Local History Research Articles (Page 1)

The primary objective of this ethnographic study aims to map the tangible movable and immovable cultural property of Morong, Bataan which are used as basis for the development of information, education, and communication (IEC) materials. In gathering the data, objective-data driven field visits, semi-structured interviews and document analysis which constituted the principles of community cultural mapping were utilized. Five tangible immovable cultural properties have been mapped in Morong, Bataan: the Our Lady of Del Pilar Parish; the Bataan Technological Park Inc., formerly known as the Philippines Refugee Processing Center (PRPC); a 50-year-old deep well of the Galicia Family; the Lighthouse in Barangay Sabang, and the the "Mabolo" water pump . For the tangible movable cultural properties, two have been mapped: the sculpture of Maria Salome and the Nuestra Señora Del Pilar. These properties were photographed and video-recorded while its caretakers were interviewed to assess its current condition, problems in the conservation and measures being undertaken to conserve it. These were also proven to have historical and social significance and contributed in the development of the town since the time of the Spanish colonization. The output of the study includes a cultural map, digital coffee table book and documentary video which will be used to boost the tourism development of the town and as materials for the teaching of local history.

Rural youth movements in Indonesia have long been marginalized within national narratives, despite their deep historical roots in local struggles that shaped collective consciousness and community resilience. This study reinterprets the history of rural youth activism in Cigombong, Bogor Regency, Indonesia, as a form of resistance rooted in collective memory, community values, and symbolic practices in response to the expansion of corporate capitalism in rural areas. Utilizing an ethnographic and historical-tracing approach combined with quantitative data from 151 rural youth activists, the research explores the transformation of youth agency from the colonial era to the digital age and examines how local history is reactivated as both a symbolic and political resource. The findings reveal that local patriotism, manifested through collective action, cultural expression, and net-activism, has generated new forms of community-based resistance. By integrating the theory of social fields and the framework of collective memory, this article underscores the importance of reinterpreting local history as a strategy to strengthen the resilience and autonomy of rural youth in shaping their own futures, contributing to sociological discourse on rural youth activism, lived space, and grassroots nationalism in the platform era.

Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and severity of wildfires in boreal forests, raising concerns about ecosystem resilience. We investigated the correspondence between fire events and soil erosion events in northern Finland during the Holocene (last 11,000 years). We analysed charcoal particles to reconstruct the local fire histories of two boreal lake catchments. Then, using magnetic susceptibility analysis, we identified sedimentary inputs into the lakes due to soil erosion events. Sediment geochemistry analysis revealed that high-severity fires corresponding with soil erosion events not only affect the organic soil horizons, but also the topmost mineral horizons by leaching aluminium, calcium, nitrogen, silicon and heavy metals into aquatic ecosystems. Because the effects of high-severity fires on soil properties are long-lasting, increased fire severity under climate change in northern Finland could hamper forest resilience in addition to contaminating aquatic ecosystems.

This article describes a semester-long qualitative research project involving elementary preservice teachers exploring local histories and historical figures in the Southwest Borderlands region. This project delves into the process of facilitating preservice teachers’ design and implementation of integrated social studies thematic units, shedding light on lesser-known historical figures in New Mexico. We outline how children’s literature was a vital component of each unit, serving as mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors fostering students’ learning and engagement. A cornerstone of this project is spotlighting practice-based teacher education, providing preservice teachers the opportunity to connect theory and practice.

This article interrogates the strategic engagement of Taiwanese designers with the Italian fashion system, framing Italy as a site of cultural validation, professional legitimacy, and access to the global creative economy. Drawing on twelve narrative interviews and multi-sited ethnography, the study argues that Taiwanese designers in Italy mediate between local histories and global industries, Taiwan’s pluralistic cultural resources and European universalizing esthetics, and precarious labor and aspirations for self-actualization. Unlike Mainland Chinese designers who foreground heritage-based branding, Taiwanese creative practitioners navigate ambivalent strategies that alternately embrace or distance themselves from Indigenous and artistic movements. Positioned as fashion mediators, they translate cultural and industrial practices across contexts, while confronting structural asymmetries of East–West legitimacy. The study concludes with a conceptual triad—mediation, validation, and self-actualization—to theorize validation as a multidirectional negotiation shaped by small-nation cultural strategies, Western dominance, geopolitical positioning, institutional structures, and individual creative agency.

This paper examines how culturally based educational practices have influenced the national identity of Pakistani students. Based on a quantitative cross-sectional research design, it examines the role of narrative-based pedagogy, exposure to Pakistani literature, and the role of culturally integrated curricula in affecting the perception of belonging, pride, and cultural knowledge among students. A sample size of 365 students of both the public and the private institutions in Pakistan was used. The correlation analysis, the multiple regression analysis demonstrated that all the three independent variables have significant and positive influence on the national identity, which explains the 64% variance of national identity. Among them, culturally integrated curriculum was the best predictor (b = 0.35, p < 0.001), then there is narrative-based pedagogy (b = 0.32, p < 0.001) and exposure to Pakistani literature (b = 0.28, p < 0.001). The results underline that classroom storytelling, indigenous literature, and culturally inclusive curricula contribute to the enhancement of the emotional and cognitive association with the national heritage, which is opposed to the homogenization of syllabi and the lack of engagement that is the result of rote learning. The research proposes the need to incorporate local histories, local writers in the formalized education to foster inclusiveness and cohesion. It also proposes training teachers in the culturally responsive pedagogy to maintain identity growth in varied learning setups.

The task of school local studies is to acquaint students from the southern and eastern regions of Ukraine with the spiritual, historical and cultural heritage of the Carpathian region, its geography, and nature. An important place in this process is occupied by toponymy i.e. a specific scientific discipline that has an interdisciplinary character, closely related to geography, history, linguistics, archeology, ethnology, ethnography, paleogeography, botany, zoology and other fields of knowledge, mastering the basics of which gives students another effective tool for getting to know your native land in particular and Ukraine in general. Under the conditions of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the process of de-russification of Ukrainian toponyms continues, the return of historical toponymy, Soviet toponyms, which are the symbols of the Russian Empire, are now disappearing, instead, Ukrainian names are being returned to them. These processes are very important for the formation of Ukrainian historical memory in students, their education as nationally conscious individuals.Toponymy as a branch of scientific knowledge has developed its own theory, the basis of which is a system of categories and concepts fixed in the term system, vocabulary characteristic of toponymy. Toponymy is closely related, first of all, to geography as a number of geographical disciplines The day of the restoration of Ukraine's independence (1991) opened new possibilities for the development of school local studies in general and the organization of toponymic research in particular. Іn the latest period of the development of Ukrainian education, the All-Ukrainian expedition "My Motherland – Ukraine" is of great importance for the popularization of school local history among students. The role of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Center for Tourism and Local History among students in the development of the study of toponyms of the region is highlighted. The contrib ution of the scientist S. Babyshyn, the author of a number of publications on local history and toponymy, to the theory and practice of geographical education, local history, the preparation of teachers of Podillia and Prykarpattia to carry out local history activities at school, and the inclusion of students in research work is emphasized. The collection and study of geographical names is an urgent matter of Ukrainian science, in particular, pedagogical, as they are important monuments of nature and the material and spiritual culture of the people, valuable historical and geographical sources for the study of their region, an important factor in the national-patriotic education of children and youth, formation of historical memory in them. The subject of further scientific research will be the problem of studying toponyms in the process of studying the integrated course "I explore the world" at NUS.

This community service activity was carried out in Jatirejoyoso Village, Kepanjen District, which is rich in historical and cultural values, reflected through the existence of five ancestral tombs located in each hamlet. Religious and cultural traditions such as pilgrimage (ziarah), nyadran, regular pengajian on Friday Legi nights, and tirakatan nights are still preserved as expressions of respect for the ancestors. However, the lack of documentation has caused the local history to survive only through oral narratives, which risk disappearing over time. This activity aims to record, organize, and preserve the village’s historical narratives using a descriptive qualitative approach. Data were collected through field observations, interviews with community leaders, and visual documentation of the ancestral tomb sites and related cultural traditions. The main outcomes include a documentary video and a historical pocketbook that serve as digital archives and learning media for the community and students. This initiative not only raises awareness of the importance of preserving cultural heritage but also encourages youth participation in strengthening local identity. The documentation serves as an initial step toward maintaining the continuity of local historical heritage amid the dynamics of modern change.

This paper critically examines the stylistic and narrative structures of selected novels and stories by UAE authors through the lens of contemporary intertextuality theories to explore the significance of incorporating water motifs in modern Emirati fiction. The paper argues that contemporary Emirati writers have borrowed various patterns of water-related discourses deeply rooted in popular culture and the local history of the Arabian Gulf region, integrating them into their literary works for thematic and aesthetic purposes. The paper analyzes renowned works such as Shahinda by Rashid Abdullah, The Sword and the Flower and The Trilogy of Love, Water, and Dust by Ali Abu Al-Reesh, The Scent of Ginger by Salha Ghabesh, and On the Edge of Day by Abdul Hamid Ahmad to investigate the sophisticated use of intertextuality in the indigenous maritime literature of the UAE. By employing intertextuality as a literary device, notable Emirati authors use water--in its various forms--as a central motif in their fiction to strengthen national identity, uphold domestic traditions, and reconstruct a heritage jeopardized by modernization and globalization.

The Spring 1993 issue, Volume 51, Number 1, launched a new column titled “Lagniappe*/North Caroliniana,” compiled by Plummer Alston Jones, Jr. (Al later served as editor of North Carolina Libraries, from 2001 to 2005.) The editor’s note introducing the column stated that it was to complement North Carolina Books and that it would include reviews of “various non-book formats.” This first column provided a review of PERSI, an index for genealogy and local history published by the Allen County Public Library Foundation, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. PERSI is still online, searchable by name, place, or article keyword: https://www.genealogycenter.info/persi/. Other early articles from the column introduced the State Library’s Internet Information Project, described four favorite NC travel and general interest magazines, and reviewed a handful of recordings from the NC Folklife Institute on instructional media for public school lessons on African American and Native American Cultures in North Carolina. Other the years, Lagniappe has broadened its focus to include online resources, special collections from across the state, and other “extra or unexpected gifts or benefits.” We continue Lagniappe with that same aim to uncover new and interesting discoveries for readers of North Carolina Libraries.

Abstract The Japanese-American political scientist Francis Fukuyama described the Chinese as familists and Chinese society as a low-trust society. Such allegations about family values and social virtues stem from the discourse of cultural determinism, which was prevalent in Italian social research during the second half of the twentieth century. In 1958, American political scientist Edward C. Banfield proposed the hypothesis of “amoral familism” to explain the inability of residents in a small southern Italian town to form associations for collective interests. This hypothesis later inspired another political scientist, Robert D. Putnam, who quantitatively tested it through his study of the performance of democratic institutions across Italy’s regions. Banfield and Putnam focused on political organization and democratic institutions, respectively, and attributed their underdevelopment to local culture and history. In this way, they contributed to the discourse of cultural determinism, which is theoretically rooted in the political philosophies of Hobbes and Tocqueville. Drawing on diverse social practices, his ethnography reveals the complexity and integrality of local Roman society, offering both a critical reflection on and a transcendence of the discourse of cultural determinism.

This study aims to explore the use of Wordwall in transforming local history learning, particularly the topic of Muara Takus Tempel into a more interactive and contextual experience. Employing a qualitative approach with a case study design, the research subjects at SMA Negeri 3 Bukit Batu, Bengkalis, Riau. Data were collected through classroom observation, having conversations with open-ended interviews, and documentation, and were analyzed using source triangulation. The findings indicate that the use of Wordwall enhanced student understanding, fostered a more interactive classroom atmosphere, and increased learners’ interest in history. These results suggest that digital tools like Wordwall can serve as effective strategies for making local history learning more engaging, relevant, and aligned with the demands of the digital era.

The article examines the trends in the development of planning in Krasnodar in 1921— 1941. The empirical base contains resolutions from city government bodies, population censuses and economic statistics, reports from architects, city planning projects, maps of Krasnodar. Structural-functional and historical-comparative methods, concepts of local history and urban history are applied. The authors argue for the need for a system study of the history of Krasnodar in the analysis of the interactions of the natural environment, economic and social structures, cultural landscape, city’s role in the political structure of society. The reasons for the overpopulation of Krasnodar in the context of the NEP and industrialization are clarified. Economically justified projects of territorial planning of the city, proposed in the 1920—1930s, but not implemented due to lack of resources, are highlighted. The authors proved that the proposals of P. V. Mironov, A. A. Junger and N. I. Kalitaev had a qualified economic and engineering-architectural justification, taking into account the long-term development prospects of Krasnodar. The authors conclude that the replanning of the Krasnodar’s city structure in the 1930s carried out on the basis of prioritizing the needs of industry, with little consideration of consequences for social sphere and cultural landscape. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that projects of Kuban architectors in the 1920—1930s are useful for contemporary urban planning solutions.

The purpose of the article is to introduce into scientific circulation the unique document from the archive of the Scientific Library of Tomsk State University (SL TSU) “Scheme of bibliographic works on Western Siberia in Tomsk State Scientific Library”. The note by A. I. Georgievskiy, prepared in 1935–1936, supplements the information on the history of local lore bibliography of the 1930s and presents SL TSU as a major Siberian bibliographic center. The document defines the range of tasks of Siberian bibliography, the need to expand the ties of SL TSU with other bibliographic institutions of the country in the context of socialist construction and the first five-year plans.The relevance of studying archival documents of the 1930s is associates with the presence of large gaps in the history of librarianship in Western Siberia during this period, and in particular – in the field of development of local history bibliography. The research has established that the directions of regional bibliography outlined in the period under study have found their development in the work of TSU Scientific Library in the post-war years.

Accurate branch prediction is crucial for achieving high instruction throughput and minimizing control hazards in modern pipelines. This paper presents a novel LXOR (Local eXclusive-OR) branch predictor, which enhances prediction accuracy while reducing hardware complexity and memory usage. Unlike traditional predictors (GAg, GAp, PAg, PAp, Gshare, Gselect) that rely on large Pattern History Tables (PHTs) or intricate global/local history combinations, the LXOR predictor employs complemented local history and XOR-based indexing, optimizing table access and reducing aliasing. Implemented and evaluated using the MARSS-RISCV simulator on a 64-bit in-order RISC-V core, the LXOR’s performance was compared against traditional predictors using Coremark and SPEC CPU2017 benchmarks. The LXOR consistently achieved competitive results, with a prediction accuracy of up to 83.92%, lower misprediction rates, and instruction flushes as low as 5.83%. It also attained an IPC rate of up to 0.83, all while maintaining a compact memory footprint of approximately 2 KB, significantly smaller than current alternatives. These findings demonstrate that the LXOR predictor not only matches the performance of more complex predictors but does so with less memory and logic overhead, making it ideal for embedded systems, low-power RISC-V processors, and resource-constrained IoT and edge devices. By balancing prediction accuracy with simplicity, the LXOR offers a scalable and cost-effective solution for next-generation microprocessors.

This collaborative activity aims to integrate academic learning and community service through tour guide practices at the Monpera Museum and the Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Museum Palembang. Students are directly involved in introducing local history and culture to visitors, while also practicing communication skills and applying contextual English. The activity method includes observation, field practice, and reflection on learning outcomes. The results of the activity indicate that students gain a deeper understanding of local cultural values, increase their confidence in public communication, and develop an appreciative attitude towards Palembang's historical heritage. This activity also shows the effectiveness of the experiential learning and service-learning approach in developing academic competence as well as the social character of students. Thus, the practice of this tour guide can be utilized as a community-based learning model relevant to higher education in the fields of language, culture, and tourism.

Overseas scholarship on Mo Yan has often proceeded from narratology and postmodern theory, while domestic scholarship has tended to foreground his representations of local history. Yet few studies systematically integrate these two strands. Against this background, the present article examines how, upon "reliable historical anchors," Mo Yan deploys multi‑dimensional strategies of unreliable narration to construct a literary reconfiguration of history and thereby achieve cultural critique. Through close reading, the paper analyzes three representative works—Red Sorghum, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, and Frog—from the perspectives of narratology, historiographic metafiction, and historical‑cultural studies. The paper shows how China's modern and contemporary social transformations and local memories are absorbed and rewritten in Mo Yan's fiction, and the paper clarifies the cultural‑critical intents embedded therein. The study identifies how this "literary reconfiguration of history" is built and articulates three anti‑authoritarian implications: challenging orthodox historical discourse, resisting the unification of collective memory, and reflecting on the violence and alienation within modernization.

This study attempts to analyze the skateboarding community in Iligan city specifically their history, practices, and traditions. Using both Historical and Ethnographic approach, the researchers found out that skateboarding in Iligan City is not only viewed as an extreme sport but also an ethos where each of their members share a form of “collective consciousness” that encapsulates their history, traditions, authenticity, material culture, values and beliefs. Also, contrary to the popular belief, it can actually keep some teenagers away from troubles such as illegal drugs, alcohol consumption, and violence; as it offers release and relaxation from stressful environments. It is imperative to have understood the existence of this subculture for it will be a great help in the development of the local history of Iligan City. Considering its relevant impact, creating a more detailed and diversified local history will hopefully contribute in helping people to appreciate it.

ABSTRACT This article is based on PhD research aimed at improving community services for remote Aboriginal people with intergenerational trauma. It focuses on the role that Yamatji Aboriginal Elders played in cocreating a framework to enhance service provision for Aboriginal clients and the importance of local truth telling in this endeavour. Elders specified that local truth telling was essential in building shared understandings of healing from intergenerational trauma between Aboriginal people and community service providers. The characterisation of intergenerational trauma as a “lead splinter”, continually poisoning the wellbeing of Aboriginal people provided an illustration of trauma and the complexities of facilitating healing. The findings emphasise the need for community service providers to undertake truth telling to understand and resolve these key challenges. This engagement facilitates the decolonisation of social work practice through deeper knowledge of local history, incorporation of Aboriginal perspectives of wellbeing, and the development of culturally based approaches to social work with people with intergenerational trauma. IMPLICATIONS Understanding historical trauma and intergenerational trauma can inform meaningful social work practice with Aboriginal service users. Decolonising community services and social work practices needs to include an emphasis on local truth telling.

Abstract Higher education is globally recognised as an enabler of social justice and community development. Remote Australian Aboriginal students are underrepresented in higher education, and there has been little research into the skill and topic interests of this group. To address this knowledge gap and inform curricula development of the recently established community-led Wuyagiba and Garrthalala Bush Universities, we surveyed the skill and topic interests of 221 people across 16 Aboriginal communities of 97,000km 2 Arnhem Land, northern Australia. Drawing on the Australian Skills Classification and Bourdieu’s Capital Theory, we critically examined the influence of social, cultural and racial capital on the skill and topic interests of prospective Bush Uni students, and perceptions of stakeholders. Results confirmed our hypothesis that strong interests and aspirations exist within these remote communities. Findings confirmed student and stakeholder interest in ‘walking in both worlds’ with favoured topics including local Aboriginal history, knowledge and practices combined with computer, business, leadership and English literacy skills. We found significant divergence between prospective student and local stakeholder groups, geographic region, gender, and differences between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal stakeholder perceptions of student interests. Notably, non-Aboriginal stakeholders selected several topics that significantly differed from actual student interests. The skill and topic preferences of different regions likely reflected different socio-economic histories, opportunities and resource constraints. These results underscore the need for evidence-based, cross-cultural higher education models in remote Aboriginal Australia that equip students with skills and confidence to break away from their existing habitus .