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Aggenbach, Adré. "The effects of commodification on cultural significance: two African fortifications." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24986.
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This study is specifically concerned with the impact of cultural tourism on the valorisation of two African fortifications; Castelo São Jorge da Mina (Elmina Castle) in Elmina, Ghana and Casteel de Goede Hoop (Castle of Good Hope) in Cape Town, South Africa. The commodification of national and world heritage, primarily within the context of cultural tourism, is the process by which tangible and intangible heritage are transformed into cultural commodities to be bought, sold and profited from in the heritage and tourism industry. The perception, however, that these commodified heritage sites are contaminated, and less authentic, is based on an outmoded discourse. The South African government has placed a fair amount of focus on redressing highly emotive colonial or dissonant heritage sites with the intent of correcting misinterpreted Eurocentric histories or present non-represented pre-colonial history. The study is structured around addressing the issue of commodification and its impact on the understanding and interpretation of heritage both as an emotive commodity and as a means of providing economic benefit to a community. The literature review locates the research in Marx's theories on commodities together with Urry's tourist gaze. It furthermore includes an analysis on valorisation, with the focus on associative value, in the context of national and world heritage. Fortifications as fortified military architecture in an African context are considered; as is the European influence on African culture and fortifications as colonial structures. Elmina Castle, as a much-researched heritage site, is explored in detail. It includes a legislative analysis; the perspectives and interpretations of the two largest stakeholders groups, the Akan-speaking Fanti population and the African American Diaspora tourists is key to the analysis of the impact of commodification. A detailed history of Europeans on the Gold Coast, the development of Elmina Castle and the impact of trans-Atlantic slavery on the consumption of heritage is studied. The commodification of the Castle of Good Hope is written within the context of the prevailing South African heritage discourse. Much has been written on the commodification of Elmina Castle, while very little has been said about the Castle of Good Hope as a commodity. The prevailing authorised commodification of the Castle of Good Hope necessitated the analysis and comparison of the Castle with the selected comparative case and the study draws comparisons between the powerful emotive significance and contestations attached to Elmina and the contrast that this poses to the Castle of God Hope as a place of heritage significance despite the fact that it has been seen to symbolise the introduction of repressive European influence and control in South Africa. The research supports the notion that cultural tourism and events have impacted on the valorisation of cultural heritage and, in particular, the associative and emotive values. However, the cultural significance of the two African fortifications as important heritage sites are not at risk.
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Fitchett, James A. "Consumption and cultural commodification : the case of the museum as commodity." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2207.
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Marketing theory has traditionally sought explanation of commodity consumption based upon psychological and economic assumptions of needs, utility and exchange value, a paradigm of understanding that is becoming increasingly problematic. An alternative perspective of commodity consumption is presented, drawing on contemporary social and cultural theory where the commodity form constitutes a cultural and social logic; a discourse of communication which consumers use to mediate and participate in daily life. Instead of defining commodities in terms of use value and economic value, the commodity is seen in terms of a specific subject-object relation experienced in late capitalism, manifest as sign value and sign exchange. Taking the case of the museum, a context that it increasingly applying the terminology of the market, consumer and commodity; a qualitative research project is undertaken to asses the credibility of the cultural theoretical approach. It is proposed that the museum functions as a site of commodification, presenting history and culture as a set of commodities for visitors consumption. Whilst sign value is a useful concept in explaining commodity consumption, it is suggested a clear distinction between use value, exchange value and sign value is unworkable in practice and that utility and exchange value can be most accurately represented as cultural conditions rather than economic ones. The study suggests that consumption should be conceptualised as a constructive, active and productive process which involves the consumer in a continual exchange, use and manipulation of signs. The role of marketing is thus most appropriately thought of as a facilitative capacity rather as a provisional or directive force that mediates consumption behaviour.
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Schoux, Casey Christina. "Postvocalic /r/ in New Orleans| Language, place, and commodification." Thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3577179.
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From silva dimes to po-boys, r-lessness has long been a conspicuous feature of all dialects of New Orleans English. This dissertation presents a quantitative and qualitative description of current rates of r-lessness in the city. 71 speakers from 21 neighborhoods were interviewed. Rpronunciation was elicited in four contexts: interview chat, Katrina narratives, a reading passage and a word list. R-lessness was found in 39% of possible instances. Older speakers pronounce /-r/ less than younger speakers, and those with a high school education or less pronounce /-r/ far less than those with post-secondary education. Race and gender did not prove to be significant predictors of r-pronunciation. In contrast to past studies, many speakers in the current study discuss their metalinguistic awareness of /-r/ and their partial control of /-r/ variation, discussing switching between r-fulness and r-lessness in different contexts.
In New Orleans, this metalinguistic awareness is attributable in part to the devastation following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when the near-disappearance of the city intensified an already extant nostalgia for local culture, including ways of speaking. Nostalgia and amplification by advertisers and popular media have helped recontextualize r-lessness as a variable associated with a number of social meanings, including localness and authenticity. These processes help transform r-lessness, for many speakers, from a routine feature of talk to a floating cultural variable, serving as a semiotic resource on which speakers can draw on to perform localness.
This dissertation both closes a gap in research on New Orleans speech and uses New Orleans as a case study to suggest that the social meanings of linguistic features are created and maintained in part by a constellation of interrelated social processes of late modernity. Further, I argue that individual speakers are increasingly agentively engaged with these larger processes, as part of a global transformation from more traditional, place-bound populations to more deracinated individuals who choose to align themselves with particular communities and local cultural forms, particularly those that have been commodified.
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Nahoum, André Vereta. "Selling \"cultures\": the traffic of cultural representations from the Yawanawa." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-15012014-102023/.
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What are the tensions, alliances, negotiations, and translations underlying the traffic of cultural representations in markets? This research analyzes two economic projects maintained by the Yawanawa, an indigenous population from the southwestern Amazon: one project produces annatto seeds for an American cosmetic firm, and the other involves the public performance of cultural and, notably, spiritual practices. The indigenization of market practices and specific Euro-American categories - such as monetary exchange, environmental protection, and cultural difference - allow cultural elements to be translated into representations of enduring cultures, harmonious lifestyles and good environmental practices. The economic valuation of cultural representations is being used as a new tool in local conflicts that occur internally among leaders and groups in their quest for prestige, loyalty, and material resources, and externally with the region\'s non-native population and with national initiatives to develop profitable activities in the Amazon. Part of our global market society, the Yawanawa can also employ the demand and valuation of representations associated with their culture to individual projects on the construction of reputation and leadership, and more broadly, to the reassertion of their collective identity as a specific indigenous population with special rights. This research explores market exchange as an arena of complex sociability and conflict. It analyzes how values are created and exchanged within the market in a true cultural economy, and how individual and collective identity projects are constructed, challenged, and sometimes reproduced by the traffic of material and immaterial objects.Quais são as tensões, alianças, negociações e traduções que subjazem ao tráfico de representações culturais no mercado? Esta pesquisa analisa dois projetos de inserção no mercado dos Yawanawá, população indígena do sudoeste amazônico: um projeto para produção de sementes de urucum para uma empresa estadunidense de cosméticos, e outro que envolve a exibição pública de práticas culturais, notadamente espirituais. A indigenização de práticas de mercado e categorias específicas da cultura Euro-Americana tais como o intercâmbio monetário, a proteção ambiental e a diferença cultural permitem a tradução de elementos culturais em estilos de vida harmoniosos e boas práticas ambientais. A valorização econômica de representações culturais é utilizada internamente como um novo instrumento em conflitos locais entre líderes e grupos em sua busca por prestígio, lealdade e recursos materiais e, externamente, junto à população regional e nacional não-nativa como contraponto a outras iniciativas para o desenvolvimento de atividades lucrativas na Amazônia. Parte de nossa sociedade global de mercado, os Yawanawa também podem empregar a demanda e valorização de representações associadas à sua cultura em projetos individuais de construção de reputação e liderança, e mais amplamente, para a reafirmação de sua identidade coletiva, como uma população indígena com direitos especiais. Esta pesquisa explora a troca mercantil como uma arena de sociabilidade complexa e conflituosa. Ela analisa como valores são criados e intercambiados no mercado em uma verdadeira economia cultural, e como projetos de identidade individual e coletiva são construídos, questionados e, às vezes, reproduzidos por meio do tráfico de objetos materiais e imateriais.
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Robinson, Glendal Paul. "A Mythic Perspective of Commodification on the World Wide Web." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2004. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4489/.
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Capitalism's success, according to Karl Marx, is based on continued development of new markets and products. As globalization shrinks the world marketplace, corporations are forced to seek both new customers and products to sell. Commodification is the process of transforming objects, ideas and even people into merchandise. The recent growth of the World Wide Web has caught the attention of the corporate world, and they are attempting to convert a free-share-based medium into a profit-based outlet. To be successful, they must change Web users' perception about the nature of the Web itself. This study asks the question: Is there mythic evidence of commodification on the World Wide Web? It examines how the World Wide Web is presented to readers of three national publications-Wired, Newsweek, and Business Week-from 1993 to 2000. It uses Barthes' two-tiered model of myths to examine the descriptors used to modify and describe the World Wide Web. The descriptors were clustered into 11 general categories, including connectivity, social, being, scene, consumption, revolution, tool, value, biology, arena, and other. Wired articles did not demonstrate a trend in categorical change from 1993 to 2000; the category of choice shifted back and forth between Revolution, Connectivity, Scene, and Being. Newsweek articles demonstrated an obvious directional shift. Connectivity is the dominant myth from 1994 to 1998, when the revolution category dominates. Similarly, Business Week follows the prevailing myth of connectivity from 1994 to 1997. From 1998 on, the competition-related categories of revolution and arena lead all categories. The study finds evidence of commodification on the World Wide Web, based on the trend in categories in Newsweek and Business Week that move from a foundational myth that presents a perception of cooperation in 1994 to one of competition in 1998 and later. The study recommends further in-depth research of the target publications, a review of articles in less-developed countries, and content analysis and ethnography online.
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Myrevik, Andreas. "Jakobstad, den lilla staden med den framgångrika folkfesten : Kulturens autenticitet och stadens platsidentitet på ett kulturellt evenemang." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Kulturgeografi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-121974.
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Jakobs dagar is a cultural event that takes place in the city of Jakobstad in Finland. The aim of this paper is to see if the place identity that Jakobstad has matches the cultural event. The used method in this paper is focus groups with the locals from Jakobstad and an intervju with the organizer of the event, which is analyzed trough an thematic analysis. Jakobstads image is pitted against the image that Jakobs dagar depicts. The results are showing that the cutural image shown during the event fits the description of what the locals is regarding as Jakobstads cultural identity.
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Bennett, Nicole Carleton University Dissertation Sociology and Anthropology. "The authorization of difference; tourism Canada, multiculturalism and the commodification of Canadian ethno-cultural difference." Ottawa, 1994.
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Al-Khalidi, Alia. "Menstruation in material and promotional culture : the commodification and mediation of female sanitary products in Britain 1880-1914." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 2000. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/1192/.
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Previous analyses of the history of the innovation and commodification of menstrual hygiene products largely subscribe to the misconception that the establishment of the industry was begun in the early years of the 20th century. This research firmly relocates the decisive development of this industry to the inception of Southall's Antiseptic and Absorbant Pad in Britain in 1880. Following analysis of the imperatives of menstrual management in the mid-19th century, consideration is given to the origins of the commodification of menstruation, its vital early promotional culture and the rapid development of an established competitive commercial context within an effective industrial infrastructure. Product development and diversification are considered through to the maturation of the industry prior to the First World War. These events are considered within a historically based interdisciplinary approach employing a historical and cultural analysis to develop a fuller understanding of the issues that are explored. The industrial and cultural encoding of menstrual objects within promotional discourse is seen to reconstruct Victorian menstrual etiquette; positioning objects of menstrual management in the establishment of new hygienic protocols and brand loyalty through an emphasis on issues of social transformation, technical innovation, medical certification and discretion. The presentation and interpretation of contemporary source material facilitate a reconstruction of accepted histories and contribute to a new understanding of early menstrual communication strategies.
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Montano, Edward James. "DJs, clubs and vinyl the cultural commodification and operational logics of contemporary commercial dance music in Sydney /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/19792.
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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of Contemporary Music Studies, 2007.Bibliography: p. 291-313.
Introduction -- "Back to this subculture thing": literature review and methodology -- "The crowd went berserk": dance music and club culture in Sydney and Australia -- "Once you find a groove you've got to keep it locked": the role and significance of the DJ -- "There's a great myth about that": DJ culture in Sydney -- "You're not a real DJ unless you play vinyl": technology and formats: the progression of dance music and DJ culture -- "What is underground really?": defining the structure, significance and meaning of dance culture -- "Where are they going to go next?": shifting the focus of dance music studies.
The development of contemporary, post-disco dance music and its associated culture, as representative of a (supposedly) underground, radical subculture, has been given extensive consideration within popular music studies. Significantly less attention has been given to the commercial, mainstream manifestations of this music. Furthermore, demonstrating the influence of subculture theory, existing studies of dance culture focus largely on youth-based audience participation, and as such, those who engage with dance music on a professional level have been somewhat overlooked. In an attempt to rectify these imbalances, this study examines the contemporary commercial dance music scene in Sydney, Australia, incorporating an analytical framework that revolves mainly around the work of DJs and the commercial scene they operate within.--An ethnographic methodological approach underpins the majority of this thesis, with interviews forming the main source of research material. Beginning with a discussion of the existing academic literature on dance culture and dance scenes, an historical context is subsequently established through a section that traces the development of dance culture from an underground phenomenon to a mainstream leisure activity, both within and outside Australia.--The ideas, opinions and interpretations of a selection of local DJs and other music industry practitioners who work in Sydney are central to the analysis of DJ culture herein. Issues discussed include the interaction and relationship between the DJ and their crowd, the technology and formats employed by DJs, and the DJ's multiple roles as entertainer, consumer and educator. The final part of the study gives consideration to the structure of the Sydney dance scene, in regard to the frequently used, but rarely critically analysed, terms 'underground' and 'mainstream'. The thesis concludes with a discussion that challenges the structural rigidity imposed by subcultural theory and scene-based analysis, arguing instead for a greater degree of fluidity in the theoretical approaches taken towards the study of contemporary dance music scenes.
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Wissing, Rachael. "Culture for Sale: An Ethnographic Study of Commodification at the Westwego Shrimp Lot of Louisiana." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1213.
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This study examines the marketing strategies employed by vendors at the Westwego shrimp lot in Westwego, Louisiana. Given the fluctuating market conditions and rising costs of seafood production, seafood vendors in the Gulf Coast region must look continuously for new ways to market their product as a cultural commodity. This thesis argues that shrimp becomes a cultural commodity at the Westwego shrimp lot, and that through marketing strategies, vendors at the Westwego shrimp lot both resist and accept certain aspects of globalization. The presence of imports, a presence that emerges in the context of globalization, poses a large threat to the industry‟s survival. Vendors both consciously and unconsciously market shrimp as food and symbol. An analysis of their efforts may contribute to understanding the process of cultural commodification.
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Dixon, Anna R. "Health and wealth dietary supplements, network marketing and the commodification of health /." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=765033321&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1233358954&clientId=23440.
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Elf, Donaldson Evelina. "Visitor Perceptions of Authenticity and Commodification in Easter Island Cultural Heritage Tourism : Pride and Empowerment of the Rapanui." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-412194.
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This study sought to analyze tourist perceptions of cultural heritage tourism on Easter Island, more specifically, how they perceived and valued the concept of ‘authenticity’ in representations of local Rapanui culture. By analyzing and categorizing trends found in Trip Advisor reviews left for 6 tourism businesses on the island (3 traditional performance venues and 3 guided tour companies), this primary research question was further broken down to assess 1) what factors in particular render an experience valuable and authentic to the tourist, 2) how tourists perceive indigenous Rapanui’s relationship to their own culture in the context of cultural tourism, and 3) if they perceive the industry as exploiting or empowering the Rapanui people. Ultimately the study uncovered the tendency for tourists to look to the transmitters of culture themselves (i.e. local performers, guides, company owners) when assessing the value and authenticity of their cultural experience, taking into account the transmitter’s indigenous heritage, cultural pride, knowledgeability, and openness and eagerness to share their culture with visitors (evident by the perceived passion with which they performed, or the personal storytelling and friendship evident in the guide-guest relationship). In addition to constructing value and authenticity, these qualities left visitors with the impression that local Rapanui are empowered by the industry and have agency over the manner in which their culture is showcased. The tourist’s search for meaning was also an important finding, as the majority either appreciated direct explanations about island culture and history, or created their own meaning when none was provided. While the scope of this study was limited to Easter Island, it has implications that may be applied to other destinations with indigenous, cultural tourism, as it very much speaks to the value that tourists place on cultural pride and preservation, community-based grassroots tourism, a desire for meaning and explanation, and consideration for the tourist’s own impact on the destination.
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Hung, Kai-kin, and 洪啟健. "Finding the devil in the details: a study of heritage commodification as designed products using the case of HongKong's G.O.D." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50716001.
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The three terms heritage, legacy and treasure came across my mind and led me think about how strongly these three terms are correlated. Heritage is a great treasure in cultural terms. However, the terms legacy and treasure also literally suggest the commercial potential hidden in heritage, which can generate commercial benefits in monetary terms.
Brand heritage can be a great marketing tool to add value to the products. By applying heritage driven marketing campaigns, the food and beverage brands received a huge success. Notable examples include the champagne brand Dom Perignon and the whisky brand Macallan. Sharing the traditional knowledge and how they followed the traditional practice in the modern days, these stories not only show how loyal they are to the traditional practice, but further enhance the “premiumness” of the brands.
Fashion brands have also been using heritage marketing as a tool for brand building. Louis Vuitton has been using its heritage and craftsmanship in luggage making for brand building. Similarly, Hermes has been leveraging its history in scarves and fine craftsmanship as a way of heritage branding.
This dissertation examines the Hong Kong lifestyle brand G.O.D. to understand how heritage commodification contributes to its relative success not only to the business but also in its promotion of Hong Kong local heritage. In order to understand the case, the company background, the process of heritage commodification via design and marketing is carefully dissected in this dissertation.
To understand the impact of design with a twist approach on promoting Hong Kong heritage, the product design, elements selection criteria, marketing campaigns and shop design have been studied. To verify the relative success of the brand, a marketing survey has been conducted and the findings have been analyzed to understand the real market response towards the brand so as the effectiveness of promoting Hong Kong heritage via design product.published_or_final_version
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Conradie, Annemi. "Travelling snapshots of the Rainbow Nation : the commodification and performance of 'authentic' cultural identities in contemporary South African postcards." Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4251.
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Verri, Solange Whitaker. "História imediata da Vila Madalena: uma análise das influências em 2012 da história cultural do bairro na década de 1980." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-20032015-115953/.
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Este trabalho é o fruto da nossa pesquisa acadêmica para o doutoramento em História Social. Trata-se do estudo que abrange um período da década de 1980, e repercussão desse período na contemporaneidade de um dos bairros mais badalados da zona oeste da cidade de São Paulo, a Vila Madalena. Para tanto, focalizou-se o estudo nos efeitos da presença do grupo de jovens nos bares da Vila Madalena conhecidos por ser da vanguarda. Como desdobramento tratou-se de averiguar os efeitos das influências desse grupo no bairro da década de 1980 e as repercussões na contemporaneidade. O fio condutor escolhido como paradigma para pensar e analisar as problemáticas do bairro se baseou nas categorias de análise espetáculo e espetacularização da teoria crítica da sociedade do espetáculo, de autoria do cineasta Guy Debord. Por meio desses conceitos foi possível explicar as consequências da construção de significados da Vila Madalena, inserida na cultura de consumo da atual fase do capitalismo. Isso porque, à luz da crítica da sociedade do espetáculo, foi possível fazer leituras interpretativas com um olhar no presente e no passado. Nesse contexto, fez-se uma síntese do movimento de vanguarda da Internacional Situacionista da França, procurando-se captar os possíveis reflexos das práticas culturais por meio do uso das artes pelo grupo de esquerda de Maio de 1968, no grupo de jovens do bairro em 1980, conhecidos por serem também de vanguarda. Por meio do estudo das possíveis semelhanças entre um grupo e outro, foi possível uma aproximação com as problemáticas da Vila Madalena no presente, por meio de abordagens descritivas e teóricas, as quais permitiram leituras das interfaces da História com outros campos da Comunicação. Descreveu-se e interpretou-se a cultura de consumo moderno do entretenimento e as especificidades dos modos de socialização e de apropriação do espaço público urbano. Coletaram-se experiências de antigos moradores, de sujeitos sociais, e as interpenetrações simbólicas que do bairro se fazem. Partiu-se da hipótese de que a presença de um grupo nos bares da Vila Madalena em 1980 produziu significativas influências nas designações do bairro na contemporaneidade. A saber, como um bairro de artistas de vanguarda, de intelectuais da boemia ou de esquerda. Para reconstituição das origens das designações levantaram-se fontes de se eles eram a síntese da história de um período que ate hoje se ressignifica para dar sentido à mercantilização da história e do bairro pelos suportes midiáticos. Ou se os termos significam apenas uma das faces da história as quais correspondem às representações de um período cultural da Vila Madalena. E ainda, se as manifestações culturais de arte e de artesanato de um grupo dessa época modo refletiam as práticas culturais do movimento de estudantes vanguarda da Internacional Situacionista de 1968 na França. Como consequência a presença do grupo do passado se transformou no presente em uma espécie de marca de grife do bairro como uma mercadoria. Como eco da primeira surgiu outra hipótese. A saber, se a construção de sentidos do bairro pela publicidade tem repercussão na dinâmica acelerada da cultura da sociedade do espetáculo, provocando alterações comportamentais. Interpretou-se e analisou-se historicamente a apreensão de um período do bairro como um local-signo de consumo do espetáculo como uma mercadoriaThis work is the fruit of our academic research for its doctorate in Social History. This is the study covers a period from the late 1980 of the Cultural History of one of the most \"famous\" west area in the city of São Paulo, Vila Madalena. To this, the study focused on the effects of the presence of the youth group in Vila Madalena bars known to be vanguard. As offshoot was investigating the effects of that group influences in the late 1980 in the contemporanity. The thread chosen as paradigm for thinking and analyzing the problems of Vila Madalena was based on categories of analysis \"spectacle\" and spectacularization of the critical theory of the \"society of the spectacle\", authored by filmmaker Guy Debord. Through these concepts could explain the consequences of the construction of meanings of Vila Madalena, inserted into the \"consumer culture\" of the current phase of capitalism. This is because, in the light of criticism of the \"society of the spectacle\", it was possible to do interpretive readings with a look at the present and in the past. In this context, a synthesis of avant-garde movement of the French International Situationist, seeking to capture the possible reflections of the avant-garde group of France of 1968 in the youth group from the neighborhood in 1980, known for being cutting-edge. Through the study of the similarities between one group and another, it was possible an approach with the problems of Vila Madalena in the present, by means of descriptive and theoretical approaches, which allowed readings of history interfaces with other fields of knowledge of communication. Described himself and played the \"modern consumer culture\" of entertainment and the specificities of the modes of socialization and appropriation of the urban public space. Collected experiences of former residents, social subjects, and the symbolic interrelationships that are neighborhood. Broke the hypothesis that the pubs grup in Vila Madalena in 1980 mirrored the International Situationist cultural movement from the 1968 in France. As scrolling, the presence of the youth group in pubs in the neighborhood of the past became, in the present, in a kind of designer brand, as a commodity. As echo of the first hypothesis emerged that the construction of meaning by the advertising media has influenced the dynamics of accelerated consumer culture of the spectacle, causing behavioural. Played and analyzed historically the apprehension of a period in the neighborhood located in the contemporanity as a location-sign of consumption of the spectacle as a commodity
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FERREIRA, JÚNIOR José. "Serra Talhada x Triunfo: a disputa da memória de Lampião no médio Pajeú Pernambucano." Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, 2014. http://dspace.sti.ufcg.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/riufcg/1361.
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O objetivo desta pesquisa foi investigar como, em Serra Talhada e em Triunfo, cidades da Mesorregião do Sertão Pernambucano, Microrregião do Pajeú, verifica-se o uso da memória lampiônica pelos produtores culturais e, no referente a esse uso, como são construídos os discursos desses atores sociais. Procedeu-se investigação bibliográfica. Foram examinadas obras diversificadas que tratam do assunto memória e mercadorização da memória. Também foram consultadas literaturas que circulam no âmbito regional, cujos autores são produtores culturais serratalhadenses e triunfenses e ex-soldados de volantes. Concernente à teoria empregada, buscou-se embasamento no discurso weberiano da ação social, mais especificamente, a que busca uma finalidade específica. Somado a essa incursão bibliográfica, também foram feitas entrevistas, tendo como instrumento de obtenção de dados o questionário semi-estruturado. Os conteúdos dos discursos dos sujeitos entrevistados foram analisados e utilizados na construção do texto que compõe esta tese. Como resultados, percebeu-se, de fato, a existência de disputa pela memória citada e, em decorrência de tal procedimento, a constatação de que, embora a intencionalidade seja a mesma, verifica-se a utilização de estratégias diferentes para se obter benefício da memória em questão. Enquanto em Serra Talhada a memória lampiônica é diretamente mercadejada, satisfazendo uma demanda turística, em Triunfo, seu uso se faz quando é agregada aos atrativos da cidade, ou seja, no espaço triunfense, a memória de Lampião funciona como elemento agregador de valor àquilo que a cidade, por si só, já oferece ao turista.
The objective of this research was to investigate how, Serra Talhada and Triunfo , the cities of Meso Hinterland Pernambucano microrregion the Pajeú, there is the use of memory lampiônica by cultural producers, and in respect of such use , how they are constructed discourses these social actors. Proceeded bibliographic research . Diversified works dealing with the subject memory and commodification of memory were examined. Literatures circulating regionally, whose authors are serratalhadenses cultural producers and triunfenses and former soldiers flywheels were also consulted. Concerning the theory employed, we sought grounding in the Weberian discourse of social action, more specifically, to search a particular purpose. Added to this literature raid, interviews were also carried out, and as a tool for obtaining data semi - structured questionnaire. The contents of the interviews subjects were analyzed and used in the construction of the text that makes up this thesis. As a result, it was realized, in fact, the existence of the dispute quoted memory and, as a result of such a procedure, the finding that, although the intention is the same, the use of different strategies it appears to give the benefit of the memory in question. While in Serra Talhada hewn lampiônica the memory is directly marketed, satisfying a demand for tourism, in Triunfo its use becomes attractive when it is aggregated to the city , or in triunfense space, memory of Lampião works as aggregator element value to what the city itself already offers the tourist
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Rodrigues, Maysa Ciarlariello Cunha. "Indústria cultural em Theodor Adorno: das primeiras análises sobre a mercantilização da cultura nos anos 1930 à formulação do conceito em 1947." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-26052015-112252/.
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Este trabalho tem por objetivo investigar as análises de Theodor Adorno sobre a mercantilização da cultura a partir da década de 1930, com o intuito de compreender como o conceito de indústria cultural foi sendo esboçado na obra do autor antes de ganhar sua formulação mais conhecida em Dialética do Esclarecimento, escrita em parceira com Max Horkheimer, publicada em 1944 em versão prelimitar e em 1947, na formatação definitiva. Intenciona-se demonstrar que indústria cultural decorre de um programa de pesquisa e reflexão anterior à Dialética do Esclarecimento, voltado para a compreensão da articulação de aspectos econômicos com o âmbito psicológico e cultural que são sintetizados de forma singular no conceito. As reflexões de Adorno, por sua vez, representam uma apropriação particular de influências marxistas, freudianas e weberianas, bem como leituras de Walter Benjamin e de Max Horkheimer.This study aimed to investigate the analysis of Theodor Adorno on the commodification of culture starting from the 1930s, in order to understand how the concept of culture industry was being sketched in the author\'s work before obtaining its best known formulation as published in Dialectic of Enlightenment, written in partnership with Max Horkheimer, in 1944 in a preliminary version and in 1947, in its final formatting. Our intention is to demonstrate that culture industry originates from a program of research and reflection prior to Dialectic of Enlightenment, pursuing the understanding of the articulation between economics and psychological and cultural, that are synthesized in a unique way in the concept. Adorno\'s reflections, in turn, represents a particular appropriation of Marxist, Freudian and Weberian influences, as well as readings of Walter Benjamin and Max Horkheimer.
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Brehm, Stephanie Nicole. "“Shalom, God Bless, and Please Exit to the Right:” A Cultural Ethnography of the Holy Land Experience." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1310505582.
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Peach, Andrea. "The making of modern Scottish craft : revival and invention in 1970s Scotland." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2711.
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The 1970s were a period of renaissance for the crafts in Britain, often referred to as a craft revival. The creation of national organisations and infrastructures to support craft, and define its identity, played a crucial role in this. The received craft revival narrative focuses on the Crafts Council of England and Wales, with its emphasis on raising the status of craft and promoting it as fine art, largely through the efforts the Minister for the Arts, Lord David Eccles. The narrative in Scotland was very different, and is a story that until now remains untold. Scotland had its own national agencies with responsibility for the crafts. But instead of having a focus on the arts, they were tasked with addressing Scotland’s economic decline, and saw an opportunity to develop Scottish craft as both an industry and a product. The emphasis was not on promoting craft as fine art as in England and Wales, but rather on developing craft as commodity. Borrowing from Adamson’s thesis that as a form of cultural production, ‘craft is itself a modern invention’ (Adamson 2013 p. xiii), this thesis will analyse how Scottish development organisations in the 1970s attempted to promote and invent Scottish craft as an industry and product, and how those involved in the making of Scottish craft responded to this. In order to do this, it will examine the origins of the 1970s craft revival in Britain, the legacy of the invention of modern Scottish craft, and the two development agencies tasked with its invention in the 1970s: the Highlands and Islands Development Board, and the Scottish Development Agency. This thesis makes an original contribution by telling the Scottish side of the 1970s craft revival story. It also addresses wider issues that have received little critical attention in craft history, namely the relationship between craft and commodification, and the tension between modernity and tradition in the invention of modern craft.
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Sharp, Kristen, and kristen sharp@rmit edu au. "Superflatworlds: A Topography of Takashi Murakami and the Cultures of Superflat Art." RMIT University. Applied Communication, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080522.093156.
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This thesis maps Takashi Murakami's Theory of Superflat Art and his associated artistic practices and works. The study situates Murakami and Superflat within the context of globalising culture. The thesis interrogates Murakami's art and the theory of superflat within the historical, social, and cultural contexts of their production-consumption in Japan, the United States, and Europe. The thesis identifies Superflat art and Murakami's work as actively participating in, and expressing, the cultural conditions associated with the 'global postmodern' and globalisation processes. The thesis employs a Cultural Studies theoretical and heuristic framework, utilising a range of contemporary critical theorisations on postmodern art, Japanese cultural identity and globalisation. This framework and approach are adopted in order to draw attention to ways in which Murakami and Superflat articulate and represent the fundamental contentions and dialogues that characterise contem porary globalisation processes. The tensions that are articulated in relation to the discursive construction of the concepts of art/commodity, modern/postmodern and global/local cultural identities. Importantly, this research demonstrates the ways in which Murakami both participates in, and challenges, the conceptual distinctions indexed within the concepts of 'art' as an aesthetic expression and 'commodity' as an object of symbolic exchange in the global marketplace. It interprets Superflat as an 'expressivity' that challenges binary demarcations being constructed between art and commercial culture, and between the aesthetic-cultural identities of Japan and the West. This thesis problematises the meaning of Murakami's concept and aesthetic of Superflat art by drawing attention to these contestations within Murakami's works and Superflat which are generated as they circulate globally. The thesis argues that Murakami strategically presents his work and Superflat art as an expression of Japanese identity which paradoxically also expresses the fluid imaginings of cultural identity available through contemporary global exchanges. This deliberate territorialising and deterritorialising impulse does not resolve the contentions emerging in globalisation, but rather amplifies them, exposing the key debates on the formation of cultural identity as an oppositional expression and as a commodity in global markets. The concept of 'strategic essentialism' is used as a theoretical lens in order to understand Murakami and Superflat's activation of these global processes. This research contributes a valuable case study to the understanding of cultural production as a strategic negotiation and expression of the flows of capital and culture in globalisation.
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Hall, Timothy W. "Surface, substance and the status quo pop cultural influences on architectural design /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=ucin1085069145.
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Lente, Sandra van. "Cultural exchange in selected contemporary British novels." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät II, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17133.
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In dieser Dissertation werden die Repräsentationen von Kulturtransfer in zeitgenössischen britischen Romanen untersucht (Monica Ali: Brick Lane (2003), Nadeem Aslam: Maps For Lost Lovers (2004), Gautam Malkani: Londonstani (2007) und Maggie Gee: The White Family (2002)). Für die Analyse der Begegnungen und Kulturtransferprozesse werden narratologische Analysekategorien mit denen der Kulturtransferanalyse verknüpft. Neben den textimmanenten Aspekten werden außerdem die Produktions- und Rezeptionskontexte der Romane mitberücksichtigt. Dazu gehören u.a. auch das Buchmarketing und Buchumschlagdesign sowie Rezensionen und öffentliche Reaktionen auf die Romane. Mit diesem Instrumentarium werden z.B. folgende Fragen untersucht: Wie werden Begegnungen und Austauschprozesse repräsentiert und bewertet? Welche Gründe für Aneignung oder Abschottung werden formuliert? In diesem Kontext konzentriert sich die Arbeit auf die Repräsentation von Mediatorinnen und Mediatoren, Kontaktzonen und -situationen, Machtstrukturen sowie Selektions- und Ablehnungsprozesse. Außerdem wird untersucht, mit welchen ästhetischen Mitteln die Austauschprozesse gestaltet werden, beispielsweise durch die Untersuchung der Plotmuster und der Charakterisierungen auf Stereotype hin. und welche Effekte dies bewirkt. Die Analysen haben ergeben, dass Kulturtransfer als erstrebenswert bewertet wird. Gleichzeitig findet aber oft nur Assimilierung statt und kein reziproker Austausch auf Augenhöhe. Die ausgewählten Romane setzen sich vorwiegend mit Hindernissen des interkulturellen Austauschs auseinander. Besonders häufig werden in diesem Kontext Gründe wie mangelnde Bereitschaft, mangelnde Bildung und extremistische (religiöse) Ansichten der Einwandererfamilien angeführt. Die Romane verstetigen Stereotype, die dem Lesepublikum bereits aus vielen Massenmedien vertraut sind, u.a. durch entwicklungsresistente Charaktere, typisiert als ungebildete und unverbesserliche Migranten, die Parallelgesellschaften entwerfen.This thesis analyses representations of cultural exchange in contemporary British novels in the context of migration and the British literary field. It offers a multilayered approach: the combination of cultural exchange theory and its categories with narratological tools do justice to the aesthetic side of the novels as well as their socio-political and historical contexts that are particularly relevant for novels dealing with migration. Cultural exchange theory analyses appropriation and transformation processes, i.e. how the concepts, cultural practices as well as representations change when they are transferred into a different cultural context. Furthermore, this thesis takes into consideration that all novels exist as material objects within a literary field that is affected by editors, marketing people, reviewers, and other agents. The results support the following theses: Contact and exchange are implicitly and explicitly depicted as something positive, with two of the novels emphasising the virtues of selective appropriation. However, the exchange processes mainly work in one direction only and contact between (British) Asian and (white) British characters is limited. The blame for this is often put on the immigrants and their families. The selected texts focus on obstacles and conflicts in exchange processes without offering solutions to the conflicts. In this context, religion or religious fervour along with a lack of education are most often depicted as the main obstacle for reciprocal cultural exchange. The aesthetic means employed are analysed as well as their effects, e.g. whether form and content reinforce each other or produce contradictions. Finally, the thesis shows which novels deconstruct and contradict existing stereotypes and which ones are complicit in reproducing them. Primary texts: Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003), Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers (2004), Gautam Malkani’s Londonstani (2006) and Maggie Gee’s The White Family (2002).
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Ribas, Serra Joan. "WELCOME TO VEREMA: Procés de mercantilització de la tradició i el patrimoni. El cas de la DO Alella." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/116425.
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Avui dia creix cada vegada més l'interès social en la recuperació, valorització i promoció del patrimoni i la tradició alimentària com a estratègia per generar un recurs econòmic des del territori (Ascher, 2005:119). L'alimentació a través de la cuina i la gastronomia s'ha convertit en un recurs explorat i explotat per part de diverses institucions (Tresserras, Medina, Matamala 2007:218). Els actius del propi territori es converteixen en l'eina per generar un valor econòmic que faci a la comunitat sostenible. Part del model de desenvolupament territorial vigent es fonamenta en la capacitat d'atracció turística dels llocs on el procés de patrimonialització de l'alimentació és un exemple de com un recurs esdevé un producte de comerç i una eina de desenvolupament del territori. ¿De quina manera es construeix el patrimoni? Quins són els agents que participen i quins resultats s'aconsegueixen? Quins beneficis reals aporten l'ús turístic del patrimoni? Quines són les infraestructures que es generen? Quina percepció té la societat del paisatge o de l'entorn resultant? Aquestes són preguntes que han alimentat l'interès d'aquesta investigació. S'ha emmarcat l'objecte d'estudi a la Denominació d'Origen de vins Alella, tant a través d'algunes parts com del tot que conformen el seu àmbit geogràfic. El discurs del procés de patrimonialització i les estratègies que es duen a terme per part dels agents implicats en particular i de la ciutadania en general que formen part de l'àmbit geogràfic de producció de la DO és el focus en què s'ha posat atenció per descriure i analitzar un cas particular de procés de mercantilització de la tradició i el patrimoni. La investigació pretén mostrar i analitzar un cas particular de procés de patrimonialització d'un producte alimentari amb la dificultat que comporta ser un procés de construcció viu, subjecte a variacions, mutacions i canvis. Tradició, patrimoni, herència, transmissió, realitat, invenció, espectacle, representació, còpia, autèntic i diferenciació són conceptes clau que s'han tingut en compte en aquesta investigació.Nowadays increasingly growing social interest in recovery, enhancement and promotion of heritage and tradition food as a strategy to generate an economic resource from the territory (Ascher, 2005:119). Feeding through the cooking and gastronomy has become a resource explored and exploited by various institutions (Tresserras, Medina, Matamala 2007:218). The assets of the territory itself become the tool to generate an economic value that makes a sustainable community. Part of the current territorial development model is based on the capacity of tourist attraction places where patrimonial process of feeding is an example of how a resource becomes a trading product and territorial development tool. How is built heritage? What are the actors involved and what results are achieved? What real benefits bring heritage tourism use? What are the infrastructures that are generated? What is your perception of society resulting landscape or environment? These are questions that have fueled the interest of this research. It has been framed in order to study in the Denomination of Origin wines Allela, both through some parts and the whole that make geographical area. The speech patrimonialization process and strategies carried out by particular stakeholders and the general public as part of the geographical scope of the DO production is the focus in which attention has been paid to describe and analyze a particular case of commodification of tradition and heritage. The research aims to display and analyze a particular case patrimonialization processing of a food product with the difficulty involved in being an active construction process, subject to variations, mutations and changes. Tradition, heritage, inheritance, transmission, reality, invention, show, representation, copy, authentic and differentiation are key concepts that have been considered in this research.
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Bernard, Mary Grace Cathryn. "Non-Western Art and the Musée du Quai Branly: The Challenge of Authenticity." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/honors_theses/53.
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This thesis discusses the recent construction and anthropological collaboration of the Paris museum: Musée du quai Branly (MQB), an art museum dedicated to showcasing art collections specific to aboriginal and indigenous cultures in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania. The opening of MQB in June 2006 raised a plethora of controversial questions concerning the museum’s methods of curatorial display of the art it has made its primary focus. One of the major issues discussed examines the Quai Branly’s authentic, or inauthentic, representation of certain artworks displayed throughout the museum. Thus, the essay raises the questions: does a non-Western object remain authentic once it is exhibited in a Western society’s art museum? To answer this question, the essay explores the various explanations of art and authenticity in order to reach an understandable conclusion of what constitutes an authentic display of non-Western objects in a Western art museum.
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Richman, Lisa Helene. "From Subculture to Mass Culture: The Impact of Internet Photography on the New York Club Scene." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1205860298.
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Kennedy, Neil Patrick Martyn. "Employing Cornish cultures for community resilience." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/12641.
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Employing Cornish Cultures for Community Resilience. Can cultural distinctiveness be used to strengthen community bonds, boost morale and equip and motivate people socially and economically? Using the witness of people in Cornwall and comparative experiences, this discussion combines a review of how cultures are commodified and portrayed with reflections on well-being and ‘emotional prosperity’. Cornwall is a relatively poor European region with a cultural identity that inspires an established ethno-cultural movement and is the symbolic basis of community awareness and aspiration, as well as the subject of contested identities and representations. At the heart of this is an array of cultures that is identified as Cornish, including a distinct post-industrial inheritance, the Cornish Language and Celtic Revivalism. Cultural difference has long been a resource for cultural industries and tourism and discussion of using culture for regeneration has accordingly concentrated almost exclusively on these sectors but an emergent ‘regional distinctiveness agenda’ is beginning to present Cornish cultures as an asset for use in branding and marketing other sectors. All of these uses ultimately involve commodification but culture potentially has a far wider role to play in fostering economic, social, cultural and environmental resilience. This research therefore uses multidisciplinary approaches to broaden the discussion to include culture’s primary emotional and social uses. It explores the possibility that enhancing these uses could help to tackle economic and social disadvantage and to build more cohesive communities. The discussion centres on four linked themes: multiple forms of capital; discourse, narrative and myth; human need, emotion and well-being; representation and intervention. Cultural, social, symbolic and human capital are related to collective status and well-being through consideration of cultural practices, repertoires and knowledge. These are explored with discussion of accompanying representations and discourses and their social, emotional and economic implications so as to allow tentative suggestions for intervention in policy and representation. A key conclusion is that culture may be used proactively to increase ‘emotional capital’.
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Portnoff, Linda. "Control, cultural production and consumption : theoretical perspectives, empirical dilemmas, and Swedish music industry practices." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics [Ekonomiska forskningsinstitutet vid Handelshögskolan i Stockholm] (EFI), 2007. http://www2.hhs.se/efi/summary/742.htm.
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Demeter, Michelle E. "The commodification of yoga in contemporary U.S. culture." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001710.
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Mansfield, John. "Hip-hop pathology and the commodification of culture /." Title page and introduction only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arm287.pdf.
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Maior-Barron, Denise Cristina Ioana. "Petit Trianon and Marie Antoinette : representation, interpretation, perception." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3930.
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This interdisciplinary thesis belongs to Marie Antoinette studies. The contemporary dissonant commodification of the controversial historical character of the last Queen of France, detected at her former home, Petit Trianon, drives the course of the thesis research. Considering the complexity and controversy of the subject, the thesis seeks to make a contribution to extant scholarship by clarifying important modern history issues through a fresh approach: by using art history as an indicator in assessing the historical truth of the narrative of Petit Trianon, the residence identified as home to the last Queen of France. The thesis examines Petit Trianon and Marie Antoinette in the context of four major narratives - the historical, cinematic, architectural and heritage narratives - relevant to the contemporary heritage interpretation of Petit Trianon as well as its visitor perceptions. In addition to sourcing evidence for the arguments originating in art history information, the thesis relies on the data collection provided by a tailor-made survey for the topic, placing the results in the wider context of a hermeneutical interpretation of data found in either history or contemporary popular culture. The array of Marie Antoinette’s images detected by the analysis charts the commodification of this historical character at Petit Trianon: its production and consumption. It is through the assessment of this commodification that the present thesis reveals the misconceptions surrounding the historical character best known as Marie Antoinette. The thesis argues that the true role of the last Queen of France was successfully obscured through juxtaposition with her perception by the French collective memory. In other words, the perception of Marie Antoinette had subverted historical truth. Furthermore, the commodification of her historical character is perpetuated in an endless chain of representations fuelled by postmodern consumerism.
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Axelsson, Patrina. "Travel Selfie: A commodification of the tourist experience and culture?" Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22766.
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The aim of this study is to examine the development of the travel selfie phenomenon in contemporary media and culture, and its impact on tourist experiences. By discussing key issues surrounding the phenomenon, particularly commodification and social media such as Instagram, this thesis investigates the effects of the travel selfie on tourist experiences, through a qualitative study approach.By adopting dispositive analysis as a methodology, this study explores how the travel selfie phenomenon evolves from a photographic practice into a modern tourist trend and a travel commodity that has revolutionized the tourist industry. The results suggest that the travel selfie has evolved from a spontaneous photographic technique into a valuable commodity that empowers modern tourists in different parts of the world. The shared consumption of the travel selfie amongst tourists subvert dominant criticism about the selfie culture by suggesting how the travel selfie inspires and unites tourists through an ability to express themselves individually. The conclusions emphasize how the travel selfie has expanded amongst tourists and continues to transform the contemporary cultures.
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Marchione, Renata. "Participatory culture and commodification in the age of the "digital revolution"." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/457041058/viewonline.
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Humphries, David. "Labourism and the commodification of work and social life." Department of Sociology - Faculty of Arts, 2004. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/231.
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The thesis explores concepts of alienation and commodification in relation to public and private themes of identity, in contemporary Australia. It is argued that as labour conditions have intensified and the social safety net has eroded the emphasis on private themes of identity have increased. These themes emphasise sexuality and gender, and down-grade the issue of work and labour. The Australian Labor Party helped create the conditions for postmodernist identity politics weakening their commitment to working class improvement in favour of emphasising hypercapitalism and hyperliberal gender discourses. This approach favours the inclusion of marginal groups that have been traditionally outside of labourist concerns (women, homosexuals, Aborigines) at the expense of civilising capitalism, labour alienation and commodification as the central concern for workers. In short, the abandonment of Marxism, labourism and Social democracy: and their replacement by identity issues. The backlash to a post-welfare state social democracy designed to ameliorate conditions for marginal groups, become a key feature in the election of the Howard government in 1996, with Howards battlers consisting of former Labor voters disenfranchised by political correctness. This produced an attack on welfare cheats, high taxation, and trendy concerns such as Aboriginality � and reinforced Hansonism. In this context, the Australian and American relationship and the frontier tradition is stressed as a pivotal factor in determining the role of identity in the neo-liberal political economy, with the pressures created by neo-liberalism and globalisation. Australian mythology based on Anzac symbolism and personality creates a vacuous phenomenon for genuine themes of Australian national identity to survive the homogenous nature of hyper-capitalism. The drift towards the power of American capitalism and political cosmologies can then been seen as a natural evolution of Australian political mythology. It is here that the thesis argues that hyper capitalist themes can have an implicit relationship to concepts of hyper-liberalism found in gender discourses and moreover, ironically evocative of the individualism Weber argued existed in American Protestant religious sects. Subsequently the de-construction of masculinity that has been characteristic of feminist and gay theory, that reflects a social psychological perspective rather than one based in Marxs historical materialism that places man within social history. Social theory therefore unfairly constructs the heterosexual masculine personality in relation to working class elite occupations such as coalmining or as a reflection of a corporate dominance, to create polemic avenues for marginal groups. The focus upon heterosexuality within the thesis links its relationship to the characteristics demanded by industrial capitalism such as the Fordist mode of production, and in Marxist terms, the complete enslavement and alienation that existed between social man and the capitalist mode of production. This approach emphasises the experience of wage labour, culminating with the high levels of unemployment that has risen concomitantly with de-industrialisation, globalisation and neo-liberalism. The disciplining of the unemployed in the post-welfare state exists alongside hyper-liberal themes of sexual and social identity, indicating a general shift to a social fascism, or two- tiered form of democracy that resides alongside, and is often in competition with conservative advocates for the nuclear family and heterosexuality. The development of Howards battlers reflects a conservative appropriation of the original Australian legend that was based on labourism and mateship and now exists in a nationalist paradigm evocative of frontiersmen and Anzacs rather than one based on class. A framing issue for the thesis subsequently is what role does gender and sexuality have in the function of the industrial capitalist society?
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Jacobson, Malcolm. "Getting paid writing graffiti : How graffiti artists produce value within marketing." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-114878.
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In settings such as hotels, bars and boutiques, things like cars, sodas, clothes, and cities, are fueled with the symbolic capital of graffiti. The purpose of this ethnographic study is to understand how graffiti writers, through marketing, increase the value of their work, as well as that of other products, and how this commercialization affects the meaning of graffiti. Utilizing a perspective of social constructionism, the analysis shows how actors and social fields that are constructed as incongruous (e.g., art galleries and graffiti culture), are at the same time being mixed together to create something new, and thus create value. This study shows how practices that are considered marginal, or deviant, at the same time generate value within the general economy. Deploying an abductive approach, and building on ample empirical material, this study shows that the narrative of graffiti as something illegal is one of the main traits that enables graffiti writers to exchange subcultural capital for economic. The results show that previous research, investigating graffiti from a dichotomous perspective of either art or vandalism, do not give a satisfactory understanding of this diverse subculture. The empirical material consists of 30 participant observations in public events, in Sweden during the autumn of 2014, where graffiti is turned into a commodity embodied with subcultural capital. Moreover, four in-depth interviews were executed with graffiti writers who have sold their competence and art for purposes of marketing, and one group interview with three of their customers. Further, several documents were collected and analyzed.
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Earl, Emma. "Brand New Zealanders: The Commodification of Polynesian Youth Identity in bro'Town." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Journalism and Mass Communication, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1036.
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Maori and Pacific Island youth are the 'it kids' of Aotearoa New Zealand television today, as the exceptional success of the television series bro'Town attests. Corporate sponsors clamour to associate their brands with the hit programme, from international heavyweights including Coke and Vodafone to local players such as G-Force. Likewise, celebrities from at home and abroad proclaim their support for bro'Town in guest appearances on the show. But, what is at stake when the visibility of Polynesian youth in the media is so inextricably intertwined with the commercial imperatives of major corporations and pop-culture celebrities? This paper attends to an absence of critical response regarding the role of commercial influences in the representation of Polynesian youth identity in bro'Town. In striving to be popular, contemporary television in Aotearoa New Zealand often addresses the preconceptions of its target audience. The commodification of Polynesian youth identity in bro'Town, therefore, may be interpreted as a marketing strategy to tap into a popular ideological shift towards multiculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand without disrupting the dominant ideology of white, middle-class masculinity from which capitalism derives. Although bro'Town offers specific challenges to popular stereotypes of Polynesian youth culture, the discursive construction of Maori and Pacific youth identities in the show is still circumscribed by a consumerist ethos that demands adherence to Western capitalist culture in Aotearoa New Zealand. Bro'Town operates in complicity with pre-existing binaries between masculinity/femininity and heterosexual/homosexual and thus implicitly reinscribes the status quo for youth in Aotearoa New Zealand today. Moreover, bro'Town's multicultural ethic is largely contrary because the series fails to contest popular stereotypes about other ethnic minorities. In Brand New Zealanders, it is argued that the corporate co-option of Polynesian youth culture in bro'Town ultimately does less to pry open new discursive spaces for the development of youth identity than to operate as a vehicle for the deliberate shrinking of consumer choice.
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Hershiser, Carl Mehmet. "Blood honor and money : Turkish oiled wrestling and the commodification of traditional culture /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Rome, Alexandra Serra. "Critical account of ideology in consumer culture : the commodification of a social movement." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/23657.
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The study of ideology has long interested sociologists and consumer researchers alike. Much consumption research has approached ideology from various macro, meso, and micro levels of analysis. However, many studies fail to address the dialogical interplay among these three levels of analysis when examining how ideology manifests in, and interacts with, consumer identity projects. Many consumption-based studies examining ideology provide descriptive and normative accounts, affording practices of consumption emancipatory potential. In response, this research adopts a critical marketing perspective in order to draw out the macro and political implications of meso cultural production systems and micro consumption experiences and identity projects. Focusing on the contemporary American feminist movement, and on discourses around sex and sexuality, it explores how hegemonic (patriarchal) and counterhegemonic (feminist) ideologies are communicated in the marketplace, through the media, to understand their role in regard to consumers’ lived experiences and interactions with advertisements. Working within the consumer culture theory tradition, this thesis employed a variant of phenomenological interviewing that explored female emerging adults’ sexual narratives and their interpretations of sexualized ads. By generating data on a specific type of experience, inferences were drawn about how young women experience and relate to the contemporary feminist movement. In total, 14 American women, aged 20 to 31, were interviewed twice and also created media collages of what they considered ‘sexy’. Implementing a multi-step hermeneutic analysis, the data were analyzed through an iterative process, moving back and forth between the idiographic cases and theory. Through multiple iterations, micro, meso, and macro level inferences were made. This study suggests that young women foster diverse and temporary identifications with feminism in the pursuit of two, often overlapping, goals: ontological security and status. This results in a micro process of ‘ideological shifting’, which has depoliticizing effects, insofar as (anti-) feminist brands and identities were readily appropriated and discarded depending on specific contexts and situations. Thus, contrary to much work in the consumer culture theory tradition, which presents consumption as having transgressive and liberating effects, this study finds that while the young women had the power to dialogically interact with marketized (meso level) ideologies that constitute the marketplace, they failed to intercept the macro level processes of marketization and commodification and consequently did not challenge the hegemonic (patriarchal) ideology at large. In adopting a critical perspective, this study offers valuable insight into the relationship between ideology and consumer behavior. Ideology is shown to be disseminated via hegemonic processes of commodification and marketization. Because these processes occur at a macro level, counterhegemonic ideologies are hegemonized and subsequently depoliticized before even reaching the consumer on a micro level. By examining ideology across all three levels, this study finds that consumer agency is largely relegated to the realm of the marketplace, where consumers’ dialogical interactions and consumption practices do not challenge the macro ideologies or oppression at large, but merely alter their marketplace expressions.
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Rojas, Alegria Nicole Sofia. "Chamanes en la red: Mercantilización de la cultura y uso de las redes sociales para proliferar discursos entorno a lo chamánico." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/652545.
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El presente trabajo de investigación evidencia la migración del mundo entorno a los chamánico a las redes sociales. Esa migración ha permitido una mercantilización de la cultura; es decir, ha hecho más fácil la venta de este mundo entorno a lo chamánico a través web. Cada uno de los personajes analizados en la investigación difunde un determinado discurso entorno a lo chamánico que se construye a través de diversos elementos como la vestimenta, los instrumentos musicales, un determinado tono de voz o gestos. Estos discursos antes podían ser difundidos en espacios físicos; sin embargo, gracias a las redes sociales ahora pueden ser anunciados de manera virtual. En la actualidad, estos ‘’chamanes’’ difunden contenido en redes sociales que evidencia un trabajo de producción, edición y conocimiento web, lo que les permite convertirse en creadores de contenido con un fin netamente mercantil.This research work shows the migration of shamanic work shows the migration of shamanic world to social networks. This migration has allowed a commodification of culture; that´s to say, it has made it easier to sell this world around the shamanic through the web. Each of the characters analyzed in the research disseminates a certain discourse around the shamanic that is constructed through various elements such as clothing, musical instruments, a certain tone of voice or gestures. These discourses could previously be broadcast in physical spaces, however, social networks can now be advertised virtually. Currently, these ´´shamans´´ disseminate content n social networks that evidences a production, editing and web knowledge, allowing them to become content creators for a purely commercial purpose.
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O'Neill, Carly. "The cynic's guide to shopping for morals : on the commodification of morality in consumer culture." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/22296/.
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This thesis questions the idea that morality is only part of consumer culture in explicitly ethical consumption, and instead argues that morality is shaped in several layers throughout consumer culture. This thesis examines these layers by considering the question: How is morality shaped and perpetuated both explicitly and implicitly in consumer culture? It has found that consumer culture is not post-ideological but that in it, ideology and morality are obscured by a cynical disconnection between belief and action ,which is used by both consumers and producers. By disconnecting what people 'know and believe' from what they 'do', it becomes harder to recognise where ideology and morality affect consumer culture, because they are denied their role while they fulfil it. Ideology and morality are obscured further by a second disconnection within this first one; between what people 'know' and what they 'believe'. The tension this disconnection causes is addressed through myth, which adds and hides ideology and morality in consumer culture by naturalising ideology and morality in advertising. This shows that there is more to consumption than the satisfaction of needs, and there is more to the concept of needs in consumer culture than their practical satisfaction. Consumer culture is a complex sphere where good and bad co-exist, and consumers are active co-creators of ideology and morality. Their contributions however, are made within limits set by dominant voices in consumer culture, perpetuating an inequality of power in consumer culture. This thesis shows that when consumer culture is looked at as a complex social sphere, it becomes clear that atonement is an important part of consumer culture, not just in explicitly ethical consumption but in consumer culture in general, and that consumer culture is a sphere where morality is taught and learned.
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Dillon, Robert John. "Manufacturing the past : collective memory and the commodification of history as popular culture on British television." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.444984.
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Frassinelli, Pier Paolo. "Visible god : a study in culture, drama and the mystery of commodification in the English Renaissance." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.396183.
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Cottrell, Matt Dee. "The Question Concerning the Cooptation of the Sundance Film Festival: An Analysis of the Commodification of Independent Cinema." DigitalCommons@USU, 2009. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/485.
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The Sundance Film Festival has transformed from being a fringe festival to a leading showcase for independent cinema. This research shows that studios now descend upon the festival to acquire films for commercial distribution. The Sundance Film Festival seems to currently operate as a marketplace for films rather than an independent festival. This research seeks to examine how Hollywood studios have been able to infiltrate and commodify independent projects from the Sundance Film Festival and what the potential ramifications are for emerging independent filmmakers seeking to have their projects screened at the festival. In other words, have Hollywood studios coopted the Sundance Film Festival and if so, what does this process look like? This research seeks to answer these questions through an analysis of Sundance Film Festival data and interviews with festival informants.
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Souza, Cláudio Lucena de. "Processos formativos e identitários no futebol: sujeitos (in)visíveis em jogo." Educação, 2014. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/16900.
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Trata-se de uma pesquisa desenvolvida no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal da Bahia e que buscou, pela lente da educação, entender os nexos entre o processo de mundialização e mercantilização da sociedade moderna e contemporânea e a formação identitária do futebol brasileiro. Para tanto, investigou as implicações do processo de racionalização e mercantilização do futebol contemporâneo na formação esportiva de jovens que participam de escolinhas públicas e privadas de futebol em Salvador-BA. O estudo reconheceu tais escolinhas como espaços de formação de identidades culturais do futebol e como locus de prática social para além de prática esportiva. Em relação ao método, a pesquisa se caracterizou como qualitativa, de abordagem dialética e adotou como procedimento metodológico para levantamento de informações: a pesquisa documental, a observação participante e a entrevista semiestruturada sob a inspiração da entrevista reflexiva. A técnica de análise das informações foi a hermenêutica-dialética. O campo empírico reuniu uma equipe de divisão de base de um clube profissional, uma escolinha de futebol com vínculo com clube profissional, uma escolinha de futebol sem vínculo com clube profissional e uma escolinha pública de futebol. Os sujeitos de diálogo foram treinadores, atletas e um ex-atleta, coordenadores técnicos e pais de atletas. Os resultados da pesquisa apontam para a prevalência da lógica racional e mercantil do futebol profissional na divisão de base do clube pesquisado, mas também fortes indícios de sua presença na escolinha pública de futebol e parcialmente na escolinha privada com vínculo com clube profissional, e ainda algumas pequenas interferências dessa lógica no trabalho dos professores da escolinha privada sem vínculo com clube profissional. Esses resultados sugerem a formação de identidades de negócio já desde as escolinhas de futebol e indicam a presença de sujeitos (in)visíveis, ambos de modo subordinado às demandas do futebol profissional.
ABSTRACT This study was developed as part of the Graduate’s Program in Education of the Federal University of Bahia. It’s objective was to understand, from an educational perspective, the links between the globalization and commodification process, of modern and contemporary society and the identity formation of Brazilian soccer. To this end, it was investigated the implications of this rationalization and commodification process of contemporary soccer for the sports education of young people attending public and private soccer schools in Salvador, Bahia. The study revealed that these schools are spaces for the development of cultural soccer identities, and that they are a focal point for social activities that go beyond the practice of sports. The study’s methodology can be characterized as qualitative, with a dialectical approach, adopting the following methodological procedure for gathering information: desk research, participant observation and semi-structured interviews inspired by the reflexive interview technique. The technical analysis of the information was of a hermeneutic-dialectic nature. The empirical field was made up of a youth division team of a professional club, a soccer school with ties to a professional club, a soccer school without ties to a professional club and a public soccer school. The respondents were coaches, athletes and one former athlete, technical coordinators and athletes’ parents. The research results point to the prevalence of a rational and mercantile logic of professional soccer in the youth division of the researched club, but also strong indications of such an approach in the public soccer school and, partly, in the private school with ties to professional club. This logic even interfered in some small measure in the work of the teachers of the private school without ties to a professional club. These results suggest that business identities start developing already in the soccer schools and indicate the presence of (in)visible subjects, both subordinate to the demands of professional soccer.
RESUMEN Se trata de una investigación desarrollada en el Programa de Posgrado en Educación de la Universidad Federal de Bahia y buscado, a través de la lente de la educación, la comprensión de los vínculos entre el proceso de globalización y la mercantilización de la sociedad moderna y contemporánea y la formación de la identidad del fútbol. Por tanto investigado las implicaciones del proceso de racionalización y la mercantilización del fútbol contemporáneo en la formación deportiva de los jóvenes que participan en las escuelas de fútbol públicas y privadas en Salvador, Bahía. El estudio reconoció esas escuelas como espacios de formación de las identidades culturales de fútbol y como un lugar de práctica social más allá de lá práctica desportiva. Sobre el método, la investigación se caracteriza como enfoque cualitativo, de abordaje dialéctica y adoptó como procedimiento metodológico para el levantamiento de información: investigación documental, la observación participante y la entrevista semi-estructurada bajo la inspiración de la entrevista reflexiva. La técnica de análisis de la información fue la hermenéutica-dialéctica. El campo empírico reunió a un equipo de la división de la base de un club profesional, una escuela de fútbol con vínculo con el club profesional, una escuela de fútbol sin vínculo con un club de fútbol profesional y una escuela pública de fútbol. Los sujetos de el diálogo eran entrenadores, atletas y uno ex-atleta, lós coordinadores técnicos y padres de los atletas. Los resultados de la investigación no sólo apuntan la prevalencia de la lógica racional y mercantil del fútbol profesional en la división base del club investigado, sino también fuertes indícios de su presencia en la escuela pública de fútbol y en parte en la escuela privada con vínculo con el club profesional, y incluso algunas pequeñas interferencias de esta lógica en el trabajo de los maestros de la escuela privada sin vínculo con el club profesional. Estos resultados sugieren la formación de la identidad de negocio ya partir de las escuelas de fútbol y indican la presencia de los sujetos (en)visibles , tanto de manera subordinada a las exigencias del fútbol profesional .
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Lunchaprasith, Thanya. "The commodification of culture in the Thai tourism context : a study of culinary experiences in touristic traditional markets." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7632/.
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The purpose of the thesis is to examine the relationship between tourism and the local culture expressed in culinary experiences offered in the traditional, nostalgic-themed markets that have arisen as popular attractions in the 21 st century. Central to the thesis is an examination of how the traditional cultural values are articulated in the production, promotion and consumption of culinary experiences in order to understand the value of culture when embedded in the process of commodification, as well as to understand influential socio-cultural factors. The thesis investigates the potential of traditional markets to promote food as the main attraction in the market. Field studies were conducted from December 2012–March 2014 in eight traditional markets in the central region of Thailand. Based on the ethnographic approach in studying the narratives in the markets, a variety of methods were implemented in the process of data collection. Besides observational analysis of the venue, semi-structured interviews and the self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data from actors who engage in food experiences, including management team members, food traders and visitors. Data was also collected from interviews with officers working for Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). Keys findings of the thesis reveal that the cultural expressions of food experience in each market is an outcome of both the interactions of worldviews expressed by actors involved in the traditional market and the socio-cultural condition of Thailand. The relationships between stakeholders’ attitudes towards food experiences and the commercial potentials and limitations of food were analysed. The analysis of the cultural value of culinary experiences demonstrates that the existing academic discussions of the authenticity of tourism are insightful in explaining the character of food experiences offered in this tourism scenario. Most importantly, authenticity in tourism experiences, being a desirable element in culinary experiences, is a reflection of the how the pre-modern aspect of Thai society is embraced in a contemporary context. In addition, the commodification of culinary culture generates multidimensional consequences on the value of traditional culture and local lives. Moreover, the performance of culinary experiences can be viewed from the perspective of how Thai society interacts with globalization. The thesis also points out that it is possible to compare the situation of the traditional markets with the marketing positioning of food in Thai tourism marketing policy.
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Bagatur, Sine. "Engendering Consumption: Commodification Of Women Through Print Media With Specific Reference To The Turkish Case." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609131/index.pdf.
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This thesis aims to investigate women’
s double-way relation to consumption, as both consumers and commodities. The major goal of the study is to examine the historical construction of women as pimary consuming class and how this relationship of women to consumption has evolved through time. Moreover, it is claimed that display of women as visual objects of male gaze in visual iconography, ideologies of beauty and body politics on women&
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Kehnel, Steven C. "The Commodification of Masculinity Within Men’s Magazine Advertisements: With what and how do we make the man?" Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1070480473.
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Feuer, Hart Nadav [Verfasser]. "Pre-Industrial Ecological Modernization in Agro-Food and Medicine : Directing the Commodification of Heritage Culture in Cambodia / Hart Feuer." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1043061185/34.
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Hitch, Neal V. "Between city and suburb the near urban neighborhood, technology, and the commodification of the American house, 1914-1934 /." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1127144350.
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Lawson, Selena Michelle. "Radiohead: The Guitar Weilding, Dancing, Singing Commodity." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_theses/47.
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In 2007, Radiohead released a downloadable album, In Rainbows, allowing consumers to pay what they thought the album was worth. The band responded to a moment of change in the music industry. Since then, other bands, like Nine Inch Nails and Coldplay, have made similar moves. Radiohead's capability to release an album and let the fans decide its worth relied on the image they built, which foregrounded their commodification. The historic move redefined the boundaries between art and commodity, a well know tension in popular music studies. The thesis focuses on popular music as communication in the changing industry. Using Radiohead’s album as a case study, it looks at the changing boundaries in the tension between art and commodity. The thesis examines Radiohead's performance, its mediation by the press, and what the album’s distribution method meant to the fans.
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Orshan, Carly A. "An American Tale: Incarnations of the Wizard of Oz and the Negotiation of Identity, Race, and Gender, in Popular Culture." FIU Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/676.
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The purpose of this study is to address the way in which several quite varied and often commodified representations of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) express and reproduce shifting notions of national identity within American culture across the twentieth century and at the beginning of our own. This thesis pursues the question of national identity that the American myth perpetuates throughout the twentieth century and examines the shift in citizenship through representations found in popular culture’s re-writings of the Wizard of Oz tale. This thesis evaluates both original and contemporary adaptations of the Oz story and their deconstruction for sociohistorical representations of racial, gendered, class, and national identity. I argue, that the numerous historical and ideological comparisons from the Oz tale reflect our own world in our discussions of identity, race, class, and gender and have become significant reflections of our own imaginations and national identity.