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Item Community perception and participation for sustainable homestay tourism: A study of Bandipur and Ghalegaun homestay(Department of Economics, 2023) Ghimire, PushkarTourism is an important industry for Nepal, given its rich natural and cultural resources. Homestay tourism, in particular, is being promoted by the Nepalese government as a poverty reduction strategy that creates employment opportunities. The study aimed to examine the perceptions of the community towards sustainable development in homestays in Bandipur and Ghalegaun, Nepal. The research utilized a descriptive research design to explain people's perceptions of sustainable homestay tourism in the two locations. The study universe was considered to be all individuals living in Bandipur and Ghalegaun, and 340 individuals were selected using the stratified sampling method. The primary data was collected through a questionnaire designed using Doxey's Irridex Model (1975), and descriptive statistics were used for data analysis. The study revealed that among the respondents engaged in the tourism sector, 35.14% were government officers, 22.97% were hotel and restaurant businessmen, and 21.62% were local government representatives. The majority of respondents (41.89% and 37.84%) believed that their participation in homestay tourism contributed to environmental protection and cultural promotion, respectively. However, 40.54% of respondents felt that their participation did not contribute to the development of infrastructure. Additionally, 31.08% and 27.03% of respondents stated that their participation did not affect policy- making and coordination with the community, respectively. The study found that for sustainable tourism development, the participation, motivation, accessibility, and responsibility of the local community, benefit-sharing, government role, participation in promotional activities, and focus on local people or benefit-sharing with them were all vital. Improvements in facilities and the education of local people were also found to play an essential role. Overall, the study highlights the significance of community participation and perception towards sustainable development in homestay tourism in Bandipur and Ghalegaun. The findings provide insights that could assist policymakers and tourism stakeholders in developing and promoting sustainable homestay tourism. Key words: local participation, motivation, environmental protection, responsibilityItem Conflict between Desire and Responsibility in John Updike’sRabbit, Run(Department of English, 2006) Bhattarai, Punya PrasadThis research makes an intensive study of John Updike’sRabbit, Run. This novel shows the conflict between Desire and Responsibility of Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the protagonist. Rabbit, driven by instincts and impulses, gives too much importance to self-interest, neglecting the responsibilities to others. Rabbit goes to a prostitute, Ruth, for sexual gratification because he has grown disgusted with his wife, Janice, who is pregnant, alcoholic and smoker. Rabbit, who had the glorious past in his school days, now, leads a monotonous life. Rabbit runs away to avoid the monotonous life and revive the glorious past.Item Critique of Objectification of Women in Greene’sThe Heart of the Matter(Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, 2012) Chaudhary, SabitaThe Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene depicts the notion of objectification, undermining and negative images constructed about female in the novel. By applying the feminist theory, the researcher has examined the incidents and events which make a clear point of objectification, while undermining the negative images of women. This novel contains the story of female characters who are undermined and objectified by the male character Henry. He uses the female characters as sex objects or pleasure things and defines them as weak, sexual, dependent, irrational, erotic, inferior, bread bakers among others and takes himself as powerful, independent, rational, superior, decisive, ordered and subject. Female characters like Louise and Helen are being objectified and undermined by the male character Henry in the name of pity, love and responsibility. He undermines his wife abandoning her from husband’s love and rights and takes his daughter figure Helen as a mistress to commit adultery. And to escape from his sin and shame of adultery he commits suicide comparing himself to God Christ for his wife Louise and his Mistress Helen’s peace, welfare and happiness. In fact, the male character Henry commits suicide when his superiority is in crisis and projects his image as deliverer for the women.Item Ethical Rendition of the Otherin Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible(Department of English, 2017) Lamichhane, Karishma KumariThis thesis is a critical discussion of Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Poisonwood Biblefrom the perspective of ethical humanism. With the help of the reference from text, the researcher finds out that Kingsolver deploys the characters influenced by both modern and postmodern ethics. There are few characterswho follow Kantian rational morality and while some other characters follow postmodern ethical humanism. The major characters are other centered. Liberal humanist characters like Nathan, Elexroot and Joseph Mobutu are egomaniac, self-centered, ethnocentric and rational. They disregard the feelings of others, they dehumanize human sentiments. In contrast, characters like Leah, Anatole, Orleanna, Adah, Ruth May, Mama Mwanza and Brother Fowles focus more on sensibility, responsibility and empathy. They respect the otherness of other. The novelist intends to say that rational universal morality is no more a moral ethics, it fails to address the current necessity of understanding the other. Hence, the concept of auto/ethno continuum is appropriate in order to understand other. Ethical humanism focuses on the other, it is other centered. It is only possible when one abandons his pride and prejudices, biases and open oneself for change. Ultimately, in the novel characters who were rational earlier change themselves in the course of time and develop a mature self which respects the Other, feel responsible towards other and have genuine empathy towards other. Hence, the ultimate goal of ethical humanism is to establish harmonious and respectful relationship between self and other.Item Responsibility to the Traumatised Other in Manto’s Partition Stories(Central Department of English, 2016) Rai, PurnimaThis dissertation concentrates on or analyses Sa’adat Hassan Manto’s partition stories that reflects or presents his humanism through the emphasis on responsibility to the Other, in this case, towards the traumatised partition victims. Furthermore, his partition stories present the realism of partition violence starkly but humanistically-morally rather than culturally-ethically. Drawing upon the theory of responsibility to the Other, this dissertation assumes that to be considered a good, true and authentic representation of communal violence, literature should be purged of all sentimentality of the writer and s/he should take the moral responsibility for all crimes and evils committed by giving agency to the traumatised victims, and Manto’s partition stories have these mentioned qualities. This dissertation draws upon Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas’s theory of responsibility to the Other, Jacques Derrida’s concepts such as “democracy to come,” “cosmopolitanism,” and “forgiveness;” and Giorgio Agamben’s concepts such as “Muselmann,” bare life, and agency. By drawing upon the mentioned theorists, this dissertation argues that Manto’s partition stories are true and authentic representation of macabre violence which invests the victims with the agency of their trauma; and projects him as a responsible writer and a true humanists, a champion of the human rights.