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Baxter, Lisa Mary. "History, identity and meaning : Cape Town's Coon Carnival in the 1960s and 1970s." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19684.
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Little has been written about the Coon Carnival since its inception in the late nineteenth century. This thesis helps remedy the general neglect of popular, "Coloured", working class history during the apartheid years. attempts to situate Cape Town's New Year Carnival within the international debate surrounding popular festival and identity. Following a broadly historical line of inquiry, this thesis straddles different disciplines, borrowing from a range of interpretative fields to assess the form and significance of the event during the 1960s and 1970s, a critical period in the Carnival's history. During these years, District Six - the event's symbolic and spiritual home - was declared for "White" residence only under the Group Areas Act. Coloured residents were forcibly removed from this central city suburb to disparate areas on the Cape Flats - the townships surrounding the metropolis. A year later, in 1967, the carnival parade was effectively banned from the city centre's streets; banished to remote and enclosed stadium venues. Thus, in a relatively short space of time the Carnival came under sustained attack. Due to the relative dearth of critical engagement with, or historical commentary on, the Carnival, this thesis relies heavily on oral sources and journalistic, visual and tourist oriented representations. Focussing particularly on the oral testimonies of twenty-four people involved in the event, it explores the notion of continuity and change in the Carnival during this period, through a thorough interrogation of the narratives.
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Remy-Zéphir, Šárka. "Průmyslová a vojenská architektura přístavních měst, komparace rekonverze průmyslového a vojenského dědictví." Doctoral thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-233226.
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During World War II, seaports Brest, Lorient and Saint-Nazaire were heavily destroyed because of their strategic location on the Atlantic coastline. Those historical events could be considered as new opportunities for the seaports to realise new thoughts and ambitious architectural projects in order to improve the functionality of the urban organism. In these days, a new occasion has come. Military and industrial areas, which were always thoroughly separated from the town centres, have been now releasing from their original activity. There are huge free building sites in the middle of the cities, waiting for the urban architects.
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Rust, Thomas C. "Architecture, economics, and identity in Roman-British "small towns" /." Oxford : J. and E. Hedges Ltd, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40946657x.
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Rust, Thomas C. "Architecture, economics, and identity in Romano-British 'small towns'." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30808.
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An area overlooked in recent research is the meaning of architecture in the ill-defined category of sites known as small towns. Using the social psychology approaches of identity theory, social identity theory, and operant conditioning, this study examines the impact of Roman imperialism and the socio-economic changes that occurred on the island as reflected in the choice of architecture. Focusing on small towns is problematic due to difficulties with definition and site categorization. However, as settlements that were more complex than simple villages but more organic than the larger cities, they provide an opportunity to measure the socio-economic impact of Roman imperialism in the rural countryside. This thesis examines the meaning of architectural variation in small towns by investigating the shifting use of construction techniques and building types in comparison with personal artifacts. Data was collected from published site reports and entered into a simple geo-spatial database where broad trends were analyzed to reveal general patterns over space and time. Detailed case studies were then examined from sites that showed some shared characteristics in this initial analysis. Different patterns became evident that were not solely attributable to site type, size, economics, or local geology and reveal the negotiation of personal identity in the context of Roman imperialism. As a supplementary example, architectural variation on the better documented American frontier provided a comparison for socio-economic change on the Roman frontier. The choice of architecture styles by the inhabitants of Romano-British small towns had different meanings given the unique set of economic and social forces they encountered. The inhabitants of these sites negotiated their personal identities in relation to the civic identities of the settlement in which they lived and were affected by economic, social, and imperial forces.
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Epting, Shane Ray. "On City Identity and Its Moral Dimensions." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc822798/.
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The majority of people on Earth now live in cities, and estimates hold that 60 percent of the world’s cities have yet to be built. Now is the time for philosophers to develop a philosophy of the city to address the forthcoming issues that urbanization will bring. In this dissertation, I respond to this need for a philosophy of the city by developing a theory of city identity, developing some of the theory’s normative implications, illustrating the theory with a case study, and outlining the nature and future of philosophy of the city more generally. Indeed, this dissertation is only a part of my larger project of founding and institutionalizing this new field of both academic and socially-engaged philosophical activity. Throughout the history of the discipline, other areas such a personal identity have received numerous considerations, along with the concept of identity as an abstraction. For example, there is a bounty of research addressing problems pertaining to how objects and people retain an identity over time and claims about identity in general. While one could argue that cities are not any different than any other object, such an account fails to consider that a city’s dynamic nature makes it dissimilar to other things. To illustrate this point, I develop a position called dynamic composition as identity theory that provides a framework for understanding the identity of a city, exhibiting that views within analytic metaphysics are too narrow to apply to all cases. After establishing a concept of city identity, I use an applied mereology to develop a model of city identity that shows how the parts of a city fit together to form a complete city. This model introduces the normative dimension of my project by providing a way to identify how incongruence between a city’s parts can cause problems for residents’ wellbeing. To understand the moral dimensions of infrastructure, I argue that moral theory alone is ill prepared to adequately demonstrate its full range of effects. Yet, instead of developing another moral theory, we can supplement existing moral theories with the concepts of sustainability and resilience thinking to account for the elements that traditional moral systems neglect. I support this view with a detailed account of transportation infrastructure. Namely, I show that current frameworks for assessing transportation infrastructure are inadequate, and employ the method of complex moral assessment developed earlier to make such assessments. Lastly, I show how the research in this dissertation counts as intra-disciplinary research, a new kind of method for philosophical research.
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Oakley, Edward. "Early medieval towns : centrality and identity, Norwich and Antwerp AD 600-1200." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546283.
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Liu, Peng. "Reestablishing identity of individual homes in high-rise residential towers." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1217401.
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High-rise residential tower is an inevitable and prevalent building type in high-density areas such as China. Because of the large population such buildings accommodate, improving the quality of people's lives in these towers has significant meaning. One of the important problems in such environments is the loss of identity of individual homes. This occurs because living spaces cannot fit individual families' unique and changing physical and spiritual needs. People can identify their lives and express their individual values in their homes in only the most meager ways. Consequently, people and their communities suffer deeply for the loss of identity of individual homes.The first focus of this thesis is to bring the question of individual control into light with the issue of identity of individual homes. Identity of any built environment results from the interplay of both shared values and individual values. In an identifiable and accommodating environment, both value sets should be in balance, over time. In high-rise residential towers, individual values are hardly presented because of the lack of individual control. So the radical way to establish identity of individual homes is to enable individual control in the building process.The second focus of this thesis is a study in architectural design of the distribution of control in such high-rise environments. Two kinds of individual controls are assumed and distributed: the control of the dwelling layouts and the control of dwelling unit facades. To enable these tow configurations of parts to be subject to individual control, propositions for setting up a new balance between centrally controlled parts and individually controlled parts in high-rise residential towers are put forward.To demonstrate these propositions, a specific high-rise residential tower in Beijing is redesigned to the solution of technical problems, regulatory issues and conventions when control is distributed. Individual control of both the dwelling layouts and the facades are simulated in a methodical way.Finally, notes about supportive products and management techniques, broader developments in other types of high-rise buildings, and the cultivation of shared values out of individual values are offered.Department of Architecture
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Fantina, Richard. "Mexico and "Nuestra tercera raíz" : ideology, history identity and two towns of Veracruz." FIU Digital Commons, 2003. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3250.
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The thesis contributed to the growing body of knowledge and discourse on the African presence in Mexico. Long underresearched, Afromexican studies today command the attention of some of Mexico's foremost historians and anthropologists. This thesis focused on some of their ideas and gave a general overview of the history of people of African descent in Mexico, particularly in the state of Veracruz, the port of entry for most of New Spain's African slaves. Drawing on the work of these Afromexicanista scholars, this thesis demonstrated how their ideas intersect, and sometimes differ with, traditional scholarship in this neglected area. The elusive question of defining blackness within the national discourse of mestizaje formed part of the discussion. Mestizaje traditionally refers to the racial mixture of Europeans and indigenous Americans. Recent efforts seek to broaden the concept of mestizaje to include the descendants of Africans. Finally, this thesis reported on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in two Afromexican towns in Veracruz, Yanga and El Coyolillo, which have widely divergent attitudes toward the concept of blackness.
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Zhao, Xiao Jian. "The identity branding of Hengqin :a fantasy theme analysis." Thesis, University of Macau, 2017. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3690744.
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le, Grand Elias. "Class, Place and Identity in a Satellite Town." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-43045.
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The central aim of this study is to examine processes of identity formation among white, working-class youths in a marginalized area located on the outskirts of South London. It is primarily based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork but also on analyses of web sites, newspapers and popular culture. The study contributes to research on ‘chavs’, and on youth (sub)cultures and social class. Identity is conceived as constructed through the dialectical interplay between ‘external’ processes of social categorization and ‘internal’ processes of identification and boundary work. The context of the study is the recent moral panic in Britain over ‘chavs’. In public discourse, the term chav emerged as a way of pathologizing white working-class youths adopting specific visual markers of taste. The study shows that most respondents, and the area in general, were positioned in the stigmatizing discourse on chavs, and the spaces and places that they are associated with. When interpreting the meaning of chav, the respondents drew strong boundaries against the term, and used it to categorize others. In contrast to earlier research, the notion of chav is not related to a subcultural style adopted by socially excluded groups of youths, but primarily a form of categorization serving to pathologize important aspects of the working-class culture in the area. The findings support the contention that spatiality plays an essential role in the formation of classed identities. In light of the stigmatizing perceptions of the area, the study explores the often ambiguous ways in which the respondents negotiated their sense of belonging, community and safety. Moreover, in relation to taste and masculinity, the study demonstrates how the construction and performance of classed identifications and distinctions, and thus symbolic class hierarchies, are related to the spatial context.
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Highlander, Matthew J. "The rural town square and its new identity /." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1885497641&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Highlander, Matthew Jacob. "THE RURAL TOWN SQUARE AND ITS NEW IDENTITY." OpenSIUC, 2009. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/32.
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AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Matthew J. Highlander, for the Masters of Architecture degree in Architecture, presented on July 6, 2009, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: THE RURAL TOWN SQUARE AND ITS NEW IDENTITY MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Craig K. Anz This thesis investigates the current complex nature that is the American town square and its identity in rural heartland communities. Historically, the town square in this context becomes an image of civic pride in its community through the incorporation of essential civic buildings such as county courthouses, city halls, community centers, guest houses as well as functioning playhouses, gathering spaces such as a parks, gazebos, or green space for public use within the town square. However, through the advent of the automobile, one-stop shopping, and urban sprawl, rural town squares have become a shell or fossil of their former selves as citizens visit this district of town less frequently due to a lack of business and public activities. Hence, these spaces become subjugated to other forms of planning and thus become dens for poverty and areas for crime. However there are many present solutions that can facilitate a movement towards improvement in this area. One such solution is the redesign of surrounding square spaces in conjunction with the incorporation of mix-use facilities within the town square streetscape. Mix-use buildings offer a variety of options that can introduce daily use businesses such as coffee houses, bookstores, deli shops, etc..., have night hours, and do not require a large amount of space to operate business. Along with these businesses, mix-use facilities can also incorporate a variety of residential living quarters such as lofts, studios, and townhomes to foster life within these places. Again, as a result, there is a substantial increase in the amount of public activity within the towns square between residents, business proprietors, and shoppers. This activity alone can transform a once dim light of the community into a shining example of the image and identity that the community wishes to project to its participants. The mix-use building and square together also have the ability to co-operate as a self-sustaining entity of the community due to the type of businesses that it incorporates and its proximity to other businesses within the town square and the community as a whole.
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Le, Corre Virginie. "SMALL TOWN BOYS : homosexualité et ruralité." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019STRAG036.
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Ce travail de recherche propose d’analyser la question de l’homosexualité masculine en contexte rural. L’identification homosexuelle, ici décrite à partir de récits de vie individuels, constitue un point d’investigation socio-anthropologique dans lequel traverse la question de l’identification à la culture d’appartenance - ici les villages du Grand Est - ainsi que son incorporation, en particulier à travers le prisme du discoursThis research paper proposes to analyse the issue of male homosexuality in a rural context. Homosexual identification, described here on the basis of individual life stories, constitutes a socioanthropological point of investigation with the culture of belonging - here/in this context the villages of the "Grand Est", the french eastern region - as well as its incorporation, in particular through the prism of discourse, also crosses
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Meyer, Andrew J. "Recapturing Identity of Place: The Reclamation of Older Small Towns on the Suburban Fringe - The Case of Bethany, Ohio." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282316403.
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Gil, Felix R. "Latino students defining an identity in an American town." Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10133107.
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Based on indicators of educational achievement in the United States, Latinos have lagged behind most other demographic groups. This study explored Latino students’ social identity through a qualitative research design that privileged student voice as a vehicle to addressing educational disparities. The research design employed a phenomenological approach within the framework of practitioner research to explore students’ constructions of identity in reference to school in one suburban community. Research has shown that students’ experiences and sense of social identity can have significant impacts on academic performance (Aronson & Good, 2002; Moya, 2002; 2009; Steele & Aronson, 1995; Steele, Spencer, & Aronson, 2002). As a Latino school district leader who desires to improve practice by better understanding Latino students in a suburban school setting in which they have a minority presence, in this study I created a forum where students could speak to their experiences and reality in that setting. This study’s conceptual framework was grounded in the following areas of scholarship: social identity theory, critical race theory, and the concepts of student voice. Data collection included interviews, focus groups, and identity mapping with 15 high school participants. The study resulted in four main findings: Latino students feel stigmatized and isolated; they perceived and replicated racial microaggressions; there are elements of school they appreciate; and institutional practices create and support bias. This study is only a start to a fuller review and exploration of these themes at the school level. For such conversations to be productive, students’ voices must be included.
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Levy, Karen Ruth. "Ethnicity matters: ethnic identity and economic inequality in Lamu Town." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.499798.
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Eaton, Melissa Ann. "Grandfathers at War: practical politics of identity at Delaware town." W&M ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623367.
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This research explores the meaning, construction, representation, and function of Delaware ethnic identity during the 1820s. In 1821, nearly 2,000 Delawares (self-referentially called Lenape) crossed the Mississippi River and settled in Southwest Missouri as a condition of the Treaty of St. Marys. This dissertation argues that effects of this emigration sparked a vigorous reconsideration of ethnic identity and cultural representation. Traditionally, other Eastern Algonquian groups recognized Delawares by the metaphoric kinship status of "grandfather." Both European and Colonial governments also established Delawares as preferential clients and trading partners. Yet, as the Delawares immigrated into a new "western" Superintendency of Indian Affairs in 1821, neither status was acknowledged. as a result, Delaware representations transitioned from a taken-for-granted state into an actively negotiated field of discourse. This dissertation utilizes numerous unpublished primary source documents and archaeological data recovered during the Delaware Town Archaeological Project (2003-2005) to demonstrate the social, political, and material consequences of Delaware ethnic identity revitalization. Utilizing Silliman's (2001) practical politics model of practice theory, the archival and archaeological data sets of Delaware Town reveal the reinforcement of conspicuous ethnic boundaries, coalition-building that emphasized Delaware status as both "grandfathers" and as warriors, and also reestablishing preferred client status in trade and treaty-making. This study illuminates this poorly-known decade as a time where Delawares negotiated and exerted their ethnic identity and cultural representations to affect political, economic, and social outcomes of their choosing in the rapidly-vanishing "middle ground" of early-19th century Missouri.
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Černá, Tereza. "Město pod hvězdami." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-401806.
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The aim of my thesis is to find and insert a new function to the city of Sumperk in a way as sensitive as possible to the city environment, based on its needs and was beneficial not only for the city itself but also for the bigger region.
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Carrel, Helen Mary. "Civic government and identity in the provincial towns of late medieval England, c. 1370 to c. 1500." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/252055.
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Kladzyk, Rene Grace. "Sin Miedo: Violence, Mobility, and Identity in el Paso del Norte." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12183.
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x, 144 p. ： col. ill.Together, the cities El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico form the largest international border metropolis in the world. While El Paso consistently ranks among the safest cities in the U.S., Cd. Juarez's recent and extreme escalation of violence has produced one of the world's most dangerous locales. Within this starkly differentiated and transnational urban conglomeration, complex geographies of gender, culture, and identity have emerged, prompting the following question: how is mobility shifting throughout el Paso del Norte in response to the heightened violence in Juarez, and what are the implications of these negotiations of mobility for fronterizo (borderlander) identity? By focusing on gendered mobilities in the U.S./Mexico borderlands, this study engages with cultural implications of the recent drug conflict fueled exodus from Juarez into El Paso, articulating the negotiation of identities and daily geographies which characterize the divided lives of borderlanders.
Committee in charge: Lise Nelson， Chairperson； Alexander Murphy， Member； Kathryn Meehan， Member
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Rickan, Johanna, and Malin Sundqvist. "Barn av bruksandan : En studie om unga vuxnas platskänsla och dess roll i individens föreställningar om framtiden i bruksorten Hagfors." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-32007.
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Syftet med studien är att studera hur de historiska mönstren på en bruksort, i fråga om arbetsmarknad och genuskontrakt, kan tänkas påverka ungdomar i valet att flytta eller stanna. Med utgångspunkt i statistik presenteras studiens problemformulering vilken fokuserar på den negativa befolkningsutveckling som råder i Värmland i allmänhet och Hagfors i synnerhet. Merparten av dem som flyttar är ungdomar och framförallt är det flickor med tjänstemannabakgrund som väljer att lämna hemorten. Studier som verifierar utvecklingen tas upp och uppsatsens perspektiv etableras. Genom kvalitativa intervjuer har vi samlat in data från åtta respondenter varav fyra är kvinnor och fyra är män. Samtliga är boende i Hagfors och samtliga går sista året på gymnasiet. Resultatet visar ett mönster gällande faktorer som samspelar när det kommer till valet att flytta eller stanna. Av våra respondenter uppger samtliga kvinnor att de vill flytta från orten. De är också säkra på att de vill studera vidare. Bland männen säger tre av fyra att de kan tänka sig att stanna kvar. Samtliga betonar idrotten som ett fundament för gemenskap och identitet. I synnerhet hockey- och innebandykulturen framhålls av respondenterna och dess betydelse tycks också vara så pass central att den ses som mer än ett fritidsintresse. Sporten inte bara utövas, den ger också upphov till identiteten. Vidare poängteras det att fenomen som rivalitet är en generationsfråga. En skamsen hållning uttrycks också i förhållande till ”den typiska hagforsingen” som en manifestation av manlighetsnormen. Slutsatser är att sporten utgör regionens varumärke – i fråga om att marknadsföra orten och som ett led i att stärka såväl social gemenskap som den lokala identiteten. Likväl handlar det om ekonomiska mål och ökad lönsamhet. De teoretiska huvudmönster vi kan skönja handlar om hur identitetsbegreppet som del i kollektiva värderingar kring platsens förutsättningar kan ge perspektiv på den betydelsefulla roll som länken mellan individ och kultur spelar. Frågan om utbildning kan också förstås med fokus på såväl genusperspektivet som den sociala bakgrundens betydelse. I diskussionsavsnittet fördjupar vi oss i några av studiens centrala teman vilka bland annat är bruksortens genus, brukets koppling till idrotten och den sociala bakgrundens roll. Därefter följer reflektioner kring resultatet. Avslutningsvis reflekterar vi kring studiens genomförande samt forskarrollens påverkan.The objective of the study is to examine how historical patterns of employment and gender contract might affect local youth. Various sociological factors were considered including place belonging, higher education and migration propensity. Statistics, focused on the declining population which greatly affects Hagfors, suggest a trend that is also prevalent in the wider Värmland region. Young females whose parents have an academic background are more likely to leave the community. Studies that validate this propensity are presented. Through qualitative interviews, we collected data from eight study volunteers: four women and four men. They all reside in Hagfors and are completing their last year of high school. Our results show a clear pattern of factors that indicate the motive to move or the desire to stay. The four females unanimously stated their intention to leave the community to pursue higher education. Among the men, three of the four declared their intent to remain in Hagfors. All emphasized sport as the foundation of the community and its identity. Hockey and floorball cultures were highlighted by the study group – their importance so central that they eclipse their hobby-status. It is also observed that the phenomenon of rivalry is a focus solely for older generations. Volunteers expressed embarrassment and disapproval when describing a typical resident of Hagfors, and was generally characterized as male. We conclude that sport appears to represent the region's brand – in terms of marketing the community and as part of the strategy to strengthen local identity. It also fosters economic growth and profitability. The study observes the significant relationship between the concept of identity and collective values. The link between the individual and culture is important. Attitudes toward education can also be understood by focusing on both gender perspectives and social background. In the discussion section, we elaborate on some of the study's key themes which among others are the gender of the industrial town, the employers’ link to sport and the role of the social background. This is followed by reflections on the outcome.and reflect on its results. To conclude we reflect on the study and the aspect of role influence.
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Xabendlini, Nosicelo Ruth. "Local identities developing in the two Western Cape towns : Stellenbosch and Wellington." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53489.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2003.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the construction, at local level, of collective identities in two Western Cape towns: Stellenbosch and Wellington. Identities are understood to refer to residents' construction of meaning for themselves. The approach was qualitative and used interview and focus group techniques with probes that allowed participants to speak freely about their lives in these towns. Under apartheid, residents were divided by race in these towns. The study aims to identify changes in local identity after apartheid. New identities revolving around issues of security and language appear to be emerging. Simultaneously, old racial identities persist.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie navorsing ondersoek die konstruksie, op plaaslike vlak, van kollektiewe identiteite in twee Wes-Kaapse dorpe, Stellenbosch en Wellington. Onder identiteite verstaan ons verwysing na die inwoners se konstruksie van betekenis vir hulleself. Daar is vanuit 'n kwalitatiewe benadering gewerk en die onderhoud en fokusgroep- tegniek met dieptepeilings is gebruik, wat dit vir deelnemers moontlik gemaak het om geredelik oor hulle lewe in hierdie dorpe te praat. Tydens apartheid is inwoners van hierdie dorpe op grond van ras verdeel. Hierdie navorsing is daarop gemik om veranderinge in plaaslike identiteit ná apartheid te identifiseer. Nuwe identiteite wat om kwessies van sekuriteit en taal wentel, skyn na vore te kom. Tegelyk bly ou rasse-identiteite voortbestaan.
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Kirkpatrick, Francis Carson. "Resurrecting the town hall : a search for civic identity through place." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22399.
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Shamsuddin, Shuhana. "Identity of place : a case study of Kuantan town centre, Malaysia." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1997. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12120/.
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This research examines the concept of identity of place using the town centre of Kuantan, Malaysia as a case study. Identity in this research is defined as the qualities of a place that are recognised or recalled as being distinct from other places by the people. The aim is to investigate the elements and qualities associated with the identity of the town centre as perceived by its residents. The objectives of the research is to identify the elements associated with identity of the town centre as perceived by the residents. Secondly is to establish the qualities that are associated with identity of the town centre. The third objective is to examine the variation in residents' perception of elements and the qualities associated with identity according to their socio-cultural background. Finally, is to examine the variation in residents' perception of elements and qualities associated with identity between different parts of the town centre. The research adopted a mixed methodology using both the quantitative and qualitative method in data collection and analysis. The quantitative approach adopted a survey using a questionnaire on a sample of the town centre's residents. A total of 330 residents from the residential areas located within the town centre boundaries were involved in the sample survey. The data collected by the survey are the resident's perception of the town centre's environment and the profile of its residents. The survey data was processed using the SPSS Pc+ and analysed using descriptive statistics, namely frequencies and percentages. A cross-tabulation table was also used to identify the elements perceived by the different ethnic groups, gender and age groups that make up the composition of the respondents. The qualitative approach adopted four techniques that is focused interview, sketch map task, photo recognition interview and visual survey (field observations and recording). A total of thirty residents were involved in the interview. The data collected from this second phase was analysed qualitatively. The focused interview and photo recognition interview were taped recorded and transcribed. Analysis of the interview were based on the recurrent themes and categories that appeared in the transcripts. The findings of the research is a culmination of the cross analysis between the two different approaches. There are four main findings of the research. Firstly, there are three types of physical elements that are distinctive to the residents, that is physical structures (namely buildings, urban spaces (such as streets) and landscape features. Secondly, the characteristics of distinctive physical elements are influenced by the physical appearance, activities and the meanings and associations attached to the elements. The third finding is that there is no significant variation between the socio cultural groups in terms of elements perceived to be distinctive and that the slight variation is on the level of details observed. Of the three socio cultural factors observed, it is found that age group have more variation in perception of distinctive elements than the other two factors, especially between the youngest and the oldest group of residents. Finally, there is some variation in residents' perception of identity between different parts of the town centre. The variation observed is that residents perceived the older town centre as having a stronger identity than the newer town centre. From the research findings, several urban design and planning implications were suggested that influenced the distinctiveness of the town centre. The implications are with regards to decisions on the enhancement of path networks, development of landmarks, enhancement of nodes and entrances and conservation of the old town centre. Suggestions for further research and the implications for existing theories were also discussed. It is implied from this research that such guidelines would increased the distinctiveness of elements and places in the town centre. This consequently enhances the identity of the town centre to its residents.
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Worley, Jennifer. "KEEPING COMMUNITY: PERCEPTIONS OF COMMUNITY IDENTITY IN AN ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED TOWN." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin973003906.
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Cox, Anna Louise. "Preserving Historic Identity in the United States: Theoretical and Practical Lessons for Maintaining Historic Character in Small Virginia Towns." Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37091.
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This paper explores the preservation and presentation of small town historic identity. The current discussions and dialogue of scholars, theorists and critics of preservation efforts uncover preservation's presence and effect on today and tomorrow's world.
Contemporary development patterns have led to an increasing amount of cities and towns across the United States to adopt preservation policies to maintain their historical identity and character. The preservation movement's acceptance and its increase in scope have also facilitated the integration of its values in planning policies. The successful history of the preservation movement in America is reviewed, along with its present-day use as a cultural and economic revitalization tool. Government and non-profit agencies at the national and state level have facilitated the widespread use of preservation policies with small towns in Virginia.
Preservation policy objectives may include: heritage tourism, community revitalization, preservation and heritage education, economic development, and affordable housing. A diverse set of motivations is found in the psychological benefits of maintaining history. Preserving historic structures may contribute to one's sense of place, nostalgia, collective memory and historical identity.
The preservation of old buildings and environments is used to serve a variety of town agendas. These motives, other than historical, are the focus of the critical literature on preservation efforts. Power, representation, consumerism, and authenticy are common criticisms of historic preservation practice that threaten the historic integrity of the town. These issues form a framework to analyze local preservation practice of small Virginia towns and provide towns with a means to evaluate their preservation policies or programs. This paper provides small towns with information to maintain their historic identity without threatening future vitality and authenticity of the built environment.Master of Urban and Regional Planning
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Borén, Thomas. "Meeting-places of transformation : urban identity, spatial representations and local politics in St Petersburg, Russia /." Stockholm : Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-412.
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Leilde, Anne C. "Changing identities in urban South Africa : an interpretation of narratives in Cape Town." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1272.
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Thesis (DPhil (Sociology and Social Anthropology))--Stellenbosch University, 2008.Identity reflects and aims to control one’s experience. It is an act of consciousness which is neither essential nor immutable but a social construct open to change as circumstances, strategies and interactions fluctuate. It needs therefore to be situated historically and relationally, as identity is a matter of social context. This thesis sets out to investigate processes of identity formation in post-apartheid South Africa, i.e. a context marked by deep changes at both symbolic/material structural levels, in particular within the urban setup. On the basis of focus group discussions with residents of Cape Town, various, and at times contradictory, strategies of identification are explored. Residents’ discourses are analysed on the basis of two entry points, that of the context or the ‘scale’ within which discourse occurs (from the local, to the urban, the national and the continental) and that of the traditional categories of class, race and culture. The narratives that urban citizens draw upon to make sense of their lives and environment illuminate the emergence of new social boundaries among citizens which, though volatile and situational, reveal a changing picture of South Africa as a nation.
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Mai, Mbong Magdaline. "Assessing patterns of language use and identity among Cameroonian migrants in Cape Town." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_8752_1210747823.
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This study explored Cameroonian migrants language use and the various language forms they use to manifest their identity. It also dealt with multicultural/multilingual people in an equally multicultural/multilingual society - Cape Town. The study was carried out in the wider and interdisciplinary field of applied linguistics with focus on the specific domain of sociolinguistics.
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Abdulkadir, Idil. "Somali Stories in Ivory Towers: Narratives of Becoming a University Student." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41507.
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This study employed narrative methods to explore how two Somali-Canadian women formed and understood their identities as first-generation university students. In conceptualizing identity, the study draws on sociological literature that frames identities as a collection of social roles that are performed. Within this framework, university student is a cultural object related to specific kinds of capital. The data are presented in narrative form, based in life history and life story approaches. Within their narratives, participants recounted the ways in which their attempts at developing a university student identity were complicated by their identities as Black, Muslim, economically marginalized individuals from refugee backgrounds. The tension at the heart of each participants’ narrative was not how to perform the university student role, but the cost of that performance on other parts of their identity. These findings reveal the narrow definition university student within the Canadian imagination and its consequence for the lives of marginalized communities.
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Jones, Jane Helen. "The cultural categorisation of crime, deviance and disorder in a Welsh market town." Thesis, Bangor University, 2002. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-cultural-categorisation-of-crime-deviance-and-disorder-in-a-welsh-market-town(5b10b788-eaf9-4828-8549-e971a93427e8).html.
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Jones, Ian. "Football fandom : football fan identity and identification at Luton Town Football Club." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/275672.
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This study examines football fan identity and identification within the Nationwide football league in England. A preliminary examination of the literature concludes that research on fan identity with sports teams in general, focuses primarily upon the behavioural consequences of fan identification. More specific research on the football fan concentrates predominantly upon either the F.A. Premier League or the deviant fan. The research thus attempts to fill a void in knowledge by examining football fan identification of fans of less successful football teams, using a social identity theory framework. Employing a mixed-methods research design, and an embedded case study approach, the study investigates those factors that influence fan identification at Luton Town Football Club. Methods used were those of observation/participant observation, a large scale fan survey, and indepth semi-structured interviews with fans. As part of the fan survey, the sport spectator identification scale (Wann and Branscombe, 1993), revealed a fan population that was highly identified with Luton Town. Levels of fan identification were similar across age, gender, and length of support of the club. Subsequent survey and interview data allowed six themes related to this fan identification to emerge: these being the extent of fan identification; the antecedents of fan identification; the maintenance of fan identification; the effects of fan identification upon behaviour; the influence of the cultural identity within which fan identities are enacted; and the relationship between the fan and the football club. Analysis of these themes yields a model of football fan identification which can be adapted to fans of other football clubs, or fans within other contexts. It was concluded that whenever such identification provides positive social and psychological consequences for fans, levels of identification with the club remain high. For these fans, it is the process of identification with the club that is the most important component of fandom. By contrast, where the individual derives fewer benefits from fandom, identification remains low. For such less identified fans, other factors, such as the quality of facilities or team performance, become more meaningful. The findings from the study indicate that social identity theory is an appropriate framework with which to explore the concept of football fan identification.
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Frankental, Sally. "Constructing identity in diaspora : Jewish Israeli migrants in Cape Town, South Africa." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20449.
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Bibliography: p. 230-244.This study was conducted through systematic participant-observation from July 1994 to December 1996. Basic socio-demographic data were recorded and revealed considerable ·heterogeneity within the population. Formal and informal interviews, three focus group interviews and (selected) informants' diaries provided additional material. The study examines the construction of identity in diaspora and explores the relationships of individuals to places, groups and nation-states. Jews are shown to be the most salient local social category and language, cultural style and a sense of transience are shown to be the most significant boundary markers. The migrants' sharpest differentiation from local Jews is manifested in attitudes towards, and practice of, religion. Whether a partner is South African or Israeli was shown to be the single most important factor influencing patterns of interaction. Most studies treat Israelis abroad as immigrants while noting their insistence on transiency. Such studies also emphasize ambivalence and discomfort. In a South Africa still deeply divided by race and class, the migrants' status as middle-class whites greatly facilitates their integration. Their strong and self-confident identification as Israeli and their ongoing connectedness to Israeli society underlines distinctiveness. The combination of engagement with the local while maintaining distinctiveness, as well as past familiarity with multicultural and multilingual reality is utilized to negotiate the present, and results in a lived reality of 'comfortable contradiction' in the present. This condition accommodates multi-locality, multiple identifications and allegiances, and a simultaneous sense of both permanence and transience. The migrants' conflation of ethnic-religious and 'national' dimensions of identification (Jewishness and Israeliness), born in a particular societal context, leads, paradoxically, to distinguishing between membership of a nation and citizenship of a state. This distinction, it is argued, together with the migrants' middle-class status, further facilitates the comfortable contradiction of their transmigrant position. It is argued that while their instrumental engagement with diaspora and their understanding of responsible citizenship resembles past patterns of Jewish migration and adaptation, the absence of specifically Israeli (ethnic) communal structures suggests a departure from past patterns. The migrants' confidence in a sovereign independent nation-state and in their own identity, removes the sense of vulnerability that permeates most diaspora Jewish communities. These processes enable the migrants to live as 'normalized' Jews in a post-Zionist, post-modern, globalized world characterized by increasing electronic connectedness, mobility and hybridity. The ways in which the migrants in this study have negotiated and defined their place in the world suggests that a strong national identity is compatible with a cosmopolitan orientation to multicultural reality.
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Cooper, Margaret. "Stigma and the Negotiation of Identity by Rural and Small-Town Lesbians." TopSCHOLAR®, 1990. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1921.
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Fifteen women who identify themselves as lesbians were located through snowball sampling. These women participated in confidential taped interviews and assigned pseudonyms. They were questioned on topics which included growing up gay, family, work relations and friendship associations.
It was assumed that life experiences may differ on the basis of social environments. This study focused on the unique experiences of rural lesbians.
Erving Goofman’s book, Stigma, provided the theoretical framework utilized in the analysis of lesbian identity management. It also allowed for a discussion of stigma and its effect on lesbians.
The women in the study experiencing homosexual feelings during prior to adolescence. Their reactions to these feelings related directly to the amount of stigma that they had internalized. All women in the study developed maintenance strategies that prevented disclosure of their lesbianism. It was found that lesbians often suffer great consequences when their sexuality is disclosed.
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SMITH, KANDICE K. "A CITY REVITALIZED: PROMOTING CIVIC PRESENCE TO REESTABLISH IDENTITY." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1148180757.
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Jenkins, Gwynn. "Contested space : cultural heritage and identity reconstructions : conservation strategies within a developing Asian city /." Wien ; Zürich ; Berlin ; Münster : Lit, 2008. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9783825813666.
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Derakhshan, Mahsa [Verfasser], Nguyen Xuan [Akademischer Betreuer] Thinh, and Sabine [Gutachter] Baumgart. "Investigating the relationship between: urban identity, quality of urban life, and urban physical form in Iranian new towns : Case study: Andisheh new town / Mahsa Derakhshan ; Gutachter: Sabine Baumgart ; Betreuer: Nguyen Xuan Thinh." Dortmund : Universitätsbibliothek Dortmund, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1238348718/34.
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Sweeney, Irene Elizabeth. "The municipal administration of Glasgow, 1833-1912 : public service and the Scottish civic identity." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1990. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=25315.
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The Municipal administration of Glasgow, 1833-1912, examines the evolution of civic government in Scotland's major industrial city during a period of unprecedented urban development. The thesis is centred on the contribution of town councillors in determining a distinctly Scottish municipal identity, and the extent to which social, economic and political influences helped shape prevailing attitudes towards the public service. Biographical sources have been used to construct a collective profile of the 577 representatives who served on Glasgow Town Council during this time. However, attention is also focused on the municipal bureaucracy, especially the role of the Town Clerks. The 1833 Burgh Reform Act redefined the civic entity of Glasgow, and removed the traditional burgess basis of authcirity. Yet it was not until 1846 that the Council was able to overcome numerous legal obstacles and extend its sphere of operations. Thereafter, municipal policy was directed towards a programme of city improvenent, beginning with the spectacularly successful Loch Katrine water supply in 1855. The quality of urban life was a major civic preoccupation, and the importance of issues such as temperance reflected the concern of many councillors to present a more positive image for Glasgow. The notion of "civic pride" took firm root during the 1850s, and the following decades represented a period of steady consolidation. During this time the Council expended considerable energy in attempting to extend the municipal boundaries, particularly as many outlying areas already benefited from Glasgow's public utilities. After several false starts, success was achieved in 1891, and the municipality underwent extensive administrative restructuring. Yet by the 1900s, the rise of Labour and the spectre of "municipal socialism" had called Glasgow's civic priorities into question. Despite the controversy, there was no significant reversal of the Council's long-held expansionist strategy, and territorial additions in 1912 enlarged the city substantially.
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Isaacs, Gordon Michael. "The growth of homosexual identity : an empirical study from a social work perspective of crisis in sexual identity experienced by a sample of homosexual persons in Cape Town, with special reference to cultural factors." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17111.
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Bibliography: pages 562-602.This study seeks to investigate the nature of homosexual identity and its development, to explore the manifestation and incidence of crisis among homosexuals, and to determine the relationships between crisis and homosexual identity growth. Furthermore, it attempts to identify the idiosyncratic features of the South African "gay experience" and to examine the way such experience impinges on homosexual identity development. Given the gravity of the recent phenomenon of AIDS and its increasing appearance, the study extends to an investigation of AIDS, and its link with crisis and homosexual identity. Finally, the study seeks to indicate how Social Work may address the diverse needs of the gay collective, including strategies to deal with AIDS. The study employs a combination of methodological techniques which include the application of clinical case material, an extensive survey of research literature, a newspaper inquiry, participant observation, random interviews and a mailed questionnaire. (This questionnaire was designed to tap information with regard to demographic profiles, the unfolding of sexual identity, "coming out", crisis, and attitudes towards a local South African gay organisation.) It presented a choice between fixed alternative items but also elicited open-ended commentary. A forty-eight percent response rate was received to the mailed questionnaire. On the basis of research, the writer has developed a theoretical model of homosexual identity growth which comprises various developmental stages ranging from early infancy to late adulthood. The study concludes that homosexual identity growth is a dynamic and on-going process catalysed by the interaction between self, society, and sub-culture. Homosexual identity is strongly linked to the gay sub-culture which presents a classic double-bind; it acts as a symbolic family for the homosexual person but it also perpetuates the expression of behaviours and emotions which are externally regarded as non-legitimate. Hence, crisis is universally experienced by homosexuals as part of their process of identity development, and is usually associated with "coming out". Crisis can be expressed in egocentric (internal) or sociocentric (external) terms, and may occur at any stage. The level of self-acceptance and self-esteem varies with each individual, and personal fantasy, as a core element of sexuality, is a key indicator of the extent of identity resolution.
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Vorng, Sophorntavy. "Status City: Consumption, Identity, and Middle Class Culture in Contemporary Bangkok." University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5771.
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Doctor of PhilosophyFollowing decades of sweeping social change, a 'new' Thai middle class emerged to become the main agents of the mass demonstrations which have rocked Bangkok for the better part of the past four years. Yet, the academic literature reveals a marked paucity of data on the urban middle class, and on Bangkok's systems of stratification. This dissertation addresses this lacuna with research based on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Bangkok. My investigations suggest that an indigenous spatial-symbolic matrix, encapsulated in centralising and hierarchising mandalic principles, continues to inform both cultural understandings of stratification and the socio-spatial structure of Bangkok. However, traditional status distinctions are now pervaded by the idiom of material wealth introduced by the forces of global markets. Today, life in Bangkok is framed by a hierarchy of affluence which echoes the numerical precision of the premodern sakdina system of status differentiation. Accordingly, I argue that the notion of the 'urban-rural divide' popularly used to describe the conflict obscures a more complex reality in which city and countryside are linked by reciprocal relations within both urban and national systems of status and class. This is clearly discernable in the nature of everyday interclass relations in Bangkok which have been exacerbated by contemporary diminishment and marginalisation of upcountry Thais by the urban middle classes. It is an incendiary dynamic that has been exploited to tremendous effect in the current political power struggle. I demonstrate that the middle class is significantly stratified internally, and explore how middle class culture and identity are drawn in large part from their understandings of status practices of elites. Much of this takes place in the public spaces of the city's scores of shopping malls, which articulate a local vernacular of prestige where hierarchical power relations are inscribed in urban space. Structural constraints and the societal privileging of wealth and connections are constant challenges to middle class aspirations for upward mobility, and the Bangkokian middle class harbours no illusions of Thai society as a meritocracy. This disenchantment has been channelled into a churning politics of resentment with demonstrably explosive potential. Ultimately, however, I argue that middle class discontent will contribute little to reform while the majority of individuals feel their only avenue for social mobility is to negotiate a pre-existing system of stratification which many perceive as unjust.
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Heap, Marion. "Crossing social boundaries and dispersing social identity : tracing deaf networks from Cape Town." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53339.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2003.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The conciliatory discourse of the South African Deaf social movement claims a commonality across South Africa's historical divides on the basis of a 'Deaf culture'. This claim in view of South Africa's deeply entrenched 'racial' divisions triggered this study. The study investigates the construction of Deaf identity and emphasizes the crossing of social boundaries in Cape Town, a society with a long history of discriminatory boundaries based on race. The study was carried out among adults who became deaf as children, the group for whom deafness, commonly viewed as both sensory and social deficit, is said to pose considerable linguistic, social and cultural challenges. It focused on strategies that deal with being deaf in a predominantly hearing world. To identify strategies, for this population without a geographical base, the study traced networks of social relationships. Fieldwork was carried out from September 1995 to December 2001. Between September 1995 and December 1997 research included systematic participant observation and informal interviews. Between January 1998 and December 2001 , continuing with participant observation and informal interviews, the study added formal interviews with a sample population of 94 deaf people across Cape Town, collected by the snowball method. The profile of this sample shows a relatively heterogeneous population on the basis of demographic factors and residential area but similarity on the basis of first language, Sign. The study demonstrates that history imposed boundaries. It categorized the Deaf as different from the hearing and in addition, in South Africa, produced further differentiation on the basis of apartheid category, age, Deaf school attended, method of education and spoken language. In this historical context the study identified a key strategy, 'Signing spaces'. A Signing space, identifiable on the basis of Sign-based communication, is a set of networks that extends from the deaf individual to include deaf and hearing people. On analysis it comprises a Sign-hear and a Sign-Q.e.gfspace. In Sign-~ networks, hearing people predominate. Relationships are domestic and near neighbourhood. In Sign-~ networks, deaf people predominate. Relationships are sociable and marked by familiarity. The study found that via the Signing space, the Deaf subvert deafness as deficit to recoup a social identity that is multi-faceted and dispersed across context. Boundaries crossed also vary by context and by networks. Sign-~ networks address the hearing boundary. Limits could be identified in the public arena, when barriers to communication and a poor supply of professional Sign language interpreters again rendered deafness as deficit. The boundaries of the Sign-deaf networks were difficult to determine and suggest the potential, facilitated by Sign language, to transcend South Africa's spoken languages and the related historical divisions. Sign-~ networks also suggest the additional potential, in sociable contexts, to transcend spoken language, trans-nationally. But mutual intelligibility of Sign language and the familiarity, communality and commonality it offered did not deny an awareness of historical differentiation and discrimination, as a case of leadership succession presented as a 'social drama' shows. However, the process of the 'social drama' also demonstrates that conflict, crises, and a discourse that reflects South Africa's historical divisions need not threaten a broader commonality.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die oorsteek van maatskaplike grense en verbreiding van maatskaplike identiteit: die nagaan van netwerke vir Dowes van Kaapstad Die bemiddelende diskoers van die Suid-Afrikaanse maatskaplike beweging vir Dowes maak op grond van 'n 'Dowe kultuur' aanspraak op 'n algemeenheid wat oor Suid-Afrika se geskiedkundige verdeeldhede heen strek. Hierdie aanspraak het, in die lig van Suid- Afrika se diepgewortelde 'rasseverdelings' , tot hierdie navorsing aanleiding gegee. Die navorsing ondersoek die vorming van 'n Dowe identiteit en beklemtoon die oorsteek van maatskaplike grense in Kaapstad, 'n gemeenskap met 'n lang verlede van diskriminerende grense wat op ras gebaseer is. Die navorsing is gedoen onder volwassenes wat as kinders doof geword het. Vir hierdie groep, waar dit gewoonlik as 'n sensoriese en sosiale gebrek beskou word, hou doofheid aansienlike linguistiese, sosiale en kulturele uitdagings in. Die navorsing fokus op strategieë wat te make het met doof wees in 'n oorheersend horende wêreld. Om vir hierdie bevolking sonder 'n geografiese basis strategieë te identifiseer, het die navorsing maatskaplike verhoudingsnetwerke nagegaan. Veldwerk is tussen September 1995 en Desember 2001 gedoen. Tussen September 1995 en Desember 1997 het die navorsing stelselmatige waarneming van die deelnemers en informele onderhoude met hulle behels. Hierdie waarneming en informele onderhoude is tussen Januarie 1998 en Desember 2001 voortgesit, maar die navorsing het nou ook formele onderhoude met 'n steekproefbevolking van 94 dowe mense van regoor Kaapstad ingesluit. Hiervoor is van die sneeubalmetode gebruik gemaak. Die profiel van hierdie steekproef toon 'n relatief heterogene bevolking op grond van demografiese faktore en woongebied, maar ooreenkoms op grond van eerste taal, naamlik Gebaretaal. Die navorsing toon aan dat grense deur die geskiedenis opgelê is. Dit het Dowes as verskillend van horendes gekategoriseer, en het daardeur in Suid-Afrika tot verdere differensiasie op grond van die apartheidskategorie, ouderdom, watter doweskool bygewoon is, wyse van onderrig en gesproke taal aanleiding gegee. In hierdie geskiedkundige konteks het die navorsing 'n belangrike strategie, 'Gebare-ruimtes', geïdentifiseer. 'n Gebare-ruimte wat uitgeken kan word op grond van Gebaar-gebaseerde kommunikasie, is 'n stel netwerke wat van die dowe individu af uitbrei om dowe en horende mense in te sluit. Uit 'n analise blyk dit dat dit 'n Gebaar-horende en Gebaar-dowe ruimte behels. In Gebaar-horende netwerke oorheers horende mense. Verhoudinge word in die huis en met die naaste bure aangegaan. In Gebaar-dowe netwerke oorheers dowe mense. Verhoudings is gesellig van aard en word deur ongedwongenheid gekenmerk. Die navorsing het bevind dat die Dowe doofheid as gebrek deur middel van die Gebaarruimte omkeer om 'n veelvlakkige maatskaplike identiteit wat dwarsoor die konteks versprei is, te behels. Grense wat oorgesteek word, varieer ook in konteks en ten opsigte van netwerke. Gebaar-horende netwerke fokus op die horende grens. Beperkinge kon in die openbare arena geïdentifiseer word in gevalle waar hindernisse ten opsigte van kommunikasie en gebrekkige voorsiening van Gebaretaal-tolke weer doofheid as 'n gebrek voorgestel het. Dit was moeilik om die grense van die Gebaar- ~ netwerke te bepaal en dit suggereer die potensiaalom, gefasiliteer deur Gebaretaal, Suid-Afrikaanse tale en die gepaardgaande geskiedkundige verdelings te transendeer. Gebaar-dowe netwerke suggereer ook die addisionele potensiaal om gesproke taal, in gesellige kontekste trans-nasionaal te transendeer. Maar onderlinge verstaanbaarheid van Gebaretaal en die ongedwongenheid, gemeenskaplikheid en algemeenheid wat dit gebied het, het nie 'n bewustheid van geskiedkundige differensiasie en diskriminasie ontken nie, soos 'n geval van opvolging van leierskap, wat as 'n 'sosiale drama' aangebied is, getoon het. Die proses van die 'sosiale drama' toon ook dat konflik, krisisse en 'n diskoers wat Suid-Afrika se geskiedkundige verdelings weerspieël, nie 'n wyer algemeenheid hoef te bedreig nie.
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Garmann, Melissa M. "Social Fermentation: Sustaining the Identity of a Small Town in a Globalizing World." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1277144191.
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Jenkins, Gwynn. "Contested space cultural heritage and identity reconstructions ; conservation strategies within a developing Asian city." Wien Zürich Berlin Münster Lit, 2004. http://d-nb.info/988677024/04.
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Sandalack, Beverly Ann. "Continuity of history and form : the Canadian prairie town." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263042.
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Masquelier, Adeline Marie. "Prayer has spoiled everything : possession, power and identity in an islamic town of Niger /." Durham : Duke university press, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37736868f.
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Moreno, Raul Benjamin. ""He was more than just one soldier" narrating national identity in small-town America /." Online access for everyone, 2005. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Summer2005/r%5Fmoreno%5F062005.pdf.
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Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth. "For the love of women : gender and gay identity in a Greek provincial town." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367934.
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This thesis is an anthropological study of gender and gay identity in a community of women who currently live in a Greek provincial town and engage in same-sex relationships They identify themselves as the area' (the company) and attempt to deft conventional sexuality-based classifications, promoting their own idioyncratic discourse on gender and sexuality The women of the parea treat same sex relationships as instances for the enactment of desire and opportunities for the intersubjective transformation of the self Mj ethnographic analysis follows close/y the life and organisatzon of this community of women by paying special attention to themes such as the recruitment of new members, the construction of erotic relationships, the role of friendship and the special rituals that mark the separation of partners. These are some of the occasions where the women negotiate the meaning of masculinity, femininity and same-sex desire through gendered performances of a 'yncretic and ambiguous character. The original ethnographic information presented in this study documents how some surreptitious narratives formed in the Greek periphery resist and reify conventional gender idioms through a peformatzve/y realised objectification of the self The institutionalised character of heterosexuality and the disapproving connotations of lesbianism prevalent in Greece, force the women of the parea to conceal their sexuality in order to live congenzaly with the other inhabitants of the town. In this respect, the parea operates as a context for the articulation of alternative gender ideas and relations and as a support network for women who wish to challenge customary notions offemininiey albeit without openly provoking the heterosexual establishment Enmeshed in the politics of visibility and znvzsibiliçy, concealment and dispiqy, experiences of empowerment and homoerotic desire are thus accomplished in a culturalfy recognzsable but rntricatefy disguzsedfashzon. The thesis testifies to the symbiotic co-existence of contrasting discourses, multiple identifications and conflicting relationships and confirms the importance of gender identity as a threshold where cultural and historical forces interface with the willingness of the actor to exist as creative agent.
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Ribeiro, Maria Jose Ferreira de Araujo. "Memoria, imigração e educação : Fabrica de Tecidos Carioba: uma vila industrial paulista no inicio do seculo XX." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/252627.
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Brusman, Mats. "Den verkliga staden? : Norrköpings innerstad mellan urbana idéer och lokala identiteter." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Kultur och samhälle, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-10559.
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This dissertation studies how city planning is affected by notions on urbanity and ideas of the value of local places. Empirically, the dissertation deals with the development of the city of Norrköping in the 1990’s and the early 2000’s. The physical urban environment is formed with influences from general ideas of what a city is and should be, but also out of conceptions of the unique local place. The local history is an important factor for understanding the possibilities and obstacles in contemporary city planning. Theoretically, the dissertation is inspired by geographic, historical and sociological perspectives on space and time. Henri Lefebvre’s spatial triad is a central reference. The dissertation focus on three places in the city of Norrköping; Söder Tull, Skvallertorget and Nya Torget. Through a broad archival material and interviews with planners, politicians and other actors, the development of the places in 1990-2005 is analyzed in the light of urban development in Norrköping in the industrial and post-industrial eras.I denna avhandling studeras hur stads- och trafikplanering påverkas av idéer om urbanitet och föreställningar om platsers värde. Fokus ligger på hur stadsmiljöer i Norrköpings innerstad formats och utvecklats under 1990-talet och i början av 2000-talet. Avhandlingen belyser hur den fysiska stadsmiljön formas av trender, strömningar och idéer; dels generella föreställningar om staden som begrepp, dels uppfattningar om lokala miljöers särart och värden. Studien har ett historiskt perspektiv, där den historiska framväxten av staden ligger till grund för förståelsen av den samtida stadsutvecklingens möjligheter och hinder. Teoretiskt hämtar studien inspiration från kulturgeografiska, historiska och sociologiska perspektiv på tid och rum. Henri Lefebvres beskrivning av rummet i tre dimensioner är en central utgångspunkt. Empiriskt behandlas tre platser i Norrköpings innerstad; Söder Tull, Skvallertorget och Nya Torget. Genom ett brett arkivmaterial och genom intervjuer med planerare, politiker och andra aktörer studeras platsernas utveckling under perioden 1990-2005 i ljuset av hur Norrköpings innerstad formats under de industriella och postindustriella epokerna.
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Möller, Josefin, and Erika Lundström. "”Jag förknippar Stockholm med karriär, att man vill bli något. Att man inte är nöjd med livets färdiga väg som vi är i Skellefteå.” : En kvalitativ studie om hur individens identitet och självbild påverkas av bostadsorten." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Sociologi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-37367.
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The title of the essay is “I associate Stockholm with career focused, that you want to become something. That you’re not satisfied with the predetermined way of life that we are in Skellefteå” and is written by Erika Lundström and Josefin Möller. The purpose of this essay is to examine how the place of residence affects the individuals identity. The study is based on ten qualitative interviews with individuals residing and growing up in two different communities called Skellefteå kommun and Stockholms kommun in Sweden. A number of theories within identity creation, from for example Bauman (2004) and Pripp (2001), are used to understand the phenomena. The results demonstrate that the respondents experience a pride in living in each community. The respondents attitudes are reflected by their place of residence and how they experiences expectations to live by the community valuations to fit in. The respondents from Stockholms kommun experienced an expectation to have an education and a growing career while the respondents from Skellefteå kommun experienced an expectation to start a family and have a stable job. Their own identity is strengthened when the respondents talks about themselves in a relation to the other community which creates a kind of power imbalance between the communities.Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur individens identitet och självbild påverkas av bostadsorten. Studiens empiri har samlats in genom kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer med tio individer uppväxta och bosatta i Stockholms kommun samt Skellefteå kommun. Ett flertal teorier om identitetsskapande, från exempelvis Bauman (2004) och Pripp (2001), har använts för att förstå fenomenet. Resultatet av studien visar hur intervjupersonerna upplever en stolthet över att bo i respektive kommun, samt att individens identitetsskapande påverkas av förväntningarna som är kopplade till platsen. Intervjupersonerna från Stockholms kommun upplevde en förväntning på att ha en utbildning och en växande karriär, medan intervjupersonerna från Skellefteå kommun upplevde en förväntning på att bilda familj tidigt samt ha ett stabilt arbete. Den egna identiteten stärktes när intervjupersonerna talade om sig själva i relation till den andra gruppen, vilket skapar en slags maktobalans mellan de två kommunerna.