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An exploratory and qualitative study on the meaning of transformative tourism and its facilitators and inhibitors

  • Authors: Pung, Jessica Mei , Del Chiappa, Giacomo
  • Date: 2020
  • Subjects: Transformative tourism , Transformation , Tourist experience
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/453481 , uj:40037 , Citation: Pung, J.M. & Del Chiappa, G. (2020). An exploratory and qualitative study on the meaning of transformative tourism and its facilitators and inhibitors. European Journal of Tourism Research 24, 2404.
  • Description: Abstract: While transformative tourism may represent a timely form of tourism conveying hope in an ever-changing world, there is still limited research adopting a demand-side perspective and exploring the understanding and experiences that tourists have about transformative tourism. This paper contributes to fill this research gap by analysing transformative tourism experiences and investigating its characteristics, especially the aspects that facilitate and inhibit tourist transformation. Adopting a qualitative semi-structured interview approach, data was also collected on the nature of wellbeing experienced as result of tourism and how former travellers perceived the impact of transformation in daily life after their return. Overall, interviewees primarily viewed subjective tourist transformation as achieving greater self-efficacy, humility and personal enrichment. Findings suggest that transformation facilitators correspond to: interacting with locals and travellers, facing challenges, experiencing the sense of the place, long stays and post-travel reflection; while several aspects emerged as transformation inhibitors, such as short stays, repeated activities, familiar travel companions and the lack of access to the residents’ lifestyle. Participants reported experiencing eudaimonic wellbeing, rather than happiness and hedonia, and discussed the long-lasting effects of their tourist transformation. Managerial and marketing implications are provided, as well as future directions for transformative tourism research.
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Black Economic Empowerment and South African Tourism : The Early Pioneers

Changing world and changing state : rethinking the roles of the state

Critiquing print media transformation and black empowerment in South Africa : a critical race theory approach

  • Authors: Govenden, Prinola , Chiumbu, Sarah
  • Date: 2020
  • Subjects: Print media , Transformation , Black empowerment
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/455324 , uj:40297 , Citation: Prinola Govenden & Sarah Chiumbu (2020): Critiquing Print Media Transformation and Black Empowerment in South Africa: A Critical Race Theory Approach, Critical Arts, DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2020.1722719
  • Description: Abstract: South Africa is a country found on extreme forms of inequality along race, gender, and class lines. Thus, transformation addressing these inequalities of the apartheid past became a critical factor in the re-organisation of society at the onset of democracy in 1994. One essential intervention in addressing mainly the economic disparities of the past was Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), introduced by the African National Congress (ANC) government to overcome the economic legacy of apartheid. The BEE programme, renamed the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) in 2007, measures the transformation performance of companies across all sectors of the economy, according to a specified scorecard. In the absence of a media-specific transformation policy, the Act serves as its transformation policy standard. This paper critiques the B-BBEE policy instrument in relation to print media transformation using Critical race theory (Delgado et al. 2013; Crenshaw et al. 1995), and related concepts, such as racial capitalism (Leong 2013), and racial liberalism (Crenshaw 2017). The paper finds that despite the racial diversification of the racial composition of the media, B-BBEE is largely an illusion. The B-BBEE strategy has not changed the racial character of the economy, and fundamentally resulted in the co-optation of a small black elite into the wealthy white capitalist elite inherited from the apartheid era, where the “power relationship” reminiscent of apartheid still exists and white privilege intersects with other forms of subordination such as gender and class. Policies supporting media transformation must become ‘race conscious’ in a way that openly confronts racism and engages with systematic racism and exclusion.
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Dominant factors hampering full participation of female contractors in the South African construction industry

I am the cup of water without the cup [or William Kentridge, Steven Cohen, Louis Burke and me (or William Kentridge, Steven Cohen, Louis Burke and Him...)]

  • Authors: Taub, Myer
  • Date: 2009
  • Subjects: Cultural identity , Transformation
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: uj:6207 , ISBN 978-0-620-45946-4 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/5291
  • Description: How do I see myself -as I am: As shifting, fluid, resisting and accommodating; an integrated identity by negotiating what is me with others through a series of events that I respond to as they happen, as I make them happen thus informing me of how I see myself as I am. I am the upstart. The title of this paper is derived from bohemian and poet Phillip O'Connor, who in his memoir Memoirs of a Public Baby (1958) wrote: " I was-and am-like a cup of water without the cup and dangerously flowed into other people's being" (first cited in Andrew Barrow 2002:56). It is a witticism that provokes empathy of the self-asserted marginal and hopes to prove that even within the marginalised there are even further marginalised organisms (including how I see myself). How did I come to this? I trace this view with autobiographical events informed by redemptive criticism in an attempt to understand how I see myself as marginal and embrace myself as such. I intertwine this assumption with readings from Hannah Arendt, Della Pollack and Barbra Myerhoff.
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Offerings of women in the transformation of African higher education : a retrospective overview

  • Authors: Potokri, Onoriode Collins , Perumal, Juliet
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Higher education , Transformation , Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/404255 , uj:33895 , Citation: Potokri, O.C. & Perumal, J. 2019. Offerings of women in the transformation of African higher education : a retrospective overview.
  • Description: Abstract: This article presents an unusual concrete insight to African higher education transformation. The purpose is to examine the roles of African women mainly Charlotte Maxeke, a South African, in the transformation of higher education and to identify the legacy these transformation offerings translate into for women. It is organized as follows: first, the origin of transformation in higher education systems to global massification of education in the background section is traced. Second, in an attempt to understand as a means of examining the roles of women in the transformation of higher education, existing literature as evidence is engaged. Two crucial issues— challenges for African higher education transformation and women’s role in higher education development in Africa—were reviewed analytically toward transformation of higher education. Third, empowerment theory, as suitable theory for the reasonable accomplishment of the purpose of this article, is presented. Last, the theory was applied to the discussions justifying the conclusion. The methodology used is both descriptive and exploratory. The article divulges that women had always being fanatical about empowerment of themselves and others because women had at some points in history contributed to developmental alterations of African higher education given...
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Perceptions of organisational commitment, job satisfaction and turnover intentions in a post merger tertiary institution.

  • Authors: Martin, A. , Roodt, G.
  • Date: 2008
  • Subjects: Merger , Transformation , Environment , Restructuring , Workplace
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: uj:6388 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/1130
  • Description: A merger can be considered both a phenomenological and significant life event for an organisation and its employees, and how people cope with and respond to a merger has a direct impact on the institutional performance in the short to medium term. It is within this context that post-merger perceptions of a tertiary institution were investigated. A predictive model (determined the “best” of 15 predefined models) of turnover intentions was developed for employees of a South African tertiary institution (having undergone its own recent merging process). A systematic model-building process was carried out incorporating various techniques, among others structural equation modelling and step-wise linear regression. The final predictive model explained 47% of the variance in turnover intentions. Contrary to expectations, commitment does not correlate more strongly than satisfaction does with turnover intentions.
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South Africa’s race to return to global sport : results and prospects on home-ground – the case of Cricket

  • Authors: Desai, Ashwin , Maharaj, Brij
  • Date: 2020
  • Subjects: Apartheid , Cricket , Transformation
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/427156 , uj:36667 , Desai, A., Maharaj, B.: South Africa’s race to return to global sport : results and prospects on home-ground – the case of Cricket
  • Description: Abstract: The collapse of apartheid in the 1990s saw the rapid re-entry of South Africa into international sporting fields. This move, backed by the African National Congress (ANC) and given Nelson Mandela’s endorsement, was seen as a strategy to attain two objectives; to cut off the White right wing threat by placating the fears of the White population, and to bring in revenue that would be used to redress the legacy of apartheid sport. This article seeks, through a case study of cricket, to assess the effects of this strategy, especially in relation to the latter goal of redressing inherited socio-spatial inequalities. A key contention of this article is that spatial apartheid and inherited racial boundaries has remained in play, and this has influenced who could be selected to place professional cricket and who is excluded. Two and a half decades since cricketing unity, race is still with us, but so is class.
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Strategic competence and agency : individuals overcoming barriers to change in South African higher education

Thinking/making : a discussion of method in the Emerging Arts Activist Programme’s Chewing the Cud and Angry Youth workshops

  • Authors: Nazier, Farieda , Van Veuren, Mocke J.
  • Date: 2015
  • Subjects: Critical pedagogy , Transformation , Praxis
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/75814 , uj:18723 , Citation: Nazier, F. & Van Veuren, M.J. 2015. Thinking/making : a discussion of method in the Emerging Arts Activist Programme’s Chewing the Cud and Angry Youth workshops.
  • Description: Abstract: This paper investigates and reflects on the methodologies employed, results achieved and questions raised in two recent transformative educational interventions. Both interventions fall under the broader Emerging Arts Activist Programme created by artist and educator Farieda Nazier. Chewing the Cud, the first workshop, was held at the Apartheid Museum in 2013 and facilitated by Nazier; the Angry Youth Workshop was subsequently held with students of the New Nation School in Fietas, 2014, led by Mocke J van Veuren with mentoring by Nazier and Cedric Nunn. The authors compare the ways in which transformative processes and methods developed in their own critical arts practice has influenced the design and delivery of the youthoriented arts interventions mentioned above. Processes of conscientisation, decolonisation, and the exercise of agency are explored through arts practices that address the interface between historicity, the everyday and personal experience as a field of critical discourse. Through the analysis of creative outputs and student feedback, and reflection on methodology, this paper forms part of an on-going project, which aims to develop and test youth-focused critical pedagogies specifically focused on dealing with the aftermath of Apartheid.
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Transformative outcomes : assessing and reorienting experimentation with transformative innovation policy

UJ Advance, Vol. 8, issue 2, 2011

“The scales were peeled from my eyes” -- South African academics coming to consciousness to become agents of change

  • Authors: Idahosa, Grace , Vincent, Louise
  • Date: 2018
  • Subjects: Agency , Structures , Transformation
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/285527 , uj:30880 , Citation: Idahosa, G. & Vincent, L. 2018. “The scales were peeled from my eyes” -- South African academics coming to consciousness to become agents of change.
  • Description: Abstract: For postcolonial societies, addressing the impact of the previous oppressive system in a bid to attain equity and social justice necessitates transformation in various spheres and sectors of society. As cradles of learning, research, and knowledge development, higher education institutions are one such sphere with a particular duty to contribute to, and embody, social transformation. However, almost 25 years after the country’s first democratic elections, the institutional cultures and structures of many South African universities still bear the imprimatur of past inequities. Existing research suggests that the success of transformation policies is influenced by the extent to which individual staff members exercise agency to effect transformatory practices. But what determines whether an individual becomes an agent of change? This paper draws on the experiences of ten academic staff members who have taken actions that can be said to have contributed to shifting in important ways relations and/or practices at one university in South Africa. It adopts a hermeneutic phenomenological lens to understand the lived experiences of participants of having agency and undertaking transformative actions. In taking this approach we seek an understanding of experience grounded within specific contexts. Analysis of the in-depth interviews with the participants suggested that the underlying catalyst which drives an individual to involve her/himself in actions toeffect change is ‘a coming to consciousness’. The paper explores the “coming to consciousness” narratives of the participants and argues that being ‘conscious’ is a necessary condition for being able to identify the discourses, practices and ways of being that perpetuate injustice. Recognising such discourses, norms and ways of being, enables the agent to then find ways of rejecting and changing such oppressive structures and cultures.
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