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Hospitality & Society - Volume 4, Issue 2, 2014
Volume 4, Issue 2, 2014
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Crossing thresholds: Hospitality and professionalism in Aotearoa New Zealand social work
Authors: Cheryl Cockburn-Wootten and Joanna BrewisAbstractThis article aims to offer a consideration of hospitality in organizations, occupations and thresholds to illustrate the sociocultural dimensions of hospitality spaces. Our aim is to open up thinking around spaces of hospitality offered by organizational members, particularly those employees who work with the vulnerable ‘other’, across thresholds into homes and organizational spaces. Community social workers illustrate the practice of hospitality as they offer advocacy and inclusion for those individuals excluded from the wider community. The move towards professionalism has been argued as one way of establishing value, authority and confidence in the role of the community social worker and the decisions these individuals make in their work. However, critics have indicated that professionalism emphasizes practices of ideological control, norms and exclusion, in effect undermining key social work values, ethos and practice. Our results illustrate that community social workers developed asymmetric relationships of trust within their community and negotiated with other organizational members in order to create spaces for their work and inclusion.
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(Un)conditional hospitality: The host experience of the Polynesian community in Auckland
Authors: Heike A. Schänzel, Monique Brocx and Lisa SadarakaAbstractThere is an increased attention to the visiting friends and relatives phenomenon for destinations, yet the hosting experience is still neglected. One group of prolific hosts comprises the Polynesian families in Auckland, New Zealand, who are the focus of this study. In-depth interviews were conducted with eleven Pacifica people in Auckland to understand the experiences associated with hosting family from the Islands. Hosting relatives from the Pacific Islands is embedded in the cultural responsibilities of belonging to the Polynesian community and diaspora. The findings highlight the more unconditional nature of Polynesian hospitality with its emphasis on cultural connectedness, generativity and reciprocity as part of social capital formation. The contribution of providing hospitality through hosting deserves more attention for its integral role in social life. There are also obligatory aspects of reciprocity, inconveniences and responsibilities within Polynesian hospitality adding strain to an already vulnerable and marginalized population in New Zealand. More debate is needed about the sustainability of this notion of unconditional or obligated hospitality within modern society.
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Heritage entropy and tourist pilgrimage in Brave’s Scotland
More LessAbstractThe article explores the production of a cinematic tourist industry connected to Scottish landscapes and heritage with the release of Disney-Pixar’s animated fairy tale Brave (Andrews and Chapman, 2012). It contends that the first ever planned synergy between a creative industry and the country whose traditions and landscapes allegedly inspired the former’s film-making resulted in what is termed ‘heritage entropy’. This state-backed nationalist reinstatement of Scottish identity as a naturalized ‘being in time’, ready to be marketed to global tourists, both drew upon and was inspired by broadcast professional pilgrimages of the Scottish Brave artists and the marketing of Brave holidays to Scotland as a family experience. To illustrate the digital and imagological–auditory nature of heritage entropy, which both naturalizes communities and technologizes their merit so as to present them as ‘civilized’, examples are presented from the websites of Adventures Disney Tours, the industry’s marketing tourist body, and VisitScotland, the country’s tourist organization.
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Scotland’s Future, hospitality and social healing
More LessAbstractThe Referendum on Independence for Scotland, 18 September 2014, provides the context for this article. The Referendum is controversial. It focuses on the right of people to self-determination. The controversies of how a nation might constitute itself have been an important feature of wide-ranging grassroots discussions and political meetings since the date of the Referendum was announced and the White Paper: Scotland’s Future was published in November 2013. This article charts the controversies of who might be a member of a future nation, and what happens when decision-making occurs, in refugee and asylum determination cases, to exclude or to set aside humanitarian protection for political purposes. As such this article provides a note from present day controversies around hospitality and society and the way these terms are contested in national and community struggles for inclusion, protection and justice.
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Unwelcome guests: Hospitality, asylum seekers and art at the 19th Biennale of Sydney
Authors: Murdoch Stephens and Shannon Te AoAbstractThis article gives the background to the controversy around the 19th Biennale of Sydney as a way of discussing issues of hospitality and the unwelcome guest. Specifically, we contrast the figure of the asylum seeker as the unwelcome guest in Australia with the activists and artists who co-opted and reframed the Biennale. Our account draws from our mutual experiences as: a refugee advocate who was the guest in the original artist’s space; and a New Zealand artist invited to the festival. The article first offers a background to the Biennale, Transfield and the controversy. We then reproduce ‘The animals and the rulers’, Murdoch’s text that was included in Shannon’s portion of the exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. We will then go into more depth on the conceptual and methodological thinking behind the text. Finally, Shannon reflects on the experience of being a foreign guest caught up in the controversy and trying to respond in a highly charged environment.
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Reviews
Authors: Benjamin Boudou, Bill J. Gregorash and Lidia K. C. ManzoAbstractHospitality and World Politics, Gideon Baker (ed.) (2013) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 272 pp., ISBN: 9780415561778, h/bk, £57.50
Behind the Kitchen Door, Saru Jayaraman (2013) Ithaca, NY: ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 208 pp., ISBN: 9780801451720, h/bk, $21.95/£13.50
Market Place: Food Quarters, Design and Urban Renewal in London, Susan Parham (2012) Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, xi+332 pp., ISBN: 9781443841726, h/bk, £49.99
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