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Eurovision and the City: “United by Music” Meets “Malmö against Genocide”
“United by Music” was the slogan of the 2024 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held in Malmö. However, the festive spirit of the event oddly contrasted with what was described as “the largest police operation in Sweden’s history” (Ivarsson, 2024 ...
Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou +5 more
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The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is an annual event which attracts millions of viewers. It is an interesting activity to examine since the participants of the competition represent a particular country's musical performance that will be awarded a set of
Hopkins, Alexander D. +2 more
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In recent years, the opinion that the Eurovision Song Contest has become highly politicised is prevalent in the media and the popular voice, although not much research exists that can attest to this claim.
María García-Gámez +1 more
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Introduction : gender and geopolitics in the Eurovision Song Contest [PDF]
From the vantage point of the early 1990s, when the end of the Cold War not only inspired the discourses of many Eurovision performances but created opportunities for the map of Eurovision participation itself to significantly expand in a short space of ...
Baker, Catherine
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State of the Field: The History of Masculinities
Abstract This State of the Field article discusses how, when and why the history of masculinities has emerged since the 1980s, and why it continues to be an important research field today. The article begins with the field's multiple origin stories and then discusses its expansion in chronology, geography and theme, as well as newer directions for ...
ERICA L. FRASER
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“Much More than a Song Contest”: Exploring Eurovision 2014 as Potlatch
As economic and budgetary scandals reached Danish front pages in 2014 over the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) held that year in Copenhagen, many bystanders questioned the sense of the event, proclaiming it a massive waste of public money. In this article,
Morten Krogh Petersen, Carina Ren
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Abstract What is ‘Europe’? The response to this question is not straightforward, as ‘Europe’ is a floating signifier that is in constant renegotiation. In this article, we focus on the imaginary of ‘Europe’ that has been deployed in the most salient international crises of the last years that have heavily shaken European Union (EU) politics: the ...
Alvaro Oleart, Juan Roch
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The Eurovision Song Contest states that ‘a rich history of promoting diversity [and] inclusivity’ is amongst its core values. Furthermore, the contest claims to able to ‘bridge differences and ignite a sense of shared community.’ Despite this, Catherine ...
Greg Cotton
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An Investigation on Text-Based Cross-Language Picture Retrieval Effectiveness through the Analysis of User Queries [PDF]
Purpose: This paper describes a study of the queries generated from a user experiment for cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) from a historic image archive. Italian speaking users generated 618 queries for a set of known-item search tasks.
Clough, Paul, Petrelli, Daniela
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Reframing Gender‐Inclusive Language in German Education: Politics, Pedagogy, and Possibilities
ABSTRACT Recently in Germany the question of gender‐inclusive language has become another front in the culture wars. Headlines portray these linguistic innovations as disruptive and unnecessary while politicians across Germany have moved to ban or restrict certain types of inclusive language.
Maureen O. Gallagher
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