A Study on the Physical Sustainability of Community Building Project -Focusing on a Comparative Analysis of residents-driven and experts-driven cases-

This paper focuses on the relationship between settler-colonialism, nation building, and the policing of bodies via the white settler-colonial gaze. Overviewing the impact of settler-colonialism on sexuality, I move into a comparative analysis of settler colonialism as it impacted sexualities during Apartheid-era South Africa and those of Palestine under the ongoing Israeli occupation. I discuss the othering of “indigeneity” as opposed to the “modern” configuration of the settlers’ sexualities that happened in what is now North America, and how it reconfigured gayness as whiteness, violently racializing, policing and re-socializing Indigenous. Using the comparative framework, I then transition to Palestine, where the Israeli occupation imposes violence upon, but also utilizes, queer Palestinian bodies to further its ongoing settler-colonial nation-building project through the coercive and imaginative labor of homonationlism and pinkwashing.

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Safe Community Building Project that University Participated for Improvement of Outdoor Conditions

Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan ◽

10.11361/journalcpij.47.967 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 967-972

Author(s):

Masanori Awashima ◽

Hisashi Shibata ◽

Kimihiro Hino ◽

Mamoru Amemiya ◽

Tomoya Ishibashi

Keyword(s):

Community Building ◽

Building Project ◽

Safe Community

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The Influence of Participants’ experience of Community Building Project on their Evaluation perception

Journal of community welfare ◽

10.15300/jcw.2017.61.2.29 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 61 ◽

pp. 29-51

Author(s):

Jae-Wan Lee

Keyword(s):

Community Building ◽

Building Project

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Contested Images: Debates on Nudity, Sexism, and Porn in The Body Politic, 1971–1987

Left History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate ◽

10.25071/1913-9632.39487 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Juan Carlos Mezo González

Keyword(s):

Visual Culture ◽

Feminist Theory ◽

Community Building ◽

Body Politic ◽

The Body ◽

Gay And Lesbian ◽

Oral Histories ◽

Gay Community ◽

Building Project ◽

Over Time

This article examines debates on nudity, sexism, and pornography in the Canadian gay and lesbian newspaper The Body Politic, tracing its use of images and people’s responses to them over time. In the 1970s, concerns about sexism and the objectification of the body shaped discussions over sexual and erotic imagery. In the 1980s concerns about pornography were more current, since they mirrored the then-contemporary debates over pornography and censorship. Drawing upon archival sources and oral histories, the article argues that TBP’s visual culture—particularly its sexual and erotic imagery—played a key role in the paper’s community-building project. The article also shows how responses to images reflect a deep ambivalence, and the conflicting perspectives shaping the paper’s production and reception. While liberationist politics, feminist theory, and ideas of a “gay community” influenced the paper throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the meanings that people ascribed to such concepts were diverse and sometimes incompatible.

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W(h)ither the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)? W(h)ither constructivism? Fixity of norms and the ASEAN Way

International Relations ◽

10.1177/0047117819830469 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 33 (3) ◽

pp. 413-432

Author(s):

Alan Collins

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Practice Theory ◽

East Asian ◽

Community Building ◽

Social World ◽

Constitutive Norms ◽

The Social ◽

Building Project ◽

Shared Understandings

This article uses the reflection on the direction (whither) and health (wither) of constructivism and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) that was witnessed in 2017 to see what these deliberations reveal about the fixity of norms and their contestation. The argument presented is that constitutive norms create fixed parameters of shared understandings but that within those parameters the meaning and application of the norm can be contested and debated. This insight helps to bridge the gap between conventional and critical constructivists and shows that the premise of jettisoning the ASEAN Way as necessary for ASEAN to achieve its ambitious community-building project is flawed. The argument relies on insights from the constructivist literature on norm degeneration to show how contestation is not one part of a norm’s life cycle but rather a constant companion. However, norms are not just contested, but they have fixity, and here practice theory can help show that the social world is just as much about continuity as it is change. The ASEAN case study is timely as introspection about the efficacy of its constitutive norms – the ASEAN Way – was prominent in 2017 as ASEAN turned 50.

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