The ‘civilising’ effect of a ‘balanced’ night-time economy for ‘better people’: class and the cosmopolitan limit in the consumption and regulation of alcohol in Bournemouth [PDF]
The British night-time economy today has been characterised by academics across various disciplines as the result of neoliberal attempts to regenerate the evening economy ‘on the cheap’, leading to the dominance of ‘mainstream nightlife’ at the expense of subcultural traditional working- class alternatives.
Haydock, William
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Media and Cultural Consumption by Young Students in the City of São Paulo, Brazil: Evidences of Digital Divide, Possibilities of Cosmopolitanism [PDF]
This paper presents the initial findings of a Brazilian project, which is part of an international research group, studying youth cultures in the age of globalization.
Wilson Roberto Bekesas +2 more
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Defamiliarizing the Familial: a Cosmopolitan Reading of Satyajit Ray’s “Agantuk”
In their introduction to the anthology Cosmopolitanisms, Breckenridge et al. describe cosmopolitanism as “ways of living at home abroad or abroad at home” (2000: 587).
Nishita Kattar
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Purpose – The purpose of the study is to investigate the role of cosmopolitan and ethnocentric behaviour of ethnic food consumer on the intention to consume ethnic food in country of origin (ICEC).
Sadia Azi +2 more
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The Uses of Art: Contemporary Changes in Cultural Consumption and the Function of Art
In recent years aesthetics and cosmopolitanism have been linked in new ways. On the one hand, contemporary research in the sociology of art indicates an increasing openness and a potential cosmopolitanism in aesthetic taste and consumption.
Birgit Eriksson
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Platform placemaking and the digital urban culture of Airbnbification
This paper develops the notion of “platform placemaking”, describing how platforms mobilize user data to remake urban spatial imaginaries in their interests.
Petter Törnberg
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Planet YouPorn: Pornography, Worlding, and Banal Globalization in Michel Houellebecq’s Work
This article studies mediated erotic content, especially pornography, as a form of worlding in Michel Houellebecq’s work. Whereas love creates a space of alterity, pornography paradoxically combines the most intimate spatiality of the body with ever ...
Gustaf Marcus
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Comparing “cosmopolitanism” : taste, nation and global culture in Finland and the UK [PDF]
This paper adds a comparative perspective to the study of taste, cosmopolitanism and social organisation. Drawing on material provided by two similar projects in the UK and Finland it explores the relationships between national and cosmopolitan taste ...
Heikkilä, Riie +2 more
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This study links two major trends in society and industry, cosmopolitanism and sustainable consumer behavior. On the one hand, the rise in cosmopolitan consumers implies openness to products in different markets and more responsible consumption; and on the other hand, the society and environment need the openness of conscious consumers to adopt ...
Jin Su, Maria Gil Del Altcazar
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Urban encounters: juxtapositions of difference and the communicative interface of global cities [PDF]
This article explores the communicative interface of global cities, especially as it is shaped in the juxtapositions of difference in culturally diverse urban neighbourhoods.
Amin, A. +12 more
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