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Presenting rich, interdisciplinary empirical studies of death rituals and practices across the globe, from the US and Europe, Asia, The Middle East, Australasia and Africa, Taming Time, Timing Death explores the manner in which social technologies and rituals have been and are implemented to avoid, delay or embrace death, or communicate with the dead, thus informing and manifesting humans' understanding of time. It will therefore be of interest to scholars and students of anthropology, philosophy, sociology and social theory, human geography and religion.

"Over the last decade, the close relationship between culture and economy -- or "the experience economy" -- has risen on the agenda. Although there is an established research field for analysing the economic impact of entrepreneurship, there is currently a limited amount of research that analyses the cultural impact and opportunity of entrepreneurship. Linking experience economy with enterprising behavior moves the term away from businesses' competitiveness and consumer behavior towards a more value-focused business in general. This ground-breaking book integrates entrepreneurship and empowerment into one central theme, drawing on research from both the social sciences (innovation, entrepreneurship, empowerment and activism) and the humanities (participatory culture, user-generated designs, creative networks). Enterprising Initiatives expands the definition of entrepreneurship beyond a primarily economic profit-seeking phenomenon to a broader understanding of enterprising behaviour based on an individual-opportunity nexus. Beyond social entrepreneurship, it explores a broad range of individual, collective and cooperative citizen initiatives under the umbrella of enterprising action.This innovative approach will be of great interest to scholars in entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, cultural entrepreneurship, cultural studies, and consumer culture, as well as for policy makers in public and local government, regional development and cultural event management"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Performative Authenticity in Tourism and Spatial Experience: Rethinking the Relations Between Travel, Place and Emotion -- SECTION ONE STAGING AND PRACTICING AUTHENTICITY -- Chapter 2 Staging Places as Brands: Visiting Illusions, Images and Imaginations -- Chapter 3 The City In-Between: Communication Geographies, Tourism and the Urban Unconscious -- Chapter 4 'The Summer We All Went to Keuruu': Intensity and the Topographication of Identity -- SECTION TWO BRANDING AND MATERIALISING AUTHENTICITY -- Chapter 5 Authenticity and Place Branding: The Arts and Culture in Branding Berlin and Singapore -- Chapter 6 On the Management of Authenticity: Culture in the Place Branding of Øresund -- Chapter 7 A Ferris Wheel on a Parking Lot: Heritage, Tourism, and the Authenticity of Place in Solvang, California -- SECTION THREE RE-WRITING AND RE-MEDIATING AUTHENTICITY -- Chapter 8 Travel and Testimony: The Rhetoric of Authenticity -- Chapter 9 Cool Kullaberg: The History of a Mediated Tourist Site -- Chapter 10 Crime Scenes as Augmented Reality: Models for Enhancing Places Emotionally by Means of Narratives, Fictions and Virtual Reality -- Chapter 11 Murder Walks in Ystad CARINASJÖHOLM -- Chapter 12 Negotiating Authenticity at Rosslyn Chapel -- SECTION FOUR RE-EMPOWERING AUTHENTICITY -- Chapter 13 Making Pictures Talk: The Re-opening of a 'Dead City' through Vernacular Photography as a Catalyst for the Performance of Memories -- Chapter 14 Globe1: A Place of Integration or an 'Ethnic Oasis'? -- Chapter 15 Online Tourism: Just like Being There? -- SECTION FIVE EMBODYING SPATIAL MYTHOLOGIES -- Chapter 16 Journeys, Religion and Authenticity Revisited -- Chapter 17 Walking Towards Oneself: The Authentification of Place and Self -- Chapter 18 Thrillscapes: Wilderness Mediated as Playground -- References -- Index