...Contesting the Margins of Modernity: Women, Migration, and Consumption in Thailand Author(s): Mary Beth Mills Source: American Ethnologist, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Feb., 1997), pp. 37-61 Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/646565 . Accessed: 18/04/2011 07:38 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at . http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=black. . Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. Blackwell Publishing and American Anthropological...
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...indexes. So, these broad professional profiles also carry along a huge variety when it comes to employments and vacancies. Modern life developed a wide range for laboring performance, and it’s no coincidence that this modern life is often represented from an urban experience. Universities, research institutes, hospitals, health and cultural centers, and many other fundamental institutions are often settled down within a big city’s inwards. In addition, transportation means play an essential role in big cities. Not just only for the multiple solutions they might incorporate to help the traffic (such as, subways, streetcars, speedways, and middle avenues), but also because of the constant intention of lessening the traveling lapse from home to work. Every big city’s blueprints reveal a complex net of intersections, as if streets were arteries establishing the connections between every important core for urban life, which is in other words: a certain city’s own vital fluid. Everything seems to be connected as an organism. Every place is related, in an inspiring, but most of all, practical way, to every other place. And that’s always a good indicator. Moreover, there is a fact I consider substantial when it comes to urban experience: social life. As transportation and job opportunities, social life has a wide range of representations that may vary at every point. Starting...
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...The Society of Litland This is the society of Litland. In this society there are 5 cities, Highrise, Lake Life, Surf City, and Downtown. Each city specializes in different jobs to help the entire society. Highrise is the largest city in Litland and is home to most of the jobs and government buildings for the entire society. Lake Life is a small city on a lake in the southwest part of the society. There are log cabins and water activities for the population to enjoy. Lake Life is responsible for a steady water source and agriculture. Adobe is another small city in the south part of Litland. This city may be in the desert but plays a very important role in the society. Adobe is home to museums and national parks along with the airport....
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...1 CHAPTER 1 What is rurality? Nicolette Rousseau BA BRITAIN is primarily a country of urban dwellers. For many, rural areas are seen as an idyll, the antithesis of the ills of urban life. The countryside is a place to 'get away from it all' - a weekend retreat, or somewhere where one might aspire to live. People have images of rolling landscapes or bleak moors, complete with smiling farmers leaning on farm gates. The country air is seen as recuperative, and the environment generally beneficial. McLaren in 1951 argued that city children should be encouraged to go hill walking; today young offenders are sometimes sent on hiking expeditions. Jones and Eyles (1977), in An Introduction to Social Geography, stated: "This book is largely about urban society ... this does not unduly distort the real situation because we live in a predominantly urban society and most of our problems lie in the city." Their view is reflected in the fact that recent interest in health inequalities has tended to be centred on the inner cities. Definitions of rurality in a health care context Definitions of rurality have been neglected in health research. Definitions of deprivation attract frequent papers, with debate over the 'best' definition (Campbell et al., 1991; Morris and Carstairs, 1991; Ben-Shlomo et al., 1992). Researchers into deprivation and health generally choose to use one of two or three main indices of deprivation, such as that described by Townsend et...
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...In our modern urban lifestyle, we have lost our sense of community. We need to return to a simpler way of life. Discuss. Following the development of technology, the quality of life becomes better off. It is attractive enough to live in cities, because people can enjoy a lot of convenient facilities. However, some people believe that many people do not know their neighbours and the sense of community has been lost with the increasing number of people in cities. In this essay the effect of the modern urban lifestyle in cities will be discussed. Nowadays, many people tend to live in cities for different reasons. They move into cities mainly for work. Because they leave early in the morning and come back home late in the evening. They do not want to waste their time on a train or bus. If they live in cities, they do not need to wake up early to take a train or bus. Furthermore, living in cities means that they can easily find places or facilities to fill their every need in the urban life, which is valued in the individual lifestyle rather than the sense of community. On the other hand, many people seem to be more isolated than ever before. Because of focusing on the individual lifestyle in modern time, it is hard to have an opportunity to make a deep relationship with people living around. People do not usually know what happens to their neighbours. Humans are social creatures that cannot be independent of others. As a result, even if there are a lot of convenient places...
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...The Virtues of Living in the Countryside Our society worships urban life. Government and developers have been constantly expanding cities to the countryside because of their conviction, which is “better city, better life”. People living in the country try their hardest to get a permanent urban residence certificate or simply leave for the big cities to find jobs. Wouldn’t any peasant gladly sign with the devil just to be in the city? Isn’t countryside a place to be disliked? Perhaps it sounds strange to say so, but I believe the answer is “No.” Living in the city is often convenient, but living in the countryside has distinct advantages. When living in the city, you are apt to be obsessed with all kinds of seductions. When I was just a kid, I often went to arcade with my friends to play video games, and was even seduced to Internet bar a couple of times to “keep pace with the fashion”, and actually, there are more other selections you can make for recreation now, for example, KTV, shopping center, and so on. When my father took me to the countryside each week, I felt that I was confronted with the anguish of going to the purgatory because nothing there was as funny and attractive as the things I enjoyed in the city, and I just sat there, like a fool. Sometimes, I even pleaded with my father not to take me to the old house and just let me be home. When he refused me, I would shout and scream at him for being so brutal to let me “get in touch with the nature”, which I didn’t...
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...Give a critical account of the approach taken by any one or two Modern writers depiction of urban life ‘Why do I dramatise London so perpetually’ Woolf wondered in the final months of her life. This essay will seek to examine Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Eliot’s The Waste Land to observe their perpetual fascination with expressing metropolis as a vision of modernity. It will attempt to scrutinize the overwhelming nature of urban life, urban life’s effect on humanity, metropolis being the forefront of society, and also the depiction of a single urban consciousness. Through examining these depictions of urban life, this essay aims to observe the effects rapid urbanisation had on the modern movement and its respective authors. Woolf presents Mrs Dalloway’s consciousness as a vessel to voice the overwhelming nature of urban life and the problem of anxiety experienced in modern metropolis. Immediately in the first paragraph Clarissa’s anxieties are voiced as she embarks to the city to prepare for her party. Clarissa’s consciousness jumps to her memory of a ‘girl of eighteen’ and the solemn and ‘feeling that something awful was about to happen’. The contrast to her feeling of excitement to a feeling of anxiety is stark. The protagonist begins by exclaiming ‘how fresh how calm’ and then to experiencing feeling threatened as her attention reverts from the natural to the ‘uproar of the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans… she loved; life; London’. Woolf plunges the reader into...
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...21st century American popular culture through “racial mobility”. Priscilla Ovalle, author of Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom, discusses Jennifer Lopez’s rise to fame in the chapter, “Jennifer Lopez, Racial Mobility, and the New Urban/Latina Commodity”, which details how the success of Lopez stems from her ability to shed limitations in film, music, and entertainment because of an ‘in-betweenness’ which is a “convenient bridge” in Hollywood that has allowed her to take on roles and styles as a non-white, ambiguous individual in the industry (Ovalle, 139). Because of Jennifer Lopez being non-white and not black, she has been able to fit in the entertainment industry which has served to target different audiences (Black, white, Latino) through ‘racial mobility”. Jennifer Lopez is literally in between black and white culture because of the importance placed on shades of...
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...People from around the world to be American attracted by “American Dream”, which also form a unique American multi-culture. It has become a powerful inexhaustible motive force for US. Largest source of illegal migrants is Mexico, and followed by Central America, Latin America, China, Vietnam and Southeast Asian countries. According to the book Cities and Urban Life: “we can partly explain the higher concentration of poverty cities by the great number of foreign-born residents. Throughout the history of Canada and the United States, cities have traditionally been home to many poor newcomers struggling to survive and improve their quality of life. that pattern continues today. More than two-fifths of the foreign-born in the United States live in a central city. (many others have the financial means to live in the suburbs).” Illegal immigrants exhausted all means want to stay in the United States simply want to leave their own country in the relatively poorer...
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...Party claimed majority, brought back single party rule. Trade Agreements: India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement, India-Nepal Trade Treaty, CECA, ASEAN Future Political and Economic Agenda * Improving foreign investment climate * Developing a comprehensive WTO strategy * Reforming agriculture, food processing, and small-scale industry * Eliminating red tape (excessive regulation or rigid conformity to formal rules) * Instituting better corporate governance * Accommodating an additional 10 million urban dwellers each year is a strategic policy issue. Future Political and Economic Agenda * Improving foreign investment climate * Developing a comprehensive WTO strategy * Reforming agriculture, food processing, and small-scale industry * Eliminating red tape (excessive regulation or rigid conformity to formal rules) * Instituting better corporate governance * Accommodating an additional 10 million urban dwellers each year is a strategic policy issue. Recent Political and Economic Movement * Recasting telecom sector’s regulatory authority and demolishing enjoyed by SOE’s * Privatizing state-owned companies....
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...Project Management MGT411 Abu Dhabi Vision 2030 Table of Content: Table of Content: 2 Executive Summary 2 The history of the company over time 4 A general overview of the whole company and selected project 5 Apply the Project Management characteristics 8 Project Definition 16 Project Time and Costs Estimation 20 Project Plan Development 21 Risk Management 22 Resources Scheduling 23 Project Audit and Closure 24 Conclusion 27 References 28 Executive Summary Abu Dhabi Council established the vision of 2030 for the development of the capital. They have formulated complete strategies to ensure the establishment of a whole new structure that will meet the UAE nationals and the expatriate’s expectations. Their vision is to optimize the whole government strategies and utilize advanced technologies to smooth the operation, and by developing a stronger government, they’ll continue with the infrastructure, economic, social growth, and the environmental sustainability. To build a strong economic growth, Abu Dhabi should build based on the strong legacy of past in order to grow a stronger economy in the future. Therefore, the government observers the social development of Abu Dhabi to make sure that most of the individuals from both gender are entering schools and universities to participate in the economy and to be part of the social progress, it is one of the ways to have a competitive advantage by using economical opportunities’ part and...
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...because they came over to the Americas with intentions to claim the land for themselves and settle here, when we thought the land was already our own. As part of our good nature, our leaders did try to negotiate the land and our living situations with the European leaders to the best of their ability. Many people may not understand how difficult the life of a Native American used to be like when we first began to come across those of other races and face the issues of everyday living amongst them. It has constantly been a long hard road for us of Native American race and culture. Our people were considered the first to live in the Americas, prior to the people of European descent, thus giving us the name Native Americans. Although we tried to cooperate with the European people and come to an agreement over the land, we were successful to no avail. The Europeans turned to methods such as scalping to torture my people and make us give up the most valued land. When this began to happen, many of our group decided to retreat to our own areas called Reservations to live on. The Native Americans then started to migrate to their own tribes all across the country. Many of the tribes moved to areas of the United States that are now known as the states of Alaska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, New Mexico and South Dakota, thus placing Native Americans spread out all over the United States. Each group developed their own habits,...
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...My Urban Rez Marvin Francis | November 1st 2004 | 1 I am part of the massive migration of Aboriginal peoples to the city. I was raised by a single mother who moved us to Edmonton (and many other places) from the Heart Lake First Nation to avoid residential school for my siblings and me. Since then, and I have been on my own since I was 16 years old, I have lived in many sites: small towns, the bush and the highways, but the longest period of my life has been in the Urban Rez, especially Winnipeg and Edmonton. The first city experience(s), loaded with culture shock, had mostly negative impact. The in-your-face racism of the seventies, when I first began to live on my own, led to extreme difficulty in finding a place to rent, employment and acceptance in the urban culture in general. As a result, I often have had to live in “the hood,” where the sounds of a blaring siren become normal. As a writer, perhaps this was beneficial as I weaved my way through the pawn shops, the Main Street strip and its competing cousins in other cities, the hot-dog carts, the panhandlers, the cash-your-check joints and all of the other street signposts. I watched the first appearances of graffiti grow from artistic to social menace, and I was not surprised. The Aboriginal gang cultures also scratch for space in the urban landscape, as gangs from other segments of contemporary society surface. All of these violent, down-and-out ingredients formed my first impressions of this city environment. My reaction...
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...Use of Force by Police in Law Enforcement Name Institution Professor Course Date Abstract This paper seeks to explore the use of force among police officers in law enforcement in urban cities and how it relates with common variables regarding police officers. Some of the police variables that will be discussed include race, education, experience, age. These variables will be comprehensively studied so as to ascertain if there exists any relationship among these variables and use of force among police office in law enforcement. Introduction The use of force presents one of the most controversial sectors of law enforcement in any given society. Recent developments have escalated concern about police use of force. These ranges from properly publicized occurrences involving accusations of excessive force to the inception of violent policing whose frequent emphasis is on zero tolerance law enforcement. The kind of police actions that most provoke public concern include fatal shootings, severe beatings with fists or batons that result in hospitalization of the victims, choke holds that cause oblivion or even death. The use of force by law enforcement personnel is permitted by law under certain circumstances such as in self-defense or in defense of another individual or group of persons (Barrett 2008). Law enforcement officers receive direction from their respective agencies on when to apply force during law enforcement, but there exists no universal set of regulations...
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...20th International Seminar on Urban Form Conference Sub-Theme Pushing the Edge – New technologies and new techniques Title: Humanized Urbanism - [Human behavior in public spaces in a contemporary city] - A action methodology Abstract As a social being, human being interacts with everything around him, promoting exchanges between various objects that surround it and a range of environments that populate their feelings, cognitions and expectations. Human being houses in the entire world are a reflection of socio-cultural values of time and region. When human being builds houses, builds a physical and a psychological environment. However, the built environment is becoming increasingly inappropriate to the context of life. Population density, degeneration of the central areas, pollution and disposal are some of the environmental stresses to which the urban human is subject. To understand an environment, it is essential to understand the people who inhabit it, with all its cultural, social, economic and psychological factors. Architects should be aware of the individual’s social and cultural sphere. Their performances contribute to solidify the architectural foundation and allow the approaching to a more appropriate response. It’s essential to the cities understanding and behaviors factors that individuals have in relation to these spaces, leading to the creation of new meeting and entertainment places for people, revitalizing the concept of enjoying the historical places...
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