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Leung, Min-hang Helen. "Protecting the character of Hong Kong villages : a community initative [sic] approach /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B23426974.

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Munro, Gillian. "'I'm nae eese for nithin bit scrapin pans!' : an ethnography of the lives of young married women in a fishing community in the North East of Scotland." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8342.

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This thesis is an ethnographic study of the lives of young married women in a fishing village in the North East of Scotland. I illustrate the central role played by women in the maintenance of home, family and community through a discussion of their daily lives as housewives, as mothers, as members of kin networks, as friends and as social participants. Major achievements of the study are to demonstrate the complexity and multiplicity of women's personal interpretations of their roles, and to show how they respond to tradition and how they introduce change in their interpretations of these roles. The complexity and range of material I present therefore has resulted in a comprehensive study which is not theory-led and which draws no easy theoretical conclusions. Rather, in this thesis, I aim to make a significant contribution to the ethnographic quality of community and gender studies in Scotland.

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McConnachie, Stephen. "Wellbeing in Buganda : the pursuit of a good life in two Ugandan villages." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22945.

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In this thesis, I offer a complex exploration of positive motivation and life evaluation in two adjacent villages in the Buganda kingdom of Central Uganda. Focusing primarily on the lives of five individuals, I examine the tensions and inconsistencies that arise in the day-to-day pursuit of a good life in these villages and argue that, while individual lives may differ, people everywhere face similar concerns in their desire to live well. Through these individuals, but drawing also on wider ethnographic insights, I explore five core themes, with a trajectory broadly moving from more material to more transcendental concerns. These are: making a living, aspiration, gratification deferral, the source of good things, and the importance of connectedness. Running through the thesis is the assertion that wellbeing is a relational and moral project as people’s efforts to live well are inextricably intertwined. A key underlying question is ‘How can we live well in a socially acceptable way?’ This research contributes to the fledgling field of the anthropology of happiness and wellbeing as well as regional scholarship on, for example, development, livelihoods, aspirations, and ‘modernity’. In addition, it speaks to interdisciplinary wellbeing research and I argue that the nuance and contextualisation offered by anthropological and ethnographic study can both augment and challenge the primarily quantitative research from other disciplines. Furthermore, I make a particular claim for the value of biographical approaches to the study of wellbeing.

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Sanger, A. E. "The role of music and dance in the social and cultural life of two Balinese villages." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.377383.

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Hayward, Christine R. "A home away from home? : the transitions of older people within two new zealand retirement villages." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Social and Political Sciences, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10358.

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This study explores the experiences of retirement village residents as they move from an independent to a supported living environment within a retirement village. It focuses on residents’ perceptions of their transitions and adopts a qualitative approach to understand the nature of their transitions and the way in which they are experienced. A grounded theory framework is used in order to capture the meanings that participants apply to concepts such as home, and to the physical, social, personal and veiled spaces in which they live. The findings from the study reveal that as residents’ health fails, the impact of increasing dependence is such that their sense of social and personal autonomy is gradually eroded. The research also provides insights into residents’ expectations and fears surrounding end of life. In many ways the experiences of the residents in supported living environments do not differ greatly from those of residents in any aged care facility. One major finding of this research, however, is the debilitating impact on well-being that occurs as a consequence of these transitions from independent to supported living, taking place within one physical location – the retirement village – a physical space which promises prospective residents the opportunity for active and positive ageing.

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Sabancioglu, Musemma. "New Custom for the Old Village Interpreting History through Turkish Village Web-Sites." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/history_theses/48.

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It is estimated that there are 35.000 villages in Turkey, and a great number of them have their own unofficial web-sites created as a result of individual efforts. The individuals who prepare these web-sites try to connect with the world via the internet, and represent their past with limited information. Pages on these web-sites that are titled "our history" or "our short history" provide some unique historical, cultural, and anthropological information about the villager's life in rural area. This thesis examines amateur historians' methods of reinterpretation in the past, and as such explore Turkish local history from a new point of view.

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Leung, Min-hang Helen, and 梁勉恆. "Protecting the character of Hong Kong villages: a community initative [sic] approach." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31260597.

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Du, Huimin. "Community sentiments and the stay-leave intention : a study of temporary migrants in villages-in-the-city in Guangzhou." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2011. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1302.

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Wilkens, Erika A. "A gender analysis of perceived quality of life, some theoretical and methodological observation from villages in the Garhwal, India." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/mq24629.pdf.

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Pellissery, Sony. "The politics of social protection in rural India : a case study of two villages." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:89acdf33-794a-4dde-b112-3800fc716fd8.

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Social protection should ideally create a framework of 'welfare rights' for the vulnerable individuals and households. The state, through a set of policies of promotive and protective measures, sets out to achieve this. However, gaining these welfare rights in a decentralised democratic framework could be a function of the bargaining power that each individual, household and social group may possess. Therefore the micro-level interactions involving claimant, bureaucrat and local elites constitute the key policy process. Study of the process itself can reveal why some households gain formal social protection and other fail. This study argues that the local practices and informal rules underlying these public policy processes are purposively guided by the private interests of the local elites. At the heart of this dissertation is a comparative case-study of two villages in the Indian state of Maharashtra, based on eight months ethnographic fieldwork. Bottomup evaluation of two social protection programmes, public works (promotive) and social assistance (protective) programmes shows that 60 per cent of eligible persons are excluded from welfare rights. The mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion in these programmes are studied. The study reveals that both eligibility and entitlement to 'welfare rights' are contested within the power structure of the local community. The social identity of the claimant, and the ability to build a relationship with the local leaders or labour market managers act as key routes to access welfare rights. The precedence of informal rules at the stage of implementation of social protection programmes reproduced the existing social and economic power structures. As a result, the welfare rights of individuals and households are affected by the competing forces in the non-state sectors. These non-state actors, through their network, were able to weaken the administration and fair allocation of welfare benefits. Through this analysis the thesis contributes to the understanding of the local state, and decision-making practices over welfare rights in a decentralised context.

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Englund, Julie Anne. "Growing old in Easington : a life course study of ageing and the social environment in the former mining villages of Easington, County Durham." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2173.

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This thesis examines the lives of older people in the former mining communities of the East Durham coalfield (the former District of Easington). The study considers whether there are unique challenges faced by older adults in an area that is classed as deprived in national measures of socio-economic disadvantage. This qualitative research explores the quality of later life for older people in Easington and, against the backdrop of the life course theory, addresses the broad question: what has the Easington context, with its historic mining culture, contributed to older residents’ experience of ageing?” The study found that the”lived experience” of older people in Easington is influenced by their own personality, family structure and life opportunities (in education, employment and retirement), each of which have contributed to participants’ experience of ageing. Study results also confirmed the positive and negative effects neighbourhood,”place” and social networks have on older peoples’ overall quality of life. The sense of social connectedness is an important factor relating to a positive quality of later life. An important finding was that loss of community infrastructure resulting from closure of the mines has profoundly influenced the ageing experience of older people in Easington. This research confirms previous studies which highlight the fact that older people residing in such socio-economically deprived areas are at increased risk of social exclusion. The thesis ends with a discussion of some implications from the study for ageing policy and service development.

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Babičius, Edvinas. "Miestiškos gyvensenos įtaka akademinio jaunimo laisvalaikiui (VPU atvejis)." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2009. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2009~D_20090630_094439-75721.

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Mūsų amžiuje individai kaip niekada turi galimybių formuoti savo gyvenimus. Kadaise žmonių gyvenimo kelius ypač stipriai veikė tradicijos ir papročiai. Individų asmeniniai identitetai klostėsi jų gimtosios bendruomenės kontekste. Vertybės, gyvenimo būdai ir etika, viešpatavusios toje bendruomenėje, pateikdavo palyginti tvirtas gaires, kuriomis žmonės vadovaudavosi savo gyvenime. Globalizacijos sąlygomis susiduriame su posūkiu į naują individualizmą, kaip žmonėms tenka aktyviai kurti save ir formuoti savo identitetus. Vykstant vietos bendruomenių sąveikai su nauja globaline tvarka, mažėja tradicijų bei įtvirtintų vertybių reikšmė. Gerokai susilpnėjo ir „socialiniai kodeksai“, ankščiau kreipdavę žmonių pasirinkimus bei veiklą. Nors globalizacija dažnai siejama su „didžiųjų“ sistemų – tokių kaip pasaulio finansų rinkos, gamyba ir prekyba, taip pat telekomunikacijos – kitimu, tačiau jos padariniai vienodai stipriai juntami ir privačioje srityje. Globalizacija nėra kažkas „anapus“, veikiantis tolimu lygmeniu ir nesikertantis su kasdieniais reikalais. Tai „čia esantis“ reiškinys, daugeliu skirtingų būdų veikiantis mūsų intymius ir asmeninius gyvenimus. Asmeniniai gyvenimai tiesiog negalėjo pasikeisti, kai į mūsų vietinius kontekstus, namus ir bendruomenes įsiveržė globalizacijos jėgos – ir nuasmenintais kanalais, tokiais kaip žiniasklaida, internetas, populiarioji kultūra, ir per asmeninius kontaktus su kitų šalių bei kultūrų žmonėmis Tyrimo tikslas – ištirti, kaip miestiška... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
Title of the work – „Urban lifestyle influence on students free time“. Urbanization is one of major phenomena of modern society steadfastly determining the occurrence of qualitative territorial differences. It could be defined as a process of urban expansion including the mutually related expansion of urban environment and urban way of life (on local level). The aim of the study - to examine how urban life affects academic youth leisure then they cames to Vilnius from villages. The pressure of today’s life, reinforced by workplace, economic, social and political climate, has reduced students quality of life. We live to work and don’t work to live. It is asserted that access to and enjoyment of leisure are central to a high quality of life for individuals and, indirectly, to quality of the society as a whole, The recovery of leisure must begin by asking what are students priorities and raising they consciousness as to what constitutes leisure for them.

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Folch-Serra, Mireya. "Communicating food images : women's consumption patterns and attitudes in a Mexican village." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66167.

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Mondon, Hélène. "Les premiers « déplacés spéciaux » de Stalin et leur destinée dans le Nord européen de l’URSS." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040115.

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De toutes les campagnes de déportations programmées par la direction stalinienne, la première est restée la plus importante. Elle touche en 1930-1931 plus d’un million huit cent mille paysans «dékoulakisés » – les premiers « déplacés spéciaux » de Stalin.En 1930, la région du Nord soviétique est choisie pour servir de laboratoire à cette triple expérience – répressive, sociale et humaine –, qui impose à des dizaines de milliers de familles d’exploiter les ressources naturelles de ce territoire hostile et de s’établir définitivement dans des « villages spéciaux », conçus pour devenir des officines de rééducation.Au-delà de la reconstitution de cette déportation-expérimentation, ce travail documente, à partir de sources d’archives et de témoignages des survivants, l’histoire du quotidien dans ce nouveau microcosme goulaguien. Il éclaire les destinées des familles paysannes en relégation, leurs stratégies de survie face aux conditions extrêmes des premières années, ainsi que leurs modes d’adaptation et de réintégration dès la seconde moitié des années 1930. Il expose les changements survenus dans les « peuplements spéciaux » durant la guerre et retrace le processus d’affranchissement des déportés après dix-huit ans d’exil, qui préfigure l’aboutissement de la plus longue déportation amorcée, puis désamorcée par Stalin
« Dekulakization » represents the single largest operation from all Stalinist mass deportations. In 1930 and 1931, more than one million eight hundred thousands peasants were sent into internal exile, becoming Stalin’s first « special settlers ».In 1930, the Soviet Northern territory was chosen to be the laboratory of this repressive and social experimentation on human beings, which obliged thousands and thousands of peasant families to extract the natural resources of these fozen hinterlands. They had to remain durably in the so-called « special villages » built for their reforging.This research, based on archival materials combined with survivor’s stories, endeavors to retrace the evolution of this experimental deportation and moreover to document the history of everyday life in the emerging order of the Gulag’s « special settlements ». It throws new light on the fate of peasant families in the North, their strategies to survive when facing the most horrific first years of repression, as well as their ways of adaptation and rehabilitation within society since the second half of the 1930s. This dissertation states the changes occurred in the « special settlements » during the war and charts the process of the deportees’ liberation after eighteen years of exile, which pointed out the end of the longest deportation initiated, and finally defused by Stalin

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Leiria, Joana Rita Pereira. "Adolescentes de aldeias SOS: Capacidades, dificuldades, suporte social e satisfação com a vida." Master's thesis, ISPA - Instituto Universitário, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/2741.

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Dissertação de Mestrado em Psicologia Clínica apresentada ao ISPA - Instituto Universitário
Pretendeu-se investigar quais as capacidades e dificuldades de adolescentes retirados à sua família biológica e inseridos em aldeias SOS, bem como a sua satisfação com a vida e suporte social. Para este efeito, inquirimos 35 adolescentes (18 raparigas e 17 rapazes, com idades compreendidas entre os 14 e os 16 anos), suas mães sociais e directores de turma. Os instrumentos aplicados neste estudo foram o Questionário de Capacidades e Dificuldades (Strehgths and Difficulties Questionnaire de Goodman 1997, 2001; Fleitlich, Loureiro, Fonseca e Gaspar, 2004), o Questionário de Suporte Social (Social Support Questionnaire - SSQ-R, Sarason, Sarason, Shearin, & Pierce, 1987; Moreira, Andrez, Moleiro, Silva, Aguiar, & Bernardes, 2002) e a Escala Multidimensional Satisfação com a Vida para Adolescentes (Segabinazi, Giacomoni, Dias, Teixeira & Moraes, 2010). Mães sociais e professores nem sempre apresentaram respostas concordantes, o que poderá ser justificado pela diversidade de comportamentos do adolescente em contextos diferentes. As respostas das mães e dos professores apontam para dificuldades, nalgumas dimensões do SDQ, nomeadamente problemas de comportamento (ambos os informantes), sintomas emocionais (Mães sociais) e problemas com colegas (Mães sociais); na escala de comportamento pró-social, regista-se uma avaliação maioritariamente positiva de ambos os informantes. Os jovens referem algumas pessoas na sua rede de suporte (entre 1 e 4), principalmente os amigos e a mãe (social), manifestando claramente a sua satisfação com este apoio disponível e com a vida, especialmente no domínio Amizade. Os resultados sugerem a importância do apoio e intervenção com crianças e adolescentes privados de cuidados parentais, no sentido de amenizar algumas das suas dificuldades.
ABSTRACT: It was intended to investigate what capabilities and difficulties of adolescents withdrawn its biological family and inserted into villages SOS, their satisfaction with life and social support. For this purpose, 35 adolescents (18 girls and 17 boys, aged between 14 and 16 years), their mothers and teachers, were inquired. The instruments used in this study were the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, Goodman 1997, 2001; Fleitlich, Loureiro, Fonseca & Gaspar, 2004), the Social Support Questionnaire (Social Support Questionnaire - SSQ-R Sarason, Sarason, Shearin, & Pierce, 1987; Moreira, Andrez, Miller, Smith, Aguiar & Bernardes, 2002) and the Multidimensional Scale of Life Satisfaction for Adolescents (Segabinazi et al, 2010). Social mothers and teachers do not always show consistent responses, which may be explained by the diversity of adolescent behaviors in different contexts. The responses of mothers and teachers point to difficulties in some dimensions of the SDQ, including behavior problems (both informants), emotional symptoms (social mothers) and problems with peers (social mothers); in the scale of prosocial behavior, there is a mostly positive review of both informants. Adolescents refer some people in their support network (between 1 and 4), mainly friends and mother (social), clearly expressing its satisfaction with this support available and with life, especially in the field Friendship. The results suggest the importance of support and intervention with children and adolescents deprived of parental care, in order to alleviate some of their difficulties.

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Yabaki, Tamarisi, and n/a. "WOMEN�S LIFE IN A FIJIAN VILLAGE." University of Canberra. School of Education and Community Studies, 2006. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20070525.122849.

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The impact of the market economy is a significant challenge facing Fijian rural communities. It is especially challenging for indigenous rural women who are managing the shift from a subsistence way of living to engagement in money generating activities. The challenge is more acute amongst disadvantaged populations such as women in rural communities who lack the resources and the political power to manage these challenges. The thesis provides a critical ethnographic, action-research study of the daily socioeconomic experiences of a group of Fijian village women, at this time of significant change. It provides and in-depth case study of a rural Fijian village located in the upper reaches of the Sigatoka Valley. The case study focuses on the women�s perspectives about their daily lived experiences and actions that followed from reflection on these, drawing out from these implications for indigenous Fijian women�s social progress and development. Herself, a member of the community, the researcher gathered data by a combination of participant observation, survey, diaries, focus groups and interviews. The researcher�s observations and understandings were fed back to the participants in the form of a workshop with the intention of confirmation and to provide and opportunity for action based on this reflection. It is argued that the success of managing the influence of the market economy on the villagers is to create social and political spaces and opportunities to hear and understand local epistemologies and daily lived experiences, reflexively. As an indigenous scholar, the researcher interrogates and deconstructs her own academic epistemologies and positions as a knowledge broker in order to co-construct new practices with her people. The research promises to make public Fijian village women�s knowledge, values, practices and experiences so that they can be understood by local scholars and local government development officers. Privileging the village women�s knowledge and bringing it to the core is a significant political act that might form the basis of proceeding political encounters that women will face in the development process.

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Kereme, Philip Tene, and n/a. "Youth unemployment and schooling in relation to human resources development in Papua New Guinea." University of Canberra. Teacher Education, 1997. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050712.120913.

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Yahsi, Zekiye. "The Village School and Village Life: An Ethnographic Study of Early Childhood Education." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1308330569.

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Caswell, Thomas Hubbard. "Designing an online support community for novice computer users." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2504.

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This project seeks to identify characteristics of successful online communities and apply them to designing and prototyping an online discussion forum where novice computer users can share computer questions and answers. Usability and sociability are identified as essential goals in the development of online communities. Appropriate and effective Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) software is evaluated and selected to run the discussion forum.

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Young, Nathan Paul. "Modernity's Other: Nostalgia for Village Life in Turkey." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu15941993221831.

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Chien, Kevin Yang-Cheng. "A Line Demarcating Greenwich Village." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36534.

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The trail of the artifact is an anonymous line on a tourist map of Manhattan. It delimits the boundary, separates the inner and outer, and occupies space. This occupied space juxtaposing the edge of Greenwich Village is an invisible and a undetermined line in the city. Architecture is the result of thinking of object as act, as transformation, and as invention. The project searches, explores, and makes this line present.
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Watkins, Francine. "Imaginings of 'community' : contested social relations in an English rural village." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286879.

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Waldren, Jacqueline. "Insiders and outsiders in a Mallorquin village community." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305818.

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Allerton, Catherine Lucy. "Places, paths and persons : the landscape of kinship and history in southern Manggarai, Flores, Indonesia." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367526.

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What is the connection between people and the landscape that surrounds them? How do changes in that landscape affect social life? This study of a dual-sited village community in southern Manggarai (eastern Indonesia) argues that places and pathways are crucially implicated in the constitution of persons and social relationships. Manggarai life takes place within a complex and contested 'landscape' of kinship and history, in which state policies and religious conversion are leading people to reinterpret traditional notions of growth, fertility and the land. In considering this landscape, the study connects literature on the southeast Asian 'House' with the analysis of transformative journeys, and descriptions of village layout and sacred geography with the ethnography of family intimacy. Rooms are shown to be central to the constitution of households and notions of siblingship, whilst ordinary houses are egalitarian collections of rooms, and sites of ritual remembering. Clan identity is embodied in the drum house, but the significance of this 'House' as a social institution is changing under the influence of state cultural politics. Marriage is conceptualised as creating 'paths' of relatedness, and individual alliance connections are maintained by emotional journeys along these paths. Within origin villages, named fields and sacred, stone platforms are potent signs both in and of history, but their absence in recently settled villages contributes to the ritual 'emptiness' of these sites. History is also revealed in the landscape through topogenies that relate ancestral journeys from place to place, and through the growth of seedling villages. However, recent histories have created new interpretations of this landscape. In particular, people engage with their community's division between a highland site and a lowland, satellite village by 'swinging' between the power of 'the outside', and the authority of the centred, ancestral interior.

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Pankhurst, Donna Tracey. "The dynamics of the social relations of production and reproduction in Zimbabwean Communal areas." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.253755.

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Williams, Rachel Spooner. "Interpreting cultural difference : articulations of 'race', gender and rurality in Britain and New Zealand/Aotearoa." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389093.

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Johannesma, Teresa Corina. "A place to live in East Village." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ42341.pdf.

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Liddle, Jennifer. "Everyday life in a UK retirement village : a mixed-methods study." Thesis, Keele University, 2016. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/2375/.

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This study focuses on the experiences of older people living in a UK purpose-built retirement community – Denham Garden Village (DGV). The aim was to understand more about everyday life in this particular environmental context including how the environment and organisation of the village related to residents’ everyday experiences. Using a mixed methods approach, the study draws on quantitative survey data from the Longitudinal study of Ageing in a Retirement Community (LARC) and combines this with 20 in-depth qualitative interviews with residents living in DGV. Data analysis combined descriptive statistics for the quantitative data with qualitative themes. The dimensions of work-leisure, solitary-social, and community integration were used as a framework to explore how aspects of the environment and individual circumstances, attitudes and beliefs shape patterns of everyday life. The study found that decisions to move were frequently preceded by changes in personal situations. The social and spatial separation of DGV from the wider community maintained the village as an almost exclusively age-segregated environment. Opportunities for social contact were widespread, but levels of loneliness were no lower than in the general population. The diversity in residents’ situations, resources and experiences contrasted with shared community stories of the village as a community of ‘choice’. In addition, norms and expectations about levels of activity and engagement served, in some cases, to prompt feelings of obligation and guilt among residents. Findings suggest a need for more emphasis on the individuality of residents’ experiences of everyday life – both in terms of representing such diversity in publicity and marketing materials, and in working towards an ethos of respect, tolerance and acceptance within communities like DGV. It is suggested that future research could focus on ways to reduce the age-segregated nature of existing developments like DGV, enabling them to function as integrated parts of the wider community.

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FISCHER, ALLISON. "REDEFINING THE LIVABLE CITY: CATERING TO THE CREATIVE CLASS BY INTEGRATING VILLAGE QUALITIES INTO URBAN LIFE." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179509194.

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Zhou, Jian. "RETHINKING URBAN VILLAGE IN BEIJING : EXPLORING STRATEGIES FOR INFRASTRUCTURE AND PUBLIC SPACE, STRENTHENING COMMUNITY LIFE." Thesis, KTH, Stadsbyggnad, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-146320.

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The project is to develop practical strategies for an urban village in Beijing which integrates programs of infrastructure, public space and community life. First, it contains research which clarifies what is urban village and its formation process under Beijing’s extension background; the inhabitants, the value, and the situation of urban village. Second, it includes clear analyses of the location, land-use, spatial condition, and typology of streets and nodes; the main problems and corresponding interventions, and develops the strategy as integrated & centralized program system. Finally, the project develops the masterplan, the system model and the layers in which the programs really integrate and work together.

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Thomas, Marcel. "Local lives, parallel histories : villagers and everyday life in the divided Germany." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2017. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.738224.

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Comer, Joe. "A training curriculum for the Village Life Coach program| A grant proposal." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1587891.

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The purpose of this project was to write grant proposal to seek funding to support the Village's Life Coach Program. The project aims to train and pay a stipend to a group of 10 Life Coaches. The funding will enable the Life Coaches to receive trainings that can help prepare them to take on a mentor role while also giving them skills to strengthen their recovery. The program has an overall goal to prepare Life Coaches with skills that can help facilitate change with the members they work with and with themselves. This goal will be completed by organizing topics that will be covered in the training, recruiting skilled trainers, and developing materials for the training. To ensure that this training program has fulfilled the overall goal, evaluations will be conducted both during and after the program is complete. Submission of the grant was not a requirement of this project.

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Lethbridge, Amy. "Embera Drua: The Impact of Tourism on Indigenous Village Life in Panama." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1475762365668354.

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Whisenhunt, Elizabeth C. M. "Subsistence Practices at Nancy Patterson Village." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2021. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8975.

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The purpose of this thesis was to gain an insight into the macrobotanical subsistence practices of Nancy Patterson Village and see how those practices fit in with the practices of the general Mesa Verde region by analyzing the burnt macrobotanical remains found in processed flotation samples. Previous work done at Nancy Patterson Village showed a shift in the faunal subsistence practices to a greater reliance on domesticated turkey during the Pueblo III period. However, the macro botanical analysis showed a higher richness of wild plant taxa in the Pueblo III period when compared to Pueblo II. The change to a higher richness of plant taxa in the later period is attributed to the changes in social and environmental climates causing difficulties in sustaining the population. These difficulties pushed the inhabitants to expand their selection of plant types used for food. Despite the higher richness of plant taxa in Pueblo III, other sites from the Central Mesa Verde region had higher richness. However, Nancy Patterson Village used the smaller number of wild plants types more intensely than the other sites from the region. No explanation was found to explain this difference.

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黃明康 and Min-hon Thomas Wong. "A Vietnamese village in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31984885.

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Bosworth, P. Anne. "Village life in the Vale of Belvoir : social and economic change, 1851-1881." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1989. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/6738.

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A study of the effects upon the village community of various areas of social and economic change. Based upon detailed examination of seven villages within the Leicestershire Vale of Belvoir, the thesis considers varied responses to legislative changes. such as those in employment regulation and education, to economic change such as that in agriculture and in the means of transport, and to social pressures for change as in the fields of religious allegiance or public recreation. Census evidence of changing population levels, and of variations in the composition of the population in terms of age, sex, and occupation, is discussed, and causes and effects of such changes suggested. The evidence of migration from and amongst the villages is explored, with an examination of possible motivation for it. Changing class relations are explored; while small-scale land ownership is shown to have been relatively unimportant in creating status or economic stability, the continuing influence of the great landowners, notably the Duke of Rutland, is recognised, but set against evidence of a decline in deferential attitudes and a growing challenge to aristocratic political influence. The village middle class of farmers and tradesmen is shown to have increasingly assumed a leadership role, but it is suggested that the conservatism of the village population helped to preserve elements of traditional village life, and above all, the sense of an integrated community.

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Sarmiento, Barletti Juan Pablo. "Kametsa asaiki : the pursuit of the 'good life' in an Ashaninka village (Peruvian Amazonia)." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2114.

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This thesis is an ethnographic study of the pursuit of kametsa asaiki (‘the good life’) in an Ashaninka village by the Bajo Urubamba River (Peruvian Amazonia). My study centres on Ashaninka social organization in a context made difficult by the wake of the Peruvian Internal War, the activities of extractive industries, and a series of despotic decrees that have been passed by the Peruvian government. This is all framed by a change in their social organization from living in small, separated family-based settlements to one of living in villages. This shift presents them with great problems when internal conflicts arise. Whilst in the past settlements would have fissioned in order to avoid conflict, today there are two related groups of reasons that lead them to want to live in centralised communities. The first is their great desire for their children to go to school and the importance they place on long-term cash-crops. The second is the encroachment of the Peruvian State and private companies on their territory and lives which forces them to stay together in order to resist and protect their territory and way of life. I suggest that this change in organisation changes the rules of the game of sociality. Contemporary Ashaninka life is centred on the pursuit of kametsa asaiki, a philosophy of life they believe to have inherited from their ancestors that teaches emotional restraint and the sharing of food in order to create the right type of Ashaninka person. Yet, at present it also has new factors they believe allow them to become ‘civilised’: school education, new forms of leadership and conflict resolution, money, new forms of conflict resolution, intercultural health, and a strong political federation to defend their right to pursue kametsa asaiki. My thesis is an anthropological analysis of the 'audacious innovations' they have developed to retake the pursuit of kametsa asaiki in the aftermath of the war. I show that this ethos of living is not solely a communal project of conviviality but it has become a symbol of resistance in their fight for the right to have rights in Peru.

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Gardner, Katherine. "Paddy fields and jumbo jets : overseas migration and village life in Sylhet district Bangladesh." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282628.

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Busby, Cecilia. "The performance of gender : an anthropology of everyday life in a South Indian fishing village /." London [u.a.] : Athlone Press, 2000. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0601/99086428-d.html.

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Backholm, Johan. "Urban Redevelopment in Shenzhen, China : Neoliberal Urbanism, Gentrification, and Everyday Life in Baishizhou Urban Village." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-246188.

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Urban redevelopment is increasingly used as a policy tool for economic growth by local governments in Chinese cities, which is taking place amid rapid urbanization and in an expanding globalized economy. Along with the spatial transformation, urban redevelopment often entails socioeconomic change in the form of processes of gentrification, which is propelled by the dominance of neoliberal market-oriented policy and practice in the country. This thesis analyzes the spatial political economy of urban redevelopment in China through a case study on Baishizhou urban village in Shenzhen in south-eastern China. Setting out from the broad concern over urban inequality, socio-spatial segregation, ‘the right to the city’, and sustainability in contemporary critical urban theory, the thesis constructs a theoretical framework involving the concepts of neoliberal urbanism, gentrification, sustainable urban development, as well as ‘bottom-up urbanism’ approaches. Employing this framework, the case study conducts a macro-level city comprehensive plan analysis, a meso-level urban village redevelopment site plan analysis, and micro-level interview study and ethnographic observations of everyday life and space in the urban village. On the basis of this study, the thesis makes the arguments that: Neoliberal urbanism is certainly active in the spatial political economy of urban redevelopment in Shenzhen and China, and is markedly state-led under authoritarian governance structures that encourage increased marketization; The ongoing processes of gentrification in the urban village are intertwined with local and national political systems and social arrangements, and cause stress for the migrant tenants of the urban village, which clearly is not in line with the urban sustainability discourse of the UN’s New Urban Agenda; The tactic responses and individual coping-strategies found in the urban village reveals a condition of both precarity and agency in the everyday lives of the often marginalized poor that inhabit this urban space, which in turn point at emergent alternative urban (re)development trajectories. Moreover, the bottom-up urbanism approach sheds light on both discrepancy and compliance with the dominant top-down redevelopment policy, and is further suggested to inform the production of policy frameworks that can better facilitate local implementation of the New Urban Agenda in China.
Stadsomvandling och sanering används allt oftare som policyverktyg av kinesiska städers lokala regeringar för att uppnå ekonomisk tillväxt, vilket sker under en tid av hög urbaniseringstakt och en växande globaliserad ekonomi. Utöver den rumsliga omdaningen medför stadsomvandling även socioekonomiska förändringar i form av gentrifieringsprocesser, som i sin tur pådrivs av den i landet rådande neoliberala och marknadsorienterade politiska riktningen och dess praktiska tillämpning. Denna uppsats syftar till att analysera den rumsliga politiska ekonomin i stadsomvandling i Kina genom en fallstudie av ’stadsbyn’ (eng. ’urban village’) Baishizhou i Shenzhen i sydöstra Kina. Studien utformar ett teoretiskt ramverk som bygger på de analytiska koncepten neoliberal urbanism, gentrifiering, hållbar stadsutveckling, samt ’bottom-up urbanism’, och tar sitt avstamp i den samtida kritiska urbanteorins betonande av urban ojämlikhet, social och rumslig segregation, rätten till staden, och hållbarhet. Utifrån detta ramverk utför fallstudien en analys av stadens översiktsplan på makronivå, en analys av detaljplanen för saneringen av stadsbyn på mesonivå, samt en intervju- och etnografisk observationsstudie av stadsbyns vardagsliv och rum på mikronivå. På grundval av fallstudien drar uppsatsen följande slutsatser: Neoliberal urbanism är synnerligen tongivande i den rumsliga politiska ekonomin i stadsomvandling i Shenzhen och Kina, och har vidare en tydligt statsledd karaktär som tar sig i uttryck genom det auktoritära politiska styrets främjande av marknadskrafter; De pågående gentrifieringsprocesserna i stadsbyn är sammanflätade med lokala och nationella politiska system och sociala konstellationer, och förorsakar olika påfrestningar för de migrant-hyresgäster som befolkar stadsbyn. Detta ligger inte i linje med den hållbarhetsdiskurs för städer som presenteras i FN’s ’New Urban Agenda’; De praktiska och företagsamma reaktioner och handlingsstrategier som uppvisas i stadsbyn tyder på ett tillstånd av både sårbarhet och personlig agens i det dagliga livet hos de marginaliserade och fattiga som utgör befolkningen i detta stadsrum. Detta visar även på nya alternativa synsätt på stadsutveckling och stadsomvandling. Den analytiska ansatsen ’bottom-up urbanism’ synliggör dessutom både diskrepans och samstämmighet med den rådande toppstyrda (’top-down’) stadsomvandlings policyn, och anses således kunna ligga till grund för framtagandet av nya politiska ramverk som kan underlätta för implementeringen av New Urban Agenda i Kina.

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Lu, Jia Jin. "Chinese Soul in British colony :the traditional village life in the New Territories, 1898-1941." Thesis, University of Macau, 2016. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3537104.

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Blanks, David R. "Village life in the haut Comte de Foix in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374840608.

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Blanks, David R. "Village life in the haut Comté de Foix in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries /." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487693923199798.

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Bailey, Lucy A. "The village shop and rural life in nineteenth-century England : cultural representations and lived experience." Thesis, University of Northampton, 2015. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/8824/.

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Despite consumption and retailing having grown to form a meta-narrative in historical enquiry, the village shop has largely escaped attention. Remarkably little is known about the long-term development of rural services, particularly shops, which are often ignored as marginal and undynamic. Moreover, whilst their recent decline has highlighted their perceived importance to the vitality of village life, the extent to which this is based on a romanticised or historically myopic image is unclear. This thesis seeks to rectify this lacuna by critically assessing the real and imagined role of the shop and shopkeeper within village life during the nineteenth century, in terms of supplying goods and services, integrating and representing community as a place and a network of people, and projecting images of the rural into the wider national consciousness. It adopts an innovative interdisciplinary approach and offers an integrated analysis of a wide range of visual, literary and historical sources: from paintings and serialised stories to account books and trade directories. Central to the argument is a sustained interrogation of the shifting historic construction of the village shop and its keeper, from exploitative and anti-rural to the epitome of a nostalgic and sentimentalised view of England’s rural communities. This is compared to the lived experience, as established from the historical record, quantitative analysis conducted at both village and county level. This synthetic approach has required the amalgamation of multiple perspectives: writer and artist; reader and consumer; observer and participant; patron and critic; shopkeeper, customer and villager. The thesis inputs into debates relating to the commercial history and cultural understanding of rural communities, the findings broadening our understanding of the history of rural retailers and the communities they served, shedding light on rural consumption and how changing attitudes to retailing, rural communities and the countryside were developing. It also contributes to other key areas of research including the notion of community (places and networks) and cultural representations of people, place, space and everyday life.

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Coronado, López Fredy Samuel. "General diagnosis of Salitrón, a village in San Juan Ermita, department of Chiquimula." BYU ScholarsArchive, 1995. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5352.

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This study reports on the development of a diagnostic tool to assess the current socio-economic and cultural conditions as well as physical and natural resources among the rural communities of Salitrón and San Juan Ermita, Chiquimula, Guatemala. This diagnostic tool revealed the current situation in these communities, especially in the population dedicated to agricultural production. Several alternative recommendations are provided to improve development projects in these communities. This project was made possible through the participation of CUNORI (Centro Universitario de Oriente) agricultural students.

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DuQuette, Jean-Paul Lafayette. "Cypris Village: Language Learning in Virtual Worlds." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/428760.

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Applied Linguistics
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ABSTRACT Online virtual worlds provide a unique environment for language instruction and learning, yet there are few longitudinal studies that chronicle the workings of existing communities on avatar-based graphical platforms. This study focuses on Cypris Chat, a nonprofit English learning and teaching group within Linden Lab’s Second Life. In this study, I discuss the structure of this community, the factors behind this group’s development from five members in 2008 to 882 in 2016, and the reasons for its appeal as a virtual world language learning group. I also examine the ways in which teaching and learning take place there. Although the study is primarily descriptive and ethnographic, it also makes use of three theoretical frameworks to analyze different aspects of the group. The digital habitats framework of Wenger, White, and Smith (2009) was used to judge Cypris’ efficacy as a working online community. Lim’s (2009) Six Learnings framework was utilized to explore how adequately the group made use of affordances specific to learning opportunities in virtual worlds. Finally, Holzman’s (2010) interpretation of sociocultural learning theory was used to analyze recorded discourse of formal and informal language learning activities. Data were collected through interviews of 21 Cypris staff and members; a majority of participants were adults of Japanese nationality, but members from Europe and the Middle East also participated. Participant observation and my personal experiences with Cypris’ history were also utilized, both to inform the development of interview questions and to determine the long-lasting appeal of the group; observations drew on my eight years experience as resident researcher and volunteer tutor at Cypris. Finally, disparate learning activities, both formal lessons and informal impromptu interactions during extracurricular conversations and games, were recorded, and select incidents were analyzed through discourse analysis. Results suggest that members’ perception of the importance of both formal activities and informal socializing outside of class was crucial to the continued existence of the group. Additionally, they also suggest that the group’s long-lasting appeal is related to the adventurous spirit of key members identified as Internet early adopters. As for teaching and learning within the community, observations indicated that tutors and learners alike took advantage of both traditional instructional methods and the unique affordances of the Second Life environment, both within and outside formal instruction at Cypris. Conclusions suggest that both Wenger et al.’s (2009) digital habitats and Lim’s (2009) Six Learnings frameworks are robust measures of online learning communities, and Holzman’s (2010) interpretation of sociocultural learning theory was shown to be applicable to both exploration of learning through play and informal interactions as well as more structured lessons in online virtual world learning groups like Cypris. This study contributes to the body of research on models of online language education, multimodal learning in virtual worlds, and the potentially revolutionary possibilities and challenges inherent in language learning communities such as Cypris.
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Fischer, Allison. "Redefining the livable city catering to the creative class by integrating village qualities into urban life /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1179509194.

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Thesis (Master of Architecture)--University of Cincinnati, 2007.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on July 17, 2007.) Keywords: Livable City; Urban Village; Creative Class Includes bibliographical references.

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Wilson, Saul Kriger. "Redesigning rural life : relocation and In Situ urbanization in a Shandong village by Saul Kriger Wilson." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92637.

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Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities, 2014.
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The Chinese government's attempts to improve village public service provision, limit the loss of arable land, and coordinate urbanization have converged in land readjustment schemes to rebuild some villages as more densely populated "rural communities." I present a case study on a financially troubled, partially complete village reconstruction project in Shandong. Villagers outside the leadership were minimally involved in project planning, and the village leadership put pressure on villagers to move. However, the pressure to move was not due to an absence of formal property rights for villagers; reluctant villagers agreed to move because they could not afford to offend the village government. I argue that architectural and urban design were central to villagers' reactions to village reconstruction and to the project's social and economic outcomes. The design of the relocation townhomes sought to engineer the urbanization of villagers' lifestyles; so far, although some aspects of village life have changed, many villagers have persisted in "rural" behaviors. This is partly because, at least in the short term, the design and urban amenities of the case village's relocation housing constitute a burden on the poor, the elderly, and the crippled. These populations, who do not like the design of the new houses, are the most likely to live in them year round; younger and wealthier villagers, who often like the new housing more, spend much of the year engaged in migrant labor. Despite apparent local control over the project, villagers did not perceive village elections as a means of resolving their concerns.
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Kyselová, Adéla. "Vlčí Pole | živá vesnice." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-216090.

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Fulton, Kathryn Anne. "Personhood, discourse, emotion, and environment in a Tlingit village." Thesis, Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8096.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2008.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 592-621). Also available online in Scholars' Bank; and in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.

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