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European Journal of American Studies, 2015 New Orleans has been the parading capital of the United States for close to two centuries. Since Hurricane Katrina, parades have become more important than ever, as many residents have called festive organizations home to reclaim urban space and say “We ...
Aurélie Godet
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Journal of Festive Studies Issue 8 Call for Papers
Journal of Festive StudiesIn addition to our guest-edited section described below, we always welcome submissions on a rolling basis, with no deadline for consideration. Please do think of us if your research or professional background touches on festive practices!
Journal of Festive Studies Editorial Team Elliott
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Processional Culture and Black Mobility in Maggie Washington's Wilmington
Journal of Festive Studies, 2021 This article addresses changes in the built environment of the postbellum American South through an examination of the life histories, parade routes, and costuming practices of the Afro-Caribbean Jonkonnu masking tradition. I juxtapose the stories of two
Elijah Gaddis
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Interpretable Short‐Term Electric Load Forecasting
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.A temporal fusion transformer is implemented to generate day‐ahead forecasts of the hourly electrical load of a departmentbuilding at an Italian university. A forecasting performance improvement of more than 25% compared with established benchmark models and a provision of inherent robust interpretability insights reveal the potential of this model for
Alessandro Nicola +6 more
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Journal of Festive Studies, 2021 Our subject is the legacy of Dada implicit to the Burning Man phenomenon. Animate in the provocative output of fin-de-siècle French Symbolist writer and puppeteer Alfred Jarry, and filtered through the antics of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, Dada ...
Graham St John, Botond Vitos
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia require culturally responsive services. The Australian government has committed to establishing strategies to increase the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disability workforce; however, there is scant research on the factors influencing retention.
J. Gwynn +9 more
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Journal of Festive Studies, 2020 Foucault’s concept of heterotopia is adapted to comprehend events with intentional transformational agendas. An ephemeral community installed annually in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, Burning Man is an exemplary evental heterotopia.
Graham St John
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was founded on principles of choice and control, for people with significant mental health challenges (what the NDIS calls ‘psychosocial disability’) these ideals often remain elusive. Support systems continue to be fractured and in the context of ongoing policy reforms, it is vital
Joel Hollier, Jennifer Smith‐Merry
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Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. MusicaMalaysian Chinese New Year songs have historically functioned as ritual soundscapes embedded within domestic, communal, and commercial festive environments.
Yong Lai TEE, Md Jais ISMAIL
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Carnival against the Capital of Capital
Journal of Festive Studies, 2020 The medieval carnival, according to Russian literary scholar Mikhail Bakhtin, was a public festivity of excess in which people were free to violate social norms and subvert prevailing authority.
John L. Hammond
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