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The Symbolic Construction of Community
Tony Blackshaw
- pp 125-130
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The Symbol of the Motherland in the Legitimation and Delegitimation of Power in Contemporary Russia
TL;DR: In this paper, the use of the symbol of the "motherland" in the legitimation and delegitimation of power is discussed, and the author argues that the motherland serves as an important factor of the legitimacy of power in contemporary Russia.
Sexual Violence against Males in Armed Conflict: How State Masculinity Helps to Explain its Occurrence
TL;DR: Yang et al. as discussed by the authors argued that the state as an ideational entity demands the defense and expansion of its normative masculinity during armed conflict, and that individuals within that state become subordinate agents tasked with implementing the state's demand through violent means like sexual violence against other males.
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Local Residents' Valuation of Second Home Owners' Presence in a Sparsely Inhabited Area
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how second home owners' presence can be perceived as a valuable compensation for a reduced full-time population by the remaining local residents, when it comes to the latter's social needs.
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Ethnographic reflections on 'oppositional heritage discourse' in two post-earthquake Italian cities.
TL;DR: Montanari and Settis as mentioned in this paper explored the politicisation of cultural heritage during the aftermath of the 1980 earthquake in Naples and the 2009 earthquake in L’Aquila, and argued that this oppositional heritage discourse was instrumental in shaping an 'oppositional' heritage discourse that underscores the civic virtues of the nation's cultural patrimony while simultaneously railing against its marketisation.
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Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, Embodied and Everyday
TL;DR: This book presents an overview of the challenges faced by ethnographers who wish to understand activities that involve the internet, and explores both methodological principles and practical strategies for coming to terms with the definition of field sites, the connections between online and offline and the changing nature of embodied experience.
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Designing for learning in an open world
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Mingling, observing, and lingering: everyday public spaces and their implications for well-being and social relations
TL;DR: Different users of public spaces attain a sense of well- being for different reasons: the paper calls for policy approaches in which the social and therapeutic properties of a range of everyday spaces are more widely recognised and nurtured.
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The recognition and misrecognition of community heritage
Emma Waterton,Laurajane Smith +1 more
TL;DR: This article revisited the notion of community within the field of heritage, examining the varied ways in which tensions between different groups and their aspirations arise and are mediated, and pointed out the conceptual disjunction that exists between a range of popular, political and academic attempts to define and negotiate memory, place, identity and cultural expression.
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What Schools Need to Know About Fostering School Belonging: a Meta-analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used meta-analysis of individual and social level factors that influence school belonging. And the average association between each of these factors and school belonging was meta-analytically examined across 51 studies (N = 67,378).