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Sport, British national identities and the land: reflections on primordialism
Sport in Society, 2021 The paper begins by outlining the key elements of the primordial approach to nations and nationalism central to which is the belief that national attachments and relations can be attributed to criteria that are perceived to be objective – language ...
A. Bairner, A. May
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Dissecting action sports studies: Past, present, and beyond [PDF]
, 2013 The term “action sports” broadly refers to a wide range of mostly individualized activities such as BMX, kite-surfing, skateboarding, surfing, and snowboarding that differed – at least in their early phases of development – from traditional rule-bound ...
Thorpe, Holly Aysha, Wheaton, Belinda
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Editorial. Sports Geography : an overview [PDF]
Belgeo, 2008 Geographical studies of sports are not new. The first time that sport was mentioned in a geographical publication was in 1879 when Elisee Reclus said something about cricket in his Geographie Universelle. In 1919 Hilderbrand published in the National Geographic Magazine The Geography of Games.
Bale, John, Dejonghe, Trudo
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International sport federations in the world city network [PDF]
, 2012 In this article, we analyze the transnational urban geographies produced by international sport federations (ISFs) through their global, regional, and national headquarter locations. Data on the global urban presence of 35 major ISFs are examined through
Derudder, Ben +2 more
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Boundary disputes: New approaches to the interaction between sport and politics in the postwar years
Journal of Modern European History, 2021 Although often framed as politics ultimate ‘other’, it is hard to ignore that sport and the political are intimately connected. Historians, however, have up until now hardly reflected on the nature of this connection in the postwar years, on how the ...
Harm Kaal
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International Journal of Health Geographics, 2019 Background GPS tracking is increasingly used in health and aging research to objectively and unobtrusively assess individuals’ daily-life mobility.
Michelle Pasquale Fillekes +4 more
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GEOHAZARDS AFFECTING CULTURAL HERITAGE MONUMENTS. A COMPLEX CASE STUDY FROM ROMANIA [PDF]
Geo Journal of Tourism and Geosites, 2020 The impact that geohazards have on cultural heritage requires continuous research in order to assess risks, prevention and conservation. This study has as the main research object, a uniquen monument in terms of its connection with the risk phenomena ...
Dorina Camelia ILIEȘ +5 more
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Michael Porter's Cluster Theory as a local and regional development tool – the rise and fall of cluster policy in the UK [PDF]
, 2013 There has been much written on industrial agglomeration, but it is Michael Porter’s cluster theory, above all others, which has come to dominate local and regional economic development policy. His work has been adopted by the OECD, EU, national and local
Swords, Jon
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Remote Sensing, 2021 The accelerated development and expansion of cultural tourism in areas with unique tourist objectives, characterised by a high degree of risk in terms of their physical and chemical integrity, requires sustained efforts by all stakeholders to identify ...
Tudor Caciora +6 more
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Methodological Aspects Regarding the Planning and Development of Integrated Tourist Routes and Circuits. Case Study: Luncasprie, Romania [PDF]
GeoSport for Society, 2022 The intensification of tourist activities at the level of the Bihor Tourist Destination, in parallel with the increase in the need to diversify the local tourist offer, led to the need to identify new solutions in this regard.
Grigore Vasile HERMAN, Lucian BLAGA
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