Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Revitalization movements'

San Felipe de Neri, a neighborhood located in the Historic District of Panama, is the object of physical, economic and social transformations that are affecting its residents' daily lives. Revitalization and gentrification drive these transformations as wealthy Panamanians invest in the neighborhood, and affluent foreigners flock to it since it became a World Heritage Site in 1997. This dissertation addresses perceptions and reactions residents have because of these physical, economic and social challenges. This study poses four main questions: 1. What physical, economic, and social (quality of life) changes have taken place in the Historic District of San Felipe from the early twentieth century to the present? To what extent are these changes the result of global processes, local processes, or both? 2. How do residents perceive these changes? Is there any significant difference in opinions and attitudes among residents regarding changes that revitalization and gentrification impose on the neighborhood? If so, how and why are they different? 3. To what extent have residents participated in these transformations? and 4. How do residents who have been relocated perceive these changes? My research analyzes Smith's five characteristics of a third wave of gentrification: first, the transformed role of the state; second, the penetration by global finance; third, changing levels of political opposition; fourth, geographical dispersal; and fifth, the sectoral generalization of gentrification and its relevance for my case study of San Felipe. This methodology enlists quantitative and qualitative methods to address these research questions to gain insight about residents' perspectives regarding these transformations. Findings indicate that both residents and ex-residents of San Felipe view the outcomes of revitalization and gentrification in mixed ways. Both groups mostly agree that the improvement of the physical conditions of the neighborhood is a positive outcome for preserving the material heritage, and for encouraging international and national tourism benefiting the country. Regardless of their economic and social status, residents claim that the place where they have lived for a long time is no longer theirs, except in their memories. They face the threat of eviction and an uncertain future. Former residents—those who have been displaced—have mixed views as well. On the one hand, they have improved their living standards because they now have better housing infrastructures. On the other hand, their new locations are scattered about the city and are often in dangerous areas that lack the amenities of San Felipe. Others feel that in the process they have lost a home; a place filled with meaningful memories and to which one day they dream of returning. A diverse residential population is the only way to save historic centers from becoming museums that present a pastiche and a 'façadism' catered to the international consumer. Preserving the human and physical patrimony is the most viable way to achieve sustainability and development in historic areas. Associations had no permanent places to meet with residents. This eroded the desire of residents to participate, and encouraged them to accept whatever owners wanted to give them to move out of the neighborhood. In the end, they became disenfranchised. A lack of both leadership and strong social movements, and the dissemblance of grass-root organizations through co-optation, clientelism, and even deception became the norm in the neighborhood.
Ph. D.

This creative thesis is a braided narrative in which I explore the promised lands of Utah through my travels in the summer of 2008, the Cold War defense industry, and the early career of writer Edward Abbey. America's domestic and foreign policy shifts in the first decade of the Cold War contributed to the rise of modern environmentalism and to the creation of countless new religious movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s. To illustrate the cataclysmic upheavals of this era, each chapter of this thesis has been organized according to anthropologist Anthony F. C. Wallace's schema of revitalization movements. In both an historical and personal context, I investigate the tensions between freedom and preservation, between defense and vulnerability, and, ultimately, between solitude and community.

Kyoto University (京都大学)
0048
新制・論文博士
博士(人間・環境学)
乙第12952号
論人博第43号
新制||人||178(附属図書館)
27||論人博||43(吉田南総合図書館)
32251
(主査)教授 杉万 俊夫, 教授 ﾍﾞｯｶｰ ｶｰﾙ, 教授 吉田 純, 准教授 永田 素彦
学位規則第4条第2項該当

Este projeto insere-se no campo da sociologia do trabalho, procurando contribuir com a discussão acerca do presente e do futuro do sindicalismo, conectado aos estudos de revitalização sindical. O sindicalismo no setor público, particularmente após o final da década de 1980, desenvolve-se através da assunção de caráter sindical das associações de servidores públicos, da influência do novo sindicalismo sobre as classes médias e do ambiente político das lutas pela democratização do Brasil pós-ditadura. Assim formou-se Sindicato dos Municipários de Porto Alegre (SIMPA), objeto empírico do presente trabalho, o primeiro sindicato de municipários legalizado no Brasil. As temáticas em torno das reformas e da persistência da estrutura sindical, em um contexto de terceirizações na administração pública, assim como a consideração por boa parte da literatura de que o movimento sindical passa por uma crise instiga à investigação das ações sindicais confrontadas à discussão da suposta crise ou declínio. Através de um estudo de caso estendido, analisamos a emergência de novas práticas sindicais, buscando, no resgate das experiências do SIMPA, conexões com o que alguns autores têm chamado de ―sindicalismo de movimento social‖, no que tange à relação do sindicalismo clássico com os novos protestos e movimentos que tem surgido em nossos tempos.
This project, developed in the field of Sociology of Work, aims to cooperate with the discussion about the current and future unionism, connected to the Labour Revitalization Studies. Syndicalism in public sector, especially in the end of 1980‘s, was developed with the assumption of the union character of the civil servants trade unions, also with the influence of the new unionism over middle classes and the policy environment of the struggles for democratization in Brazil after dictatorship. That‘s how it was formed SIMPA, a union trade of civil servants of Porto Alegre City, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. SIMPA was the first union trade of municipal workers legalized in the country, and it is the empirical object of this research. Themes such as reforms and the persistence of the union structure, in a context of outsourcing in public administration, as well as the assumption for a large part of literature that union movement was passing through a crisis, are some elements that instigate the investigation of union actions face to the discussion of a supposed crisis or decline. With an Extended Case Method, we analyze the emergence of new unionism practices. Rescuing the experiences of SIMPA, we search for connections to with some authors have called ―Social Movement Unionism‖, about the relations between classical unionism and new demonstrations and movements that have been arising in our times.

Civil rights commemorative boulevards are an increasingly important method of framing African American community revitalization and persistent historical inequities. Often underlying planning efforts to revitalize segregated African American neighborhoods, these boulevards are one important change mechanism for realizing equitable development and challenging structural racism. This thesis demonstrates the central importance of these commemorative boulevards in framing redevelopment and maintaining community resolve during the long struggle for revitalization

本研究はテキストと人物像の特徴に注目し、「再活性化運動」のモデルを観点としてエゼキエル解釈を行なった。再活性化運動とは文化の特殊な変化現象であり、「預言者」の体験や活動が核となる。この観点に従えば、エゼキエル書とは捕囚に直面した祭司エゼキエルが預言者の機能を通してその祭司的課題を実現し、祭司的文化ゲシュタルトの新たな創出、換言すれば自らの治癒がもたらされたプロセスを記すものとして理解される。
In this study, I took notice to the unique characteristics of the text and personality of Ezekiel, and interpreted it from the point of view of "Revitalization Movement." Revitalization Movement is a special kind of cultural change phenomenon and the experience and activity of the "Prophet" plays the crucial role there. From this point of view, the Book of Ezekiel is interpreted as the performance of Priestly tasks against the Exile through the functions of the Prophet and as the process of the creation of the new priestly cultural Gestalt, or giving Ezekiel healing.
博士(神学)
Doctor of Theology
同志社大学
Doshisha University

碩士
國立臺北大學
民俗藝術研究所
97
With the trend of local consciousness in Taiwan, the researches of Pingpu tribes are getting more and more. There are many documents and historical fragments displayed in front of the public; that influences many people’s ethnic identity towards their own groups. Therefore, the Pingpu tribes begin actively to reconstruct their own culture and congregate their self-consciousness. Different groups have different historical background and environment experience, so the points to develop culture reconstruction are also different. The loss of the language of the Siraya tribe is the biggest obstruction of revival. However, the worships and religious beliefs are carried out in life, and the group memory is still clear-cut; this is not only the most obvious group mark of the Sirarya tribe, but also the key factor during the culture reconstruction. Because of these reasons, the Siraya tribe is striving toward the movement of revival under the three main aspects – reappearance of rites, continuity of belief, and redress of the history. Shiau-Lung-She, now the Beitouyang in the Jiali Township, is one of the four groups in the Siraya tribe. According to the documents of history, Beitouyang was the earliest place of living, and the belief of Alid still exists there. Even though other religious beliefs influence Beitouyang successively, the belief of Alid still plays an important role. The Alid and folk beliefs in that area have complicated division of labor and complex relationships. The two main functions of Alid in Beitouyang are to bless children grow up and help them get over the shock. That is, the belief of Alid and others have different division of labor, and there is no conflict in the complicated beliefs. The locals revive and preserve the culture of Siraya by exhibition and performance, and they also have established the Siraya Museum after asking for the instructions of Alid, including the the aspects of the architecture and the location. Besides, through the discussion of the whole villagers and the course of construction, the local consciousness has been congregated more. In addition, the night festival, which has lost in that area for a long time, reappears by the help of other tribes. This article records and analyzes the past revival course of Beitouyang culture, and after the survey, the local history of the tribes is considered quite important. In the past time, people got the information about Beitouyang by asking the Japanese scholars and the elders of the Ching Dynasty. However, they ignored the important constructions by the Netherlands in that area. For example, the first School of Theology in Taiwan was located in Shiau-Lung-She. Besides, this article also completely collects and analyzes all the domicile information during Japanese Colonization in order to set up the more useful papers for that area.

碩士
國立臺灣師範大學
台灣語文學系
100
Tâi-Bûn Thong-Sìn, Taiwanese Forum, a monthly publication established in 1991, advocates that the Taiwanese people should speak Taiwanese and write in Taiwanese. The cause was upheld by overseas Taiwanese. Tâi-Bûn Thong-Sìn set up its Taiwan head office in 1992. In 1996, The Taiwanese Writing Forum of Tâi-Bûn Thong-Sìn established the Tâi-Bûn BONG Pò magazine. Then in 1997, the Lí Kang Khioh Taiwanese Cultural &; Educational Foundation was founded with the funds donated by the readers of Tâi-Bûn Thong-Sìn and Tâi-Bûn BONG Pò. It aims to give impetus to the language revitalization movements for the mother tongues of Taiwan and to promote literature written in the native languages of Taiwan. By integrating the strength of many volunteers, it also gets involved in quite a few related tasks in the hope that the mother tongues of Taiwan can be successfully revitalized. This thesis mainly studies the Lí Kang Khioh Taiwanese Cultural &; Educational Foundation to explore the development trajectory from the birth of Tâi-Bûn Thong-Sìn to the establishment of the foundation and to analyze the role the foundation plays in the movements for revitalizing the mother tongues of Taiwan, presenting the situation of the language revitalization movements since the 1990s. Hopefully it can make up for part of the deficiency in the written history of social movements in Taiwan.

In response to the highly exclusionary Guatemalan state and the genocide of Mayas during the 1980s, the paradigmatic currents of the Maya Movement have been engaging the state in their struggle for rights. Some have been negotiating from within the Guatemalan government by occupying bureaucratic positions within less powerful state ministries. Other Maya actors press for more favorable socioeconomic policies using social movement tactics. While most literature focuses on the above two currents as a dichotomy, I argue that a third current of Maya politics has the most political potential. One promising example emerged in the course of the land struggle of San Jorge La Laguna (1992-1999). A sector of rural Mayas (mostly poor farmers and teachers) began to look away from the state in their quest for empowerment. They became less concerned with rights granted from a distant state, and prioritized instead practices that reach towards community self-determination and ontological autonomy. This clearly represents a third current of Maya politics grounded in the social fabric of rural Maya communities and their values, social relations, and worldview. This current, which I call Tejido Social (social fabric), is also possibly present in other spaces in Guatemala and likely had existed in prior times but did not pronounce itself publicly until this period. I use Escobar’s theorization of postliberal, postcapitalist politics of relationality to analyze the significance of this third tendency of Maya politics. This study contributes to the theorization of emerging third current / Afro-indigenous movements in the Americas through an ethnographic approach which focuses on political interventions that are lived principles embedded in socio-political practice.
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Im Zentrum der Arbeit steht die Analyse des „Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement“, einer politische Bewegung indigener Hawaiier. Sie bestimmte in den 1990er Jahren – 1993 jährte sich der Sturz der Monarchie zum 100. Male – das politische Leben des Inselstaates mit und forderte kulturelle und politische Autonomie für den hawaiischen Bevölkerungsteil des Inselstaates. Fragen nach der Politisierung kultureller Prozesse sowie nach der Kulturalisierung und Ethnisierung vornehmlich politischer und sozialer Konflikte stehen dabei im Vordergrund der Betrachtung. Ausgangspunkt jeglichen Diskurses um Autonomie oder „Sovereignty“ ist dabei die bewegte politische Geschichte Hawai‘is im 19. Jahrhundert. Mit einer ständig wachsenden Zahl von Siedlern wurden die Hawaiier im Laufe des 19. Jahrhunderts zu einer Minderheit im eigenen Land. Als Gegenbewegung zu diesem immer weiter reichenden Aufgehen der hawaiischen Minderheit in der Gesamtbevölkerung des Bundesstaates forcierte die so genannte „Hawaiian Renaissance“, eine Revitalisierungsbewegung der 1960er Jahre, eine Rückbesinnung auf traditionelle Kulturtechniken und die von ihr beschriebenen „hawaiischen Werte“. Sie lieferte dem entstehenden „Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement“ zahlreiche Ansatzpunkte zur Verknüpfung politischer Forderungen mit Kernsymbolen hawaiischer Identität. Neben dem diachron ausgerichteten Blick auf Veränderungsprozesse und Entwicklungen der Deutungshoheit über die von den Hawaiiern reklamierten Traditionen steht die synchrone Betrachtung der Veranstaltungen und Ereignisse des Gedenkjahres 1993. Anhand der Analyse eines zentralen Themas des Autonomiediskurses, der Frage der Land¬nutzung und der Landrechte, kann ein umfassendes Bild der Autonomiebewegung, ihrer politischen Praxis und der mit ihr verwobenen kulturellen Deutungsmuster und Konfliktlösungsstrategien gezeichnet werden. Es entsteht dabei das Bild einer spezifisch hawaiischen Bewegung, die sich durch bestimmte Muster der Provokation, durch Gewaltfreiheit und durch ein ständiges Aufflammen und Zurücknehmen von Konflikten auszeichnet. Mit dem Blick auf die hawaiische Kunstszene der Gegenwart rundet sich gewissermaßen die Darstellung der hawaiischen Autonomiebewegung. Stand doch die kulturelle Revitalisierung am Beginn der politischen Bewegung, die sich verschiedener Aspekte hawaiischer Kultur zur Untermauerung ihres Anspruches bediente. Heute haben sich die Gewichtungen verschoben: eine zunehmend autonom agierende Szene bildender Künstler hawaiischer Abstammung nimmt die von der Autonomiebewegung postulierten Fragestellungen und Ziele in ihre Produktion auf und propagiert so hawaiische „Sovereignty“ oder Autonomie. Die politische Bewegung der Hawaiier ist auf diese Weise eng verwoben mit einer öffentlichen hawaiischen Kultur der Gegenwart, die sich zunehmend von Rückgriffen auf Tradition und Vergangenheit löst und zugleich immer wieder neue und eigenständige Zeichen kultureller Autonomie setzt.

Han, Ju Hee.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-81).
Abstract also in Chinese.
Abstract (English) --- p.ii
Abstract (Chinese) --- p.iii
Table of Contents --- p.iv
Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 2. --- Literature Review --- p.5
Chapter 3. --- Theoretical Approach --- p.11
Chapter 4. --- The Taiping Movement --- p.27
Chapter 5. --- Conclusion --- p.78
Bibliography --- p.80

碩士
南華大學
建築與景觀學系
106
Zhongzheng Road, which is also called Ertong Road, needs to be revitalized. Since the 1980s, commercial activities began to decline. "The Image Commercial District launched by the Department of Commerce in 1998, Ministry of Economic Affairs" was a failure, further led to the depression of this historical street for almost 20 years until now. This research observes the way this new revitalization movement brings to Zhongzheng Road and how the degenerate community is going to recover through the efforts contributed by the residents. Whether this movement changes the residents’ awareness is the primary issue behind this research. This research uses different methods such as the literature analysis, direct observation and interviews to compare the differences between the old and the new revitalization movement taking place in Zhongzheng Road. Meanwhile, during the process of investigating this Community Renaissance Project, we get to realize how the involvement of the residents as well as the connection with the local change the consciousness of the residents, establishing the basis of the following revitalization movement. By interviews, lectures and meetings, after collecting the residents’ opinions, we are able to determine if there is any change in the consciousness of the residents. 　　We found from this research that after the revitalization movement of Zhongzheng Road, in terms of the residents’ consciousness, younger generation tends to be more ambitious compared to the older generation, which can be revealed from the actions taken following the end of the project. In order to revitalize Zhongzheng Road, on one hand, some issues have to be fixes. For instance, a pedestrian-friendly environment has to be built and a new business model pattern must be figured out. On the other hand, although some people do not live on this road, they pay more attention and get involved more deeply than residents living on this road. This is because of the recognition and collective memories those people hold toward Zhongzheng Road. We look forward to the continuously active revitalization movement in the following days, stimulating the residents to form an organization autonomously, the aim of which is to improve to status quo of Zhongzheng Road.

碩士
國立東華大學
族群關係與文化學系
104
Abstract This thesis attempts to discuss Katratripulr’s cultural revitalization, through the process it itself involves with tribal unity, challenges governmental managements as well as hegemonic policies, and eventually toward the end, answers the causes of why the tribal people enthusiastically participate in their annual festivals. The thesis in addition discusses the interactions between Katratripulr Cultural Development Association and the traditional organizations, through which Katratripulr faces an ironic position (a millet harvest festival celebrating with no millets, for example) and a series of national conflicts, as tribal people during hunting ceremonies were caught by local authorities known as Mongngayau event. Toward the end, Katratripulr finds their tribal authenticities, in terms of how to reemphasize their own tribal traditions and values. Drawing on self-reflections on Katratripulr’s cultural revitalization, this thesis interprets the tribal festivals are not merely presented as annual ceremonies (nor as a rite of passage), but an obligation to their tribal territories/traditional areas. Keywords: Katratripulr, cultural revitalisation, millet harvest festival, Mongngayau event