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The Effectiveness of Corporate Social Responsibility Programs in Hotels at Addressing Social and Environmental Issues
Get PDFThis paper sets out the main elements of a CSR programs from a range of hotel management companies in terms of who is responsible for the programs, the reasons for it, how it is measured and what future initiatives could be incorporated into these programs based on industry trends. The paper also examines the industry context in which this is occurring and the reasons for it. Furthermore, the paper sets out how digital technology and green initiatives such as supply chains and biophilic design are some core areas of current and future focus based on industry analysis
Valdemar Sejr. Imperiebyggeren
No full textThis monograph investigates the reign of Valdemar II 'the Victorious' (r. 1202-1241) of Denmark and the creation of his multi-national empire around the baltic. It argues that the successes of the empire were centrally related to the royal family's efforts at building bridges between the different ethnic groups in the empire
“You Britishers I've come to see/ Not long escap'd from slavery”: Representations of Racial Conflict and Conflicting Representations of Race in Victorian London Music Hall Songs
Get PDFThis paper focused on performances of blackness as well as on performances by Black performers in the Victorian London music halls. It traced the influence of American representations of race through the tradition of blackface minstrelsy on Victorian music hall songs performed in London, but argues that the music hall performances made these traditions into something distinctive and even in conflict with their American predecessors. It focused first on E.W. Mackney and his blackface performances, which represent London as a site of escape from the horrors of slavery in ‘Whole Hog or None’, looking also at how this song was typical in its ability to evolve to accommodate topical contentious issues. It then turned to G.H. Chirgwin and his distinctive cockney blackface, as in the song ‘A Good Old London Town Girl’, with its apparent vision of integration in London. It considered the conflicting directions in which these songs can take their audiences: on the one hand perpetuating racist caricature, on the other hand seemingly advocating for integration. It then compared these songs and performances to those of Black singers on the music hall stage, including Amy Height and Belle Davis, and considered how points of tension change when Black performers take on these radically inauthentic traditions
Gender Fluidity Versus Homohysteria: How Young Chinese Male Fans Consume Athletic Bromance
Get PDFThis article investigates how young Chinese male fans interpret and engage with mediated athletic bromances, drawing from interviews with university students who follow sports games closely. The research uncovers complex dynamics wherein these fans contextually embrace and delegitimise the homoerotic aspects of mediated athletic bromances as they navigate their sports consumption. This phenomenon reflects the multifaceted experiences of young men in contemporary China, where the market and the party-state co-create a tapestry of overlapping, yet conflicting gender expectations. The findings illuminate the intricate relations between consumer culture and nationalist politics crafted in present-day China, as well as their specific manifestations within sports fandom
Episode 4 - A Chocolate in the Archive: Tom Philips’s A Humument with Dr Chloe Pinto and Isabel Snowdon
No full textToday we talk about playfulness, beauty and ribbons of text. Dr Chloe Yale Pinto gives us her insight into working with Tom Phillip’s archive, and Isabel Snowdon, a creative writing graduate and editor of The Waterfront talks collaboration between past and present, reader and writer. Tom Phillips’ A Humument is a famous artistic ‘treatment’ of the W.H. Mallocks 1892 novel The Human Document. Phillips' appropriation or misappropriate of the original text consists of a beautiful and colourful painting and sketching over of the original page, obscuring all but a handful of text and rearranging the words into a poetic new narrative. The resulting plot, strung over the 367 pages of Mallock’s original text, follows a Bill Todge and his romantic endeavors and encounters, often cast adrift, literally and figuratively, in a textual landscape which is both contemporary and Victorian. It’s a text of revision, re-working and hi-jacking, both speaking to, from, and against, the original source. A Humument was first published in book form in 1973 and has gone through numerous wildly varied editions and was a life-long project for its artist creator. You can find out more about the text, and buy copies at Tom Phillips’ official website
Advancing social value analysis: challenges and opportunities to understanding social outcomes in the United States and in the United Kingdom
Get PDFThis paper addresses the comparability and related scalability constraint of Maier et al. (VOLUNTAS 26: 1805–1830, 2015) of social impact measurement by deploying experimental mapping of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target indicators onto social return on investment (SROI) data proxies. Datasets on the unit cost database model hosted by the Greater Manchester Authority are derived for the UK and for the US. Discreet differences in data terminology between financial proxies in the UK and in the USA are translated with a contextual approach for data optimization. The resultant mapped datasets of financial proxies offer early evidence in support of the scalability of SROI. This is valuable for local measurement of progress towards the global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This research finds that there are comparatively wide differences in sufficient data both within and across the UK and the US datasets. Yet, mapped data counts show sufficient cross-geographic financial proxy overlaps, pointing to the viability of data collection with financial proxy sampling and mapping both for the better understanding of place-based social value creation and for comparative localised social value contribution. This paper concludes that initial mapping of data onto the SDG target indicators improves the comparability constraint of SROI
Sportswomen under the Chinese male gaze: A feminist critical discourse analysis
Get PDFThis article offers a timely, critical analysis of the male gaze upon sportswomen in male Chinese fans’ consumption of sporting megaevents. We use the most popular Chinese-language sports fandom platform, Hupu, as the data repository and scrutinise the threads of male Hupu users’ postings about two elite sportswomen at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as the case studies. Drawing on feminist critical discourse analysis (FCDA), we elucidate the discursive strategies that male Chinese fans adopt to sexualise sportswomen and trivialise their accomplishments. The research findings showcase how China’s sports fandom has evolved as a masculine terrain, where men’s visions of asymmetrical gender power relations are discursively negotiated and rationalised
Taking up Space: The Case of the Ether
Get PDFIn this paper, we obtain some methodological lessons in theory construction and modification (generally called ‘theory choice’), using the ether as a test case. We focus on this posit both because it has a long history but also because it is associated with some spectacular theories and
theorists. In view of the fact that the ether has been expunged from contemporary science, we ask why it survived as long as it did, whether its discussion was a waste of space, and where we do go from here. The last of these questions concerns not just the ether but also similar posits currently in circulation or those that will enter circulation in years to come
