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An Analysis of how Self-Efficacy Relates to the Driver’s of the Active Sport Tourist

open access: yes, 2011
The active sport tourist is a subset within the tourism industry that can be further analyzed to understand this type of traveler. The driver’s of such a tourist include Risk Theory, Individual’s view, Geographical Approach, Role Theory, Consumer ...
Grimes, Debey
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

Consumer Nostalgia Literature Review and an Alternative Measurement Perspective

open access: yesOrganizations and Markets in Emerging Economies, 2013
During the last two decades consumer nostalgia literature has experienced the growing amount of research, nonetheless, the nomological network in the area is still poorly established and fundamental questions of generalizability and measurement of ...
Justina Gineikienė
doaj   +1 more source

The divided continent: Understanding Europe’s social landscape in 2020 and beyond. European Policy Centre 11 February 2020 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The political upheaval and dysfunction of recent years have focused political minds on better understanding the volatility underpinning European electorates.
Gaston, Sophia
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

Mature consumers' relationship with their perfume [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Glamorous and stylish, perfume is an evocative product that provokes a stimulus of the senses. The use of perfume is recognised as a significant part of daily grooming for many women.
Drylie-Carey, Lindsey, Stewart, Aileen
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Winston Churchill and France: A Certain Ideal

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines relations between Winston Churchill and France. It argues that Churchill was sympathetic to France and, in particular, unusual among Englishmen of his generation in being sympathetic to its political system, but also that this sympathy did not make Churchill consistent in his relations with France.
Richard Vinen
wiley   +1 more source

The real reason Yes Scotland avoids Braveheart nostalgia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In 1998 Alex Salmond dismissed doubts over Scotland’s Celtic lineage as “ignorance bordering on silliness”. In 2007 he expounded a vision of the country as a “Celtic lion” economy.
Marsden, Richard
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Contemporary medical television and crisis in the NHS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article maps the terrain of contemporary UK medical television, paying particular attention to Call the Midwife as its centrepiece, and situating it in contextual relation to the current crisis in the NHS. It provides a historical overview of UK and
Anderson M   +26 more
core   +2 more sources

STATE‐LED RURALIZATION AND ITS URBAN ENTANGLEMENTS: Agribusiness Land Transfers in Rural China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract As urbanization takes on forms and spaces beyond the typical city, urban theorists have questioned how the field can comprehend the rural. Drawing on recent theories in rural geography, I propose the concept of ‘state‐led ruralization’, which I define as state agencies’ deliberate effort to reshape rural social space by regulating the ...
Ettore Santi
wiley   +1 more source

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