Heritage and Community Regeneration in Northern Ireland: Finding Points of Coalescence in the Development Planning Process

ABSTRACT

Bringing heritage resources to the forefront in communities can serve to help heal long-standing divides with impacts not only in economic dimensions, but also social and cultural. It is an ironic turn—some of the heritage resources in Northern Ireland have been the site of intense and violent conflict over long periods of time—and now serve as focal points for bringing together divergent groups, helping heal divisions in communities. Seventeen communities throughout Northern Ireland are examined, gauging impacts and perceptions of community regeneration and redevelopment processes. Results provide insights for addressing lingering conflict and finding points of coalescence, with heritage playing a role in transformation.     

Private property and the problem of the miraculous: the kramats and the city of Cape Town

This paper seeks to explore the place of kramats the graves of Muslim saints or Auliyah – in the landscape of contemporary Cape Town. The kramat sites have been proclaimed as heritage sites because of their importance as tangible signs of Islam at the Cape. At the same time, the process of the kramats becoming heritage sites has contained moments of intense, often sensational, public contestation. Offering a reading of the discourses surrounding two contested kramats in Cape Town, this paper explores the way kramats mark out a miraculous space in the prosaic modern city and introduce into the post-apartheid evaluation of heritage, alternative conceptions of space and notions of temporality. They are sites of impossibility where, it is claimed, the laws of nature themselves are interrupted to mark the intangible particularities of the site. This paper explores what happens when this miraculous space is subject to the demands of private property and municipal law and the conflicts that arise from this collision of different conceptual and experiential modalities. It considers the effects of the entanglement of legend and history that result from the production of these sites as heritage in a market-driven economy.     

浅谈我国古代水文化遗产传承的一般脉络和特征——以水利工程与水利设施遗产为例

中国古代的先人们在近水、用水、治水的过程中创造了无数与水相关的历史文化遗产,尤其是各类水利工程与水利设施遗产。这些水利工程与设施是中国古代人民在长期的生产实践中因地制宜创造出来的,涉及日常生活、农田灌溉、防洪防旱、城市供水与排水、航运漕运等诸多领域。     

Three Squares a Day

In contrast to previous research on the Civilian Conservation Corps (1933-1942), which has focused on policy developments in Washington, the present study looks at young men in the CCC camps across the country. Incorporating a variety of data sources and applying social science methodology to historical data, the study finds that two camp variables, food and living conditions, were the variables most associated with enrollee satisfaction in the CCC. An "emergent" variable in the study, employment opportunities, also played an important role; enrollees tended to leave the CCC when other jobs were available. Taken together, the two camp variables and the employment variable combine into a theme of basic needs-food, shelter, and jobs. A common phrase during the 1930s, "three squares a day," perhaps best captures this group of variables. Two geographical variables, urban vs. rural background and distance from home, also influenced enrollee satisfaction. Urban enrollees and enrollees a great distance from home responded less positively. Two enrollee demographic variables, age and race, were not significantly associated with enrollee response. Possible implications of the CCC experience for modern youth employment programs seem to be: (I) address fundamental needs of young people which, in the 1980s, may be education and employment: (2) keep programs close to home, urban or rural; and (3) do not overemphasize individual characteristics; program design is probably more important.     

和谐社会中爱的承认之维——以霍耐特承认理论为视角

爱是一种承认关系,它是交往主体情感需要在他者中的自我实现。伦理实体中爱的互惠性使个体在社会交往过程中获得作为参与社会公共生活的必要前提的基本自信。但作为对应于承认关系的否定性等价物,蔑视总是同爱相连。蔑视是对承认关系的破坏,是对个人完整性的否定和实践自我关系的损害。在和谐社会建设进程中,任何对社会爱的秩序的破坏行为,都会受到具有自我同一性要求的主体有力的回击。     

高龄老人的心理状况分析

心理状况是老年人晚年生活质量的重要方面 ,随着高龄老人的迅速增长 ,研究高龄老人的精神生活越来越成为必要。通过对高龄老人性格特征、心理感受、认知能力及对生活满意度等的分析表明 ,高龄老人心态的变化及认知能力的衰退十分显著 ,女性老人的心理状态不及男性老人。健康状况是高龄老人最关心的问题 ,生活环境和医疗条件对生活满意度有直接影响 ,积极的生活方式和提高文化程度有助于改善他们的心理状况。高龄老人是一个非常脆弱的群体 ,需要家人和社会从卫生保健、经济、家庭氛围、文化社会等多方面给予关怀和帮助。     

非物质文化遗产传承与旅游开发的耦合逻辑——以重庆市渝东南民族地区为例

非物质文化遗产的传承和保护实践是实现乡村振兴战略的重要手段和途径,是乡村文化振兴不可或缺的内生力量。过去数年全面推进精准扶贫脱贫的实践证明,发展乡村旅游带动了乡村产业的发展,对实现农民增收产生了积极作用,其中,非物质文化遗产成为作助推乡村旅游发展的重要因素。在构建非物质文化遗产传承与非物质文化遗产旅游的融合机制时,要完善对非物质文化遗产的传承和旅游开发的多元监管制度;要深挖非物质文化遗产的文化核心基因,保持非物质文化遗产的本真性;构建“三位一体”保护与开发相结合的模式;要创新社区居民参与机制,拓宽居民多元参与渠道;要推动“点面”相结合的“农+旅+非遗”融合等机制,促进民族地区经济社会、文化事业的持续发展。     

关于临夏州非物质文化遗产保护问题的思考

非物质文化遗产与各民族的生活生产息息相关,是民族文化的精髓,也是各民族的精神支柱与精神财富。分析了临夏州非物质文化遗产资源及其特点、保护现状及其存在问题,提出了促进临夏州非物质文化遗产发展保护的相关措施。     

海南语言多样性的保护与传承

通过对生物多样性、文化多样性和语言多样性关系的探讨,阐述了海南语言多样性特征形成的历史渊源,分析了现代经济发展形势下海南少数民族语言和海南本地方言所面临的严重威胁,提出了加强海南本土语言多样性的保护与传承措施。     

文化生态区与非物质文化遗产保护研究

非物质文化遗产是不同人群共同体在特定的时间、空间里,处理人与人、人与社会、人与自然关系时的文化产物,有着自身特定的属性:主体性、整体性、活态性以及无形性等,在文化旅游盛行的情境中,如何保护与传承非物质文化遗产问题一直都是焦点问题。本文试图从文化生态区的理念出发,探寻非物质文化遗产保护与传承的道路,为非物质文化能够继续活态的、原真性的存续提供一种方法论视角。