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The eyes and ears of the king: a study on a set of designations and the 18th Dynasty officials who held them
No full textTheoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 90-100.1. Introduction : from the body to bureaucracy -- 2. Foundational apparatus : approach, scope and methodology -- 3. The designations in focus -- 4. The designations in title-sequences -- 5. "Eyes and ear" officials in society -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendices.In the 18th dynasty, high officials often held the designations "eyes of the King" and" ears of the king". These eyes-and-ears appellations can firmly be identified in 49 text excerpts. These enigmatic phrases are associated with 35 individuals between the co-rule of Hatshepsut and Thutmosis III and the aftermath of the Amarna episode. Despite the substantial body of evidence relating to these appellations, scholars have not up until now thoroughly considered this dataset. A variety of interpretations of royal sense-organ designations have emerged in the literature regardless, and scholars have been unable to come to agreement as to their meaning. Some authors regard these entities as titles of occupation or rank, while others suggest it is used to indicate an official's closeness or level of trust with the monarch. This study has principally been concerned with discerning whether patterns can be detected in the linguistic features and construction of the phrases, their wider textual context, and the social milieu and careers of the officials who held them. The study found there are some commonalities in the linguistic elements of constructions and their co-text, however, there is not a single factor which unites the officials who acquired these appellations.Mode of access: World wide web1 online resource (xii, 169 pages) table
A memorial in the world: legendary patterns in late antique biography
No full textTheoretical thesis.Thesis submitted to the Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University and Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent.Bibliography: pages 263-288.Introduction -- 1. Methods and concepts -- 2. The Mesopotamian background -- 3. Ardashir -- 4. Constantine -- 5. Synthesis -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Tables.This study identifies and examines a pair of narrative patterns - sequences -associated with royal origins seen in the historical or historicising literatures of a number of west Eurasian societies. Taking a contextual and comparative approach, it will suggest a general theory for the emergence and behavior of both as products of formal, laudatory, and apologetic processes.Central to this examination are two Medieval biographical traditions addressing Late Antiquity: the Kārnāmag of Ardashir I, a Middle Persian tradition that existed in some form by the early 11th century, and the vitae, a number of Greek hagiographies of Constantine I dating from the 9th to the 13th centuries.These are composite traditions drawing together heterogeneous material, including an instance of each sequence, into a longer biographical narrative. Both traditions, particularly the Byzantine, offer a case study in the action of each sequence in a living historical discourse.Finally, the presence of the same sequences, similar structure, and a broadly similar reception allow the narratives seen in the texts of the Kārnāmag and the vitae to be viewed as representative of the same kind of work and thereby offers a new interpretation of the rather opaque Iranian tradition.Mode of access: World wide web1 online resource (xvii, 305 pages) table
Pushing humanitarian thought: from Adam Smith to Michel Foucault to the Volunteer Tourist
No full textTheoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 368-394.Introduction -- 1. After an old politics of suspicion: pushing social thought even beyond Foucault -- 2. Unbinding radical affect: the modern humanitarian self as pure potentiality -- 3. Intervention in a "complicity" knot: pinpointing the impasse in!everyday development practice -- 4. A historically strategic conjuncture: the opening of a divide in social intervention -- 5. Solidarity without a contract: a potential strategic logic in a messy humanitarianism -- 6. Conclusion.The thesis explores how, when one poses the humanitarian question as a problem that permeates a whole horizon of coexistence, the question of "intervention" goes from being a matter of urgently doing what is right amidst a critical juncture to a matter of carefully assessing the logistical needs that weigh upon!the humanitarian project due to the always potential existence of its skeptics. The critical value of the skeptic, in this sense, is not just liberal, Socratic or relativist. It is not just! a dialogical resource to make humanist discourse non imposing, internally coherent or culturally unbiased. Rather, it is a strategic requirement for a moral sensibility seeking to integrate the entirety of humanity that its solutions work even among skeptics. Humanitarian thought will always need to push itself further to be able to reach and involve the skeptic in a circuit of collaboration. The thesis considers three important cleavages in the historical development of this larger frame of problematization: that of classical liberalism with an emphasis on Adam Smith, that! of! twentieth century antihumanism with a focus on Michel Foucault, and that of post social solidarity with a particular interest in the case of volunteer tourism ...1 online resource (iv, 396 pages
Noise reduction in chaotic systems using unstable periodic orbits
No full textEmpirical thesis.Bibliography: pages 297-311.1. Theoretical foundations -- 2. Noise reduction techniques -- 3. Detection of cycles in noise-Infected chaotic time series -- 4. Shadow UPO noise reduction method -- 5. Adaptions for higher instability systems -- 6. Summary and outlook -- Bibliography.In this thesis, a method is presented to approximate a noise-free low-dimensional continuous chaotic system (flow), using a single sample or multi-sampled scalar time series containing high levels of measurement noise or low levels of dynamical noise. The shadow-UPO noise reduction method (SUNR method) does not require the prior embedding of data and operates directly on the sampled time series, thus avoiding the limitations of Takens theorem and the estimation of embedding parameters when significant levels of noise are present. The method aims to overcome the well-documented severe limitations of directly filtering noise-infected chaotic time series, by focusing on nearly periodic orbit segments ('shadow-UPOs') shadowing the dense set of unstable periodic cycles (UPOs) that form the skeleton of a chaotic system, each of which is locally amenable to linear filtering techniques.The innovation is two-fold and comes from firstly deconstructing the chaotic system into approximate cycles, where we are free to directly apply signal processing techniques, based on the specific type of noise. Secondly, shadow-UPOs are detectable in the presence of high noise using the observation that histograms constructed from recurrence matrices are highly robust to noise.Shadow-UPOs are located, allocated to categorical bins, and filtered. We firstly utilise these to estimate the basis set of noise-free lower order UPOs, and estimate individual maximal Lyapunov exponents for each UPO. Secondly, we approximate the noise-free time series by replacing noise-infected near-cycles in the time series with their noise-filtered counterparts. The resultant time series are sufficiently noise-reduced that conventional algorithms can be used to subsequently estimate the Lyapunov exponents that would otherwise not be computable.The method is illustrated in detail as a case study of the Rossler system, tested for various types of noise (uniform white, Gaussian white, high-frequency, coloured and dynamical) and also on several chaotic systems with a range of differing topologies (Chua, Rabinovich-Fabrikant, Lu-Chen, Lorenz). Goodness of fit metrics are defined, measured for each system and presented. We identified limitations of the recurrence method of detecting cycles when dealing with higher instability systems, and successfully modified the SUNR method for these.Mode of access: World wide web1 online resource (xv, 311 pages
Theoretical and empirical examination of corporate social responsibility in East Asia: Implications from Confucianism, Legalism, and Taoism
No full textTheoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 114-119.Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in East Asia: visualizing the latent themes and connections between semantic concepts -- Chapter 3: Philosophical values and employees' Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) attitude, behaviour, and impact: an examination among China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan -- Chapter 4: Philosophical approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in East Asia: the integration of Confucianism, Legalism and Taoism -- Chapter 5: Conclusion.Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has attracted a great deal of attention in the field of management research in the past few decades. The East Asia region-including Mainland China(China), Japan, South Korea(Korea), and Taiwan-as a unique research context has increasingly attracted CSR scholars due to its importance in the global economy and its different cultural traditions from the West. Studies argue that CSR in Asia demonstrates a strong ethically driven style as a result of long-standing influence from traditional philosophies. However, it remains unclear which are the underpinning philosophies that drive CSR attitudes and behaviours in East Asia. Moreover, CSR studies with a focus on traditional philosophies have often been descriptive in nature,with a lack of empirical evidence and the lack of a comprehensive theoretical framework to guide research in this area forward. This thesis advances CSR research in East Asia through a process of inductive theory development embodied by three studies. Chapter 2 (Study 1) conducts a systematic literature review of current CSR studies East Asia utilizing the methods of co-citation analysis and content analysis to visualize the connections and interactions of key studies and latent themes. Three major Chinese philosophies, namely Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism,emerge in the literature on CSR in East Asia as having ethical traditions that show strong links with CSR.The findings of this first study justify the need for further investigation into these philosophies and how they can contribute to the understanding of CSR. Chapter 3 (Study 2) then uses a quantitative research design to empirically test the associations between the three philosophies and CSR perceptions at an individual level. Data was collected from East Asian full-time employees in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. The results show that philosophical values are significant predictors for employees'attitudes and behaviours around CSR, demonstrating that East Asian people are fundamentally driven by these philosophies. However, different combinations of philosophical values explain different dimensions of CSR. The findings indicate that the three philosophies may not only act as isolated predictors for CSR but also have more complex associations that have been overlooked. Finally, Chapter 4(Study 3) proposes a philosophical modelincorporatinga Venn diagram to synthesize all three philosophies. This study suggests that the three philosophies interact with each other through their possible moderating or mediating effects.Additionally, the ReVaMB model is applied to CSR, and this highlights the importance of context by suggesting various moderating factors. A comprehensive ReVaMB-CSR model is proposed that can be tested at different levels of analysis to explore how traditional philosophical values drive CSR outcomes. This thesis extends our understanding of CSR in East Asia from a philosophical perspective and makes an original contribution to knowledge through both empirical and theoretical investigations. It introduces the method for literature review studies that map out the CSR landscape in East Asia. The majority of studies rely on Western-developed theories and frameworks,while ethics-focused studies are emerging as a response to a call for indigenous management research. Through rigorous data collection from the region of East Asia, empirical evidence is provided to support ethics-focused studies at the analysis of individual level. More importantly, this thesis initiates new way to look at the relationship between philosophies and invitesfuture studies to test and modify the proposed ReVaMB-CSR model.1 online resource (xi, 191 pages
Forced slum evictions in Bangladesh: the role of structural injunction as an appropriate judicial remedy
No full textTheoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 228-266.Chapter 1. Forced slum evictions in Bangladesh : context, key Issues and need for an appropriate judicial remedy -- Chapter 2. Justiciability of the basic necessity of housing : litigation of forced slum evictions in Bangladesh -- Chapter 3. Judicial remedies and implementation of the court orders on forced slum evictions -- Chapter 4. Adopting structural injunction in social rights litigation : an analysis of its 'appropriateness' -- Chapter 5. Enforcement of court orders against forced slum evictions in Bangladesh : examining the appropriateness of structural injunction -- Chapter 6. The Bangladesh supreme court and structural injunction : examining judges' remedial capacity -- Chapter 7. An epilogue to the research -- Bibliography -- Appendices.Housing is not a right, rather, it is a basic necessity and, therefore, non-justiciable under the Constitution of Bangladesh. However, in the face of the systematic violation of this basic necessity through state-led forced demolition of slums, several local human rights organisations have been litigating on behalf of poor slum dwellers since the late 1990s. Alongside this effort, the Bangladesh Supreme Court has taken a forward-looking approach by directing the government to arrange alternative accommodation prior to evictions. However, critics argue that the judgements have done only symbolic justice by failing to improve the status quo of the evicted slum dwellers. Continued non-compliance with court orders by government authorities due to lack of political will has been identified as the major challenge behind this.Although the political branch of the government is the principal organ to implement court orders, judicial remedies can play a complementary role to influence compliance. In comparison to traditional remedies, such as declarations, recommendations, damages or negative injunctions, scholars and the judicial practices of numerous jurisdictions have increasingly preferred the adoption of structural injunctions and retention of judicial supervision to effectively influence implementation of the court orders. Such remedies enable a court to exercise continuous monitoring over the implementation of its order and engage in dialogue with the executives to prevent them from taking arbitrary ownership of the social rights delivery system.The Bangladesh Supreme Court is yet to adopt structural injunction in litigation on forced slum evictions. Rather, it generally orders weak remedies like declarations and recommendations which are deficient in monitoring political compliance. However, the Court faces several real and compelling challenges that hinder the adoption of structural injunctions. For example, concerns about the separation of powers, resource scarcity, backlog of cases and weak protection afforded to housing in the Constitution or legislation result in judicial deference to the executive authority and consequent avoidance of the adoption of structural injunctions. The scope of structural remedies is also challenged by the absence of a favourable political culture or support structure of vigilant rights-advocacy lawyers or organisations and responsive enforcement agencies. At the same time, an effective remedial intervention by the Court to realise the basic necessity of housing of slum dwellers is required in a society like Bangladesh where social inequality and injustice prevail over constitutional commitment.Against this backdrop, this research explores, firstly, whether structural injunctions offer an appropriate remedy in litigation on forced slum evictions in Bangladesh and, secondly, whether the Bangladesh Supreme Court has the constitutional authority and institutional capacity to overcome the aforementioned challenges and adopt such remedies.By examining prevailing theoretical perspectives, laws and policies and data collected from a field study, this thesis argues that effective remedial intervention via the adoption of structural injunction by the Court to realise the basic necessity of housing of slum dwellers is required in a society like Bangladesh where social inequality and injustice prevail over constitutional commitment. The Court has sufficient constitutional authority and institutional capacity to exercise structural injunctions and supervise political compliance. This authority and capacity emanate from the existence of positive constitutional values to establish socio-economic justice, remedial developments in numerous jurisdictions, remedial authority of the Court under the Constitution, and, overall, the adoption of structural injunction by the Court in other rights litigation. However, to effectively deal with the challenges posed by such injunctions, judges should seek inter-institutional cooperation from relevant stakeholders such as the National Human Rights Commission or the litigating organisations.This research advocates for a change in the judicial strategy of issuing an effective structural remedy to offset the state's often arbitrary interference with slum dwellers' basic necessity of housing. Broadly, it emphasises social transformation by influencing primarily the current remedial approach of the Court and the country's governance system, to ensure justice to evictees.Mode of access: World wide web1 online resource (xii, 279 pages) diagram
Impacts of the invasive pathogen Austropuccinia psidii (Myrtle rust) on Australian native communities
No full textThesis by publication.Includes bibliographical references.Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Myrtle rust on the move : new insights to the distribution and hosts of Austropuccinia psidii in Australia -- Chapter 3. Endangered species face an extra threat : susceptibility to the invasive pathogen Austropuccinia psidii (myrtle rust) within Australia -- Chapter 4. Plant architecture, growth and biomass allocation effects of the invasive pathogen myrtle rust (Austropuccinia psidii) on Australian Myrtaceae species after fire -- Chapter 5. Direct and indirect community effects of an invasive plant pathogen (Austropuccinia psidii) in eastern Australian rainforests -- Chapter 6. Discussion -- Appendices.Despite ongoing research into the invasion of the fungal pathogen Austropuccinia psidii (myrtle rust) in Australia, few studies have attempted to examine the impacts it has on natural native communities at both the species- and community-level. This is surprising considering that it infects the Myrtaceae, one of the dominant plant families in Australia. Furthermore, the lack of a national program collating data on A. psidii spread, hosts and impacts makes restoration and conservation decision making challenging for natural resource managers. Therefore, the overarching aim of this thesis was to determine the impacts of the invasive pathogen Austropuccinia psidii on Australian native vegetation communities.Specifically, this thesis determines the geographic extent and impacts of A. psidii on Australian native vegetation communities from the outcomes of a survey distributed to researchers, land managers and government employees (Chapter 2); the susceptibility of 24 previously untested species/sub-species with a particular emphasis on endangered species (Chapter 3); the impacts of A. psidii on plant architecture, growth and biomass allocation of susceptible species after fire under controlled glasshouse conditions (Chapter 4); and finally the indirect and direct impacts of A. psidii on community species richness and abundance through a large scale field experiment (Chapter 5).Altogether, this suite of studies represents a significant contribution to our understanding of the A. psidii invasion in eastern Australian vegetation communities. The outcome of this contribution will hopefully be to inform and assist the successful conservation of one of the most iconic plant families in Australia as well as the communities that they define.Mode of access: World wide web1 online resource (179 pages) colour illustration
In search of status: unpacking the triggers behind, and impacts of, status seeking behaviours across different products and countries
No full textThesis by publication.Bibliography: pages 175-205.Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. Status consumption in newly emerging countries : the influence of personality traits and the mediating role of motivation to consume conspicuously -- Chapter Three. In search for status and a satisfying life : unpacking cultural and consumer drivers of status seeking and life satisfaction in developed and emerging countries -- Chapter Four. Examining the perceived brand status in relation to consumers' intrinsic/extrinsic motivations, anticipated emotions and loyalty in the context of luxury hotels -- Chapter Five. Conclusion -- Appendices -- References.The status concerns of consumers are considered a critical issue that shapes their behaviours. Consumers strive to fulfil their need for status through acquiring and consuming specific products and/or services that display their status to others. At present,the tendency for consumers to attain status through consuming products and/or services is a global phenomenon and is continuing to grow. To this end, this thesis examines the triggers that drive consumers toward the acquisition and consumption of specific products and/or services for status purposes. Furthermore, the extents to which status impacts consumers' satisfaction with life, as well as their loyalty toward specific brands are also examined. For the thesis purpose, data were collected from the USA and Bangladesh. By examining status consumption across different countries and products, this thesis provides additional insights to the literature. The findings of this thesis also generate important implications for marketers of status products and brands and policy makers about social issues related to status consumption.To examine status consumption, three studies have been conducted. Therefore, this thesis employs the "thesis by publications" format, and consists of the three independent, but related academic papers focusing on status consumption. Paper one, "Status consumption in newly emerging countries : the influence of personality traits and the mediating role of motivation to consume conspicuously", has been published in the Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. To uncover the underlying reasons for consuming status products in emerging countries which are experiencing economic transition, two personality traits -susceptibility to interpersonal influence and need for uniqueness - were examined. Further, the mediating role of motivation to consume conspicuously were studied to gain a deeper appreciation of consumption and to test the theoretical relationships between susceptibility to interpersonal influence, need for uniqueness and status consumption in such country context. In this regard, the conspicuous role of two product categories - automobiles as well as fashion clothing and apparel. Applying social identity and social comparison theories and drawing on data from Bangladesh, the findings provide insights about the positive influence of susceptibility to interpersonal influence and need for uniqueness on status consumption in an emerging country. Further, this study shows the extent to which motivation to consume automobiles, and fashion clothing and apparel conspicuously mediates the relationship between status consumption and susceptibility to interpersonal influence, but not need for uniqueness.Paper two, "In search for status and a satisfying life: Unpacking cultural and consumer drivers of status seeking and life satisfaction in developed and emerging countries", is under review in the European Journal of Marketing. Grounded on social comparison theory,this study examines the interplay between status consumption, life satisfaction, and cultural orientations (individualism and collectivism) in two different countries - the USA and Bangladesh. In addressing status consumption and life satisfaction, this study brings attention to creative choice counter-conformity as an important factor. Drawing on data from two countries - the USA and Bangladesh, the findings provide evidence of the positive relationship between cultural orientations, both individualism and collectivism, and status consumption across countries. The influence of individualism and collectivism were shown to be stronger in the developed country than in the emerging country. Furthermore, the findings suggest a stronger relationship between status consumption and life satisfaction in the emerging country compared to the developed country. Finally, creative choice counter conformity was found to mediate this relationship in the developed country, not in the emerging country.Paper three, "Examining the perceived brand status in relation to consumers'intrinsic/extrinsic motivations, anticipated emotions and loyalty in the context of luxury hotels", is under review in Tourism Management. This study examines the perceived status of service brands in the context of luxury hotels. Taking into consideration the significant growth of the luxury hotel industry, this paper investigates the extent to which perceived status of luxury hotel brands relates to consumers' intrinsic and extrinsic motivations,positive and negative emotions, as well as consumers' loyalty in terms of share of wallet and consideration set size. Applying self-determination theory and drawing on data from the USA, the findings show that intrinsic motivation in the form of self-consistency was positively related to the perceived status of luxury hotel brands. Additionally, it was expected that snob effect, an extrinsic motivation, negatively moderates the relationship between self-consistency and the perceived status of luxury hotel brands as consumers often select brands to enhance their social self than their personal self. Contrary to the expectation, the findings did not support the moderating role of snob effect. Further, the perceived status of luxury hotel brands was shown to be positively related to share of wallet.Additionally, consideration set size was shown to be negatively related to the perceived status of luxury hotel brands. Moreover, consumers' positive and negative anticipate demotions demonstrated a significant moderating effect on the relationship between the perceived status of luxury hotel brands and loyalty in terms of share of wallet and consideration set size.Overall, this thesis contributes to the literature by examining specific factors related to the tendency of individuals to consume for status. Using social identity theory, social comparison theory, and self-determination theory, the findings of this thesis enrich the literature and support the contention that status consumption is growing across different products and countries. On the one hand, the observed relationships of status consumption with personality traits, cultural orientations, and motivations provide marketers with the insights for managing and marketing status products and brands. On the other hand, by examining anticipated emotions, share of wallet and consideration set size in relation to the perceived brand status, the thesis demonstrates practical implications for marketing of intangible services like hotels. Moreover, this study contributes in the debate about therelationship between pursuit of status and life satisfaction.Mode of access: World wide web1 online resource (xii, 205 pages) table
Identifying a source assemblage for Buckland volcanic province
No full textTheoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 51-58.1. Introduction and previous work -- 2. Methods -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusions.Buckland volcanic province lies on lithosphere transitioning from thick > 160 km in the west to< 110 km thick to the east. Similar intraplate volcanic provinces to the north and south show signs of a metasomatised lithospheric mantle source assemblage that produced non-four phase peridotitephases such as amphibole and apatite. This study investigates the role of metasomatism on thelithospheric mantle source assemblage for Buckland volcanic province. Here both whole rock andolivine minor and trace element chemistry is used to better indicate the mineralogy and metasomaticagent of the source assemblage. High whole rock Zr/Hf (range = 50 - 58) and low Ti/Eu (range= 3071 - 8059) trend towards values for natural carbonatite melts. These carbonatite-like valuesare interpreted as being adopted by the subsequent silicate melts generated in regions affected bycarbonatite metasomatism. Three groups of olivines are characterised, peridotitic xenocrysts, alkalibasalt olivines, and basanite olivines. Olivine xenocrysts Sc/Zr and Al/Mn are characteristic of aspinel lherzolite peridotite assemblage. Olivine phenocrysts Fo73-87.5 from both the alkali basalts,and basanites have concentrations of Li, Zn, Ti and Mn/Fe indicating the presence of mica in the source assemblage. While elevated Ni is characteristic of high modal pyroxene, and Ni/Mg and Mn/Fe suggest both mica and pyroxene in the source assemblage are mixed with peridotite wall rock components to produce the Buckland primary melt. It is suggested here that the source assemblagefrom the Buckland Volcanic Province is spinel lherzolite veined by a varying amounts of pyroxene-glimmerite ± apatite, for both the alkali basalts and basanites. This suggests mica has a larger role in intraplate basalt source assemblages, and agrees with literature that metasomatism plays a large role in the generation of intraplate basalts in eastern Australia.1 online resource (xiv, 61 pages) colour Illustration
Navigating identity through food: a second generation Sinhala Australian diasporic experience in Sydney
No full textTheoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 77-88.Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Remembering my mother’s [two] kitchen[s] -- Chapter 3. “Sri Lankan food is just not healthy!” -- Chapter 4. Confusion or fusion? Everyday cooking practices inside the homes of mixed couples -- Chapter 5. Conclusion : remembering the past for hopeful futures.Narratives of food can reveal the rich dimensions of how people construct or repackage ethnicity in the diaspora and identify their place within multicultural Australia. My research centres on the everyday cooking and eating practices of second generation Sinhala Australians who have moved away from their parents’ home and are in families of their own. By doing so, I will explore the cultural transmission of foodways from generation to generation in a multicultural Australia.Using ethnographic methods, this study takes place in the kitchens and eating areas of the homes of the second generation. The kitchen can be viewed as a space that caters to the performance of social values and behaviour of the occupants. Furthermore, material items in these spaces can provide insights on cultural realities.For the second generation, they experience a reflective nostalgia (Boym, 2001) for familiar foods are sparked by contemplating familial relationships, longing of a childhood that is no more, and through the images, sounds and smells in their everyday life that reminds them of the culture that their immigrant parents so adamantly tried to raise them with.In this thesis, I illustrate that the second generation’s everyday cooking and eating practices are shaped into something that works within and reflects their present cultural reality. The embodied sensory memories of Sri Lankan food serve as the catalyst that enables the second generation to make sense of feelings of longing for identity. These nostalgic memories do not represent a yearning for their parents’ homeland, but rather for the socialisation of home.Mode of access: World wide web1 online resource (91 pages) colour illustration