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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 1, March 2025.Short Abstract In this paper, I describe how I have contended with the fraught relationships among mapping, nationalism, and colonialism in my teaching and research. I describe the ways my own thinking about mapping has been pushed in new directions by insights from Black geographies.
Camilla Hawthorne
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The ‘Friday effect’: School attendance over the weeki
British Educational Research Journal, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 73-92, February 2025.Abstract Using newly released detailed data on absence from school, we find a ‘Friday effect’—children are much less likely to attend schools in England on Fridays. We use daily level data across the whole of England and find that this pattern holds for different schools and for different types of absence, including illness‐related authorised and ...
Joanna Clifton‐Sprigg, Jonathan James
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From Ruslana to Gaitana: Performing “Ukrainianness” in the Eurovision Song Contest
Contemporary Southeastern Europe, 2015 This article considers how the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) has come to be used as a platform for the politicisation of national identity in Ukraine. Ukraine can be described as an amalgam of regions with different ethnolinguistic, economic, cultural ...
Paul Jordan
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'Anyone who is worth something, went away' - Rambo Amadeus, Eurosong and Tourism in Montenegro [PDF]
In Medias Res, 2013 In this paper, I will focus my attention on the latest song by Rambo Amadeus, titled Euro Neuro, and it’s music video, that are meant to represent Montenegro on the Eurovision song contest.
Adriana Sabo
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What Sweden thinks about markets, capitalism and the rich
Economic Affairs, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 27-44, February 2025.Abstract Attitudes towards the rich are far more positive in Sweden than in France, Spain, Germany, and Italy. Attitudes towards the market economy are also more positive in Sweden than in all other European countries, except Poland. Although Sweden is perceived by some as a model of ‘democratic socialism’, it has been 50 years since that this was ...
Anders Ydstedt, Rainer Zitelmann
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The Journal of Contemporary European StudiesThis article focuses on the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) as a potential tool for EU public diplomacy. Institutionally, the ESC, a pan-European international mega-event that forms images of Europe, is not related to the EU.
Hila Zahavi, Gal Ariely
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 3-27, January 2025.Abstract The ability of the European community to respond to the multiple crises threatening the European Union and Europe depends in part on citizens' shared European identity giving legitimacy and support to communal action. Men's elite European club football is an example of a cultural practice that is highly Europeanised, reaches diverse audiences ...
Jonas Biel +7 more
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Eurovision 2017 was remarkable for its lack of politics [PDF]
, 2017 The build up to the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest was overshadowed by a dispute between Russia and Ukraine which resulted in Russia withdrawing from the event.
Baker, Catherine
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, 2005 We investigate the complex relationships between countries in the Eurovision Song Contest, by recasting past voting data in terms of a dynamical network. Despite the British tendency to feel distant from Europe, our analysis shows that the U.K.
Albert +15 more
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Expert judgment versus public opinion - evidence from the Eurovision Song Contest [PDF]
For centuries, there have been discussions as to whether only experts can judge the quality of cultural output, or whether the taste of the public also has merit.
Dijkstra, Gerhard +2 more
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