Re-enactment Events and Tourism: Meaning, Authenticity and Identity

The question of identity in a narrative text is one of the most influential questions that need further study. The variations in the factors that may affect the concept of identity add to the complexity of the narrative text. The study aims at analyzing the main phases, stages, themes and events of Moses’ life story as part of the narrative discourse. The effects of time and place on the main events can help in developing the identity of Moses and other characters. The fact that time has influential features that are supposed to be found in a narrative text is crucial to this study. The most important result reveals that the three phases of configuration embrace different stages, themes and events. These stages and themes, in turn, correlate with the main events based on the main character’s intention and the transition of themes. Finally, the main features of time such as importability, stability and symbolization have their implication in developing the identity in the selected text.

MOMENTS OF TRUST: SIBLING RESPONSES TO THE DISCLOSURE OF A SISTER’S LESBIAN IDENTITY Ryan W. McKee, B.S. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2003 Director: Julie Honnold, Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology To better understand the responses of siblings to the disclosure of a sister’s lesbian identity, eight pairs of siblings, each consisting of one lesbian participant and one of her siblings, were interviewed. Both lesbian and sibling participants were asked to discuss family relationships before disclosure (coming out), the actual disclosure, sibling reactions, parental reactions, and family relationships since disclosure. Notable results include “closeness” in sibling relationships and high levels of “trust” as strong predictors of supportive sibling responses. Siblings were also found to take on the role of confidant and counselor for their parents as they negotiated their daughters’ newly-disclosed sexual orientation. Chapter One: Introduction The “coming out” process is a major event in the lives of lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals. Disclosure is an ongoing process, and individuals must make decisions every day about whether or not to come out to certain people, including family members. Families are often thought of as safe havens from the harsh realities of the outside world where members can be open and honest about their lives and find acceptance and approval. However, that is not always the case. This is true especially when it comes to dealing with homosexuality, an issue that is seen in many societies as taboo, anti-family, and even unlawful. While it has been shown that disclosure is related to high self-esteem, many people remain closeted because they are uncertain how family members will react to this new aspect of their identity (Vargo 1998). Statement of the Problem The reactions of family are not only influenced by their relationship with the gay member, but also by social forces and traditions that call on them to react in a way that is consistent with societal norms. The revelation that a member of the family is gay can call family and individual beliefs into question, and have strong effects on the way other members of the family see both the gay member and themselves. Anti-gay bias and discrimination run so deeply in American society that relatives often feel effects of the

IMPACT OF EU'S DECISIONS ON EURO-SKEPTICISM OF TWO TURKISH NATIONALIST AND RELIGIOUS PERIPHERAL PARTIES By Imdat Ozen, Ph. D. A Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Virginia Comn~onwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2007 Major Director: Judyth L. Twigg, PhD Associate Professor and Interim Director L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs This study achieved a group of objectives such as measuring the impact of the EU's decisions on trust-based, nationalism-based, and religion-based Euro-skepticism, measuring the impact of the EU's decisions on overall Euro-skepticism, and searching and investigating the reasons behind Euro-skepticism in detail by conducting content analysis on statements of two Turkish nationalist and religious peripheral parties' elites. The study basically asked two important questions about Euro-skepticism and answered each question by testing four main hypotheses. The hypotheses were tested on two different parties, ,the Nationalist Action Party and the Felicity Party, and on two different events (on December 17,2004 and on October 03,2005). Since the study had 4 general hypotheses, the total hypothesis testing occurred 16 times. To be able to prove the hypotheses, the content analysis technique was used on the data that was collected from two newspapers: pro-MHP Ortadogu and pro-SP Milli Gazete. Each hypothesis was tested by using the two sample z-Test formula. The findings show that the two decisions by the EU did not have any impact on religion-based and trust-based Euro-skepticism. Only the first event had an impact on the nationalism-based Euro-skepticism of both political parties and overall Euro-skepticism of the MHP. The findings showed that 3 of the testing had a negative impact and 13 of them had no impact at all. No positive impact was found at the 0.05 level. Only one of them, trust-based, showed significance at the 0.10 level. The results showed that the decisions of the European Union either did not change the Euro-skepticism or if there was a change it was in a negative way. By the end of the second event, trust-based Euroskepticism of SP showed a decrease at the 0.10 level. The results of this study were associated with the social identity theory, with a group's status as a peripheral party, and the policy requirements of the EU regarding Turkey's sensitive issues.

David Lean's epic movie Lawrence of Arabia has enchanted generations of audience ever since 1962 for many of its accomplishments, ranging from its memorable cut, the matchstick, to philosophical lines such as ”Nothing is written” or ”[The desert] is clean here.” When they are crossing the Nefud Desert, God's anvil, the camel-riding Lawrence, is cautioned by Ali not to be ”drifting.” The then ”thinking” Lawrence is like an unlocatable nomad on Deleuze's virtual plane of immanence. His living identity is not something bound in well-defined categories; instead, it inheres as a pure, yet-to-be-actualized singular event engulfed in an indefinite between-time. Lawrence's pure becomings, irrespective of habit and memory, are being played out in incessant repetitions like a dice throw, only to arrive at a different ”broken, dissolved self.”This paper proposes to read Lawrence of Arabia in the light of Deleuzian concepts of difference and repetition. It examines the relationship between identity or doxa of habitual configurations in the realms of reactive representations on the one hand, and, on the other, self-losing identity that is constantly in the making, constituted by a singular flow of percepts and affects in the active, creative and pre-representational realms. With detailed study of Lean's cinematic text/ure, this paper will address the problem why Lawrence deviates from his Englishness to becoming Arab.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to critically scrutinize the use of training interventions as a means of implementing corporate culture change and to assess the implications of such programs for employee identity.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses empirical materials, observations and reflections from a two‐year ethnographic study in a manufacturing firm to discuss the organization's “core values” with specific attention directed to a particular organizational event – the running of a training program designed to educate the firms employees in the company's newly designed culture.FindingsThe contested interaction between formally articulated corporate culture and the workplace experience of the employees is shown to demonstrate how cultural change programs can work to suppress employee's dissent and dialogue whilst being articulated in a language of inclusiveness and involvement.Practical implicationsThe paper provides a review of the complex and paradoxical implications of cultural change programs that would be of use to managers, management consultants and human resource development professionals involved in implementing cultural change.Originality/valueThe paper examines organizational culture through detailed ethnographic study with a particular focus on the problematics of how training is used as a technology for cultural change.

“In order not to forget, we need to understand; in order to understand, we need to put the event back in the context that made it possible in the first place” (114–5). The event Benbassa is referri...

Liminal identity is a problem faced by adolescence. Liminal events occur due to the reluctance of parents to share adolescent experiences with teenagers in the family. In addition to the transition period, the most noticeable development in adolescence is its physical growth. Physical growth is accompanied by an active hormone that influences the curiosity of adolescents about physical changes, psychological, and biological desires. This study aims to understand the construction of identity and sexual expression of adolescents in Semarang. This research employed descriptive qualitative research. The results of the study indicate that an inappropriate distribution of adolescents’ curiosity brings great consequences during adolescence period. Many adolescents express themselves by having sex outside of marriage and other sexual behaviors. This occurs as a result of wrong association and inaccurate distribution of curiosity. Misconceptions of adolescent behavior also happen due to misconceptions and miss-adaptation of the environment. The behavior is heavily influenced by their environment where they grow and develop, especially in the urban environments which are very complex due to global dynamics.

A controversial and comprehensive debate that has resulted in numerous discursive clashes in Iran pertains to the presence of women at stadiums during male soccer matches. Different discourse systems have expressed their own contradictory and opposite stances in terms of whether Iranian women have the right to attend such events inside or outside the stadium, ranging from different notions of ritual pollution and moral threats to gender equality and women rights in public spheres and spaces. When the debate is considered more in depth, a question arises about the female representation of national identity in Iran: What is the status and role of the female body in symbolic demonstration of the national body of Iranian society as a kind of social body? It seems that there is a discursive debate about the symbolic representation of female body in public sphere in Iran. To provide further insight into this question, ethnographic methods, participant observations and different models of interviews (focus and nominal interviews) were employed in the fields and cultural areas under study. The purpose of this article is to examine the systems of discourses about the allowance or prohibition of the presence of women at soccer stadiums and the cultural foundations and backgrounds that have given shape to these discourses over recent decades.

Christoph Germann, Sofia Wyler, Marco Valerio Bernasconi (2017): DNA barcoding of selected alpine beetles with focus on Curculionoidea (Coleoptera). Revue suisse de Zoologie 124 (1): 15-38, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.322661

Based on fieldwork undertaken in Yuendumu, Central Australia from 2005 to 2008, this thesis is an ethnography of the place of singing and ceremony in the contemporary Warlpiri world. Core to religious life, 'traditional' ceremonies and their associated songlines have always been an important aspect of Warlpiri identity as they link people to their kin, country and Dreamings. Over the last few decades there has been a decline in the learning contexts and opportunities for the performance of many of these ceremonies, such that today most ceremonies do not hold the same relevance. This consideration is set against the backdrop of recent historical and demographic changes consequent on living in large settlements, dependent on welfare payments and store bought food. The features of Warlpiri songs and ceremonies are outlined as well as the contemporary contexts for the different genres of singing. It is shown how these songs and ceremonies reproduce people's ssociations with kin, country and Dreamings through their organisation and performance. The Kurdiji ceremony, in which both men and women are involved throughout, is presented as a central case study. It is held several times each summer for the purposes of male initiation and is particularly interesting as it is still of vital importance for all generations of Warlpiri people. While the numbers of people who attend individual performances and the scale of these ceremonies is increasing, it is in a vulnerable situation as the central songline that is core to its performance, and which guides the sequence of events for the entire night of its duration, is only known by a small group of older men. Once a domain in which people learned religious knowledge central to survival, Kurdiji! as one of the few ceremonies still held, is now more vital than ever, as through its performance core aspects of Warlpiri identity are maintained, particularly for younger generations.

9. Identity, Necessity, and Events

For ten turbulent years, from 1991 to 1999, high intensity armed conflicts, which had devastating effects on the relationship between the inhabitants, broke out in Kosovo. While it is not the purpose of this paper to present a comprehensive overview of the recent history of the Balkans, and Former Yugoslavia in particular, focusing on certain facts and events will enable us to understand the conditions for the formation of new countries after the disintegration of Yugoslavia. Among those language, identity, relations with the other and interreligious dialogue are extremely delicate and political issues. With a reference to interreligious dialogue this paper seeks to present the characteristics of the relations between Muslims and Christians in the Balkans. In this regard, firstly, I will focus on the meaning and significance of dialogue in the Balkans and then deal with Qur’anic approach to the dialogue. After discussing the barriers set against the dialogue in the Balkans, and particularly ideological prejudices among them, I will analyse the possibilities to build collaboration between the Balkan Muslims and Christians in the face of new world challenges.