Psychological Distress of Cuban Americans Affected by Restrictive U.S. Travel Policies

We describe the mental health consequences of United States travel policies affecting Cuban Americans (CAs) with relatives in Cuba and discuss these policies in the context of U.S. domestic politics and the Bush administration's desire for regime change in Cuba. Policies put into effect in 2004 restrict CAs from visiting relatives in Cuba more than once every 3 years, narrowly define family whom CAs can legally visit, and limit the assistance they can provide their Cuban relatives. We share case reports based on qualitative interviews with 53 Cuban Americans that illustrate travel-related psychological distress (TRPD) experienced by CAs in response to the restrictions. We note the difficulties CAs experience in coping with TRPD and the need for political and mental health interventions to address this condition. TRPD is directly related to the government's violation of the human and constitutional rights of CAs to travel freely. It is the responsibility of the state to restore those rights. Human services professionals should oppose TRPD as antithetical to family well-being.     

晚清时期日本学者的两部中国西南纪行

晚清时期,不少日本人基于各种目的来到中国西南考察游历,撰写了不少西南纪行或调查报告。《栈云峡雨日记》和《从人类学上看中国西南》是近代El本人西南纪行中独具特色的两本,分别由近代最早踏入西南大地的竹添光鸿和唯一一位以少数民族为调查中心的鸟居龙藏撰写,游记不仅为今天的西南近代史、西南少数民族史研究提供了重要史料,同时对研究近代日本的中国认知变迁亦具有重要意义。     

无景点旅游视阈下养生旅游开发模式研究

无景点养生旅游是养生旅游步入成熟期的一种新业态。无景点养生旅游糅合了无景点旅游与养生旅游的概念,是现有旅游健康性受到挑战、吸引物不断泛化、旅游者养生旅游需求旺盛和旅游业发展趋于成熟背景下的必然产物。无景点养生旅游的主要特征是自主性、养生性与经济性。在开发过程中,要以自然人文养生资源为依托,注重注入文化灵魂,深化区域内外合作,努力实现居民收入的增长,并通过智慧旅游建设实现整合营销,树立无景点养生旅游目的地品牌形象。     

明清时期山水怡性旅游的自然回归

明清时期程朱理学逐渐衰微,新兴的心学,倡导主体性的凸显和生命价值的实现,强调心与万物相通。在这种背景下,倡导回归人的自然天性、强调怡情怡性的山水旅游观念应运而生,为明清的旅游活动带来了一股清新之风。这种于山水旅游中的本性释放,用"心"感悟山水风景之美,摆脱俗世的烦扰,从而回归人之自然属性的"怡情"之游,正是对自然人性的合理回归。     

电视旅游节目主持人语言艺术研究

根据广播电视语言传播规律及电视旅游节目的特点,电视旅游节目主持人有声语言和副语言运用的基本要求和原则是：有声语言要打造声音品牌、锻炼语言思维能力;副语言要力求和谐、自然、简洁。     

TRAVEL AS AN ANALYTIC OF EXCLUSION: BECOMING NONCITIZENS,AND THE POLITICS OF MOBILITY AFTER THE BERLIN WALL

This article examines the ways in which travel serves as an analytic to understand citizenship and the production of noncitizens after the Berlin Wall. This production is linked to a shift in the post-Wall German and European discourses and practices of asylum, which are significantly renegotiated and restricted shortly after the Wall falls. It is not only the law that changes, but also the mobility of the subjects perceived not to belong. The production of non-citizens is also related to official and unofficial articulations that attach Germanness to “Whiteness.” “Black” subjects must not only negotiate their citizenship via real histories of mobility and displacement but also because their skin itself signifies travel and adventure. In the end, I write about the space that this imagination of travel and adventure through “Black” bodies both opens up and closes off for a politics based on “Blackness.” I turn from normative accounts to the voices and bodies of “Black” subjects themselves.     

Too close to home? The relationships between residential distance to venue and gambling outcomes

Although gambling accessibility is generally viewed as a multidimensional construct, few studies have successfully untangled the specific role of spatial accessibility in determining gambling outcomes relative to other forms (i.e. temporal, social and psychological). In this paper, we explore the association between gambling outcomes and the distance travelled from a person's home to their most-frequented gambling venue. To this end, we conducted a geocoded mail survey of 7044 households in the Northern Territory of Australia. We employed a geographic information system to calculate the network distance from each household to all visited electronic gaming machine (EGM) venues (n = 64). Multivariate regression modelling revealed that, when adjusted for individual and neighbourhood-level characteristics, frequency of venue visitation and gambling participation were inversely related to residential distance from venue. There was no additional distance effect for problem gambling. Spatial accessibility of EGMs is an important determinant of gambling risk and should be explicitly considered by regulators.     

Meeting in the Global Workplace: Air Travel,Telepresence and the Body

Abstract

In the highly connected and globalised corporate workplace, face-to-face communication is persisting and expanding, despite significant advances and investments in telecommunication. Drawing on interviews with 34 employees from an Australian company trying to reduce air travel associated with business meetings, this paper reveals how telepresence facilitates distinctly different practices of meeting and collaborating to those enabled by face-to-face encounters. The analysis draws attention to the essential role of the body in the practices of virtual and in-person business meetings. During in-person meetings the body’s physical presence conveys meanings of respect and value, provides sensorial competency and gestures, and enables physical mobility as it carries people between and within different material environments. The paper concludes by identifying some possibilities for telepresence meetings to replicate and replace in-person meetings as a normal and effective way of collaborating in the global workplace.     

Driving,Communicating and Working: Understanding the Work-related Communication Behaviours of Business Travellers on Work-related Car Journeys

Abstract

Despite an increasing number of workers requiring to travel extensively in carrying out their work, there are significant gaps in knowledge related to how business travellers make use of journey time. This paper addresses this gap in knowledge by examining the journey-time behaviours of business people travelling by car on work-related journeys. One of the central focuses of the paper is on the extent to which business travellers use mobile communication technologies and the extent to which they experience a pressure to remain in ‘perpetual contact’ with colleagues and clients while travelling.     

社交网站上旅游嫉妒的作用及其性别差异

依据社会比较理论,构建社会比较、自我呈现、旅游嫉妒与出游意向间的概念模型,采用问卷 调查方式,在岳麓山—橘子洲旅游景区面向常使用社交网站的青年旅游者实施抽样调查获得基础数据, 以结构方程模型揭示社交网站上旅游嫉妒作用机制及性别差异。结果表明：社会比较正向影响旅游嫉妒, 同时正向影响出游意向;积极自我呈现负向影响旅游嫉妒,其与出游意向不呈负向关系;真实自我呈 现正向影响出游意向,其与旅游嫉妒关系不显著。旅游嫉妒的作用具有较明显的性别差异,青年女性 旅游嫉妒对出游意向呈显著正向影响,影响效果值达 0.251;其真实自我呈现与旅游嫉妒呈负向影响关 系,效果值为 -0.043 且不显著。青年男性旅游嫉妒对出游意向影响不显著,效果值为 0.114;其真实自 我呈现与旅游嫉妒呈正向影响关系,效果值为 0.077 且不显著。