Book Review Essay
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 8Issue: 1Pages: 229-234
Category: English
Kutiyattam, Heritage, and the Dynamics of Culture
UNESCO intangible cultural heritage Kutiyattam theater heritage policy cultural continuity Kerala In recent years, global heritage discourse has increasingly focused upon the intangible, part of a movement led by the global South to decenter the hegemo…
Asian Ethnology :: Conflicts over Local Beliefs
Local beliefs feudal superstition intangible cultural heritage Hongtong Zouqin Xisu “receiving Aunties” Ehuang and Nüying On June 14, 2008, the Hongtong Zouqin Xisu in Hongtong County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province, was announced as one of the 510 natio…
*Mak Yong*, a UNESCO “Masterpiece”
intangible cultural heritage UNESCO Masterpiece Islam politics nationalism communities of practice safeguarding Mak yong, a form of Malay theater, was proclaimed a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2005 and incorp…
Notes from the Lockdown
Here is an e-version of Notes from the Lockdown a collection of text written about and/or during the lockdown in countries like South Sudan, Ethiopia-Oromia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, …
The Golden Mile Complex
The Golden Mile Complex is one of Singapore’s first shopping malls, built as part of the postcolonial government’s plan to expand and redevelop the urban center. Barely a decade into its existence, Thai eateries, shops, and remittance centers sprang up…
Book Review: Dolezal, C., Trupp, A., & Bui, H. T. (Eds.). (2020). Tourism and Development in Southeast Asia.
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Indigenous Peoples, the State, and the Economy in Indonesia
Some communities in Indonesia’s margins have adopted indigenous identities to overcome stigmatization as ‘backward’. Following recent government efforts to develop Indonesia’s peripheral areas, these communities can also identify as entrepreneurs becau…
Deciphering the Development of Smart and Sustainable Tourism Cities in Southeast Asia
A recognized desire is noticeable within ASEAN nations to develop more sustainable approaches to urban development and tourism. One solution has been to promote the expansion of both smart cities and smart tourism pr…
Gold Rush Abroad
Sex work is part of Thailand’s tourism-based economic development model. The country’s global reputation as a ‘queer paradise’ is an important factor shaping Thailand’s sex tourism and linking it to the global sex industry. This paper addresses transna…
Sustainable Community-Based Tourism in Cambodia and Tourists’ Willingness to Pay
Community-Based Tourism (CBT) sites are often seen as a tool for poverty alleviation and eradication, especially in Least Developed Countries like Cambodia. CBT as a development tool has been critically examined in recent years in a development coopera…
Language and Community-Based Tourism
Language and tourism are essentially interconnected by the cross-border movement of tourists and the resulting encounters of people who often speak different languages. These relationships, however, have not been explored very much in the context of co…
Volunteer Tourists and the SDGs in Bali
Volunteer tourism is an ever-growing phenomenon and a multi-million-pounds industry, particularly in developing countries. Despite the manifold criticism for its neo-colonial nature – self-centered volunteers who romanticize the Global South as ‘poor b…
Local Tourism Businesses in Indonesia
The aim of this paper is to explore ways in which small tourism-based enterprises can offer a crisis-resilient pathway to sustainable development. Based on a mixed-embeddedness framework, this paper explores the multiple strategies that small enterpris…
Tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals in Southeast Asia
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 goals adopted in 2015, are aimed at reconciling economic, social, and ecological progress at a global level – ensuring a sustainable future for developed and developing countries alike. Tourism in S…
Migration-led Regeneration:
It is timely to reopen the discussion on inequalities in connection with migration-related processes. Our special issue might be a first step in shedding more light on this issue which had all but vanished at the discourse level but that has not ceased…
Folklore Forum 44 (1): Full Issue
The first 2020 issue of Folklore Forum is now available! Check out the articles and reviews in our most recent posts. Download a PDF version of the front matter: Download a PDF version of the full issue:
Urban inequalities and the identity-to-politics link in the Netherlands and Nigeria
This article examines urban inequalities and minority politics in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and Jos (Nigeria). Though advanced democracies are considered to be generally more egalitarian than their emergent counterparts, there is very little, if any,…
"Multi-culti“ vs. ”another cell phone store“ – Changing ethnic, social, and commercial diversities in Berlin-Neukölln.
Based on an extensive ethnography of the economic and social life in Berlin-Neukölln, the paper asks how a changing demographic and social structure affects the social life but also the urban renewal on two iconic but contested streets – “the Arab stre…
A Tale of Two Cities: Framing urban diversity as content curation in super-diverse London and Toronto
In major cities across the world policy-makers are searching for new ways to represent and govern their increasingly diverse populations. In this paper we analyse the ways in which authorities in two global cities, London and Toronto, have drawn …
Patterns of social exclusion in mixed neighborhoods:
For a newcomer in a city, the process of getting familiar with urban places does not only refer to memorize the roads but to learn how to live as a local. In this article, I argue that the changing urban structure and discourse of locals may form subtl…
Migration and Inequality
Migrants are omnipresent in cosmopolitan societies. Propelled from their homelands by poverty, violence, and environmental disasters—and the promise of better opportunities and security—migrants have found their way into metropolitan regions. At …
Review: The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World
The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World. Edited by Michael Dylan Foster and Jeffrey A. Tolbert. 2016. Logan: Utah State University Press. Pp. viii+265, index. $27.95 paper. Marisa Wieneke, Indiana University Download the PDF of …
Review: Pinery Boys: Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era
Pinery Boys: Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era. Edited by Franz Rickaby with Gretchen Dykstra and James P. Leary. 2017. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Pp. 356, glossary, index, illustrations, black and white photographs. $25.95 pape…
“Hometown Cooking”: Layering Values, Mass-Produced, and Garden-Raised Foods in Tater Tot Hot Dish in Southwest Minnesota
Abstract: Hot dishes, or casseroles, are popularly conceptualized as meals comprised merely of mass-produced ingredients. Through a close reading of Tater Tot Hot Dish, this article challenges this perception by examining how a single meal preparer, th…