Recent high profile food safety incidents in the United Kingdom have shaken consumer confidence in food products. Consumer perception of risk is seen to be very relevant to food safety issues. The impact of this perceived risk on purchase behaviour is also critical to the development of risk management strategies by authorities responsible for public health and the food industry. Focusing on fresh chicken meat products, this study explored the relationship between food risk characteristics, consumer perception of food safety related risk, consumer purchase behaviour and actions that can be taken to reduce the exposure to food risk. Following an extensive literature review, an exploratory study in the form of face-toface interviews was carried out to clarify the main concerns of food hazards, and to identify the items of perceived consequent loss and risk reducing strategies adopted by consumers. The findings were verified through a quantitative survey of 200 respondents. The data was presented in the form of Structural Equation Modelling, and analysed by the LISREL 8.30 statistical package. The results showed that consumer risk perception was affected by a range of risk characteristics, such as consumer concern about the severity of the food risk, and the potential long-term adverse effect on future generation and environment. The main elements of perceived loss associated with food safety were health, financial, time, lifestyle and taste losses, and these were shown to have a negative effect on purchase likelihood. Two other risk characteristics namely, perceived knowledge and own control of the food risk were found to be linked directly and positively to consumer purchase likelihood. Risk reducing strategies such as branded product, product quality assurance and product information adopted by consumers were identified and found to be consistent with the marketing strategies used by the food industry. These risk-reducing strategies have a negative relationship with consumer risk perception. This study presented empirical evidence for characterising types of food risks and explains how food risks and risk reducing strategies affect consumer risk perception as well as purchase likelihood. Consequently, two quantitative consumer food purchase models were developed. These models can help the government and the food industry to identify key factors to develop systematic strategies for risk management and risk communication in order to allocate resources efficiently and effectively. They can also use these models to measure the effectiveness of their risk management policy in the times of concern about food safety. This study recommends further research to apply these models in other types of food products and other types of risk, such as chemical risk, and technological risk, in particular for those risks which are beyond the control of consumers. The differences in risk perception between cultures and socio-economic groupings should be explored further. This is a valid topic for further research and provides potential benefits for consumers and food industry as a whole.

Despite Canada’s official policy of multiculturalism, until recently, the perspectives of the country’s lesser-known, marginalized writers have not been usually taken into consideration in mainstream discussions on the nature of Canadian identity and its socio cultural mosaic. Specifically, minority life writing narratives had generally received little critical attention in Canada. This paper aims to fill this slowly-decreasing gap through the exploration of two texts whose female writers negotiate their distinct ethnic and national selves within the cultural dominant of Canada. The essay compares Apolonja Kojder’s Polish-Canadian memoir, Marynia, Don’t Cry, to Rita Joe’s Mi’kmaq-Canadian autobiography, Song of Rita Joe. The analysis of these texts sets the Polish and Aboriginal communities into conversation, and yields a discussion on the nature of cultural, national, linguistic and female identity. It argues that identity is political, relational and always in process. Since much of the personal narrative writers’ identity struggle in an alien land and language often unravels as a translation of the self into another world, the two personal narratives add nuance to our understanding of the contradictions found in institutional policies. The study creates awareness of the literary and discursive strategies by which writers of disadvantaged communities challenge and subvert cultural oppression, identity misconstructions, and the exclusion of ethnic and women’s histories from within mainstream society. However, through the textual hybridization of cultures, languages, histories and life experiences, Kojder’s and Joe’s intention is to facilitate understanding across groups, create respect for diversity, propel social participation and induce socio political transformation. This paper means to shed light on the Canadian experience in its unique variations, and to add to life writing studies on ethnic and national individuals’ personal encounters with and within the Canadian socio- cultural and political milieu. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:17:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_joesacco_final - parte 1.pdf: 3027296 bytes, checksum: b37e4292a98cd6c12b8501cb087a2c4f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-09-19 / Through a study about Joe Sacco s series Palestine and his books Notes from a defeatist and Footnotes in Gaza, this research aims to show how the art of the comics emerges as an appropriate language to address a complex issue as the conflict between Arabs and Jews in dispute for the Palestinian territory. Based on the Identity approach, considering how the journalist and cartoonist Joe Sacco, Maltese by birth, cosmopolitan by vocation, constructs a narrative that highlights the otherness, establishing a productive counterpoint to understand this conflict in the Middle East: from the perspective of those that, by Western corporations that emerged, were thrown to the mists of oblivion. From the new perspectives provided by various historiography strands, as the Intellectual History and Cultural Studies, aggregate to a rich conceptual framework for research on manned imagery issue, it is possible to envision new paradigms that can be incorporated into the research on the topic in order to enter the HQ universe into contemporary historiography discussions. Theme whose interest is piqued by naturally transcends the clichés for this conferred a priori. It is understood by commonplace in this case the sphere of entertainment, which includes mostly symbolic products disseminated on a large scale marketing purposes and for leisure. / Através de um estudo sobre a série Palestina e as obras Derrotista e Notas sobre Gaza, de Joe Sacco, esta pesquisa busca evidenciar como a arte do quadrinho surge como uma linguagem apropriada para abordar um tema complexo como o conflito entre árabes e judeus na disputa pelo território da Palestina. Partindo da abordagem sobre Identidade, analisaremos como o jornalista e quadrinista Joe Sacco, maltês de nascimento, cosmopolita por vocação, constrói uma narrativa que evidencia a alteridade, estabelecendo um profícuo contraponto para se compreender este conflito que assola o Oriente Médio: através da perspectiva daqueles que, relevados pelas corporações ocidentais, foram lançados às brumas do esquecimento. A partir das novas perspectivas fornecidas por vertentes variadas dentro da historiográfica, como a História Intelectual e Estudos Culturais, agregadas a todo um rico arcabouço conceitual guarnecido por investigações sobre a questão imagética, é possível vislumbrar novos paradigmas que podem ser incorporados à pesquisa sobre o tema, de forma a introduzir o universo da HQ ao debate da historiografia contemporânea. Tema este cujo interesse é naturalmente despertado por transcender os lugares-comuns para este atribuídos a priori. Entenda-se por lugar-comum nesse caso a esfera do entretenimento, que engloba em sua grande maioria os produtos simbólicos disseminados em larga escala e com fins de comercialização para o lazer.

The original Muscle Beach, in Santa Monica, California, is considered by many to be the birthplace of the modern physical fitness movement. From 1934 to 1958, the strip of sand south of the Santa Monica Pier offered acrobats, gymnasts, weightlifters, and bodybuilders a place to learn, train, and perform feats of physical culture. This milieu helped shape the careers of fitness luminaries like Jack LaLanne, Vic Tanny, and Steve Reeves; it also catalyzed the development of modern fitness equipment and health clubs. The site's popularity peaked in the post-war period, especially over summer holidays, when up to 2,000 spectators crowded around an elevated platform by the boardwalk to watch the annual Mr. and Miss Muscle Beach contests and other acrobatic and strength exhibitions. In the American imagination, Muscle Beach became a symbol of the mid-century California dream, the promise of sunshine, health, and good living captured in iconic images of the toned and tan beach athletes. Despite these real and symbolic legacies, Muscle Beach remains an understudied site, especially from scholarly perspectives. The essays that constitute this work examine Muscle Beach using three different historical points of engagement. In the first study, I offer a theoretical perspective for unpacking the widespread influence of Muscle Beach. Drawing from oral history interviews with several Muscle Beach legends, I argue that the role of Muscle Beach in ushering in the modern fitness movement is best understood as the result of social processes of innovation. In the second study, I explore the abrupt closure of Muscle Beach by the city of Santa Monica in late 1958 and I evaluate the civic legacy of the site for the city. In the third and final study, I analyze the use of Muscle Beach in the fitness magazines of Joe Weider. I argue that Weider deployed a mythic Muscle Beach, creating an imaginative take on the California dream for his readers and customers. Combined, these studies advance the historical understanding of Muscle Beach as both a real and symbolic place. / text

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2003. / Available in film copy from University Microfilms International. Vita. Thesis advisor: Jeff Todd Titon. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 223-241). Also available online.

This dissertation analyses the autobiographies of Miriam Makeba, Joe Mogotsi and Hugh Masekela. The story of these formerly exiled musicians' lives as musicians who embodied the urbanising and eclectic black musical ethos of the 1950s onward has been integral to the music historiography on this era. The exilic trajectory of their story also has political resonance, as it parallels the shifts in structures of power characteristic of apartheid South Africa. Popular discourses that construct and narrate an incrementally conscientizing South African populist culture through this period have therefore also represented the musicians, through written and visual material, with this political resonance in mind. The musicians' autobiographies, however, articulate discourses of the nation from positions other these. These other positions are interanimated by literary, musical and socio-political discourses that already pervade the South African historical sphere. This informs the dialogic interplay of time, space and character in their texts, which I examine using the literary figure of the chronotope as a perceptual tool for their reading. Through analysis, I unpack how time becomes symbolically charged and space becomes mythologized in the autobiographies, how departure and eventual exile are narrated, and how the subsequent chronotopic rupture created by exile affects narration of home. Reading the struggle for authorship and authority evident in the texts' vacillation between biographical and autobiographical 'truth', the possible significances towards which this struggle points for a (re ) interpretation of South Africa's (hi)story of exile permeates the subject and process of this research. / Thesis (M.Mus.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2006.

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Thesis (M.A.) University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (June 27, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

Submitted by Maykon Nascimento (maykon.albani@hotmail.com) on 2015-02-20T20:03:37Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Dissertação Mendonça M. J..pdf: 18362038 bytes, checksum: 7d48b5b7ef52be8f4bc5cd0360bf6132 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Elizabete Silva (elizabete.silva@ufes.br) on 2015-03-03T18:30:28Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Dissertação Mendonça M. J..pdf: 18362038 bytes, checksum: 7d48b5b7ef52be8f4bc5cd0360bf6132 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-03T18:30:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Dissertação Mendonça M. J..pdf: 18362038 bytes, checksum: 7d48b5b7ef52be8f4bc5cd0360bf6132 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-20 / This study looks the territorial dimension of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the comic journalism produced by Joe Sacco. For this, seek, preliminarily, to develop an approach to spatial representation in comics through their visual and textual language, which shows a spatial perception and expressed a range of meanings from the actions that bind the characters to their place. Within this framework of interpretation, this study focuses, through the analysis of the works of Joe Sacco, the Arab-Israeli conflict to understand the Palestinian territories occupied as a politician volume that portrays the loss of political sovereignty of the Palestinians in the broad sense. This approach emphasizes an approach to the daily lives of Palestinians through comics considering the daily occupation and their spatial dimension (ie, content that refers to the territory, since it presents a whole set of meanings that evoke a territorial sense). So the research aims to understand the occupied Palestinian territories, seeking to evidence the extent to which Joe Sacco comics provide elements for research in geography, to the extent that expresses, it is suggested, one geographicity. Such a focus, which uses the conceptual scope of geography – and notably the concept of territory and its multiples –, mediating them through the use of works of Joe Sacco, allows, we suggest a peculiar angle of approach over the territory in local conflict, to the extent that, through it, it becomes possible to observe the forms of control and territorial insecurity of Palestinians in their training territorial-space. / O estudo trata da dimensão territorial do conflito israelo-palestino a partir do jornalismo em quadrinhos produzidos por Joe Sacco. Para isso, procura, preliminarmente, desenvolver uma abordagem da representação espacial nos quadrinhos através de sua linguagem visual e textual, que evidencia uma percepção espacial e expressa um conjunto de significados a partir das ações que unem os personagens ao lugar. A partir desse quadro de interpretação, o presente estudo focaliza, através da análise das obras de Joe Sacco, o conflito árabe-israelense para entender os territórios palestinos ocupados como um volume político que retrata a perda de soberania política dos palestinos em sentido amplo. Esse enfoque se volta para uma reflexão a respeito do dia a dia dos palestinos através dos quadrinhos considerando o cotidiano da ocupação e sua dimensão espacial (ou seja, um conteúdo que remete ao território, uma vez que apresenta todo um conjunto de significados que evocam um sentido territorial). Assim, a pesquisa objetiva entender os territórios palestinos ocupados, procurando evidenciar em que medida os quadrinhos de Joe Sacco disponibilizam elementos para a pesquisa em Geografia, na medida em que expressam, sugere-se, uma geograficidade. Tal enfoque, que recorre ao escopo conceitual da Geografia – e notadamente ao conceito de território e seus múltiplos –, mediatizando-os através do recurso às obras de Joe Sacco, possibilita, sugere-se, um ângulo de abordagem peculiar sobre o território em locais de conflito, na medida em que, através dele, torna-se possível observar as formas de controle e precarização territorial dos palestinos em sua formação espaço-territorial.