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Reflexive Modernization and the Disembedding of Jūdō from 1946 to the 2000 Sydney Olympics
2004
This article considers some of the sociologically significant changes to jūdō in its process of transformation from a Budō based martial art into a modern competitive spectator sport. Taking the period of time from 1946 until the Sydney Olympics, an examination is undertaken using Giddens’s notion of reflexive modernization in which key aspects of the original jūdō are disembedded or ‘lifted out’ of the practice. They are then re-embedded with western structures, practices and meanings. Central themes to emerge from this analysis are the social forces of internationalization, institutionalization and commodification of jūdō over this period, each of which contributes to a reflexive moderni…
Las voces del interior rural valenciano: recursos naturales y resistencias al desarrollo
2020
[EN] This paper shows the results of two territorial diagnoses for employment and local development carried out in two rural regions of the province of Valencia. These diagnostics showed that these territories have abundant natural resources, but that lack of competent actors to dynamize them properly; either because they lack the means to do so (access to sources of financing, transport or basic infrastructure), or because they are not trained for it (aging population with lack of training), or because they do not have enough initiative (installed in a comfort zone).
Extracting locations from sport and exercise-related social media messages using a neural network-based bilingual toponym recognition model
2022
Funding: This study is a part of the “Equality in suburban physical activity environments, YLLI” research project (in Finnish: Yhdenvertainen liikunnallinen lähiö, YLLI). The project is being financed by the research program about suburban in Finland “Lähiöohjelma 2020-2022” coordinated by the Ministry of Environment (grant recipient: Dr. Petteri Muukkonen). Sport and exercise contribute to health and well-being in cities. While previous research has mainly focused on activities at specific locations such as sport facilities, “informal sport” that occur at arbitrary locations across the city have been largely neglected. Such activities are more challenging to observe, but this challenge may…
Towards sustainable servicescape : tourists’ perspectives of accommodation service attributes
2023
The study uses content analysis to identify the sustainable attributes in 678 accommodation reviews from Finnish and Russian tourists published on the Tripadvisor website and examines the sustainability perceptions of these tourist groups. The servicescape framework was applied to the structuring of the attributes indicating sustain-ability in accommodation services. The sustainable attributes highlighted in the reviews were more frequently in the physical rather than in the social servicescape factor. The tourists also reported environmental sustainability attributes more often than those related to social, cultural and economic sustainability. Overall, the sustainable attributes were perc…
COVID-19 and Soccer Teams on Instagram: The Case of Corporate Social Responsibility
2020
COVID-19 has given greater importance to the role of social media in sport, making it an essential way for fans to stay “in touch” with their teams. At the same time, the pandemic triggered additional actions from sport entities with the view to prove their commitment to society in an unprecedented moment of crisis. Professional team sport organizations have indeed initiated corporate social responsibility actions to collaborate in the fight against COVID-19. To explore these actions, the authors analyzed 3,906 posts on the official Instagram profiles of professional team sport organizations of La Liga (soccer, Spain), from March 11 to May 11, 2020, classifying them as philanthropic, sponso…
Migración residencial y urbanismo expansivo en el mediterráneo español
2015
Este artículo investiga la migración internacional de jubilados noreuropeos hacia España y su influencia en el desarrollo del urbanismo expansivo en nuestro país. Los temas clave que en este artículo se analizan son la expansión del urbanismo expansivo durante la burbuja inmobiliaria española, la cantidad y distribución de los jubilados noreuropeos residentes en España, y la relación entre la llegada de dichos migrantes residenciales y la difusión del urbanismo expansivo. Este artículo explica los motivos de esta migración residencial, que están principalmente relacionados con el clima y el estilo de vida mediterráneos. También describe los beneficios y los inconvenientes de dicha migración…
El uso de GPS para el análisis del comportamiento espacio-temporal de los turistas. Pre-test en el Valle de Boí
2015
Este artículo es un análisis exploratorio sobre el uso de los GPS para estudiar el comportamiento de los visitantes en un espacio abierto. El Valle de Boí es un escenario turístico que ofrece diversos recursos de primer orden, por lo que el estudio de los recorridos de los visitantes permite analizar la respuesta a estímulos muy diferentes. Los resultados demuestran que el recurso del GPS en espacios abiertos permite ampliar la información sobre el uso social del espacio turístico y abre las puertas a nuevas formas de análisis. This article is an exploratory analysis of the use of GPS for the study of visitors’ behaviour in an open space. The Boi Valley is an open space that offers importan…
Marcas turísticas y territorio : Un análisis geográfico del turismo valenciano
2002
-Emili.Obiol@uv.es Este trabajo tiene por objetivo analizar las relaciones territoriales existentes en las marcas turísticas zonales del País Valenciano. Interesará ver cómo la geografía es la gran abastecedora de los componentes básicos de una marca turística, de modo que los logotipos y elementos de ésta coinciden con los recursos territoriales turísticos más significativos de aquella. Se estudiarán especialmente los casos de las marcas turísticas «Costa Azahar», «Mediterrània » y «Valencia, terra y mar». En ellas se analizarán también sus orígenes, estrategias turísticas y de márketing y sus vicisitudes de gestión. Aspectos importantes serán asimismo la conveniencia o no de la presencia …
How and when does leader knowledge hiding trickle down the organisational hierarchy in the tourism context? A team-level analysis
2022
This research aims to extend the literature on knowledge hiding and tourism by integrating the theoretical frameworks of social exchange and social learning. Employee knowledge hiding has scarcely been examined in the tourism literature while leader knowledge hiding has not been analysed at all. Recognising that knowledge hiding can seriously undermine the ability of employees to offer innovative customer service and that leaders’ knowledge hiding may trigger knowledge hiding chain reactions among tourism employees, this study attempts to fill this gap. Utilising multi-source, multi-timed and multi-level data, we hypothesise a multi-level mediation wherein leader knowledge hiding trickles d…
Can absence restore authenticity? The case of Strasbourg Christmas Market
2023
The Strasbourg Christmas Market (MNS) was greatly impacted by the pandemic in 2020. This research delves into the role of absence in the consumption experience through fifteen semi-structured interviews with regular MNS attendees and ethnographic observations of the MNS's iconic locations. Our findings indicate that individuals, affected by two lockdowns and the pandemic's social and economic repercussions, are eager to rediscover the city without overbidding. The absence reinforces the imaginative value of the MNS, imparting renewed significance. The authentic heritage of Strasbourg's historic center appears to have been reclaimed and compensates for the void. The Christmas market is prese…