Community Studies

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2012

Upon beginning postgraduate research at the Faculty of Built Environment at UNSW, the authors were surprised to find themselves working in a librarylike environment, where a culture of silence prevailed. Assuming initially that this was just how postgraduate research was, they soon learned that the building also housed a second postgraduate lab with a different work environment featuring more interaction. This discovery prompted the authors to create an informal research community group, the Cohort Knowledge Share Group (CKSG), and to develop a 'mini-thesis' to explore the lab differences and to share the thesis creation process. Auto-ethnographic perspectives shaped the mini-thesis study, which utilized mixed methodology incorporating a questionnaire, individual reflections and interviews, focus group sessions and observation. The mini-thesis results illustrated that despite undertaking a common journey, the research student community's diverse and multicultural nature created complex needs for facilities, community engagement and personal support. In addition, while undertaking the mini-thesis study, the authors discovered that the innovative CKSG model had changed the sense of community in the main postgraduate lab, as well as the broader research student journey. As this case study will show, the CKSG has therefore been a transformative experience in more ways than one.

Lapin yliopisto eBooks, 2021

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2006

2008

Transforming Kibbutz Research – Back Cover The Israeli communal settlements (kibbutz, pl. kibbutzim) were established a hundred years ago in Palestine. The kibbutz movements spearheaded the Zionist movement project to settle Jews on it. The settlers labored to set up just and egalitarian communities, inspired by the ideal of a combined national and personal redemption. Since the 1940s the kibbutz society engendered a voluminous political, ideological and scholarly literature. Now comes Dr. Shapira and exposes that most of these writings misunderstood essential aspects of the kibbutz. In particular, they did not treat the essentially non-democratic and unchanging higher echelons of kibbutz leaders and the numerous extraterritorial organizations and enterprises controlled by this powerful elite which became self-serving. Nor did they fully grasp the fact that the kibbutz has always been integrated in the wider society and shared many of it’s norms and beliefs. The anthropologists who studied the kibbutz were profoundly affected by the ideological statements of their interlocutors and, even more so, by the manner in which the socialist work ethos was translated into practice. The book’s thorough analysis and explanation of the kibbutz movements as a whole overcomes these mistakes, will make it possible to overcome kibbutz current crisis and using it’s lessons for the invigorating of democratic work organizations elsewhere.

Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 2017

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