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Perkmann, Markus. "Euroregions : strategies of institution-building in the new European polity." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274212.
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Bashor, Melanie. "Building a tolerant society : the origins of New Labor's multicultural education policy." Thesis, Boston College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/961.
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Thesis advisor: Peter H. WeilerIn 1997, New Labor embraced an ideal of multiculturalism in an attempt to foster a particular brand of open communication and respectful cooperation among different individuals and cultural groups. This MA thesis investigates the background to one aspect of this multiculturalism, New Labor's education policies. The thesis shows how New Labor's current multicultural ideal originated in the 1960s in Labor's attempts to combat racial discrimination. As its attempts proved inadequate, Labor expanded its understanding of what was necessary to create a tolerant society, including educational policies that fostered tolerance, respect for different cultural groups, and personal responsibility. During eighteen years spent in opposition to a Conservative majority government, Labor refined its ideal of multiculturalism in debates, forging a path from the idealistic and radical reforms of the 1960s and 1970s toward New Labor's middle way. This thesis describes how New Labor utilized a variety of tools to achieve the goal of a tolerant, cooperative, multicultural society, including repurposing Conservatives' policies. This thesis defends multiculturalism as an appropriate response to a changing political environment, one that attempted to deal with the exigent circumstances presented by racial discrimination, class and cultural based underachievement, and underlying cultural tensions
Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2009
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: History
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MORAES, DANIELE RUSSO FEIJO DE. "BUILDING AN AUTONOMOUS SOCIETY: LAW AND DEMOCRACY AT THE DAWN OF A NEW SOCIETAL PARADIGM." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2004. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=5552@1.
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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOO projeto da autonomia é a linha mestra deste trabalho que segue basicamente as orientações de Cornelius Castoriadis e de Boaventura de Souza Santos. Em busca da autonomia, percorreu-se os ensinamentos da psicanálise sobre a formação individual do sujeito humano, que tem no seu cerne a socialização. Dedicou-se também algumas linhas à crise de degenerescência vivida pelo paradigma moderno bem como aos reflexos desta crise no direito, isto é, na concepção do direito moderno. Viu-se que o paradigma moderno, mesmo com toda a sua eficiência, foi incapaz de contribuir para a autonomia social e individual, pelo fato de partir de uma concepção antropológica equivocada, que enxerga o homem à semelhança de uma máquina. O desprezo ao imaginário radical e social-histórico resultou na heteronomia do homem moderno e das sociedades atuais. Até mesmo a concepção hegemônica de democracia, a despeito de ser fruto exemplar do imaginário social, contribui para a heteronomia, na medida em que se valoriza a democracia representativa, ou seja, a democracia liberal, assentada em bases elitistas que reforçam, cada vez mais, o analfabetismo político das massas e reproduzem a heteronomia. Buscou-se apresentar uma nova concepção do sujeito, do direito e da democracia, visando contribuir para a construção do alicerce sobre o qual se sustentará a sociedade autônoma.
The project of autonomy is the main guide line to this work, in line with the ideas of Cornelius Castoriadis and Boaventura de Souza Santos. In search of autonomy, we have followed the trend set by the lessons of Psychoanalysis about the human being s individual development turning around the idea of socialization. The modern paradigm s crisis of decay has also been discussed, as well as its reflexes on law, more specifically on the idea of modern law. Even if the modern paradigm is considered to be efficient, it has been incapable of contributing to both social and individual autonomy because it is based on a wrong anthropological concept, which deals with humans as if they were machines. The contempt for the radical and social-historic imagery has resulted in the heteronomy of both modern man and contemporary societies. Although the hegemonic concept of democracy is the model example of social imagery, it has contributed to heteronomy, since it stresses the importance of representative democracy, that is to say, liberal democracy, based on Schumpeterian principles which increasingly reinforce mass political illiteracy and reproduce heteronomy. The search for a new approach to subject, to law and democracy has guided this study in order to contribute to the establishment of foundations upon which autonomous society may stand.
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Johnson, Janelle Marie. "Mapping a New Field: Cross-border Professional Development for Teachers." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/202740.
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Many of the international, supranational, national, and grassroots development organizations working in the field of education channel their efforts into capacity-building for teachers. My research examines the nexus of such international development by US-based organizations with national schooling systems by naming and theorizing this process as a new field called cross-border teacher education. "Cross-border" is the term employed by UNESCO (2005) and OECD (2007) to describe international cooperative projects in higher education, synonymous with "transnational," "borderless," and "offshore" education (Knight, 2007). I use a critical lens to compare two distinct models of cross-border teacher education: a small locally based non-profit development organization in Guatemala that has worked with one school for several years, and a US government-funded program whose participants are trained in bilingual teaching methods and critical thinking at US colleges and universities, then return to their home communities throughout Mexico and Guatemala. These are programs for inservice teachers and are henceforth referred to as cross-border professional development or CBPD. The research questions for this study are: What institutions shape cross-border professional development in these cases? How are language policies enacted through CBPD? How do teachers make meaning of their CBPD experiences when they return to their classrooms and communities? And finally, What do these case studies tell us about cross-border professional development as a process? These questions generate understandings of national education systems, US-based international development, and cross-border education. Utilizing ethnographic approaches to educational policy that locate regional, class, and ethnic asymmetries (McCarty, 2011; Tollefson, 2002), data was gathered according to the distinct organizational structures of the two agencies. For the larger organization data collection was initiated with electronic open-ended questionnaires and supplemented by semi-structured interviews, classroom observations, and program documents. Data on the smaller organization was collected through participant observation in professional development workshops and classrooms, semi-structured interviews, and textual analysis of teacher reflections, organizational emails and documents. The research focuses on the voices of teachers as the target of cross-border professional development efforts, but also maps out the dialogic perspectives of education officials and the organizations‘ administrators to illuminate tensions within the process as well as highlights some surprising roles for teachers as agents of change.
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Glynn, Thomas Peter. "Books in the public sphere New York libraries and the culture-building enterprise, 1754-1904 /." Auburn, Ala., 2005. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2005%20Summer/doctoral/GLYNN_THOMAS_49.pdf.
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Minhas, Kanwar Bhart Raj Singh. "The impact of technology on marketing building society services - a comparative analysis of customers' and managers' attitudes : an empirical investigation of customers' and managers' attitudes toward the application of new technology in marketing building society services in Britain." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243937.
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Rzymanová, Beata. "Polyfunkční dům." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-226185.
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The Master’s thesis deals a project documentation of a new multifunctional building. The building is a detached. It is the three-storeyed build with attic and cellared. There are 12 flats, 2 surgeries and 6 garages. The surgeries are in the ground floor. The building is built from a Heluz system and walls are isolated by a contact thermal insulation system ETICS. Roof is a cross roof.
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Read, Marion. "The 'construction' of landscape : a case study of the Otago Peninsula, Aotearoa / New Zealand." Lincoln University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/1604.
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This project has sought to answer the question 'How is landscape made?’ by examining the landscape of the Otago Peninsula on the east coast of the South Island of Aotearoa/New Zealand. By taking a social constructionist approach, an in depth case study has been completed using ethnographic methods combined with discourse analysis. The theoretical framework adopted led to the research question being refined and divided into two parts. The first seeks to determine the discourses that construct the landscape of the Otago Peninsula. Those identified include discourses of Mana Whenua, agriculture, environmentalism, gardening, heritage, neo-liberalism and the picturesque. These discourses interact and resist one another through networks of power. Thus the second part of the research question seeks to understand these networks and the distributions of power through them. The agricultural discourse is the most powerful, albeit under strong challenge from the environmental discourse and from the impacts of neo-liberalism. Mana Whenua discourses have gained significant power in recent decades, but their influence is tenuous. The picturesque discourse has significant power and has been utilised as a key tool in District planning in the area. Thus, the landscape is seen to be made by the dynamic interactions of discourses. This has two consequences, the first, an emphasising of the dynamism of the landscape - it is a process which is under constant flux as a consequence of both the human interactions with and within it, and the biophysical processes which continue outside of human ken. The second consequence is to stress that the landscape is not a unitary object and that this needs to be recognised in the formulation of policy and landscape management.
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Abbott, Mick. "Designing wilderness as a phenomenological landscape: design-directed research within the context of the New Zealand conservation estate." Lincoln University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/1026.
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This research operates at both the meeting of wilderness and landscape, and also landscape architecture and design-directed research. It applies a phenomenological understanding of landscape to the New Zealand conservation estate as a means to reconsider wilderness’ prevalent framing as an untouched ‘other’. It does this through enlisting the designerly imperative found within landscape architecture as the means by which to direct this research, and through landscopic investigations located in the artefacts of cooking, haptic qualities of walking, cartographies of wilderness and a phenomenological diagramming of landscape experience. The results of this layered programme of research are four-fold. First, it finds that a landscopic interpretation of wilderness, and its tangible manifestation in New Zealand’s conservation estate, has the potential to suggest a greater depth of dialogue in which both ecological and cultural diversity might productively flourish. Second, it finds that landscape architecture has significant potential to broaden both its relevance and types of productive outputs beyond its current intent to shape specific sites. It identifies that artefacts and representations – such as cookers, track markers and maps – can be creatively manipulated to design alternative formulations of landscape. Third, through self-critique the potency of a programme of design-directed inquiry is demonstrated. In this dissertation new knowledge is revealed that extends the formal, diagrammatic and conceptual dimensions of wilderness, New Zealand’s conservation estate, and a phenomenological expression of landscape. This research illustrates the potential for design-directed research methods to be more widely adopted in ways that extend landscape architecture’s value to multi-disciplinary research. Finally, it finds a pressing future direction for landscape architecture research is to further identify and develop techniques that diagram landscopic practice and performance with the same richness and detail that spatially derived descriptions currently offer. It is the considerable distance between the spoken and written poetics of phenomenology and the visual and diagrammatic articulation of these qualities that is identified as a problematic and also productive site for ongoing creative research.
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Wentzel, Zurina. "The effectiveness of senior students as tutor assistants in the English special project for academic development at UWC." University of the Western Cape, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8477.
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Magister Educationis - MEdSince the inception of the University in 1960 under the Apartheid regime and up until a few years ago Afrikaans had dominated both as educational and as communication medium. However, political change - at the University and in South Africa - has brought about a change in language patterns. According to the HSRC Work Committee on Languages and Language Instruction (1981), a high percentage (40%) of Afrikaans-speaking people classified as coloured and living in the Cape Peninsula choose English as the medium of instruction and also regard it as the most important language to be learnt at schools (also 40%). As a result of this, and the enrolment of a large percentage of Xhosa speaking students, who generally prefer English to Afrikaans as an educational medium, English has become the language most commonly used both inside and outside the classroom. The homogeneity of preference has, however, not been matched by mastery of the language. For approximately 70% of all first-year students English is a second or even a third language. Though University entry is based on at least ten years of the study of English, standards of proficiency differ quite considerably as a result of inequalities in education. Because students need to improve their level of English proficiency I investigated the effectiveness of using senior students as tutor assistants in an academic development programme, the English Special Project, at UWC. This study aims at revealing that the tutor assistantships in the English Special Project can alleviate problems that occur with annual increases in student numbers under certain conditions. These are that: 1 prospective tutor assistants undergo proper tutor assistant training; 2 tutor assistants are committed to the course of academic development; 3 tutor assistants have the time available that is necessary for the task. In Chapter 1 give an insight into what this study is about, the reasons for conducting it and what my personal involvement with the ESP has been. In Chapter 2 I review some of the overseas and local literature on TA systems. In Chapter 3 I describe a case-study to evaluate the success of the TA system in the ESP with reference to academic development. I emphasize the intensive, individual care of and attention to first-year students. In an attempt to address the problem, the effectiveness of senior students as tutor assistants to assist in tutorial sessions is described. In Chapter 4 I discuss the value of TA intervention in the ESP at personal and social levels. Chapter 5 contains the general conclusions and my recommendations to improve the ESP.
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De, Wouters De Bouchout Charlotte. "Le renforcement des capacités entre autonomisation et contrôle: le cas de la politique publique de lutte contre le VIH/SIDA au Sénégal." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209266.
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Le renforcement des capacités favorise-t-il le contrôle ou l’autonomisation ?Est-il un moyen ou une fin ?Le renforcement des capacités est un objet d’étude contemporain qui génère de nombreux débats. Cette thèse y apporte une contribution en analysant le contenu et la portée des processus de renforcement des capacités développés par et pour les acteurs de la société civile engagés dans la mise en œuvre de la politique publique de lutte contre le VIH/SIDA au Sénégal. Partant du postulat théorique selon lequel le renforcement des capacités peut être considéré comme un instrument de politique publique, la thèse analyse l’hypothèse selon laquelle l’idéologie prédominante, New Public Management d’une part ou Empowerment d’une part, et le couplage ou non avec l’instrument de subvention, influencent de manière déterminante la nature et les résultats des processus de renforcement des capacités. Au travers d’une approche empirique, les effets et influences parfois contradictoires de l’instrument, oscillant entre renforcement du contrôle et renforcement de l’autonomie selon les objectifs et stratégies mises en place par les divers acteurs du niveau international au niveau local (bailleurs de fonds internationaux, ONG nationales, OCB/Associations locales), sont mis en évidence.Doctorat en Sciences politiques et sociales
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Mehta, Venu Vrundavan. "An Ethnographic Study of Sectarian Negotiations among Diaspora Jains in the USA." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3204.
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This thesis argued that the Jain community in the diasporic context of the USA has invented a new form of Jainism. Sectarian negotiations are the distinguishing marks of the diaspora Jain community and their invented form of Jainism. Based on ethnographic study that is, interviews and observations conducted at four different sites (Jain temples/communities) from June-August 2016, the thesis examined the sectarian negotiations among the diaspora Jain community in the USA and the invented Jain tradition that is resulting from these negotiations. The central questions of the research on which this thesis is based were: 1) what are the levels, processes and results of sectarian negotiations within the Jain diaspora community in the USA, and 2) what is the nature and characteristic of the new form of Jainism, the invented tradition; and how do Jains in the USA experience and use it.
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Malcolm-Buchanan, Vincent Alan. "Fragmentation and Restoration: Generational Legacies of 21st Century Māori." The University of Waikato, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2797.
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The content of this thesis is premised on a reflexive examination of some historical juxtapositions culminating in critical aspects of being Māori in the twenty first century and how such aspects have informed contemporary indigenous identity. That is, the continuing acknowledgement and exponential public recognition of critical concepts which inextricably link indigenous and civic identity. The theoretical sources for this research are, in the main, derived from anthropological and religious studies, particularly on the significance of mythologies and oral histories, as well as from the oral theorising of elders in Aotearoa New Zealand. A very significant contribution from one such elder, a senior Māori woman academic, has been included in the form of the transcript of an interview. She herself had collected the views of a number of elders on myth, creating a rare and valuable resource. In the interview she married her reflections on these with her own experiences and her cogent analyses. From the outset, it was necessary to be discerning so as to ensure the thesis workload was manageable and realistic. For this reason the selected critical aspects that have been used to frame this research are (1) a developing Western validation (that is, acknowledgement and respect) of Māori, Māori culture and their mythology; (2) oral history (genealogy) and traditions that have remained constant despite the influences of modernity; and (3) notions of fluidity, negotiation and pragmatism regarding kinship legacies and cultural heritage. The thesis is comprised of six chapters starting from a subjective narrative leading through increasingly objective discourses that culminate in a conclusion which supports a belief that modern Māori require a balancing of critical aspects of cultural heritage, with a broad understanding of the world of the 'other', in order to realise and develop their contemporary indigenous identity. Ultimately, indigenous ideologies, practices and knowledge recorded and examined in the world of academia today, become potential resources for tomorrow. The intention of this research is to aggregate and discuss intrinsic aspects of the Māori past as well as developing aspects of the present, in order to better understand the significance of the future, and to add to the growing corpus of indigenous worldviews.
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Hýl, Petr. "Slovinské národní divadlo v Lublani." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-215582.
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Pradi, Bonilha Camila. "Rebuilding less vulnerable communities : the case of Holy Cross." Thèse, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/3912.
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La résilience est la capacité à s’adapter aux menaces et à atténuer ou éviter un
risque, elle peut être trouvée dans des bâtiments résistant aux dangers ou dans des
systèmes sociaux adaptables (Pelling, 2003). Par conséquence, ce concept peut aussi être
compris comme la capacité de reconstruire un quartier avec des composants plus solides
et plus viables. Presque quatre ans après l’ouragan Katrina, la Nouvelle-Orléans est
considérée comme un laboratoire à ciel ouvert. Le niveau de résilience de ses
communautés peut y être examiné. L’état actuel de la reconstitution de ses quartiers
diffère largement des uns aux autres. L’arrondissement historique de Holy Cross est l’un
des plus vieux quartiers de la ville, cette communauté vulnérable est connue pour son
patrimoine culturel, apparent non seulement dans son architecture unique, mais aussi ses
relations sociales. Un des principaux défi de la reconstruction du quartier de Holly Cross
est de trouver une façon de concilier la préservation du patrimoine bâti et de son tissu
urbain ancien avec de nouveaux plans de développement, afin de créer une communauté
durable. Cette étude examine les rôles des acteurs impliqués dans le processus de
reconstruction et leur efficacité sur la création d’un Holy Cross plus durable, résistant et
abordable, afin d’encourager le retour de ses résidents. Elle présente également les efforts
actuels pour proposer des projets de reconstruction durables tout en préservant le
caractère patrimonial du quartier.Resiliency is the capacity to adjust to threats and mitigate or avoid harm; it can be found in hazard-resistant buildings or adaptive social systems (Pelling, 2003). Hence, it can also be understood as the ability to rebuild a neighbourhood with stronger and more viable components. Almost four years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is seen as an open laboratory in which the level of resiliency of its communities can be examined. The rebuilding status of its neighbourhoods widely differs from one to another. The historic district of Holy Cross is one of the oldest neighbourhoods in the city; this vulnerable community is known for its cultural heritage, apparent not only in its unique architecture but also its social relations. This research investigates the current process of rebuilding a more sustainable and resilient Holy Cross by assessing the efficiency of stakeholders involved in the reconstruction of affordable opportunities that work to encourage former residents to return. It also demonstrates the current efforts to build new sustainable projects while keeping the patrimonial style of the neighbourhood.
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"Contribution of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum of the United Nations Environment Programme to the World Summit on Sustainable Development : note /." [New York] : UN, 2002. http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=A/CONF.199/PC/9&Lang=A.
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Transmits decision SS.VII/2 of UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment.UN Job no.: N0230044 E. Material type: Resolutions/decisions (UN). Issued under agenda item 1, agenda document A/CONF.199/PC/1.
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Mrňka, Jaromír. "Proměny společnosti v pohraničí českých zemí na příkladu okresů Šumperk a Zábřeh v letech 1945-1960." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-327844.
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MRŇKA, Jaromír: Proměny společnosti v pohraničí českých zemí na příkladu okresů Šumperku a Zábřeh 1945-1960. (Social Transformation of the Czech Borderlands as Illustrated by Districts Šumperk and Zábřeh 1945-1960). Master Thesis. Prague: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Institute of Economic and Social History, 2013, 195 p. Based on research into regional context, the thesis "Social Transformation of the Czech Borderlands as Illustrated by Districts Šumperk and Zábřeh 1945-1960" contributes to a deeper understanding of the process of constituting a new society in the Czech borderlands. The research field is defined on the one hand by the structural aspects of demographic changes following the Second World War (the forced expulsion of the German population, the impact and consequences of unorganized and organized colonization process), on the other by the constitution and transformation of the communist rule, including the deep crisis from 1953 to 1957. In observing the changes of dominant and authoritative discourses on the one hand and the language of the acteurs on the other, the thesis identifies core values and images which contributed to the stabilization or destabilization of communist rule. The shared vision, enabling the mobilization of the society, was the...
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Ross, Wendy. "Arts in action: a public arena for art: the practical, functional and social implications of art within a cultural context with specific reference to South Africa." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2041.
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The research is based on the belief that the Earth's survival is reliant on an understanding of the interconnectedness between people
and the planet. The premise that creative expression is an inherent need in human beings and a powerful agent for social change
is at the core of this study. The arts permeate all aspects of life and can play a positive pro-active role in economic and social
upliftment. The study therefore explored a contemporary public context in which artists intervene in society to provide practical
and functional social spaces but also, with the ecological crisis of the planet, to create an awareness of the interconnectedness of
life. Place-making was of specific concern and one of the aims was to examine ways of re-shaping the appearance and meaning
of public spaces. An equally important issue was the role and responsibility of both the artist and the commissioning process in a social context and the relevance of individual expression as modes of addressing social concerns and as a tool of public empowerment within a new democratic South Africa that can have a genuine impact on community well-being and social inclusion. The research therefore exists in between the arts, social sciences and the ecology of place: that is, the understanding of the role of creative intervention within social spaces.
The study provides a historical context and development of new trends in public and collaborative community arts, contextualises
the notion of public and argues for a repositioning of assessment criteria for the arts within a social public domain and in the interest of the people. It is based on a critical survey of international collaborative arts and its potential as a guide to alternative solutions and implementation within a South African context for creative interventions and regeneration of public spaces and empowerment
and capacity building of its citizens. The research discusses the relevance and the position of the arts and craft industry as a means of poverty alleviation, job creation and empowerment in South Africa. Rebuilding community demands both the rejuvenation of
social spaces and the restoration of community esteem together with mutual and self-respect.Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology
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