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Processional Culture and Black Mobility in Maggie Washington's Wilmington

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Wurst Storm Rising

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

‘Giving Back to Our Community’: The Retention of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Disability Workforce in New South Wales, Australia

open access: yesAustralian 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
wiley   +1 more source

Ephemeropolis

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Expectations and Reality: The Lived Experiences of Australians With Psychosocial Disability Within the NDIS

open access: yesAustralian 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
wiley   +1 more source

Carnival against the Capital of Capital

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Ventania no Coração da Bahia

open access: yesJournal of Festive Studies, 2021
Documentary short about the centuries-long relationship between the Saint Barbara/Iansã Feast and a popular market in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Tenille Bezerra
doaj   +1 more source

Festive Leisure and Rural Sport in the Basque Mugak: Sare and Extalar Cases

open access: yesJournal of Borderlands Studies
This paper describes and analyses two cross-border sports festivals in the western Pyrenees: the Day of the Smugglers of Sare and the Festival of the Tradition of the wood pigeons hunt of Lizaieta (Etxalar-Sare).
José Antonio Perales Díaz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Animal research in the UK: Regulation, implementation, welfare and development of new approach methodologies

open access: yesAnimal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
Scientific research with animals in the UK is regulated by the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 with the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research providing support for best practice and facilitating development of new approach methodologies.
Ewan St. John Smith   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Carnival and Politics

open access: yesJournal of Festive Studies, 2020
The purpose of this article is to widen the ways in which Carnival’s political dimensions have ordinarily been discussed. What happens politically at Carnival should be placed in the social and cultural contexts in which a performance occurs, rather than
Samuel C. Kinser
doaj   +1 more source

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