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The Symbolic Construction of Community
Tony Blackshaw
- pp 125-130
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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
TL;DR: This book discusses the role of Mediating Artifacts in learning design, and the needs of pedagogical planners, in the context of the changing digital landscape of education.
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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).
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Uncovering ‘Community’: Challenging an Elusive Concept in Development and Disaster Related Work
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the way the concept of "community" has come into fashion, and to critically reflect on the problems that come with it, and raise significant doubts about the usefulness of community in development and disaster-related work.
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Social Inequality, Power, and Politics: Intersectionality and American Pragmatism in Dialogue
TL;DR: In this article, June Jordan argues that freedom is indivisible and either we are working for freedom or we are not working for the sake of our self-interests and I am working for mine.
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Rural Be/longing and Rural Social Organizations: Conviviality and Community-Making in the English Countryside:
Sarah Neal,Sue Walters +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider how structures of community feeling and ways of belonging are produced, maintained and recreated in local rural environments, and they argue that rural social organizations, which...
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National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 : Mobilization and legitimacy, continuity and change
TL;DR: In this paper, the National Museum as a Cultural Constitution is proposed as an alternative to the National Museums and National Symbols of Europe (NMS) of the United States.
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Politicizing vulnerability and adaptation: on the need to democratize local responses to climate impacts in developing countries
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that any kind of social vulnerability to climate change is, in essence, political and that adaptation should be studied critically by interrogating the local power structures and the resulting political inequalities that determine people's ability to benefit from programmes and projects.