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Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 8Issue: 1Pages: 188-203
Interruptions: Challenges and Innovations in Exhibition-Making
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 8Issue: 1Pages: 168-187
Online Exhibitions during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 8Issue: 1Pages: 210-215
Decolonization and Restitution: Moving Towards a More Holistic and Relational Approach
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 8Issue: 1Pages: 204-209
Exhibition Reviews
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 8Issue: 1Pages: 216-228
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…
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…
*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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Book Review: Dolezal, C., Trupp, A., & Bui, H. T. (Eds.). (2020). Tourism and Development in Southeast Asia.
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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:
InVisible Culture‘s Statement on Racial Injustice
In light of the widespread and ongoing protests sparked by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and countless others, InVisible Culture would like to announce its support of Black Lives Matter and all organizations and movements th…
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 …