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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"cultural consumption"”.
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Consuming the nation: Domestic cultural consumption: Its stratification and relation with nationalist attitudes
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Cross-cultural food consumption in Chicago: The impact of ethnic grocery stores on the availability of a healthy, affordable, and quality food supply
<p>This paper explores the cultural and commercial role of ethnic grocery stores on food availability and consumption habits in the City of Chicago. By collecting data on the prices and inventory available at ethnic groceries, and applying the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey in Stores to …
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The White Men Are Coming! The White Men Are Coming!: Identifying Navajoness through Reservation Tourism in 30 Days, Jamie's American Road Trip, and Navajo Cops
… in media to examine the production and consumption of the Navajo tribe through three docuseries—30 Days (2008), Jamie’s American Road Trip (2009/2012), and Navajo Cops (2012). Situated at the intersection of Media Studies, American Indian Studies, Cultural Studies, and Postcolonial …
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The State of Culture: Institutional Patrimony in Post -Revolutionary Mexico
"Through an analysis of four different cultural institutions, the articulation between ""the people"" and national culture is foregrounded as a governmental claim, a pursuit of popular allegiance and affiliation that while rhetorical has nevertheless solidified into ""truth."" The murals on …
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Housing wealth and accumulation: Home ownership experiences of African Caribbean families migrating to Birmingham and London in the period 1950-1970
… The study incorporates literature drawn from cultural consumption theory in exploring values and meanings attached to inheritances in the UK and Caribbean. An original methodological contribution is made in the use of life history methods in exploring consumption and transmission of housing …
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Modernisation and the New Left in sixties Britain
… from the dislocating experiences of social, cultural and physical mobility in the postwar period. What is termed the 'modernisation project' is more expansive than the technological and scientific modernisation espoused by Harold Wilson in the early 1960s and is understood to address these …
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Mediated encounters in diasporic space:exploring processes of transculturation syncretism and identity redefinition in the Ghanaian diaspora in London
… the difference that the diverse menu of cultural resources offered by television is making to dispositions, cultural proclivities, and patterns of identification across intergenerational differences among Ghanaian-Londoners. The study qualitatively assembles and analyses empirical data …
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Fashioning identity : the Jan de Wasser prints and the Burgher class
… class Dutch audience, within the social and cultural context of seventeenth-century Amsterdam. Taking the prints themselves as a starting point for this study, I have analyzed the forms of the prints: their layout, images and texts, for insights as to how they would have been understood by a …
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Artists downtown : capitalizing on arts districts in New England
… urban planners increasingly look to artists and cultural activity as forces of urban regeneration. In New England, the most visible of these redevelopment efforts are so-called "arts districts." Arts districts seek to promote the revitalization of downtowns or blighted neighborhoods by …
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Sweetness is Not a Guarantee: Disrupting Picture Book Depictions of Black Children as Comestible
… book illustration and design facilitate the consumption of “sweet” Black children in contemporary youth literature by Black creators. It explores how this representation, especially by Black creators, affirms the cultural consumption of Black children and contributes to their continued …
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Cultural capital and cultural repertoires among the black middle-class: race, class, and culture in the racialised social system
… racism and anti-racism affect black middle-class cultural lives?’ I answer this question through interviews with thirty-two black Brits in professional occupations, and ethnographic work across middle-class spaces in London. I argue there are three black middle-class identity modes – strategic …
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The Beats Have No Color Lines: An Exploration of White Consumption of Rap Music
… was to examine the relationship between white consumption of politically conscious rap music and the political beliefs of white rap music consumers. The guiding research questions included an exploration of why whites with little prior concern about racism consume rap music with politically …
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Musical Resonance: An Exploration of Class and Urban-Rural Disparities in Music Tastes and Practices in Contemporary China
… and rural areas may shape music appreciation and consumption in ways that differ from Western patterns. This research draws on Bourdieu’s and Peterson’s theories of class-based cultural tastes, as well as the individualisation thesis, to explore how socioeconomic status and the urban-rural divide …
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Branding Korea or Marketing Ethnicity?: Manhattan’s Koreatown as a Transclave in the Global Economy
… how South Korea’s nation-branding strategy and cultural policies, together with socio-cultural and urban changes and New York City’s tourism policies, have shaped the development of Manhattan’s Koreatown into a new type of ethnic enclave, a space for “Seoul-style” consumption. The space has …
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The role of cultural flagships in the perception and experience of urban areas for tourism and culture. Case study: The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden
This research aims to explore how a cultural flagship influences the cultural tourist’s perception and experience of a well established urban area for tourism and culture, taking the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden as a case study. Covent Garden, as an important part of London’s tourist …