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During the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, dictatorships in Latin America hastened the outward movement of intellectuals, academics, artists, and political and social activists to other countries. The authoritarian rulers assumed that they would assure their control of politics and domestic public spheres by forcing opposition movements out of the country. Yet, by enlarging a diaspora of co-nationals, the authoritarian rulers emboldened opposition forces beyond their national borders. This title provides the first comprehensive analysis of diasporic experiences and the impact of returnees on the public life, culture, institutions, and development of post-authoritarian politics in the Southern Cone of the Americas

PurposeThis paper aims to investigate whether cultural intelligence will influence Chinese tourists' travel satisfaction, revisit intention and word-of-mouth communication.Design/methodology/approachAn online survey was conducted to collect data from 614 adult Chinese tourists, who have overseas travel experiences. Then, the Statistics Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and the structural equation modelling (SEM) were employed for data analysis.FindingsThe findings confirm that cultural intelligence has significant positive impacts on tourist satisfaction, revisit intention and electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) communication. Additionally, tourist satisfaction significantly affects tourist eWOM communication.Originality/valueThis study provides theoretical and practical contributions regarding the effects of tourist cultural intelligence, especially on tourist post-travel evaluation and behavioural intention, which has been merely investigated in extant tourism research.

This is a conference paper. ; The present paper proposes a critical reflection on the existing relationship between patterns, algorithms and their patentable status. Based on a series of legal actions related to the use of patterns (Robert Lang against Sarah Morris, Mexican indigenous peoples against Isabel Marant, Apple patent on some gestures, etc.) it will analyse the already existing legal interpretations of what a pattern is and will discuss in which way these cases can establish a precedent for today's digitalized environments. Defined both as form of stylistic and cultural expression, as well as logical forms, patterns are becoming elements of high importance for the present digital modelization technologies (see, for example, pattern recognition algorithms). Therefore, the legal status of a pattern is becoming a field of political battle. Notions like author and collective author, cultural tradition and logical form, creative commons and intellectual property are at stake in this context. The implications are of social, political and economic importance and this paper will sketch out some of the short-comings when it comes to their use and application, their implicit ideologies, as well as arts and sciences disciplinary divisions.

The purpose of the article is to explore the issues of establishing and strengthening the national sovereignty of Kazakhstan in the context of the specific challenges of state building, which include the problems of ethnocultural integration. The policy of the state on the cultural integration of ethnic groups on the basis of the Kazakh language and culture is revealed in the context of the dominance of the Russian language as the basis of cultural integration in modern Kazakhstan. To this end, the analysis is based on the nationalizing state methodology of Rogers Brubaker. Findings. The national integration of Kazakhstan according to its post-Soviet model is carried out as a balance of ethnic and civil nation. In the context of national policy for state building in Kazakhstan, the cultural and linguistic Kazakhization of ethnic groups and the Russification model of cultural integration of ethnic groups are of priority importance. The fundamental importance of the cultural integration of ethnic groups based on the Kazakh language and culture as one of the aspects of national integration is justified by the fact that without it, the national construction of Kazakhstan is incomplete. Kazakhization of demographic processes has already changed the ethnic image of the country, but its impact on the socio-cultural environment will not be so fast and far from unambiguous. The state in its national policy seeks to prevent the escalation of inter-ethnic contradictions into political conflicts. Politicization of ethnicity in Kazakhstan is unacceptable.

Crime and Racial Constructions; Contents; Introduction; Section I: IMAGES OF BLACK MALE CRIMINALITY IN MEDIA AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES; Chapter One: Black Images in the Post-Civil Rights Era; Chapter Two: Hollywood and Black Protest; Chapter Three: Black Violence, White Violence; Chapter Four: Making Race Matter; Chapter Five: Americanizing Black Violence; Section II: CINEMATIC AND ACADEMIC IMAGES OF BLACK FEMALE CRIMINALS AND VICTIMS; Chapter Six: Black Women on the Silver Screen; Chapter Seven: Black Women, Violence and Masculinization; Chapter Eight: Comforting Fictions; Bibliography; Index

Under the policy of perestroika (restructuring), which has been operating in the USSR since 1985, an ideological & theoretical platform has been established for accelerating SE developments so as to qualitatively upgrade material well-being, social consciousness, & political & cultural life. The responsibility of the social sciences in this project is discussed, & it is concluded that, thus far, neither their practical performance, societal position, nor present state of theoretical development can be considered satisfactory for the task at hand. The dimensions of the problem are examined, with hopes of learning from the mistakes of the past. It is argued that democracy is the only means of truly achieving socialism as a social organism; a new agenda for social scientists toward this end is proposed, along with suggestions for restructuring the scientific research planning & reporting system. Particular difficulties that restructuring might pose to philosophy, sociology, & history are examined, & the new challenges presented by global interdependencies are considered. 1 Photograph. K. Hyatt

Table of Contents ; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Narrowing Circle: America and China Circa 1929; 1. Long-Distance Realism: Agnes Smedley and the Transpacific Cultural Front; 2. The Good Earth Effect: Pearl Buck and Natural Democracy; 3. Pentatonic Democracy: Paul Robeson and the Black Voice in Chinese; 4. Typographic Ethnic Modernism: Lin Yutang and the Republican Chinaman; 5. Xuanchuan as World Literature: Lao She and the Uses of Global Propaganda; Epilogue: The Afterlife of Failure: Recentering Asian American and Chinese Histories; Notes; Index

In this paper we present the results of a contingent rating study carried out on a sample of tourisits visiting Scicli, a Sicilian town known for its baroque heritage. In particular, we focus on different attributes of tourism products –namely, season, accommodation and cultural heritage– to study how much each of these attributes weights in tourists' preferences. We also study how the socio-demographic characteristics of people affect their evaluation of the different attributes of tourism products. The heritage endowment appears to be far from being the most important factor; this result is consistent across different socio-demographic sub-groups of interviewed persons.

s This article examines the iconic `Beggars' trilogy by feminist science fiction writer, Nancy Kress. These novels, produced in the early to mid-1990s, take as their `thought experiment' two points of rupture and contemporary cultural contestation: the advent of human genetic engineering and sleep, or, more specifically, the prospect of a sleepless society. I shall begin by situating my analysis of the Kress trilogy in this nexus of fields. I shall consider the interest of Kress's works for the sociology of sleep as well as for a cultural analysis of science. In this context, and drawing in part on the work of Haran, I will suggest the particular value of science fiction as not only a site for, but also a source of, narrativized social theory. I shall introduce the notion of popular episteme as an analytic concept that aims to link the discursive to the social — that is, to theorize the relationship of textuality to materiality. In this context, I shall refer also to the psychoanalytic concept of `phantasy' as a point of convergence for both structures of feeling and structures of knowledge. I shall then introduce the Kress works, focusing particularly on the first novel Beggars in Spain, locating it in a period in which feminist science fiction saw a marked renaissance, and in which speculative theorizations of genetics formed a distinct subgenre. The analysis will then focus on three core themes emergent in the novels that, I shall argue, have profound contemporaneous resonance. These are the questions of: embodied capital; the political economy of what I will term fast time; and paranoia and the human condition.

This article addresses links between entrepreneurs' cultural and symbolic capital and their practices of knowledge generation for innovation. Through an ethnographic study of four Ayurvedic cosmetics manufacturing MSMEs in Mumbai, we argue that innovation in cosmetics MSMEs is the result of conversion of cultural capital into symbolic capital that in turn converts into economic capital. The study shows that Ayurveda knowledge resides in the entrepreneur's family tradition and mostly transfers in a tacit form. The entrepreneurs' acquisition of symbolic capital intertwines with the discourse of 'sustainable development', which makes 'natural' fashionable and 'traditional' knowledge prestigious. Within this discourse, Ayurveda knowledge acquires symbolic value which makes entrepreneurs' cultural knowledge valuable and legitimate. The analyses of representative cases show how cultural capital and symbolic capital impact acquisition of knowledge in ways that facilitate entrepreneurs to attain legitimacy through innovations. We argue that appropriation of different forms of capital by entrepreneurs reinforces the beauty field's normative structure which in turn facilitates knowledge generation for innovation in cosmetics MSMEs.