Psychologists have raised concerns about Heavy Metal music and possible links with substance misuse and youth suicide. This paper moves beyond this traditional disciplinary focus on negative messages to document the media-related practices through which a Heavy Metal community is negotiated. Six participants contributed to ethnographic observations, interviews and photo-voice projects. Results illustrate how socio-material practices such as dressing a certain way, frequenting a bar and dancing are central to community maintenance and the reaffirmation of shared identities. Findings highlight the need for community psychology research to document the material and symbolic nature of contemporary communal life.
Keywords heavy metal Bogan border community New Zealand identity mobility dave snell Waikato Institute of Technology 'The Black sheep of the Family': Bogans, borders and new Zealand society aBsTracTBogan is a uniquely Australasian term, which is used in New Zealand to describe working-class heavy metal and hard rock fans. As a community, they have developed from New Zealand's colonial history, as they share many common features of this country's national identity. Such features include an appreciation of hard work, an enjoyment of a perceived underdog status and a love of beer. However, they are kept at 'arm's length' by non-Bogans due to their alternative appearance and love of heavy metal music. As such they can be defined as occupying a space on the fringes of mainstream society -referred to here as a border community. However, due to their origins they can also be celebrated by non-Bogans and used in the media for a variety of purposes due to easily recognizable imagery. This autoethnographic article is an exploratory one, which seeks to introduce the complexities of exclusion and inclusion through the experiences of 25 Bogan participants, highlighting the need for music-based research to further consider the complexities of everyday life.
overviewThis publication is intended for staff of agencies, organizations, and others who desire to strengthen their partnerships with Latino communities. It speaks to issues that concern many public agencies and nonprofit, community-based organizations that wish to provide services or develop programs in local communities.The recommendations presented here highlight the need to build relationships with the community, collaborate with its trusted leaders and organizations, and motivate resident participation by creating easy points of access into community involvement. Specific insights stem from a multiyear research project, "Learning from Latino Community Efforts," conducted by a workgroup of the University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE). County-based staff of the 4-H Youth Development Program initiated the research with assistance from campus-based faculty in Community Development at the University of California, Davis. The purpose was to determine why and under what circumstances Latinos in California do or do not become involved in community projects; why they stay involved; what they like and do not like about their involvement; and what advice they have for organizations interested in starting programs in Latino communities.During the course of the project, bilingual interviewers spoke with a total of 101 Latino community residents in five California communities. After learning about the subjects' personal experiences with community involvement, the interviewers asked respondents to make recommendations to organizations or agencies interested in working in Latino communities. This publication presents an analysis of those recommendations along with findings from other research reviewed for this project.In each of the five communities studied, researchers chose a focal project by identifying one community-based program in which Latinos volunteer their time. Ten people from each project were interviewed as well as ten people in the same community who were not involved in the focal project. Three of the five cases involved volunteers with dance and cultural programs to benefit youth. This included a Mariachi
This paper reviews several different perspectives of net-centric operations (NCO) identified by the INCOSE NCO working group. It is of one of three initial products of the group alongside a review of the Systems Engineering challenges posed by NCO and a literature survey of the state of the art in NCO.The paper uses elements of Checkland's Soft-Systems Methodology to understand a range of different perspectives on NCO. It describes three different perspectives of the benefits of netcentric approaches, four perspectives of what constitutes a net-centric solution and four different approaches to realising net-centric solutions.Finally the paper examines the relationship between the perspectives and draws some high level conclusions about the utility of the different approaches to different situations.
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