Heterotopic Heritage in Hong Kong: Tai Kwun and Neo-Victorian Carceral Space

The prison is specifically identified by Michel Foucault in his essay, ‘Of Other Spaces’ (1967), as an exemplar of “heterotopias of deviation”. Reified in neo-Victorian production as a hegemonic space to be resisted, within which illicit desire, feminist politics, and alternate narratives, for example, flourish under harsh panoptic conditions, the prison nonetheless emerges as a counter-site to both nineteenth-century and contemporary social life. This article investigates the neo-Victorian prison museum that embodies several of Foucault’s heterotopic principles and traits from heterochronia to the dynamics of illusion, compensation/exclusion and inclusion that structure the relationship of heterotopic space to all space. Specifically, I explore the heritage site of the Central Police Station compound in Hong Kong, recently transformed into “Tai Kwun: the Centre for Heritage and the Arts”. Tai Kwun (“Big Station” in Cantonese) combines Victorian and contemporary architecture, carceral space, contemporary art, and postcolonial history to herald the transformation of Hong Kong into an international arts hub. Tai Kwun is an impressive example of neo-Victorian adaptive reuse, but its current status as a former prison, art museum, and heritage space complicates the celebratory aspects of heterotopia as counter-site. Instead, Tai Kwun’s spatial, historical, and financial arrangements emphasize the challenges that tourism, government funding, heritage, and the art industry pose for Foucault’s original definition of heterotopia and our conception of the politics of neo-Victorianism in the present.

The Challenges of FinTech Inclusion and Digitization of SMEs in Indonesia

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed people's digital behavior and caused giant leaps in various digital businesses. SMEs face various challenging factors in the transformation of their business into a digital ecosystem. Currently, Indonesia is the country with the fastest-growing digital economy and FinTech in ASEAN. Fintech plays a vital role in the digital economy, especially helping SMEs go digital and accelerate their business performance, such as venture capital financing, digital payment services, and financial arrangements. However, the role of fintech has not been maximized in increasing financial inclusion. There are still various obstacles and challenges such as technology adoption, financial literacy, digital literacy, financial inclusion, and fintech inclusion, and various program efforts from all stakeholders to bring SMEs into the digital ecosystem. Without cooperation, increasing financial literacy and financial inclusion and fintech inclusion will be challenging to achieve.

PELATIHAN PENGEMBANGAN EKONOMI KREATIF DI MASA PANDEMI COVID-19

Dukungan kepada masyarakat sangatlah penting terlebih pada masa pandemi covid-19ini. Kerjasama yang baik antara masyarakat dan universitas dapat memeberikan kontribusi dan dukungan kepada masyarakat. Pengabdian yang dilakukan ini secara spesifik ditujukan kepada para ibu sebab para ibu memiliki peran sentral dalam keluarga termasuk dalam hal pengaturan keuangan. Kegiatan yang dilakukan adalah memberikan pelatihan pembuatan sabun dan tali kait masker sebagai usaha pengembangan ekonomi kreatif. Kedua produk, yaitu sabun dan tali masker sebagai objek untuk diproduksi dan diharapkan bisa dijual sehingga bisa membantu keuangan keluarga di masa pandemi covid-19 ini. Selanjutnya juga diadakan pelatihan bagaimana mempromosikan produk serta membukukan keuangan usahanya. Promosi produk sangat penting supaya bisa menggait pelanggan dan diharapkan bisa memiliki pelanggan setia. Pembukuan keuangan juga tak kalah penting agar uang usaha bisa diatur dan diketahui peredarannya, sekalipun itu dalam lingkup usaha kecil. Kata Kunci: pelatihan, sabun, tali kait masker, promosi, buku kas ABSTRACT Support for the community is very important, especially during this COVID-19 pandemic. Good cooperation between the community and the university can contribute and support the community. This service is specifically aimed at mothers because mothers have a central role in the family, including in terms of financial arrangements. The activities carried out were providing training in making soap and mask hooks as an effort to develop the creative economy. The two products, namely soap and mask straps, are objects to be produced and are expected to be sold so that they can help family finances during this COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, training was also held on how to promote products and record business finances. Product promotion is very important so that it can attract customers and is expected to have loyal customers. Financial bookkeeping is equally important so that business money can be regulated and its circulation known, even if it is within the scope of a small business. Keywords: training, soap, mask hook rope, promotion, cash book

Choosing and Managing Aged Care Services from Afar: What Matters to Australian Long-Distance Care Givers

This research aims to identify the factors that influence caregivers’ decisions about the aged care providers they select for their elder relatives when caring from a distance and what they value once they have engaged a service. Adult long-distance carers for older relatives living within Australia were purposively sampled and they participated in audio-recorded interviews. A thematic analysis was employed to investigate the data. A sample of 13 participants enabled data saturation with no new major themes identified in the final three interviews. Participants were 50 to 65 years (Mean = 59.8) and mostly (77%) female. Four themes emerged relating to selection of care providers: (1) availability of care, (2) financial arrangements, (3) proximity and location, and (4) reputation of care provider. Five themes detailed valued qualities of care: (1) vigilant monitoring and responsivity, (2) communication with family, (3) flexibility and proactiveness of care, (4) staffing, and (5) access to appropriate and holistic care to maintain wellbeing. Long-distance caregivers face barriers in selecting and managing aged care services from afar within a complex Australian aged care system. They strongly value regular, proactive communication about the wellbeing of their relatives and may be particular beneficiaries of communication and assistive monitoring technologies.

Redemption: The Repayment of Fines and the Reintegration of Exiles

The second of two main chapters, this analyses the redemption of exiles and what this can tell us about the values of late medieval Kampen society concerning morally acceptable behaviour. The first section concerns the practical aspects around the reintegration of banished individuals from all categories, whereas the second section focuses specifically on the financial arrangements between exiles and magistrates which allowed the former to return to Kampen. The final section discusses the links between debt and morality, in order to establish whether defaulting public debtors were banished because they were considered to have displayed immoral behaviour.

Cohort profile: Norwegian survey of health and ageing (NORSE)

Purpose The Norwegian Survey of Health and Ageing (NORSE) was set up to provide internationally comparable data on ageing in Norway, which includes measured intrinsic capacity and cognitive function. Participants NORSE is a population-based health examination study of seniors aged 60+ from the 1921–1958 birth cohorts in the former Norwegian county of Oppland, interviewed and examined during 2017–19 (N = 957, 16% response rate). NORSE is to some extent based on the SHARE-questionnaire (share-project.org), which includes work-related information, self-assessed and retrospective health, and expectations on longevity, quality of life, volunteering activities, consumption, and financial arrangements. In addition, several objective measures of intrinsic and cognitive capacity are included in NORSE. Findings to date A shorter preferred life expectancy (PLE) was found to be associated with the prospects of a life with dementia and chronic pain. Motivation for retirement was found to be related to work-life experience and health. Social media was mostly used in the younger age groups and there was a tendency towards more use in the higher educational groups. NORSE incorporates questions on religion, and older women tend to have a higher degree of religiosity (proxied as self-assessed religiosity) than men in their 80s, but more similar (and lower levels) among those in their 60s. Future plans NORSE participants have allowed their data to be linked to National registry data and midlife health examination studies and thereby provide a longitudinal design as well as information on disability status, socioeconomic status, household and marital status, support to/from children and parents, and pension status.

The Effect of Moral Tax and Tax Compliance on Decision Making Through Gender Perspective: A Case Study of Religious Communities in Magetan District, East Java, Indonesia

Religion-based communities have the potential to have tax morals and tax compliance and knowledge of taxes, then what if tax morals and compliance are reviewed from a gender perspective. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of tax morale and tax compliance on decision making through a gender perspective. The type of research approach used is quantitative correlational analysis using the Linear Regression test. Respondents amounted to 100 people who were members of the Yasinan group with the data collection method using a questionnaire. The results of the study indicate that 1) Tax morale and tax compliance have an influence on decision making with the correlation coefficient of the two independent variables being 0.564 and 0.495. The amount of efficiency of tax moral determination and tax compliance on decision-making together is 0.368. The regression line equation is Y = 0.360 + 0365X1 + 0.145X2. 2) Gender does not affect the tax moral and tax compliance variables. 3) Women's tax morale is based on ethics and heart, while men's is based on logic and principles. Men dominate tax responsibilities in the family, however, in terms of financial arrangements for taxes and tax calculation, most of them are dominated by women. Received: 6 May 2021 / Accepted: 4 September 2021 / Published: 5 November 2021

Demobilisation will be a long-term challenge in Libya

Significance Although a ceasefire has been in place since October 2020, very little has been done during that time to integrate or demobilise the many armed forces and groups that exist across the country. The obstacles are formidable. Impacts Significant demobilisation and reintegration will not happen in the near term. Local security will continue to rest on fragile political and financial arrangements between armed groups and governing authorities. The current high levels of oil and gas revenue will tend to discourage unrest.

Cohort Profile: Norwegian Survey of Health and Ageing (NORSE)

Purpose: The Norwegian Survey of Health and Ageing (NORSE) was set up to provide internationally comparable data on ageing in Norway, which includes measured intrinsic capacity and cognitive function.Participants: NORSE is a population-based health examination study of seniors aged 60+ from the 1929-1959 birth cohorts in the former Norwegian county of Oppland, interviewed and examined in three study waves 2017-19 (N=957, 16% response rate). NORSE is based on the SHARE (share-project.org) questionnaire, which includes work-related information, self-assessed and retrospective health, and expectations on longevity, quality of life, volunteering activities, consumption, and financial arrangements. In addition, several objective measures of intrinsic and cognitive capacity are included.Findings to date: A shorter preferred life expectancy (PLE)was found to be associated with the prospects of a life with dementia and chronic pain.Motivation for retirementwas found to be related towork-life experience and health.Social media was mostly used in the younger age groups and there was a tendency towards more use in the higher educational groups. NORSE incorporates questions on religion, and older women tend to have a higher degree of religiosity (proxied as self-assessed religiosity) than men in their 80s, but more similar (and lower levels) among those in their 60s.Future plans: NORSE participants have allowed their data to be linked to National registry data and midlife health examination studies and thereby provide a longitudinal design as well as information on disability status, socioeconomic status, household and marital status, support to/from children and parents, and pension status.

Does Bank Resolution Rule out the Use of Public Funds? The Case of the Podkarpacki Bank Spółdzielczy

On 15 January 2020 Polish resolution authority made a decision to launch the resolution of a regional cooperative bank. The aim of the resolution was to maintain the service of local government units, considered as the critical function of the bank. The tool used was a bridge bank combined with bail-in to subordinated bonds and unguaranteed deposits, including deposits from local government units. The author is of the opinion that the write-off deposits from public entities was a substitute of the insufficient amount of liabilities contractually eligible for bail-in, served as the instrument enhancing credibility of resolution as well as protecting other creditors from excessive losses (i.e. mitigating contagion risk). The presented case of bank resolution, has been assessed as an example of intentionally bending of the stiff BRRD rules to an unusual case to find the practical, socially acceptable solution. By comparing this case with resolution of other small banks in the EU, the author argues that national authorities seek to limit the scope for bail-in and try to use the financial arrangements within the resolution of small local banks as more secure for the banking sector and socially acceptable manner.