scholarly journals Analysis of the Demand of Dark Tourism: A Case Study in Córdoba (Spain)

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mª Genoveva Dancausa Millán ◽  
Ricardo David Hernandez Rojas ◽  
Javier Sánchez-Rivas García
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
The South ◽  
Dark Tourism ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Paranormal Phenomenon ◽  
The City

Abstract Visiting places where death is present, either due to a natural tragedy, war, the Holocaust, etc., or because there is the presence of a non-visible entity or paranormal phenomenon, is increasingly more accepted in modern times. It has become a kind of tourism that has grown in demand, though it remains a minority. The city of Cordoba, in the south of Spain, is swarming with houses and places where legends have endured over centuries as a consequence of the coexistence of three cultures – Jewish, Christian and Arab. In turn, popular culture considers these places as having a characteristic “charm” due to the phenomena that happen there. This work analyses the profile of dark tourism tourists, particularly in two sub-segments - that of ghosts and of cemeteries - as well as the existing offer. The aim is to design and improve a quality tourist product that is adapted to the requirements of the demand.

Ecclesiastical Monuments of Brașov/Kronstadt/Brassó and the (Imagined) Topography of a Transylvanian City in Late Medieval and Early Modern Times

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 59-64
Author(s):  
Liviu Cîmpeanu
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
The City ◽  
Insight Into

By definition, a monument has extraordinary features that mark landscape and human minds alike. Without any doubt, the Medieval and Early Modern World of Europe was marked by ecclesiastical monuments, from great cathedrals and abbeys to simple chapels and altars at crossroads. A very interesting case study offers Braşov/ Kronstadt/Brassó, in the south-eastern corner of Transylvania, where historical sources attest several ecclesiastic monuments, in and around the city. Late medieval and early modern documents and chronicles reveal not only interesting data on the monasteries, churches and chapels of Braşov/Kronstadt/Brassó, but also on the way in which citizens and outsiders imagined those monuments in their mental topography of the city. The inhabitants of Braşov/ Kronstadt/Brassó and foreign visitors saw the monasteries, churches and chapels of the city, kept them in mind and referred to them in their (written) accounts, when they wanted to locate certain facts or events. The present paper aims in offering an overview of the late medieval and early modern sources regarding the ecclesiastical monuments of Braşov/Kronstadt/Brassó, as well as an insight into the imagined topography of a Transylvanian city.

scholarly journals ‘Welcome to London’: Spectral Spaces in Sherlock Holmes’s Metropolis

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Lee
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Fictional Narratives ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Spectral Spaces ◽  
The City

This article examines the burgeoning tourist trade for locations featured in fictional narratives in popular culture. Symptomatic of a postmodern, hyperlinked culture referencing a vast reservoir of texts, such tourism produces a convergence of effects which render places ambivalent. Through a case study of Sherlock Holmes tourism in London, I argue that the city is constructed as seething with the spectral in which there is tension and slippage between paratexts, past and present, history and fiction, the observable and imperceptible. The tourist seeks out embodied experiences of their own secret London(s) which reside somewhere in-between the multiplicitous topographies.

Vorstadt, Sport und jüdische Identitäten

Aschkenas ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sema Colpan ◽  
Matthias Marschik
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Actual Fact ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Sports Officials ◽  
The City

AbstractResearch on Jewish life in Vienna prior to the Holocaust understandably focuses on places, where it predominantly took place: the Leopoldstadt and the city centre. This view fails to consider the suburb, an area that reflects spatial aspects of Jewish life and does not evoke the connotations typically associated with being Jewish but is instructive as it regards questions of »Jewish difference«. Based on the biographies of two Jewish sports officials, the article shows that (Jewish) difference was defined primarily by parameters of space which manifest as »Bodenständigkeit« (being native): In actual fact, at least in the field of popular culture, ascriptions to a non-Jewish suburb were more powerful than the Jewishness of the officials: In self-perceptions as well as in external ascriptions the meanings of Jewishness were informed by suburban affiliations.

scholarly journals A CHRONICLE OF CALCUTTA JEWRY

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (15) ◽  
pp. 1462-1469
Author(s):  
Sayan Lodh
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
The State ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Relief Fund ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Partition Of India ◽  
The City ◽  
State Of Israel

Studies conducted into minorities like the Jews serves the purpose of sensitizing one about the existence of communities other than one’s own one, thereby promoting harmony and better understanding of other cultures. The Paper is titled ‘A Chronicle of Calcutta Jewry’. It lays stress on the beginning of the Jewish community in Calcutta with reference to the prominent Jewish families from the city. Most of the Jews in Calcutta were from the middle-east and came to be called as Baghdadi Jews. Initially they were influenced by Arabic culture, language and customs, but later they became Anglicized with English replacing Judeo-Arabic (Arabic written in Hebrew script) as their language. A few social evils residing among the Jews briefly discussed. Although, the Jews of our city never experienced direct consequences of the Holocaust, they contributed wholeheartedly to the Jewish Relief Fund that was set up by the Jewish Relief Association (JRA) to help the victims of the Shoah. The experience of a Jewish girl amidst the violence during the partition of India has been briefly touched upon. The reason for the exodus of Jews from Calcutta after Independence of India and the establishment of the State of Israel has also been discussed. The contribution of the Jews to the lifestyle of the city is described with case study on ‘Nahoums’, the famous Jewish bakery of the city. A brief discussion on an eminent Jew from Calcutta who distinguished himself in service to the nation – J.F.R. Jacob, popularly known as Jack by his fellow soldiers has been given. The amicable relations between the Jews and Muslims in Calcutta have also been briefly portrayed. The research concludes with the prospect of the Jews becoming a part of the City’s history, peacefully resting in their cemeteries. Keywords: Jews, Calcutta, India, Baghdadi, Holocaust

Urban Nostalgia in the Music of Požoň sentimentál

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Rose Lange
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Population ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Urban Scene ◽  
Sonic Environment ◽  
The City ◽  
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Chapter 5 discusses nostalgia and avant-garde art in Bratislava with a case study of the musical group Požoň sentimentál. This chapter argues that although nostalgia is a feature of the postcommunist urban scene, Bratislava residents and many other Central Europeans are not nostalgic. Drawing on the ideas of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, the chapter proposes that Bratislava avant-gardists make postmodern reparative readings. The chapter details how during the 1990s and early 2000s, Požoň sentimentál dramatized the city as it had existed a century earlier; alongside older writers and performers such as Egon Bondy, Požoň sentimentál explored forgotten motifs of the city’s history. The chapter describes how the group’s humorous enactments provoked controversy around the artistic canon, played with the city’s sonic environment, and prompted discussion over representations of the city’s former ethnic and confessional groups, especially the Jewish population decimated by the Holocaust.

scholarly journals A Festa das Tribos: perspectivas folkcomunicativas em um cenário de resistência

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (41) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Nair Santos Lima
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Cultura Popular ◽  
Popular Festivals ◽  
The City

O Festival das Tribos Indígenas ou Festribal é um evento que ocorre anualmente na cidade de Juruti (Pará), na Amazônia brasileira, e compreende a competição entre as “tribos” Munduruku e Muirapinima. Concebem-se as festas amazônicas a partir de um tensionamento entre culturas, provenientes da colonização, resultando na dupla consciência, efeito da ampla violência. Este artigo buscou identificar nesse evento, modos de resistência e a forma de expressão desse sentimento. Por meio do audiovisual, na Plataforma YouTube, fez-se uma análise semiótica da festa do ano 2019, e, cuja permanência ocorre com base na oralidade, na contação de histórias, dos mitos, crenças e das festas vivenciadas por seus antepassados. Essa análise encontra abrigo na teoria da folkcomunicação. Festival das Tribos; Dupla consciência; Resistência; Folkcomunicação. The Festival of Indigenous Tribes or Festribal is an event that has been held annually since 1995 in the city of Juruti (Pará), in the Brazilian Amazon, and comprises the competition between the “tribes” Munduruku and Muirapinima, competing in this manifestation of popular culture. The Amazon simultaneously synthesizes the uniqueness and complexity of a territory that in a very old time had an abundant scenario, inhabited by several human groups (tribes), in addition to, in modern times, adding brand and product. From the 16th century onwards, with the colonization and the arrival of the European, there was a tension between cultures that resulted in double consciousness, the effect of the widespread violence that was transmuted, being evident in popular festivals. With a focus on the cultural diversity of the region and the commercialization of its products, advertising created the “brand” Amazônia, at parties, music, dance, regional craftsmanship etc., and, based on the origin and projection of the party, this article sought to identify in the lyrics of the songs of the Festa dos tribos, in 2019, ways of resistance represented in this manifestation of popular culture and the way in which this feeling is expressed. From a qualitative approach and exploratory objective, a semiotic analysis of the event was carried out, through the audiovisual on the YouTube Platform - by the perception and apprehension of the feelings of these peoples. Although re-signified, the indigenous festivals have perpetuated based on orality, storytelling of their peoples, myths, beliefs and festivals experienced by their ancestors. This analysis finds shelter in the theory of folk communication. Festival of the Tribes; Double consciousness; Resistance; Folkcommunication. El Festival de Tribus Indígenas o Festribal es un evento que se realiza anualmente desde 1995 en la ciudad de Juruti (Pará), en la Amazonía brasileña, y comprende la competencia entre las “tribus” Munduruku y Muirapinima, compitiendo en esta manifestación de la cultura popular. La Amazonía sintetiza simultáneamente la singularidad y complejidad de un territorio que en tiempos muy antiguos tuvo un escenario abundante, habitado por varios grupos humanos (tribus), además de, en los tiempos modernos, sumar marca y producto. A partir del siglo XVI, con la colonización y la llegada de los europeos, se produjo una tensión entre culturas que derivó en una doble conciencia, efecto de la violencia generalizada que se transmutó, manifestándose en las fiestas populares. Con un enfoque en la diversidad cultural de la región y la comercialización de sus productos, la publicidad creó la “marca” Amazônia, en fiestas, música, baile, artesanía regional, etc., y en base al origen y proyección de la fiesta, esta El artículo buscó identificar en la letra de las canciones de la Festa dos tribos, en 2019, las formas de resistencia representadas en esta manifestación de la cultura popular y la forma en que se expresa este sentimiento. Desde un enfoque cualitativo y objetivo exploratorio, se realizó un análisis semiótico del evento, a través del audiovisual en la Plataforma de YouTube - por la percepción y aprehensión de los sentimientos de estos pueblos. Aunque resignificadas, las fiestas indígenas se han perpetuado a partir de la oralidad, el relato de sus pueblos, los mitos, creencias y fiestas vividas por sus antepasados. Este análisis encuentra refugio en la teoría de la comunicación popular. Festival de las Tribus; Doble conciencia; Resistencia; Comunicación popular.

scholarly journals En los límites de la ciudad: El caso de la Cañada Real Galiana de Madrid

2017 ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Candela Morado Castresana
Keyword(s):  
Media Representation ◽  
Symbolic Boundaries ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
The South ◽  
Urban Inequality ◽  
Border Areas ◽  
The City ◽  
Public Politics ◽  
Do So

ResumenCon esta investigación pretendemos estudiar la formación de territorios fronterizos en tanto que límites físicos y simbólicos de las ciudades a través del análisis de un caso concreto: La Cañada Real Galiana, que ejemplifica el límite este-sur de la ciudad de Madrid, pero también el límite de lo urbano y lo civilizado con un espacio sin ley ni orden. Para ello, tomaremos en cuenta diferentes escalas, considerándolas como perspectivas de análisis: escala legal y morfo-tipológica, escala mediática y la escala del discurso encarnado. Analizar la articulación de estas tres dimensiones nos permitirá comprender cómo se conforman políticas públicas, planes urbanos o imaginarios colectivos, desvelando la Cañada Real como un objeto múltiple, complejo y controvertido.Palabras clave  Ciudad informal, imaginarios colectivos, estigmatización territorial, desigualdad urbanaAbstractThe aim of this research is to explore the formation of city border areas in terms of physical and symbolic boundaries through the specific case study of La Cañada Real Galiana. This territory exemplifies both the south-east limit of the city of Madrid and the frontiers between civilised urbanisation and a space with no law and order. In order to do so, this research analyses three different fields: legal and morphotypological issues, media representation, and discourse. Analysing the articulation of these three aspects permit the evaluation of how public politics, urban designs and the collective imaginary are conformed. Through this process, La Cañada Real is revealed as a multiple, complex and controversial object.KeywordsInformal city, collective imaginary, territorial stigmatization, urban inequality

Vicissitudes of the South Carolina Railroad, 1865-1878: A Case Study in Reconstruction and Regional Traffic Development

1956 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-195
Author(s):  
James F. Doster
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Traffic Patterns ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
The Real ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
Locomotive Engine ◽  
The City

The Best Friend of Charleston was a famous locomotive engine, but the real best friend of Charleston was the engine's owner, the South Carolina Railroad. Together the city and the railroad faced and endured the rigors of Reconstruction; both held fast to an ante-bellum dream of regional dominance. The railroad made bold moves to acquire the trunk lines and feeder systems that would make Charleston a Gateway to the West. But frustrating forces were at work. Developing traffic patterns did not favor Charleston, and profligate multiplication of competing lines cut into existing business. Rate agreements and pooling arrangements gave the company only mild relief at best. By 1878 Charleston had resigned itself to its role as a local trading center, and the SCRR was in bankruptcy, the victim of circumstances too powerful for even the most competent of managements to combat.

“Call the witness”: Romani Holocaust related art in Austria and Marika Schmiedt’s will to memory

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-123
Author(s):  
Maria Alina Asavei
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Artistic Production ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Visual Approach

Both academic and popular culture discourses are inhabited by statements that “pathologize” the ways Roma remember the Holocaust and other traumatic events. Against these claims, this article’s main aim is to explore contemporary artistic production from Austria which fosters “Roma will to memory” within an assemblage of political practices and discourses. To this end, I will explore Marika Schmiedt’s body of artistic memory work from 1999 to 2015, relying on a critical visual approach. The impetus for this exploration is Slawomir Kapralski’s assertion that the actual cases of active remembering and commemoration among Roma and Sinti would render the traditional approach to Roma as “people without memory and history” inaccurate. As this case study shows, there is no such a thing as “Roma indifference to recollection,” but rather, the testimony about the traumatic past is silenced or obstructed by the lack of the infrastructure, the bureaucracy of the archives, and the strategic forgetting politics.

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