- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Spanish History and Politics
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Spanish Culture and Identity
- Wine Industry and Tourism
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Latin American Urban Studies
- Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
Universitat de València
2022-2024
The 21st Century has seen the emergence and subsequent crisis of Creative City paradigm in which broad scope culture heritage for urban branding been shown. Valencia's case paradigmatic showing potential negative effects this strategy, entered into constituted one critical elements strategy Conservative local government (1991–2015). With change to a left coalition 2015, transformation policy based on 'white elephants' shifted production International Events centres boost city's strengths...
The cultural dimension of politics is not secondary but rather a constitutive element its social dynamics and the logic power, which must be visualized to effective. Some authors, including Jeffrey Alexander Randall Collins, have elaborated upon this dimension: former with concept political performance, latter rituals domination. combination two perspectives useful for us look at use inaugurations momentous events festivities new light – as privileged instrument legitimize narrative power...
Las fiestas neotradicionales como las Fallas están siendo objeto de creciente atención por su capacidad definir roles y, con ello, peso en la reproducción o el impulso del cambio social. Así, representación cuerpo mujer fiesta se ha convertido mayor frecuencia un campo batalla. El estudio a partir observación y los grupos discusión confirma que continúa existiendo una hipersexualización machismo ninots (esculturas) fiesta, pero observa vez presencia crítica surgimiento representaciones más...
En este artículo se estudian las razones de los políticos valencianos ámbito local para participar en asociaciones festivo-culturales, siguiendo la teoría incentivos generales, así como influencia que tienen ideología y identidad. El propósito del trabajo es contribuir a un mayor conocimiento sobre el activismo espacios cívicos organizados, ampliar vez estudios fenómeno festivo valenciano con interrelación entre festivas. Para llevarlo cabo han recogido una serie encuestas algunos concejales...
Festive rituals have demonstrated their political power at the performative level, as well to integrate those who are part of ritual and exclude not. In this sense, governments a fundamental in decision show strong capacity orientate celebration toward regression or social progress. case Fallas Valencia, we can see how, with arrival Franco's regime, festival was instrumentalised by conservative class, generating an orthodox definition. This definition has survived most sectors festival,...