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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Cultural Intermediaries"”.
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Cultural intermediaries and place branding: a framework for understanding their impact and influence
… theoretical lens of Bourdieu’s (1984) notion of cultural intermediaries, this paper applies a social constructionist approach to the analysis of the characteristics and work of those professionals working in place branding. As places have emerged as strategic sites of cultural, institutional and …
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Relaciones humanas the potential for public relations practitioners as cultural intermediaries in Mexico City.
… need to recognise the role of practitioners as intermediaries in the development of society. In contrast to the prevalence of quasi-experimental methodology often adopted in public relations research, this thesis advances a subjective, cultural approach to public relations research and practice. …
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Crafting citizens: material rhetoric, cultural intermediaries, and the Amazwi Abesifazane South African national quilt project
… doing so, the organizations function as literacy intermediaries who exert representational power over the women cloth makers, their subjectivity, and literate ability. These representations may work to effect political action and further project sustainability, sometimes in opposition to the cloth …
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Transmedia brand licensing prior to conglomeration: George Trendle and the Lone Ranger and Green Hornet brands, 1933-1966
… arguing for the need to analyze licensors as cultural intermediaries with particular occupational identities, attitudes and values that shape their daily business practices. This project uses historical records archived at the Detroit Public Library and the American Heritage Center in Laramie …
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Unprecedented access? Women instrumentalists in punk bands 1976-1984: an exploration
… because of a gap in popular music and subcultural history. The significance of the first large influx of women into rock music, as punk instrumentalists in the late 1970s, has been underplayed; instead, women punks have been stereotypically documented. Girls' and womens' roles as producers …
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Creativity, Capital and Entrepreneurship: The Contemporary Experience of Competition in UK Urban Music
… that in an increasingly competitive context, cultural intermediaries assume a crucial role in the lives of artists for their ability to act as both a distributor and a distinguisher, thereby addressing the work of cultural sociologists and creative labour scholars that debates the role of …
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Towards corpo-nationalism: a Bourdieusian study exploring the relationship between national branding and the reproduction of Polishness (1999 - 2010).
… structures, business groups, the mass media, and cultural intermediaries of nation branding. This study draws from Bourdieu’s theoretical oeuvre, nationalism scholarship, and corporate communications models. First, it demonstrates the growing impact of corporate communications models on the state …
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Between Edge and Elite: Niche Fashion Magazines, Producers and Readers
… magazines that is produced and consumed by cultural intermediaries. They are part of a complex cultural circuit which involves their marketing, production, circulation, textual representations and readers' consumption. Within this circuit values, meanings, codes, notions and practices of …
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Everyday finances and consumption in Brunei Darussalam
… consumption patterns which are shaped by social intermediaries including governments, family and traditions. This thesis fills this gap in contemporary areas in economic geography. The aim of the thesis is to examine the development of personal finances and consumption in Brunei Darussalam. …
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The dynamics of organizational change : an analysis of power, professions and new managerialism in the case of CoastElectric
… will draw on the concepts of normalization, cultural capital and corporate fashion. The argument presented in this thesis is that the decision-making broadly corresponded with that which could be considered to be at the vanguard of mangerialist thought. However, a detailed analysis suggested …
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Colour in the lines: The racial politics and possibilities of US skateboarding culture
… Chronicling the endeavours of pioneering cultural intermediaries within the unique sporting culture of skateboarding, this thesis reveals how individual and collective actions have gained momentum over the past four decades and changed the racial possibilities for future generations.
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I sottotitoli dei film italiani in nederlandese (2000-2006) : un' analisi sociologica, linguistica e mediatica
… and so on. In this PhD, we look at film as a cultural object, according to a tradition initiated by the sociology of culture. Considering a film as a cultural object allows us at the same time to study its double nature: material and symbolic. After all, a film has a material dimension - it is …
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Tourism and the development of 'creative' urban areas: evidence from four non-central areas in London
… for their own creativity. In addition, these cultural intermediaries often act as models of fashion and style, thus becoming a tourist attraction themselves. In this sense, tourism in creative areas can be seen as a form of co-creation, since consumers co-create the value that can be derived …
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Mexican art exhibitions in New York as cultural diplomacy, 1928-1932
… Federation of Arts’ 1930-32 “Mexican Arts”—as cultural diplomatic efforts. Using empirical evidence, this project reveals the confluence of wealthy patrons, corporate sponsors, government officials, local artists, and museums and galleries in Mexico and the U.S. that made these exhibitions, …
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Culturally Responsive Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Service Needs Among African Immigrant Women: Examining the Impact of Cultural Norms and Psychosocial Barriers on Safety Perceptions and Help-Seeking Behaviors
… facing compounded challenges as they navigate cultural, structural, and systemic barriers, including migration-related vulnerabilities and attachment to cultural values that shape their decisions and experiences. Although formal IPV services exist, they often fail to address the lived realities …