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De paramarkt: New Age en volksgeloof

open access: yesReligie & Samenleving, 2007
In the Netherlands, the paranormal circuit is rather visible in the ‘paranormal fairs’ for the last twenty years. Sociologists consider such fairs as commercialized New Age practices, but I doubt if they are identical.
Frans Jespers
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The spatial economy of North American trade fairs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The version of record [Bathelt, H., & Spigel, B. (2012). The spatial economy of North American trade fairs. The Canadian Geographer/Le Geographe Canadien, 56(1), 18-38.] is available online at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1541-0064 ...
Bathelt, Harald, Spigel, Ben
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Tourism in Moscow after the ‘Perestroika’ transformations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Moscow seems indeed to be a centre of world tourism. On the one hand, its tourism attractiveness for Russians and foreigners, as well as the wide opportunities it offers to its own inhabitants, stimulates trips for tourism and recreational purposes.
Aleksandrova, Anna
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Gál, Vilmos. Hungary at the World Fairs: 1851-2010

open access: yesHungarian Cultural Studies, 2012
None.
Zsuzsanna Tóth
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Arab book fairs: a major “embarrassment” for foreign goods and an even greater “embarrassment” for Arab culture

open access: yesCybrarians Journal, 2011
This work reviews Arab book fairs in terms of being a culture and industry that still seems new to the Arab world, and has not yet taken its proper place among the Arab citizen, even though for some it is considered a large “forest” of goods, which has ...
Essam Mansour
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Transgressive urbanism : borderlands and urban informality of american cities along the panamerican highway [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This study explores the ways in which political boundaries can be trespassed in order to develop subaltern forms of urbanism and edge conditions, mainly to the comparative study of border cities in the Americas, predominantly ruled by informal economies,
Suau, Cristian
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‘Images of Globalisation: Paris 1889’. Review of Beat Wyss, Bilder von der Globalisierung. Die Weltausstellung von Paris 1889. Berlin: Insel Verlag, 2010 [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Art Historiography, 2013
This review analyses the study of the Paris World’s Fair of 1889 by Beat Wyss. It considers the strengths and weaknesses of Wyss’s interpretation, but also examines it in the larger context of literature on world fairs.
Matthew Rampley
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French Red Cross Ladies in International or Universal Exhibitions (1867–1937)

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology, 2019
This paper attempts to pinpoint what French Red-Cross women were doing in the international exhibitions from 1867 to 1937. They engaged their energies into organizing meetings, exhibitions, and into healing, receiving awards for their work.
Corinne M. Belliard
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World Fairs of the Second Half of the 19th Century as a Source of Chinese Reminiscences in Russian Stone-Cutting Art

open access: yesИзвестия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2017
The article is devoted to the retrospective analysis of the display of Chinese stone-cutting art at the World Fairs of the second half of the 19th century as one of the important ways of Chinese influence on domestic stone-cutting art.
Sergei Yevgenyevich Vinokurov   +1 more
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All's Fair in Love and War: Imperial Gazes and Glaring Omissions at the Expositions Universelles (1851–1915)

open access: yesCognitio, 2021
Despite the ever-growing literature that turns to history in international law, few legal scholars have interrogated the tradition of Expositions Universelles, let alone reflected on their importance for the formation of imperial legal projects in the ...
Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín
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