 | | | | | | Tourism as connectedness Late modernity in developed nations is characterized by changing social and psychological conditions, including individualization, processes of competition and loneliness. Remaining socially connected is becoming increasingly important. In this situation, travel provides meaning through physical encounters, inclusion in traveller Gemeinschaft based on shared norms, beliefs and interests, and social status in societies increasingly defined by mobilities. As relationships are forged and found in mobility, travel is no longer an option, rather a necessity for sociality, identity construction,... | | | Grief and the Transformation of Emotions After War War leaves behind an intensely traumatic emotional legacy of violence and loss. So painful and protracted are some wartime experiences that affected communities find it impossible to grapple with the ensuing suffering. Rather than working through trauma, communities paradoxically search to forget the pain and anguish while paradoxically becoming emotionally fixated, and constituted, by it. Fear, anxiety and resentment often circulate. Communities become insular, bound by the very antagonisms and retributive political narratives that fuelled violence in the first place. Surveying these... | | | Imperial Pasts, Imperial Presents (Review Article, European Journal of Political Theory, forthcoming) This article reviews Jeanne Morefield's "Empire's Without Imperialism: Anglo-American Decline and the Politics of Deflection," and Andrew Fitzmaurice's "Sovereignty, Property, and Empire, 1500-2000." Both books are sterling representatives of the growing field of political theory and empire and ought to be of interest to scholars of political science, international relations, international law, political theory, intellectual history, empire, imperialism, and colonialism. | | | The University in Society (2007) In this reply to Israeli philosopher Iddo Landau---the only commentator brave enough to discuss her paper "The Best Man for the Job may be a Woman"--- Haack ponders, on the one hand, over the various tasks of universities and the importance of a healthy intellectual ethos; and on the other, like Landau, over questions about the merits of preferential hiring of women and minorities in other occupations outside academia. | | | Sports Mega-Events, Soft Power and Soft Disempowerment: international supporters perspectives on Qatar's acquisition of the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals Through the use of document analysis, field work and semi-structured interviews at five major tournaments in Asia, North America, Europe and South America, the paper examines the perspectives of international football supporters on the Fédération Internationale de Football Association's (FIFA) decision to award the 2022World Cup finals to the State of Qatar. The paper is separated into five sections. First we ground Qatar's sporting strategy within the concept of 'soft power', as well as pinpoint the negative consequences that have manifest since the state's acquisition of the 2022 finals.... | | | CULTURES OF MOTORWAY CULTURES OF MOTORWAY Most of anthropologist remember famous (and strongly controversial) Cliff ord Geertz's question: " What does ethnographer do? " – he writes (Geertz 1973: 19). In this volume we would like to introduce an another formula: What does ethnographer do? – he or she is in constant move. To be much less ambiguous: ethnographer drives a car. He or she uses motorways, roads, and parking spaces. He or she is a consumer of petrol/gas stations, car washes, roadside bars or restaurants and sometimes motels. Finally, he or she is a user of road sings, traffi c lights, telephone booths and so on. For a... | | | The myth of the city trickster: storytelling, bankers and ideology in the Mail Online Abstract: This paper is concerned with mythology and ideology in media coverage of the financial crisis. I argue that the Mail Online's 'critical' discourse of bankers is a mythological construction of the trickster, which causes ideological and discursive dilemmas for the Mail as a right wing news source. Some stories featuring the banker as trickster suppressed discussions of systemic failings in the financial system. However, other instances mobilised systemic questions and concerns about global trading and the free market. By conducting a Critical Discourse Analysis of Mail Online news... | | |
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