22 research outputs found
Appreciative Mentoring as an Innovative Micro-Practice of Employee Engagement for Sustainability: A Luxury Hotel’s Entrepreneurial Journey
No full textFostering ecotourism brands through local engagement in Peru and the Maldives
Full text linkAs a subset of sustainable tourism, ecotourism has increased in protected tourism sites and biodiversity hotspots as increasingly more tourists look for meaningful natural experiences. This necessitates understanding how to leverage tourist-local community engagement in ecotourism branding. The chapter focuses on two case studies from two contexts, which harness tourist-local community engagement in their ecotourism branding. While the first case study relates to the conservation of nature and cultural heritage within an Amazonian rainforest in Peru, the latter refers to preserving the ecosystems of the ocean in the Maldives. Although both cases leverage tourist-local community engagement to a certain extent, they heavily focus on uplifting local communities, guest education and scientific research in their ecotourism branding. The study lacks empirical evidence, yet it has managerial and policy implications. It advises managers and policymakers to foster a sustainable ecotourism brand with the tourist-local community interaction in mind.<br/
Contextualizing the interplay of community resilience and digital technologies to create sustainable destinations: two complementary cases
No full textWe live in times where natural disasters, inter-state conflicts and health scares, among others, pose significant challenges to the safety and security of tourism destinations. The rapid variability of climate also continues to be a growing threat for disruption to tourism. Understanding how to enhance community resilience in tourism destinations becomes critical in such a context. Intricately woven into the social fabric of societies, digital technologies (DTs) are becoming a new paradigm of community resilience, aiming to contribute to sustainable tourism destinations, and calling for community resilience centered destination offerings, operations and governance models. Although community resilience and DTs are two emerging topics, the interplay of these two has remained under-researched., This chapter demonstrates how digital tools function as catalysts for driving tourism communities toward enhanced resilience, further serving as a long-term enabler of sustainable tourism development. While the first case study relates to an action research intervention that focuses on the economic aspect of community resilience through DTs aimed inclusion and legitimacy of a local fishing community in a Maltese coastal village, the second case study relates to a regional tourism project that centers on the social aspect of community resilience in the Irish and Welsh coastal uplands, and demonstrates how a different tourism governance model toward regenerative tourism can be developed through utilizing DTs to prioritize the needs of the local communities
Translation criticism from the viewpoint of textlinguistics and stylistics: A preliminary study
No full text1stInternational Conference on Translation and Interpreting -- OCT 16-18, 2002 -- Ankara, TURKEYWOS: 000232029700029Translation Criticism from the viewpoint of Textlinguistics and Stylistics: A Preliminary Study Translation of ST pragmatic and semantic units as well as ST (source text) syntactic units is considered very important for the adequacy and acceptability of TT(target text). Translating is therefore, a process of creating a new text. Consequently, text formation processes, the notion of text types, text conventions and parallel texts become important criteria of objectivity in the area of translation criticism. In every language,different texts are created with different communicative purposes. Text types which can be found in one language may not be found in another. However, the texts having the same function but different text styles can be considered as parallel texts since they have the same communicative purpose. Parallel texts are classified as "intra-lingual" and "interlanguage" texts. Interlanguage parallel texts are those which have similar contexts (such as invitation cards,) or texts adapted to another language (such as advertisements) and finally, texts formed by translation after a conscious transfer of meaning. The study of parallel texts in terms of text formation will help understand text conventions and also evaluate translated texts more objectively This study aims to evaluate the translated version of a short story named "Son Kus " by the Turkish author BekirYildiz through the above mentioned ideas and determine the extent of the meaning loss between the two texts considering functional/stylistic equivalence.Bilkent Univ, Sch Appl Languages, Dept Translat & Interpreta
Large Scale Experimental Settlement Tests to Evaluate Structural Models for Tunnelling-Induced Damage Analysis
No full textUnderground construction activities, such as tunnelling, cause local ground movements to occur. Nearby surface structures interact with the moving ground, potentially leading to building damage. Although it is understood that the severity of building damage is influenced by the façade opening ratio (OpR) and the stiffness of the floors, experimental work in this area is lacking. This paper describes the specification and design of an experimental campaign on brick masonry buildings subjected to vertical base movements. The specimens are half-scale models of walls of two-storey buildings; models with different window arrangements and with/without floor slabs are examined. To design the experimental setup, 3D finite element analyses of the model walls were conducted. Key analysis results, presented in this paper, indicate how the examined structural properties (OpR, building weight, floor stiffness) are expected to influence the patterns of damage in the masonry. The finite element results are also used to design an instrumentation system comprising Fibre Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors and a digital image correlation (DIC) system. Data from the tests will support the formulation and validation of structural models for predicting tunnelling-induced damage in masonry buildings.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Applied MechanicsGeo-engineerin
Modern Sufism in Turkey: A Study of the Thought of Said Nursi and Fethullah Gulen
No full textThe advancement of technology and the development of time, in fact, don’t make sufism become deserted enthusiasts. Sufism is often considered an alternative way of embroidery in the modern era. This is inseparable from the fact that Islamic puritanism echoed by Salafi-Wahabi groups is considered to give birth to new humanitarian problems. Although it was also once considered a barrier in the progress of Islam by Modernists, it is undeniable that the need for sufism in society seems to never die. While in the Arab region the existence of sufism is threatened because it is considered contrary to the idea of Islamic puritanism and is considered a barrier in the progress of Islam, sufism in Turkey actually gets direct opposition from ultra-secular rulers. This makes sufi leaders in Turkey must transform the teachings of sufism. Through this article, the author seeks to display the patterns and approaches of a new sufism in Turkey, which came to be known as modern sufism. The authors base this study from the analysis of Said Nursi and Fethullah Gulen’s thoughts on sufism. The authors conclude that the pattern and approach of modern sufism in Turkey is carried out without tariqah. Nevertheless, the order transformed into an Islamic movement by adopting a state-legalized organization. It is also a form of adaptation carried out by sufi figures in Turkey as a measure of anticipation of the repressive actions of ultra-secular rulers against the followers of the order
The “Soft Power” policy of Turkey towards Georgia
No full textSouth Caucasus throughout history was at the epicenter of clashes of different religions, civilizations, nations and states. At present moment the interests of both regional (Turkey, Iran) and global actors (the United States, NATO, the EU, Russia and others.) intersect in the region. Global transformations, changing power relations in international relations have their direct influence on the political processes taking place in the region. These processes are also linked with the activities of Turkey, which aspire to regional leadership. It is Georgia, which serves as a corridor between Turkey and states of Central Asia and the South Caucasus. Turkey spreads its influence in Georgia in almost all areas using economic, military and political tools, as well as the Russian-Georgian deteriorated relations. To achieve its goals, Turkey is actively pursuing a strategy of "soft power", which further strengthens its influence in the country. Public diplomacy is a part of soft power, which also ensures the formation of a positive and attractive image of Turkey in Georgia. This article investigates the contemporary policy of "soft power" of Turkey towards Georgia. It analyses the basic tools, institutions and the direction of this policy, actively implemented by the Republic of Turkey. Particular attention is paid to the activities of the Gulen Movement in Georgia. The author makes general conclusions regarding the effectiveness of this policy
Uzbekistan’s self-reliance 1991-2010 : public politics and the impact of roles in shaping bilateral relationships
No full textThis thesis applies role theory to understand how Uzbekistan’s bilateral relationships became either conflicting or cooperative between 1991 and 2010. Roles are key elements of social interaction as they describe plausible lines of action in a particular subject-person. They are thus a helpful way of identifying actors and constructing narratives. Furthermore, if they are seen as metaphors for drama, one may argue that roles - as opposed to personal identities - encapsulate autonomous action, which, like a text, ascertains meaning beyond the author’s intent. In other words, by separating action from intent, one may regard politics in a different light - as interaction emplotted by roles -, thereby revealing how actions contradict a set of roles and lead to conflict and crises in public credibility. This manner of emplotting relationships divulges an alternative story that, rather than focusing on Tashkent’s strategic balancing and alignment, demonstrates how Uzbekistani leadership gradually developed an overarching self-reliant role set that shapes its actions. Moreover, Uzbekistan’s cooperative and conflicting relationships are described less in light of strategic survival rationale than as the outcome of gradual role compatibilities arising through time. Therefore, unlike some other accounts, this thesis argues that, throughout Uzbekistan’s first twenty years of independence, public disputes were crucial to understanding interaction and also that Tashkent was never actually aligned with Russia or the United States. To bring forth this argument, the following chapters expound the assumptions behind some scholarly research and develop the concepts of self-reliance, roles, action, public sphere, credibility and narrative. The discussion progresses toward self-reliance and how the concept captures President Karimov’s roles, which are used to emplot Uzbekistan’s interaction with the United States, Russia, Germany and Turkey. The first two are relevant for analyzing whether roles reveal more than the typical accounts based on security balancing. Germany is then included because its relationship with Tashkent was rarely conflicting in the public sphere, allowing it to increase bilateral trade and secure a military base in Uzbekistan after the 2005 Andijan Crisis. It was thus a relatively stable connection, unlike Tashkent’s relationships with Washington and Moscow. Lastly, to control Germany’s middle-power status, the case of Turkey is brought to the fore since Ankara’s willingness to engage with Tashkent was not enough to foster cooperation
