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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"cultural economy"”.
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Fashioning the new arctic: A perspective on indigenous cultural economy in the Russian north
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Race, Discourse and the Cultural Economy of Neoliberal New York:An Analysis of Online Tourist Reviews of Harlem Heritage Tours
… policy makers to be a way to generate revenue in culturally diverse, low-income areas, and especially in Harlem. In order for tourism to be successful, a neighborhood needs to be considered a place that can offer tourists a valuable experience. Online reviews, particularly those on social media …
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Paulo Coelho: Transnational Literature, Popular Culture, and Postmodernism
… the coinage of the term world literature? Many cultural scholars would argue to the contrary. This dissertation aims at exploring Coelho narratives and their popularity and controversial reception by contextualizing them within the contemporary scholarship on World Literature and within the …
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Financialisation of the professional services firm : strategy, governance and the lived experience of partners
… an ethnographic case study undertaken within a cultural economy perspective this thesis reveals firstly how PSF strategy has been financialised. Secondly, it identifies how an ecology of strategic and tactical measures are put to use in support of the firm’s strategy, exemplifying the role of …
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Economic Space, Practice, and Identity: Business and Labor In the Qat Industry of Sana'A Yemen
… qat consumption in one recent survey) and economy (employing at least fourteen percent of the labor force). While a small body of literature explores qat consumption, and the qat industry in a macroeconomic sense, very little is written about the cultural economy surrounding qat production …
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The dynamics of contingency: neoliberal redevelopment governance in Chicago and Buenos Aires
… rich specifics and place-rooted basis. Using a cultural economy frame, my goal is not to marginalize the influence of structures that embed within capitalist economies and societies. Indeed, this is a foundational part of my study. However, I chronicle the inseparability of local-ness, place …
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Capoeira as a Resource: Multiple Uses of Culture Under Conditions of Transnational Neoliberalism
… ‘martial game’, as it circulates as a ‘cultural resource’ in the context of neoliberal globalization. Since the 1970s, immigrating Brazilians brought their practice to new lands and commercialized their embodied knowledge and cultural difference. While they initially sought to create …
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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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A comparative assessment of the socio-economic dimension of Niger delta militancy and Boko Haram insurgency: towards the security-development nexus in Nigeria
… the region. The implication of Nigeria’s mono-cultural economy for the country’s development trajectory and the current instabilities are explored to illuminate what, why, and how the resultant socio-economic underdevelopment could be related to both insurgencies. Accordingly, the popular …