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Journal articles on the topic "Socio-cultural bridges"
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Horta, Ana, Harold Wilhite, Luísa Schmidt, and Françoise Bartiaux. "Socio-Technical and Cultural Approaches to Energy Consumption: An Introduction." Nature and Culture 9, no. 2 (June 1, 2014): 115–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/nc.2014.090201.
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Energy consumption inconspicuously bridges nature and culture. Modern societies and cultures depend on intensive energy use from the extraction of natural resources. In fact, the industrialization process required large amounts of energy, but main sources such as oil and coal, have been gradually depleted and found to be heavily polluting the environment. Despite their environmental impacts, these resources have provided cheap and abundant power to fuel technological progress and economic growth. (See Agustoni and Maretti [2012] for a good historical summary of the relations between energy production and usages.)
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Bodomo, Adams. "The African Trading Community in Guangzhou: An Emerging Bridge for Africa–China Relations." China Quarterly 203 (September 2010): 693–707. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741010000664.
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AbstractThis article analyses an emerging African trading community in Guangzhou, China. It is argued that migrant communities such as this one act as linguistic, cultural and economic bridges between their source communities and their host communities, even in the midst of tensions created by incidents such as immigration restrictions and irregularities. Socio-linguistic and socio-cultural profiles of this community are built, through questionnaire surveys and interviews, to address issues such as why Africans go to Guangzhou, which African countries are represented, what languages are spoken there, how communication takes place between Africans and Chinese, what socio-economic contributions Africans in Guangzhou are making to the Chinese economy, and how the state reacts to this African presence. Following from the argument that this community acts as a bridge for Africa–China relations it is suggested that both the Chinese and the African governments should work towards eliminating the harassment of members in this community by many Guangzhou law enforcement officials and instead harness the contributions of this community to promote Africa–China socio-economic relations.
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Lee, Hye-Seung. "Socio-Cultural Characteristics Found in Russian-Korean Translation of Metaphoric Expressions." Meta 51, no. 2 (August 14, 2006): 368–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/013262ar.
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Abstract Translation is an act of communication across dissimilar cultures as well as a dynamic activity in which translators are required to make choices and decisions for the purpose of resolving problems. This paper draws on metaphoric expressions and their translations to recapitulate that the work of translation is not limited to the languages or the texts involved but is a dynamic activity that bridges two diverse cultures. Metaphoric expressions are non-literal, have implied meanings, and are used to emphasize a point or to enhance the expression’s impressibility. Furthermore, metaphoric expressions are affected greatly by the culture to which they belong because they are created through a complex interaction between object, image, and sense. Consequently, in order to properly communicate the true meanings of these metaphoric expressions, translators play the role of an active mediator by either replacing the metaphoric expression found in ST with a different but compatible metaphoric expression or by using non-metaphoric, descriptive expressions or by appending additional explanation. This paper uses Korean translations of metaphoric expressions found in Russian source texts as examples to discuss the socio-cultural differences between the two cultures, how these characteristics are revealed in Russian-Korean translations, and how these issues are overcome. Based on the research results, the paper also emphasizes that understanding the vastly different socio-cultural characteristics of these two cultures is essential to the field of Russian-Korean translation with its relatively short history, to not only improve the quality of translations but also for the field’s continual advancements.
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Leliūgienė, Irena, and Angelė Kaušylienė. "Social Communication in a Community: The Bridge among Generations." SOCIETY, INTEGRATION, EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference 3 (May 17, 2015): 379. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/sie2015vol3.502.
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<p> </p><p class="IATED-Affiliation"><span lang="EN-US">Referring to scientific literature, the article aims to define criteria of social communication, which are identified by socio-cultural, psychological, communication competences that in value viewpoint are essential for partnership relations among generations. The article presents network characteristics of successful partnership among generations. On the basis of theoretical works‘ analysis the research methodology as well as quantitative and qualitative research instrument, which allowed performing the empirical research, has been designed. The article also presents essential results of the research: how social communication and partnership networks create premises for bridges among generations in a community. The research has been performed in N community in Lithuania‘s second largest city. In this article the authors pursue to find the answer to the problematic question – what experience of communities‘ creation of bridges between social communication and partnership networks can strengthen bridges among generations.</span></p><p class="IATED-Affiliation"> </p>
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Petkova, Ekaterina. "The Artistic Universe and its Intangible "Bridges" – Meaningful Links and Intertextual Links Between Literary Works Studied in Sixth Grade." Педагогически форум 7, no. 4 (2019): 50–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.15547/pf.2019.029.
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The presented work argues for the role of the intertextual approach for the implementation of a full-fledged literature education discourse in sixth grade. The enrichement of the new literature curriculum implemented in 2017-2018 and the competencies (socio-cultural, literary and communicative)presented in it together with the expected results, represents the objective prerequisites for detecting / searching for intertextuality, respectively, for highlighting the meaningful potential of intertextuality. The exemplary intertextual references are a vivid illustration of the "bridges" built (According to N. Georgiev) between the literary and classical texts studied in the sixth grade.
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Moreno, Gemma Andújar. "Los estereotipos sociales a través del filtro de la traducción." Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation 60, no. 2 (December 31, 2014): 216–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/babel.60.2.05mor.
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Cultural referents not only designate specific realities of a given culture which do not always exist in another but they are also semantic elements which trigger social representations. By conveying values and points of view about different social groups, cultural referents become linguistic instruments to build stereotypes. These thought patterns are shared by the members of a social or cultural community and act as a filter of reality. The aim of this paper is to study the role of cultural referents in the construction of social stereotypes, focusing on the socio-cognitive universe they evoke. To this end, we have analyzed the translations techniques applied in the Spanish, Catalan and English versions of a novel which has been very successful on the French literary scene: Muriel Barbery’s L’Élégance du hérisson (2006). As show the results of this textual comparison, the explanations, descriptions and additional information observed in target texts do not trigger the same associations as cultural referents do in the source text. Translational approaches are too limited when it comes to achieve linguistic adequacy to different world visions. Therefore, translation must be conceived as an encounter between two cultural systems, in which the translator must build bridges, not so much between two linguistic systems as between the social perceptions and values of two different cultural communities.
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Moon, Jihie. "Hybride zelf(re)presentatie in de dagboeken van Hennie Aucamp." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 54, no. 1 (March 24, 2017): 44–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tvl.v.54i1.3.
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This article on Hennie Aucamp approaches his journals as ego-documents. The positional dilemma and identity crisis of Afrikaners in the new South Africa are portrayed in the triptych: Gekaapte tyd (Captured time, 1996), Allersiele (All Souls, 1997) and Skuinslig (Light at Dusk, 2003). Aucamp's journals constitute a hybrid composite that bridges the space between a personal reflection on daily life and that of a historical, social and cultural document. Through the complex process of disguise and revelation of the "I", Aucamp's diaries create a space that allows free contemplation and reflection both on the socio-cultural developments in the new South Africa and on the fate of Afrikaners and Afrikaans itself. It is from his feeling of displacement and expatriation as a white Afrikaner under the new system and his fear of the disappearance of Afrikaners and Afrikaans that Aucamp positions himself as a defender of Afrikaner culture. Moreover, Aucamp claims that this cultural legacy could be used as future-oriented survival strategy: the preservation of culture being simultaneously self-preservation. It is within this framework that he makes a subtle comparison between Afrikaans and Afrikaner culture and the culture of the San; his affinity for the lost culture of the San runs parallel with his defence of the world of Afrikaners. This has resulted in the writer's socio-cultural criticisms and commentaries in a certain sense becoming a personal performance in favour of the recreation of a lost Afrikaner language and culture. At the same time, they il- lustrate the writer's attempt to position himself strategically with regard to the future-oriented formation of identity not only of himself, but also of the reader. It is within this context that the increase in ego-documents written in modern-day South African and Afrikaner literature can also be seen as a struggle against loss and forgetting.
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Zainur Wula and Hadjrah Arifin. "Ogo: A Cultural System Moves and Damage of the Environment." Indonesian Journal of Social and Environmental Issues (IJSEI) 1, no. 3 (December 5, 2020): 183–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.47540/ijsei.v1i3.112.
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Humans and the natural environment have a very close relationship; it can even be called interdependence. The relationship is very active and interactive because indeed humans have a very high dependence on fulfilling the necessities of life, the most important of which are clothing, food and shelter which have the main source of raw materials from the natural environment, especially in communities whose farmers depend on the natural environment and land. Therefore, humans have an important role in preserving natural resources and the environment so that the community's life will last for a long time. The culture of people's lives in the shifting cultivation system called ogo is one of the main factors in forest and environmental damage in a broad sense because forests are not only related to grass and timber trees but also land, rocks, water, fauna. The research method used is qualitative with a case study approach. The data were collected through documents, in-depth interviews and observations, and data analysis was carried out descriptively. The results showed that forest and environmental damage due to excessive use with the ogo culture of shifting cultivation with a period of three to four years resulted in reduced water reserves due to damage to water infiltration, floods and landslides as well as damage to residential areas. Roads and bridges in the village of Nuanaga in February 2016. Ogo as a socio-cultural system of shifting cultivation is an act of rational choice by farmers in increasing income and the dignity of family life, despite frequent floods and landslides in the rainy season with high intensity.
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Lange, Zechariah. "Bridges Don’t Make Themselves: Using Community-Based Theater to Reshape Relationships: Rethinking the Idea of Abundance in ABCD." Societies 10, no. 3 (July 21, 2020): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc10030054.
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Community-based theater has a variety of manifestations, and the plurality with which these manifestations are occurring is increasing. As such, the diversity and complexity derived from these social sites of public engagement requires further understanding. This article is based upon a multi-case study of two community-based theaters: one in Middle Appalachia, and the other on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Together these sites of performative expression are acting as social interventions for differing reasons within their respective contexts. Through intensive and communicative processes, the theaters provide examples of how co-created performances at the community level simultaneously catalyze relationships and alter how relationships are experienced to engage community members in discussion and performances. As a complex behavioral interaction, the two theaters simultaneously manifest dimensions of ‘abundance’, as well as expand upon normative conceptions of asset-based community development. Through process and contextual modeling, the work provides in-depth exploration to these interpersonal endeavors to assist in how socio-cultural differences as well as narrative reconstruction co-join to enact the individuality of identity across working groups as an overall discursive process.
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Dellafiore, Claudia M., Valeria Autrán, Delia Aiassa, and Pablo Brandolin. "La Fauna Silvestre De Córdoba Y Su Rol Ecológico Aplicadas En Prácticas Socio-Comunitarias De Enseñanza." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 12, no. 33 (November 30, 2016): 468. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2016.v12n33p468.
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The National Rio Cuarto University (UNRC, Cordoba, Argentina) has a scheme to encourage the inclusion of community-engagement activities (PSC) in the Higher Education curriculum. In this context, the Natural Sciences department (Faculty of Exact Sciences, Physico-Chemical and Natural) carried out a PSC activity named “Animal Biodiversity”. This activity responds to specific needs by the local teaching community and the general public, where many teachers admit that they lack knowledge about the local fauna and their ecological role, and that they don’t have enough time or information to develop this type of content during their scheduled teaching sessions. Therefore, the present activity aimed to liaise the Higher Education community and local primary and secondary school teachers. Biology university students taking the “Systematic Zoology” module prepared a session about “Snakes and scorpions of Cordoba. Their identification and ecological role” that included both theoretical and practical aspects for secondary school students from “Ramón Artemio Estafolani – Granja Siquem” school. The analysis of the PSC activities highlighted the importance of building inclusion bridges with the local community, and the need to build social and cultural support networks. It is important to implement processes that encourage PSC in Higher Education, in order to highlight professional values, promote social responsibility and develop creative, active and supportive thinking. It would also provide comprehensive training of university students in ways that meet the demands and challenges of society. This work stresses the need for PSC to be continued in time by including them in our Higher Education curriculum.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Socio-cultural bridges"
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Cruz, Evandro Cesar Azevedo da. "Mosaicos de reintegração sócio-ambiental: alternativa de zoneamneto no entorno da ReBio Poço D'Anta - Juiz de Fora/MG." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 2013. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/941.
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O presente trabalho tece uma investigação geossistêmica no entorno da Reserva Biológica Municipal Poço D’Anta, locada nas franjas urbanas do município mineiro de Juiz de Fora. Procurando conjugar o potencial ecológico, a exploração biológica e o aprovisionamento das comunidades locais, essa abordagem sistêmica busca uma confluência na relação das sociedades locais com a área protegida em questão. A sobreposição tripolar destes parâmetros analisados nos fornece o desenho de um mosaico de corredores ecológicos e áreas protegidas, capaz de amortecer os impactos da produção espacial do entorno, pois através da integração entre o uso e a ocupação do solo, as feições naturalistas deste ambiente e a tradição cultural simbólica das comunidades locais, estaremos reconectando, não só florestas, mas também saberes e viveres.
This paper presents an geossistemical investigation in the surroundings of the Municipal Biológical Reserve Poço D’Anta, located in the urban fringe of the county of Minas Gerais, Juiz de Fora. Seeking to combine the ecological potential, the biological exploration and the provision of local communities, this systemic approach seeks a confluence in the relationship of local societies with the protected area here mentioned. The overlap of these three poles parameters analyzed, provides us with the design of a mosaic of ecological corridors and protected areas, able to reduce the impact of the production of space around it, because through the integration among the use and occupation of land, the naturalistic features of this environment and the symbolic cultural tradition of local communities, we are reconnecting not only forests but also knowledges and livings.
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Huang, Li Ting, and 黃立婷. "A Study on the Influence of Immigrant Brides’ Socio-Economic Status, Cultural Capital, and Educational Expectations upon Children’s Self-Concept and Learning Adjustment: The Third to Sixth Grade of Elementary Schools in Taipei County." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/94531474050011912961.
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Abstract Based on the theories of self-concept and learning adjustment, the purpose of this study is to explore the relationship among socio-economic status, cultural capital, and educational expectations that influence on self-concept and learning adjustment of immigrant brides’ children. Questionnaire investigations and semi-structured interviews were employed in the study. By using purposive sampling method, 627 samples were selected from the third to sixth grade of immigrant brides’ children in Taipei County. The collected data was analyzed by descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s product-moment correlation, and structural equation modeling. According to the data from questionnaire and interviews, the conclusions of the research are listed as follows: 1. Immigrant brides’ children are highly aware of their self-concept and learning adjustment. 2. Girls are doing better than boys in the field of learning adjustment, while they show no difference in their self-concept. 3. The third grade students have better self-concept and learning adjustment than the sixth grade ones. 4. The father’s educational level is not relevant to his children’s self-concept and learning adjustment, while the mother’s is relevant to her children’s learning adjustment. 5. The jobs which the parents have are not related to their children’s self-concept and learning adjustment. 6. The children, who have a greater number of extracurricular readings at home and go to the social education institutions more frequently with their parents, have better self-concept and learning adjustment. 7. The number of computers at home is not relevant to the children's self -concept and learning adjustment. 8. The higher education expectations the father has toward his children, the greater awareness the children have upon their own learning adjustment, while the mother’s education expectations are relevant to her children’s self-concept and learning adjustment. 9. The children, who have the higher self-expectations, are aware of their self-concept and learning adjustment better. 10. Their self-concept is relevant to their learning adjustments. In other words, the better self-concept they have upon themselves, the better learning adjustments they acquire. 11. SEM shows that socio-economic status, cultural capital, and educational expectations have a great influence upon the children’s self-concept and learning adjustment. 12. The results of interviews show that their self-concept and learning adjustment are much better. Based on the conclusions, this study proposes some suggestions for school administrations, teachers, parents, and further research. Key words: immigrant brides’ children, self-concept, learning adjustment, structural equation modeling (SEM)
Book chapters on the topic "Socio-cultural bridges"
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Karnaukhova, Oxana. "“Bridges” and “Gaps” on Maps of Multicultural Cities." In Cultural Influences on Architecture, 181–99. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1744-3.ch007.
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The city is a sum of feasible expressions of social and historical evolution and space identity. The uniqueness of a place is formed not only by contemporary infrastructure, but by the cultural environment deeply anchored in the historical context. The object of the study is the South Russian agglomeration as a feasible example of ragged edges of multicultural history of the region and constantly challenged collective identity. Multicultural cities in Russia carry a burden of the pre-Soviet and Soviet urban policy, weighed down by complex historical environment. As a result, cities are closed in a coterie: reliance on Soviet and post-Soviet legacy – conservative economic policy –– fragmentary and spontaneous development of the city architecture and infrastructure. The term of splintering urbanism coined by Steven Graham and Simon Marvin is focused on the historical circumstances and socio-cultural environment of urban communities in the South Russian agglomeration, describing symbolic forms of bridges and gaps in the collective urban identity.
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Canestrino, Rossella, and Pierpaolo Magliocca. "Transferring Knowledge through Cross-Border Communities of Practice." In Organizational Knowledge Facilitation through Communities of Practice in Emerging Markets, 1–30. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0013-1.ch001.
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The aim of this chapter is to explore the use of Cross –Border Communities of Practice (CCoP) as way for managing knowledge in a global socio-economic environment, mainly referring to the rising economies. In doing so, some important issues related to cross-border knowledge transfer have been investigated, taking into account the impact that cultural diversities have on individuals' propensity to cooperate, as well as on their attitude to transfer and to share knowledge. The Authors explain the role that Global Managers have as “cultural bridges” in multicultural teams, thus enabling the last ones' transformation into a CCoP. With reference to both the opportunities and challenges that characterize the rising economies, CCoP arises as the best suitable way to transfer knowledge at international level, when firms from developed countries encounter firms from emerging countries.
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Brooks, Roy L. "Race and Culture." In The Racial Glass Ceiling. Yale University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300223309.003.0004.
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The conflicting racial and cultural values that underpin much of the Supreme Court’s decision making in civil rights cases are brought under critical review in this chapter as part of a larger argument regarding cultural diversity made in the next chapter. Thus, this chapter is a bridge between the socio-legal and socio-cultural race problems. In preparation for arguing in the next chapter that cultural diversity rides with a corpse in its cargo—to wit, cultural subordination—this chapter discusses the conflicting racial and cultural crosscurrents of the American middle class and working class. White-middle-class values, more than any other values, shape the American mainstream culture—“It’s the Middle Class, Stupid!”—wherein the problem of cultural subordination lies.
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Iaquinta, Rosa, and Maria Antonietta Impedovo. "Expanding the Boundaries of Learning." In Handbook of Research on Didactic Strategies and Technologies for Education, 289–97. IGI Global, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2122-0.ch024.
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The purpose of this chapter is to reflect on the socio-cultural dimension useful when schools plan measures for coping with the requirements of a complex society. In particular, an examination of a project on vocational orientation is proposed for the liaison of school with work. This project can contribute to the discussion about the need to bridge the gap between the business community and the world of education; to a reflection on the development of students’ identity and about the importance of a socio-cultural dimension for a complex assessment of learning. This perspective is illustrated here in the description of a project of career counseling for the liaison of school with work in a school situated in a context of economic and social hardship, in the south of Italy.
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Baldwin, Sandy, Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, and Dibyadyuti Roy. "Games People Play." In Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives, 364–76. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0261-6.ch017.
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The study of various choices made while producing and playing games allows little opportunity for interrogating video games as a transcultural convergence of multiple subjectivities and institutions. This chapter speaks to this topic by presenting the Computer Games Across Cultures (CGAC) project. CGAC involved humanities researchers from West Virginia University (USA), Bangor University (Wales), and Jawaharlal Nehru University (India) who over a two-year period sought to understand creative and cultural aspects of gaming. CGAC's researchers employed both qualitative and quantitative methodologies to bridge the gap between the academic explorations of gaming in tandem with industry-specific practices within such spaces. This chapter provides an overview of the resultant work through its analysis of a cross-section of games. Examining both Western mainstream games and lesser known games from places like India and Ghana helped interrogate representational politics in videogames and provide a broader view of the relationship between gaming and game making, in a socio-cultural context.
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Sandill, Shubha. "Law, Equality, and Entrepreneurship Through a Gendered Lens." In Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies, 124–49. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3618-6.ch008.
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An insurmountable amount of great research being done in academia rarely gets transformed into laws and policies. This can be attributed to the disconnect between academia, law/policy makers, and decision-making tables. A three-pronged approach to bridge the gap between academic scholarship, grassroots advocacy, and political activism could be instrumental in impacting socio-legal and policy reforms. Gender, as a social construct, has intersected since time immemorial with the way law and society have been organized. Law, as a hegemonic collection of practices and processes, has actively perpetuated a particular social order that did not go far enough in matching lived realities. This chapter begins with the author's efforts to examine family law and social inequality through a gendered lens by exploring marriage, divorce, and family entrepreneurship. It further outlines the ongoing debates about gender vs. diversity mainstreaming in policy realms. Lastly, it concludes with how these experiences drove the author's passion for grassroots advocacy, which finally led the author to political activism.
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Kasemsap, Kijpokin. "Sustainability, Environmental Sustainability, and Sustainable Tourism." In Environmental and Agricultural Informatics, 1669–87. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9621-9.ch077.
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This chapter reveals the overview of sustainability; the overview of environmental sustainability; environmental sustainability and climate change; environmental sustainability, water resources, and energy consumption; and the overview of sustainable tourism. Sustainability is the important issue that attempts to bridge social science with civic engineering and environmental science with the technology of the future. Environmental sustainability is important because it ensures people have water and resources, and adopting its practices protects the environment and human health. Sustainable tourism is a growing segment of the global tourism industry that makes the positive contributions to the environmental, socio-cultural, and economic well-being of destinations and local communities around the world. Sustainability, environmental sustainability, and sustainable tourism are rooted in three issues that are considerably linked to fossil fuel depletion, climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions, and the increasing costs of energy and water.
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Kasemsap, Kijpokin. "Sustainability, Environmental Sustainability, and Sustainable Tourism." In Business Infrastructure for Sustainability in Developing Economies, 1–24. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2041-2.ch001.
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This chapter reveals the overview of sustainability; the overview of environmental sustainability; environmental sustainability and climate change; environmental sustainability, water resources, and energy consumption; and the overview of sustainable tourism. Sustainability is the important issue that attempts to bridge social science with civic engineering and environmental science with the technology of the future. Environmental sustainability is important because it ensures people have water and resources, and adopting its practices protects the environment and human health. Sustainable tourism is a growing segment of the global tourism industry that makes the positive contributions to the environmental, socio-cultural, and economic well-being of destinations and local communities around the world. Sustainability, environmental sustainability, and sustainable tourism are rooted in three issues that are considerably linked to fossil fuel depletion, climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions, and the increasing costs of energy and water.
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Gody, Ahmed El. "ICT and Gender Inequality in the Middle East." In Global Information Technologies, 3260–73. IGI Global, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-939-7.ch231.
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Information communication technologies (ICT) have become an effective force for accelerating political, economic, and social development, decreasing poverty, and fostering trade and knowledge; however the uneven distribution, usage, and implementation of ICT resulted in what is known as the “digital divide” between those who have access to and utilization of information resources and those who do not (Internet.com, 2004). The Middle East, with the exception of Israel, is the least ICT connected area worldwide with only 1.4% of the global share (less than half of the world average of 5.2%). ICT adoption and access in the Arab world are far from adequate; only 6% of the Arab world population uses the Internet, while the penetration rate of personal computers is 2.4%, and less than 4 % of the Arab population has access to a ground telephone line (Ajeeb, 2006; NUA, 2005). The trend of globalization forced Arab countries to realize the power of ICT as one of the most important factors in achieving sustainable growth. During the past decade, genuine efforts have been implemented by Arab governments to utilize ICT; as of May 2005, every country in the Arab world (as seen in Table 1)—except Iraq and Libya—has a clear strategy or at least a plan for promoting ICT (Dutta & Coury, 2003). In her book, Technology Strategies for Putting Arab Countries on the Cyber Map, Reem Hunaidi (2002) stated that despite Arab world efforts to utilize ICT, Arabs are still far from bridging the digital divide. Hunaidi stated that the Arab world is still scoring low on the Digital Access Index (as seen in Table 2), adding that bridging the digital divide requires commitment from all development stakeholders, not only Arab governments. The Hunaidi study concluded that development should start within the Arab society through liberating Arab human capabilities, especially those of women questioning how a society can compete in an increasingly globalized world if half of its people remain marginalized (Hunaidi, 2002). The UNDP 2004 report on human development in the Arab world added to Hunaidi’s question stating that the first step in human ICT development is to bridge the gender divide within the Arab world and make use of the latent 50% of the Arab population. The Arab world has the lowest Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) worldwide next to Sub-Saharan Africa. Nancy Hafkin and Nancy Tagger (2001), in their study “Gender, Information Technology, and Developing Countries”, stated that the degree of gender bias can be vividly seen across the Arab region. Figures indicate that Arab users constitute 4% of Internet users in comparison to 22% of users in Asia, 25% in Europe, 38% in Latin America, and 50% in the United States. Hafkin and Tagger (2001) concluded that several challenges of socio-cultural, political, economic, and education disparities need to be addressed towards advancing Arab women’s active participation in the new networked information society.
Conference papers on the topic "Socio-cultural bridges"
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Schreinemachers, Michel, Bart Reuser, and Marijn Schenk. "NEXT Connects: Bridges as Socio-Cultural Practices." In Footbridge 2017 Berlin. Chair of Conceptual and Structural Design, Fachgebiet Entwerfen und Konstruieren – Massivbau, Technische Universität Berlin, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.24904/footbridge2017.09325.
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Brühwiler, E. "Novel Structural Engineering Technologies to Serve Heritage Bridges." In IABSE Symposium, Wroclaw 2020: Synergy of Culture and Civil Engineering – History and Challenges. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/wroclaw.2020.0216.
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<p>Bridges of high cultural value and aesthetic quality deserve respectful treatment, and consequently, construction interventions must balance these assets with the severe requirements of utilisation. This is particularly relevant to structural engineers and bridge owners involved in rehabilitation or modification interventions. This paper presents examples of how interventions are performed with adequate respect to cultural value. It is argued that the preservation of cultural value may go hand-in-hand with socio-economic, environmental and technical requirements following the principles of sustainable development. These requirements are met through the application of advanced structural engineering methods, including monitoring of structural behaviour and using the UHPFRC Technology. Extending the service duration means adding value to bridges as well as appreciating the art of structural engineering and the identity of structural engineers.</p>
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Pakoz, Muhammed Ziya, Fatih Eren, and Ahmet Bas. "An analysis of the changing role of Istanbul as a megacity in the world." In 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Beyond Metropolis, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia. ISOCARP, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/hyhp3226.
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Istanbul is a unique part of the world because of not only its history, but also its function as a bridge from the point of economic, social and cultural interrelations. There are many cities, which are settled near a water source; however, Istanbul is the only city that is settled between two continents and two seas. All these features create some opportunities and threats for the city in terms of hinterland relations and the spatial structure. This paper aims to find out the economic, social and cultural impact of globalization on the spatial structure and the hinterland relations of Istanbul while discussing the city’s contradictory positions as an edge of Europe and as a bridge between the East and the West. Within this scope, we made a multiscale analysis considering interregional and inter-urban relations and their socio-spatial imprints within the boundaries of the city. Firstly, we made a comparative analysis to understand the changing position of Istanbul in the world in the 21st century by using global and regional indexes. Secondly we examined the change in the hinterland relations of the city by investigating the flows of people, goods, services and ideas between other regions / cities and the city of Istanbul in time. Thirdly, we traced the spatial imprints of these flows and interactions within the city in terms of relocations and displacements. Our study shows the growing importance of the city not only as a part of Europe but also as a node and bridge for the globalized world while emphasising socio-cultural and socio-economic tensions within the city as a result of this process.