This study explores the relationship between the government, private sector and local communities (public-private-community), through tourism and a culture-centered approach to communication for social change. Its focus is on the role of communication processes in amplifying the voices of the subaltern and how power relations affect this resonance in public-private-community tourism partnerships. Grounded in a pragmatic cultural studies approach which is self-reflexive, this study seeks to explore the connection between forms of power and lived experiences. The study is informed by Critical Social Science, which advocates a radical ethics concerned with power and oppression. It encourages the researcher to act as a bricoleur by taking up moral projects which serve to weave collaboration, agency and transformation. Case studies of two tourist camps in the African Ivory Route, which are government-funded, communityowned, and privately-operated, provide the ‘hunting ground’ for exposing the existing communicative processes between the partners and manifestations of power. The relationship between the government, community and private partner will be examined through Lauren Dyll-Myklebust’s (2011) schematic Public-Private-Community Partnership model, which was developed to account for the multiple dimensions of the type of development communication strategies employed in inaugurating operations in a public-privatecommunity partnership tourism initiative. This, together with my own reflexive analysis, will elucidate the kinds of communicative processes that exist in the partnership. An objective of the study is to identify ways in which communication in tourism development partnerships can facilitate subaltern agency. Tourism has often been criticised for its inability to function as a positive vehicle for development. This study aims to show that by listening to the voices of the subaltern, fostering dialogue and encouraging collaboration, tourism development initiatives can empower communities. / M.A. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 2013.

Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Detroit Mercy, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-85).

Diploma thesis discusses life of families with children in social housing. Reasons for long term life of some families in social housing is lack of money, high indebtedness, issues concerning duties of rental agreements. The thesis aims to map risks related to long term using of these facilities. Further it examines means of acquiring standard accomodation of these families and their readiness for duties following house rental. It also inquires in comparison of opinions of families with expert opinions. Theoretical part clarifies right for accomodation as a basic human need. It explains term sof renting and social housing. Furthermore it deals with integration of persons from excluded localities. Factors of endangering persons living long term in social housing, institutions concerned with these issues, possible solutions and related benefits entitlements are also part of the theoretical part. Practical part is in form of qualitative research: namely semi-structured interview. Research has two parts. First part is focused on opinions of actual families living in social housin. In second part are opinions of experts. Interviews took place in three social houses and in workplace of experts. From the research results is clear that life in social housing has negative impact on the occupants. People live there in social isolation and in very bad sanitary and technical conditions. This situation has very bad influence on children who lack the culture of regular accomodation. It is necessary to specify the cooperation principle of social workers in job centers and in government instituions. Families need help with the trasition from social housing to rental housing. Considering for example the means for paying the deposit. Another step could be the employment increase, which is the best tool agains the social exclusion. Simultaneously it is necessary to put in place a rent cap of social housing, to adopt legislation concerning social housing that would solve particulary housing issues of families with children, thus allowing parents to rise children sustainably in decent conditions.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-08-01T14:10:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 AlexandraNharaMartinsMane_DISSERT.pdf: 1646402 bytes, checksum: 60f2d23aba47158add1d59b2205aa96a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-08-08T11:33:16Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 AlexandraNharaMartinsMane_DISSERT.pdf: 1646402 bytes, checksum: 60f2d23aba47158add1d59b2205aa96a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-08T11:33:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AlexandraNharaMartinsMane_DISSERT.pdf: 1646402 bytes, checksum: 60f2d23aba47158add1d59b2205aa96a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-26 / Os meios de hospedagem, como componentes importantes para a atividade tur?stica, possuem um conjunto de elementos que contribuem para competitividade do setor. Os hostels s?o um desses elementos, e que, em especial, t?m se destacados por possu?rem como proposta oportunizar a troca de experi?ncias a seus h?spedes. Neste sentido, ter conhecimento em rela??o ?s mudan?as comportamentais de seus consumidores torna-se importante para gera??o de vantagem competitiva, considerando a complexidade de estudo do comportamento do consumidor e os fatores que influenciam nas decis?es de escolha. Ressalta-se, acerca disso, a import?ncia de identificar os valores dos consumidores, sejam eles intr?nsecos ou extr?nsecos. Esta pesquisa apresenta como objetivo principal, a an?lise dos atributos motivacionais para escolha dos hostels como meios de hospedagem. A metodologia utilizada para alcan?ar o objetivo proposto neste estudo consiste em duas etapas: na primeira, foi aplicado o question?rio contendo seis perguntas do tipo fechadas para identificar o perfil do novo consumidor de hostels no Brasil; em seguida, foram realizados grupos focais online por interm?dio do aplicativo Messenger, a fim de identificar os principais atributos de escolha dos hostels. De tal forma, a pesquisa caracteriza-se como explorat?rio-descritiva, com abordagem qualitativa. Para an?lise dos dados, foi utilizado o software NVivo 11 com vias a facilitar a interpreta??o cr?tica do conte?do. Foram analisados os relatos e discuss?es de 53 participantes dos grupos focais online, cujos resultados apontaram um novo consumidor de hostel no Brasil que tem, como prioridades, a intera??o com outros h?spedes, as experi?ncias e trocas culturais e o custo-benef?cio, classificados como atributos que mais agregam valor ao escolher um hostel como meio de hospedagem tur?stica. Conclui-se com a apresenta??o das tend?ncias dos hostels em virtude do aumento da demanda tur?stica com foco nas experi?ncias. Tendo em vista que o turismo torna-se, neste caso, o facilitador de trocas sociais, possibilitando o encontro de pessoas de diferentes pa?ses e culturas em um s? lugar. / The means of lodging, as important components for the tourist activity, have a set of elements that contribute to the competitiveness of the sector. The hostels are one of these elements, and in particular, they have been highlighted because they have the opportunity to offer the exchange of experiences to their guests. In this sense, knowledge about the behavioral changes of its consumers becomes important for the generation of competitive advantage, considering the complexity of the study of consumer behavior and the factors that influence choice decisions. The importance of identifying consumer values, whether intrinsic or extrinsic, is emphasized. This research presents as main objective, the analysis of the motivational attributes to choose the hostels as means of lodging. The methodology used to reach the goal proposed in this study consists of two steps: first, the questionnaire was applied, containing six closed-ended questions to identify the profile of the new consumer of hostels in Brazil; Then online focus groups were conducted through the Messenger application in order to identify the main attributes of hostel choice. Thus, the research is characterized as exploratory-descriptive, with a qualitative approach. For the analysis of the data, NVivo 11 software was used with ways to facilitate the critical interpretation of the content. We analyzed the reports and discussions of 53 participants of the online focus groups, whose results pointed out a new hostel consumer in Brazil that has, as priorities, interaction with other guests, experiences and cultural exchanges and cost-benefit, classified as attributes Which add more value when choosing a hostel as a means of tourist accommodation. It was concluded with the presentation of the trends of the hostels due to the increase of tourist demand with focus on the experiences. Given that tourism becomes, in this case, the facilitator of social exchanges, making it possible to meet people from different countries and cultures in one place.

Bibliography: pages 335-348. / This study documents the lives of children between the ages of 10 and 15 years who reside in migrant worker hostels in the Hottentots-Holland region of the Western Cape. It focuses on three particular aspects of the children's lives: their domestic circumstances and relationships prior to their residence in the hostels; their experiences of everyday life in the hostels; and the quality, extent, and determinants of their education over time. The children's domestic circumstances before moving to the hostels had been disrupted in the extreme. This disruption took various forms, but was caused primarily by the participation of parents and other significant adults in labour migration. Consequently, the children's histories are characterised by high levels of mobility, where children themselves have migrated, by frequent separation from parents, and by high incidences of foster-parenting. Testimony by the children indicates that they have felt this domestic disruption acutely. A further consequence of the children's residential and domestic mobility has been regular interruptions over time in their schooling. Factors such as the frequency of the children's own movement, separation from their parents, devaluative attitudes towards education by temporary foster parents, and vicissitudes in their economic circumstances have meant that most of them have progressed less than half as far at school as they should have done. This is compounded at Lwandle by the state's refusal to provide a school for hostel children, and by the inadequacy of the 'self-help' teaching which takes place there as a result. The children's everyday lives in the hostels are examined in relation to the severe limitations on space and privacy which exist there. Particular attention is granted to children's perceptions of the hostel milieu, to the difficulties which parents experience in rearing children in the hostels, to parent-child relations, and to the games and other play-activities in which the children engage. Perhaps the most prominent feature of life in the hostels which emerged during the research is the frequency with which children are exposed to acts of extreme violence. The study documents both the children's accounts of this violence, and their diagnoses of it. In conclusion, questions are raised about the future of these children and others like them. Attention is also directed towards the potential for further research into childhood by anthropology and other social sciences. The study grants primacy to children's viewpoints over and above those of their parents and other adults in the hostels, and one of its implicit objectives is to demonstrate the value to anthropology of children's insights into social life. It makes extensive use of the children's own testimony, both written and oral, and of life history material.

Visuomenės sveikata (Sveikatos ekologija) NAKVYNĖS NAMŲ DARBUOTOJŲ PROFESINĖS RIZIKOS VEIKSNIŲ SĄSAJOS SU SUBJEKTYVIAI VERTINAMA SVEIKATA Diana Mačiulienė Mokslinė vadovė lekt. dr. Jolita Kirvaitienė Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universitetas, Medicinos akademija, Visuomenės sveikatos fakultetas, Aplinkos ir darbo medicinos katedra. Kaunas; 2013. 56 p. Darbo tikslas. Įvertinti nakvynės namų darbuotojų profesinės rizikos veiksnių sąsajas su subjektyviai vertinama sveikata. Tyrimo metodika. Tyrime dalyvavo 145 Vilniaus, Kauno ir Klaipėdos miestų nakvynės namų darbuotojai. Analizei buvo tinkamos 126 anketos. Darbuotojų apklausai naudota vienmomentinė anketa. Statistinė duomenų analizė buvo atlikta naudojant statistinį programų paketą SPSS 17.0 for Windows ir Microsoft Office programinio paketo skaičiuokle Microsoft Excel. Duomenys, kurių paklaidos tikimybė p>0,05 nebuvo naudoti tyrime, kadangi skirtumas laikomas statistiškai nereikšmingas. Rezultatai. Nakvynės namų darbuotojai daţniausiai susiduria su klientų grasinimais (41,3 proc.), keiksmaţodţiais (64,3 proc.), psichologine įtampa (78 proc.), nesaugumo jausmu (53 proc.). Dauguma darbuotojų (70,6 proc.) per pastaruosius 6 mėnesius pajuto sveikatos sutrikimus. Beveik pusė apklaustųjų (42,9 proc.) savo sveikatos sutrikimus sieja su darbu. Savo sveikatos sutrikimus respondentai sieja su: miego sutrikimais (36,5 proc.), irzlumu (22,2 proc.), nerimu (20,6 proc.), įtampa bei stresu (34,9 proc.), arterinė hipertenzija (19,8 proc.)... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Public health (Health ecology) HOSTEL STAFF OCCUPATIONAL RISK FACTORS AND THEIR LINKS WITH THE SUBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF HEALTH Diana Mačiulienė Scientific tutor lecturer dr. Jolita Kirvaitienė Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Medical Academy, Faculty of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine. Kaunas; 2013. 56 p. The aim of a project. To evaluate Hostel Staff Occupational Risk Factors and Their Links with the Subjective Evaluation of Health. Research methodology. 145 workers from Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda hostels staff were involved in the study. 126 questionnaires were suitable for analysis. A cross-sectional questionnaire was used in the survey. The statistical analysis was performed using the statistical software package SPSS 17.0 for Windows and Microsoft Office software package Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Data with bias probability p>0,05 were not used in the research, because the difference is considered statistically insignificant. Results of the research. Mostly, workers of hostels have to deal with threats of clients (41,3 pct.), vituperation (64,3pct.), psychological stress (78 pct.), insecurity (53 pct). In the last 6 months the majority of employees felt health disorders. Almost half of the respondents (42,9 pct.) relate their health problems with the work. Were mentioned following health disorders: sleep disorders (36,5 pct.), irritability (22,2 pct.), anxiety (20,6 pct), tension and stress (34,9 pct.), arterial... [to full text]

A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, for the degree of Master of Arts. Johannesburg 1995. / This thesis set out to investigate the relation between hostels and the political violence on the Reef between July 1990 and December 1993 which claimed 4756 lives. This relation is anchored in a broader discussion of firstly, political violence in South Africa generally, and secondly of the hostel system. This contextualisation frames the investigation of two Sowetan hostels Meadowlands and Merafe. These two hostels were among those that became focal points of political violence on the Reef during the period under review. The thesis argues that the political violence and conflict on the Reef between 1990 and 1993 constituted a "war" in which these and other hostels played a crucial part. The Inkatha Freedom Party colonised these institutions, ejected non-Zulu and ANC supporters and transformed the hostels from migrants camps into "fortresses of fear" from which many attacks on township residents were launched. The thesis attempts to understand this process through an in-depth investigation of Meadowlands and Merafe hostels as case studies. It attempts to draw a sociological profile of these two hostels. This has involved examining these hostels as social institutions, the social relations and culture operating within them, and their place in the social structure of the surrounding community. The thesis has included an investigation of the social characteristics of hostel residents such as their ethnic identity, age, gender identity, marital, employment status, political affiliation and work history. These multiple identities are components in attempting to explain the participation of many hostel residents in political violence. Through a series of in-depth interviews the thesis has attempted to map their different experiences and understandings of political violence in relation to their broader aspirations, beliefs and world views. It is asserted that any investigation of the relation between hostels and political violence requires this attempt to map a 'view from below' which goes deeper than official statistics and media accounts. / AC2017

A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies (GAES). Johannesburg, October 2017. / Climate and weather-related impacts have become widespread particularly affecting the tourism industry. Changes in the climate and weather lead to changes in tourist seasons, products and travel opportunities. Flooding has gained research attention over the past decade, since the destruction creates many challenges for tourism businesses. Floods are a growing global problem, increasing in terms of frequency of occurrence, property damages, business economic losses, and fatalities. South Africa has begun to experience many annual flood events both coastal and in-land, but the Limpopo Province has been declared as flood disaster area, since the increase in temperatures and precipitation. Interest now lies on how particular tourist destinations in the Limpopo Province can adapt to reduce flooding risks whilst increasing opportunities mainly for the economy. Debates around flooding costs, recovery processes, and adaptive capacities affirm to be more challenging for the tourism accommodation sector. The study aimed to explore the perceived flooding impacts on different types of tourist accommodation. Thus, to determine if floods hindered any tourist bookings, offerings, and tourist length of stay. The exploration verified the possible flood risks to vulnerable accommodation and no adequate adaptation plans. A purposeful sample of 145 tourist accommodation businesses located across three flood-prone regions of the Limpopo Province were selected to answer a semi-structured questionnaire to put across their flooding experiences from a management perspective. The semi-structured questionnaire was combined with telephone interviews and email responses. Coherent theme development within the theoretical framework was achieved through content analysis. Content analysis allowed for the critical discussion of deductive and inductive themes found in the results. Floods during peak-seasons threaten and affect tourist accommodation, leaving them behind in business. Those not affected benefit with increased tourist demand and new opportunities in the hospitality industry. Tourist accommodation businesses are exposed to flood risks and experience challenges to assess, recover and adapt from the direct and indirect impacts. Alongside the destruction of tourism in these regions, were concerns of the provision of flood mapping and flood management plans for tourism businesses. Wider flooding impacts on the environment and the surrounding local communities demonstrates a growing problem for the future. Key words: floods; tourist accommodation; flooding impacts; risks; opportunities; tourist demand; adaptation; flood recovery, flood mapping, flood management plans. / LG2018

No abstract available. / Thesis (M.T.R.P.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1997.

M.A. / This chapter has been dedicated towards painting a picture of the quality of life issues regarding migrant workers living in hostels. The results and findings as interpreted has brought about useful information that will be utilised to draw conclusions and recommendations. Quality of Life of Migrant Workers at Eskom The findings have reconfirmed who the migrant worker is in terms of the description given by Leatt (1981) which was the definition adopted for the study. The indices drawn from the objective and subjective indicators of quality of life which were adopted from Moller, Schlemmer and Du Toit's (1987) were used as the basis from which the interview schedule was drawn, and has proved useful. Reference is made in particular to questions 12,13 and 14. Relevant construct for quality of life were found, with more usable constructs from questions 12 and 13. Furthermore the statistical analysis of the vector of the mean test scores referring to the HOT 1 has also given useful information as it enabled the student to analyse three variables independently and jointly see section 3.3. Cross tabulations representing correlations between indices created out of quality of life indicators namely core quality of life issues as identified by Question(s) 12,13 and 14 and the objective indicators of quality of life, namely accommodation, the intake of nutritious food, and recreation practices. There is a clear demonstration of quality of life issues that should be looked at if the quality of life of migrant workers living in hostels has to be improved. Although there are many diverse quality of life issues identified in the study the three that were selected with the framework of this study has given usable information. The next chapter will address the conclusions and recommendations.