Slak Valek / Zedan A Social View of Socotra Island

People, Culture, Heritage
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-981-99-4358-6
Verlag: Springer Singapore
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 210 Seiten, eBook

This book focuses on Socotra Island, geographically based in Yemen, and aims to explore the island from the social sciences point of view. This book focuses on people indigenous to Socotra, Socotri cultures, heritage and also offers contributions from business, tourism, linguistic, communication, and anthropology. While a lot has been published in natural science about Socotra’s endemic species, biodiversity, and nature in general, social scientific research of the island is very limited. This book addresses therefore addresses this gap and explores various topics of tourism, behaviours, cultures, and language.
This book focuses on a clear social science approach of Socotra. The purpose of this book is to publish research about the people, behaviors, heritage, and potential tourism of Socotra. The Socotra Archipelago has long been a land of mystery. It is unknown as a tourism destination for many, however, is a popular destination for adventurers, photographers and travelers who like to travel to remote and undeveloped places. This book explains how Socotra has limited resources of electricity, which is provided by diesel generators, Internet is very slow and limited to certain points on the island. There are no shopping malls or five-star hotels. Roads, schools, and hospitals have been built only recently. This book shoes how these island people do not know the development as we do, which makes it principally interesting to research. 
Previous interviewers of Socotri people about tourism development in the island have faced many challenges such as language barriers, lack of understanding the meanings and interviewing content, lack of support for the anticipated research results. This book successfully undertakes this challenge as not only in understanding the language, but understanding phenomena like e.g. tourism. Whilst acknowledging the ways in which indigenous island people have never travelled or seen a developed city. Thus, words like ‘developed’, ‘tourism destination’ or ‘washing machine’ may be unfamiliar terms for them. Therefore, new and innovative research methods that are sensitive to Socotra people were implemented in the creation of this book. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Slak Valek, Nataša

Slak Valek, Natasa

Zedan, Ahmad Abdelmoniem

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword:Paolo Mora A need of social science research in remote island will be presented in foreword.
Chapter 1: Introduction of Socotra Island Ahmad Abdelmoneim ZedanThis chapter will present facts of Socotra Island and the need of research of Socotri people, heritage, and cultures. 
Chapter 2: Alia YunisWhile UNESCO deemed Socotra as having “universal values” because of its unique and threatened ecology, it failed to mention the uniqueness of the indigenous people and their relationship to its flora and fauna. This chapter considers whether the Socotra people’s relationship to the dragon tree becoming a World Heritage Site in 2008 and emerging as an adventure tourism destination in the past five years has created an erasure of local heritage.
Chapter 3: Petr SauerThis chapter will create a special methodology for multicriteria assessment of utility from visiting destinations with a function of “winter exotic tourism” for people from abroad, particularly from “the North”. Socotra Island, as a destination with emerging tourism, will be one of these sites. This arrangement will make it possible to make a comparison of conditions for tourism in existing destinations and in emerging ones. A draft application of the methodology will be managed based on publicly available data.
Chapter 4: Taghreed M. Abu SarhanAlthough Socotra’s flora and fauna have been extensively studied, little is known about family life, including parenting and childrearing. As change comes to Socotra, it is important to understand the protective factors that will keep families strong. This chapter will present an ethnographic study using observation and semi- and un-structured individual and group dialogue/interviews with Socotri people. The goal is to increase our understanding of Socotri families, including gender roles, expectations for children, and responses to change.
Chapter 5: Qais Ibrahim AlmeqdadThe aim of this chapter is to present research on Socotri people with disabilities and how are they treated by family and society in this remote island. This research will use an ethnographic study applying observation method and semi- and un-structured individual and group dialogue/interviews with Socotri people.
Chapter 6: Lacey SloanIndigenous practices are recognized as based on centuries of knowledge and experience maintaining a balance with nature (Sloan & Schmitz, 2019). This chapter will focus on understanding indigenous Socotri traditions and how can they form strategies to preserve the special ecology of these islands as pressure from development grows. The aim is to learn how Socotri people have preserved the environment across the generations, and how changes are impacting them.
Chapter 7: Federica Letizia Cavallo & Giovanna Di MatteoOur contribution focuses on Socotra’s traditional fishing from the perspective of human geography – considering its constrains and opportunities. This chapter will present traditional fishing techniques and cultures, individuating local communities where to investigate the state of the art concerning traditional boats, fishing tools and related constructive techniques. Moreover, it will present opportunities to develop community-based fishing tourism in Socotra Island.
Chapter 8: Wagdi Rashad Ali Bin-HadyThis chapter will uncover some of the factors which help preserve the Socotri traditions along the years of integration with people from different cultural backgrounds. Moreover, the study also explores how the Socotri people perceive the new traditions that invades their society. A qualitative research design will be attained in this study. The study will interview twenty Socotri native researchers in the field of Socotri language, traditions and heritage to collect some information to answer the queries.
Chapter 9: Zoe Hurley The aims of the study are to create a space where Socotra women can visualize their currentenvironmental context and experiences. Additionally, visual artefacts are considered as sites forthe construction of a collective voice, political capabilities, and empowerment of Socotra women.The questions of this study ask, how do Socotra women view themselves, their challenges, and opportunities in the Socotran context? Methods involve giving 12 Socotra women digital cameras. This informs the study’s novel visual participatory framework enunciating Socotra women’s perspectives. 
Chapter 10: Nataša Slak ValekConclusion – a summary of results and learning outcomes of all chapters of this book. 

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Nataša Slak Valek is an Associate Professor at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. Before that, she worked at I-Shou University in Taiwan. She also worked for ten years at the National Tourism Office in Slovenia (Slovenian Tourist Board) first as a Professional researcher, and later as a Marketing Manager. Her research focus on tourism management, art tourism, heritage tourism, cultural tourism. Her most recent publications appear in international peer reviewed academic journals such as Journal of Destination Marketing and Management, Event Management, Tourism Management Perspectives, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Changes and Journal of International Consumer Marketing.She recently published an edited book titled Women in Tourism in Asian Muslim Countries, Springer (2021)
Dr. Ahmad Abdelmoneim Zedan is the Vice president of Socotra University. He led the internal assessment and provided consultations on the fields of comprehensive quality management and ongoing improvement. He also participated in setting up legal drafting and contract drafting courses at the Egyptian training centers. He has participated in establishing and preparing a training program for teachers and trainers to qualify them to teach Arabic for non-Arabic speakers at the AUC. For over 12 years, he has taught legal and contract drafting at the AUC, and he worked as a Project Manager at the Arabic and Translation Studies Division at the University. Furthermore, he taught legal and contract drafting at several institutions like Cairo University, Ain Shams University, Sadat Academy for Management Sciences, State Information Service (SIS), Egyptian Tax Authority, Ahram Regional Institute for Journalism (AHRIJ), and Radio and Television Institute. He Translated the World Bank’s World Development Indicators in 2013, and was one of the translators of Reengineering Management Operations. He Coauthored the Arabic book Together to Study Arabic Syntax and Morphology, Nahdet Masr Publishing House, 2008. He Reviewed Terror Presidency, Nahdet Masr Publishing House, 2009 and Reviewed September 11 Events, Nahdet Masr Publishing House, 2009.