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An Outline of a Theory of Play
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
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Science Festivals: Evolution, Structures, Impacts and Challenges
EncyclopediaScience Festivals are public events focused on showcasing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in a celebratory and engaging setting similar in atmosphere to an arts or music event.
Cherry Canovan
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Crises in Official and Popular Festivities: on the Cases of Gabrovo, Varshets and Kosti
Проблеми на постмодерността, 2022 The article analyzes the potential of local festivals to serve as an instrument to overcome crises in three particular case studies, namely Gavrovo's Festival of Humour and Satire, Varshets' Resort, Mineral Water and the Balkan Mountains Festival and ...
Georgi K. Medarov
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Glad!, 2018 RER Q is a collective of Paris-based queer feminist authors who write the unrepresentable, the explicit, the tender, the raw, and the erotic. In their performances, multiple bodies and voices are drawn together in space, exploding the edges of the ...
RER Q collectif d’autriX
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Sustainable Tourism and Projectification: Evidence from South‐Eastern Italy
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how public policy can be used to promote local tourism and steer it towards sustainability. It uses the municipality of Lecce—a medium‐sized city in south‐eastern Italy—and the broader Salento region as a critical case study, drawing on descriptive statistics, administrative data on local policy projects promoting culture
Lorenzo Mascioli
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Cities Under Pressure: Evidence on Tourism Growth and Neighbourhood Change in Europe
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Across European cities, the rapid growth of tourism is reshaping urban life in increasingly contested ways. While the sector continues to support local economies, it is also increasingly associated with the sense that neighbourhoods are becoming less liveable for residents.
Mafalda Batalha
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STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL AND OTHER INNOVATIVE MEANS OF LEGAL TRAINING AND EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE
Высшее образование в России, 2016 In 2014 the First International Student Film Festival took place in Novosibirsk Law Institute (branch) of the National Research Tomsk State University.
Yuriy P. Garmaev, Lidia P. Chumakova
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood.
Gabrielle McCoy
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The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
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