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ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
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2nd Annual African American Living Legends Series - Cab Calloway performs

, 2016
Honoree Cab Calloway performs at the second annual African American Living Legends Series program, at A C Bilbrew ...
LA County Library
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Příprava konference Perspectives on Contemporary Legend

Lidé města, 2014
Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy v Praze a International Society for Contemporary Legend Research pořádají ve dnech 3. – 8. června 2014 v Praze 32. ročník mezinárodní konference věnované problematice soudobých neformálně i mediálně šířených kolektivně sdílených narativů, především takzvaným současným (městským) pověstem a fámám.
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The Legend of Sisyphus in Contemporary Arabic Poetry

Journal of University of Human Development, 2016
تُعد الأسطورة من المواضيع الشيقة التي أثارت انتباه الشعراء والنقاد والباحثين , لقد شاهدنا منذ منتصف القرن الماضي توجهاً واسعا نحو الاسطورة بكل أنواعها و الأساطير اليونانية على وجه التحديد , و هذا التوجه لايزال قائماً الى يومنا هذا , فأردنا أن نبيّن الأسباب التي أدت الى هذا الأمر , صحيح أن الأبحاث التي أُجريت حول الاسطورة عديدة و لكننا نرى هذا الحقل ...
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How Cultural Taste Shapes Recognition and Redistribution Struggles: Far‐Right Politics, Touristification and the Political Economy of Taste

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and drawing on Mike Savage and Nancy Fraser, it examines how public performances of taste reshape representations of working‐class culture and how these
Simone Varriale
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Nebezpečné „veřejné“ mínění lidu v 18. století v českých zemích (Dangerous Common Opinion of People in the Czech Lands in 18th Century )

Ostium, 2017
The article deals with the advent of the formation of public opinion in the Czech lands in the end of 18th century. Specific attention focuses on the reflection of the French Revolution and its effects on the Czech environment, especially on minds of ...
Kateřina Soukalová
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The national narrative in Chinese science fiction and the innovative transformation of traditional Chinese culture

Cultures of Science
Chinese science fiction (sci-fi) draws nutrition from traditional Chinese culture to achieve a modern transformation and promote the development of the national narrative in Chinese sci-fi. There are three ways to realise the transformation. First, adapt
Chao Peng
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27th Annual African American Living Legends Series - Natalie Cole speaks

, 2006
Honoree Natalie Cole speaks at the podium and during the 27th Annual African American Living Legends Series ...
LA County Library
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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Evolution of Societies: A Comparative Study of Ibn Khaldun and Herbert Spencer

Ittesaal
Ibn Khaldun is renowned as a remarkable Islamic historiographer and a political philosopher, while Herbert Spencer is known as a Social Darwinist and a western positivist.
Arjmand Zahra
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