Our Local Community
Author | : Marcellus Albertin |
Publisher | : Heinemann |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Social sciences |
ISBN | : 9780435923907 |
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Author | : Marcellus Albertin |
Publisher | : Heinemann |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Social sciences |
ISBN | : 9780435923907 |
Author | : Chris Arnade |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0525534733 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A profound book.... It will break your heart but also leave you with hope." —J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy "[A] deeply empathetic book." —The Economist With stark photo essays and unforgettable true stories, Chris Arnade cuts through "expert" pontification on inequality, addiction, and poverty to allow those who have been left behind to define themselves on their own terms. After abandoning his Wall Street career, Chris Arnade decided to document poverty and addiction in the Bronx. He began interviewing, photographing, and becoming close friends with homeless addicts, and spent hours in drug dens and McDonald's. Then he started driving across America to see how the rest of the country compared. He found the same types of stories everywhere, across lines of race, ethnicity, religion, and geography. The people he got to know, from Alabama and California to Maine and Nevada, gave Arnade a new respect for the dignity and resilience of what he calls America's Back Row--those who lack the credentials and advantages of the so-called meritocratic upper class. The strivers in the Front Row, with their advanced degrees and upward mobility, see the Back Row's values as worthless. They scorn anyone who stays in a dying town or city as foolish, and mock anyone who clings to religion or tradition as naïve. As Takeesha, a woman in the Bronx, told Arnade, she wants to be seen she sees herself: "a prostitute, a mother of six, and a child of God." This book is his attempt to help the rest of us truly see, hear, and respect millions of people who've been left behind.
Author | : Jane Goodall Institute |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Community-based conservation |
ISBN | : 9781589486478 |
Local Voices, Local Choices: The Tacare Approach to Community-Led Conservation chronicles the stories behind Jane Goodall's holistic approach to conservation in Africa.
Author | : Marcellus Albertin |
Publisher | : Heinemann |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Social sciences |
ISBN | : 9780435923921 |
Author | : Michael Brüggemann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9781783749393 |
Global news on anthropogenic climate change is shaped by international politics, scientific reports and voices from transnational protest movements. This timely volume asks how local communities engage with these transnational discourses.The chapters in this volume present a range of compelling case studies drawn from a broad cross-section of local communities around the world, reflecting diverse cultural and geographical contexts. From Greenland to northern Tanzania, it illuminates how different understandings evolve in diverse cultural and geographical contexts while also revealing some community.
Author | : Barbra A. Meek |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816504482 |
For many communities around the world, the revitalization or at least the preservation of an indigenous language is a pressing concern. Understanding the issue involves far more than compiling simple usage statistics or documenting the grammar of a tongue—it requires examining the social practices and philosophies that affect indigenous language survival. In presenting the case of Kaska, an endangered language in an Athabascan community in the Yukon, Barbra A. Meek asserts that language revitalization requires more than just linguistic rehabilitation; it demands a social transformation. The process must mend rips and tears in the social fabric of the language community that result from an enduring colonial history focused on termination. These “disjunctures” include government policies conflicting with community goals, widely varying teaching methods and generational viewpoints, and even clashing ideologies within the language community. This book provides a detailed investigation of language revitalization based on more than two years of active participation in local language renewal efforts. Each chapter focuses on a different dimension, such as spelling and expertise, conversation and social status, family practices, and bureaucratic involvement in local language choices. Each situation illustrates the balance between the desire for linguistic continuity and the reality of disruption. We Are Our Language reveals the subtle ways in which different conceptions and practices—historical, material, and interactional—can variably affect the state of an indigenous language, and it offers a critical step toward redefining success and achieving revitalization.
Author | : Marcellus Albertin |
Publisher | : Heinemann |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Social sciences |
ISBN | : 9780435923938 |
Author | : Marcellus Albertin |
Publisher | : Heinemann |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Social sciences |
ISBN | : 9780435923914 |