Our findings support the use of narratives of community history, place, and being in considering the resilience and sustainability of social-ecological systems.
Methadone as a hope for recovery is not only a feature of the personal accounts of drug users, but is incorporated into broader narratives of community hope and acceptance.
Interviews with 165 key informants were conducted early in the study to provide rich narratives of community experience and to explore the range of variation in the key constructs in the conceptual framework.
Artists' unique capacity to embody both collective pain and shared joy allows them to share the layered narratives of communities and foster empathy for those who may live outside the dominant culture ever more important in today's exclusionary political climate. 1. "The Land of WE," Honoring Altar maker Ofelia Esparza of East LA by muralist Erin Yoshi, courtesy of Erin Yoshi.
Rural activists and other community members, scholars from Mexico, the USA, India and beyond will present their own narratives of community-based responses to major global, cultural, and environmental pressures.
"From the rosary to the abacus, from Murano to Mauritania, throughout history, they have been an integral part of the narrative of human community". Now it was time, she felt, for new directions.
You can change the narrative of your community and your life by taking a stand and saying enough is enough.
"It's this narrative of blaming communities whether they're poor, Muslim, working class, and blaming them for the problems of society.
Moreover, cognitive maps reflect upon the social and historical dimensions of a locale; particular points in the landscape contain stories of events and contribute toward a meta-narrative of the community.
