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From soul searching to community building: Understanding community identification through community "jen-tung" process

abstract: This study provides insights into expanding the concepts of community arts in general and more specifically community-based art practices (CAP); highlights the participatory characteristics in the processes of CAP, and seeks to discern the mechanism that contributes to the formation of community collective identity. Revolving around Bhattacharyya’s (1995, 2004) conceptualization of community development, this study found it essential for exploring the fundamental concept of community in relation to community identity. To examine the concept of community identity, this research anchors the inquiry by studying how community-based art practice contributes to community identification and seeks to discover the connection between identity process and social change. The research also discusses the emergent concepts that serve as influential factors to the formation of community identity and proposes an alternative identification mechanism, ‘jen-tung’ process, which provides a needed new dimension to the existing theories of social identity formation and community efficacy development. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Community Resources and Development 2020

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:57139
Date January 2020
ContributorsHsia, Chiamei (Author), Knopf, Richard C. (Advisor), Buzinde, Christine (Committee member), de la Garza, Sarah Amira (Committee member), Shockley, Gordon (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDoctoral Dissertation
Format193 pages
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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