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Sceats, Sarah Anne. "Food and eating in fiction since 1950 with particular reference to the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1996. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1594.
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Eating is a fundamental activity. What people eat, how and with whom, what they feel about food, what they do or do not want to eat and why - even who they eat - are of crucial significance in any reading of human behaviour. In this thesis, I consider the diverse and complex uses of food and eating in fiction since 1950, especially that written by women. I argue both that food and eating carry much of the meaning of a novel or story and that the acts of cooking, feeding and eating depicted are inseparable from issues of power and control: individually, interpersonally, culturally, politically. My discussion centres on the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, sociology, anthropology, Foucault, Bakhtin and others, the thesis aims to construct an interdisciplinary perspective which both resists reductive interpretations and emphasises the centrality, complexity and diversity of food and eating in literature in our culture. I begin with an examination of the ambiguities of maternal feeding and nurturing, moving on to explore the links between appetite, eating and sexuality. I explore cannibalism and vampirism as manifestations of oppression, but also as indicating insatiable emptiness and transgressive appetite. The body itself is crucial, and my argument considers the paradox of not eating as control/enslavement, also tracing self-starvation as a positive route towards wholeness and connection. The last part of my argument focuses on social eating, examining conventions, rituals and food itself in connection with power relations, and finally considers how we might truly speak of food and eating in the context of society as a whole.
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Gustafsson, Stefanie. "Writing the career script : the partnership promotion process in law firms." Thesis, University of Bath, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.760872.
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Jenkins, Joanna. "Consuming words : the development of food writing in South Australia from post-World War II to the present /." Title page, table of contents and introduction only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arj514.pdf.
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Bunnin, Alison. "A social psychological study of the concept of the career - the career of the food allergy sufferer." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304666.
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Clayworth, Anya Louise. "'Laurels don't come for the asking' : Oscar Wilde's career as a professional journalist." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341879.
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Greenwood, Helen Eva. "Stirring Words - Women and the making of modern food writing." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20339.
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Twentieth-century women have shaped modern food writing, bringing a gastronomic approach to everyday practice. Yet their impact has had little scholarly consideration. In this thesis I examine the work of women who defined food writing into the 21st century, and argue the genre is fundamentally a female form. I begin 200 years ago when women emerge as professional food writers, and I explore 19th century discursive and economic conditions which lead them to create a hybridised genre. I argue that gastronomic literature, previously exclusively in the male domain, moves into the female domain in the 20th century, thanks to M.F.K. Fisher and Elizabeth David who place everyday cooking practice in a framework of literature, history and culture. Through the lens of Michel Foucault’s theory of transdiscursivity, I argue M.F. K. Fisher and Elizabeth David feminised what was deemed the male domain of gastronomic writing and masculinised the female mainstay in food writing, the cookery book. I argue that Claudia Roden, within the framework of transnationalism and cultural hybridity, offered ethnographic exploration of other culinary cultures; and Charmaine Solomon, informed by Luce Giard’s (1998) study of everyday practice, exemplified the embodied intelligence of culinary practice. I conclude that contemporary women food writers such as Nigella Lawson and Kylie Kwong have expanded the genre as a female form and, in the world of the Internet and all-pervasive social media, their influence, and the work of others, calls for further research.
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Sherburne, Morgan (Morgan L. ). "Distant harvest : the production and price of organic food." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60843.
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Thesis (S.M. in Science Writing)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Graduate Program in Science Writing, 2010.<br>"September 2010." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-37).<br>Organic food is growing in popularity, enjoying a 15 to 20% increase in sales, yearly, since about 1997, according to the Organic Trade Association. Organic produce makes up about 2% of the United States' total food sales - and because it doesn't rely on synthetic pesticides or herbicides, some view it as more environmentally friendly than its conventionally grown counterpart. But it's a complicated way to farm. A truly organic method of farming, according to Sir Albert Howard, the British grandfather of organic methods, uses crop rotation, compost as fertilizers, and grows a plethora of produce. Organic produce is expensive to grow in this way, and it hits consumer pocketbooks with a wallop. Produce from large-scale organic farms is less expensive, but those large-scale farms do not challenge the way food has been grown, says University of California - Santa Cruz professor Julie Guthman. They grow in monocultures, like conventional farms, and use large amounts of organic fertilizer and pesticides. They also take advantage of migrant labor. And after this, customers can expect to pay up to 50% more for an organic diet compared to a conventional one, according to Consumer Reports. If we eventually switch over to a more sustainable way of growing our food, we could, says MIT agricultural historian Deborah Fitzgerald, experience the gentrification of our food system.<br>by Morgan Sherburne.<br>S.M.in Science Writing
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Kouno, Hiromi. "The writing career of Lady Jane Francesca Wilde and the Irish Independence Movement." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430579.
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Bohney, Brandie L. "Force of Nurture: Influences on an Early-Career Secondary English Teacher's Writing Pedagogy." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1613140142916479.
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Fleitz, Elizabeth J. "The multimodal kitchen cookbooks as women's rhetorical practice /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1240934967.
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Alcala, Kathleen. "Plowing by Moonlight: Notes from a Food Oasis." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1290.
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Piatti, Lorna. "Culinary disquisitions : Cultures of food in North American and British writing, 1956-2005." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.516257.
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Manring, M. M. "Merchandising the mammy : the strange career of Aunt Jermina /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9821353.
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Patel, Akshar. "Coaching Students For More Than A Career: Preparing Students For Life Beyond College Via Scholarly Personal Narrative Writing." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2017. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/671.
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What child does not want to do everything possible to please his or her parents? Many times children, regardless of age, find themselves struggling to decide what is right for them and what their parents feel is right for them. Parents are not always to blame for a child's unsatisfied feeling. Children often have a hard time articulating what they are feeling on the inside.
I now find myself in the same conundrum with college students who have difficulty articulating what they want in life. With writing as my medium, this thesis will use the power of both Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN) and Epistolary Scholarly Personal Narrative (eSPN) to explore my personal battle with articulating what I want for myself and the world around me. With creation of a personal definition of success as my end goal, I will explore and exemplify how SPN and eSPN writing can be used in one's life to reflect upon and articulate internal desires for how we want to live our lives.
With my background in engineering and mathematics, I have found writing to be a release from the straightforward answers that I have been trained to search for. All types of people, engineers or not, can use the power of SPN and eSPN to dig deeper and find what exactly they want to do with their time. Finally, using narrative writing to help others write their stories will give both the reader and their respective audiences a medium through which to connect, i.e. SPN and/or eSPN writing.
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Sogno, Cristiana. "Q. Aurelius Symachus a political career between Senate and court /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2002. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/81283934.html.
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Leigh, Erica Vivian. "Feminist Food Studies in Composition: An Intersectional Approach to Body-Acceptanceand Forming Sustainable Relationships with Food." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1583404387689571.
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Foulkes, Michael James. "An analysis of writing as a career in seventeenth-century France based on a comparative study of the career histories of Jean Racine, Philippe Quinault and Edme Boursault." Thesis, Durham University, 2017. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12116/.
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This study analyses the careers of Racine, Quinault and Boursault to evaluate the effectiveness of strategies authors in seventeenth-century France employed to promote their careers. The literary, social, economic and political context in which they worked is explored by building on key biographical works and on studies of l’âge classique. The professional status of a writer is examined, developing work by Alain Viala. Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of forms of capital provides a framework to analyse the writers’ pursuit of capital during their careers. Building on research by Erving Goffmann and Stephen Greenblatt, the authors’ use of self-fashioning is explored, as is their manipulation of their images as honnêtes hommes and hommes de lettres. The impact of patronage in enabling authors to ensure financially sustainable careers and the ways they appealed to potential patrons is examined. Research by Sharon Kettering and Peter Shoemaker, among others, is extended by the application of theories of patronage to the practice of the case study authors. This thesis develops research into literary polemics with a particular focus on the deliberate employment and strategic manipulation of controversy for self-promotion, illustrated by disputes engaged in by the three authors. The methods writers employed to gain professional legitimacy through the institutions of the monarchy, the Académie française and the literary salons are scrutinised and the impact of changes in the theatre-going public is reviewed. The research concludes that, at this period, writing could provide a viable career and offer opportunities for social advancement, but the findings demonstrate that successful writers needed to manage their careers strategically. They had to be versatile in their writing to respond to public tastes, sensitive to expectations of behaviour in order to obtain patronage and accumulate capital and willing to adopt a range of techniques of self-promotion to build and secure their reputations.
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Buckley, Ariel. "Writing the kitchen front: food rationing and propaganda in British fiction of the Second World War." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=95227.
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This thesis explores ways in which Second World War food shortages, rationing, and propaganda affected midcentury British fiction. Arguing that food imagery offers a useful barometer of the domestic war climate, the thesis is divided into two main sections: the first focusing on the representation and regulation of food by the government, and the second analyzing the depiction of food in contemporary fiction as a response both to the government's martialization of food and to the shortages themselves. Taking novels by Barbara Pym and Elizabeth Taylor as examples, it discusses ways in which the official food narratives defined in the first chapter were acknowledged and transformed in contemporary fiction.<br>Cette thèse explore les façons dont les pénuries alimentaires, le rationnement de la nourriture et la propagande gouvernementale de la deuxième guerre mondiale ont touché la littérature britannique de l'époque. Soutenant que l'imagerie des aliments offre un baromètre utile du climat domestique de la guerre, la thèse est divisée en deux sections principales : la première se concentrant sur la représentation et la règlementation de la nourriture par le gouvernement, et la deuxième analysant la représentation de la nourriture dans la fiction contemporaine comme réponse à la fois à la « martialisation » de la nourriture par le gouvernement et aux pénuries alimentaires eux-mêmes. Prenant des romans par Barbara Pym et Elizabeth Taylor à titres d'exemples, elle traite de la façon dont les récits officiels des denrées alimentaires définis dans le premier chapitre ont été reconnus et transformés dans la littérature contemporaine.
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Tombasco, Natalie. "Girl-Junk, Sugar-Funk." Digital Commons @ Butler University, 2018. https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/grtheses/504.
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Huddleston, Clarity. "History, Power, and Meaning: Refusing Heaven and Jack Gilbert's Poetic Career." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1117.
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Christensen, David M. "Understanding the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award Proposal Genre: A Rhetorical, Ethnographic, and System Perspective." DigitalCommons@USU, 2011. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/923.
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With tightening university budgets, never before has the activity level of research grant proposal writing been more intense. With increased proposal numbers, including for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) prestigious CAREER award, has also come increased competition and decreased funding rates. This dissertation has searched for successful and unsuccessful characteristics from funded and unfunded CAREER proposals. The research focused on a study of two key subjects: 1) a corpus of 20 texts that included 12 funded proposals and 8 unfunded proposals from across NSF programs, and 2) an ethnographic analysis comprised from interviews with 14 NSF program officers (PO) from varying programs. Coding elements with the texts to uncover topical chains of content, rhetorical, and document design strategies revealed sound rhetorical moves and rhetorical mistakes. The study also illustrated evidence of adherence to or neglect of NSF-mandated writing/formatting conventions as connected to the likelihood of receiving funding. Moreover, the study revealed conventions that have developed for the genre that are not prescribed by NSF but that, nevertheless, seem to be expected. Through genre field analysis, the study's interviews with program officers (PO) revealed a system of genre-agents and player-agents that interact together in a highly rhetorical and social system. This system, comprised of locales in which a multitude of play scenarios can be enacted to exert influence, operates within fairly exact rules of play. Such rules may be published by NSF or simply be "understood," yet principal investigators (PI) are held accountable for them regardless. The ethnography created from interviews with POs revealed multiple genre field elements (e.g., genre- and player-agents, transformative locales, play scenarios, penalty conditions) as well as common mistakes and best practices. A complete mapping of the CAREER award proposal preparation, submission, and review process resulted from the study, which mapping has offered insightful strategies to expand PI (and other agents') influence on the funding process. The dissertation concluded by offering investigators a step-by-step process to identify and map the elements of the proposal genre field in which they operate.
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Reilly, Fiona Jane. "Journeys in kitchens: Travel writing and the possibilities of new encounters with women, food and domestic life in Islamic cultures." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/130734/2/Fiona_Reilly_Thesis.pdf.
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In European travel literature, interiors and domestic spaces have received little critical attention. This practice-led study explores the nature of writing about domestic encounters and domestic spaces used by two female travel writers, Freya Stark (1893-1993) and Ella Maillart (1903-1997). Their works suggest the possibility of an alternative relationship between author and subject, with a point of view permitting the observation of rich ethnographic details and attention to everyday life and everyday women. The study includes a work of creative non-fiction based on travels in kitchens in Iran and far west China.
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Templeman, Tiana L. "Freelance journalism in the 21st century: Challenges and opportunities." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/97741/4/Tiana%20Templeman%20Thesis.pdf.
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This study examined Australian freelance journalists' careers and their role in the 21st century news industry. It discovered the skills, working life and professional identity of freelance journalists continue to be shaped by an industry undergoing rapid change. The findings indicated that, while freelance journalists were unable to influence some aspects of their role within the media industry, the changes had created new work opportunities and the chance for them to develop new skills and diversity in their careers. Perhaps most importantly, the project provided evidence that freelance journalists could create a viable and rewarding career in the 21st century.
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Vuik, Fabian, and den broeck Ro Van. "Low-Skilled Employee RetentionPractices in the Fast Food Industry : A study of retention practices within the Verhage FastFood franchise." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-76208.
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Employee turnover can cost an organization a significant amount of money. In addition, retention of employees can beneficial towards to an organization as it e.g. allows to save costs related torecruitment and training of new employees. The fast food industry is recognized as an industry which employs low-skilled employees and is especially in the United States known to be prone to high employee turnover. With regards to Europe, only little information is available in the field of low-skilled employee retention in the fast food industry. Looking towards the Netherlands, there has been no conducted research concerning this topic from a manager’s perspective allowing to identify the best HR practices to limit employee turnover in the organization. Our purpose of this thesis is to increase the understanding of the practices on employee retention of low-skilled employees in the Dutch fast food industry. To be able to meet this purpose, the following research question was developed “How do managers address retention of low-skilled employees in the Dutch fast food industry?” To be able to answer this research question, a multiple case study was conducted to study several franchises of the Dutch fast food organization “Verhage fast food”. We chose to conduct a qualitative study by developing semi-structured interviews. The empirical material was collected by interviewing an HR manager and the CEO of Verhage to develop an overview of the organization. Furthermore, we conducted five interviews with franchisees of Verhage. These franchisees were chosen based on four criteria being location, variety in experience, amount of employees, and amount of franchises owned. These four criteria ensured that the chosen franchisees in our study are active in different environmental settings. These interviews were conducted with the aim to find out how these franchisees perceive low-skilled employee retention and to identify how these franchisees address retention through the implementation of HR practices. Our study provided a contribution that shows the most effective HR practices in the fields of recruitment and selection, training and development, career development, and recognition and rewards are depending on the situational factors. Whereas one franchisee needs to pay well above minimum wage to attract low-skilled employees, another franchisee can easily pay the employees minimum wages without the need to worry for job applicants. Another contribution based on the outcome of our study is that the provision of training and responsibilities besides being done to benefit the company in e.g. productivity it also results in more engaging employees with a higher intention to stay.
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Hatfield, Lisa Janie. "The Scholarship of Student Affairs Professionals: Effective Writing Strategies and Scholarly Identity Formation Explored through a Coaching Model." PDXScholar, 2015. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2311.
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Student affairs professionals work directly with university students in various programs that provide services to these students. From these experiences, they collect daily valuable insights about how to serve students successfully. Yet, in general, they are not publishing about their work even though dissemination of such knowledge through publication could positively impact programs and services across many institutions. My dissertation explored what happens when mid-level student affairs professionals pursue scholarly writing during a structured program intended to help participants produce manuscripts for publication. In working with five professionals in student services at a large urban institution in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, I learned about participants' identities as scholars as well as which writing strategies they found effective. I worked with participants using case study and action research methodologies and used writing coaching as an intervention to support the tenets of autonomy, competence, and relatedness as defined by Self-Determination Theory. Participants viewed strategies that created a habit of practice that fostered writing to be the most effective. Participants varied in how they viewed themselves professionally along the scholar-practitioner continuum. Leadership can create environments to foster scholarship among student affairs professionals. I give recommendations not only for senior student affairs officers but also for graduate programs in higher education as well as national student affairs organizations to promote research and writing in the profession. Lastly, I share recommendations for further research.
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Gutelle, Samuel Messer. "Flora: A Cookbook." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1595520030573631.
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Keuleyan, Remi. "Le renouveau des carrières organisationnelles : une approche prospective des ancres de carrière dans les industries alimentaires." Thesis, Normandie, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019NORMC023/document.
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Le contexte actuel du marché du travail déstabilise la société salariale et, avec la disparition de la relation d’emploi à long terme, les salariés sont contraints d’élaborer des stratégies de carrière pour se protéger de nouveaux risques sociaux. Cependant, les entreprises des industries alimentaires rencontrent des difficultés pour recruter et fidéliser les salariés essentiels à leur développement. Par conséquent, il semble que la carrière organisationnelle continue de servir les intérêts stratégiques des entreprises. Dans cette recherche, nous nous interrogeons sur le devenir des carrières : « Comment évolue la carrière organisationnelle dans les industries alimentaires ? ». Nos objectifs sont d’une part, de répondre à un problème concret de gestion des carrières dans les industries alimentaires en France et d’autre part, d’enrichir les connaissances actuelles en matière d’orientation professionnelle qui semblent insuffisantes au regard des phénomènes observés sur le marché du travail. En outre, nous nous intéressons à toutes les catégories socioprofessionnelles, et notamment la population ouvrière qui semble largement oubliée des recherches sur la gestion des carrières. De façon à anticiper ces évolutions, nous élaborons une méthodologie appropriée en combinant la théorie des ancres de carrière avec la méthode de prospective de métiers. Cette nouvelle méthode, que nous appelons la « prospective des carrières », repose sur l’analyse de cent quarante études empiriques, cinquante-huit entretiens semi-directifs, cent quatre-vingt-trois questionnaires autoadministrés, un focus groupe et un webinaire. Nos principaux résultats concernent la co-construction de cinq scénarios prospectifs des carrières, l’identification de trente-quatre orientations de carrière possibles et l’opérationnalisation du concept de prospective de soi<br>The present labour market destabilize the labour society and, with the disappearance of the long-terme employment relationship, employees are forced to develop career strategies to protect themselves from new social risks. However, companies in the food industry are facing difficulties in recruiting and retaining employees needed for their development. Therefore, it appears that the organizational career continues to serve the strategic interests of the companies. In this research, we wonder about the future of careers: “How is the organizational career evolving in the food industries?”. Our objectives are, on one side, to respond to a concrete career management problem in the food industry in France and, on the other side, to extend the current knowledge of vocational guidance that seem insufficient in the light of phenoma observed in the labor market. In addition, we are interested in all socioprofesionnal categories, and in particular the working-class population, which seems largely forgotten in career management research. In order to ancitipate these evolutions, we develop an appropriate methodology by combining the theory of career anchors with the jobs prospective method. The new method, which we call “career foresight”, is based on the analysis of one hundred and forty empirical studies, fifty-eight semi-structured interviews, one hundred and eighty-three self-administered questionnaires, a focus group and a webinar. Our main results concern the co-construction of five prospective career scenarios, the identification of thirty-four possible career orientations and the operationalization of the self-prospective concept
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Chen, Li. "Chinese diaspora and Western Australian nature (Perth region): A study of material engagement with the natural world in diasporic culture." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2017. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2016.
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Based on an ethnographic study of the everyday practices of diasporic Chinese residents of Perth, this project focuses on the relationship between the ecologic environment and diasporic Chinese cultures in contemporary Western Australia.
With the acceleration of globalization, studies in diaspora have increasingly absorbed geographic ideas. Research on the relationship between ecology and humankind has thrown new light on discussions of diaspora. However, there are few in-depth studies addressing the construction of diasporic place and space with an engagement of the material world. Considering the relative absence of the natural world as a serious subject in contemporary diaspora studies, the starting point of this project is to explore the interactive relationships between place, space, and diasporic people via their everyday experiences. What is the meaning of nature to Chinese people living in Australia? How do they communicate with the natural world in their daily life and what is the dynamic relationship between the people and the environment?
In order to find the answers to these research questions, I adopt sensory ethnography, multispecies ethnography and sensory studies of food as the major approaches. As an insider ethnographer, I have examined diasporic multisensoriality through the ethnographic practices of interviews, observation, filed documentation (notes, photos, sound recordings), film documentation (video documentation of abalone harvesting in chapter 8) and self-reflective composition within a dynamic assemblage of human and nonhuman agentic beings. Sensory studies of food provide a way to understand the dynamic relations between the materials in diets and Chinese people on individual, ethnic and diasporic scales. Along with the theoretical themes of place, space, food, perception, memory and imagination, this research traverses diverse ethnographic disciplines as an academic practice.
In this research, I present several typical cases of everyday spatial practices, abalone recreational harvesting, and Chinese vegetable gardening. As an ethnographic study, the project has involved more than twenty specific participants. In the last two years, I have interviewed groups, individuals and families, and joined them in wine tasting, cultural celebrations, abalone harvesting and vegetable gardening. In addition, due to my previous background in documentary filmmaking, I have made an illustrative film on the topic of abalone harvesting.
Through the research on the cases, I found that there is an intimate, dialogical and reciprocal connection between the Chinese diaspora in Perth and the local physical environment. With the embodied engagement of the natural surroundings in their daily experiences, Chinese people living in Perth have gradually converted their perceptions of nature, which are also under the influence of traditional cultures. Acting as a space and an agent, the ecological environment has become familiar and domestic in the people’s diasporic experiences. Additionally, daily practices in the material surroundings have also transformed the people’s self-perceptions through their senses, reflections and attitudes toward the natural world. At the same time, the natural environment is impacted upon in myriad ways by the activities of diasporic Chinese.
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Kobez, Morag. "Restaurant reviews aren't what they used to be: Digital disruption and the transformation of the gastronomic field." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/127049/1/Morag_Kobez_Thesis.pdf.
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As recently as a decade ago, restaurant reviews were the purview of elite professional food critics. Subsequent momentous changes in the media landscape allow anyone with an internet connection to voice their opinion through blogs and Online Consumer Review (OCR) sites such as Zomato and Yelp. The participation of amateurs in the discourse around culinary experiences represents a blurring of the formerly distinct relationship between mainstream media journalists and their audiences. This transformed technological and media landscape has fundamentally affected the discourses and practices of traditional cultural intermediaries in these fields, such as the restaurant reviewer, or "food critic".
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Ross, Alexandra C. M. "Continuous curatorial conversations : an exploration of the role of conversation within the writing of a supplementary history of the curatorial." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2014. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/af610c50-f15e-43f0-8801-2b07defff126.
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Continuous Curatorial Conversations is a practice-led exploration of conversation, both as a medium and as a tool for capturing supplementary histories of the curatorial. The primary question of this research project is how the medium of conversation can be explored to write supplementary histories of the curatorial which thus far have been omitted from extant publications on the subject. Three important sub questions guide this exploration. First, what is and has been the role of conversation within the curatorial? What are the possibilities and limitations within the medium of conversation? What roles do conviviality and hospitality play within the process of conversation? This thesis reflects upon a series of curated projects that explore the sp/pl/ace for curatorial conversation and also reviews a collection of one-to-one recorded conversations conducted by the author, including conversations with Alfredo Cramerotti, Hedwig Fijen, Mel Gooding, William Furlong and Sarah Lowndes. Sites of fieldwork include: the 54th Venice Biennale; Manifesta 8, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art; and Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012. Through these projects and related recordings it unpicks the norms and possibilities of what and when one can record on the subject of the curatorial. The hypothesis of this study is that a great deal of curatorial activity is locked up in conversation, yet a disproportion makes it to the pages of the history of the field. Furthermore, in its clean transcribed form it misrepresents the fragility and nuance of the original exchange. The theoretical context of this research looks at Nicolas Bourriaud’s notion of Relational Aesthetics, the writing of Maria Lind and Paul O’Neill, with a focus on Audio Arts. A new methodology relating to curatorial conversation and its recording has therefore been identified as ‘critical conviviality’. The writing relating to Continuous Curatorial Conversations research takes the form of four books. The book ‘An Introduction’ comprises the PhD thesis and sits next to a bespoke online platform www.continuous-curatorial-conversations.org which hosts a selection of audio recordings collated during the research process. The books ‘Continuous’, ‘Curatorial’, and ‘Conversations’ unpack the lineage and context of Alexandra C.M. Ross’s practice and projects conducted during her research and are to be read in no strict order. The new knowledge resulting from this thesis and relating practice is the attention to the subtleties of conversation and its capture as it relates to the instigation, recording and presentation of semi-private matters in semi-public contexts.
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Yiu, Man Ting. "“Are We What We Eat?” Negotiating Identities Through Cuisine and Consumption : A Thing Theory Approach to Alison Wong’s As The Earth Turns Silver." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157507.
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Culinary narratives are frequently employed to portray migrant identities and societies in Asian diaspora literature This thesis examines cuisine and consumption in Alison Wong’s As The Earth Turns Silver by highlighting the socio-political linkages between material culture and ethnic identity formation of Chinese migrants in New Zealand. Using Brown’s thing theory, food is reframed as site of meaningful discourse to interrogate the role of cuisine and consumption in mediating the migrant experience. It demonstrates the material and cultural importance of food in facilitating ethnic and political identification, transcultural exchange, and independence for frequently oppressed migrant individuals in diaspora literature. Conversely, food functions as vectors of aggression in racialising the ethnic other by communicating artificial notions of morality, national identity, and purity to reinforce the hegemony. Additionally, culinary objects facilitate how characters articulate their dislocation and fragmentation as hybrid individuals. Finally, I undertake a craft analysis of Wong’s novel by drawing connections between Wong’s hybridity and her narrative design. I use thing theory to demonstrate how characters use culinary objects to negotiate hybridity while the application of transference technique reveals the way material objects are embedded with abstract emotions to communicate writer and character ethnic subjectivity. Findings from the critical analysis are applied to my short story collection Raw. Thing theory provides the theoretical framework for the practical application of transference in my creative thesis, demonstrating its efficacy in improving craft. The creative thesis demonstrates the applicability of theory in creative practice. Finally, it offers an analytical framework for contextualising food as a site of discourse for hybridized identity politics in diaspora literary criticism.
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Childs, Cassie Patricia. "Traveling Women and Consuming Place in Eighteenth-Century Travel Letters and Journals." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6692.
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Traveling Women and Consuming Place in Eighteenth-Century Travel Letters and Journals considers how various women-authored travel narratives of the long eighteenth century employ food in the construction of place and identity. Chronologically charting the letters and journals of Delarivier Manley, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Janet Schaw, and Frances Burney, I argue that the “critical food moments” described in their letters and journals demonstrate material, cultural, and social implications about consumption. My interdisciplinary project is located at the intersection of three seemingly divergent topics: food studies, human geography, and women-authored travel narratives. Approaching “place” as a way of being-in-the-world, my project traces the connection between verbal constructions of place and issues of identity, national and gender, across the eighteenth century. Looking at what I term “critical food moments” during travel allows us particular insight into how food simultaneously serves a literal (intended for consumption) and a figurative (used as a literary topic and device) function, and how tropes of food—such as digestion—function as lexicons which offer women writers opportunities to better understand and criticize the nation and their own identities within the nation. I argue that food-centered moments allow us to better understand the lived experiences of women traveling in the eighteenth century, to analyze how material and sensory conditions influenced and shaped women’s understandings of themselves and their positions (places) in the world. Taken together, these four women authors represent a wide-range of perspectives from various social and economic backgrounds, and yet, what they have in common is crucial: a connection with the food, communities, and places they travel.
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Ríos, Castaño Victoria. "Le regard de Julio Cortázar sur son métier d’écrivain." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL162.
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L’objectif de cette étude est de recueillir des informations biographiques sur Julio Cortázar grâce à des lettres, des interviews, des essais et des documents pédagogiques écrits par l’auteur lui-même. Notre objectif est de remodeler ces éléments de manière à exposer et réfléchir sur la façon dont Cortázar entendait sa fonction d’écrivain et la manière dont il s’y est investi tout au long de sa vie. Grâce à une approche globale de ces sources biographiques, nous avons retracé le parcours de formation et d’évolution littéraire de l’auteur, les inquiétudes intellectuelles, sociales et politiques qui l’entouraient et les problèmes professionnels auxquels il a dû faire face au quotidien. Nous commençons par nous plonger dans la trajectoire chronologique de Cortázar en tant que lecteur. Nous apportons une vision globale des lectures qui l’ont formé et de celles qui l’ont accompagné de son enfance à son décès. Nous poursuivons notre analyse avec une présentation chronologique des opinions qu’il exprime sur son oeuvre. Nous montrons ainsi un jeune poète et auteur de contes qui doute de la qualité littéraire de ses écrits, un écrivain connu de contes fantastiques qui s’impose le défi de changer de modalité ou de genre ainsi qu’un auteur déjà reconnu qui continue à chercher comment briser les moules. Nous apportons enfin des informations sur les aspects pratiques de la fonction d’écrivain. En d’autres termes, nous présentons l’énorme implication de Cortázar dans le processus de publication et de traduction de ses livres ainsi que son interaction avec le monde littéraire et éditorial<br>This study aims to garner biographical information on Julio Cortázar, as obtained from his letters, interviews, essays and pedagogical texts, in order to offer new insights that allow us to expose and reflect on how he understood his writing career and worked as a writer throughout his life. In applying a global approach to said biographical sources, this study traces his first years as a writer and his literary evolution, his intellectual, social and political involvement, and the practical problems he had to face on a daily basis. To begin with, the study looks into Cortázar’s trajectory as a reader, providing an overview of the readings in which he was educated and of those that left an imprint on him from childhood to death. A chronological exposition of the opinions he expressed about his work follows. Thus, Cortázar offers a portrait of himself as a young poet and story writer who doubts about the literary quality of his texts, as a known writer of fantastic short stories who challenges himself with the task of changing modalities and genres, and as an acclaimed writer who constantly seeks to break moulds. Finally, this study furnishes data on the practical side of his writing career. Cortázar’s strenuous involvement in the publishing process and translation of his work is discussed, together with his interaction with the literary and editing world
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Ramos, Sandra Isabel Charneca. "Comportamento do consumidor cego : a importância da escrita braille em produtos alimentares." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/11081.
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Mestrado em Marketing<br>O consumidor cego enfrenta vários obstáculos no dia a dia, especialmente quando tem de ir a supermercados comprar produtos alimentares. Atualmente, poucos são os produtos alimentares com rótulos em braille com informações suficientes para que estes consumidores tenham alguma autonomia no momento da escolha e compra dos produtos.
Este estudo procura compreender de que forma a escrita braille nas embalagens dos produtos alimentares influencia o comportamento de compra do consumidor cego e de que forma o consumidor responde à sua presença ou ausência. Pretende-se assim investigar se a existência de braille nos produtos alimentares potencia a busca de informação e se o consumidor cego considera importante o marketing que é feito aos produtos alimentares. O estudo empírico foi de natureza qualitativa, tendo sido realizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas, testes de embalagem e observação de situações de compra.
Os resultados obtidos revelam a importância dos rótulos em braille nas embalagens de produtos alimentares. As embalagens com rótulos em braille influenciam o comportamento do consumidor cego. Este, ao ter acesso a mais informação, tenderá a ter uma maior predisposição para procurar e experimentar novos produtos, tomando decisões de compra mais conscientes e fundamentadas. A sua vulnerabilidade no supermercado e em casa pode ser reduzida, levando a um aumento de autonomia.
As conclusões enfatizam a importância de produtores, retalhistas e marketers estarem atentos às especificidades do consumidor cego, sendo a escrita braille fundamental para comunicar o produto a este consumidor e assim, influenciar seu o comportamento de compra.<br>Blind consumer faces several obstacles on daily basis especially when going to supermarkets to buy groceries. Nowadays braille labeling is scarce in food products and doesn't have enough information reducing blind consumer's autonomy while choosing and buying such products.
This study addresses the impact of imprinting braille on the packaging of food products and tries to understand such influence on blind consumer buying behavior and how it responds to braille presence or absence. Therefore, it aims to investigate if the existence of braille in food products enhances the search for information and if the blind consumer considers important the marketing that is done to food products. The empirical study was qualitative, using semi-structured interviews, packaging tests and observation of buying behavior.
The results obtained reveal the importance of braille imprinted labels on food packaging. Blind consumer behavior is influenced by packages with labels with braille. These, by having access to more information, will tend to have a greater predisposition to search and try new products, taking more informed and reasoned purchase decisions. The vulnerability in supermarket and at home can be reduced, leading to an increased autonomy.
Findings emphasize the importance of producers, retailers and marketers being aware of the specifics of the blind consumer, since braille imprinting is important to communicate products to consumers and influences their buying behavior.
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Leduc, Noëmie Anne. "« Nourricritures » sino-américaines : la représentation de l'alimentation chez Gish Jen, Fae Myenne Ng et Amy Tan." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020BOR30031.
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Cette thèse porte sur l’œuvre d’écrivaines sino-américaines de deuxième génération : Amy Tan, Gish Jen et Fae Myenne Ng. Nous étudions plusieurs de leurs romans dans lesquels la nourriture constitue un thème particulièrement significatif : The Joy Luck Club (1989), The Kitchen God’s Wife (1991) et The Hundred Secret Senses (1996) de Tan ; Typical American (1991) et Mona in the Promised Land: A Novel (1996) de Jen ; et enfin, Bone (1993) et Steer Toward Rock (2008) de Ng. Il s’agit de démontrer que l’alimentation et ses corrélatifs sont liés à de multiples processus de déstabilisation et de reformulation des normes identitaires tant ethniques que genrées ou littéraires, en mettant en lumière les lignes de convergence mais également les divergences dans la façon qu’ont les auteurs d’écrire la nourriture. Celle-ci est au cœur de la construction de l’identité. La bouche est la zone liminale de l’incorporation ou du rejet des mets et impératifs extérieurs, dont l’ingestion et la digestion ou le crachement et le vomissement permettent de façonner ou de délimiter dans un même temps les corps physiologiques, sociaux, culturels et psychologiques, individuels et collectifs. Il s’agit alors d’explorer le contexte spécifique qui sous-tend la centralité de l’alimentation dans les diverses communautés sino-américaines et les romans qui les représentent. Cela nous permet ensuite d’étudier en quoi les scènes culinaires sont, pour les écrivaines, des topoi privilégiés afin de souligner de multiples problématiques interculturelles, genrées et scripturales, et ainsi de redéfinir les attentes et les modalités qui régissent leur représentation<br>This dissertation deals with the literary production of three second-generation Chinese American women writers: Amy Tan, Gish Jen et Fae Myenne Ng. It focuses on some of their novels in which food plays a central part: The Joy Luck Club (1989), The Kitchen God’s Wife (1991) and The Hundred Secret Senses (1996) by Tan; Typical American (1991) and Mona in the Promised Land: A Novel (1996) by Jen; and Bone (1993) and Steer Toward Rock (2008) by Ng. It aims to show that food and all other elements related to it are linked to multiple processes of ethnic, gender and literary identity destabilization and reformulation. It highlights both common and diverging features between the different ways in which the authors write about food, which is itself a paramount element in identity construction. The mouth is the liminal area through which the incorporation or rejection of external food and imperatives are carried out. Ingestion and digestion, or spitting out and vomiting enable subjects to shape or delimit physiological, social, cultural and psychological bodies simultaneously, both on a collective and on an individual level. This dissertation thus explores the specific contexts related to food in the diverse Chinese American communities represented in the novels. It then analyzes how culinary scenes are useful topoi for the writers to underline several intercultural, gender, and scriptural issues, and thereby to redefine the expectations and the terms that underlie their representation
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Salas, Leslie. "Mirrors and Vanities." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5697.
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Mirrors and Vanities is a multi-modal collection which showcases the diversity of working in long and short storytelling forms. Featured in this thesis are fiction, nonfiction, graphic narrative, and screenplay. Using unconventional approaches to storytelling in order to achieve emotional resonance with the audience while maintaining high standards for craft, these stories and essays explore the costs inherent to the subtle nuances of interpersonal relationships. The fiction focuses on the complications of characters keeping secrets. A husband discovers the truth behind his wife's miscarriage. A girl visits her fiance in purgatory. A boy crosses a line and loses his best friend. Meanwhile, the nonfiction centers on self-discovery and gender roles associated with power struggles. A schizophrenic threatens to ruin my mother's wedding. I rediscover my relationship with my father through food writing. Sword-work teaches me to fail and succeed at making martial art. The title work of the thesis is a collaged story highlighting the tribulations of a physicist fixated on recovering his lost love by manipulating the multiverse. The multi-modal format implicates the nebulosity of physics theories and how different aspects of the narrative can be presented in various formats to best suit the nature of the storytelling. Through the interactions of characters in mundane and extraordinary circumstances, the works in this thesis examine the consequences of choice, the contrast between reality and expectation, coming of age, and the Truth of narrative.<br>M.F.A.<br>Masters<br>English<br>Arts and Humanities<br>Creative Writing
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Cuerden, Barbara. "Art, Nature and the Virtual Environment: Three strands of a narrative inquiry written around a schoolyard garden as a collection of "events"." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19679.
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Working with an organization outside the public school system that was creating schoolyard gardens, I began to think about culture and cultivation inside and outside of schooling practices. The liveliness of the schoolyard gardens presented possibilities for enlivening educational discourses. With two participants I planted a container box schoolyard garden outside Lamoureux Hall, which houses the Faculty of Education. Utilizing aspects of place-based pedagogy, ecoliteracy, ecopedagogy and a metissage of a/r/tography, eco-art and writing as a method of inquiry, we tended the garden and dwelled upon ideas of nature, culture, and their intersection in a particular place. Our garden experiences left cyber footprints in virtual space as blog spots on a thesis blog site. The garden and the inquiry it generated outside,is brought back inside the education building as a Master's thesis. The garden grew in different and unpredictable ways due to intense construction on site, entwining the planter boxes with unseen variables.
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Pagano, Jennifer Hoolhorst. "The evolution of Sunset Magazine's cooking department: The accommodation of men's and women's cooking in the 1930s." Scholarly Commons, 2019. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3575.
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The Western regional magazine Sunset has been published under a series of owners and publishers since 1898. In 1928, Sunset was purchased by Lawrence Lane, a Midwestern magazine executive who transformed it from a failing turn-of-the-century, general interest publication about the West, into a successful magazine about living in the West for the Western middle-class. Sunset had always been a magazine for men and women, and one that appealed to both male and female intellectuals at the time Lane purchased it. Lane and his editors attempted to interject more rigid middle-class ideals into a magazine that had espoused ideas that were progressive and less structured. Lane's new strategy to compartmentalize Sunset's content into its four categories—gardening, the home, cooking, and travel—resulted in a magazine that was conventionally gendered. Tension due to this shift played out in the publication's new cooking department. This thesis traces the development of Sunset's cooking department between 1928 and 1938 under the direction of its creator and founding editor Genevieve Callahan through the examination and analysis of Sunset cooking features and oral histories. The original department, structured to model a middle-class domestic ideology, did not accommodate all of Sunset's readers. The Western intellectualism of pre-Lane readers and their tendency to be less bound by conventional gender roles in the kitchen carried over into Sunset's cooking department via reader recipe contributions. These Western cooks included men and women whose foodways deviated from that of the typical middle-class housewife. Callahan experimented throughout the cooking department's first decade by shifting its editorial framework and softening her home economics rigidity to create a department that was inclusive of women and men who cooked both inside and outside the kitchen. The changes made to the department over that decade illustrate how editorial experimentation reconciled a new middle-class-oriented cooking department to accommodate Western cooks less apt to model traditional gender roles.
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Senate, University of Arizona Faculty. "Faculty Senate Minutes October 2, 2017." University of Arizona Faculty Senate (Tucson, AZ), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626015.
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chieh, Cheng Mei, and 鄭楣潔. "An Study on Liu Kashiang’s Food Writing." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/94064718782844854637.
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碩士<br>國立中正大學<br>台灣文學研究所<br>102<br>Liu Kashiang’s natural writing started with the observation of birds in the 1980s and has revealed the environmental problems of ecological pollution and damages. In the late 80s, he started to research on the documents a hundred years ago on the western explorers’ journey to Taiwan and conducted the historical investigation. In the mid 90s, under the influence of “community development” and ecological tourism, his interest turned from the environmental issues to the urban space. After 2000, he visited the markets of towns. In the recent years, his concern for the issues of food ecology has been seen from the publication of Lost Vegetables and Fruit, Men’s Markets, A New Collection of Plants in Lingnan.
In this thesis, I study on Liu Kashaing’s food writing in terms of the three issues. First, I will analyze how Liu’s context of natural writing is formed, from natural ecology to the observation of food ecology. Second, I will discuss the concerns Liu has shown for the food writing. Third, I will try to conclude Liu’s narrative strategies and aesthetics in describing food.
According to my study, first, from his early observation of birds, he noticed that the vegetation of the forests and mountains had a lot to do with the birds’ behaviors. After that, as he experienced some changes in life, both the observation of the creatures’ consumption of food and the fresh taste of the wild plants inspired him to explore the edible evidence of the plants. As he visited the towns, he started to think about the possibility of making certain plants the major crops of the local agricultural industry. He can also infer the local growing conditions from the vegetables and fruit at the farmers’ markets. In his writing, he shows a lot of concerns for the environment and ecology. Second, Liu is deeply influenced by the western ecological thinking. He connects his writing with the social context. Therefore, his concern for food includes the relationship between the food producing chain and land ethics, the practical situation of the marketing system of the localized food, the crisis of the “lost” vegetables and fruits, and the interaction between the food and tourism industry. Third, Liu’s aesthetics in wiring is expressed in the following features. Food writing recalls personal memories, distinguishes ethnic identity, and accentuates the generational and social changes. Food writing presents the contents and in-depths perspectives of the museum study. The language of writing shows both sense and sensibility, science and imagination.
The study of Liu Kashiang’s thinking on food ecology can become a force to solve the food crisis at present in Taiwan. In addition, Liu’s observation, perspective, and creation can serve as a guideline for the development of natural writing in the future and as a reference for the writers who intend to engage in this type of writing.
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Sundin, Preston McIntyre, and 孫毅. "A Study of Food Writing in Yu Hua’s Novels." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71862290802260902407.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>中國文學研究所<br>103<br>This thesis focuses on the role of food writing, defined as the descriptions of food and its many related aspects, in Yu Hua’s novels and short stories. Without a doubt, Yu Hua is one of the most preeminent contemporary Chinese writers and internationally well known authors. The food writing in his novels and short stories is rich, varied and profound. The works examined in this paper were selected for the prominence of food writing and were published between 1987 and 2006.
To be clear, the object of this research is not so much the food items themselves, but how Yu Hua utilizes food writing to express deeper aspects of his works. On the surface, food writing increases the flavor and interest of the text, highlights the historical background of the story, and propels the plot forward. On a deeper level, food writing reveals the emotions and personalities of the characters, relationships between characters, and the tone and major themes of the novels. As a whole, Yu Hua utilizes the concrete and external nature of food to express the abstract and internal aspects of his novels and the characters.
A large corpus of research on Yu Hua and his works exists. While some scholars have mentioned the role of food in Yu Hua’s works, no one has conducted an extensive, detailed, and comprehensive study of the role and significance of food writing in his novels. The topic of food in literature has been overlooked by academia for many years. I hope that my food centered research offers a new perspective on Yu Hua’s novels that not only expands the study of Yu Hua and his works, but also the interpretation of food writing in Chinese literature and literary analysis in general.
The first chapter discusses the research motivation, goals, methods, scope, and value of this paper. The second chapter offers a brief introduction to the role of food writing in ancient and modern/contemporary Chinese literature. Chapter three focuses on Yu Hua’s descriptions of hunger. For Yu Hua’s characters, hunger is an ever-present and inescapable threat. Hunger is not just a tool to delineate life’s hardships, but also to highlight the strength of the characters and their will to live. Chapter four focuses on Yu Hua''s descriptions of the provision and restriction of food. Given the physiological and psychological value of food, its provision can bring people physical and emotional comfort, while its restriction can bring people physical pain and emotional distress. Yu Hua’s description of the provision and restriction of food is a means of revealing the characters’ emotions, feelings towards others and relationship dynamics. Chapter five focuses on the act of eating. Where, what, and how a character is eating can disclose a lot about him or her. Yu Hua’s descriptions of the act of eating reveal the state of the characters’ lives, how they view themselves, and how they interact with the world. Chapter six summarizes the role and significance of food writing in Yu Hua’s writing. It briefly discusses the evolution of Yu Hua’s writing style in the 1990s and its influence on his food writing. Finally, it discusses the continuing value of this research.
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Fang, Tsai-Jie, and 方彩緁. "The Study of Career Incentives, Self-Expectation, Career Barriers, and Career Uncertainty for the Vocational Food and Beverage Rotary Cooperative students." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76094682157397416883.
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碩士<br>國立彰化師範大學<br>工業教育與技術學系<br>101<br>Participants in the study were the vocational food and beverage rotary cooperative students from Yunlin and Chiayi county. After 441 questionnaires were collected and through「Career Incentives Scale」, 「Self-Expectation Scale」, 「Career Barriers Scale」 and 「Career Uncertainty scale」to measure the purpose of the study. At the last, statistics methods, such as independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA, and stepwise regression were used to analyze the research data. The results were described as follows:
1. Future orientation, entrepreneurship opportunities, personal expectations and work value are the main factors of career incentives for the vocational food and beverage rotary cooperative students.
2. Lack of confidence, job constraints, dissatisfaction with career, disability, personal expectations, sex discrimination, work value and entrepreneurship opportunities are the main factors of career uncertainty for the vocational food and beverage rotary cooperative students.
3. Sex discrimination is the main factor of career incentive for women, lack of confidence and job constraints are the main factors of career incentive for men.
4. Job security and entrepreneurial opportunities are significant for men in career incentives.
5. In the self-expectation, men have much expectation in future orientation, and women are personal expectations.
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Su, Li-Ying, and 蘇俐穎. "Exotic landscapes of Taiwan contemporary food writing: Intercultural dialogue, food attachment and identification of sojourners." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81437554189838070548.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>台灣文學研究所<br>101<br>This article focuses on the topic of food writing for exotic food experiences. The two major subjects of discussion are the writers who came to Taiwan around 1949 and the works written after 1980’s. In chapter two, I discuss the writers’ works around 1949 in Taiwan. The research discovers: in this era, the food writing materials were limited, so the food culture was not rich. However, the texts in the diaspora showed individual’s spiritual view for the changeable times and spaces of home and country.
Since 1980’s, the exotic food writing texts have had a huge change in quality and quantity. The writing style was free, fast, colorful and delightful. It showed that the curiosity and open-mind for exotic culture. It also echoed Taiwan society after the lifting of martial law, with the prosperous views of the growth of economic level and the trend of traveling. In this era, the writers broke the traditional vision and enlarged the scope of pursuing and exploring food. From the writings concerning food showed that there’s no boundary for food and ‘luxury’ food experience. In the meantime, under off-shore/ cross-national food experience, we can see ‘taste evaluation’ and ‘food profession’ these two parts in the food culture. In addition, in this era, off-shore/ cross-national food experiences were the images of the self-reflection, to make the writers/travelers ask the questions on ‘self-identity’. Till 1990’s, local food culture has become a famous topic and has been generally accepted by the masses. And this article is to answer the questions that have been asked from 1980’s.
At the end, I concluded that the exotic food writing was focused on the topic of ‘self’ and ‘the other’. To connect all the texts and to observe the change of the writers’ mind, we can know: due to the changing social conditions, by food experience, writers could define ‘self’ at wider scales. In the future, to create the food writing works from global view is what we can expect.
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LIN, Ming-hsia, and 林明霞. "A Study of Jewel Tasi’s Writing on Food and Beverage." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85407455567956947332.
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碩士<br>東海大學<br>中國文學系碩士在職專班<br>101<br>Abstract
Jewel Tsai is one of the food authors who are much better recognizable in the post war of Taiwan. This comes from her breaking-through viewpoints, gorgeous writing style, knowledgeable and sensitive content, as well as her dedication and passion for food and food activities. The main reason why Jewel Tsai’s food writing reveals colors, smell and taste is her conscientious and careful management and design. She has unique views on selecting topics and trimming texts, as well as wordings and skills. In addition to the use of color words, four syllabic words, and rhetoric methods, her ingenious imagination also makes Jewel Tsai’s food writing charming with defamiliarization. Therefore, her articles are usually filled with profound cultural and highly humanistic accomplishments and into her intellectual writing style permeates a sensitive atmosphere. In addition, her different topics, multi-level creativity and the integration of diverse languages, as well as the multiple cut-in visual angles agree with Mikhail Bakhtin’s heteroglossia and the postmodern diet cultural features. They make diet writing a thermometer of the social observation, not just a woman writer’s whispers in the kitchen. Jewel Tsai’s non-repeating writing style has overturned the traditional writing vision and enlarged the food’s influence from a small piece of life phase into the important issue of the whole human history and cultural development. As a contemporary writer of the diet prose, she creates more neoteric possibility and direction for Taiwan.
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CHEN, LI-YI, and 陳立宜. "Food Writing of Home Flavor Interpreted by Andre Chiangs’ Octaphilosophy." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/z29s7e.
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碩士<br>東海大學<br>餐旅管理學系<br>106<br>Food is strongly linked to our life. Home flavor is the core value for the household chef, which is often the connection and memory among family members. Though it is not as elaborate as the upscale restaurant, home flavor is definitely a very important part of the culinary culture. This study aimed to explore the components of home flavor corresponding to the Octaphilosophy defined by Andre Chiang. The eight factors in Octaphilosophy are “Uniqueness”, “Texture”, “Memory”, “Pure”, “Terrior”, “Salt”, “South”, and “Skill”. The integrity of cooking was interpreted through the sedimentation and the interaction between taste and memory. From the view point of Shuen-Yi Wang and Liang-Lu Han, food was defined in a more delicate way as the tracks of life recorded by the written senses and affection. The researcher of this study attempted to extract the important factors from the both renowned food writers in relation to the inner feeling from the researcher’s own family cooking experience. The integrated experience was applied in different food ingredients to form the cuisine and to express the characteristics. The results from the narrative method and content analysis indicated that the concept of culinary art can be initiated by terroir, followed by the texture of the food ingredients, and seasoned it with the salt as the spirit of the dish. Then, comes with the proper skill to express the characteristics of the terroir for the memory and the uniqueness, which shouldn’t be limited to the recipes of the cook books.
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XIAO, YI, and 蕭屹. "What We Talk About When We Talk About Food?:The Culture of Food Writing in Taiwan (1996─2012)." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29147674601529257593.
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碩士<br>中國文化大學<br>史學系<br>101<br>In recent years, “Food Writing” books have become the new favorite on the market. The "Food Literature" belongs to one of its classification. This paper focuses on the formation of "Food Literature".
In this process, "Ren Jian" supplement acts as a guide and catalyst. "Ren Jian" supplement planned a food theme column, invited famous writing (eg: Lin,Wen-Yue), and held a " International Seminar on Food Literature ", a forum of scholars in the "Food Literature" published papers on the issue. "Ren Jian" supplement not only enriched the connotation, but look out the root of Food Literature in the history of literature, and even makes "Food Literature" became idiom.
University professor Ye,Zhen-Fu who had been "Ren Jian" supplement editor was the original promoter of the seminar ,and created works related to "food literature" After entering college, he not only promoted "Food Literature Study" in the academic, but branched out into publishing industry. He set up Two-fishes publishing house, and also started the "Gastronomy" magazine. He promote Food Writing and Food Literature by creations, academic and publishing.
This paper also selected three writers: Wang, Xuan-Yi, Cai, Zhu-er, Zhuang, Zu-Yi, and analyze their content of the work and character. Sum up the above analyed; The author attempt to outline the cultural context of Taiwanese "Food Writing".
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Taylor, Jessica Anne. "Write the Book of Your Heart: Career, Passion and Publishing in the Romance Writing Community." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/36016.
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This dissertation explores how a solitary writer becomes a social writer, entering into the industrial and community relations of mass publishing. A significant part of this transformation is managed through writing organizations which mediate between the corporate world and individual writers. Despite being one of the most prolific and commercially successful book-markets in a time when both publishing and reading are perceived to be under threat, romance fiction, because of its gendered and classed status, is often neglected by the academy and patronized in the media. Researched through observation of the largest romance writers groups in Canada, which I call City Romance Writers, this dissertation explores how writers’ associations help shape would-be writers into players in the professional market, negotiating the boundaries between professional and amateur, local and global, creative and market-driven. It explores how romance writers organize to manage risk and uncertainty in the publishing industry and how they make claims to legitimacy and authority in the public sphere. Finally, it examines how structures of gender, race and class shape the communities romance writers form and the claims they make. I argue that romance writers’ discourses and practices surrounding writing and publication are a revealing terrain for the exploration of contemporary issues of media production, flexible labour, gender and community. In part because of the particular characteristics of romance writing itself, these themes are also underpinned by the constant presence of love, as a discourse, an activity and a story. While revealing the importance of affective discourses of passion and love in mobilizing writers to embrace their own flexibility, this dissertation also argues that writers’ affective relationship with their writing is not fully contained by capitalism.
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Clifford, Rohan. "Food, water, shelter, fresh air ... and stories: teachers’ creative writing in the classroom." Thesis, 2011. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/19380/.
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This thesis takes the form of a written analytical exegesis (30%) followed by a
novel (70%), entitled Frank Davies’ Amazing Frog Catapult, to satisfy the
requirements of this degree.
The contention of the exegesis is that the meat of writing lies in the creative
nature of how a text comes to be constructed, the journeys that ideas may take
and the maturation and realisation of characters along the way. In doing so, this
exegesis highlights how classroom English teachers, as a profession, could
benefit from adopting the methods that writers use as they develop their art. In
an era in which the My School website publishes school achievement in terms of
quantified, NAPLAN style data, educators need to ensure that creativity is being
nurtured, rather than discouraged.
Following the exegesis is the novel itself: Frank Davies’ Amazing Frog Catapult.
It is aimed at the younger end of an adolescent audience, probably from Grade 5
through to Year 9. Frank Davies’ Amazing Frog Catapult is set in a fictional
location, Laconia Heights. The unfashionable prospect of an ‘urban sprawl’
setting appealed to the author because this in fact is where he and his students
live. Laconia Heights isn’t a real place, yet it is depressingly easy to find. It looks
like lots of places around Melbourne - complete with ridiculous, or at least wildly
inappropriate, names. Initially, the story was intended as a stinging allegory of
the way that we Australians ostensibly and regularly approved of the
imprisonment of asylum seekers - young, old, able-bodied/minded or feeble.
Without losing this original intent, Frank’s character, however, began to define
itself in a slightly different direction as the writing progressed. Characters cannot
operate in isolation from their environment. They are influential and have
influence on their surroundings, be it ecological, sociological or physiological. Equally, characters are in turn influenced by their environment. It is an
awareness of the interaction between characters and environment – both
physical and social – that informed not only the novel but also the direction of the
exegesis.
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Kuei-Yi, Wang, and 王桂儀. "The Philosophy and Career of Food and Beverage Manager with Art and Design Background." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00331132033220086409.
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碩士<br>國立新竹教育大學<br>藝術教育與創作碩士班<br>101<br>This research aims to examine the education and training of art and design field, catering industry foundation establishment history and management philosophy by Food and Beverage Manager with Art and Design Background. The results could provide to students who is doing art and design or related field, Food and Beverage entrepreneur as well as teachers as references for their further career plan. The research suggests:
A. Get more understanding of foundation establishment history by Food and Beverage entrepreneur.
B. Explore the Food and Beverage entrepreneur how to fulfill their space esign.
C. Figure out the Food and Beverage entrepreneur how to run the business model and their specificity.
D. Investigate the differences between art and design creative and business management.
In this study, the researcher adapted qualitative method through semi-structured interview to interview eight interviewees as data collection in Taiwan. After then the data were conducted thematic analysis in order to figure out the suggestions that art and design background entrepreneur how to found business and their management philosophy. The results will be divided into six parts as below.
A. Life history of business owner included different stages such as education period, enter the real world, profession transferred and foundation establishment.
B. Space formation by business owner which could be divided as tangible usage and intangible space effective.
C. The faith of adhere to business and specify how to influence their management philosophy, business model an customers.
D. Strongly connected between business owner’s art and design background and management philosophy.
E. Business owner thought that foundation establishment in catering industry needs to increase experience for knowledge improvement and prejudiced preventative.
F. Business owner recalled the memory in the original job field and how to convert different behavior and attitude to adjust new business.
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Yang, Kuei Ling, and 楊癸齡. "Culinary narrative and identity construction – An analysis of the writing on Taiwanese retro food." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95408206279327765425.
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碩士<br>國立政治大學<br>新聞研究所<br>100<br>The media texts of “Taiwanese retro food” increase gradually recently. However, there are few communication researches focus on this important phenomenon. Moreover, those researches also simplify nostalgia as “distortive imagination of history” constantly.
Therefore, this paper aims to argue that the introspection of the past is the progress of identity construction and is also related to narrative theory. Through analysing contemporary media texts of retro food, we probably may depict the appearance of social identity of the time.
Accordingly, the research found that nostalgic aura was cultivated by the narrative of the important scenes, good old times, and close family members. And the narrators tended to construct personal identity through pursuing family love and holding value of retro food.