Steve Richardson, 22nd Dec 2010
External threats and internal vulnerabilities research: an ideas grid
Culture Name/locati Characteristics External Threats (culture/landscapes) Internal vulnerability (culture/Landscapes)
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Australian Invasion, colonisation and dispossession. Weakened family structures.
Aborigines, Europeans.
Queensland
Indigenous groups
Inuit, Alaska. Climate change. Exploration for oil and
Greenland? limits on hunting. Conservation leads to
conflicts with indigenous peoples’ ways of
life and culture. Threats to language?
Lack of credit or financial crises. Pressure on
resources. Western globalising consumer culture as
a fragile system.
Global or western
France Americanisation. Resisted by José Bové. Colonial history, leads to large immigrant population
(UK?) Academie Francaise and its role in which has a creolizing impact on French society and
preserving French language. culture. Government policies to promote
multiculturalism may be seen as a threat.
National
Japan
(Tibet?)
Kurds, Iraq, Colonial legacy, division of Ottoman Empire after
Syria… WW1 did not take into account ethnicity or
cultural groups. Kurds remain a people with no
country or right to self determination, yet they
have a distinct culture and tradition.
Sub or supra
national Islamic, Ramadan is beginning to look a lot like Factionalism. Shia, Sunni, Wahabism and Al Qaeda.
Muslim Christmas. McDonalds in Mecca, and
attempts to resist e.g. http://mecca-
cola.com/