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Se confronter aux habitants du paradis
Initially, people who spent their vacations at the seaside wanted first and foremost to see the sea. This was an exclusive goal, resulting in a discourse devoid of any references to local populations.
Johan Vincent
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Universities, ‘Left Behind Places’ and the Making of a Moral Crisis
Abstract Britain's universities face an acute financial and moral crisis. Once celebrated as engines of the knowledge economy and social mobility, they are now viewed increasingly with suspicion—criticised as elitist, self‐serving and detached from public needs.
Sarah Chaytor, John Tomaney
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A Licence to Kill: Necroeconomic Suffocation by Stealth and the Fight for Life
Abstract Three decades of austerity in the UK have seen the deterioration of the elemental infrastructures, those that provided a basic level of security for the population. In this article, we analyse the case of Awaab Ishak, who died (age two) when he suffocated from mould in his home in Rochdale, North‐West England.
Imogen Tyler, Beverley Skeggs
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Two Regimes of Waste and Value: ‘Post‐Disaster’ Landscapes in a New India
ABSTRACT In this age of ‘disaster capitalism’, catastrophes are neither ‘natural’ nor ‘external’. They are political events mediating and vitally shaping the unequal and exploitative use of environmental resources. India's ‘post‐disaster’ landscapes at the turn of the new millennium powerfully demonstrate how visions of the new‐normal can be imposed in
Vasudha Chhotray, David Singh
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It's often forgotten that old persons are in a large majority women. Women who face spaces differently wheather ageing provides freedom or self retraction because of the loss of physical capacities.
Mathilde Bigo +2 more
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Market Access, the Skill Premium and Human Capital in Spain (1860–1930)
ABSTRACT This paper explores the relationship between market access and human capital in the context of an industrializing economy, in this case Spain between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Specifically, we examine whether differences in regional accumulations of human capital could be related to market access.
Rafael González‐Val +3 more
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A circulação de práticas e ideias balneárias: a estância termal de Poços de Caldas (MG)
One can say that the coastal and thermal spa models are concurrent at birth, although strongly connected by the coincident frequency of the elites who founded and frequented them.
Lohanne Fernanda Gonçalves Ferreira +1 more
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The Challenges of Being Left Behind: Peripheralisation in English Small Rural Towns
ABSTRACT Rural small towns have long been viewed as places of retail and service provision for both their populations and people in surrounding rural hinterlands, although in many countries these roles are in decline, with these settlements increasingly viewed as ‘left behind places’ experiencing peripheralisation.
Martin Phillips
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Deauville : création et développement urbain
During the nineteenth century, the success of Trouville, with its reputation founded on the novel practices of therapeutic sea bathing, gave rise to the development of seaside resorts all along France’s Channel coast.
Didier Hébert
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L’évolution du système touristique en Tunisie. Perspectives de gouvernance en contexte de crise
The seaside tourism of Tunisia, which started with a few limited area parallel to the shoreline, has evolved through several ‘concepts’ of tourist development.
Mohamed Hellal
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