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This work explores in detail how innovative academic activism can transform our everyday workplaces in contexts of considerable adversity. Personal essays by prominent scholars provide critical reflections on their institution-building triumphs and setbacks across a range of cultural institutions. Often adopting narrative approaches, the contributors examine how effective programmes and activities are built in varying local and national contexts within a common global regime of university management policy. Here they share experiences based on developing new undergraduate degrees, setting up r.

The desire for cultural studies / Tejaswini Niranjana -- Social movements, cultural studies, and institutions : On the shifting conditions of practices / Kuan-Hsing Chen -- Life of a parasite : one survival story in cultural studies / Josephine Ho -- The assessment game : on institutions that punch above their weight, and why the quality of the work environment also matters / Mette Hjort -- Three tough questions of cultural studies : the case of the Program in Cultural Studies at the University of Shanghai / Wang Xiaoming -- Doing cultural studies : critique, pedagogy, and the pragmatics of cultural education in Hong Kong / Stephen Ching-Kiu Chan -- Coordinates, confusions, and cultural studies / Dai Jinhua -- Uses of media culture, usefulness of media culture studies : beyond brand nationalism into public dialogue / Koichi iwabuchi -- Way out on a nut / Douglas Crimp -- Who needs human rights? cultural studies and public institutions / John Nguyet Erni -- From gatekeepers to gateways: pragmatism, politics, sexuality, and cultural policy in creative Singapore / Audrey yue -- Culture, Institution, Conduct: Th e Perspective of Metaculture / Tony Bennett

"This paper concentrates on the trends in peer-reviewed longitudinal panel studies under scientific direction. Household panel studies have succeeded in broadening their disciplinary scope. Numerous innovations such as questions dealing with psychological concepts, and age-specific topical modules, physical health measures, measures of cognitive capabilities, behavioral experiments have been incorporated into various panel studies or are soon to be introduced. In the UK, the household panel study Understanding Society comprising 40,000 households was launched in 2009 and recently added an "innovation sample"; in the Netherlands, the new LISS household panel study launched in 2006 with over 5,000 households will be used for the testing of innovative measurement methods. The microdata from household panel studies like PSID (US Household Panel Study), BHPS (the predecessor of UK HLS), HILDA (Australian Panel Study), and SOEP (German Socio-Economic Panel) are in continuously high demand by the research and policy advisory community. More important than "discovering" entirely new survey areas is "tailoring" the details of existing survey content to new, more specific (theoretical) questions, and thus maintaining proven and widely used elements of survey content. In the years to come, "tailoring" survey content will be the real challenge facing surveys that are integrated into the existing research infrastructure like HILDA, LISS, PSID, SHP (Swiss Panel), SOEP, and Understanding Society. We argue that, in the future, household panel studies should be designed to take the "margins" of the life course more fully into account. Indeed, household surveys are ideally suited to gather comprehensive data on these life phases. They can be improved, on the one hand, by including specific topics about the fetal phase of life and early childhood of children born into the panel, and on the other hand, by including better information about late life and death. In the middle of the life course, improved questions on income, savings, consumption, and wealth, as well as psychological constructs will play a central role, as will specific "event-triggered" questionnaires on central life occurrences such as marriage, divorce, and entry into and exit from unemployment. In order to substantially improve the statistical power of long-term longitudinal data, we propose an absolute minimum number of observations of about 500 persons per birth and age cohort. As of now, only the British Understanding Society will meet this target. A positive side-effect of such an enlargement is a significantly improved potential for analyses of relatively small groups within the population: for example, lone parents or specific immigrant groups. Another positive side-effect would be an improved potential for regional analyses. For example, in Germany, a cohort size of about 500 persons implies a survey sample size of about 20,000 households, which is large enough for analyses in the majority of federal states. Multidisciplinary panel studies will become even more important if they are accepted as reference datasets for specialized surveys that are independent of the original panel study (e.g., observational studies such as twin studies and laboratory or intervention studies). To enhance this important function, new types of service are needed, including advice on special surveys and possibly also data preparation for special surveys." (author's abstract)

Rural tourism in Durbuy City / Abdullah Uslu -- Effects of ecotourism activities in forests on the soil / Ahmet Duyar and Ahmet Açil -- Usage areas of salt mineral and its varieties / Bilal Deveci -- Hotel managers' metaphoric perceptions for smart hotel / Ebru Gözen -- Innovation in tourism and examples in practice / Ediz Güripek -- Diaspora tourism / Emre Aykaç and Ömer Ceyhun Apak -- Ecotourism and geographical information systems applications / Yasin Dönmez and Sevgi Öztürk -- Gastronomy tourism and geographical indications in Tokat / Emin Arslan -- Sustainable gastronomic tourism / Mehmet Tekeli and Ezgi Kirici Tekeli -- To determine the recreational potential of Trabzon / Mehmet Mert Pasli and Evren Güçer -- Digital transformation & marketing in tourism industry / Samet Gökkaya -- Cultural heritage tourism inventory in Tokat Province / Hakan Kendir -- Effects of digitalization in tourism / Serdar Sünnetçioğlu -- Climate change and tourism / Handan Özçelik Bozkurt -- Overtourism / Irem Bozkurt and Enes Yildirim -- Qualitative approaches for tourism research / Kansu Gençer -- Event tourism / Mehmet Can and Çağla Üst Can -- The effect of nepotism / Mustafa Cüneyt Şapcilar and Ahmet Büyükşalvarci -- Sharing economy for sustainability in tourism / Serdar Cop -- Sustainable tourism criteria and Turkish restaurants / Serdar Eren -- City tourism and Kütahya / Uğur Ceylan -- An overview of creative tourism concept / Yeliz Pekerşen -- Gastronomy festivals in Turkey / Yılmaz Seçim.

"Measuring "Success" for Women in International Studies in Academic Settings" published on by Oxford University Press.

THE SHARP REVERSAL IN THE FORTUNES OF ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS FROM RAPID GROWTH TO NEAR INSOLVENCY MIGHT SEEM A HOPELESS OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES. BUT THERE ARE GOOD PROSPECTS FOR THE EXPANSION OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN CNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION. ALTHOUGH THAT MAY NOT SATISFY STUDENT DEMAND, THERE CAN BE NO MANIFESTATION OF DEMAND UNTIL THE SUPPLY IS AVAILABLE.