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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932
History, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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Současné pověsti a fámy na Nymbursku [PDF]
Studia Ethnologica Pragensia, 2018 Following study deals with contemporary legends and rumours that used to be (or still are being) spread among people in specific rural and smalltown areas of Nymburk district in Czechia.
Tomáš Vančura
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Hook or hatchet – Lover's Lane, love scene epilogue
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2009 Myth of a couple who escape death in a chance encounter with the psychopath with a hook instead of a hand, is one of the ten classic urban legends that have been brought to public attention by folklorists during the sixth and se ...
Ivan Kovačević
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Much of the current popular and academic literature on the provision of green spaces is dominated by the assumption that ‘nature’ is an unalloyed positive, and that socioeconomic and racial exclusion from access to green spaces is a problem of unequal spatial distribution rather than of the form and content of particular urban designs.
Kiera Chapman
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ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and drawing on Mike Savage and Nancy Fraser, it examines how public performances of taste reshape representations of working‐class culture and how these
Simone Varriale
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Leggende di “sequestro” e di “espianto degli organi”. Uno studio tra Italia e Camerun
EtnoAntropologia, 2021 The survey presents ethnographic data on some conspiracy legends regarding COVID19 recorded in two different grounds: Cameroon and Italy. The authors focus on these legends with particular attention on the content and the intertextuality of the narration.
Pierpaolo Di Carlo, Lia Giancristofaro
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Urban Legends: Why Do People Believe Them?
, 2010 This study answers questions about why some people believe urban legends and why these legends continue to thrive in today’s society. Despite displaying the tell-tale signs of an urban legend and the number of websites and other sources available for a ...
Cantrell, Mary
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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