Place Of Survival Research Articles

Culture Loss and Changes after Earthquake-Related Residence Shift

The Gorkha Earthquake of 2015 had a massive impact on Nepali people’s economic and social life. Beside physical destruction, it caused immense psychological and cultural losses. Many people had to migrate from their land to new places for survival. Some had to leave their original addresses permanently, while many returned to their land after reconstruction. During the course of these events, the imminent cultural and social losses have been overshadowed till date due to over-emphasis on numerical ways of analyzing losses. Bhaktapur was one among many districts heavily affected by the earthquake. Due to densely compact old houses, Bhaktapur lost a lot of physical property along with many people’s lives. As many houses fell down completely, people had to migrate to new places, mostly on the outskirts of the main city area, either permanently or temporarily. As a by-product of this sort of migration, Bhaktapur, a bastion of cultural life, lost part of its intangible cultural heritage as the lifestyle and interconnectivity went through diverse changes. Objective of this paper mainly is to study how after the earthquake 2015 local people from Bhaktapur Municipality area migrated to the new places on the outskirts of the core, they lost the cultural and social affinity towards their habitual cultural and social events. How these migrations created feelings of loss among the cultural practitioners and other ordinary people living cultural life. By using the theory of cultural losses and revitalization, this paper deals how local people after facing havoc of destructive earthquake, tried to adjust the cultural distancing and forming of new circles of cultural practices. It studies how traditional cultural practices lost their tempo as people from certain neighborhoods (tole/galli) within Bhaktapur’s core area migrated to different places and lost their interconnectivity. This study has shown how cultural changes and losses have accelerated in Bhaktapur after the earthquake and how people who migrated to the outskirts are trying to build up cultural ties with their root with contextualization of cultural losses and changes. This paper is a qualitative study that uses data from field visits, observations and interviews. Highlighting the impact of cultural losses and changes, the paper suggests some possible ways to revitalize and rejuvenate the cultural life and sustainability of people migrated to the outskirts from the core settlement of Bhaktapur. It also studies how practical ways of cultural adaption are being used amidst the vulnerability of cultural losses. Findings of this paper are significant to understand the intangible losses resulted because of the earthquake besides seen tangible losses. It is importantly significant to understand the dynamism of cultural changes and cultural differences. This study could help to understand the trend of cultural losses and work to mend and make adjustment of such changes.

Street as a place for survival, emotions, and suffering; a qualitative exploration of street-connected children in Iran

ABSTRACT One of the most important steps to improve the quality of life of street-connected children is to gain experiences and assess their needs, with the children themselves being the best source for this information. Therefore, this research aims to identify the experiences and needs of street children using their own insights. The research methodology employed in this study was qualitative, utilizing thematic analysis and semi-in-depth interviews. Maximum variation purposive sampling was employed to capture a range of experiences among street-connected children. Following data collection and analysis, four main themes emerged: ‘The street as an entry into a new world’, ‘The street as a place for experience and love’, ‘The street as a place for survival’, and ‘The street as a place for pain and suffering’. This study uncovers the complex realities of street-connected children, revealing the factors driving them onto the streets and challenging misconceptions. Despite facing profound challenges, these children demonstrate resilience and aspirations for a better future. The study underscores the importance of supportive environments, education, healthcare, and inclusive policymaking to address the systemic factors perpetuating their vulnerability.

Analysis of the Collaborative Management Implementation of Conservation Area of the Sultan Syarif Hasyim Forest Park, Riau Province

The conservation forest area of Sultan Syarif Hasyim Forest Park, Riau Province an area of 6,172 hectares in the administrative area of Siak Regency, Kampar Regency, and Pekanbaru City. The views (perceptions) of the people that live around this forest area, can provide benefits for economic and social improvement. On the other hand, it cannot be ruled out that the existence of people who have already lived and worked in this forest area have a perception that the area that they control is a place of survival and death. This condition has caused 79% of the total area of this forest to be degraded and converted into oil palm plantations, settlements, social facilities, public facilities, and community business facilities. This research method applies a naturalistic paradigm - qualitative approach design. The data collection technique is through interviews, observation, and documentation study. The data analysis techniques is descriptive with the formal and informal results of the study. The implementation of collaborative management is analyzed from four elements of collaboration, namely; institutional procedures and agreements, leadership, knowledge and resources. The research result shows that the implementation of collaborative management in the conservation forest area of Sultan Syarif Hasyim Forest Park, Riau Province is running optimally on the elements of procedures and institutional agreements, leadership, knowledge and resources. Such conditions can be an example for other forest area managers how to manage forests in a sustainable, ecologically fair manner and provide positive impacts for the community.

Education and enlightenment for sustainable development

Education is the most powerful tool to spread awareness in context to sustainability. It is the vital need of an hour & to make the planet a beautiful place to dwell. Since ages human societies have proved that living in harmony with our environment is possible. People across the globe realized that the resources are badly exploited and there is dire need to adopt sustainable strategies. There is the earnest need to move towards sustainable society. Education and trainings are the only keys to direct the society towards sustainability. People wonder how sustainable societies will look like and what are the ways in which these societies will work? Due to indigenous culture, there exist harmony between man andthe environment. Unfortunately, due to advent of colonization, industrialization and globalization, human society progressed in leaps and bounds but the environment deteriorated over years. It’s the alarming situation as resources are exploited and very soon it will vanish forever from the planet. Hence sustainable development is the only way to preserve our planet and make it a better place for survival. There must be efforts to promote and spread awareness and to ensur e education for sustainable development.

DSS Framework: A Proposal for Disaster Logistic Support System for the Province of Laguna

The Philippines’ location within the Pacific Ring of Fire brings enormous threat to its people. Intervention and innovation are to be in place for survival and growth, since nothing can be done about its geographic location and the threats that come with it. This study aims to create a framework for developing a decision support system, a mobile and web application for the efficient implementation of the disaster logistics support system. The study will utilize Agile Methodology for the software development in the proposed framework. This proposed framework exhibits the features of the system such as identifying location, affected families, supplies, reports, management of inventory, vehicle outsourcing, and monitoring. The system framework can be a helpful tool for the efficient and speedy delivery of needed help and an effective approach to disaster supply chain issues.

Art in the era of ecocentrism

Abstract This article describes activities carried out at the computational art laboratory and discusses a question about place. To think of place as the place of universal, it’s ground, the place where you live, it isn’t only a residence place, a construction of exploration, but also the planet as a possible place of survival. Therefore, we will present artworks that, in the name of a conception inspired by ecocentrism, propose to eliminate the ontological and axiological difference between all living beings and, for this reason, considers the biosphere as an important biotic unit in the context of artworks. Here the development of affective computer interfaces that seek to promote interactions is also described: a process by which an external or an internal stimulus causes a specific reaction, producing a perception, considering that the idea, in the Deleuzian and Guattarian sense, goes through creative activities. The idea arises in three distinct forms: in the philosophical context, in the form of concepts and in visual production. We describe below the results of collaborative research that has in common the poetics of interactivity between living beings and machines through graphical and machine interfaces, provided by computational processes and methods that approach several ideas involving affective mapping, body, nature and artificial life.

Centres of plant endemism in China: places for survival or for speciation?

Aim This study aimed to identify the ‘centres of endemism’ of the Chinese spermatophyte flora in order to indirectly detect the locations of past glacial refugia. The role of these areas as places for plant survival (‘plant museums’) and/ or areas for plant evolution and speciation (‘plant cradles’) was also assessed. Location China. Methods Distribution patterns of 555 plant endemic taxa, taken as a representative sample of the Chinese endemic flora, were mapped on a 1 �· 1� latitude/longitude grid. For each grid cell, species richness (total count of species) and weighted richness (down-weighting each species by the inverse of its range) were calculated. Grid cells within the top 5% of highest values of weighted richness were considered centres of endemism. Based on available information, all plant taxa included in this study were classified into palaeoendemics and neoendemics, and their distributional patterns were represented separately. Results Twenty areas of endemism were identified in central and southern China, roughly corresponding to mountain ranges, including the Hengduan and Daxue Mountains, the Yungui Plateau, central China Mountains, the Nanling Mountains, eastern China Mountains, and Hainan and Taiwan. Although almost all centres of endemism contained both palaeoendemic and neoendemic taxa, considerable differences in their respective numbers were recorded, with the majority of neoendemics on the eastern fringe of the Tibetan Plateau (Hengduan Mountains sensu lato) but more palaeoendemics towards the east. Main conclusions Owing to their varied topography, the mountainous regions of central and southern China have provided long-term stable habitats, which allowed palaeoendemics to persist and facilitated the process of speciation. Contrasting patterns between the palaeoendemics and neoendemics within refugia might be attributable to the geological and tectonic history of specific areas. The eastern fringe of the Tibetan Plateau clearly constitutes the ‘evolutionary front’ of China, probably as a result of the uninterrupted uplift of the plateau since the late Neogene. In contrast, the tectonic stability of central and southern China during the Tertiary may have facilitated the persistence of relict plant lineages.

Cannibalism in the Early History of the Northwest Coast: Enduring Myths and Neglected Realities

WHETHER IT TAKES PLACE for survival after an airplane crash in some desolate region, as a depraved act by a mad murderer, or in a ritualized form among primitive cultures, cannibalism is a repulsive but fascinating subject. It evokes curiosity and perhaps a nightmarish fear since it is connected with headhunting, torture, human sacrifice, and brutality. Indeed, in some of its forms, cannibalism might be seen as an ultimate act of savagery by human beings against heir own kind. From the very beginning of European overseas expansion, explorers, conquerors, and missionaries wrote extensively about contacts with cannibal races or reported their existence beyond the known frontiers. The Caribs of the West Indies, the Tupinamba of Brazil, and the Aztecs of Mexico became the best known anthropophagists, Indeed, the Caribs discovered by Columbus gave us the word 'cannibal.' Today, some historians and anthropologists believe that the Aztecs engaged in large-scale cannibalism to provide animal protein in their diet while others doubt that they ate human flesh at all.• Certainly, the evidence of sixteenthcentury Europeans does leave much to be desired. Filled with misconceptions and their own superstitions, unable to understand Indian culture or language, and often filled with blind religious fervour to convert the pagan, they might be said to have been programmed to identify unusual phenomena. During the eighteenth-century Enlightenment Europeans experi-