scholarly journals Exploring culinary heritage practices among the younger Chetti generations in Melaka

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurul Hanis Mohd Fikri ◽  
Ahmad Esa Abdul Rahman ◽  
Ismayaza Noh
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Traditional Food ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Ethnic Population ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Food Knowledge ◽  
Sociocultural Development ◽  
Minority Ethnic

AbstractChetti or Peranakan Indian cuisine is a historical creolized minority ethnic cuisine of Malaysia that carries the gene of the country’s multi-ethnic sociocultural development. Its culinary heritage is a unique blend of South Indian, Malay, and Nyonya cuisines. Despite its unique role in symbolizing Malaysia’s status as a multicultural nation, little is documented about the ethnic cuisine. The fact that the Chetti ethnic population is extremely small and continually shrinking means that the future of Chetti cuisine is uncertain. In this context, this paper aims to investigate the role of the younger Chetti generation in reviving the ethnic culinary heritage and the transmission of Chetti traditional food knowledge (TFK) in the contemporary setting. There is evidence that the younger Chetti generation are straying from their culture’s traditional cuisine due to migration, modernization, and urbanization, among other reasons. There are concerns that this may lead to the extinction of Chetti culinary heritage. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight younger Chetti participants in the Chetti village of Gajah Berang, Melaka. The qualitative data obtained from the interviews was analyzed using thematic analysis and revealed four relevant themes. The study found that the younger Chetti generation is relatively knowledgeable about their ethnic culinary heritage but overall unskilled. Whilst they predominantly learn about their culture’s cuisine from their mothers, it was found that Chetti ceremonies and festivals, as well as participation in other cultural events, also contribute to TFK transfer among the younger Chetti generation.

scholarly journals RELIGIOSITY AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOR: A STUDY OF CONSUMPTION PATTERNS FOR ALCOHOLIC AND NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AMONG ANIMIST, CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM CONSUMERS IN THE CONTEXT OF GHANA

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 244-261
Author(s):  
Dr. Théophile Bindeouè Nassè ◽  
Naab Francis Xavier ◽  
Bismark Boateng ◽  
Nicolas Carbonell ◽  
Justice Agyei Ampofo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Alcoholic Beverages ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Voice Recorder

Researchers' interest in consumer religiosity and behavior is explained by the fact that religion influences not only the social behavior of individuals, but also their consumption behavior. Most of the studies on the subject come from Western and Asian countries with a few of such studies been conducted in Africa and particularly in Ghana. The aim of this paper is to explore the concepts of religiosity and consumer behavior in Ghana, in order to consider the role of culture in the management and marketing of industrial products. Ghana is a country where religion plays an important role in shaping lives and ensuring community cohesion. However, a determined part of the believers contributes to increasing the consumption of industrial beverages, and the obliviousness in the marketing sector also seems to be a barrier that slows the production and consumption of non-alcoholic industrial beverages. The research approach is exploratory and qualitative. The collection of qualitative data is done with the aid of a SONY voice recorder through some semi-structured interviews. Then, the qualitative data are transcribed manually and verbatim analyzed. The results show that in the context of Ghana, religiosity of believers affects the behavior of the consumer and that consumer behavior towards non-alcoholic industrial beverages affects religiosity. Keywords: Religiosity, Consumer Behavior, Industrial Beverages, Consumption, Marketing, Ghana.

scholarly journals Reviving Traditional Food Knowledge Through Food Festivals. The Case of the Pink Asparagus Festival in Mezzago, Italy

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele F. Fontefrancesco ◽  
Dauro M. Zocchi
Keyword(s):  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Traditional Food ◽  
The Past ◽  
Food Knowledge ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Relationship

The article investigates the link between food festivals and traditional food knowledge and explores the role played by tourist events in disseminating local agricultural and gastronomic knowledge. This article presents the ethnographic case of the Pink Asparagus Festival in Mezzago in Italy, analyzing how the festival supported the continuation of crop production and its associated traditional knowledge in the village. In the face of a decline of asparagus production, the article highlights the role of the festival in fostering a revival of local food knowledge, which is also able to embrace modernization, at the same time maintaining a strong sense of the past and Mezzago's legacy. Thus, the article suggests that festivals are not just events aimed at commodifying local knowledge, but can be important tools to refresh and maintain local expertise, which is vital and pressing in the context of modern society, and strengthen and expand the relationship between members of the community, thus converting the festival into an endeavor to foster sociocultural sustainability.

scholarly journals Fishing for food: Values and benefits associated with coastal infrastructure

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. e0249725
Author(s):  
Cassandra M. Nieman ◽  
Alexie N. Rudman ◽  
Margaret L. Chory ◽  
Grant D. Murray ◽  
Luke Fairbanks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Fishing Community ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Mental Health Benefits

While there is substantial literature about the socio-cultural characteristics and values associated with recreational and commercial fisheries in the U.S., studies directed at those who ‘fish for food’—those who depend on consuming their catch to various degrees—are relatively sparse. Using qualitative data collected through 80 semi-structured interviews with fishers in the summer and fall of 2018 in Carteret County, North Carolina, this study aims to better understand the group of recreational fishers who consume their catch by describing social and cultural dimensions and values associated with fishing for food, examining the role of infrastructure in facilitating access to benefits associated with this activity, and considering how knowledge of existing licensing regulations surrounding subsistence license waivers affect this fishing community. Interviews conducted at free public fishing structures in the region revealed that fishers derive a variety of values and benefits from fishing at these sites, including access to recreation, nutrition, a social community, and mental health benefits, which were found to be negatively impacted by Hurricane Florence in September 2018. We also found an informal economy of sharing catch on- and off-site that extends the reach and benefits facilitated by public infrastructure to people beyond those using it directly. Overall, we call for conceptualizations of ‘fishing for food’ that include aspects that go beyond traditional definitions of ‘subsistence’ or ‘recreational’ fishing such as food security, access, and less obvious social and cultural motivations behind the activity. These findings are a compelling rationalization for the creation and maintenance of formal and informal fishing places locally and, by extension, in other coastal areas, given the array of benefits provided by access to these types of locations.

scholarly journals Factors associated with interest in psychiatry in UK medical students: qualitative study

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Grace Crowley ◽  
Sube Banerjee ◽  
Lisa Page ◽  
Stephanie Daley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Psychiatry Education ◽  
Extra Curricular Activities ◽  
Fitting In

Aims and method This study aimed to explore factors that positively influence UK medical students’ interest in psychiatry. Delegates and committee members of the National Student Psychiatry Conference 2018 were invited to participate in individual semi-structured interviews. Nine interviews were conducted. Qualitative data were analysed using thematic analysis. Results: Four core themes emerged: psychiatry education and exposure, role of a psychiatrist, fitting in, and factors external to medical school. All students had some degree of interest in mental health before medical school, but placement and extra-curricular factors were strongly influential. Implications Interest in psychiatry may be promoted by facilitating student exposure to enthusiastic psychiatrists and psychiatry subspecialties, encouraging extra-curricular activities and identifying early those with pre-existing interest in mental health on admission to medical school. Aspects of psychiatry that should be promoted include the potential to make a positive difference to patients’ lives and the teamworking elements of the specialty.

Negotiating Reunion in Intercountry Adoption Using Social Media and Technology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Marie Shier
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Intercountry Adoption ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Birth Parents ◽  
Birth Family ◽  
Media And Technology

Abstract This article focuses on how intercountry adoptees use social media and technology to negotiate and facilitate reunion with their birth families. The qualitative data were drawn from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with eleven adoptees who were internationally adopted to Ireland and have contact with their birth families using social media and technology. The findings from this interpretivist study demonstrate that social media and technology have significantly transformed and can now play a central role in reunion in intercountry adoption. They also suggest that social workers need to be aware of the emerging role of social media and technology in intercountry adoption reunion to develop further knowledge and skills in this area. Specifically, the study indicates that social media and technology have facilitated, ‘normalised’ and casualised aspects of contact with birth family; increased the pace of contact and can pose challenges in navigating contact and boundaries. A key finding of this study relates to the importance of contact with birth siblings and their potential role as mediators and facilitators of contact with birth parents. Participants report that whilst social media and technology have facilitated their contact with birth family, it cannot and does not replace the need for ‘real life’ in-person contact.

scholarly journals Role of Personality and Psychological Attributes of Financial Managers in Capital Budgeting Decisions: Case of Spinning Industry of Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol V (IV) ◽  
pp. 160-168
Author(s):  
Nisar Ahmad ◽  
Bilal Nafees ◽  
Safyan Majid
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Capital Budgeting ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Psychological Attributes ◽  
Sequential Explanatory Mixed Method

The current study aims to investigate the role of personality and psychological attributes of finance managers in the success of their capital budgeting decisions in the industrial sector of Pakistan. For said purpose, we employ a sequential explanatory mixed-method research design. First, the MBTI scale is used to explore the personality traits of the managers working in spinning firms. Then based on the result of the MBTI scale, ten financial managers were selected for semi-structured interviews. NVIVO 11 was used to perform qualitative data analysis. It is established from the results of thematic analysis; the commander is the most effective personality trait of managers for the successful capital budgeting decisions followed by executive, defender, virtuoso, and logistician. Further, the present study also establishes a significant connection between the personality traits of successful managers and their Psychological attributes.

scholarly journals Refugee Education Coordinators in the Greek Educational System: their role as mediators in refugee camps

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Tsioupis ◽  
Sevasti Paida
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Refugee Children ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Refugee Education ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Children's Schooling

In Greece, the program for the integration of school-aged refugee children in public education has been implemented since 2016. An innovation established by the Greek Ministry of Education to facilitate refugee children’s access to public school was the institution of the Refugee Education Coordinator (REC). The research explores the role of RECs regarding involvement of refugee parents. Therefore, semi-structured interviews were conducted with fourteen RECs positioned in refugee camps in order to acquire the qualitative data required to answer the research questions. The research participants considered that RECs had a determining role in raising refugee parents’ awareness on the necessity of their children’s schooling, as well as connecting them with their children’s school.

scholarly journals HOW RELIGIOUS BELIEFS SHAPE CONSUMER BEHAVIOR: AN EXPLORATORY AND PURELY QUALITATIVE STUDY ON CHRISTIAN, MUSLIM, AND TRADITIONAL CONSUMERS IN BURKINA FASO

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 134-143
Author(s):  
Dr. Théophile Bindeouè Nassè
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Alcoholic Beverages ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
African Context ◽  
Voice Recorder

There is no doubt that religion affects consumer behavior in the African context as well as in other geographies. While a lot of research has been done in other contexts, very little research has been conducted in the West African Geography. The purpose of this research is to explore the concepts of religious beliefs and consumer behavior in Burkina Faso to consider the role of culture in management and particularly in the marketing of products. Burkina Faso is a country where religion plays an important role. While the consumption of industrial non-alcoholic beverages is increasing, religious beliefs constitute a stumbling block that moderates the consumption of industrial non-alcoholic beverages. The approach is an exploratory qualitative one assorted with a sound documentary analysis. The qualitative data collection is performed with a digital voice recorder by the means of some semi-structured interviews. The number of semi-structured interviews recorded is 16. Then, the qualitative data is transcribed by hand. Results show that religious beliefs affect and moderate consumer behavior.    Keywords: Religious beliefs, Consumer behavior, Beverages, Consumption, Marketing.

The role of intermediaries in food export: case evidence from Finland

2016 ◽  
Vol 118 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulla E.E. Lehtinen ◽  
Petri Ahokangas ◽  
Jinghui Lu
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Type Design ◽  
Chinese Markets ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper examines the role of export intermediaries in the internationalization of small and medium sized companies in Finland. The empirical study focuses on small Finnish food companies that export to German and Chinese markets. Design/methodology/approach The research method of this study is qualitative. Data is collected through semi-structured interviews with six respondents presenting exporting companies and export consultants. Findings The paper provides an empirical contribution to the food internationalization debate. First, the paper discusses the definitions of export intermediaries and their role in export based on the literature. Second, by examining how Finnish food companies experience the role of export intermediaries, the paper contributes to the current discussion on internationalization modes. The empirical results highlight that export companies need transaction-creating services from intermediaries especially when entering physically and culturally distant markets like China. Research limitations/implications Limitations of the research generally relate to the use of a small case sample. Practical implications The paper holds a number of relevant insights for food companies seeking to enter to German and Chinese markets. Identifying the export services needed by small food companies might help export intermediaries and public policy agencies to better focus their supporting initiatives. Originality/value The findings add to the current body of knowledge on the key influence on internationalization modes within the food sector.

scholarly journals Gestire o nascondere i conflitti socio-ambientali? La Social Licence to Operate nelle attività petrolifere dell’Amazzonia ecuadoriana

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Diantini ◽  
Salvatore Eugenio Pappalardo ◽  
Daniele Codato ◽  
Massimo De Marchi
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Procedural Fairness ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Ecuadorian Amazon ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Licence To Operate ◽  
Social Licence To Operate

The main objective of this research was to critically examine the concept of Social Licence to Operate (SLO) in an oil concession of the Ecuadorian Amazon inhabited by indigenous villages. In this paper we present the qualitative data of the semi-structured interviews and the household survey with village residents. The main findings revealed the important role of the involvement of communities in the decision-making processes (procedural fairness), people’s perceptions of company’s socio-environmental impacts, the management of forms of protest and social services in the communities. Particularly, the results suggested that procedural fairness and the respect of communities’ right of self-determination are the basic requisite for the application of the SLO concept in the study area.

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