Lawrence Grossman of Blacksburg, Va., head of the Department of Geography in Virginia Techas College of Natural Resources, received the 2004 Robert McC. Netting Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers in recognition of distinguished research and professional activities that bridge geography and anthropology.
University of Calgary Waste management is a universal occupation that is expressed in many ways according to cultural mores and available resources. Efficient waste management is obligatory for maintaining public health, environmental sustainability, and visual aesthetics. Furthermore, the requirement to uphold these conditions is heightened in regions that rely economically on tourism, where foreign methods and expectations for waste management are introduced and implemented at the community level. This paper addresses these issues in relation to the Lake Atitl´n town of Panajachel, Guatemala, where tourism and garbage form an unlikely partnership across town politics, economics, and cultural diversity. Traditional waste management processes have shaped local behavior, continuing to present challenges for a region dealing with the influx of foreign actors, products, and ideas for waste management in Panajachel.
This book analyses the language practices of young adults in Mongolia and Bangladesh in online and offline environments. Focusing on the diverse linguistic and cultural resources these young people draw on in their interactions, the authors draw attention to the creative and innovative nature of their transglossic practices. Situated on the Asian periphery, these young adults roam widely in their use of popular culture, media voices and linguistic resources. This innovative and topical book will appeal to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, cultural studies and linguistic anthropology.
This multidisciplinary approach to cultural mediation brings together insights from anthropology, sociology, linguistics and intercultural communication to offer a detailed depiction of family life in immigrant Chinese communities. Utilising a strongly contextualised and evidence-based narrative approach to exploring the nature of child cultural mediation, the author provides an insightful analysis of intercultural relationships between children and parents in immigrant families and of the informative aspects of their everyday lives. Furthermore, the family home setting offers the reader a gli
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This book examines transborder Latin American sociocultural and spatial conditions across the globe and at different scales, from gendered and racialized individuals to national and transnational organizations. Gathering scholars from the ""spatial sciences""-architecture, urban design, urban planning, and geography-as well as sociology, anthropology, history, and economics, the volume explores these transbordering practices of place making and community building across cultural and nation-state borders, examining different agents (individuals, ethnic and cultural groups, NGOs, government agen
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"Cultural transformation tends to be described in one of two ways: either with reference to what comes about, is created or emerges in the process of change or with reference to what is destroyed or obscured in that process. Within a performative paradigm, that is, from a perspective which focuses on the manner in which social and cultural reality is constituted or brought about by human activity, theorists have, in recent years, tended to underline the productive aspects of transformation by emphasising the creative thrust of performative processes and events. In so doing, this perspective has tended to overlook the extent to which a certain destructive element may in fact be inherent to such performative processes. Drawing upon a range of historical and contemporary constellations of socio-cultural change and a variety of different types of events and activities, the articles in this volume describe different forms of destruction and their respective role in processes of transformation."--Page 4 of cover
Gesellschaften mit starker Einwanderung kennzeichnen vielfältige Formen von Identitätsbildung und das Ringen um politische und zivilgesellschaftliche Partizipation. Dies gilt in besonderer Weise für Luxemburg im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Hier entstand in einem Kleinstaat eine der jüngeren Nationen Europas und zugleich eine besonders offene, plurikulturelle Einwanderungsgesellschaft. Ziel dieses Bandes ist es, die Entstehung dieser Mehr-Kulturen-Gesellschaft im europäischen Zusammenhang zu verstehen. Die einzelnen Beiträge analysieren mit Hilfe unterschiedlicher sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Annäherungen exemplarische Konfliktlinien der Identitätsbildung und des Kampfes um Partizipation.
Seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre, als der Zuzug von Spätaussiedlern aus der ehemaligen UdSSR seinen Höhepunkt erreichte, wächst in Deutschland das wissenschaftliche Interesse an den Russlanddeutschen, an ihrer Geschichte, ihrer Migration sowie ihrer Situation in der deutschen Gesellschaft. Auch die Beiträge dieses Bandes widmen sich diesen Themen. Was sie jedoch über ihren aktuellen Bezug hinaus auszeichnet, ist die deutsch-russische Zusammensetzung der Autoren, die sich den Gegenstand aus ihrer jeweils eigenen Perspektive aneignen und dabei ein vielschichtiges Bild zeichnen.
How are disability and rehabilitation conceived of in different cultures? How can these concepts be made accessible? Studies from the fields of sociology, ethnology and educational science address these questions, whilst contributors from rehabilitation projects in development cooperation and from self-help movements highlight culturally different perceptions of disability. A distinctive feature of this reader is the dialogue it creates by bringing together scientific praxis and practical work.
Este artigo tem por objetivo apresentar o resultado de um estudo desenvolvido em Palmas, capital do estado do Tocantins, sobre a construção do estigma e preconceito presentes nas relações entre a população oriunda do Estado do Maranhão e os habitantes da nossa capital, no sentido de compreender a construção do estigma de "maranhense", atribuído geralmente às pessoas consideradas inferiores ou com alguma dificuldade no desempenho de suas atividades. Para tanto, são levados em consideração os conceitos de identidade no contexto da migração, tendo em vista que a cidade de Palmas conta com uma população que comporta pessoas das mais variadas regiões do país que para aqui se deslocaram em busca de melhores condições de vida. A metodologia utilizada contemplou primeiramente a revisão da literatura e, em seguida, uma pesquisa qualitativa através da aplicação de questionários abertos e entrevistas direcionadas aos maranhenses residentes em Palmas. Foram aplicados 37 questionários para ambos os sexos, sendo 19 para sexo feminino e 18 para o sexo masculino.
Today, radicalism ethnocentrism has become a primary source of violent armed conflicts inside the country and in some parts of the world and has entailed an attrition of nation-state's power. On the other hand, ethnic nationalism in some countries has targeted national integrity and the very foundation of the society. This paper seeks to respond to the question: What impacts does this ethnic scatteredness and diversity have on the order and security of the Islamic Republic of Iran? What solutions are there for the national integrity? That which is certain is the existence of various ethnic groups in Iran which have rarely caused conflicts and engagements; from the issue of Turkmen Sahra and Azarbayjan in the early Revolution to the strikes by Kurdish people in May 2010 which are all issues that have been effective on the public order and security of Iran. Therefore, it is necessary for Iran to adopt effective steps in the direction of national integrity while relying on converging components of the Iranian ethnic groups including shared religion, shared land, and also the issue of shared security. Of course, looking upon the 37 year old history of Iran, this demonstrates that the country has made huge progress in this regard. The methodology is descriptive-analytical and by using data and information, some solutions have been offered.
Die Indigenenbewegung ist trotz ihrer enormen Diversität ein wichtiger sozialer Akteur in der ecuadorianischen Gesellschaft. Seit einer Sattelzeit zwischen Mitte der 1970er und Mitte der 1980er Jahre hat sie einen Diskurs herausgebildet, der identitäre mit klassistischen Positionen verbindet und um die politischen Begriffe indigene Nationalität, Territorialität, Plurinationalität, Interkulturalität und Gutes Leben herum aufgebaut ist. Der Autor zeigt, wie sich dieser Diskurs gegen die koloniale Strukturierung der Gesellschaft und ihre Auswirkungen - wie etwa Diskriminierung und Ungleichheit - wendet und daher dekolonial zu verstehen ist.
A new generation of writers in Mexico City are not playing the role of national intellectuals as previous generations of writers did. Between the 1930s and 1970s, writers worked to create and circulate Mexican national character tropes. Since the neoliberal reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, writers continue to use these tropes, however, they do so in ways that no longer reference the nation as a whole or evoke a better future for Mexicans. My method of research included multiple and extended interviews with over thirty writers over a period of a year and a half, beginning in January 2005. All the writers I worked with were acquainted with each other, and were part of a larger network of writers that numbered over a hundred. Their work has been published in five principle magazines and cultural supplements. In my interviews with them, observations of their social interactions, and readings of their work, I have focused on how they conceive of their role as intellectuals, their work practices, and the ways that they appropriate and reformulate the national tropes as defined by the literature on Mexican national character. I identified two principle modes of contemporary writing in Mexico City. The first is related to the literary genre "dirty realism". It focuses on chronicling violence and depravity without justification or judgment. Since this mode has been criticized for its failure to take a political stance, I attempt to demonstrate how it arises given the political developments in Mexico since the 1960s. I argue that the best way to understand the conditions for this mode of writing is through the failure of developmentalism to fulfill the expectations for modernity that it helped generate. The second mode is a more celebratory one. It is an upbeat consumer oriented writing that I study as it appears in urban lifestyle magazines. Both the dirty realist and the upbeat consumer copy is possible because the government no longer controls and censors intellectuals as it did in the 1960s and 1970s. Since the 1980s, to write cynically about Mexico, and to celebrate in writing the increasing possibilities for personal consumption, are both expressions of a relative autonomy from the state that did not exist previously. This independence from state control and the obligation placed upon intellectuals to reproduce a national ideology has been achieved through a shift of terrain from the state to the market. Both dirty realism and upbeat urban lifestyles magazine copy respond to the demands of niche markets.
