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Miami, tourists, colonists and adventurers in the last boundary of Latin America
2012
Touristificacion in the Central Market of Valencia
2020
This chapter analyses the relationship between cultural heritage and the tourism activity in the ongoing context of globalisation. It establishes the debate among society and tourism considering the process of touristification and its impact in cultural heritage, addressed initially to locals. Concretely, this investigation is focused on Valencia's Central Market, Spain, as a case study. By fieldwork research methods (direct observation and a questionnaire), a diagnosis of the central market's situation and its consumers' perception is presented, which reflects the transformation that it is suffering because of the tourism activity. A process of touristification has been identified in some …
The Swedish Press and the Liberation of the Camps
2011
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Germany’s declaration of war on the USA, American correspondents remaining in German-controlled Europe were either forced to leave or incarcerated.1 For the world’s liberal press this turn of events meant that Sweden and Switzerland became ‘listening posts for news from Germany and its satellites’.2 For the Swedish press this meant that it was in a unique position because it could still cover Axis Europe from inside, making Swedish journalists among the very few sources of news from German-occupied areas that were independent from German propaganda.3
Annika ElisabetFrieberg. Peace at All Costs: Catholic Intellectuals, Journalists, and Media in Postwar Polish–German Reconciliation. New York: Bergha…
2021
Warfare dendrochronology: Trees witness the deployment of the German battleship Tirpitz in Norway
2019
Abstract War has an immediate and obvious effect on people and communities, but its impacts on local ecology can be more subtle. This paper shows how one military encounter in the Second World War has left a clear legacy in the northern forests of Norway, trackable more than seventy years later. We used annual growth rings of ∼180 pine and ∼30 birch trees as witnesses of the deployment of the German battleship Tirpitz at the Kafjord. The Tirpitz was the target of several Allied air attacks, but the Kriegsmarine (German navy from 1935 to 1945) used artificial smoke, consisting of chlorosulfonic acid and zinc/hexachloroethane, to hide the ship. These smoke-screen actions throughout 1944 cause…
Book Review
2020
Globalization and Political Legitimacy in Western Europe
2018
Is there a legitimacy crisis in contemporary democracies? This question, asked since the beginning of the 1970s, has been currently undergoing a revival (Kriesi in Politische Vierteljahresschrift 54:609–638, 2013; Fuchs and Escher in The Legitimacy of Regional Integration in Europe and the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan: Houndsmill/Basingstoke, pp. 75–97, 2015; Merkel in Krise der Demokratie. Zum schwierigen Verhaltnis von Theorie und Empirie. Springer VS: Wiesbaden, 2015; Wessels in How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 235–256, 2016; Van Ham et al. in Myth and Reality of the Legitimacy Crisis. Explaining Trends and Cross-National Differences in Esta…
Media Control in the Twentieth Century
2015
Media control by which the duplication and distribution of knowledge are under attendance is as old as modern media. Efforts at control emerged rather quickly after the printing press was invented, first inaugurated by the Catholic Church but soon adopted by the state(s). The reasons were similar but the conditions varied from country to country. The decline of government control began in England at the end of the seventeenth century; other countries followed with more or less delay. At the end of the nineteenth century, pre-censorship had generally been abolished in the European countries; however, the twentieth century did not become an era of press freedom as expected. This resulted from…
„Jesteśmy tu dla Polski”. III Rada Narodowa RP wobec wydarzeń w kraju (1949–1951)
2018
The article presents discussions on the situation in Poland which took place at the forum of the Third National Council. The Council was appointed by the president of Poland in Exile August Zaleski in 1949. It was vicariously performing some of the functions of the Parliament and as such it was an advisory body to the president and to the government. Its term of office lasted for two years (between 1949 and 1951). Polish authorities in exileregarded Poland as an occupied country and that it was ruled by imposed agents. News coming from the country indicated that the communists ruling in Poland were steering it toward its total sovietisation. Politicians in emigration appealed numerous times…
Madagascar's independence jubilee: a nation's holiday in times of crisis
2013
The fiftieth anniversary of Madagascar's independence in 2010 took place in the midst of political crisis. The transitory government staged large public parties to mark the Jubilee. Despite a public discussion about legitimacy and justification of this fact, the national holiday was lavishly celebrated. In Madagascar, Independence Day is also an important family event and emphasis was put on private celebrations including family feasts and reunions. As a result, it enhanced the participants' emotional attachment to their personal and local face-to-face milieu. This article asks how the golden jubilee was celebrated against a backdrop of political illegitimacy. I contrast official state-led …