scholarly journals Accessibility in Inclusive Tourism? Hotels Distributed Through Online Channels

Societies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Eva Martin-Fuentes ◽  
Sara Mostafa-Shaalan ◽  
Juan Pedro Mellinas
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Distribution Channel ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Travel Agency ◽  
International Studies ◽  
The Status ◽  
Accommodation Sector

There is a lack of comprehensive international studies on accommodations for people with disabilities; only small, local-level studies exist. This study aims to show the status of the tourist accommodation sector through the online distribution channel in terms of accessibility to offer more inclusive tourism. A descriptive analysis has been carried out with more than 31,000 hotels from the online travel agency Booking.com, in the 100 most touristic cities in the world. For the first time, an accurate picture of adaptation in the hotel sector for people with disabilities is presented. Results show that the adapted hotel infrastructures by countries are uneven. The main adaptations are those that help to avoid mobility barriers, and in contrast, hotels offer very few adaptations for sensory disabilities such as visual disabilities. Moreover, this study shows that, worldwide, countries with the highest income per capita, such as the United States of America, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Qatar or the United Arab Emirates, have the highest degree of hotel adaptation.

Celebrity and Presidential Targets

Stalking ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert T. M. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Celebrity Status ◽  
The Status ◽  
Unique Factor ◽  
The Mind

Celebrities have become targets of potentially violent stalkers who instill fear by their relentless pursuit and, in some reported cases, threatened risk of violence. Celebrity stalking may evolve to planned, often violent attacks on intentionally selected targets. The causes of these incidents are complex, and frequently involve delusional obsessions concerning a contrived relationship between the target and stalker. Similar dynamics can be at play for presidential stalkers. Becoming the focus of someone’s delusional obsession is a risk for anyone living in the public eye. Planned attacks by stalkers, however, are not confined to internationally prominent public officials and celebrities. Some of the same themes emerge on a more local level when public figures become the object of pursuit. Celebrity and presidential stalkers often do not neatly fit any of the typologies that have evolved to codify our understanding of the motivation and special characteristics of stalking. Clinicians are often unaware of a “zone of risk” that extends beyond the delusional love object and can lead to the injury of others in addition to the attempted or accomplished homicide of a celebrity or presidential target. Most people can resist the temptation to intrude on a celebrity’s privacy—celebrity stalkers do not. This chapter explores celebrity status, as seen by the public and in the mind of the would-be assailant, as a unique factor in stalking cases that raises issues of clinical relevance and unique typologies. Special attention is given to the behaviors and motivations of individuals who have stalked the presidents of the United States. Many celebrities become targets of stalkers who relentlessly pursue and frighten them and who, in some cases, threaten violence. Though each case of celebrity stalking is unique and complex, such incidents frequently involve delusional obsessions concerning the contrived relationship between the stalker and victim. Stalking is not confined solely to well-known figures, of course. However, it is the very nature of celebrity—the status and the visibility—that attracts the benign (if voyeuristic) attention of an adoring public and the ominous interest of the stalker. Obsessional following of celebrities is not a new phenomenon in the United States.

Organizing Strategies for Advancing Women in International Studies

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary K. Meyer McAleese ◽  
Susan S. Northcutt
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Formal Organization ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Benign Neglect ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
The Status ◽  
Male Dominated

The interdisciplinary field of international studies has traditionally been a male-dominated field. Indeed, the field of international relations, both theory and practice, has been argued to be gendered in highly masculinist ways. Whether as practitioners or as scholars, women have had a difficult time entering and advancing in such male-dominated fields, both in the United States and around the world. Their admittance and full acceptance in the profession has been hindered by laws and regulations, institutional practices and inertia, gendered stereotypes and customary expectations, overt discrimination and subtle biases, or benign neglect. As such, women have adopted a number of different strategies to make their ways into such male-dominated fields. These include working to expand the field to encompass questions of interest to women, developing new networks with other women for mentorship and resource development, and organizing themselves into distinct groups to promote women’s professional interests and advancement. One of these women’s organizations is Women’s Caucus for International Studies (WCIS), a formal section within the International Studies Association (ISA). Since its formal organization in 1996, the Women’s Caucus has worked hard to fulfill its mission of upgrading the status of women in the profession. Specifically, it seeks to promote equal opportunities for women in their professional lives, as well as women’s professional development. The Caucus fulfills its mission in numerous ways, including sponsoring scores of panels and roundtables focused on women’s professional development, and organizing mentoring networks, both inside the Caucus and beyond.

Varying Understandings of Democracy in the Contemporary World

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-72
Author(s):  
Jie Lu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Critical Attitude ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Psychometric Models

This chapter presents systematic descriptive evidence on the status of popular conceptions of democracy in today’s world, using GBS II data from seventy-one societies. To make the descriptive analysis more informative, we have included comparable information from the United States and relied on different psychometric models to uncover people’s latent characteristics that shape their responses to the PUD instruments. We have consistently found that the PUD instruments are sufficiently sensitive to the socioeconomic and political environment, thus revealing significant and substantial variation in popular conceptions of democracies across regions, between societies, and among individuals. To ensure that the variation documented in the PUD instruments is not something transient or idiosyncratic, we further explore the longitudinal dynamics of this critical attitude using the ABS two-wave rolling-cross-sectional surveys from thirteen East Asian societies.

What is the Status of State-funded Philanthropy in the United Arab Emirates?

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Ridge ◽  
Susan Kippels
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Information ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Gulf Region ◽  
The Status ◽  
Aggregation Of Information ◽  
Gates Foundation ◽  
State Organizations ◽  
Executive Level

"There has been a rapid rise in the number of philanthropic institutions in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the past 15 years. In 2014, U.A.E. institutions contributed approximately 40% of all philanthropic donations in the Gulf region (Coutts, 2015a).1 Currently, the UAE is home to 43 formal donor entities, and approximately half of these are state- run organizations (Sabry, 2014). Most of these state organizations have been established by members of various ruling families, and their activities are typically modeled on private family foundations from the United States (US), such as the Gates Foundation. Despite the growing philanthropic sector, there has been no aggregation of information related to state-funded foundations’ various missions, and, in general, information on philanthropic activity in the country is scarce. This paper, which lays the groundwork for future research on philanthropy, examines the growth of 11 state- funded philanthropic foundations in the UAE, nine of which opened in 2003 or later. These state-funded foundations are defined as those that receive the majority of their funding from various government figures or related entities. Data was obtained through interviews with mid- and executive-level staff at the foundations, as well as from publically available reports and websites. The data was then analyzed to explore the growth of foundations in the UAE, the ways in which they engage with stakeholders, their primary areas of focus, and challenges for their future developments. The paper concludes by offering suggestions for future policies and research that could lead to more cohesive, sustainable, and wider- reaching philanthropic endeavors in the country."

scholarly journals Giftedness as Property: Troubling Whiteness, Wealth, and Gifted Education in the US

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Cumings Mansfield
Keyword(s):  
Gifted Education ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Caste System ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Status ◽  
Level I ◽  
Social Caste ◽  
Whiteness As Property

The purposes of this article are to illumine the racist genealogy of gifted education policies and practices in the United States, to demonstrate how deficit discourses continue today, and to provide personal examples from the field of how educators can begin to question the status quo, resist taken-for-granted assumptions, and alternatively make substantive changes at the local level. I also aim to demonstrate how giftedness is an example of whiteness as property, or unearned white privilege, that, unintentionally or not, maintains a social caste system in schools.

The History of International Studies

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian C. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Endogenous Factors ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
National Differences ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Repeated Questioning ◽  
New Literature

A significant development in the history of international relations (IR) is the increased focus on historiographical issues. Prior to 1998, the literature had, for the most part, failed to address adequately the question of how to write a history of the field. The tendency was to describe the history of IR as if a complete consensus existed on the essential dimensions of the field’s evolution. However, during the past 10 years (1998–2008) a wealth of new literature has appeared that greatly challenges much of the conventional wisdom regarding the development of IR. Three main thematic issues have been prominent in the literature. The first theme concerns the status of IR as an academic field or discipline. For various reasons, there has been a repeated questioning of whether IR is in fact a distinctive discipline. A second theme is the issue of whether the boundaries of IR should be demarcated in terms of one particular country (the United States) or whether it should be viewed as a more cosmopolitan endeavor without regard to national differences. The third theme involves the historiographical debate about whether the evolution of the field is best explained in terms of exogenous events in the realm of international politics or by endogenous factors associated with the institutional setting of the field.

International Studies as a Discipline and Women’s Status Therein

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Reid Sarkees ◽  
Marie T. Henehan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Studies ◽  
The Status ◽  
Civil War Era ◽  
Status Of Women

As a distinct discipline, international studies is relatively young, emerging in the United States only after World War II. The study of the status of women in international studies is also a fairly new field, appearing more recently than that in other fields in academia, including political science. In the United States, political science evolved through at least six distinct phases. The first two phases occurred during the American Revolution and the post-Civil War era, while the next four took place in the twentieth century, described by David Easton as the formal (legal), the traditional (informal or pre-behavioral), the behavioral, and the post-behavioral stages. It was during this period that the study of women in politics began. As political science began to solidify itself as a separate academic discipline at the beginning of the twentieth century, there was also an attempt to include international relations within its domain. Despite the increase in the number of women in international studies and the advances that women have made in publications and positions, the field remains dominated by men. In other words, it is still not an equitable place for women to work. In order to overcome many of these enduring barriers, there should be a greater willingness to investigate and publish more studies about the status of women and to take more proactive steps to resolve the issues that have stalled women’s progress.

Speech-Language Pathology in the Peace Corps: Necessity and Sustainability

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Melissa A. Pierce
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Special Education ◽  
Peace Corps ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
The United States ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Language Pathology

In countries other than the United States, the study and practice of speech-language pathology is little known or nonexistent. Recognition of professionals in the field is minimal. Speech-language pathologists in countries where speech-language pathology is a widely recognized and respected profession often seek to share their expertise in places where little support is available for individuals with communication disorders. The Peace Corps offers a unique, long-term volunteer opportunity to people with a variety of backgrounds, including speech-language pathologists. Though Peace Corps programs do not specifically focus on speech-language pathology, many are easily adapted to the profession because they support populations of people with disabilities. This article describes how the needs of local children with communication disorders are readily addressed by a Special Education Peace Corps volunteer.

Multicultural Assessment of Personality and Psychopathology in the United States: Still Art, Not Yet Science, and Controversial

1998 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H. Dana
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Therapeutic Assessment ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
The Status ◽  
Training Research ◽  
Multicultural Assessment ◽  
Personality Description

This paper describes the status of multicultural assessment training, research, and practice in the United States. Racism, politicization of issues, and demands for equity in assessment of psychopathology and personality description have created a climate of controversy. Some sources of bias provide an introduction to major assessment issues including service delivery, moderator variables, modifications of standard tests, development of culture-specific tests, personality theory and cultural/racial identity description, cultural formulations for psychiatric diagnosis, and use of findings, particularly in therapeutic assessment. An assessment-intervention model summarizes this paper and suggests dimensions that compel practitioners to ask questions meriting research attention and providing avenues for developments of culturally competent practice.

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