courses camarguaises sont plutôt ruraux et âgés. Est-ce vraiment le cas ? En somme, l’avenir des courses et, au-delà, l’équilibre écologique du territoire, dépendent du renouvellement des publics de la culture taurine. Peu connues en dehors de la Provence et du Languedoc, les manifestations taurines camarguaises deviennent pourtant très populaires sitôt franchies les frontières de la Camargue et de ses alentours. Pourquoi l’engouement autour de ces « traditions », puisqu’elles sont ainsi désignées par les publics, est-il si fort ? En commençant par des entretiens semi-dirigés avec des passionnés de courses camarguaises, nous avons pu esquisser les premiers traits d’un champ social (Bourdieu, 1992) de la course camarguaise. Cette thèse, inscrite dans le domaine des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication, étudie le champ de la course camarguaise. Ce champ, relativement autonome, mais dépendant du contexte social, économique et politique dans lequel il évolue, est un univers où se jouent des rapports de force, de domination et d’intérêts parmi les acteurs qui le composent. Une enquête quantitative réalisée à partir de 626 questionnaires récoltés dans les arènes permet d’esquisser les caractéristiques des publics de la course camarguaise. Plusieurs mécanismes de transmission ont été identifiés. La transmission intergénérationnelle est complétée par un mécanisme d’intégration qui dépasse les frontières du champ. Les amateurs sont médiateurs envers les spectateurs néophytes et le sentiment d’appartenance à la communauté de la bouvine renforce le champCan a two-century old local tradition survive the globalization of leisure and recreation? When it comes to bull racing, studying the audience/spectators is important. Extensive bull-breeding, which is one of the main industries in Camargue, is not really profitable and cannot survive by breeding bulls for racing alone. The common assumption is that the spectators of Camargue bull races tend to be rather old rural folks. If this is really the case, the future of bull racing and the ecological balance of the territory depend on audience renewal of taurine culture. Little known outside Provence and Languedoc, taurine events remain quite popular in Camargue and surrounding areas. Why is the interest of locals for these so-called “traditions” so keen? As we started interviewing aficionados for this research we were able to outline a social field (Bourdieu, 1992) for Camargue bull racing. This thesis, pertaining to Information and Communication sciences, focuses on the field of Camargue bull racing. This field is fairly autonomous, yet relies on the social, economic and political context. It belongs to a universe of conflicting interests and power struggles between social actors. A quantitative survey compiled from 626 questionnaires provides a first outline of the audiences of Camargue bull racing. Several transmission mechanisms have been identified. Intergenerational transmission is complemented by an integration mechanism that transcends the field’s borders. Aficionados act as mediators for first-time spectators and the feeling of belonging to the “bouvine” community strengthens the field
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Millar, Peter. "Visions of integrity and transformation contemporary challenges to the British churches /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1999. http://www.tren.com.
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Lee, Sujin. "La musique dans la culture régionale à la lumière des cas français et coréens." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040056.
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Depuis la fin du XXe siècle, on assiste à un renouveau de la pratique musicale régionale en France et en Corée. Ce renouveau est apparu d’abord en Bretagne dans les années 1970 comme une forme de résistance au pouvoir central. Malgré la baisse des tensions régionalistes, la Bretagne continue à promouvoir la musique locale dans un mouvement parallèle à celui de la province de Jeolla, qui essaie de valoriser son identité territoriale à travers la musique traditionnelle depuis 1997, date marquée par l’octroi de l’autonomie municipale. En effet, situées à l’extrémité des pays, ces deux régions ont été longtemps rurales et profondément religieuses, ce qui fait qu’elles gardent encore aujourd’hui des traditions bien souvent disparues ailleurs dans le pays. A la faveur de l’industrialisation au niveau national, les moyens très efficaces de transmission ont été mis en œuvre pour préserver la pratique musicale. Après la décentralisation des pouvoirs publics, les acteurs locaux ont choisi la musique comme un atout régional pour fonder un patrimoine culturel commun pour la préservation et le renforcement de l’identité territoriale. De nombreuses manifestations musicales, festivals et concours en témoignent. Enfin, à travers la mondialisation, ces pratiques musicales s’exportent dans le monde. La désignation par l’Unesco comme Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel aide à promouvoir ces cultures territoriales. Le marché du disque propose davantage, par ailleurs, des musiques représentant une identité territoriale, véritable emblème de la promotion des territoires dans la civilisation de loisirsThe aim of this research was to analyze a renewal of regional musical practice in Brittany in France and in Jeolla province in Korea. Beginning in the late twentieth century, we can observe a renewal of traditional music in the local context in many parts of the world. In Brittany, it appeared in the 1970s as a form of resistance to central authority. Despite the decline in regional tensions, Brittany continues to develop local music in a parallel movement to Jeolla Province, which has been trying to promote its local identity with its traditional music since 1997, the year marked by the launching of the autonomous local government system. Situated geographically as they are in the periphery of the country, these two regions remained rural and profoundly religious for a long time, so that they still retain old traditions that have almost disappeared in other regions in the country. During the industrialization of the country, very effective means of transmission were employed to preserve musical practices. After the decentralization of the government, local actors chose music as a regional asset to found a cultural heritage that would preserve and strengthen the regional identity. Many musical events, festivals and competitions bear witness to this. Finally, as a result of globalization these musical practices are being exported around the world. The policy of the UNESCO of designating Intangible Cultural Heritage helps to promote regional culture. The market for recordings offers more music representing a regional identity, a real symbol of the promotion of regions in a civilization of leisure
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Kendall, Walton R. "Pursuing church revitalization that is tailored to a church's unique personality." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2009.
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Steele, Dwight W. "Montavilla Baptist Church as a model of a local church seeking to bring unity across denominational and ethnic lines with the desire to prepare the way for revival." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
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Coppe, Moisés Abdon. "A responsabilidade social e política dos cristãos: história e memória da união cristã de estudantes do Brasil (UCEB) entre as décadas de 1920 e 1960." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2009. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/2811.
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Esta dissertação pretende recriar a história e memória da União Cristã de Estudantes do Brasil, desde seu momento incipiente na cidade de Juiz de Fora, na década de 1920 até seu alijamento do Protestantismo, na década de 1960. Consiste também em analisar as fases deste movimento estudantil brasileiro afiliado à Federação Universal do Movimento de Estudantes Cristãos e seus encontros e desencontros com os aspectos teológicos e sociopolíticos presentes nas igrejas e nas estruturas da nação brasileira. O foco principal refere-se à percepção da piedade, da responsabilidade social e da práxis política, sempre evidentes na singularidade da vida dos estudantes cristãos protestantes que buscaram a revolução social e a renovação teológica.
This Essay intends to recreate the history and memory of the Christian Union of Students from Brazil, since its incipient moment in the city of Juiz de Fora, in the decade of 1920 until its throw out process of the Protestantism in the decade of 1960. It also consists in analyzing the phases of this student movement, affiliated Brazilian the Universal Federation of the Movement of Christian Students and its meetings and disagreements with the theological, social and political aspects present in the churches and in the structures of the Brazilian nation. The main focus refers to the perception of compassion, of the social responsibility and of the political practice always evident in the singularity of the Protestant Christian students' life. Those same students looked for the social revolution and the theological renewal.
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Sirayi, M. "Cultural planning and urban renewal in South Africa." Routledge, 2008. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1000344.
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The author explores the role of cultural planning as a planning
tool in South Africa. He argues that cultural planning contributes to arts “as
an intrinsic part of the way humans operate in the world” (Bamford 2006,
19), thereby focusing on cultural identity, creativity, and the globalization of
culture. Arguing that cultural planning, as an engine for community development,
is essential in South Africa, the author examines the broad definition
and importance of cultural planning; the status of South African cities, particularly
Johannesburg and Tshwane in Gauteng Province; and the requirements
for successful cultural planning.
he advocates of cultural planning unanimously agree that cultural planning
can foster holistic community development. Dreeszen (1998) contends
that the term cultural planning originated in 1979. It first appeared in
print when economist and town planner Harvey Perloff (1979) recommended
cultural planning as a way for communities to identify their cultural resources
for the achievement of artistic excellence and community development.
Stevenson (2004, 121) places the origins of the term and its formulation as a
planning process in the 1980s.
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Eidolf, Jenny. "Psykologisk trygghet som möjliggörare för att vara i ständig förnyelse : Hur byggs kapacitet i en organisation för att möta kraven i en komplex, oförutsägbar och snabbföränderlig omvärld?" Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för kvalitets- och maskinteknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-40646.
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VUCA är ett begrepp, som används för att beskriva den komplexa, oförutsägbara och snabbrörliga omvärld vi lever i idag. Det talas ofta om ett paradigmskifte och att det kommer krävas nya managementmodeller för att framgångsrikt leda organisationer. Det ställs ökade krav på organisationer att snabbt kunna ställa om, ständigt arbeta med förbättring och utveckling för att öka sin innovationskraft. Psykologisk trygghet är ett fenomen som fått ökat utrymme i näringslivet och i forskning under senare år, då det starkt korrelerar med individers och teams förmåga att möta förändring och vara högpresterande. Psykologisk trygghet är en gemensam övertygelse hos medlemmarna i ett team om att teamet är tryggt för interpersonellt risktagande. Syftet med denna uppsats var att bidra med kunskap kring hur företag arbetar för att vara i ständig förnyelse och bygga kapacitet i organisationen för att möta kraven i VUCA, samt förstå hur psykologisk trygghet kan vara en motor i det arbetet. En kvalitativ intervjustudie genomfördes med sex intervjuer på två större organisationer. Studiens resultat pekar på sex viktiga fokusområden för att vara och leda i ständig förnyelse och framgångsrikt kunna möta de nya kraven. Dessa sex fokusområden beskrivs på följande sätt: Storytelling -”varför” som möjliggörare för motivation och mening, Förmåga att lära - nyfikenhet som möjliggörare för nytänkande och innovation, Ledarbeteenden - vara förebild som möjliggörare för beteendeförändring, Individen i centrum - självkännedom som möjliggörare för självledarskap, Ägandeskap - autonomi som möjliggörare för ansvarskänsla och empowerment och Arbetssätt - lita på processen som möjliggörare för struktur och uthållighet. Studien visar vidare att det finns stark koppling mellan psykologisk trygghet och de sex fokusområdena för att vara i ständig förnyelse och kunna möta kraven i omvärlden. Psykologisk trygghet är en möjliggörare för att bygga kapacitet genom dessa fokusområden. Fokusområdena bidrar i sin tur till ökad psykologisk trygghet, samtidigt som de möjliggör att vara i ständig förnyelse.VUCA is the term used to describe the complex, uncertain and rapid changing world we live in today. Often it is described as a new paradigm with needs for new management models to continue to be successful. In order to be able to meet the new requirements, organizations need to develop ability to smoothly adapt to change, constantly work with improvement and development to increase their power to innovate. Psychological safety is a phenomenon that got more attention in business and research in recent years, due to its high correlation to the ability of individuals and teams to face change and to be high performance units. Psychological safety is a shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking. The purpose of this thesis was to contribute with knowledge about how companies work to build capacity in organizations to meet the requirements of VUCA, as well as understanding how psychological safety can be an enabler in this work. A qualitative interview study was conducted with six interviews at two larger organizations. The result of the study highlights six important focus areas for being in continuous renewal and successfully meeting the new requirements. These six focus areas are described as follows: Storytelling - “why” as an enabler for motivation and meaning, Ability to learn - curiosity as an enabler for innovation, Leadership behaviours - to be a role model as an enabler for behaviour change, People centric approach - self-awareness as an enabler for self-leadership, Ownership - autonomy as an enabler for responsibility and empowerment and “Way of working” - trust the process as an enabler for structure and endurance. The study further shows that there is a strong link between psychological safety and the six focus areas. Psychological safety is an enabler to build capacity in these areas. The focus areas contribute in return to increase psychological safety and at the same time support the ability to meet the complex, uncertain and rapidly changing world.
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Wong, Yuk-chun Daniel. "Interweaving of art and urban life a cultural focus in Lan Kwai Fong /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31987369.
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LEE, Eun Soo. "The discourse of ruination : interrogating urban renewal In Hong Kong." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2016. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/cs_etd/28.
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As stated in the Urban Renewal Strategy (2011), “the problem of urban decay” has been identified as the major task of urban renewal in Hong Kong. Rows of densely packed, “dilapidated” tenement buildings constitute the imaginary of a declining urban landscape that, much like the squatter areas of the 1950s, are seen to pose threats to public health and to the “prestige” of Hong Kong. I propose the concept of the discourse of ruination as a way to interrogate and at the same time, de-naturalise the pervasive assumption of the problem of decay, which serves to rationalise and perpetuate the cycle of destruction and renewal. I argue that crucial to this process is how certain sites are identified and framed as “pockets of decay”, which simultaneously “brings ruin upon” these spaces by rendering them as useless. This research investigates (educational) exhibitions, operated by the key actors of urban renewal to observe how exhibitions, as discursive practice, construct and consolidate knowledges about urban decay, and how it configures and normalises the logic of urban renewal. In the second case study, I present a critical reflection of the ongoing preservation project of the Blue House Cluster in order to highlight how heritage preservation is incorporated into the larger framework of urban renewal, and the erasures entailed in ‘preservation’ in the process of transforming ‘ruins’ to ‘heritage’. By converging insights derived from ‘ruin studies’, and studies on urban space and its power relations, this thesis aims to illuminate how the ‘discourse of ruination’ operates in the logic of urban renewal in Hong Kong.
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Zandstra, Peter William. "Cytokine-dependent regulation of human hematopoietic cell self-renewal and differentiation in suspension cultures." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq25194.pdf.
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Echchaibi, Nabil. "Beyond the ethnic traces of diasporas diasporic radio between cultural retention and renewal /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3210039.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, School of Journalism, 2006.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-03, Section: A, page: 0762. Adviser: Christine Ogan. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed March 16, 2007).
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Wong, Kwok-hing Dominic. "Sustaining the intangible cultural heritage the traditions of Yue Lan Festival in the redevelopment of Ngau Tau Kok Estate /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31473878.
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Ho, Sze-cheong Max. "Conflict of conservation and development in Singapore : a case study of Tanjong Pagar District /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19672068.
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Zhou, Sibei. "The impact of cultural industries on urban redevelopment in Shenzhen a case study of Dafen Village /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42841720.
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