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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT From its very inception, the Jewish National Movement Hibbat Zion turned to the collective past to advance its goals in the present. One of their activities was to reinterpret Jewish holidays and festivals, especially those that did not take a central place in the Jewish calendar.
Asaf Yedidya
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Review of Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640 by Miguel A. Valerio
Journal of Festive Studies, 2023 Caroline Cunill
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Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores how Danish upper secondary students, when positioned as bystanders, evaluate risk in situations involving or potentially escalating into sexual harassment or violence. Drawing on psychological risk perception literature, we focus on the cognitive, emotional, and contextual factors that shape young bystanders' recognition ...
Terese Hartmann, Sarah van Mastrigt
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Review of Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit by Ashley Mears
Journal of Festive Studies, 2023 Alix Boirot
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Journal of Festive StudiesPrevious scholarship on the politics of affect in Iran has highlighted the political potential of joy—both within the country and across the diaspora—as a form of resistance against the nation-state’s imposition of sadness and affective mandates ...
Golriz Shayani
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Traditional Festivals From European Ethnology to Festive Studies
, 2019 This essay considers both the history of the growing academic field of festive studies and the history of my own involvement in this field. I first rely on some of the major works of accepted scholarship to show that social scientists and ethnologists had been concerned with festivals and public celebrations for a very long time before this field ...
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Why and How Do Street‐Level Managers Mobilise Informal Resources as a Routine Managerial Tool?
Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Street‐level implementation work routinely involves navigating resource scarcity while still meeting policy demands. Recent literature suggests that frontline workers cope with these challenges through informal practices, including the use of personal resources.
Gabriela Lotta +2 more
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Elem and Zimmadari: Masculine moral life in Rohingya refugee camps
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article traces how masculine authority is assembled and evaluated in the everyday life of Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork, it follows two young men, a volunteer mediator and a community school founder, to show how authority emerges not through formal roles or institutional ...
Mohammad Ibrahim Khalad
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Street Cries and Public Space Noise Abatement in 19th‐20th Century Barcelona
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.Abstract Focusing on Barcelona, this paper explores the historical and contemporary dynamics of street cries that allow traders to attract customers and make themselves heard in public spaces. While still common in marketplaces in southern Europe, there is a growing trend towards silencing these street cries in the name of reducing urban noise levels ...
Maria Lindmäe
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Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.Abstract Accessibility to public services has been highlighted as a fundamental element for the development of social interactions in the city. Social infrastructure (SI) acquires special importance as services that contribute to the development of socialisation, interaction and social integration in the city.
Raymond Lagonigro +2 more
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