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An Interpretive Case Study of Chinese New Zealanders’ Participation in Non-elected Representation
Get PDFThis paper adopts Michael Saward’s representative claims theory to analyze Chinese New Zealanders’ participation in non-elected representation. It explores how they made representative claims and examines the democratic legitimacy of their claims. Based on an interpretive analysis of in-depth interviews with 38 Chinese New Zealanders, I found age-based and educational-level-based patterns of how they participate in non-elected representation. Individuals and Chinese associations made representative claims based on various grounds. However, the democratic legitimacy of individual-made claims and association-made claims varied. When interviewees made representative claims, they cherished the claims’ instrumental goals and intrinsic values. These findings expand our knowledge of Chinese New Zealanders’ political participation and representation. This paper also analyzes the difference between making representative claims and political advocacy. It deepens our understanding of non-elected representation
The Socio-economic Transformation in Makassar Tribe Gift-giving Tradition: Reconstructing Social Welfare Strategy
Get PDFThe gift-giving tradition in Jeneponto, the land of the Makassar Tribe, has undergone significant transformation over time, reflecting changes in socio-economic ethics within societies. This study explores the evolution of this tradition and its profound impact on contemporary socio-economic values. It examines how gift-giving has transitioned from a simple act of goodwill and cultural exchange to a complex phenomenon influenced by consumerism, status, and economic disparities. Drawing from ethnographic research analysis, this research delves into the cultural and social significance of gift-giving in various contexts. It sheds light on how traditional values, such as reciprocity and generosity, have been reshaped by commercialization and global consumer culture. Furthermore, it investigates the consequences of these changes on individuals and communities. The study also discusses the ethical dilemmas arising from the commodification of gift-giving, including issues of authenticity, social inequality, and environmental sustainability. It highlights the need for a more conscious and responsible approach to gift-giving in the current situation
An Exploratory Factor Analysis Approach to Investigate Health and Safety Factors in Indian Construction Sector
Get PDFConstruction sites require greater safety precautions due to unsafe working conditions. Health and Safety (H&S) in the Indian construction sector is very poor. Even with this reality, Indian researchers have paid little attention to H&S issues. Understanding important dimensions improves on-site H&S. So, this study aims to find out the most important aspects and factors that affect health and safety on the job site in the Indian construction industry and get other developing countries to do the same. A piloted and tested questionnaire survey approach was employed in this study to verify and confirm the set of dimensions explored from the existing literature. After compiling a final set of 61 dimensions, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was used to analyze them. Out of the original 61 dimensions, 35 were deemed significant and clustered into 4 main factors: management regulatory factor, worker\u27s self-regulatory factor, workplace regulatory factor, and government regulatory factor. The study\u27s findings may help decision-makers, top management, and workers to understand H&S and its effective implementation. The results will also encourage developing countries to implement H&S governance for on-site H&S. Future studies for the Indian construction sector can examine the factors using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and a model by structural equation modeling (SEM) or Path Model can be developed by using the dimensions and extracted factors given in this work. In the future, emerging nations should conduct more research in this direction is also recommended
Three Sustainability Dimensions Verses Climate Change Act 2008: A Retrospective Numerical Modelling
No full textSustainability continues to be a key field of study, encapsulating three principle dimensions: social, economic and environmental, which are also found within the context of climate change. However, there appears to be limited literature drawing upon the between sustainability and climate change. relationship, particularly in connection to carbon emissions and energy management. These issues have already been the subject of legislation in different countries, though still, predominantly individually rather than from an integrated perspective. The Climate Change At (2008) provides a platform through which the relationship between sustainability and climate change can be considered. This paper establishes this relationship aspects of this relationship by employing the increased use of insulation within the UK housing stock to contribute to achieving the carbon reduction set by the Act. Taking a retrospective view through theoretical numerical modelling, this paper demonstrates that CO2 reductions were achievable. The results demonstrate that links can be drawn between sustainability and climate change and identifies that significant CO2 savings, through robust energy management of the UK housing stock, these results can be achieved. It is also suggested that the theoretical mole developed can be reproduced to consider climate change targets and provide benchmarks, not only in the UK but in other countries
Commonwealth Caribbean Cities, Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience: Empowering Local Government
Get PDFCities of Small Island Developing States face unprecedented challenges in climate change adaptation with local governments in these territories being increasingly called upon to respond to related natural hazards and deploy resources for planning, preparedness, emergency efforts and post-recovery initiatives in their communities. So far, very little research has been conducted on the paramount role and capacity of local governments in Commonwealth Caribbean Small Island Developing States to undertake climate change adaptation in an urban context and as an integral pathway to disaster-resilient development. This study investigates local government’s role in responding to climate change adaptation and the challenges it faces in performing this function in Commonwealth Caribbean cities. The research distilled the inputs of mayors and local government experts using interviews and drawing from their inputs at a stakeholder workshop. The study’s findings indicate that local governments within the region face many barriers to execute climate change adaptation initiatives. The paper suggests an array of credible policy measures and action that may be undertaken to empower Commonwealth Caribbean local governments in implementing climate change adaptation to enhance climate resilience within local communities, including central government’s role as an enabler
Memory in Motion: Creating Sticky Memories in Museums
Get PDFMemory in Motion illustrates the ways that replicating a now-lost culinary practice achieves stickiness through the affective transfer of ideas and experiences for visitors in history museums. It explores how embodied re-enactment both preserves and creates memories, while instilling senses of social value, currency and meaning in the museum, and in heritage more broadly. The work also considers museums, particularly house museums, recipes, and in this instance—sponge cake—as sites of memory and nostalgia, and their contemporary relevance. By interweaving resonant fragments of the museum’s collection and family (hi)stories with a performative activity embedded in memory and motion, we see the development of stickiness through a relational assemblage framework centred around emotional connections to food in the past and in the present, with a view to the future.with a view to the future
Our Migrant Meal: Toward an Immigrant Haggadah
Get PDFOur Migrant Meal and Towards an Immigrant Haggadah is a work by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez and Sara Harris Ben Hari that seeks to give people a framework for a periodic meal ritual to hold space for their own migrant experiences and those of other people
Home As a Mobile and Flexible Domestic Space in Amitav Ghosh’s Alternative Ideas of Cosmopolitanism
Get PDFIn this globalized cosmopolitan world, the concept of home has become one of the most crucial socio-cultural perceptions, playing a significant role in establishing community and transnational relationships both at the local and the global level. Amitav Ghosh’s alternative ideas of cosmopolitanism are committed to criticizing the neo-imperial characteristic of the contemporary capitalist cosmopolitan world. This paper argues that Amitav Ghosh through his selected fiction - The Shadow Lines (1988) and The Hungry Tide (2004) - has shown how breaking away from the conventional, constrictive ideas and established definitions of home, that often run the risk of becoming the birthplace of many of the communal, regional or national fanatic ideologies, contributes to forming alternative ideas of home and family that are more mobile and flexible in nature and how they are instrumental in shaping individuals as true cosmopolitans
Volunteering for a Job: Creativity and Tanzanian Youth
Get PDFThis paper explores motivations behind voluntary activities of youth in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, during an increasingly common period of ‘waithood,’ characterized by prolonged status as youth and delay in adulthood due to challenges with unemployment. Drawing on ethnographic anthropological fieldwork conducted in 2019, this paper uses stories of two youths from two youth-led organizations located in Dar es Salaam to explore differing motivations for engaging in volunteering. These examples illustrate how volunteering either acts as a stepping-stone to future employment or as a replacement for formal employment, dependent on class identity. It is argued that for Tanzanian youths, volunteering is a creative response to the challenges of waithood. This paper suggests that policymakers and civil society organizations addressing youth issues in Tanzania should recognize the diverse motivations and creative and strategic dimensions of volunteering to better support young people in navigating waithood and their futures
More-than-human Interconnections: Remedies against the new ‘Cosmopolitan Normal’ of Precarity?
Get PDFThe essay addresses a disjuncture between the discourse on cosmopolitanism and migrants’ everyday experience from a feminist and political ecology point of view, combining theorising with ethnographic observations. Migration as well as urban studies work validating the forms of organisation and ‘economies of perception and collaborative practice’ (Simone 2004) devised by individuals and communities in states of marginality, particularly in decolonised countries, informs a reflection about more-than-human interconnections emerging from migration between Bangladesh and Italy. Instead of male horizons of potent survival, experiences based on slow, subtle, often hardly visible, non-city-centric cooperations between human and vegetal cohabitants are foregrounded. Can the discourse on cosmopolitanism, seemingly dormant in migrant and activist circles, be activated by tying it more explicitly to movements opposing socio-economic precarity and ecological destruction
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