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The contribution of allotments to the planetary health and social change
Get PDFDisasters and pandemics that have occurred in the last decade have led societies to seek collaborative, sustainable and adaptable solutions to respond to profound social changes. The results of the surveys conducted by different institutions show that especially with the COVID-19 pandemic, the feeling of loneliness felt by individuals in the society has increased, and that encouraged the local governments to carry out various studies to increase the interaction between individuals in the society and improve public health.
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred new approaches to social change, including increased interest in allotment gardening as a means of accessing urban green spaces amid lockdowns. Allotment gardening has become a powerful tool for improving people’s health and well-being, as well as strengthening social relationships. This study explores the role of allotments in improving planetary health and examines strategies to increase the accessibility of green spaces, and thus social relationships for social benefit in a sustainable context
Living & learning at the race & gender intersection: developing inclusive education with Fashion Business Management students
No full textThe Representation and Inclusion in the Fashion Industry report, published by the British Textiles and Fashion All-Party Parliamentary Group in 2021, highlights that to be black or Asian and a woman is to remain completely under-represented at the higher echelons of the fashion industry. It also suggests that fashion education plays a part in the discriminatory experiences of students who are racialised. In my recently funded research to tackle some of that prejudice, by co-producing knowledge with MA Fashion Business Management students about how best to teach issues related to ethnicity in fashion business education, it became clear that race and gender were intertwined. Predominately black and Asian women took part in the initial focus groups, and it is these students who are least likely to achieve the top roles in fashion businesses. This paper discusses how the intersection of gender and race might be examined and addressed through teaching techniques, subject matter, and wider strategies, within a creative arts institution. The study aims to use intersectionality as a lens through which to explore the ways that unconscious bias and structural racism and sexism could be confronted, developing a more inclusive fashion education system, thereby driving diversity and equity in the fashion industry
Evaluating the effectiveness of the performance management system in Qatar Public Service
Get PDFThe aim of my autotheoretical and practice-led research has been to deepen understanding of the ways instrument, gender, and community affect the free improvising I and others undertake and the agency we have in doing so. My praxis is located in the free improvising communities of which I am a part in London and Canterbury. In this thesis I discuss the masculine social and sonic constructs I have uncovered, and the ways in which these function as tacit challenges to agency for women instrumentalists. Self-developed instrumental technique in free improvisation is compared with the imposed classical training I and many women free improvisers received. The sediment of this technical practice on instruments designed by and built for men is seen to act as one of several unintentional barriers to agency in free improvisation for us to negotiate. The development of my unique new instrument, the gliss anglais to overcome this obstacle, is discussed. I argue that the feministing practice I and others undertake is a push against the individualistic quest for ever more virtuosic self-expression which typifies much of the masculine free Improvisation canon to date. I demonstrate that a feministing ‘making with’ in which agency is shared, and precarity and imprecision are welcomed into improvisations, acts in part as an unmasculining of the canon by those of us practicing it.
I write from a feminist perspective. The introductory material situates my practice and defines key concepts. The methodology positions my feminist and autotheoretical stance within relevant literature. Chapters one and two function in part as a contextual review. Chapter one explores my practice as a classically trained oboist, and the challenges I negotiate as a free improviser in a masculine environment. Chapter two uncovers the androcentric roots of free improvisation in my communities, the obstacles this has created for female instrumentalists, and the ways in which I and other practitioners are overcoming these.
Chapter three contextualises recordings of my improvising voice and explains my development of and praxis with the gliss anglais. Chapter four explores recordings of my collaborations with others together with my use of invitation scores. The final part of this portfolio is a recording of an autotheoretical performance I co curated and performed in titled Social Virtuosity. I conclude with a summary of my findings and discussion of their implications for further research
Unframing
Get PDFThis essay examines the film/video frame variously as a technical, aesthetic, perceptual and ideological object/function via an analysis of some relevant examples of artists' film and video. Several technical functions in film and video are either overlooked or taken for granted. One of the most important of these is the frame, especially in the cinema context where it functions as an image container, a subsistent, invisible barrier or cut-off between the screen space and its surrounding darkness. Several filmmakers have tested the givenness of the framing edges - it’s called the frame but it’s really a mask - either by incorporating them into the work or by making them disappear. The strategy of incorporation, in the form of frames within frames, can generate a partial mise en abyme (Droste Effect), or gesture towards it. In William Raban’s 2’ 45”, for example, there is a pattern of frames and forms within forms, but at the same time there are variations within each framing. These variations distinguish the work from the exact replications of the Droste Effect, where a fractal-like, exact mise en abyme generates a sense of vertigo, of an endless dead-endedness, because it precludes any possibility of deviation and hence uncertainty, on which films depend for their interest.
The frame is crucial to the stability that images require and the proliferation of mobile and other platforms in the internet age has done nothing to disperse it, on the contrary, so it is perhaps surprising that only a small number of filmmakers have sought to question and dissolve it. The dissolution of the frame threatens the dissolution of the image: in the works considered in this essay, forms of cinematic framing and hence of off-screen space are challenged on their own terms. The frame ceases to be a window, with the illusionistic implications of that, and its dissolution leads to it becoming more akin to the frame of a material medium like painting, where it is determined by the artist in response to the formal requirement of the picture. For although digital video technology allows aspect ratios to be freely created, the edges still function in the same way as an analogue film frame
The contribution of gastronomy tourism to the branding strategy of a city
Get PDFIn recent years, local cultural heritage has become an important source of identity formation for cities. This, in turn, increased the interest in cultural heritage and enabled local governments to include cultural heritage in their city branding strategies. Since gastronomy is one of the most distinctive cultural features of cities, gastronomy has been incorporated into city promotions by local stakeholders while creating destinations. The city promoting activities that include gastronomy tourism have increased in cities. In this study, Gaziantep, one of the cities that was selected for the ‘Brand City Project’ by official authorities and has been running branding strategies since the beginning of 2000s were analysed to discuss the relationship between gastronomy tourism and city branding strategies. In this study qualitative and quantitative research methods used to investigate city’s culinary heritage,
the implementation of gastronomy tourism and how the city positioned itself as a ‘Brand City: Antep’ in terms of gastronomy and how the it is perceived by the visitors. The research findings illustrate how a city can be repositioned with its cuisine heritage, what role stakeholders can take for implementing these branding strategies and how gastronomy tourism can be embraced not only for creating a tourism destination, but also for branding the city
Revisions: research report
No full textThe purpose of the Revision: Research Report is to investigate the representation of female photographers in the Victoria and Albert Museum Photography Collection through the attribution of gender and interviews with key museum figures. This research will support Fast Forward: Women in Photography in developing future grant applications, as well as inform future research endeavours at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Research was carried out over a period of three months, from April to June 2024. This report analyses how women’s photographic practice has been acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum since its inception. This involves investigating works acquired by public funding, gifts, and departmental budgets as well as two key sources of acquisitions funding currently being utilised in the photography department including acquisitions made by The Parasol Foundation Trust and the Photographic Acquisitions Group both of which I will discuss later in this report. Data collection was conducted of contemporary acquisitions in the eight years leading up to the viral social movement #Metoo in 2017 and the eight years after #Metoo to establish the impact of the global social movement on collecting habits. The research undertaken for this project was done so with an awareness of the way in which the social category of ‘women’ intersects with class, race, sexuality, gender identity, disability, and migration status
Green transformational leadership theory and practice in Italian luxury hotels: towards environmental performance and green image
Get PDFPurpose: Drawing upon the natural resource-based view (NRBV) and social cognitive theory (SCT), the present study explores the role of green learning orientation (GLO) and green creativity (GC) as a mediating variable in the relationship between green transformational leadership (GTL) and green innovation (GI) in the Italian hotel industry. The research further assesses environmental performance (EP) and corporate green image (CGI) as a resultant factor of GI.
Design/methodology/approach: Two studies were conducted in Italy to evaluate theoretical models with workers in the lodging industry. Study 1 employed a three-wave, two-week time-lagged design with a total sample size 303. Study 2 utilized a two-wave (four-week apart) design, with 349 participants using structural equation modelling.
Findings: The research findings emphasize that the enhancement of employees’ GLO and GC can be facilitated by providing GTL. This, in turn, may lead to the enhancement of GI, which improves the EP and CGI of a hotel.
Originality/value: The study comprehensively analyzes the previously unexamined relationships of employee-driven factors associated with GLO and GC. These factors are essential for promoting GI through GTL, ultimately enhancing EP and CGI. Therefore, it contributes by explaining previously unexplored employee and organizational factors into a unified model, utilizing time-lagged data, and enhancing the understanding of how organizations can elevate EP and CGI, particularly within the Italian hospitality sector
Unframing
Get PDFThis essay examines the film/video frame variously as a technical, aesthetic, perceptual and ideological object/function via an analysis of some relevant examples of artists' film and video. Several technical functions in film and video are either overlooked or taken for granted. One of the most important of these is the frame, especially in the cinema context where it functions as an image container, a subsistent, invisible barrier or cut-off between the screen space and its surrounding darkness. Several filmmakers have tested the givenness of the framing edges - it’s called the frame but it’s really a mask - either by incorporating them into the work or by making them disappear. The strategy of incorporation, in the form of frames within frames, can generate a partial mise en abyme (Droste Effect), or gesture towards it. In William Raban’s 2’ 45”, for example, there is a pattern of frames and forms within forms, but at the same time there are variations within each framing. These variations distinguish the work from the exact replications of the Droste Effect, where a fractal-like, exact mise en abyme generates a sense of vertigo, of an endless dead-endedness, because it precludes any possibility of deviation and hence uncertainty, on which films depend for their interest.
The frame is crucial to the stability that images require and the proliferation of mobile and other platforms in the internet age has done nothing to disperse it, on the contrary, so it is perhaps surprising that only a small number of filmmakers have sought to question and dissolve it. The dissolution of the frame threatens the dissolution of the image: in the works considered in this essay, forms of cinematic framing and hence of off-screen space are challenged on their own terms. The frame ceases to be a window, with the illusionistic implications of that, and its dissolution leads to it becoming more akin to the frame of a material medium like painting, where it is determined by the artist in response to the formal requirement of the picture. For although digital video technology allows aspect ratios to be freely created, the edges still function in the same way as an analogue film frame
Metaphor in music pedagogy and its connection to embodiment consciousness
Get PDFThis paper provides a commentary on “Embodiment Consciousness in Music Performance Pedagogy” by Alves and Nogueira, developing the notion that metaphorical language and extra-musical information can allow expert teachers to convey various teaching strategies. I expand upon some of the themes that are addressed in the article and the concept of metaphor in particular. This opens up some interesting ideas around how metaphors are culturally understood phenomena, ones that expert teachers can use to their advantage. The authors provide a framework in which this can be understood in terms of embodiment consciousness. However, there is room for more nuance as it relates to process
The quest for sustainability – green transformational leadership towards green performance: a time-lagged study – symmetric and asymmetric analysis
Get PDFPurpose
Drawing upon the natural resource-based view (NRBV), the present study explores the role of green dynamic capability (GDC) as a mediating variable in the relationship between green transformational leadership (GTL) and green innovation (GI) in the hotel industry. The research further assesses green performance (GP) as a resultant factor of GI.
Design/methodology/approach
The research was conducted in Italian luxury hotels to assess the efficacy of our conceptual framework among workers in the hospitality industry. The study utilized a three-wave, two-week time-lagged design (N = 303). In addition, the study also intends to apply partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and fuzzy qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to have distinctive discernment into model rapport.
Findings
The results of the study indicate the linkage between GTL and GI. Furthermore, the study also found the partial mediation of GDC. The results show numerous combinations using fsQCA that can be utilized to increase GP.
Originality/value
There is little empirical evidence to study GTL and GI in hospitality studies. This work empirically investigates GTL, GDC and GI relationships to fill a knowledge gap. It also explains undiscovered factors and provides causal recipes to improve GP using fsQCA
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