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Joyful Defiance in Performance

Journal of Festive Studies
This article argues that the figure of the joyful girl in fiesta served as an important site of contest over race, place, and memory in South Texas during the 1950s.
Rosanne Sia
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Diurnal variation of Ground Level Ozone and Nitrogen Dioxide concentration during festive and non-festive holidays in Kelantan

, 2018
Ground level ozone (O3) is produced from primary pollutants (NOX) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) which are adversely affect human health and the natural environment.
Ismail, Arni Zulaikha
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“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
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Review of On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed

Journal of Festive Studies, 2023
Kris Plunkett
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
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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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Remembering Independence, Debating the Nation: Ghana's National Days

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Ghana, Independence Day is the most important national day and has been annually observed since the attainment of independence in 1957. Additional national days that various military governments introduced to commemorate their ascension to power have been rather short‐lived. Other holidays like Republic Day or Founder's Day have been longer
Carola Lentz
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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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“Laborers of Joy”

Journal of Festive Studies
Previous 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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From Gastfreundschaft to Überfremdung: National Identity and the Origins of Right‐Wing Migration Politics in West Germany, 1973–1983

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes a historical perspective to scholarship on migration and right‐wing politics in Germany. By examining legal texts, party programmes and parliamentary debates, it traces how West German national identity discourses shaped immigration and foreigner policies between the guest worker recruitment stop in 1973 and the ...
Simon Ahrens
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