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Boston Hospitality Review: Spring 2016 [PDF]
, 2016 Understanding the Momentum and Motivations of Foreign Investors in U.S. Hospitality by Ken Wilson and Liya Ma -- Creating Memorable Experiences: How hotels can fight back against Airbnb and other sharing economy providers by Makarand Mody -- Rebranding ...
Brown, Eric +9 more
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Understanding Urban Cultural Festivals as Social Infrastructure
Geography Compass, Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2025.ABSTRACT This paper is concerned with the role that urban cultural festivals play in enhancing the quality and vitality of social life. It acknowledges that their reputation has become tarnished in recent years and that festivals now frequently feature in debates because they are charged with inciting tensions, exclusions and contestations. However, of
Bernadette Quinn
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Places/Non-Places: Galicia on the \u3cem\u3eRoad of St. James\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2017 This chapter offers a critical reconsideration of the theory according to which the Road of St. James (Camiño de Santiago) provides a site for ethnic identity-making capable of modernizing Galicia as a rural region.
Afinoguénova, Eugenia
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Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 20, Issue 2, Page 159-176, June 2025.ABSTRACT This article argues that resilience has been overemphasised in popular and scholarly discourse, while social vulnerability has been comparatively overlooked. We therefore need to shift the focus from resilience and adaptation towards vulnerability and the various structures that engender and maintain systemic inequality and disadvantage.
Shinya Uekusa +2 more
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Chuck palahniuk’s fight club under a different lens: pressures on the male body in community and the question of masculinity [PDF]
, 2018 The present paper aims to analyse Chuck Palahniuk’s first novel Fight Club (1996) from a different viewpoint, i.e., the communitarian theories perspective. In order to enrich this study, this field will be interconnected with gender studies, specifically
Fuentes Fuentes, Carmen
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Standing upright here: critical disaster studies viewed from the Antipodes
Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 20, Issue 2, Page 143-158, June 2025.ABSTRACT This article seeks to reinvigorate disaster scholarship, given the disastrous times we find ourselves in. In order to do so, we extend the spatial and temporal horizons of disasters, and consider them as normal processes as well as aberrant events. Knowledge need not exclusively emanate from the metropolitan centres of the Global North.
Steve Matthewman +2 more
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RITUAL AND SELF‐ESTEEM IN VICTOR TURNER AND HEINZ KOHUT
Zygon, 1983 . This paper uses Victor Turner's recent discussion of liminal and liminoid forms of communitas to criticize psychoanalytic praxis, both theory and therapy.
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The Book of Genesis and other allegorical origin stories of games
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 1, Page 1-18, February 2025.Abstract This essay delves into the complex interplay between the sacred and the ludic, with a particular emphasis on allegorical origin stories from various religious and mythological traditions, highlighting their portrayal of games and the concept of play. The analysis includes the Judaeo‐Christian Book of Genesis and the Babylonian Enuma Elish.
Bo Kampmann Walther
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Caliban: French Journal of English Studies, 2016 Chickasaw writer Linda Hogan builds on a Native American tradition of creative story-telling which interweaves history with myth, science, poetry, and imagination.
Bénédicte Meillon
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RELIGIOUS AFTERLIVES OF A REVOLUTION
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 27-54, February 2025.ABSTRACT When do revolutions end? How do revolutions live on in embodied affects, relationships, and horizons of aspiration? This article describes the remaking of religion among upper‐middle‐class Egyptians who participated in the 2011 uprising.
AMIRA MITTERMAIER
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