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White Namibians in tourism and the politics of belonging through Bushmen
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Stasja P. Koot --- International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The NetherlandsNamibian Bushmen, such as the Hai//om and the Ju/’hoansi, are increasingly involved in the growing, white-dominated tourism industry. In this, white Namibians tend to position Bushmen and themselves as people of nature and conservationists. Elsewhere, whites from southern Africa have... -
Ons is Boesmans: commentary on the naming of Bushmen in the southern Kalahari
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: William F. Ellis --- Centre for Humanities Research, South AfricaThis paper examines academic debates about the nomenclature of the San in light of recent ethnographic data. Academic debates centre around two aspects: the apparent complicity of the term “bushman” in construing the San as lower on the hierarchy of... -
Introduction to Anthropology Southern Africa special issue on ‘Engaging Difference: Perspectives on belonging and exclusion in contemporary southern and East Africa’
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Heike Becker --- Department of Anthropology and Sociology,This special issue of Anthropology Southern Africa is the result of troubling questions of how to engage difference and belonging. Anthropologists in South Africa, like their colleagues elsewhere, today face the return of difference thinking. The articles in this special... -
Men, women, temporality and critical ethnography in Africa—the imperative for a transdisciplinary conversation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Elaine Salo --- Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, University of Pretoria,This article addresses concerns of African-based scholars about how we can adequately represent the social heterogeneity and the rich diversity of African subjects. I argue that by prioritising Pan-Africanist solidarity, and in our search for African authenticity, we often represent... -
Understanding memorable tourism experiences: A case study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Miranda Cornelisse --- Tourism, The NetherlandsThe desire for new experiences that are truly authentic has become an important mainstream in the tourism industry. The main goal of this empirical case study was twofold: 1) To determine which concept of authenticity in tourism literature is most... -
Overcoming obstacles to a truly global psychological theory, research, and praxis in Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Seth Oppong --- Department of Psychology,In African countries, psychology as it is taught, researched, and practised contributes to epistemic injustice and epistemological violence while depriving Africans of epistemic agency. This is largely because psychology has remained and continues to remain Eurocentric. However, the continual Eurocentric... -
Local food and authenticity in Greek restaurants
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Gerasimos-Panagiotis Angelopoulos --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, the Netherlands Jan Arend Schulp --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, the Netherlands Vanessa de Oliveira Menezes --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Stenden Hotel Management School, the NetherlandsThis article aims to understand the role of local food and authenticity for restaurateurs in Athens and Patras, Greece. Nine restaurant owners were interviewed about their current dishes, menu and ingredients. The results of this qualitative research indicate that, for... -
Honouring the opening: Unfolding the rich ground between the philosophical thinking of Martin Heidegger and practice-based empirical work
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Kitty Maria Suddick --- , United Kingdom Vinette Cross --- , United Kingdom Pirjo Vuoskoski --- , Finland Kathleen T. Galvin --- , United Kingdom Graham Stew --- , United KingdomThe aim of this article is to bring philosophical thinking closer to practice-based empirical work. Using Martin Heidegger’s philosophy, it offers a bridge between these two worlds, attempting to provide philosophical depth to the findings of a hermeneutic phenomenological study... -
Living museums in Namibia: between empowerment and exploitation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Hana Horáková --- Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic Josefína Kufová --- Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic Nicola Raúl --- Palacký University Olomouc, Czech RepublicThis article examines the recent rise of living museums in postcolonial Namibia, one of the most rapidly increasing forms of cultural tourism. Living museums are designed and executed by minority communities that seek to reach socio-economic emancipation by making use... -
Empowering women in South African law enforcement: Developing authenticity as best-self
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Rochelle Jacobs --- University of South Africa, South Africa Antoni Barnard --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis hermeneutic phenomenological study explored the authenticity experiences of South African women in law enforcement from a best-self perspective. Narrative interviews were conducted with 12 women from police and traffic services, aged between 26 and 55 (25% black, 58% mixed... -
Contemporary dining room professionals: towards a “hip” style of hospitality identity
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Kajsa Hult --- Culinary Arts & Meal Science, Örebro University, Sweden Henrik Scander --- Culinary Arts & Meal Science, Örebro University, Sweden Ute Walter --- Culinary Arts & Meal Science, Örebro University, SwedenInterest in having an occupation that connects with consumption practices of taste has increased in the contemporary creative economy. In addition, the restaurant scene in Sweden as well as globally has recently been moving towards a casualisation of high-quality restaurants,... -
Cultural identity, cultural confidence, and folk activities: An empirical study of the folk culture of Moon-cake Gambling at the Mid-Autumn Festival in Xiamen, China
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Qiaohua He --- Xiamen Huaxia University, China Shiqi Lin --- Xiamen Huaxia University, China Yanbin Wu --- Hanshan Normal University, China Rongrong Ding --- Liming Vocational University, ChinaThis article aims to clarify the relationship between cultural identity, cultural confidence, and folk activities; to strengthen the role of folk activities in improving cultural identity and cultural confidence. Study participants were 454 people participating in Moon-cake Gambling at the... -
The future of hospitality management: adapting to Generation Z’s values and preferences
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Janneke Lensen --- Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Joost IJsselmuiden --- Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Rodney Westerlaken --- Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences,This viewpoint article explores the evolving landscape of hospitality management in light of Generation Z emerging as a dominant consumer force and being a significant percentage of the workforce. The workforce is rapidly changing in this field, since the hospitality...